Palworld Pal Merchants — tips and best practices
Efficiency tips, common mistakes and the fastest route to results with Pal Merchants — including the numbers most Palworld players get wrong.
Updated for the current Palworld patch
Key takeaways
- ✓Cake ingredients first
- ✓Ammo is cheaper than crafting
- ✓Never sell Ancient parts
- ✓Gold from breeding
Cake ingredients first
Breeding is bottlenecked on Cake. Buying Flour and Honey is far cheaper in time than farming them.
Ammo is cheaper than crafting
For early firearms, merchant ammo beats building a Weapon Assembly Line you cannot yet afford.
Never sell Ancient parts
Ancient Civilization Parts have no merchant substitute and gate the entire Ancient tech tree.
Gold from breeding
A Breeding Farm producing sellable Pals turns downtime into steady income — see /breeding.
Compare before buying Pals
Check work suitabilities at /pals before paying for a Pal Merchant unit — many are worse than a free catch.