Palworld – Captured / Killed Merchants and NPC’s

Captured or Killed Merchants and NPC’s

If you’re wondering what happens when you capture or kill the human like pals. I have tested their respawnabilities and interactabilies. Here are my findings.

Not sure if this info correlates to the Steam version equivilent.

Black Marketeer (Level 40)

• Can be captured.
• Does respawn. (Takes 1 in game day cycle, player also needs to leave the area for the Black Marketeer to respawn) current version respawns merchant if you die, teleport to you base upon death and then make your way back or if you quit to title menu and load back in. Taking advantage of this current mechanic/ exploit is a working gold coin farm for people that have seen the videos making its rounds. They respawn in all of their known spots, even spots they have been caught from. If you butcher/ discard this pal they do respawn.

Can be interacted with by anyone in your guild (Including yourself) at a base if the Marketeer pal is set as an active pal 1/ 20 capacity.

Blue / Green / Red Wandering Villagers (Levels 10-30)

• Can be captured. DOES NOT RESPAWN IF CAUGHT. (If mercahnt is killed before being caught, simply quit to title menu and reload, merchants will be back. If this does not work, leave the area, quit and load again. They will be back.)

Once these merchants are caught. They will never again appear in that spot again. Additionally if you drop your merchant pal/ discard or butcher them, they do not respawn/ return to their initial world habitat. They are gone forever.

They can also be interacted with by anyone in your guild (Including yourself) at a base if the Merchant pal is set as an active pal 1/ 20 capacity.

Additional fun fact for those who are looking to just catch merchants:

• Blue merchants – Pals Ive come across 3 of them in 3 different regions, havent quite figured out if they sell regional specific Pals.

*Green merchants – Ammo They have some changes between them, like some sell a weapon( the one I caught sells the makeshift handgun) and I ran into one that sells the fire crossbow and fire arrows. Out of 3 that Ive come across, none of them sell rocket launcher ammo.

• Red Merchants – Basic vendors There are 2 subvarients of the red merchants with minor differences within their wares Most notably, One varient sells the Electric/ Venom and flame glands, berry and wheat seeds. The other sells Ice glands, lettuce and tomato seeds.

Human Pals, regardless of weaponry will only use their fists to fight/ fend off attackers. Ive tested this on a solo and a multilayer world, with settings adjusted and on default.