The best starter Pals in Palworld and where to get them

Here’s all the best starter Pals in Palworld to help you get up and running

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Looking for the best starter Pals in Palworld? Palworld is a creature capture game where you collect ‘Pals’, colourful creatures with different elemental abilities in a similar fashion to Pokemon. Pals can either help you in combat to secure new, rarer Pals, or can work at your base farming, mining and gathering materials.

As such, collecting the most efficient Pals early on in your playthrough is an important step to establish your base. For optimal production and the best starting combat, utility and mount Pals, see our full list below. We’ll also tell you how to catch them, how best to utilise their skills and where you can find them.

Best Pals to collect first in Palworld

Below we’ll take you through each Pal you’re likely to first encounter in Palworld and go through their main abilities, where they should be assigned and the main pros and cons of each breed. With this, you should have a clear idea of where to prioritise your time and efforts.

Like Pokemon, each Pal has a different elemental affinity which makes them both stronger and more vulnerable to specific elements. Each Pal also has different skills that make them able to work in different structures on your base. These are also listed so you know which are the best for farming, mining and so forth.

Chikipi

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• Element: Neutral
• Skill Proficiencies: Gathering, Farming
• Partner Skill: Egg Layer (will lay Eggs when assigned to a ranch)
• Drops: Egg, Chikipi Poultry
• Location: All over the map but particularly within the Windswept Hills

The Chikipi is an adorable chicken creature that you’ll encounter straight away. If you fight the Chikipi they will drop Eggs and Poultry which you can eat. As with most games, you’ll recover more hunger if you cook the food at a campfire first.

These cute companions can be set to work on ranch buildings or berry farms, making them an obtainable working force for those early needs. If you get a few on a ranch at once, they will produce a large amount of eggs. I’ve found that the fastest way to level up the Pals in my team (at least for the first few levels) is to cook eggs at a campfire or craft arrows in succession. The process of crafting or cooking will rack up a nice amount of XP.

Of course, you’ll quickly outgrow the need for Chikipi and will soon find better Pals (listed further down), but to begin with they are a useful food and labour source.

Foxparks

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• Element: Fire
• Skill Proficiencies: Kindling
• Partner Skill: Huggy Fire (transforms into a flamethrower)
• Drops: Leather, Flame Organ
• Location: Grassy Behemoth Hills

The Foxparks is an excellent starting Pal for combat and will offer consistent damage. Even more so, when you use the Partner Skill Huggy Fire, the Pal will leap into your arms and emit waves of fire like a flamethrower. To get the skill, you must first reach level 6 and craft a Foxparks Harness. This is achievable by playing through the tutorial prompts and hunting other Foxparks for their Flame Organs (a necessary crafting component).

Tanzee

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• Element: Grass
• Skill Proficiencies: Planting, Gathering, Handiwork, Lumbering, Transporting
• Partner Skill: Cheery Rifle (will use an assault rifle against enemies)
• Drops: Mushroom
• Location: Grassy Behemoth Hills

The Tanzee is worth picking up early on due to its sheer amount of skills. The Tanzee can assign itself to most early game buildings like the Logging Site and Berry Plantation. Also, it will often chop down trees when left unassigned, leaving you with a nice buildup of wood after coming back from exploring.

Additionally, when you reach level 12, you can unlock the Tanzee’s Assualt Rifle and associated Partner Skill. With this, the Tanzee essentially guns down enemies in quick succession with a lovely dose of firepower. This makes the Tanzee suited for both utility and combat.

Rushoar

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• Element: Ground
• Skill Proficiencies: Mining
• Partner Skill: Hard Head (increased efficiency of destroying boulders when mounted)
• Drops: Rushoar Prok, Leather, Bone
• Location: West of the Small Settlement

The Rushoar is a ridable Pal that can be used to travel easier. Additionally, you can do a rush attack when on the back of a Rushoar if you want to take any enemies or Pals by surprise. Whilst there are faster mounts out there, the Rushoar is fairly obtainable early on and you only need to reach level 6 to unlock the Rushoar Saddle.

Jolthog

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• Element: Electric
• Skill Proficiencies: Generating Electricity
• Partner Skill: Jolt Bomb (transforms the Jolthog into a throwable weapon)
• Drops: Electric Organ
• Location: Ravine Entrance surrounding area.

Not only is the Jolthog an adorable Pal, but it is highly effective in combat. This is especially true if you unlock its Partner Skill at level 8 which essentially turns the Jolthog into an electric bomb you can throw at other Pals for high impact damage. This ability alone makes the Jolthog worth pursuing in the early-game regions.

Daedream

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• Element: Dark
• Skill Proficiencies: Handiwork, Gathering, Transporting
• Partner Skill: Dream Chaser (stays near player when assigned to the team)
• Drops: Venom Gland, Small Pal Soul
• Location: Grassy Behemoth Hills (at night)

The Daedream is a Pal I used exclusively in combat early on due to the immensely useful Dream Chaser skill, unlocked at level 8. Once you make the Daedream’s necklace, it essentially allows the Daedream to stay near you at all times without needing to be summoned. In essence, you can have two Pals involved in combat at once. You just need to make sure you have the Daedream allotted in one of your team slots.

To get a Daedream you must hunt for them at night, so make sure you have a torch equipped or have clothing equipped to avoid freezing from cold.

How to assign Pals to jobs in Palworld

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Although the maximum limit of Pals in your base is huge (as of writing there are 480 Pal slots per Palbox), you will only be able to have a limited number of them working on your base at once. To unlock more workers you must level up your base. This is a separate system from the player level and can be achieved by fulfilling missions at a Palbox.

Once you have a slot available, it will appear under the main Palbox inventory (featuring all of the Pals inside of the box). Simply click on the Pal you want to place on your base and drag it over to the ‘Pals at the base’ section.

Pals will automatically gravitate to tasks they are skilled for. If you wish to manually set a Pal a task, however, you can do so by approaching them and then clicking the prompt to lift them. Once you have them in your arms, launch them towards the area where the task is located and they will get to work.

That rounds off our guide to the best starting Pals in Palworld including options for gardening, mining, combat and more. With this, you should be kitted out with everything you need to explore the wider Palworld map and take on some rarer Pals.

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.

This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.

We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.

In this guide:

• What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
• Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
• Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations

What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?

Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).

To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.

It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.

Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes

Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:

Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.

Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders

Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:

• Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
• Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
• Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
• High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
• Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
• Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
• Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.

Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.

Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .

In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.

Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.

Blueprints obtained from quests

One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.

Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:

• Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
• Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
• Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
• Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.

Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.

One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints obtained from Trials

One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.

Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.

Best Blueprint farming locations

The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.

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Dam Battlegrounds

The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.

There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.

Buried City

The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.

Spaceport

The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.

The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.

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Blue Gate

Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .

All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.

Stella Montis

On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.

In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.

That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.

While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.

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