Game updateSeptember 7, 2026

Palworld v1.0.4 patch notes: two new missions and reworked fishing

Palworld v1.0.4 landed on the morning of September 7. The notes run past a hundred lines this time — I read them end to end and translated them. Where 1.0.3 was about balance and numbers, this patch is about content and about the small things that had been grating for a while.

The headline: two new side missions — Beyond Dimensions and From the Far Side of the Moon. The first is accepted from an NPC at Fisherman's Point in Mount Obsidian, the second opens up after you clear it. Beyond the missions there are three big changes: Pals now prioritise their stronger skills in combat, fishing was reworked from spot difficulty to on-screen guidance, and several passive skills that never delivered their stated effect were fixed.

One line stood out: the in-game Palpedia got name search. A plain search field over a list of three hundred Pals — that should have worked from launch day, not two months later.

The short version

Two new side missions: Beyond Dimensions from an NPC at Fisherman's Point in Mount Obsidian, and From the Far Side of the Moon, which opens after you clear it.
Summoned and base Pals now favour the skills expected to deal more damage instead of whatever fits first.
Fishing was reworked: spot difficulty in Sunreach and the World Tree area, per-bait catch amounts, control guides and recommended gear shown while fishing, and a new world setting for fish behaviour.
Player-built Campfires no longer set the player or their Pals on fire.
Cancelling work at a production facility returns materials to your inventory instead of dumping them on the ground.
Fixed passive skills that delivered nothing: Lucky was not adding defense, Idiosyncratic never activated, and Mercy Hit did not apply to a Pal's attacks while ridden.
Ancient Bark can now be gathered by Pals with Gathering Lv. 1.
Pal Critics, the NPCs who reward you for showing them a specific Pal: Sakurajima now wants Dogen instead of Selyne, Sunreach wants Faleris Aqua instead of Bastigor.
The default FPS cap on PC is now 120, alongside a separate block of performance work.
Server admins get a per-player building limit — until now the limit only counted per base.
Selling multiple items at a shop no longer miscalculates the total.

What it means in practice

Two new missions, and where to pick them up

The only genuinely new content in the patch is a pair of side missions. Beyond Dimensions is accepted from an NPC at Fisherman's Point in Mount Obsidian, and From the Far Side of the Moon unlocks once you finish it. The patch notes give you the names and the entry point and nothing else, but the game data shows more. The first mission is a scouting run: explore a mysterious islet, clear the dungeon inside it, report back. The second leads to Moon Lord: craft a Celestial Sigil, bring it to a Summoning Altar at your base and beat whatever turns up. It pays 100,000 Gold and 35,490 EXP — exactly twice what the first one gives (30,000 Gold and 17,745 EXP).

Pals now prioritise their strong skills

The most useful combat line in the patch: summoned and base Pals now prioritise the skills expected to deal more damage. Before this, a Pal could spend the whole fight hammering away with a weak attack while a strong one sat ready — the choice was close to random. Base Pals using charging-type skills got their behaviour fixed too, and so did backstepping: Power Bomb now has a minimum use distance so your Pal stops hopping backwards three times before firing it, and backstep behaviour was adjusted for summoned Pals on some skills. One small line that used to ruin hunts: Pals and NPCs marked as mission targets no longer fall asleep. Who hits with what is in the skills list.

What "adjusted" actually means

Two lines in the notes are deliberately vague, and there are hard numbers behind them. "Adjusted the homing enhancement value from Lunaris Effigies" is a 2.5x nerf: ranks 1 through 4 used to give 25/50/75/100, now they give 10/20/30/40. Sphere homing works for anyone who throws spheres at all, so this lands harder than it reads. "Adjusted Lapure's swimming speed" also went down, and further: from 600 to 180, or 210 while dashing. Lapure is not a mount, so this is about how it behaves in water — swimming away from you just got a lot harder.

Fishing was reworked

Fishing took more changes than any other system. Spot difficulty in Sunreach and the World Tree area was retuned, and the number of items you get from a successful catch was changed per bait type. On-screen guidance was added while fishing: control guides, warning displays and a recommended-equipment display — until now you had to guess what to fish this pond with and whether your rod was up to it. World Settings gained a fish-behaviour option for the fishing minigame, so the difficulty of the minigame itself is now configurable and can be softened on your own server. On the fix side: the reward display no longer shows the same item type in several slots, and volcanic spots stopped handing out Pals that were never meant to be caught there.

Campfires stop setting their owner on fire

A Campfire you built yourself no longer sets fire to you, your summoned Pal or your base workers. Formally it is one line in the building section; in practice it ends a familiar scene where you cook a meal, take half a step sideways and go up in flames along with the cook.

Cancelling work no longer dumps materials at your feet

Two inventory changes, both in your favour. Cancel work at a production facility and the returned materials go back into your inventory instead of onto the ground. Cancel construction or a dismantle with the option not to auto-pick-up items over the weight limit enabled, and only the excess lands at your feet — the rest still goes into your bag. That option used to cost overloaded players whole stacks of materials, especially during mass dismantles. What to build and what it costs is in the base planner.

The passives that were not working

This is a list of things that simply did not fire. The defense bonus from Lucky was not applying at all. The Idiosyncratic mutation passive did not activate. Mercy Hit was not applied to a Pal's attacks while you were riding it — which is exactly the case people take it for. Killamari Primo had its Partner Skill Lv. 2 and Lv. 3 effects swapped. And the one that stings most for breeders: the mutated eggs added by Grintale's passive did not reflect mutated stat values — the mutation happened, the stat gain did not. If you were running breeding for mutants, part of that work was going nowhere before 1.0.4. The reverse case was cleaned up too: Mercy Hit could be shown in the UI even when its conditions were not met. The full list with descriptions is on the passives page.

Pal Critics: changed Pals

A Pal Critic is an NPC who asks to be shown a particular Pal and hands out a reward for it. Two of them changed their request: Sakurajima now wants Dogen instead of Selyne, and Sunreach wants Faleris Aqua instead of Bastigor. So if you were keeping a Pal in your Palbox for the old request, or were on your way to catch one, you need a different one now. Where each one lives is on the map.

Softlocks and small lines that fix big annoyances

Two unpleasant progression cases are closed. First: defeating Panthalus before the Main Mission led you to him meant the World Tree Guardian simply never appeared later on. Second: the Main Mission about crafting an axe and a pickaxe would not progress if you already owned or had equipped one before accepting it — a trap for anyone on a second run who does things before being asked.

Then the small stuff that still matters. An unlocked Watchtower whose surrounding map stayed unexplored will now unlock that map when you use it again. The Echoing Flute can finally be dropped from your inventory. Ancient Bark is gathered by Pals with Gathering Lv. 1 instead of a higher level, which means almost any worker will do. Selling several items at a shop no longer miscalculates the total, and item counts stopped lying while moving things around. Radiant Gems from wild Pals in the World Tree area no longer come with mismatched or heavily biased elements. And one small pleasure: items dropped from gathering objects no longer sink into the ground, while treasure chests and the Oil Rig picked up proper sounds and effects.

Servers: a per-player building limit and new no-build zones

Admins got a setting that was overdue: a limit on how many buildings a single player can place in the world. Until now the cap only counted per base, so one person could cover half the map just by spreading several bases. You can put a config together in the settings generator. Separately, when building restrictions are enabled in server settings, new no-build areas were added: around the desert Field Boss Suzaku, around the desert Main Mission cave, and at some mission locations in Sakurajima. That is an answer to an old trick — drop a base on top of a spawn point and switch it off.

Performance and stability

Optimisation gets its own block: reduced load from some rendering processes, from foliage display and from effect playback, less stuttering when certain passive skills activate, and lighter field rendering in the World Tree area. The default FPS cap on PC was also raised to 120, so if you never opened the graphics settings your frame ceiling just went up on its own. Seven crashes and lockups are closed: NPC dialogue overlapping with riding, the animation after a fishing spot disappears, an over-long mission description, sorting Pals on a server, plus two cases where controls stopped responding — after being returned to the title screen by a connection error, and when switching maps with a custom marker placed. And a Pal recalled immediately after being summoned will come back out again. One nice detail for server owners: a version mismatch error now tells you the version of what you are connecting to.

Palworld v1.0.4 — full patch notes

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[Additions and system adjustments]

New missions

Added the side missions «Beyond Dimensions» and «From the Far Side of the Moon». The first is accepted from an NPC at Fisherman's Point in Mount Obsidian; the second becomes available after clearing the first.

Pals and skills

Summoned Pals and Base Pals now prioritise skills expected to deal higher damage.
Adjusted how Base Pals behave when using charging-type skills.
Pals and NPCs that are mission targets no longer fall asleep.
Adjusted Lapure's swimming speed.
Adjusted the homing enhancement value granted by Lunaris Effigies.
The Work Suitability level required to gather Ancient Bark is now Lv. 1.

Battle

Power Bomb now has a minimum use distance, making repeated unnatural backsteps before using it less likely.
Adjusted backstep behaviour for summoned Pals when using some skills.
Adjusted the damage of the Core Eject attack for the Core Eject Shotgun.

Fishing

Adjusted fishing difficulty at spots in Sunreach and the World Tree area.
Adjusted the number of items obtained from a successful catch, separately for each bait type.
Added and improved control guides, warning displays and recommended-equipment displays while fishing.
Added a fish-behaviour option for the fishing minigame to World Settings.

Items and rewards

The Echoing Flute can now be dropped from the inventory.
The Pal required by the Pal Critic in Sakurajima was changed from Selyne to Dogen.
The Pal required by the Pal Critic in Sunreach was changed from Bastigor to Faleris Aqua.

Bases and building

Cancelling work at production facilities now returns the materials to your inventory.
When cancelling construction or a dismantle with the option not to automatically pick up items over the weight limit enabled, only the returned materials above the weight limit are dropped at the player's feet.
With building restrictions enabled in the server settings, no-build areas were added around the desert Field Boss Suzaku, the desert Main Mission cave and some mission locations in Sakurajima.
Adjusted the collision of the Ancient Material Synthesizer.
Players, summoned Pals and Base Pals no longer catch fire on contact with player-built Campfires.
Added a server setting that lets administrators cap the number of buildings a single player can place in the world.

Field and exploration

Adjusted terrain and water display in Sunreach, the World Tree area and elsewhere.
Adjusted the position and behaviour of updrafts.
Adjusted the positions of NPCs, field objects and Pal spawns.

Sound

Added and improved effects and sound effects for the Oil Rig and elemental treasure chests.
Added and improved sound effects for item pickup, item use, crafting completion and more.
Added and improved sounds for some Pals, NPCs and field effects.

UI and controls

Added name search to the Palpedia.
Added explanations of Work Suitability details to the Pal status UI and the Palpedia UI.
Added passive effect and item description displays to Bounty Token acquisition notifications.
Added support for opening chat from the Radial Menu on PS5.
Changed the default FPS cap on PC to 120.
Version mismatch errors now show the version of the connection target.

Performance and stability

Reduced load from some rendering processes, foliage display and effect playback.
Reduced stuttering when some passive skills activate.
Reduced field rendering load in the World Tree area and elsewhere.

[Major bug fixes]

Crashes and progression issues

Controls could stop working after being returned to the title screen by a connection error during loading.
A Pal could not be summoned again if it was recalled immediately after being summoned.
A crash when certain actions were performed while NPC dialogue and riding overlapped.
A crash during the animation after a fishing spot disappeared.
A crash when trying to display an over-long mission description.
A server crash when sorting Pals.
Controls could stop working when switching maps while placing a custom marker.

Multiplayer and servers

In Co-op, joining players might not correctly join the host's guild.
In Co-op, the host's mission could progress when a client entered a mission progression area.
On Dedicated Servers, the crafting display could remain on screen.
Voice Chat settings might not be applied correctly.
In the Arena, the opponent's Pal could not be targeted.

Missions and progression

The World Tree Guardian would not appear later in the Main Mission if Panthalus was defeated before the Main Mission progressed.
In the Main Mission to craft an axe and a pickaxe, the objective would not progress if the player already owned or had equipped one before accepting it.
Certain actions after ending dialogue with an NPC could prevent any further dialogue.

Pals and NPCs

Logging work would not happen for trees that respawned inside a base.
Visitors could spawn in unreachable locations.
Dialogue would no longer occur if an NPC inside a base entered combat during a conversation.

Partner skills and passive skills

Killamari Primo's Partner Skill Lv. 2 and Lv. 3 effects were reversed.
Mutated Eggs added by Grintale's Passive Skill did not reflect mutated stat values.
The Idiosyncratic mutation passive did not activate correctly.
The defense bonus from the Lucky passive was not activating.
The Mercy Hit passive was not correctly applied to attacks by Pals while riding.

Battle and skills

Warning indicators could fail to appear during certain attacks in the World Tree boss battle.
Removing a skill while it was being used could make that skill unusable afterwards.
Some attacks used by summoned Pals while other skills were on cooldown could also put unused skills on cooldown.
An issue when interrupting Ophydia's exclusive skill Lotus Bloom.
Pals revived in the Arena would not continue fighting.
In some Raid Boss battles the boss could fail to stop moving temporarily after taking a certain amount of damage, or fail to summon smaller Pals correctly.
Aiming while riding could make movement speed extremely slow.
Wild Pals could use some skills through walls and in other situations where they could not see the player.

Items and shops

Selling multiple items at a shop could calculate the sale amount incorrectly.
Item counts could fail to update correctly under certain conditions when moving items.
Radiant Gems dropped by wild Pals in the World Tree area could have mismatched or overly biased elements.

Bases and building

Colour picking and editing could fail to work correctly in Paint Mode.
Diagonally connecting corner roofs could result in unnatural placement.
Stairs placed at the side of a corner roof could face an unnatural direction.
Worker Pal assignments might not be correctly reflected in base facilities.
Chest access permissions were not correctly applied to material reference and consumption when crafting at a base.
The work speed multiplier was not correctly applied to the Ancient Material Synthesizer after resuming the game.

UI, display and text

On the World Select screen the displayed multiplayer setting could differ from the actual one.
Some key icons could appear as Xbox controller icons when using a PS5 controller on PC.
Operating the chat UI with a gamepad could unintentionally close chat.
Hold input did not work correctly for Pal Soul enhancement.
The HUD ammo count could remain at 0 after reloading a regular weapon.

Field and map

If the map around an unlocked Watchtower remains unexplored, using the same Watchtower again now unlocks it.
Temperature might not be applied correctly on Bicornis Islet.
Items dropped from gathering objects in the field could become buried in the ground.

Fishing

The fishing reward display could show the same item type in several slots.

Sound

The Attack Chopper's propeller sound could keep playing.
BGM could unintentionally play on the loading screen after the World Tree boss battle.
Base Raid BGM or battle BGM could unintentionally play during cutscenes.

Mods

On Steam, mod files could not be deleted correctly.

[Other minor bug fixes]

Fixed the translations of guild join, guild leave, login and logout notifications.
A marker could remain after completing the Main Mission «Awakening».
The mission marker was not displayed for the side mission to collect Pure Quartz.
Fixed the marker position for No. 1 Wildlife Sanctuary in Zoe's side mission.
Mission NPCs could remain standing upright after death.
NPC animations could switch unnaturally during the ending.
Panthalus's body collision did not match its appearance.
Mercy Hit could be displayed even when its conditions were not met.
Paladius's Partner Skill could summon an Alpha Necromus from the player's party at normal size.
The collision of Logging Site II could remain during building preview.
Fixed a Palbox UI misalignment that occurred when Base Pal slots were displayed in four rows.
Building name text could overlap with the power icon.
Fixed the direction of the arrow indicating the front side of the Clinic.
The guild master transfer dialog text was displayed incorrectly depending on the situation.
An unnecessary key guide could appear on the Pal Effigies enhancement screen.
Fixed the turning guide icon for the Wing Pack.
A black square could appear at the edge of the map filter UI.
The Field Boss icon for Prixter Lux was displayed incorrectly.
Unintended Pals could be caught at some fishing spots in volcanic areas.
On Dedicated Servers, attacking a sleeping Galeclaw could make it fall through the ground.
Unintended BGM played when starting dialogue with a Black Marketeer.

Thank you for your continued support of Palworld.

Original patch notes on Steam