Like most other survival games, Palworld gives you the tools to customize your difficulty and apply your own settings to your world. You can make your Palworld server a hardcore survival experience or a carefree casual time depending on your choices.
Best Custom World Settings in Palworld
To change your Palworld server settings, just start a new world and then choose Custom Settings next to the Custom Difficulty option to reveal all of the sliders. Casual, Normal, and Hard all tweak these sliders in various ways, and you can see the settings for each of them if you have the slider menu opened.
The default Normal settings are fine for most people, but a few tweaks transform Palworld into a much more enjoyable experience. These are the best custom difficulty settings that you should try for your world in Palworld.
- Day Time Speed: 1
- Night Time Speed 1
- EXP Rate: 2
- Pal Capture Rate: 1.5
- Pal Appearance Rate: 2.5
- Damage from Pals multiplier: 1
- Damage to Pals multiplier: 1.2
- Pal Hunger Depletion Rate: 0.8
- Pal Stamina Reduction Rate: 0.8
- Pal Auto HP Regeneration Rate: 1.2
- Pal Sleep Health Regeneration Rate: 1.2
- Damage from Player multiplier: 1.2
- Damage to Player multiplier: 1.0
- Player Hunger Depletion Rate: 0.8
- Player Stamina Reduction Rate: 0.8
- Player auto HP regeneration rate: 1.2
- Player Sleep HP Regeneration Rate: 1.2
- Damage to Structure Multiplier: 1
- Structure deterioration rate: 0.8
- Maximum number of dropped items in a world: 3000
- Gatherable Items Multiplier: 1.5
- Gatherable Objects HP Multiplier: 0.8
- Gatherable objects respawn interval: 0.8
- Dropped Items Multiplier: 1.2
- Time to incubate Massive Egg: 2
- Enable Raid Events: On
- Death penalty: Drop all items except equipment
- Max number of guilds: 20
- Max Pals Working at Base: 20
Related: Palworld VR is already possible thanks to Praydog’s UEVR mod
Hardcore Palworld Difficulty Settings
These settings are for Palworld players seeking more of a challenge for their server. These tweaks are similar to the game’s Hard difficulty but without some of the more annoying additions like reduced gathering rates.
- Day Time Speed: 1
- Night Time Speed 1
- EXP Rate: 0.8
- Pal Capture Rate: 1
- Pal Appearance Rate: 2
- Damage from Pals multiplier: 1.2
- Damage to Pals multiplier: 0.8
- Pal Hunger Depletion Rate: 1
- Pal Stamina Reduction Rate: 1
- Pal Auto HP Regeneration Rate: 1
- Pal Sleep Health Regeneration Rate: 1
- Damage from Player multiplier: 0.5
- Damage to Player multiplier: 2
- Player Hunger Depletion Rate: 1
- Player Stamina Reduction Rate: 1
- Player auto HP regeneration rate: 1
- Player Sleep HP Regeneration Rate: 1
- Damage to Structure Multiplier: 1
- Structure deterioration rate: 1
- Maximum number of dropped items in a world: 3000
- Gatherable Items Multiplier: 1
- Gatherable Objects HP Multiplier: 1
- Gatherable objects respawn interval: 1
- Dropped Items Multiplier: 1
- Time to incubate Massive Egg: 50
- Enable Raid Events: On
- Death penalty: Drop all items
- Max number of guilds: 20
- Max Pals Working at Base: 20
Easy Palworld Difficulty Settings
If you just want to chill and catch Pals, these are the settings for you. With less difficult combat and much easier gathering, these settings transform Palworld into the ultimate cozy game.
- Day Time Speed: 1
- Night Time Speed 1
- EXP Rate: 5
- Pal Capture Rate: 2
- Pal Appearance Rate: 2.5
- Damage from Pals multiplier: 0.5
- Damage to Pals multiplier: 2
- Pal Hunger Depletion Rate: 0.8
- Pal Stamina Reduction Rate: 0.8
- Pal Auto HP Regeneration Rate: 1.2
- Pal Sleep Health Regeneration Rate: 1.2
- Damage from Player multiplier: 2
- Damage to Player multiplier: 0.5
- Player Hunger Depletion Rate: 0.1
- Player Stamina Reduction Rate: 0.1
- Player auto HP regeneration rate: 2
- Player Sleep HP Regeneration Rate: 2
- Damage to Structure Multiplier: 1
- Structure deterioration rate: 0.1
- Maximum number of dropped items in a world: 3000
- Gatherable Items Multiplier: 2.5
- Gatherable Objects HP Multiplier: 0.5
- Gatherable objects respawn interval: 0.8
- Dropped Items Multiplier: 1.2
- Time to incubate Massive Egg: 2
- Enable Raid Events: On
- Death penalty: No drops
- Max number of guilds: 20
- Max Pals Working at Base: 20
If you don’t like your world’s difficulty settings, you’re thankfully not stuck with them. You can change your server’s settings at any time from the main menu. Some of Palworld’s features — like grinding for EXP — don’t get super annoying until you’re quite far in the game, so being able to tweak difficulty settings at any time is a huge relief.
