Tool stack
The Palworld toolkit
The five tools that organize a Palworld playthrough — Pal reference, base planning, breeding, and mods. The stack to optimize your world without guessing.
Palworld mixes creature capture, base automation, and survival, and each of those layers has hidden depth: which Pal is good for which task, how to lay out an efficient base, and which breeding combinations yield the perfect Pal. The game explains almost none of it. This five-tool stack turns trial and error into informed decisions.
How you use it
The base reference is Palworld.gg: the complete Paldex with stats, locations, drops, and skills for each Pal, ideal for deciding who to capture and for what. When you need more technical data —exact recipes, internal values— paldb.cc is the deep database that complements it.
For the base, Palworld Base Planner lets you design the structure layout and Pal assignments before building, avoiding redoing everything when you discover something doesn't flow. And to get specific Pals, the xGaming Breeding Calculator works out which breeding combinations yield the Pal with the passives you want, instead of crossing at random.
Finally, Nexus Mods is the mod hub: quality of life, balance tweaks, and content that extends what the base game offers, especially useful in long playthroughs or on your own servers.
Why these five
Each covers a layer of the game:
- Pal reference → Palworld.gg + paldb.cc
- Base planning → Palworld Base Planner
- Breeding → xGaming Breeding Calculator
- Mods and QoL → Nexus Mods
You don't need all five to start, but together they remove almost all the trial and error of an optimized playthrough. Each tool has its full analysis in the codex.
What's in this stack
- Palworld.ggFree
The Paldex and main reference: each Pal's stats, locations, drops, and skills, all in one place.
The most comprehensive community Palworld database
- Palworld Base PlannerFree
Design your base layout —structures and Pal assignments— before building it in-game.
Pal planner to optimize work suitability across each base
- XGamingServer Breeding CalculatorFree
Calculates breeding combinations to get the Pal with the passives you want.
Breeding calculator with every combo precomputed
- PalDBFree
Detailed database of Pals, items, recipes, and technical data for deep lookups.
Database with raw data for min-maxers
- Nexus Mods (Palworld)Free
The mod hub for quality of life, content, and tweaks the base game doesn't offer.
The primary mod hub for Palworld
