Installing the best Palworld mods might really improve your survival and creature-catching experience. The most popular of these mods largely focus on quality-of-life improvements for Palworld, reducing minor frustrations and making things a bit more convenient for Pal Tamers. If you're interested in modding your way to become a top-tier trainer, I've explained how to set up mods in Palworld below and have left some suggestions for the best mods around right now.
Best Palworld mods
As mentioned, the majority of Palworld mods are focused on smoothing out the gameplay experience rather than revitalising it, here are the best ones:
- Gameplay / Cheat mods
- Carry Weight Increase (Created by Vucksacha): A simple mod that massively increases the amount you can carry. If you're bored of being able to carry back such a small amount of Palworld Ore each time, this will expedite things enormously.
- Remove Flying Stamina Cost (Created by Vucksacha): This one simply removes the Stamina cost to ascend on any of the Palworld Flying Mounts. A nice solution to those who keep having to land and slow down.
- MapUnlocker (Created by W1ns): Reveals the whole map and clears the fog of war as though you'd explored the whole thing, but doesn't activate any of the Palworld fast travel points - you still have to go and get those.
- AlwaysFastTravel (Created by yangff): Allows you to fast travel to any discovered fast travel point from your map at any point, without having to go to a Palbox or Eagle Statue first.
- Visuals / Graphics / UI mods
- Basic Minimap (Created by DekitaRPG): Exactly what it sounds like, adds a functioning minimap to the corner of the screen!
- Enhanced Palworld Visuals (Created by FrancisLouis): Tweaks various visual effects for a better presentation of the game overall.
- Pal Analyzer (Created by ThisIsZac): This handy mod presents an info box above wild Pals when you hover your cursor over them, informing you of useful information about them, including stats and skills.
How to install Palworld mods
To install Palworld mods, you'll need to download the file from a safe provider, then move the download into the appropriate game folder. However, this depends on which type of mod you're downloading, with some going into the Pal\Content\Paks folder, while others belong in Pal\Binaries\Win64\Mods.
With that in mind, the way to download and install Palworld mods depends on the mod you download, but it's common practice at this point in gaming communities for mods to come with a guide on their safe installation, so check the mod page for specific instructions. Sites like Nexus Mods have a range of community-made mods ready to install with installation guides in the mod description - make sure you read these carefully before downloading the mod in question.
Palworld mods are, at time of writing, only for the PC version of the game. Some are applicable to both the Steam and PC Pass version of Palworld (make sure you check in advance), but there is no way to mod the Xbox version of Palworld.
It's also always important to remember that you download and install mods at your own risk, as these are never official and just community-made projects that can have unknown or unintended effects on both your copy of Palworld and your PC hardware, especially if you run multiple mods at one. With Palworld still being in early access and receiving updates, mods can become incompatible, often resulting in crashes, unless they're updated.
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