Best Base Pals in Palworld 1.0 for Every Job

Planting and Gathering: protect the full crop cycle#

Flopie is a friendly early upgrade with Planting 2, Gathering 2, Handiwork 2, and Transporting 1. A low-health Mammorest can jump the curve with Planting 4, Mining 4, and Lumbering 4, though its size and lack of Gathering make it a blunt tool. Dinossom is the more realistic Planting 3 and Lumbering 3 bridge.

Before level 50, Elizabee is a superb farm generalist. Planting 4, Gathering 4, Handiwork 4, Medicine 4, and Lumbering 3 give it a natural route from crops to building and then wood. Shroomer Noct can justify a slot through its base-wide SAN reduction, while Braloha can support faster Breeding Farm egg production.

• Lyleen: Planting 7, Gathering 6, Handiwork 5, and Medicine 5 make it an excellent late-midgame bridge.
• Dandilord: The natural Planting 8 leader, with Handiwork 6, Gathering 5, Medicine 6, and Transporting 3.
• Silvance: The natural Medicine 8 leader, plus Planting 6, Handiwork 6, Gathering 4, and Transporting 2.

Handiwork: upgrade when the queue becomes permanent#

Before levels 25 to 30, construction and short crafting batches rarely justify a full-time Handiwork specialist. Petallia is a strong first upgrade because Handiwork 3 sits beside Planting 4, Gathering 3, Medicine 4, and Transporting 2.

Grizzbolt becomes valuable again here. It charges the generator, answers construction calls, handles Handiwork 4 queues, and then transports. Flaracle later pushes that model to Handiwork 6 and Kindling 7.

• Anubis: Handiwork 6, Mining 6, and Transporting 4 remain an excellent combination.
• Sekhmet pairing: Desert Empress boosts Anubis work speed by 20% at rank 1 and improves Sekhmet's own efficiency by 30% when both use the correct facilities. The effect does not stack.
• Solenne: The natural Handiwork 8 leader, with Gathering 4 and Transporting 2 as fallback work.
• Nocturnal alternatives: Selyne and Bellanoir Libero cover Handiwork and Medicine while keeping an overnight shift moving.

One elite crafter becomes especially valuable once advanced workbenches replace several older assembly lines. Fewer simultaneous work slots mean that a fast, reliable Pal matters more than a crowd of average workers.

Medicine: let farm workers cover the occasional queue#

Medicine Production is usually a support job rather than a permanent department. Elizabee, Petallia, Lyleen, Dandilord, and Silvance all combine it with productive farm or workshop work. That makes them safer early investments than a Pal that only waits beside a medicine bench.

Move toward Silvance when medicine becomes a sustained endgame requirement. Until then, keep ingredients close to the bench and let a multi-role farm worker handle each batch after higher-priority crop work clears.

Mining: from Rushoar to Aegidron#

Early on, Rushoar is useful in the party because its mounted charge breaks ore nodes faster than a primitive pickaxe. Incineram is a flexible base miner with Mining 3, Kindling 3, Handiwork 2, and Transporting 2. Penking adds Mining 3 to Watering, Handiwork, Cooling, and Transporting, so it clears urgent work before moving to ore.

• Blazamut: Mining 7 and Kindling 6 make it the major mid-to-late jump.
• Knocklem: Mining 7 plus Transporting 7 creates a clean node-to-storage worker.
• Knocklem Ignis: Keeps Mining 7 and Transporting 7 while adding Kindling 5.
• Aegidron: The natural Mining 8 leader. Mutation eggs can help build a roster while you pursue other high-level breeding goals.

The natural dataset stops at level 8. Any level 9 or 10 display also includes later Work Suitability investment rather than the Pal's starting record.

Lumbering: keep the department small#

Eikthyrdeer is a clean early specialist with Lumbering 2 and no competing base job. In the midgame, Mammorest or Elizabee can log after higher-priority work ends. Paladius and Necromus both pair Lumbering 6 with Mining 6. At the endgame, Celesdir Noct is the natural Lumbering 8 leader and works overnight.

Advanced tools make wood easy to collect manually, and outpost expeditions offer another bulk source. Do not build a permanent logging department unless a real recipe backlog demands one.

Cooling: optional early, specific late#

Cooling offers poor value when its only job is ordinary food storage. Workers repeatedly eat from the feed box, which refreshes the active stack's timer, while the Guild Chest protects surplus ingredients from ordinary spoilage pressure. A dedicated Cooling Pal can spend most of the day solving a problem your storage plan already removed.

The Ancient Furnace changes the calculation at level 66 because it requires Kindling 6 and Cooling 6. Whalaska combines Cooling 6 with Watering 5, Frostallion is a dedicated Cooling 7 specialist, and Bastigor leads the natural table at Cooling 8 with Lumbering 6 and Mining 5 as fallback work.

Transporting: fix the route before the roster#

Dedicated Transporting should be the last workforce slot you add. First, place stations beside storage and let Electricity, Kindling, Handiwork, or Mining Pals haul when their primary queues end.

Mimog is a charming early transporter, but disable its weak Gathering when you want it moving items. Eidrolon reaches natural Transporting 6. Knocklem and Knocklem Ignis lead practical endgame logistics at Transporting 7, and their large models can clear nearby output quickly when the base stays compact.

Use the floor as your diagnostic. If finished goods still cover it while nothing is crafting, cooking, smelting, charging, or watering, a dedicated transporter has earned the slot. If the floor is clear, keep that slot for production.