Working
Working is an activity performed by both Players and Pals in Palworld. While players can manually perform many tasks, most large-scale production and base management relies on Pals assigned to specific work roles.
Each Pal species has a set of work roles it can perform, known as Work Suitabilities. These determine which tasks a Pal can carry out at a base or in the field. Work Suitability levels typically range from 1 to 4, and can be increased by 1 using the Pal Essence Condenser.
Most work activities take place at bases, though some can also be performed in the wilderness or while accompanying the player.
Work Types
Kindling
Pals with 
Kindling generate fire to operate heat-based facilities such as campfires, cooking pots, furnaces, and heaters. They are essential for cooking food, smelting ores, and maintaining heat-dependent structures.
Watering
Pals with 
Watering supply water for crop irrigation and operate water-powered structures such as the Crusher and Mill. Watering plays a key role in automated farming.
Planting
Pals with 
Planting sow seeds at plantations, initiating the crop growth cycle. Planting works best when paired with Watering, Gathering, and Transporting for continuous farming.
Generating Electricity
Pals with 
Generating Electricity produce power for generators and electrical infrastructure. A stable electricity supply is required to operate advanced facilities such as assembly lines.
Handiwork
Pals with 
Handiwork handle crafting, construction, and repairs. They work at all types of workbenches and assembly lines, and can assist with building both inside and outside the base.
Gathering
Pals with 
Gathering harvest crops from plantations and collect certain items in the field. Higher Gathering levels increase crop yield, making them a core component of farming efficiency.
Lumbering
Pals with 
Lumbering chop down trees and work at logging sites to produce wood. They can also assist the player when manually chopping trees.
Mining
Pals with 
Mining extract stone and minerals from resource nodes and mining sites. Higher Mining levels unlock access to rarer materials such as Ore, Coal, Sulfur, and Pure Quartz.
Medicine Production
Pals with 
Medicine Production craft medical items at medicine workbenches. This suitability is used to produce treatments for injuries, ailments, and status effects.
Cooling
Pals with 
Cooling operate cooling facilities to preserve food and regulate temperature. Cooling extends food expiration timers and supports temperature-sensitive structures such as Egg Incubators.
Transporting
Pals with 
Transporting move items from work stations and ground drops to storage containers. Higher Transporting levels increase how many items a Pal can carry per trip.
Farming
Pals with 
Farming produce specific items when assigned to a Ranch. These items are generated passively and are often used in crafting, cooking, or medicine production.
Recommended Setup
The Monitoring Stand allows players to control which jobs Pals perform and is essential for optimizing base productivity. Building all work speed buff structures provides up to a 20% efficiency increase.
For food buffs, 
Salad, 
Chikipi Sauté, 
Pizza, and 
Minestrone are strong options. Minestrone provides the highest work speed bonus across all hunger levels and does not require a Ranch or a Wandering Merchant.
- Generating Electricity:
Orserk or 
Azurmane. Fills to 100%, then does other work until 80%.
- Handiwork:
Anubis (can be obtained early-game through breeding a 
Vanwyrm with a 
Cinnamoth or a 
Relaxaurus with a 
Celaray), 
Selyne (nocturnal) or 
Splatterina (nocturnal and consumes very little food)
- Lumbering:
Celesdir or 
Prixter, eats less and moves faster than other level 3, use the Monitoring Stand to set it to the Logging Site.
- Farming: all items can be bought from Wandering Merchants, except Honey.
- Kindling:
Jormuntide Ignis or 
Blazamut Ryu. A Jormuntide Ignis can be obtained very early from a Huge Scorching Egg found on top of the eastern Volcano as soon as a flying mounts is captured.
- Cooling:
Frostallion or 
Bastigor. 
Vanwyrm Cryst is the only dark-type cooling pal, meaning it is naturally nocturnal.
- Mining:
Astegon (nocturnal), Blazamut Ryu (can also run a furnace) or 
Knocklem (can also transport)
- Transporting: Knocklem, faster than
Wumpo. Transporters take stacks of 2, 5, 10, 20,40. Vanwyrm moves faster, it's better for Ranch and Pure Quartz bases where items drop in low stacks (Ranch Pals drop items one by one).
- Gathering:
Frostallion Noct, the only level 4. Knocklem or 
Verdash have level 3 early. Gathering yields: 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. 
Lullu speeds up the growth phase, stacking.
- Medicine Production:
Bellanoir, but Lullu and 
Lyleen can craft what is needed, as you don't mass produce medicine.