Palworld What to Do After v1.0.3: The Priority List for Your First Session Back

v1.0.3 was a balance patch, which means nothing tells you in game that your plans changed. Several unlocks moved, several farms got cheaper, and one item's weight change quietly made a whole farming route viable. This is the order to work through on your first session back.

1. Open Technology and check three level bands

Do this before you do anything else, because two of these rows may already be sitting unlocked and unspent on your save.

• Level 23: Aquatic Construction Kit, now 1 Ancient Technology Point instead of 4. If you are past 23, this is available right now.
• Level 70: Jetragon-related rows, moved down from 79. Jetragon's Missile Launcher and the Jetragon Statue both sit here.
• Level 21: Antique Dresser, if you never bothered. One Ancient point for permanent cosmetic freedom.

Aquatic Construction Kit

Tech 23

Construction kit that allows foundations to be placed on water.

Jetragon's Missile Launcher

Tech 70

Makes Jetragon fire missiles when ridden.

Antique Dresser

Tech 21

Dresser useful for giving yourself a remake. Allows players to edit their appearance.

2. Rebuild your oil income

Crude Oil Extractor, High-pressure Crude Oil Extractor, and Large Power Generator all cost less to build now, and both extractors produce faster. If you were rationing extractors because of the build cost, that constraint is gone. The base mission that asked specifically for a Crude Oil Extractor also accepts the High-pressure version now, which clears the awkward case where you had already built the better pump.

Crude Oil Extractor

Structures

Equipment required to extract Crude Oil from oil fields. Requires a power supply to operate.

High-pressure Crude Oil Extractor

Structures

A device that pumps and extracts Crude Oil from deep underground. It can produce Crude Oil even in areas without oil fields, but it can only be placed on open ground with no structures beneath it. It requires a far greater supply of electricity than the Crude Oil Extractor.

Crude Oil

Materials

Material that can be processed into various products. Obtained by installing a Crude Oil Extractor on an oil field.

3. Run the World Tree circuit properly

World Tree Holy Water dropped from 1.0 weight to 0.1 and the buff duration got longer. That is the change that makes a single-lap circuit collecting Holy Water, Paloxite, and Mythical Wood actually work. If you have been running three separate trips out there, stop.

• Holy Water now also comes from World Tree expeditions, World Tree fishing, and the Large Fishing Pond.
• Teafant Spring and World Tree area Pals give bigger yields.
• Stock a real harvest kit without wrecking your carry weight, then do the whole loop in one go.

4. Stop farming Moon Lord for stat fruits

This one is not strictly a v1.0.3 change, but the patch corrected the Moon Lord normal and Ultra Raid reward tables to their intended settings, which is a good moment to re-examine why you were running it. If the answer was Life, Power, or Stout Fruit, the bounty token exchange is the better path: 25 tokens per fruit, deterministic, solo friendly.

5. Recheck your Fiber and cloth economy

Trees now drop twice as much Fiber. That quietly makes ammo components, cloth crafts, and early building mats cheaper across the board. If you had a logging base sized around the old yield, it is now overproducing, which means you can shrink it and reassign the Pals.

Fiber

Tree yield doubled

Fiber collected from trees. A material used when creating bows, etc. Can also be obtained by breaking down Wood at a Crusher.

6. Fix what the bug list unblocked

Several fixes matter more than the balance lines if you were affected by them. Check these against whatever you had written off as broken.

• Sunreach main mission soft lock from clearing the barrier too early: fixed. If you were stuck, you are not any more.
• Dedicated server accidental Fast Travel during Tower Boss fights: fixed. Hard Mode attempts on servers are trustworthy again.
• Summoned Pals stopping combat or base work: fixed. Recheck bases you thought were badly designed.
• Alpha Surfent Ranch leather production: fixed. Your leather farm may work now.
• Panthalus wave visual effects not matching hitboxes: fixed. That fight is fair now.
• Stairs and slanted roof placement detection: fixed. Rebuild the thing you gave up on.

The one-session version

• Open Technology. Claim Aquatic Construction Kit at 23, Jetragon rows at 70, Antique Dresser at 21.
• Build or expand extractors while the cost is low.
• Do one full World Tree circuit with a proper Holy Water stock.
• Set up a bounty circuit and stop raiding for stat fruits.
• Shrink the logging base that is now overproducing Fiber.