Palbox
Palbox is a structure.
The heart of any base. The Palbox acts as a storage unit for your Pals, containing 32 boxes with 30 slots each for a total of 960 slots. Any Pal you capture while your party is full will automatically be sent to the first open slot here.
The Palbox itself functions as a fast travel point for anyone in your Guild. Additionally, the Palbox creates a circular claim with a radius of 35m out from itself. This forms a base, which protects everything built inside of it from decay, and destruction or thievery from non-members.
Additional Palboxes may be built by your Guild, provided you have a high enough base level.
Acquisition
It's a tier 2 technology item and requires 1 point to unlock.
Crafting
| Material | Quantity |
|---|---|
 Paldium Fragment
|
1 |
 Wood
|
8 |
 Stone
|
3 |
Overview
When placed it provides you with a Base. This Base serves as a fast travel point, a respawn point, and a place you can have Pals work. You can do missions to upgrade the Base Level. For every level it's upgraded you will unlock an extra Working Pal slot. At level 10 you are allowed to place another Base. Additionally at level 15 you are permitted a 3rd base.
The Palbox has a large cube hitbox around it to prevent objects being placed/built within it as this is where one spawns when fast traveling/spawning in at the base. Note this box also extends up as well, so trying to build over it typically requires a large clearance space.
When placed, a large, circular outline can be seen to denote the range of the Palbox's influence. This outline is visible even before building the palbox, making it helpful to see if it needs to be moved or not first.
Palbox Management Menu
Caught Pals will end up in this menu. New Pals are put into the first available slot. This list can be sorted in the top right corner. This list can be seen in all Palboxes in the world. Hovering over a Pal and clicking 'F' will show more information about the Pal, such as Work Suitability, health, Sanity, Skills, and Partner Skills (and their required gear). You can also change a Pal's name here.
Right-clicking a pal will move it to one of the Palbox's active slots. A Pal can only work at one Palbox at a time. The Pal will spawn in the hitbox behind the Palbox. Once it is in a Palbox's active slot, it will no longer be visible in the Pal list in other Palboxes.
When Pals run out of health, they will need to be revived in the Palbox. This can be done simply by placing them into this menu. There will be a timer of 10 minutes counting down until they have been revived. Pals can also be healed by placing them here. Pals won't go hungry too, but their hunger won't be replenished either.
The Base
Pals in active slots will begin to fill out tasks around the Palbox. They can work at buildings that are within range of the Palbox.
If you look at a pal in your base, you can lift them up by pressing 'V'. While carrying a pal, you can throw them back down using 'V'. If the pal is thrown at a structure and matches its work suitability (eg. Throwing a Pal with Kindling at a Campfire), it will be bound to this structure and only focus on this task (except when eating or sleeping).
Looking at a pal in your base, you can also press '4' to open a radial menu to see more details about this Pal. Here, you can feed or pet the pal, view more details about them, add them to your party, or return them to the Box (Palbox Management Menu).
Upgrading the base
Upgrading your base can make it so that you can have more bases and more pals working. Note these values are based on default/normal game settings and can be altered via the world settings.
| Level | Objectives | Working Pals | Max Bases |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build Chest & Deploy a Pal. | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Build a Primitive Workbench & Build a Shoddy Bed. | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Build a Feed box & Build a Straw Pal Bed. | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Build a Campfire & Build a berry Plantation & Deploy 4 Pals. | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | Build a Pal Gear Workbench & Statue of Power. | 5 | 1 |
| 6 | Build a Logging Site & Build a Stone Pit & Build a Crusher. | 6 | 1 |
| 7 | Build a Hot spring & Build a Primitive Furnace & Build a Second Berry Plantation. | 7 | 1 |
| 8 | Build a High Quality work bench & Build a Medieval Medicine Workbench. | 8 | 1 |
| 9 | Build a Cooler Box & Build a Sphere Workbench. | 9 | 1 |
| 10 | Build a Wheat Plantation & Build a Cooking Pot & Build a Mill. | 10 | 2 |
| 11 | Build a Weapon Workbench. | 11 | 2 |
| 12 | Build 2 Fluffy Pal Beds & Deploy 12 Pals. | 12 | 2 |
| 13 | Build a Sphere Assembly Line & Build a Power Generator. | 13 | 2 |
| 14 | Build a Weapon assembly Line & Build a High quality Hot Spring. | 14 | 2 |
| 15 | Build an Improved Furnace | 15 | 3 |
| 16 | Build 2 Large Pal Beds | 16 | 3 |
| 17 | Build a Refined Metal Chest | 17 | 3 |
| 18 | Build a Production Assembly Line II | 18 | 3 |
| 19 | Build an Electric Furnace | 19 | 3 |
| 20 | Maxed Level | 20 | 3 |
Item Storage
All storage items within the radius of a base (the blue circle centered on a base’s Palbox) are effectively linked together. When crafting on any work station within a given base, you’ll have access to all items in storage containers.
There are exceptions to this rule; Logging and Mining camps’ storage, for example, are not linked to the base storage. You must acquire items and place them in a storage container in order for them to be available.
For workable areas that have “storage” not linked to the base storage, it’s a good idea to keep a standalone storage container nearby so you can move heavy inventories without needing to walk around.
Tips
- Raids occur around the Palbox.
- Pals can be commanded to target enemies in the base (using Alarm Bell).
- Pals likely don't work as much when you're away from the base (or have to be loaded in first when the game starts).
- You can only respawn at palboxes (or specific areas on pre-discovered islands).
History
- 0.3.1.0
- Palbox capacity doubled from 480 to 960.
- 0.2.0.6
- Negative Pal status will now be resolved after spending some time in the Pal Box.
- 0.1.4.0
- Rebound the Pal lifting key from 'F' to 'V' to prevent accidents.
- 0.1.2.0
- Introduced.
Trivia
- The Palbox claim seems to extend up 50m above itself, forming a cylinder shape. Structures built above this height still don't seem to decay despite being 'outside' the zone.