Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)
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Tuco
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Using the vertical sounds like a death trap for pals that will never do their job. Unless there's some way to coerce pals into rooms and never have them leave. Like a sweat shop.
Cinge
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Yeah not sure. Going to do some testing. just saw in a videos, people had multistory base. The pals would sleep on the middle floor but all the work stuff was up 3 stairs on big stone roof area, where plantations were kept, the assembly belts, all the crafting basically.
This video has the main example I saw, since I was looking up future base locations and this is a quartz spot :
Tuco
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Tuco
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Yeah I haven't looked anything up to find out what resources are like ore/wood/stone where you need a billion of them and what you could survive with a few hundred in any entire playthrough. I gotta imagine you could place 3 bases that are effective at gathering most resources.
Rhanyn
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A trick for keeping pals on task is to create a room with the desired station, a bed, feeder, whatever they need in it, then lock the door with them in there. Gonna have stacked slave cargo containers galore when I build my next base.
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Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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No, I mean when you're not physically at the base, but still playing, it seems like a lot of the time the pals just stop doing anything. We have an iron base and unless you visit it every 5 minutes, they stop.
Tuco
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Yeah I'm on a 32? person server. Just me and two others. Feels like they do *something* when you're not there. It feels like they generally mine for ~15 minutes and then sit there idle while their health/sanity drop.
My gameplay loop is to port to my ore base, swap to my cattiva carry squad, pick up the ingots, order a new batch of ingots (which can be hundreds of ingots) then port to my main base and deposit my ingots. This seems to work OK, but not great, on a server. Often when I port over they're all starving and will rush to eat.
Palum
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One of the things that really impresses me about this game is how rigidly the systems are defined.
I run into bugs all the time, and almost all of them can be solved in the game.
First example - PDIF teleported to base, eventually killed them all but pals were flipping out and were bugged trying to attack nothing. Built an alarm bell and turned them all to crafting and they just sent back to normal.
Second example - went to kill boss in cave, turned to night as I am walking in, pitch black and literally no idea how to get out. Don't have torch or anything. Summon oserk who has glowy shoulders and can see enough to navigate.
I don't know how else to describe it but everything is very tightly coupled which is probably a bad idea for distributed development but makes the systems super responsive. Works out very well for this type of game.
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Cinge
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What? Mine work as long as I am in the game. Since its not a dedicated server running 24/7. But I can go explore, craft do other things, then hop to the ore base , and have 1k ore sitting waiting for me to pick up. I never sit at one. The will mine the 7 or so ore and then do nothing as they wait for it to respawn. If you want them to always be doing something, could put a stone quarry there to have them do that between ore respawns.
Kirun
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I'm putting this game on ice until a lot of the pathing/AI gets worked out. The entire point of this game is the "gotta catch them all!" and the subsequent meta game of finding the "right" Pals to automate your bases like an autismo.
But with the horrible pathing, the wonky AI, inability to "assign" Pals, etc.? Meh, it just feels like the game's "core" just isn't quite fully realized yet. Fun game, but I'm putting my time toward Enshrouded for now while they iron out some stuff.
But with the horrible pathing, the wonky AI, inability to "assign" Pals, etc.? Meh, it just feels like the game's "core" just isn't quite fully realized yet. Fun game, but I'm putting my time toward Enshrouded for now while they iron out some stuff.
Kirun
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Right, but how limited is the whole idea of building if the solution to bad pathing is, "just build in a giant ass 256x256x256 field"? Half the fun of survival games is building in interesting locations and building interesting things. In Palworld, you basically want to build a 4x4x4 house with a bed in it and literally everything else outside in a giant, open field.
Caliane
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I moved the food, ranch, beds and berry farm in my iron ore base, to add a breeding farm. this... made them start being WAY more effective at mining iron..
there was no obvious pathing issue previously. they walked up and down to beds, etc no problem.
cake in the ranch doesn't have a decay timer.
there was no obvious pathing issue previously. they walked up and down to beds, etc no problem.
cake in the ranch doesn't have a decay timer.
Kirun
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Absolutely. I think Palword is a great game with an awesome concept. Like I said, there's something about it that is damn fun.
I just find the AI/pathing issues too frustrating to the "core" of what the game is trying to be to continue to try and split time between it and Enshrouded. I'll wait for them to patch this up a bit.
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Kharzette
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Somehow I'd never even noticed that my superhigh elevated base has coal nodes too down the side on a cliff ledge.
I put a miner and hauler and a box with a couple beds and a feed box and built a winding stairway down to it.
Atop the cliff are 7 iron nodes and all the processing stuff and farms and ranch and such. This is my only base right now.
They can't use the stairs at all sadly.. I fully expect this to go super haywire while I'm offline.
Offline does work for me, but mining on this save doesn't. Seems like they only produce food. My last save on another server, I just had a purely mining operation up here, and I'd go to sleep and log back in to 2000 ore in the chest.
I put a miner and hauler and a box with a couple beds and a feed box and built a winding stairway down to it.
Atop the cliff are 7 iron nodes and all the processing stuff and farms and ranch and such. This is my only base right now.
They can't use the stairs at all sadly.. I fully expect this to go super haywire while I'm offline.
Offline does work for me, but mining on this save doesn't. Seems like they only produce food. My last save on another server, I just had a purely mining operation up here, and I'd go to sleep and log back in to 2000 ore in the chest.