No more flying your Pals to Thailand for a little snippety-snip. The surgery table introduced in the latest Palworld update lets you swap the gender of any Pal at the click of the button — which is great news for when you want to start breeding your Pals, have the perfect pair but they just happen to be the same gender. Click click, Eve is now Steve.
But, you can do so much more. Plug in new passives, or copy them from another Pal on the team. Okay, that was actually all you can do with the surgery table. If that was all the expansion was about, it would be a nice QoL update, but nothing special.
The update also brings several new Pals, some of which are already causing concern for being overpowered. Some are variations on old Pals, but there’s some entirely new ones, including the cutest vampire bat you or anyone else has ever seen.
There’s fishing now! Three different poles (each one getting cuter), a bunch of different baits, and fishing spots all around the new tiny islands and elsewhere. Fishing a spot opens up a little minigame where you try to keep a fish icon centered in a little line you move back and forth. Better bait makes that line bigger. But if fishing’s not your thing, you can now build a fishing hole in your base and assign a Pal to do the fishing for you. You’ll still need to provide the bait; they bring the pole, come back in a bit to see what they’ve caught for you.
If you’ve been putting off going to the Arena because you play solo, put it off no longer. Palworld now provides NPC with which to fight, drawn from all the most vile and vicious Pal trainers they could find. With Arena wins, you get coupons. Collect enough coupons, and you can buy schematics for some of the deadliest weapons in the game. It’s probably worth it? You’ll need something pretty deadly to take on the level 65 “Master”-class opponents.
Max level raised to 65, by the way, trivializing some fights. I don’t know if the existing overworld bosses got the same boost.
There’s a new raid boss — Moon Lord — who comes from the Terraria game. It’s only level 50, so it’s among the weaker raid bosses; I don’t think I had more than one or two deaths among my raid pals. Very less lethal than the existing bosses, and no egg, and no hard mode. You can get his head to wear, though. The legendary Meowmere schematic is also said to drop, but I didn’t see it in my three runs. (It’s a sword that launches bouncing, meowing cat heads at enemies, so it’s clearly something you do want).
There’s a portal to the world of Terraria sitting now in the ocean! You don’t get to dig or build anything, so is it really Terraria? There are, however, slimes. And floating eyes. And the aforementioned super cute bats. I have an army of these Eyes of Cthulhu stashed away in my Palbox, awaiting the discovery of a medicine vendor who sells Visine in industrial-sized doses. Just past the Eye are two chests that quite possibly contain schematics for the new Terraria-themed weapons.
The coolest of which is the Terraprisma. Slicing with this sword summons persistent floating blades to help you, up to nine. They will just calmly go around killing things in the vicinity while you fire away with some other weapons, perhaps the Vortex Beater. THAT little gem is an upgrade to the assault rifle that occasionally also launches missiles AND sometimes doesn’t even use ammo. There’s also a glowing green Terra Blade, several top of the line upgrades to existing high end weapons, and the legendary blade, Excalibur.
Don’t be too concerned if all you get are common schematics from Terraria chests; the new Drafting Table can let you combine lower level schematics to make higher level ones. Hope you didn’t sell all your dupes from before.
I had to take a break from Dune to explore in Palworld, but the desert sands are calling. I’ll be back, though, and I’ll dive into more details when I do.
