Pick a job and see every Pal that can do it, ordered by natural work level. Use it to find the best worker you can actually get for each base task.
Read work level before role tier
Natural work level is the recorded level a Pal has for one job. It is the clearest single signal for whether a Pal can staff a task at all, because several facilities require a minimum level before a Pal is allowed to work there. A Pal below that threshold will not contribute no matter how good the rest of its stats are.
Role tier is a different thing: it is compiled context for how a Pal compares within a named job once everything else is taken into account. A high natural level feeds into that judgement but the two labels are not interchangeable, and it is worth reading them as separate signals rather than collapsing them into one ranking.
- Pick the job you need staffed
Start from the task that is bottlenecking your base rather than from a Pal you happen to like.
- Read down the level list
The highest levels are listed first, so the top of each job card is the strongest worker available in the data.
- Check what else that Pal does
Open the Pal reference to see its other jobs before committing it, because a specialist can be a waste at a small base.
Specialists against generalists
A Pal with one very high level is excellent at a base built around that job and close to useless everywhere else. A Pal with several mid levels will quietly keep a small base running because it can pick up whatever task is currently unattended, which matters more when you only have a handful of worker slots.
The practical rule is that early bases reward generalists and mature bases reward specialists. Once you have enough slots to dedicate Pals to single tasks, the highest level available for each job becomes the right target, and that is the point where breeding for a specific worker starts to pay off.
- Check the minimum level a facility requires before assigning anyone to it.
- Count how many jobs a Pal covers, not just its best one.
- Prefer a generalist while worker slots are scarce.
- Move to specialists once each job can have its own dedicated Pal.
What work level does not tell you
Work level sets which jobs a Pal can do and at what threshold, but it does not set how fast the work happens. Work speed is affected by passive skills such as Artisan, by the Pal’s condition, and by sanity, so two Pals at the same level can produce very different output over an hour.
This is the part breeding actually changes. You cannot raise a natural work level through breeding, but you can move work-speed passives onto a Pal that already has the level you need, which is usually the larger practical gain.
Turning a job gap into a breeding goal
When a job has no good worker in your roster, the fix is either to catch a species that already has the level or to breed toward one. The job lists here show every Pal that can do the task, so you can scan for a species that is realistically reachable rather than fixating on the single best worker in the game.
Once you have a target species in mind, the breeding planner will work out whether it is reachable from the Pals you own and what route gets there, and the passive planner will help you decide which work-speed passives to stack onto it.