How to play multiplayer in Palworld

Palworld 1.0 cinematic trailer screenshot shows a woman with red hair standing next to a panda-like Pal. — (Image credit: Pocketpair)

Palworld multiplayer allows you to join friends online for co-op and explore the world together, with players teaming up to bring down bosses and join each others' worlds. With so many players playing the game, Palworld utilizes a code focused system for online multiplayers, as we'll explain in our guide below. Here's how to join friends and team up in Palworld properly.

How to play Palworld with friends in online multiplayer

Players sit around a campfire playing mutliplayer in Palworld — (Image credit: Pocketpair)

To play Palworld multiplayer with up to three other friends online, players need to do the following:

One player creates a world in Palworld and sets it to multiplayer, either during world creation or in "World Settings" before re-entering.
The player can then pause the game and click to reveal the Invite Code in the pause menu.
Share this code to other players who wish to join.
For those joining players, in the main menu there'll be an option to "Join Multiplayer Game (Invite Code).
Select this and enter the code your friend gave you to join their game!

It's important to remember that at time of writing, Palworld crossplay has been implemented and players will be able to join those playing on other

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