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palworld-mods

38 drop-in server-side mods for Palworld dedicated servers — pure .pak datatable/Blueprint patches that work on the native Linux binary (the one thing UE4SS mods can't do), plus the full reproducible pipeline to build your own.

Quick start

→ Full install guide (Linux, Docker, rented hosts, Windows, singleplayer — with FAQ). Guide français.

Short version: grab the paks from Releases, drop the ones you want into PalServer/Pal/Content/Paks/~mods/ (create the folder), restart the server. Nothing to install on clients — console crossplay players included. One pak per game table — use the combined paks below when mods share tables.

The mods

Pak	Effect
GTAPalpagos_P.pak	Crime bounties ×20 — the PIDF get very motivated
JackpotChests_P.pak	Every Grade2+ chest slot can roll a legendary schematic (~2 %)
ElementalDrops_P.pak	Every pal drops by element (fire → flame organ, dragon → diamond…)
GenerousAlphas_P.pak	Alpha bosses: guaranteed legendary schematic + doubled quantities
BoostedRelics_P.pak	World Tree relics ×4 (chests and pal drops)
CheapCrafting_P.pak	Materials and work ÷5 across all 1414 recipes
PalShopPimped_P.pak	Pal merchants also sell 8 legendaries (Jetragon, Frostallion…) up to lv50
LightningExpeditions_P.pak	Expeditions ÷10 duration (30 min → 3 min), rewards ×5
RaidJackpot_P.pak	Base raid rewards ×10
MiracleFishing_P.pak	Fishing: Boss fish ×4, Nushi (legendary) ×10
ExpressFriendship_P.pak	Friendship thresholds ÷5 (negative ranks too)
MassiveOutbreaks_P.pak	Outbreak hordes ×3 (cap 30), levels +3 — 9 biomes
BetterBases_P.pak	Workers ×2/level (cap 50), 4 guild bases by lv15, zero sickness or tantrums, crops ÷5/×3, machines ×5, rare skill fruits ×2-3
CheapBuilding_P.pak	Materials of all 498 buildables ÷5, power draw ÷2, snap threshold ×2.5 (bye "not connected")
FastHaulers_P.pak	TransportSpeed ×2 for all 753 pals
FastProgress_P.pak	Lab research ÷5 (work + materials), passive surgery ÷5, tech points ÷2
BiggerBases_P.pak	Base radius 35 m → 70 m (CDO patch of BP_PalGameSetting) + spawns/raids pushed outside the new radius + hauler pickup range ×2
FeatherStacks_P.pak	All item weights ÷2, stacks ×2 (non-stackable gear preserved)
PurePassives_P.pak	Passives lose their downsides (Musclehead = +30 % attack without -50 % craft)
CheapStatues_P.pak	Statues of Power: half the relics per rank
ItemShopPimped_P.pak	Village shops: + Tera spheres, tier-IV upgrade stones, diamonds, gold keys (steep prices)
DepressoWorld_P.pak	The starting zone spawns ONLY Depresso. Zero utility, 100 % meme
CombatPlus_P.pak	All 384 attack cooldowns -40 %, weak attacks (<125) +30 %
ArenaChampion_P.pak	Solo arena rewards ×5 (first clear and reclears)
DungeonDeluxe_P.pak	Grade_02 end-of-dungeon chests ×4 in the lottery
CaptureScholar_P.pak	Capture bonus XP ×3
PondDeluxe_P.pak	Fish pond: rare pals (dragons…) ×4
EarlyLearner_P.pak	Pals learn their attacks at half the level (5772 entries ÷2)
EpicBosses_P.pak	All 322 bosses have ×4 HP — real 15-minute coop fights (raid bosses untouched)
LegendarySafari_P.pak	Sky Island (lv 68-69) becomes a wild legendary reserve (8-species pool)
OmniEggMoves_P.pak	The top-8 inheritable attacks (DragonMeteor, ThunderStorm, Inferno…) become breedable onto EVERY species
PIDFElite_P.pak	Police forces go SWAT: HP/attack/defense ×3 — pairs with GTAPalpagos
DungeonRoulette_P.pak	The 160 dungeon bosses are reshuffled: any dungeon can hide any of the 149 bosses (at local level)
FrequentVisitors_P.pak	Wandering merchants visit your base from grade 1 (was 7), ×2 weight
NightTerrors_P.pak	At night, ~270 extra spawners wake up with _Dark variants +8 levels — sleeping becomes a strategy
ArenaAllStars_P.pak	The 43 arena opponents field remixed legendary/_Dark teams, maxed talents
TowerTitans_P.pak	The 21 tower bosses double their HP (×40 → ×80): marathon sieges
CheapSouls_P.pak	Pal enhancement soul costs ÷2 across all 20 ranks

Combined paks (conflict-free bundles, built with --combine): LootComplete_P.pak (all 5 loot mods), WildSpawns_P.pak (depresso-world + legendary-safari + dungeon-roulette + night-terrors), PalStats_P.pak (epic-bosses + fast-haulers + tower-titans), LootFiesta_P.pak (legacy, 3 loot mods). Load a combined pak instead of its components.

Pipeline

Pal-LinuxServer.pak ──repak──▶ gamedata/*.uasset ──uassetjson──▶ JSON
                                                        │ mods/<mod>/patch.py
dist/<Mod>_P.pak ◀──repak pack── staging/*.uasset ◀──uassetjson──┘

Prerequisites (once)

# .NET 10 user-space
curl -sL https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh | bash -s -- --channel 10.0 --install-dir ~/.dotnet
# repak
cargo install --git https://github.com/trumank/repak --rev v0.2.3 repak_cli
# UAssetAPI + the conversion tool
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atenfyr/UAssetAPI tools/UAssetAPI
(cd tools/UassetJson && PATH="$HOME/.dotnet:$PATH" dotnet build -c Release)
# game datatables (from your server's pak — never committed, Pocketpair copyright)
repak unpack --include "Pal/Content/Pal/DataTable/**" --include "Pal/Content/Pal/Blueprint/System/BP_PalGameSetting.*" --output gamedata Pal-LinuxServer.pak

mappings/Mappings.usmap (pinned commit PalworldModding/UsefulFiles@42cf396, published for 1.0) is required to decode the unversioned .uasset files.

Build & verify

python3 scripts/build.py                 # all mods
python3 scripts/build.py gta-palpagos    # one mod
python3 scripts/build.py --conflicts     # table → mods map (deploy planning)
# merge into a single pak (REQUIRED when two mods patch the same table):
python3 scripts/build.py --combine LootFiesta jackpot-chests lightning-expeditions boosted-relics
# end-to-end check of every pak in dist/ (unpack, decode, diff vs vanilla, per-mod asserts):
python3 scripts/verify.py
# after a game update — re-extract, refresh usmap, rebuild, verify:
scripts/update.sh
# deploy a batch to the server (backup + safe restart + auto-rollback; requires DEPLOY=yes):
DEPLOY=yes scripts/deploy.sh dist/BetterBases_P.pak dist/BiggerBases_P.pak

Run build.py --conflicts for the live table → mods map. Current conflict groups (one loaded pak per table — use the combined paks): the 5 loot mods (DT_ItemLotteryDataTable, DT_PalDropItem*); epic-bosses + fast-haulers + tower-titans (DT_PalMonsterParameter*); depresso-world + legendary-safari + dungeon-roulette + night-terrors (DT_PalWildSpawner).

Deployment

One pak per table family. Copy to PalServer/Pal/Content/Paks/~mods/, chown to the service user, clean restart. Server-side only.

More docs

• Install guide (FR) — every setup, with FAQ
• Test plan — boot-test procedure + in-game checklist
• Mod analysis — reverse-engineered reports of popular third-party mods (diff_mod.py)
• Changelog — what shipped in each release

Hard-earned gotchas

• FNames with numeric suffixes: Blueprint_SFBow_5 is FName (Blueprint_SFBow, 6) on the UE side — the NameMap only stores the base. palmod.ensure_name() applies the split rule (suffix _N without leading zero). WorldTreeRelic_01 (leading zero) stays literal.
• Every new string must enter the NameMap of the JSON, otherwise DummyFNameSerializationException at write time.
• Rate2 = "+0" in drop tables: special value (slot tied to the previous roll), serialized as a string — don't cast to float, don't touch.
• Byte-identical roundtrip validated (sha256) before any patch: if UAssetAPI can't reproduce the original exactly, nothing else is reliable.
• BP patches (bigger-bases): the Blueprint roundtrip is not byte-identical on the .uasset header (UAssetAPI re-normalizes NameMap + offsets, consistently) — the .uexp (data) stays identical; same mechanism as published UAssetGUI mods. Validate in-game after each game update.
• After a game update: re-extract gamedata/, refresh the .usmap, rebuild — a pak built on old tables overwrites the update's changes.

License & disclaimer

Scripts and patches: MIT (see LICENSE). The .pak files in dist/ contain modified game datatables, distributed free of charge following established Palworld modding community practice (Nexus/CurseForge), with no affiliation with Pocketpair. Palworld © Pocketpair, Inc. Raw assets (gamedata/) are never committed. Target: Palworld v1.0.1.100619.