Breeding is how you get Pals that do not exist in the wild, with passive skills that make them stronger than anything you can catch. On your own server you control the hatching speed and work rate, turning a 72-hour grind into something manageable.
How breeding works
- Build a Breeding Farm (unlocked at level 19).
- Place one male and one female Pal into the farm.
- Put Cake in the farm's chest. Cake is the only item that triggers breeding; it requires Flour, Red Berries, Milk, Eggs and Honey.
- After some time, the pair produces an egg. The egg type depends on the element of the offspring.
- Place the egg in an Incubator. After the hatch timer, the new Pal appears.
Breeding results are fixed
Every parent combination has a predetermined result. It is not random. Use a breeding calculator to look up what any two Pals will produce.
Popular combinations
- Anubis: Penking + Bushi. One of the strongest early combat Pals, only available through breeding.
- Jormuntide Ignis: Jormuntide + Blazamut. Extremely rare in the wild; breeding makes it accessible.
- Grizzbolt: Mossanda + Rayhound. Versatile combat and electricity Pal.
- Frostallion Noct: Frostallion + Helzephyr. The Dark element variant of the legendary Frostallion.
Passive skill inheritance
Each Pal can have up to four passive skills. When breeding, skills from both parents are randomly passed to the offspring, with a small chance of mutation (a skill neither parent has).
The strategy for perfect Pals:
- Start with parents that share the desired skills.
- Breed until the offspring has all four target skills.
- Use that offspring as a parent for the next generation.
Best combat skills: Legend, Lucky, Musclehead, Ferocious. Best work skills: Artisan, Serious, Diet Lover, Work Slave.
Server settings for breeding
- PalEggDefaultHatchingTime: default is 72 hours. Set to 1.0 to 5.0 for a reasonable pace on a private server.
- WorkSpeedRate: higher values make Pals work faster at stations, including the farm.
See Palworld server settings explained for all options.
Efficiency tips
- Build multiple farms and incubators to breed in parallel.
- Keep a Cake supply ready. Cake is the bottleneck; assign Pals with Farming, Gathering and Cooking to your base.
- The incubator hatches faster when the ambient temperature matches the egg element. Fire eggs hatch faster near a heat source.
- Nickname your Pals to keep track of parents and offspring.
Can I breed the same Pal multiple times?
Yes, unlimited. As long as there is Cake in the chest, the parents keep producing eggs.
Does breeding work in multiplayer?
Yes. Every player can build their own Breeding Farm. The server settings apply to everyone.
Should I lower the hatch time?
Most private servers set it between 1.0 and 3.0. The default 72 hours is realistic but painfully slow if you are breeding multiple generations. Extremely low values (0.01) make breeding trivial and remove the challenge.
Breeding works on all Palworld plans at HostValues.
