As promised, Palworld’s Home Sweet Home update is now live. While it’s not as content-rich as previous updates, developer Pocketpair stated it was necessary to begin laying the groundwork as it works on the development of Palworld 1.0. The game is expected to exit Early Access next year for its full release, after enjoying a wildly successful launch in early 2024.
Before we dive into the new improvements from the patch, today’s update also brings Palworld’s second collab, this time with Ultrakill. Like the Terraria collab, players get several new weapons and armor choices from ULTRAKILL, as well as V1’s infamous coin toss.
As for the Home Sweet Home part of the patch, v0.7 mainly focuses on improving base building with a number of new building parts, including triangular pieces. Personally, I’m most excited to hear that we can finally change the colors of our building pieces. Given how colorful all the different Pals are in Palworld, it was always strange how drab the building pieces were. The patch also redesigned and reformatted the building menu UI in hopes of making it easier to navigate. Players can now select the structures and parts they need more intuitively, or at least Pocketpair hopes.
As for other features, players can now choose to either fight at their base or take on a raid boss in a special Raid Area when summoning a raid boss at the Summoning Altar. These Raid Areas allow players to take on raid bosses without worrying about damaging their bases. Players can build temporary structures and take items into the Raid Areas. To celebrate this new addition, there’s a new raid boss for players to take on.
Pocketpair also started work to improve melee combat in the game, in hopes of making it more viable and fun for players. If you’ve played Palworld, you know melee takes a backseat to ranged. As a result, the basic attacks for swords, katanas, and beam swords have been changed, and players can now perform attacks consecutively. The team has also added special attacks to katanas and beam swords. This is just the first pass at improving melee combat, and there are more planned for full release.
On Steam, Palworld finally has Steam Workshop support, so players can easily try out different mods. To ensure fair play though, official servers prohibit the use of mods, so it’s mainly for people who play alone or privately with their friends. Lastly, Pocketpair admitted that it’s hard to fully integrate PvP into Palworld, but it is releasing all the necessary tools so players can create their own PvP rules. The feature is currently experimental, so there are some balancing issues, but there are PvP parameters that can now be set on servers.
There was one more announcement from Pocketpair that isn’t directly related to the Home Sweet Home update. Palworld has teamed up with Makeship for a lineup of eight plushies: Grizzbolt, Fainted Chikipi, Pengullet, Zoe, Daedream, Quivern, Chillet, and Katress. They’re all available for preorder exclusively at Makeship, while supplies last. It appears that they won’t be shipping until late May 2026.
Palworld Home Sweet Home Update Trailer
Palworld v0.7.0 Full Patch Notes
ULTRAKILL Collab!
- Added V1 and V2 armor sets! Terrorize the Palpagos Islands as your favorite blood-fueled robot!
- Added a pair of iconic weapons from ULTRAKILL!
- Unique Mechanic – Coin Toss
- Throw coins while using the Marksman Revolver to perform a Ricoshot!
- Bullets will ricochet off the thrown coin and deal devastating damage to nearby targets!
Base Building Improvements
- Added 48 new building parts, including triangular pieces!
- Added the ability to change the color of some buildings and foundations!
- Changed the building UI to a list-based system.
Raid Boss Improvements
- Added a new raid boss!
- Added a new battlefield for raid bosses. Players can now choose to challenge raid bosses in their base or in a new separate battlefield.
Melee Combat Improvements
- Improved the melee gameplay for swords, katanas and beam swords. Pressing left click (right trigger) will perform a new consecutive combo attack.
- Special attacks have been added to the katana and beam sword. Holding either left or right click (left or right trigger) will activate these abilities.
New Features
- Added PvP functionality (Experimental!).
- [PC – Steam Only] Added Steam Workshop, allowing players to download and use mods.
Mechanic Adjustments
- When placing a building, an arrow indicating the building’s orientation will now be displayed.
- When placing a building, buildings with a set work location will now display a Cattiva icon indicating the work location.
- Adjusted the Palbox so it can be aligned with foundations and roofs.
- [Keyboard & Mouse Controls] Building controls have been made more intuitive, and continuous building has been changed to the default setting.
Balance Adjustments
- Added new implants to the surgery table:
- Implant: Mine Foreman
- Implant: Logging Foreman
- Implant: Fine Furs
- Implant: Sleek Stroke
- Implant: Work Slave
- You can now get a Little Kinship Peach from a Pal when freeing them from an enemy camp.
- The last hit done to an enemy while using mercy will now display “”MERCY HIT”” to indicate that no damage was done.
- Changed specifications so that all Pals will no longer lose SAN when taking damage.
- Reduced the impact of bad status effects:
- Hungry… Attack, Defense, Work Speed -20% → -10%
- Starving… Attack, Defense, Work Speed -50% → -20%
- Cold… Work Speed -10% → -5%
- Sprain… Movement Speed -10% → -5%
- Overfull… Increased hunger loss rate by 100% → +50%
- Ulcer… Work Speed -20%, Movement Speed -10% → Work Speed -10%, Movement Speed -5%
- Fracture… Work Speed -10%, Movement Speed -20% → Work Speed -5%, Movement Speed -10%
- Weakened… Work Speed -20%, Movement Speed -30% → Work Speed -10%, Movement Speed -20%
- Depressed… -30% Work Speed, -20% Movement Speed → -20% Work Speed, -10% Movement Speed
- Changed the attribute of the Broncherry’s unique skill “”Body Smash”” from neutral to the grass.
- Changed the attribute of Rushoar’s unique skill “Heavy Charge” from neutral to earth.
- Added “Item Decay Speed Multiplier” to the Options Settings.
- [Dedicated Servers] Police NPCs targeting players who have committed crimes will now only deal damage to the target player and their guild.
- The appearance of the work aptitude icon has been changed.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Flopie would not collect dropped items in the field while her partner skill “Helper Bunny” was active.
- Improved Pal pathfinding AI to make it easier to reach the target location within the base.
- Fixed an issue where summoned Pals would attack visitors when set to “attack aggressively.”
- Fixed an issue where attacking visitors in your base would not result in the correct attacking state.
- Many other minor bug fixes.
