Palworld Feybreak Update: Patch Notes, New Island, Predator Pals, and More

After the hefty Sakurajima Patch left a high bar, the Palworld Feybreak Update arrives with enough new content to keep trainers busy through the holidays. There is a new island to chart, fresh Pals to capture, a tougher raid boss, and a long list of building options. Here is what landed in the December 2024 patch.

A Quick Tour of the Feybreak Update

The headline addition is the Meowmere from Terraria, now Palworld's first melee weapon that also fires projectiles. It is the opening salvo of a Palworld x Terraria crossover, with more collab content planned through 2025.

The other major newcomer is Feybreak Island, a mysterious landmass dotted with glowing sand, new Pals, and the Feybreak Warriors faction. Whoever owns the missile battery up there is not interested in visitors. Two new resources also show up: Chromite, buried underground and detectable only with the right Pals or tools, and Hexolite Quartz, a rare ore that exists only on Feybreak.

Two systems make their debut. Expeditions let you send Pals out to gather supplies at the Pal Expedition Station, while the Pal Labor Research Laboratory unlocks permanent passives that boost base productivity. Several existing speed-up buildings have been folded into the research tree.

Not all the additions are friendly. Predator Pals now roam the world, hitting harder than anything you have fought before but dropping rare materials when you knock them down. Bounty NPCs appear across the Palpagos Islands as well: dangerous criminals you can hunt for rewards. The level cap is now 60, which you will need against Xenolord, the dark mechanical dragon at the head of the Xeno army.

Trainers who like a coat of paint will find new skins for Royal Frostallion, White Shadowbeak, Gold Relaxaurus, Sailor Quivern, and Summer Chillet, plus six Christmas skins. Unique skills also expanded: Flame Breath and Tempest Blizzard for Vanwyrm variants, Firefist Breathstorm for Astegon, Spirit Dash for Maraith, and more listed below.

The official trailer covers the highlights:

Full Palworld Feybreak Patch Notes (December 23, 2024)

The complete breakdown, mirroring the official Steam announcement:

Crossover Content

• Meowmere from Terraria: Palworld's first bullet-firing melee weapon. A preview of the wider Palworld x Terraria collaboration arriving through 2025.

New Location: Feybreak Island

• A mysterious island with new challenges, glowing sand, and unique Pals.
• The Feybreak Warriors hold the territory with a missile battery camp. Take them down to claim the island.

New Resources

• Chromite: Buried underground. Requires Pals or items that detect metal.
• Hexolite Quartz: Rare ore found only on Feybreak.

New Mechanic: Expeditions

• Send Pals out from the Pal Expedition Station to gather supplies while you handle other tasks.

New Mechanic: Research

• Conduct research at the Pal Labor Research Laboratory to unlock permanent passives that improve base output. Some existing speed buildings now arrive as research rewards.

Predator Pals

• Aggressive Pals scattered around the map. Hard to take down, but the drops are rare and worth the trouble.

Bounty NPCs

• Dangerous criminals now spawn across the Palpagos Islands. Capture them and turn them in for rewards.

New Strongholds and Boss: The Attack Chopper

• The Platform Oil Rig is a tough new stronghold with rich loot, guarded by a powerful Attack Chopper.
• A smaller Barge Oil Rig has been added as a friendlier entry point for newer players.

Level Cap

• Player level cap raised to 60. New technologies unlock alongside it.

Raid Boss: Xenolord

• A dark mechanical dragon at the head of the Xeno army. The patch's flagship encounter.

Sphere Modules

• Attach modules to spheres to alter their trajectory. A curved throw, for example, raises the capture rate.

New Items

• Metal Detector: Locates Chromite on Feybreak.
• Pouches: Bigger inventory.
• Double Jump Boots: A second jump in midair.
• Air Dash Boots: Dash while airborne.
• Revival Potion: Bring downed Pals back.
• New cooking recipes added.

Hardcore Mode

• Player and Pal death is permanent. Toggle it from world settings if you enjoy stress.

Random Pal Mode

• Two flavors in world settings:
• Randomize by Region: Spawns shuffled within regional bounds.
• Completely Random: All Pal spawns randomized across every region. Expect chaos.

Area Discovery Bonus

• Earn experience for discovering a location for the first time.

New Weapons

• Makeshift SMG
• Makeshift Assault Rifle
• Makeshift Shotgun
• Old Revolver
• SMG
• Semi-Auto Rifle
• Semi-Auto Shotgun
• Laser Gatling Gun
• Plasma Cannon
• Compound Bow
• Advanced Bow
• Katana
• Beam Sword
• Dark Grenade
• Dragon Grenade
• Ground Grenade
• Grass Grenade
• Water Grenade

New Buildings

• Large-Scale Electric Egg Incubator: Hatch up to 10 eggs at the same time.
• Guild Chest: Items placed inside are shared across every guild chest.
• Item Retrieval Machine: Pull any item from any chest within the base.
• Medicine Rack: Pals self-medicate from stored supplies.
• Flea Market: Sell Pals and items to other players.
• Large-Scale Stone Oven and Gigantic Furnace: Multiple Pals work together for faster cooking and refining.
• Skillfruit Orchard: Plant and grow skill fruits.
• Gold Coin Assembly Line: Illegally produced coins, manufactured from your base.
• Ladders: Vertical travel without building stairs.
• Pure Quartz Mine: Infinite mining inside your base.
• Accumulator: Stores spare electricity so facilities keep running at night while your Pals sleep.

Elemental Treasure Chests

• Rare chests that only Pals of specific elements can open.

Player Changes

• Players can now sit on chairs.
• Defeating field bosses yields Successful Bounty Tokens that grant permanent passives.
• Faster climbing speed.
• Lifmunk Effigy power cap raised from 12 to 14.
• Sphere Critical hits added: target a Pal's weak spot when throwing a sphere to temporarily boost the capture rate.
• Crafting and building experience increased, including XP earned while Pals work without you at base.
• Improved player animations.
• Brief invincibility after teleporting or entering and exiting dungeons.
• Mounting a Pal cancels any active skills so it can move right away.

Base Changes

• Foundation structures and defensive walls can be replaced and upgraded without demolishing.
• New Japanese-style foundations, useful for recreating Sakurajima architecture. Sliding doors included.
• Maximum base level raised to 30.
• Better Pal transportation behavior while you are away.
• Single-Player and COOP allow much freer building across the world, with a few dungeon exceptions.
• The Pal working state set in the monitoring stand is now saved.

Pals: Christmas Skins

Six Christmas skins added for all players, provided you own the Pal:

• Pudding à la Gumoss
• Party Night Depresso
• Winter Style Chillet
• Winter Style Chillet Ignis
• Royal Frostallion
• White Shadowbeak

Pals: Limited-Time Skins Redistributed

Also requires owning the matching Pal:

• Gold Relaxaurus
• Sailor Quivern
• Summer Chillet

New Unique Skills

• Vanwyrm: Flame Breath
• Vanwyrm Cryst: Tempest Blizzard
• Astegon: Firefist Breathstorm
• Maraith: Spirit Dash
• Verdash: Spinning Roundhouse
• Univolt: Lightning Gale
• Blazehowl: Volcanic Fang
• Ragnahawk: Rush Beak
• Beegarde: Needle Spear
• Beakon: Lightning Dive
• Rayhound: Beckon Lightning
• Jormuntide: Slither Slam
• Jormuntide Ignis: Magma Serpent
• Cryolinx: Blizzard Claw
• Wumpo: Snow Bowling
• Wumpo Botan: Lawn Bowling

New Elemental Skills

• Ground: Stone Beat
• Dark: Poison Shower
• Dragon: Charge Cannon

Rainbow Passive Skills

• A new top tier of passive skills, the rainbow passives, has been added. Breed accordingly. Swift has been promoted to rainbow and is now harder to roll.

Work Suitability Enhancements

• Technique books permanently raise a Pal's work suitability.
• The cap on strengthening Pals with souls has been lifted.
• Summoned Pals with all three moves on cooldown will fall back to their element's basic move.
• Enemy Pals now use every move they know at their level.
• Alpha Pal eggs are properly sized per species rather than all huge.

UI

• Filter function added to the Technology screen.
• Add Pals to favorites from the Pal Box UI with one button.
• Improved Pal Box sorting.
• Adjustable font size in options.
• The main HUD no longer fades out automatically, with an option to revert if you preferred it that way.

Mouse and Keyboard

• The Tab key now closes any window.
• Right Shift and right Ctrl can now be bound in the key configuration.

Controller

• Fixed the bug where the player kept walking when the UI was opened mid-movement.
• Cutscene skip button reassigned to Y.

Crime

• Charges expanded. Serious offenses such as Obstructing Public Officials now raise the criminal level more aggressively.

Dedicated Servers

• The maximum number of buildings per base can be set in world settings, helping admins keep server performance stable.

Balance Adjustments

• Item weight multiplier configurable in world settings.
• Technology unlock levels adjusted.
• Selling prices on some Pals adjusted.
• Merchant stock and pricing adjusted.
• Some ammunition crafting recipes changed.
• Boss enemies are now immune to stuns and will stagger only after their stun accumulation reaches 100.
• Some technologies are now unlocked by defeating tower bosses.

Pal Work Suitability Tweaks

• Blazamut Ryu Kindling: 3 to 4
• Selyne Handiwork: 3 to 4
• Knocklem Mining: 3 to 4
• Cryolinx: Transporting added
• Legendary Pals are now level 60 and can learn more powerful skills.
• Felbat and Lovander partner skill recovery: 6% to 10%

Bug Fixes

• Base Pals get stuck less often.
• Fewer cases of falling through the ground after fast travel.
• Enemy pathing through walls has been cleaned up.
• Raid algorithm and pathing improved so raids actually reach your base.
• Many additional minor fixes.

Other

• New NPCs added at various locations.
• The Free Pal Alliance Judicator now appears at Free Pal Alliance camps.
• Work speed animations on base Pals with speed buffs have been slowed down to reduce processing load. Actual work speed is unchanged.
• Paldeck renamed to Palpedia to match the other languages.

Soundtrack

• 3 new songs added. Owners should refresh the soundtrack manually. The update can take about a day to roll out.