The most beautiful base locations in Palworld 1.0

This is the rare site where the prettiest option is also the easiest one. The crystallized pool takes foundations directly, so a glass floor over glowing water is a first-session build rather than an endgame project, and the flat, wide-open ground around it means you can grow outward in any direction without terracing. The one thing to plan around is your neighbour: Pocket Pair moved the Jetragon world boss into this pool, so set your footprint off to one side and check its exact spawn on the map before you place anything permanent.

Where the crystal pool gives you a blank flat canvas, this one hands you a half-finished set. A flat, open wheat field is already dotted with pre-built structures, and the space is framed by natural walls, pools, a stone bridge and surrounding waterfalls. That framing is what makes it read as a village instead of a compound: you are filling gaps between things that already look like they belong, rather than inventing a skyline from nothing.

The most photogenic spot on this page and the least forgiving. Stacked turquoise pools sit across several water levels, so almost nothing lines up on a single plane and the usable footprint keeps changing as you climb. Treat it as a project rather than a home: it is explicitly not a beginner build, and the payoff is a base that looks legendary from any angle.

Scouring Island has the wildest topography in the game, and this is the site that lets you use it as architecture. Giant stacked rock pillars carry flat platforms on top, deep ravines cut between them and ancient statues sit in the middle of it. You can take one pillar as a private island-within-an-island, or go for the ambitious version and string a hanging wall base straight across the ravine.

Beauty that nobody else can see from the surface. This sinkhole holds water at the bottom, lush greenery and mineshaft tunnels punching out the sides, which gives you both a natural centrepiece and ready-made corridors to extend into. It is the scenic answer for players who find open-field builds too exposed.

The only site on this page whose visual signature is heat rather than water. Flame Pulse Island is new in 1.0 and its central shelf is flat and highly workable, so the styling work goes into the edge: push the build outward and let the natural lava flows run through the design instead of walling them off. The island keeps a hidden world boss, but the shelf sits far enough from it that it will never wander into your base.