Palworld Home Sweet Home Update Adds Better Melee, 'Experimental' PvP, Raid Battlefields, and Improved Building

Palworld has conscionable pushed retired a important caller patch, bringing a collab with Ultrakill and a ton of improvements arsenic developer Pocketpair continues enactment to hole for the motorboat of Palworld 1.0, the game's eagerly-anticipated afloat release.

John “Bucky” Buckley, communications manager and publishing manager, teased that this update, dubbed Home Sweet Home, "puts a batch of groundwork successful arsenic we enactment towards our MASSIVE 1.0 merchandise successful 2026, but we person tons of small surprises successful this update truthful cheque it out!"

As portion of the Ultrakill collaboration, you'll find respective "iconic weapons and armor," arsenic good arsenic a V1’s infamous coin toss, portion the Home Sweet Home update — arsenic the sanction suggests — makes it a small much intuitive to enactment down roots and marque your ain cozy base.

Pocketpair said it had been "blown distant by each the unthinkable builds that you guys person been sending us," and knows we've "been eagerly waiting for much state successful however you plan your base." That's wherefore this update brings a fig of caller gathering parts, including the quality to alteration the colour of gathering pieces and the "much-requested triangular pieces." The gathering paper UI has besides been redesigned and reformatted into a list.

But that's not all. Melee combat has been improved to marque it "more viable and fun," and now, erstwhile summoning a raid brag astatine the Summoning Altar, players tin take to either combat astatine their basal arsenic before, oregon instrumentality connected the raid brag successful a peculiar Raid Area.

"These Raid Areas let you to combat with each your might, without risking immoderate harm to your base," the squad explained. "You tin physique impermanent structures and instrumentality items into these peculiar Raid Areas." Which is conscionable arsenic well, arsenic a caller raid brag volition besides popular up aft the update.

"2025 has been an unthinkable twelvemonth for Palworld, and we’re excited to extremity the twelvemonth with v0.7, Home Sweet Home!" Pocketpair exclaimed. "The intent of this update is to statesman improving existing features, and portion this update whitethorn not beryllium arsenic content-rich arsenic erstwhile ones, we anticipation players recognize that it’s indispensable for america to statesman laying the groundwork present arsenic we enactment connected the improvement of Palworld 1.0."

Last but decidedly not least, PvP! Though the workplace admits PvP has been a taxable of treatment successful the Palworld assemblage for a "long time," and it’s "hard to afloat integrate PvP into the game," it is trying to marque the imagination a reality, albeit with immoderate cautious parameters.

"We are releasing each the indispensable tools for players to acceptable up their ain PvP rules connected their ain terms," Pocketpair said. "Show disconnected your skills and vie with different Pal Tamers! Please enactment that PvP is experimental, and arsenic such, determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate balancing issues."

Palworld v0.7 spot notes:

ULTRAKILL Collab!

• Added V1 and V2 armor sets! Terrorize the Palpagos Islands arsenic your favourite blood-fueled robot!
• Added a brace of iconic weapons from ULTRAKILL!
• Unique Mechanic - Coin Toss
  • Throw coins portion utilizing the Marksman Revolver to execute a Ricoshot! Bullets volition ricochet disconnected the thrown coin and woody devastating harm to adjacent targets!

Base Building Improvements

• Added 48 caller gathering parts, including triangular pieces!
• Added the quality to alteration the colour of immoderate buildings and foundations!
• Changed the gathering UI to a list-based system.

Raid Boss Improvements

• Added a caller raid boss!
• Added a caller battlefield for raid bosses. Players tin present take to situation raid bosses successful their basal oregon successful a caller abstracted battlefield.

Melee Combat Improvements

• Improved the melee gameplay for swords, katanas and beam swords. Pressing near click (right trigger) volition execute a caller consecutive combo attack.
• Special attacks person been added to the katana and beam sword. Holding either near oregon close click (left oregon close trigger) volition activate these abilities.

New Features

• Added PvP functionality (Experimental!).
• [PC - Steam Only] Added Steam Workshop, allowing players to download and usage mods.

Mechanic Adjustments

• When placing a building, an arrow indicating the building's predisposition volition present beryllium displayed.
• When placing a building, buildings with a acceptable enactment determination volition present show a Cattiva icon indicating the enactment location.
• Adjusted the Palbox truthful it tin beryllium aligned with foundations and roofs.
• [Keyboard & Mouse Controls] Building controls person been made much intuitive, and continuous gathering has been changed to the default setting.

Balance Adjustments

• Added caller implants to the country table:
  • Implant: Mine Foreman
  • Implant: Logging Foreman
  • Implant: Fine Furs
  • Implant: Sleek Stroke
  • Implant: Work Slave
• You tin present get a Little Kinship Peach from a Pal erstwhile freeing them from an force camp.
• The past deed done to an force portion utilizing mercy volition present show ""MERCY HIT"" to bespeak that nary harm was done.
• Changed specifications truthful that each Pals volition nary longer suffer SAN erstwhile taking damage.
• Reduced the interaction of atrocious presumption effects:
  • Hungry... Attack, Defense, Work Speed ​​-20% → -10%
  • Starving... Attack, Defense, Work Speed ​​-50% → -20%
  • Cold... Work Speed ​​-10% → -5%
  • Sprain... Movement Speed ​​-10% → -5%
  • Overfull... Increased hunger nonaccomplishment complaint by 100% → +50%
  • Ulcer... Work Speed ​​-20%, Movement Speed ​​-10% → Work Speed ​​-10%, Movement Speed ​​-5%
  • Fracture... Work Speed ​​-10%, Movement Speed ​​-20% → Work Speed ​​-5%, Movement Speed ​​-10%
  • Weakened... Work Speed ​​-20%, Movement Speed ​​-30% → Work Speed ​​-10%, Movement Speed ​​-20%
  • Depressed... -30% Work Speed, -20% Movement Speed ​​→ -20% Work Speed, -10% Movement Speed
• Changed the property of the Broncherry's unsocial accomplishment ""Body Smash"" from neutral to the grass.
• Changed the property of Rushoar's unsocial accomplishment "Heavy Charge" from neutral to earth.
• Added "Item Decay Speed ​​Multiplier" to the Options Settings.
• ・[Dedicated Servers] Police NPCs targeting players who person committed crimes volition present lone woody harm to the people subordinate and their guild.
• ・The quality of the enactment aptitude icon has been changed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an contented wherever Flopie would not cod dropped items successful the tract portion her spouse accomplishment "Helper Bunny" was active.
• Improved Pal pathfinding AI ​​to marque it easier to scope the people determination wrong the base.
• Fixed an contented wherever summoned Pals would onslaught visitors erstwhile acceptable to "attack aggressively."
• Fixed an contented wherever attacking visitors successful your basal would not effect successful the close attacking state.
• Many different insignificant bug fixes.

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