Balancing base workers against your party
Never put your best Handiwork, Kindling or Watering Pals in your combat party — base production stalls the moment you take a worker into the field, so keep two dedicated copies of every critical work suitability.
Updated 2026-07-30
Key takeaways
- ✓Duplicate the essentials
- ✓Anubis exception
- ✓Transporting bottleneck
- ✓Party sanity
Duplicate the essentials
Two Kindling and two Watering Pals prevent smelting and farm downtime.
Anubis exception
Anubis is strong enough in combat that many players breed a second one purely for the base.
Transporting bottleneck
A base without a Transporting Pal jams even with perfect workers.
Party sanity
Field Pals lose sanity faster; rotate them through a Hot Spring before returning to work.
Capture slot
Keep one high-capture-bonus Pal parked for opportunistic Alpha catches.