Palworld 1.0 Party Presets Guide: Stop Wasting Your Five Slots
Staring at a Palbox packed with hundreds of monsters while trying to pick just five is a recipe for a massive headache.
If you load your party with one Pal to fly, one to swim, one to run, and a Galeclaw just for gliding, you leave yourself exactly one slot for actual combat. That is a terrible way to explore Palpagos. I spent way too much time manually dragging and dropping my favorite monsters in and out of the active roster every time I wanted to switch activities. Thankfully, you don't have to deal with that tedious inventory management anymore. I completely changed how I approach my five-slot limit by setting up dedicated loadouts and leaning hard into monsters that handle multiple jobs at once.
The Magic of Party Presets
A shocking amount of you are completely missing one of the best quality-of-life tools the game offers. If you look closely at your Palbox interface right below your active party, you'll spot the Party Presets button.
Instead of treating your five slots like a static Swiss Army Knife that has to handle every possible situation, you can save specific team configurations for specific tasks. You just build your perfect loadout, save it, drop them back in the box, and build another. When you need to switch from strip-mining the desert to fighting a boss, you just click your preset and instantly swap your entire roster.
If you want to know how deep this rabbit hole goes, I highly recommend checking out some of the hidden features and best secrets scattered around the recent updates, but presets are by far my favorite addition.
Here are a few specialized preset ideas you should steal immediately.
The Flying Mount Trap
I know this sounds crazy, but you really need to ask yourself if you actually need a flying mount in your active party all the time.
Flying completely trivializes exploration. You just hold the forward button, zoom over all the interesting terrain, and miss half the game. If you ground yourself, the map feels massive again. Dropping your flyer instantly frees up a crucial slot for another combat buffer or a utility worker like a Teafant for quick healing.
Grappling and Gliding
If you still want high-tier mobility without relying on a bulky dragon, combine a grappling hook with a max-condensed Galeclaw. It handles better than most fliers and lets you shoot while gliding.
If you want the absolute most fun traversal method in the game, breed a Tarantriss with a few new passive skills like Swift and Eternal Engine. Throw in the new jump-boosting passives, and you can literally Spider-Man your way up sheer cliffs and across canyons faster than you could ever climb them.
Condensing Your Mount Roles
If you refuse to give up your traversal perks, you have to stop separating your mounts by terrain. You don't need three different slots for land, sea, and air.
You need to find multi-role monsters. Elphidran Aqua is a fantastic swimmer that can also take to the skies when you absolutely need to cross a gap. Shadowbeak is an incredibly fast ground runner that doubles as an elite flying mount.
If you want to keep things stylish, just pull out a Chillet. This cold noodle is surprisingly fast on land, and it doubles as a highly capable swimming mount. Keep in mind that Chillet doesn't regenerate stamina while sitting on the water surface like dedicated fliers do, so you need to plan your ocean crossings carefully. But packing one adorable ice ferret covers two distinct traversal needs and infuses your attacks with Dragon damage, making it a top-tier flex pick for any combat loadout.
