All Humans can be caught in Palworld, but they're much harder to catch than most pals. Learn how to catch, sell, and even sacrifice humans, if you should catch humans, and how to recruit them to your party and base!

How to Catch Humans

All Humans Can Be Caught

Catching the Village Chief of the Small Settlement.

Whether friendly or hostile, all humans can be caught by lowering their HP and throwing a Pal Sphere, just like Pals. However, their catch rates are much lower than Pals of the same level, and they are generally much less useful than Pals.

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Inflict Status Effects and Use Better Pal Spheres

To improve your odds of catching a Human, try using a Mega Sphere, or if you haven't unlocked those yet, try inflicting a status effect with Fire Arrows or Poison Arrows, and get their health almost to zero before throwing Pal Spheres. You can also leave the area after lowering their health and come back, then aim for the backstrike bonus when they're no longer aggroed.

Once you've caught a Human, congratulations! They're ready to work in either your party or your base, or you can leave them behind in your Palbox like any other unloved Pal.

Tips for Catching Pals (Or Humans) Easily

Syndicate Thugs are Easy to Catch

If you want to catch a Human, the easiest type to try to catch are Syndicate Thugs. They are generally low-level, and you won't have any risk of becoming Wanted by engaging in battle with them.

Syndicate Thugs are quite common, but some easy places to find them are the Hillside Cave next to the Rayne Syndicate Tower Entrance Fast Travel Point, as well as the path directly north from the Rayne Syndicate Tower.

Should You Catch Humans?

Merchants Can Be Placed In Your Base for Easy Trading

The Wandering Merchant and Pal Merchant can be found in the Small Settlement.

So far, the only known Humans which provide a gameplay advantage are the Merchants. If you're able to catch the Wandering Merchant or the Pal Merchant found in the Small Settlement, you can place them in your Base and they'll be available to trade with you at any time. This can be convenient when you have extra Items or Pals to sell, or want to pick up a particular Item or Pal quickly.

Note that the Merchants are at Level 30 and are even harder to catch than most Level 30 Pals, so don't even think about trying this early in your playthrough!

Otherwise Not Advisable From a Gameplay Standpoint

Nevermind a human rights standpoint; even from a gameplay standpoint, Humans are not worth it as they pale in comparison to Pals.

In battle, Humans will jump wildly at enemies, hardly managing to land a hit. When sent to work in a base, they're only able to do Handiwork at Lv 1, which means they are usable, but there's no reason to use them even over basic Pals like Lamball.

They also don't have any Partner Skill, so there's no significant aspect to make them stand out in the party or at the base.

Humans Do Not Appear in Your Paldeck

Humans don't appear in the Paldeck of 113 Pals, so there's no requirement to catch Humans in order to achieve 100% completion. Fortunately, even completionists can choose to safely eschew this mechanic if they don't feel comfortable catching Humans.

Can You Breed Humans?

No, Humans Cannot Breed

For better or for worse, you cannot breed Humans in Palworld. Human NPCs will not have a Gender, meaning that they are incapable of breeding with Humans or Pals. Honestly, although Palworld can sometimes go a bit far in pushing boundaries, we're glad they decided to draw the line here.

That said, if you're starting to feel awkward about this whole feature, you should probably stop before you read the next few paragraphs.

How to Buy and Sell Humans

Sell at a Merchant

Amazingly, human trafficking is possible in Palworld. The Pal Merchant in Small Settlement will buy Humans for a fairly cheap price.

There doesn't seem to be any way to buy Humans from NPCs, but honestly, we wouldn't put it past them at this point.

Trade With Other Players

By placing a Human in your Party and navigating to the Party menu, then pressing R (On PC) to Drop Pal, you can place them in a Pal Sphere as a dropped item which any other player in the same world can pick up. When playing in Multiplayer, you can use this to trade Humans in exchange for Pals, Items, money, or whatever you can imagine.

Can You Sacrifice Humans?

You Can Use the Pal Distiller to Sacrifice Humans to Strengthen Others

The Pal Distiller is a Base Structure where the player can sacrifice multiples of a single Pal species to make one single Pal of that species stronger. This feature works with Humans as well, so it might be technically possible to make a super-strong Human, but at an unspeakable price.

Can You Kill Humans for Parts?

You Can Kill Humans and Get Drop Items

Butchering is (barely) censored.

You can use the Meat Cleaver item to permanently kill Pals, and even Humans, and obtain their Drop Items. Mercifully, the Items you'll receive seem to be the items they were carrying, such as Bread or Ammo, instead of something along the lines of Human Meat or Dismembered Head. At least you won't have that one on your conscience, right?

Palworld Related Guides

Tips and Tricks

Sakurajima Update Tips

Sakurajima Island Tips
PvP Arena Guide	How to Find Meteorite Event
Oil Rig Stronghold Guide	Best Crude Oil Base Locations
How to Farm Dog Coins	Supply Drop Guide and All Items
Sakurajima Location and How to Get There	How to Unlock More Accessory Slots
Sakurajima Early Access Play Review	Junkyard Locations and All Items
Lockpicking Guide	-

All Sakurajima Update Features

General Palworld Tips

General Palworld Tips
Best Starter Pal	How to Level Up Fast
Best Base Locations and How to Move Bases	Best Stats to Upgrade
Best Ancient Technology	Statue of Power Guide
How to Get a Gun Fast and Early in Palworld	Day/Night Cycle
How to Get Ancient Technology Points Fast	Pal Distillation Pod: How to Rank Up Pal
Base Building Guide	Raid Guide
How to Remove Wanted Status	List of Palworld Achievements
Best Palworld Team	How to Destroy and Move Structures
When Do Items and Resources Respawn?	Transferring Characters
Base Level Rewards and Requirements	How to Attack Enemies on Water
Best Structures for Your Base	How to Trade Pals
Best Type Combinations	What to Do in Palworld
Can Pals Evolve in Palworld	How to Mount and Ride Pals
How to Get More Base Storage	When Do Bosses Respawn?
Benefits to Killing Syndicate Thugs	All Black Marketeer Pals
How to Move Bases	How to Create and Join a Guild
Story Walkthrough Guide	Post Game Guide
Pal Buy and Sell Values Explained	Post Game Raid Boss
Choices, Missables, and One-Time Events	How to Fly
How to Handle Pals Not Working and Assign Pals to Jobs	How to Get a Level 5 Work Suitability Pal
List of the Best Palworld Mods	Rare Drops List and Best Rare Drops to Farm
How to Change Player and Pal Names	Stats and IVs Explained
How to Change Your Character's Appearance	How to Keep Items on Death
How Many Pals Are in Palworld	How to Refresh Vendor Stock
Feed Box Optimal Positioning	Pals That Don't Sleep
Level Cap	All Pal Skins and How to Change
Palworld Halloween Skins	-

Pal Catching Tips

Pal Catching Tips
How to Catch Pals	How to Catch and Sell Humans
How to Get Lucky Pals	Pal Sphere Farming Guide
How to Reroll Dungeon Bosses	-

Survival and Exploration Tips

Survival and Exploration Tips
How to Cook Pals	How to Farm Paldium Fragments
How to Heal Pals and Player HP	How to Keep Pals Happy and Sane
How to Increase Carrying Capacity	How to Increase Stamina
How to Upgrade Palbox	How to Repair Tools
How to Fix Pal Injuries	How to Revive Pals
How to Cancel Arrows	How to Eat Food
How to Put Out and Avoid Fires	How to Increase Movement Speed
How to Cure Depressed Pals	How to Cure Weakened Pals
How to Cure Pals of Overfull	How to Get Keys
Night Guide: How to Survive the Night	How to Manage Food Expiration

Best Base Locations
Coal Base	Paldium Fragment Base
Ore Base	Sulfur Base
Skill Fruit Base	-

Settings and Multiplayer Tips

Settings and Multiplayer Tips
How to Play Palworld on Mobile Devices	Best World Settings for Palworld
How to Change World Settings	Multiplayer Guide
Does Palworld Have Crossplay?	Is There PvP in Palworld?
How to Save the Game	How to Set Up Dedicated Server
Which Difficulty Settings to Choose	How to Backup Save Data
All Controls and How to Change	How to Drop Items and Pals
All Console Commands and Cheats	Palworld PC System Requirements
How to Migrate Server Data	How to Change Death Penalty Settings
Is There Splitscreen Local Co-Op in Palworld	-

Glitches and Exploits

All Glitches and Exploits
Infinite Pal Sphere Exploit	Guild Save File Deletion Bug
Pal Pathfinding Bug Fix	How to Catch Tower Bosses
Refresh Food Expiration Glitch	Infinite Sweepa Boost Glitch
Carry Weight Glitch	Pal Sphere Gliding Glitch
Egg Duplication Glitch	Instant Pal Revive and Heal Glitch
Infinite Syndicate Thug Glitch	Black Marketeer Gold Glitch
Item Duplication Glitch	2 Combat Pals at A Time Glitch
Unraidable Base Glitch	Clipping Glitch
How to Fix World Save Bug	Infinite Loot Glitch
Infinite XP Glitch	Freeze and Rocket Launcher Glitch
Pal Skill Cooldown Reset Trick	Fierce Fang Glitch