By the gamers, for the gamers. In this guide, I have compiled some handy tips and tricks I usually use while playing the game. Hopefully you learn a thing or two by reading through it.
Tips and Tricks
All credit goes to Etro!
Introduction
These are more of practical tips for things happening inside Palia based on my own playtime and lessons learned by watching Palia content creators on YouTube. I won’t go into details about things since most of these information can be found by lurking through the Discord or wiki or dedicated third party websites. Heads up that this guide is more in the style of “oh, that’s a thing?” and “wow, didn’t know you can do that, nice,” rather than “so how do you do this thing?”
This guide might contain spoilers (I’m not sure whether what I write over here can be considered as spoiler or not), so proceed with caution. I won’t be putting spoiler tags.
Tips and Tricks
Usual shortened terms in Palia:
- FT: Flow Tree
- FG, FTG, grove: Flow Tree Grove
- Pal: Palium
- Magic deer, disco stag, proudstag, whatever they call it: Proudhorn Sernuk
You can login to the game near xx:05 or xx:10 AM/PM IRL to quickly get a ‘double harvest’ in a single play session (getting plants before and after xx:15 AM/PM). Useful if you’re holding off watering/harvesting your plants while exploring the field.
Don’t like the 2-3 seconds of animation-lock after your food is ready to take? Jump on top of any elevation to cancel the animation. Good to do while cooking repeatedly with friends since less time spent while cooking, albeit only by seconds.
Always try having 1 stack of food of your choosing, 100 bug nets, 100 slowdown arrows, 100 worms, 100 glow worms, 100 magical arrows (optional), and 10+ flare arrows at all times. Limiting yourself to just doing one specific activity while out in the field is a rather bad choice in my opinion.
- Only 1 stack of food means more spaces for other things you can gather in the field.
- ‘Better’ bug smoke bomb doesn’t increase the chance of catching bugs, the bug belt is the important one for that. Exception for Supreme Smoke Bomb which has 100% catch rate for every bugs.
- Slowdown arrow is much better than Iron arrow, but that’s my personal advice. Especially good at slowing magical creatures like magic chapaa and magic muujin.
- Worm/Glow worm for occasional bubbles in many fishing surfaces.
- Magical arrow to nullify the magic animal effect, but is optional if you’re confident with your aim.
- Flare arrow to help mark things you want to share with others.
Having several arrows prepared on Requests panel means free storage, very practical especially if you’re out hunting with a friend (you can fulfill your friend’s arrows requests and vice versa).
My personal best food to carry around is Stuffed Cabbages. It’s very filling, the ingredients came mostly from your farm, and no sudden-timed cooking step at all while preparing it. My second best food to carry around is Chili Oil Dumplings since it restores 525 focus, slightly bit more than half of maximum focus bar. Pick your choice, I won’t tell others.
Many NPCs will gather pretty close around Kilima Square on 16:30+, good for increasing friend/romance meter in quick successions.
Flow Grove always spawns on 00:00 at Bahari Bay, so search for its appearance on that time or ask away in the chat.
It’s always better to help catch an animal/bug when you see another player doing it near you when you got the time as it means less resources spent from your side. You can slowly complete your weekly missions that way. The other player might be grateful too, so it’s a win-win situation.
Finish Flame Shrine Bundle and Gale Shrine Bundle ASAP. Waves Shrine Bundle can kind of wait a bit.
Learn animation cancelling to speed up your gathering activity. (ps. since Palia came to Steam, certain animation cancelling got changed, especially when run-jumping while gathering loots. I don’t know whether this will be addressed in the future or not.)
Do you want to be more ‘cost-effective’ on gifting at the cost of less immersiveness of the game? Some NPCs accept Morel Mushroom bought from Zeki General Store as acceptable gift.
My personal best, most hands-off, passive money-making tool in Palia is a big number of Glow Worm Farms combined with mushroom bought from Zeki (the price become more than double worth of the store base price) praying for S6 to someday add numerical gauge on buying things to avoid breaking my mouse/switch button by spamming it repeatedly.
Get a yellow/shining fishing bobber ASAP, it helps track your bobber location when fishing at night if you’re having a hard time looking at your bobber.
Rebind your Bow and Bug Belt into something you can easily reach, since these two tools are usually needed quickly (e.g. you see someone hunting and the animal is coming straight at you, you’re going somewhere and suddenly hear that “a bug is near you and now trying to flee” sfx). I put mine in Q and E button respectively.
Hold your walk button (default is Ctrl) to show your pinged area on the field. It will appear as a light beacon falling from the sky.
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