Palworld offers a variety of ways to traverse its environments, from walking on foot, to riding on Pals as mounts! Read on to learn about the best ways to get around, and which mounts to choose!

How to Increase Movement Speed

Sprint Instead of Walking

You can sprint by pressing the Space Button, or the Left Stick on your controller. This is faster than regular walking, however it will use up your character's Stamina.

All Controls and How to Change

Increase Stamina

You can invest Skill Points in Stamina to have your character sprint for longer periods of time. Because movement is such an important part of the game, Stamina becomes a stat that players should consider prioritizing.

How to Increase Stamina

Ride a Mountable Pal

Finding rideable Pals can make traversing the world of Palworld much easier, conserving your Stamina, covering more areas, and saving you time.

Best Mounts and All Mount Pals

Speed Increasing Passive Skills

Some Passive Skills increase movement Speed. It is recommended to have Pals that have these Passive Skills to speed up your movement.

Passive Skill	Positive Effect	Negative Effect	Tier
Runner	20% increase to movement speed		Tier +2
Mine Foreman	25% increase to Player Mining Efficiency		Tier +3
Nimble	10% increase to movement speed		Tier +1
Swift	30% increase to movement speed		Tier +3
Legend	Attack +20%, Defense +20%, and Movement Speed +15%		Tier +3

List of Passive Skills

How to Ride Pals

Catch a Rideable Pal

You can catch rideable Pals very early on in the game, these include Pals like Rushoar and Melpaca, who you can catch with ease.

How to Catch Pals

Craft Pal Gear

A Pal Gear is also required before you can ride your flying mount in Palworld. To do this, capture the Pal to unlock their Pal Gear under Technology. You will need to use Technology Points to unlock the gear and craft them in a Pal Gear Workbench afterward.

After unlocking the Pal Gear, summon the Pal from your party, and then you can mount it!

Best Pals to Mount

Riding Mount

Early Game: Reindrix

Reindrix is highly recommended for early game playthroughs, You can easily find it early on and is a very convenient Riding Mount early game.

Late Game: Necromus

Necromus can double jump when ridden as a mount, and is also the fastest Running Mount in the game!

Fastest Ground Mount Pals Tier List

Aerial Mount

Early Game: Nitewing

Nitewing lets you to travel safely through the air allowing you to progress through the map at a quicker pace.

Late Game: Jetragon

Jetragon is the best Pal to be used as a mount thanks to it blowing every other pal out of the water with its Riding Speed! As an added bonus, it event learns a good variety of moves that makes it a decent fighter!

Fastest Flying Mount Pals Tier List

Swimming Mount

Early Game: Surfent

Surfent is a great Swimming Mount with a great Partner Skill.

Late Game: Azurobe

Azurobe gives a Water infusion to attacks thanks to its Pal Skill. Azurobe is also the fastest Swimming Mount in the game.

Fastest Swimming Mount Pals Tier List

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