Your first route

Palworld breeding guide

Add your Pals, choose a goal, and follow the pairings. Passive skills are optional when you only want a species.

Open the breeding planner

Start with three simple steps

Add species you can use repeatedly as parents. The planner assumes access to compatible sexes for those species; check the parents you actually use in your game. You do not need to upload a save or list every individual Pal.

  1. Add Pals

    Select the species you own. Search by name or Paldex number; Filters & sort helps narrow the list.

  2. Pick a goal

    Open Breed and use Find a Pal. Choose a target, or compare results by generations or job rating.

  3. Follow the pairings

    Open Show breeding route. Each round names the parents, the child to hatch, and any sexes or passives you need to keep.

Worked example: Lamball and Cattiva

In the planner’s included Palworld 1.0.x data (pack 0.2.0), Lamball × Cattiva produces Daedream. This example is checked against that saved breeding table, not a claim that every later game patch is unchanged.

  1. Select Lamball and Cattiva

    On Add Pals, select both species. The roster counter shows 2 added.

  2. Find the one-generation target

    Open Breed, choose Find a Pal, and search for Daedream. Its result shows 1 generation and 1 breeding step.

  3. Read the first round

    Choose Show breeding route. The pair is Cattiva and Lamball, with Daedream as the child. Check compatible parent sexes in-game; this species-only plan does not select inherited passives.

When your goal includes passive skills

Use Keep these passives when one Pal already holds the skills you want. Select that starting Pal and up to four of its passives; the route must keep that family line.

Use Combine passives when skills are split across several Pals. Choose a target, edit its suggested skills, and identify the real parent carrying each skill. Record all of that parent’s passives so unwanted skills are visible too.

Read a longer route

Rounds groups pairings you can attempt together. Tree shows how the parents connect. An offspring from an earlier step becomes a later parent, so keep the indicated passives and any required sex.

Use Change parents or compare routes if an input is unavailable. Removing it affects only that plan; the planner will look for another route and may report that none was found.

Save progress and check the game version

Passive plans support Save plan and hatch recording. Record a successful intermediate child when you will use that exact Pal later. Species-only routes are a pairing checklist; they do not currently record hatches or save plans.

Export your roster from Backup before clearing browser storage. Saved data belongs to this device and website address; it does not automatically sync to another device.

A route does not guarantee passive inheritance, offspring sex, an egg count, or elapsed time. When a result warns that alternatives were not checked, it may not be the shortest possible. Check Data & limitations and your game version before relying on patch-sensitive facts.

Practical breeding guide FAQ

Should I start with a target or with passives?

Start with the constraint you care about. Use a species mode to discover reachable targets; use Combine passives when the target and its four-trait job are already decided.

When should I save an intermediate hatch?

Save it when that exact offspring will become a downstream parent, especially when it consolidates desired traits. Recalculation can then begin from the real copy instead of repeating earlier stages.

How should I use a route after a game update?

Check the planner’s supported data revision against your current game, verify any changed combination or passive effect, and regenerate the route after updating roster assumptions. Do not treat an older saved plan as live patch data.