Palworld Best Early Game Base Optimization Guide

Starting in Palworld, the game doesn’t tell much, and players have to find the way onwards themselves, based on their play style. Here we have Palworld Best Early Game Base Optimization Guide that has every bit of information on how to make the best Base in Palworld as a beginner, informing you on the Best Base Location, Base Automation, Base Layout, Best Tech Skills, Capturing Pals, Leveling up, and Egg Hatching. Let’s get started with all the details onwards.

Palworld Base Base Locations

Before Level 10, you can only make one base. But your initial base placement is going to be quite important and there are a couple of good areas we are mentioning below.

First, we're going to travel right over here near the Rayne Syndicate Tower, at the coordinates of “122. -422”. Now what we like about this base location right here is it's relatively close to the start.

If you take the Plateau of Beginnings, you can see you just follow the road and you have a very nice open area here. You can see we have some ore deposits over there, some ore deposits tend to spawn over there along that area, plenty of access to trees nearby, plenty of access to the stone.

This is a very, very beginner-friendly location. The downside is that you can get raided from every location, but Pals can handle that.

Now probably one of the most important things when it comes to making a base is ensuring that you're going to have access to ore.

Ore is one of the resources that you can't just passively generate in base, so making sure you have easy access to ore is going to be very important. 

Ore is used to make the ingots, which is going to be used to make the steel weapons, it's going to be used to help craft the guns, the crossbow, all that stuff. 

At the coordinates of “160.-401”, you will find all these deposits and an area to make your first base.

Base Building, Optimization, and Automation

The next thing we want to talk about is actual base building and some things to keep in mind when building your base. Once your base is operational, almost everything is going to be completely automated within the base, and what we mean by this is you're not going to have to worry about anything, except for starting things, like Ingots. 

When it comes to getting base automation, really what this is going to come down to is work suitability. The work suitability menu is going to be one of the most important things that determines what your specific pals are good at.

Kindling is going to be necessary for things that involve fire, like the furnace or the heater.

• Planting is going to be your pals that are going to be planting seeds

• Handiwork is anything that involves building around the base

• Lumbering is cutting down trees

• Medicine production is producing medicine at the table

• Transporting is moving stuff that is full into boxes for you

• Watering is going to be for a lot of things that involve water, like the grinder for example

• Generating electricity, you're not going to need to worry about too early, so don't worry about that initially

• Gathering is very important in conjunction with planting, this is going to make sure they are gathering the things that you have planted

• Harvesting if you will, and then making sure that those gathered things get used.

• Mining is going to be for the people that are going to work the mine

• Cooling is going to be for things like the cooling block and the fridge 

• Farming, these guys just basically sit passively at the farm and they're going to pump items out for you depending on what they are

Another thing with work suitability is certain things are better at others, for example, a Pal has Level 2 with logging, another has Level 2 with handicrafts, and Level 2 with transporting.

That just means they're going to be more efficient at those certain tasks compared to other pals. So if we want something built, Pal with a Level 2 handicraft is going to be better than this guy with a Level 1 handicraft. 

So the first thing is making sure all those areas are covered. If those areas are covered, your base is doing great. 

Early Base Layout

As a beginner, your Early Base doesn’t need to be too big, as a bed, incubator, and a few things are required. 

Wooden Chests

So the first thing you need are chests around your house. If you are in the early game, and just started with Palworld, then the best tip in our Early Game Base Optimization Guide would be to create wooden chests all around the location that are used to store stuff.

Pal Beds

Pal Beds are placed in the corners and a rough estimate would be that you need 16 beds for 12 pals. The number of beds is the most important part to notice. You just need more than the amount of Pals because they are easy to make.

Pal Health/Happiness

The two most important things are going to be:

• Food

• Access to Hot Spring

Food

You need small plots to grow food in, like farming spots for barriers. Primarily, you will have a plot for barriers, and a little bit later you're going to have access to wheat plots. As long as those are being worked on, you can put some food pails.

This is where we have access to all those skills. Because somebody is going to plant those seeds, somebody is going to gather those seeds, and then somebody is going to transport those seeds and put them in these feed boxes to make sure everyone's fed.

If somebody starts getting low, that guy's down to 268 on sanity, you have to probably swap him out with somebody else, let him take a break, pull another one out, and let them get to work and do some stuff.

Hot Springs

Hot springs, of course, are great for sanity. But those are the two big things. Make sure you have areas where they can deposit food to eat, and make sure they have hot springs, that's generally going to keep them happy.

And then as long as you have those work suitability categories fulfilled, they're going to take care of all the automation for you. Moving on from there, some important things in terms of progression.

Passive Progression

It isn’t that easy, but an automated base provides you with resources as you sleep and wake up. But, taking care of your Pals is also a considerable thing because they have a sanity bar, and they get tired. Food and Hot Springs can help you keep your working Pals sane, and happy.

The Wooden Chests are equally important because the Pals can fill them up with the resources they just collected from your farms. Transporters are the ones that can take the resources and stack them up in the Wooden Chests. 

Create plots for wood, stones, and other resources. Then utilize Pals, assigning them work based on their Work Suitability. It will automate the task for you. One trick would be to place Wooden Chests near these plots because it saves time, and the Pals won’t get stuck somewhere else.

Gathering Palladium

Waterwheel, this is where we're going to get all of our palladium from. Early on, your main sources of palladium are going to be finding the little nodes, but as you find dungeons, dungeons have very, very large nodes of palladium that you can mine.

But besides that, going here, turning your stone into palladium is going to be one of the main ways that it gets created. So always have this going, just make sure you have that palladium cooking so you can have plenty of Pal Spheres ready to go. 

Furnaces

As for the furnaces, I recommend having two furnaces. Generally, you have one pumping ingot full-time. And then you have one pumping charcoal. Early on, charcoal isn't used all that much, but once you get into the 20s, you'll discover it is a component of gunpowder, a source of bullets and gunpowder.

Farm

The farm is rather interesting. The way the farm works is you just pick something that can graze, something that can go in the farm, and then it is going to pop out a specific resource. Now, some of these are quite basic.

Some Pals will drop wool when it's assigned to the ranch. The cats, they're going to do gold coins when they are sitting at the ranch. Cows will give you milk, and so on.

There's some very useful stuff you can get at the farm. Wheat is important to have access to flour, which flour is going to be relevant when it comes to the breeding facility like making cake.

Breeding Facility

Now, the two things you're going to need for the breeding facility are one male and one female, and then you're also going to need to make a cake. To make a cake, we get that over here at the cooking station. Right here you can see we need flour, eggs, milk, berries, and honey.

The rarest ingredient is honey and you can also get the honey from the bee enemies, but the idea is you put one of each male and female in there.

Create a Breeding Facility, put one male and female, and then throw in a cake, and they will produce an egg. 

• The crossbreed acquires males and females of different species, giving you a different Pal altogether.

• The same breed acquires the same male and female species, giving you a Pal from the same species.

Afterward, you need an Egg Incubator to hatch that egg. 

Boundaries or Fence

The last thing we want to talk about is the fence. Notice I have a huge circular fence that goes around the entire base with a singular opening here. The main reason for this is that if there's an opening, if a raid does occur, enemies are going to come straight through a planned opening, and that's what you want when building a base early on in Palworld.

Tech Tree - Best Early Skill Points

The following are the Best Tech Skills you need to pick from the Tech Tree. One thing to keep in mind is that everything is pretty useful in the beginning, but the following should be your primary focus.

• Repair kit

• Shields

• Parachutes/Glider 

• Mega Shield

• Mega Glider

• Old Bow

• Three Shot Bow

• Crossbow

• Mega Sphere

• Sphere Workbench

• Musket

• Stun Baton

• Crusher

• Hot Spring

• Tropical Outfits

• Resistant Armor

• Toolbox

• Flame Cauldron

• Saddles

• Coolers

• Heaters

• Cooking Pot

As for the personal Skill Points, you should invest in them but not that great of a deal breaker. Focus more on utilizing your Pals in the game.

Increasing Capture Rate and Leveling

After you get your Flying Mount and a Saddle, you can fly up at night time and see small green dots. These are effigies that you can take to increase your capturing rate.

The best way to level up in Palworld is by capturing Pals, and it also improves your work efficiency. So, the best way to get started with Palworld would be to capture every Pal you see in Palworld.

Understanding Eggs

The breeding part is clearly explained in Palworld Best Early Game Base Optimization Guide, but as far as eggs go, they are complex to understand. Create small structures in your base with covering/shelter, and place the eggs there.

Keep checking on eggs as they tend to get cold or warm without any specific reason. If they get cold, create small fires around them, and if they are warm, cool them up. When Pals are doing tasks, this doesn't damage the house. So, you can put Pals inside the house and let them cool or warm your eggs.

Conclusion

So, this winds up our Palworld Best Early Game Base Optimization Guide. The game looks massive and that is overwhelming for beginners, and they tend to drive away from what truly matters. As an early game base builder, you need to focus mostly on capturing Pals, keeping things at a base minimum for yourself, and focusing on Pals, letting them do all the work for you, while you take care of their sanity and feed. Follow the guide for in-depth details on how to make the best base for beginners in Palworld.