The best starter base locations in Palworld 1.0

The most useful true starter pick in the route, and the one place on this whole family of pages where being unambitious is correct. The open basin is easy to build on and keeps wood, stone, a small ore cluster, berry bushes and plentiful Paldium within a short walk, so nothing about the first few hours involves a long haul. Lamballs and Chikipis nearby make the opening capture-and-XP loop painless. Use that easy Paldium circuit to stock spheres and level, then leave.

The first real upgrade, and the answer to the basin running out of range. The lower shelf combines pure quartz, ore, sulfur and stone on broad buildable ground, which is what makes it a bridge into the middle of the tech tree instead of another single-resource camp. The summit above adds coal and a nearby fast-travel point. Decide which half does the work: base on the lower shelf for sulfur and quartz and hand-mine the coal hill around 18, -87, and only move the Palbox uphill if coal is your immediate bottleneck.

A side-grade rather than a straight upgrade, and it exists for one specific moment. The valley holds roughly seven sulfur nodes, six pure-quartz nodes and one ore node, with stone and wood around the perimeter, so it is a specialist site for the point where those two materials gate your crafting. It is also warmer and easier to work than the old mountaintop quartz farms. There is no meaningful coal in the footprint, so pair it with the Mount Flopie hill or a coal quarry once one is available.