Palworld is a sandbox survival game with many options for playing, including difficulty and other custom settings. Here's our recommendation for difficulty settings to choose when you play Palworld.

Which Difficulty Settings to Choose

Default Settings

Palworld features a robust variety of world settings you can edit. Still, there are also default difficulties you can choose from to set up your world quickly.

Normal for the Intended Experience

Normal difficulty is the standard experience that's good for any player who has experience playing survival games.

A significant difference between Normal and Casual difficulties is that you drop all your items and equipment upon dying in Normal difficulty. This can alter how you play the game, as you can travel anywhere without consequences.

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Casual for Pal Collectors and Base Building Enjoyers

The Casual difficulty is best for a stress-free environment as you collect Pals more easily and generate more materials from gathering points.

This difficulty is recommended for players seeking to build vast buildings and those planning to collect and breed a lot of Pals.

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Hard Difficulty for Hardcore Survival Players

Intended to be a grindy experience, the Hard difficulty setting is for survival veterans who seek a survival challenge.

Players get fewer items, fewer Pals, and less EXP, and they can die more often, punishing them by dropping all their items AND Pals.

Custom Settings Difficulty

For an experience tailored to your liking, select Custom Settings and change the many custom world settings you can tweak.

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How to Change Difficulty or World Settings

Change World Settings from the World Select Menu

If you do not find the current world settings to be enjoyable, you can still change the difficulty or world settings of your World.

To change difficulties or world settings from an existing world, select the world from the Word Select Menu. Select the Change World Settings button to access the World Settings menu.

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