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The best Palworld mods and how to set them up

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Palworld mods right now are largely focused on quality of life improvements

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Installing some Palworld mods might really improve your survival and creature-catching experience. The best and 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 trainter, I've explained how to set up mods in Palworld below and have left some suggestions for the best mods around at time of writing. 

Best Palworld mods

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As mentioned, the majority of Palworld mods right now are focused on smoothing out the gameplay experience rather than revitalising it, but there's still a few options to choose from.

  • 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 Info (Created by Inhumanity): A clever idea well suited to hardcore players, this one presents an info box in the top left of the screen when looking at wild Pals that tells you useful information about them, including IVs, Stats and more.

How to set up mods for Palworld

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The way to download and install Palworld mods will vary depending 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. 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.

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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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Joel Franey
Joel Franey
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Joel Franey is a writer, journalist, podcaster and Very Tired Man with a BA from Brunel University, a Masters from Sussex University and a decade working in games journalism, often focused on guides coverage but also in reviews, features and news. His love of games is strongest when it comes to groundbreaking narratives like Disco Elysium, UnderTale and Baldur's Gate 3, as well as innovative or refined gameplay experiences like XCOM, Sifu, Arkham Asylum or Slay the Spire. He is a firm believer that the vast majority of games would be improved by adding a grappling hook, and if they already have one, they should probably add another just to be safe. You can find old work of his at Eurogamer, Gfinity, USgamer, SFX Magazine, RPS, Dicebreaker, VG247, and more.