¶ Palworld: How to Change the Server Difficulty
You may have noticed that the normal difficulty setting for servers doesn't work yet how it would on singleplayer or coop, but you can customize the settings individually to create the preferred difficulty that you want to run on your server. Here is some of the main settings that you can customize that make the game more easy or difficult.
Note: This list is not exhaustive. These are the main options which will have a major impact on gameplay difficulty. All available options can be viewed on the
Advanced Server Settingspage and have relevant descriptions to help you tweak to your preference.
All settings can be changed in the Advanced Server Settings
¶ Death Penalty
Death penalty will change what is lost upon dying. This setting can make the game much more manageable if you find yourself dying more than you would like to.
| DeathPenalty | Item loss on death | None: Nothing is lost Items Only: Lose items, keep equipment Item And Equipment: Lose all items and Equipment All: Lose all items, equipment, pals (in inventory) |
¶ EXP Rate
EXP Rate will determine how much experience your Pals get when defeating other Pals or completing tasks. If you want to be able to level up faster and defeat bosses faster, you can increase this setting.
| Exp Rate | Experience Multiplier | 0.1-20 |
¶ Pal Capture Rate
Some Pals can be really hard to catch, especially later on in the game. If you don't want to struggle with throwing ball after ball trying to catch a high level Pal, you can increase this setting.
| Pal Capture Rate | Pal Capture Rate | Higher value for easier catch 0.1-5 |
¶ Pal Spawn Rate
If Pals aren't spawning enough for you or you're having a tough time finding a more rare Pal, you can increase the spawn rate to better your odds.
| Pal Spawn Num Rate | Pal Spawn Rate | High value more more spawns 0.1-5 |
¶ Damage From Pals Multiplier
If you want to make fights harder, you can increase the amount of damage that you take from Pals in the wild or in boss battles. This means that you and your Pals are going to die a lot faster than default, so make sure you're prepared for every fight.
| Pal Damage Rate Attack | Damage from Pals | Higher value for higher attack 0.1-5 |
¶ Damage To Pals Multiplier
You can increase this setting to make you and your Pals do more damage against enemy Pals. This means you'll kill Pals much faster than default, including the main bosses of the game. If you want to make the game much easier, this is the setting you want to change.
| Pal Damage Rate Defense | Damage to Pals | Higher value for more defense 0.1-5 |
¶ Damage From Players Multiplier
On top of changing your Pals damage multipliers, you can also change your own too. A higher value means you will deal more damage, and a lower one will be less.
| Player Damage Rate Attack | Damage from Players | Higher value for higher attack 0.1-5 |
¶ Damage To Players Multiplier
On top of changing your Pals defence multipliers, you can also change your own too. A higher value means you will deal more damage, and a lower one will be less.
| Player Damage Rate Defence | Damage from Players | Higher value for higher attack 0.1-5 |
¶ Player Hunger Depletion Rate
This will change how fast your hunger depletes. If you want to make Palworld feel more like a hardcore survivial game, this is the best setting to change. Get your Pals to work so you'll have plenty of food to survive this difficulty increase.
| Player Stomach Decrease Rate | Player hunger depletion rate | Higher value for faster decrease 0.1-5 |
¶ Player Stamina Reduction Rate
This setting will change how fast your stamina runs out. For many players, this is just an annoyance. You want to be able to run as far as possible as fast as possible. However this could make the game much more difficult when escaping fast enemy Pals.
| Player Stamina Decrease Rate | Player stamina depletion rate | Higher value for faster decrease 0.1-5 |
¶ Collection Drop Multiplier
This setting will change how many rocks and wood drop from trees and rocks. This means you can get a lot more materials per tree or per rock, making it much easier to get materials to craft things.
| Collection Drop Rate | Rocks/Wood/Ore drop rate | Higher value for more drops 0.1-10 |
¶ Dropped Items Multiplier
This setting will change how many items drop from enemies, making it much easier to avoid grinding for specific items and get the ones that you want quickly.
| Enemy Drop Item Rate | Enemy item drop rate | Higher value for more drops 0.1-10 |