Breeding is a great way to stockpile Pals in Palworld without having to traverse the dangerous biomes and waste several spheres to capture an elusive Pal. Though it cannot replace capturing entirely, as the ones in the wild are much more powerful than the ones that can be bred at your base, they can still get you some XP to level up and unlock powerful weaponry.
In this guide, we will discuss how breeding works in Palworld, and what kind of combinations of Pals can give you some great new friends to add to your party.
First and foremost, Breeding Pals in Palworld is pretty simple, as you just need the two Pals of the opposite sex you wish to breed, one cake, and a breeding farm.
The Breeding Farm will take quite a few materials to craft, including:
- 100 Wood
- 200 Stone
- 50 Fiber
You will also have to level 19 in order to unlock the crafting recipe, so it isn’t an early game item you can craft immediately. It also will require a lot of space to build, so make sure to have a decent area ready to place the Breeding Farm down on when you have the materials needed.
How To Make Cake in Palworld
Cake is the reagent needed to actually make the Pals begin to breed, and it honestly is one of the most tedious recipes to craft in the game. The ingredients are pretty easy to come by if you know where to look. For the Cake recipe, you will need:
- 8 Red Berries
- 5 Flour
- 8 Egg
- 7 Milk
- 2 Honey
The Red Berries can be found all around the map in Berry Bushes you can either collect for yourself or have your Base Pals collect for you if you built your base close enough to them. You can also build a Berry Plantation to get them on your Base or put Caprity inside of a Ranch to spawn them for you.
Milk can only be found by killing or capturing Mozzarina, or bringing one back to the base and assigning them to the Ranch to drop milk for you. Eggs are found the same way, by capturing or killing Chikipi or placing them in a Ranch on the base.
Flour can be acquired by slaying Dinoblossom and collecting wheat seeds for the Wheat Plantation that can be placed in your base as well. You can also purchase Wheat Seeds from the Vendor inside of the Small Settlement, but this isn’t the best way to gather them. Once you have a Wheat Plantation to start collecting Wheat, you will need to turn it into flour using a Mill. You will need a Water Pal to work the Mill in order to create the Flour for the Cake recipe.
Lastly, you will need the Honey, which can be the hardest part if you are lower level due to the Pal level of the Beegarde who drops it. Beegarde works the same way as Chikipi and Mozzarina; you will need to capture, kill it, or bring it to your Ranch to collect the Honey.
The cake takes seemingly the longest to make on a cooking pot compared to any other recipe, and it cannot be made on just a campfire.
How To Breed the Pals
Now that you have your Cake ready to go and your Breeding Farm, you are ready to begin the process of hatching some eggs!
Take the Cake you just crafted and place it into the chest on the outside of the Breeding Farm, carry the two Pals you wish to breed and place them within the Breeding Farm, and wait for them to finish the breeding process. Breeding does take the Pals a bit of time, so you will be waiting around for a bit for the egg to spawn.
Once they are placed into the Breeding Farm, you will see a circle with a question mark in it that has a bar slowly filling up around it. As long as everything is going smoothly with them breeding, that bar will fill and the egg will spawn when the breeding is complete.
Go pick up the egg they created and place it into an incubator, then wait however long the incubator says for the egg to be ready to hatch!
The Egg Incubator in Palworld
The Egg Incubator is crucial to the breeding process, and it can be unlocked using one Ancient Technology point within the Technology Tree. Once you unlock it, you will need to craft at least one which will take:
- 10 Paldium Fragments
- 30 Stone
- 5 Cloth
- 2 Ancient Civilization Parts
Once it is crafted, you can place the eggs gathered around the map or from the breeding farm inside in order to hatch new Pals. Some eggs are going to prefer a certain temperature to hatch more quickly. For example, a Scorching Egg will want heat, which can either be provided by a campfire or a heater being close by the Egg Incubator.
Eggs that prefer the cold will need a cooler placed next to the incubator in order to hatch more quickly. You will be able to tell which temperature the egg requests by reading the prompt when you are close to the incubator. It will give a status that says “Seems a little too cold” or “Seems a little too hot”. This way, you know what to place next to the incubator to get the egg to hatch in less time than just leaving it be within the temperature of the world.
That’s going to be it for our guide on how to get Pal Fluids in Palworld. Make sure to check out our other Palworld guides if you happen to get stuck on things like collecting Pal Fluids or High Quality Pal Oil.
