Breeding in Palworld is the most reliable way to obtain powerful Pals with perfect passive skills — and the only way to get certain alpha-quality Pals without fighting world bosses repeatedly. The breeding system lets you combine two parent Pals to produce an egg that hatches into a specific offspring Pal, with a chance to inherit passive skills from both parents. This guide covers everything: how Palworld breeding works, how to use the breeding calculator, the best breeding combos for top Pals, how to breed Anubis and Astegon, cake recipe for the breeding farm, passive skill inheritance, and how to change breeding speed on your server.
For the complete Palworld map guide including where to find Pals to use as breeding parents, see our article on Palworld map guide — interactive map, best base locations, and key locations.
How Palworld Breeding Works
Breeding Setup Requirements
- Breeding Farm: Craft and place a Breeding Farm at your base — unlocked in the Technology Tree at level 19
- Two parent Pals: One male and one female Pal assigned to the Breeding Farm
- Cake: Place a Cake in the Breeding Farm’s item slot — one Cake per breeding attempt
- Wait: The Breeding Farm produces an Egg after a set time (based on server settings)
- Incubate the Egg: Place the Egg in an Egg Incubator — keep the temperature appropriate for the egg type
How Breeding Determines the Offspring
Palworld breeding uses a numerical power system — every Pal has an internal ‘power value’ that determines breeding outcomes. When two Pals breed, their power values are averaged to determine the offspring species. This is why the breeding calculator is so useful: it lets you input two parent Pals and see exactly which offspring you will get before committing a Cake.
The key mechanic to understand: breeding does NOT always produce a mix of the parents’ species. Instead, it produces a specific third Pal determined by the mathematical average of the parents’ power values. This means you can breed two completely different Pals and get a third species that neither parent is.
Palworld Breeding Calculator — How to Use It
The Palworld breeding calculator is a community tool that lets you input two parent Pals and instantly see the offspring. The best breeding calculators also let you reverse-search — input a target Pal and see all possible parent combinations that produce it.
Best Palworld Breeding Calculator Sites
- Palworld.gg Breeding Calculator (palworld.gg/breeding-calculator): The most widely used calculator — select parent 1 and parent 2 from dropdown menus and see the offspring instantly. Also has a reverse search mode.
- Palpedia Breeding Calculator: Another well-maintained calculator with combo list functionality — useful for browsing all possible combinations that produce a specific target Pal.
- Palworld Breeding Tree: Some community tools visualize the breeding ‘tree’ showing how many generations it takes to breed a target Pal from commonly available parents.
How to Use the Breeding Calculator
- Go to palworld.gg/breeding-calculator in your browser
- Select Parent 1 from the dropdown — choose a Pal you own
- Select Parent 2 from the dropdown — choose a Pal you own
- The offspring is shown instantly — this tells you exactly which Pal the egg will hatch into
- For reverse search: select the target Pal you want and the calculator shows all parent combinations that produce it
- Filter by Pals you already own — some calculators let you mark which Pals you have for faster combo finding
How to Make Cake in Palworld — Breeding Farm Recipe
Cake is required for every breeding attempt — one Cake per egg. Making Cake requires a Cooking Pot and the following ingredients:
| Ingredient | How to Get It |
| Flour x5 | Craft in Mill using 3 Wheat each (requires Wheat Seeds grown on a Wheat Plantation) |
| Red Berries x8 | Gather from berry bushes on the map or grow at your base |
| Eggs x7 | Ranch with Chikipi assigned — Chikipi produce eggs passively |
| Milk x7 | Ranch with Mozzarina assigned — Mozzarina produce milk passively |
| Honey x2 | Ranch with Beegarde assigned — Beegarde produce honey passively |
Setting Up a Cake Farm
The most efficient way to sustain breeding is to set up an automated Cake farm at your base:
- Wheat Plantation: Grow Wheat using Wheat Seeds — assign a Pal with Planting work suitability (Lifmunk, Lyleen) to plant and harvest automatically
- Mill: Craft a Mill at your base — assign a Pal to automatically process Wheat into Flour
- Ranch (x3): Set up three Ranch buildings — one for Chikipi (eggs), one for Mozzarina (milk), one for Beegarde (honey)
- Cooking Pot: Assign a Pal with Kindling work suitability (Foxsparks, Arsox, Kitsun) to automatically cook Cakes
With this setup, your base continuously produces Cakes without manual input — essential if you plan to breed many Pals for passive skill optimization.
Best Palworld Breeding Combos — Top Pals
How to Breed Anubis in Palworld
Anubis is one of the most valuable Pals in Palworld — a Ground-type Pal with exceptional Mining work suitability (Level 3) and strong combat stats. It is widely considered the best base worker Pal for ore mining. Here are the most accessible breeding combos for Anubis:
| Parent 1 | Parent 2 | Notes |
| Penking | Bushi | Classic early combo — both catchable before mid-game |
| Penking | Caprity | Another accessible early combo |
| Kitsun | Penking | Available once you reach mid-game zones |
| Arsox | Penking | Fire + Water combo → Ground type offspring |
| Surfent | Penking | Water parent combo |
| Anubis | Anubis | Self-breed — guarantees Anubis offspring with passive inheritance |
How to Breed Astegon in Palworld
Astegon is a Dragon/Dark-type legendary Pal — one of the strongest combat Pals in the game. It is found in the late-game volcanic underground area, but breeding offers a more reliable way to get one with good passives:
| Parent 1 | Parent 2 | Notes |
| Relaxaurus | Relaxaurus Lux | Best combo — both same species variants |
| Elphidran | Relaxaurus | Dragon-type parents → Astegon |
| Jormuntide | Chillet | Water Dragon + Ice → Astegon possible |
| Shadowbeak | Gobfin Ignis | Dark + Fire combo — check calculator to confirm |
Other High-Value Breeding Combos
| Target Pal | Parent 1 | Parent 2 | Why It’s Valuable |
| Orserk | Grizzbolt | Relaxaurus | Dragon/Electric — top combat + partner skills |
| Lyleen | Mossanda | Petallia | Grass-type — best Planting + Medicine Production |
| Shadowbeak | Kitsun | Astegon | Dark-type — fastest flying mount + strong attacker |
| Frostallion | Mossanda Lux | Relaxaurus Lux | Ice Legendary — top flying mount |
| Jetragon | Relaxaurus Lux | Suzaku | Dragon Legendary — fastest flying mount |
| Necromus | Shadowbeak | Astegon | Dark — strong combat; endgame boss fight Pal |
| Blazamut Ryu | Blazamut | Jormuntide Ignis | Fire/Dragon — strongest fire attacker |
| Lyleen Noct | Menasting | Lyleen | Dark Grass — rare midnight variant |
Passive Skill Inheritance in Palworld Breeding
One of the primary reasons to breed rather than catch Pals is passive skill inheritance — offspring have a chance to inherit passive skills from both parents. This is how players create Pals with 4 powerful passive skills that would be nearly impossible to find in the wild.
How Passive Skill Inheritance Works
- Each Pal can have up to 4 passive skills
- During breeding, the offspring randomly inherits passive skills from the parent pool
- The more total passive skills the parents have between them, the more options for inheritance
- To maximize good passives: breed parents that each have 4 strong passive skills — giving the offspring 8 skills to randomly inherit from
- Repeat breeding: If the offspring does not have the desired passive combination, breed again — each attempt has different random inheritance
Best Passive Skills to Stack in Palworld
| Passive Skill | Effect |
| Legend | Massive all-stat boost — the rarest and most powerful passive |
| Muscle Head | Attack +30% — top combat passive for attackers |
| Swift | Movement speed +30% — excellent for mounts and mobile fighters |
| Runner | Movement speed +20% — good secondary speed passive |
| Ferocious | Attack +20% |
| Artisan | Work speed +50% — best passive for base workers |
| Work Slave | Work speed +30% |
| Serious | All stats +10% |
| Lucky | All stats +15% — rare; very valuable |
| Vanguard | Attack +10% for the whole party |
Breeding for Perfect Passives — Strategy
The process for breeding a Pal with ideal passives:
- Step 1: Catch multiple copies of your target Pal species from the wild — look for individuals with one or two of your desired passive skills
- Step 2: Breed two copies that between them have 3-4 of your desired passives — the offspring has a chance to inherit any combination
- Step 3: Keep offspring that have at least 2 of the desired passives — use these as new parents
- Step 4: Repeat — each generation gets closer to your target passive combination
- Step 5: A Pal with 4 desired passives (especially with Legend) requires multiple breeding generations but is dramatically more powerful than wild-caught equivalents
Breeding Speed — How to Change It on Your Server
In Palworld, egg incubation time and breeding time can be adjusted through server settings — both dedicated servers and your local game settings allow modification of breeding speed multipliers.
How to Change Breeding Speed in Palworld
- In-game (new world): When creating a new world, go to World Settings → Custom Settings → find ‘Egg Incubation Speed’ and ‘Breeding Speed’ multipliers
- Existing world (local): Go to your save folder → PalWorldSettings.ini → find PalEggDefaultHatchingTime and adjust the value (lower = faster hatching)
- Dedicated server: Edit the PalWorldSettings.ini on your server — find the breeding and incubation time parameters
- Recommended values: Set Egg Incubation Speed to 30-50x for fast breeding sessions; normal speed is 1x
Server Settings for Breeding
The key server settings that affect breeding in Palworld:
| Setting | Effect |
| PalEggDefaultHatchingTime | Time for eggs to hatch in incubator (default: 72h in-game time) |
| BuildObjectHpRate | Affects breeding farm durability |
| WorkSpeedRate | Multiplies all work speed including breeding farm production |
| Egg Incubation Speed | Direct multiplier for egg hatching — increase for faster breeding |
Do Pals Evolve in Palworld?
No — Pals in Palworld do not evolve like Pokemon. There is no evolution mechanic where a Pal transforms into a new species. However, some Pals have variant forms (for example, Mossanda Lux, Jormuntide Ignis, Relaxaurus Lux) that are separate species rather than evolutions — they are caught independently or bred. The closest equivalent to evolution in Palworld is breeding: by combining two Pals, you produce a more powerful offspring species, simulating a form of progression.
How Many Pals Are in Palworld?
As of mid-2026, Palworld has over 200 Pals in the base game across all biomes and regions, with additional Pals added through major updates including the Terraria crossover (Tides of Terraria) and other seasonal content. The exact Pal count increases with each major update — check palworld.gg for the current complete Pal list. The full Pal Pokedex-equivalent (Paldeck) is viewable in-game through the main menu.
For the complete Palworld legendary Pals guide including where to find and how to fight Jetragon, Shadowbeak, Frostallion, and other legendaries, see our article on Palworld legendary Pals, bosses, implants, and dog coins guide.
For the best Palworld breeding calculator to find combos for any Pal, see Palworld.gg Breeding Calculator — find any breeding combo instantly. For the full breeding combinations list and Pal database, see Palpedia — Palworld Pal database and breeding combinations.
Breeding for Alpha Pals vs Wild Catching — Which Is Better?
The debate between breeding and wild catching is central to end-game Palworld strategy. Wild-caught Pals have random passive skills — occasionally you find one with two strong passives, but four optimal passives on a single wild Pal is extremely rare. Breeding allows you to systematically stack passives across generations until you achieve a Pal with your exact desired skill combination. For the most powerful combat Pals (Jetragon with Legend + Swift + Runner + Ferocious, for example), breeding is the only practical path — wild-catching the exact right passive combination would require hundreds of encounters.
The tradeoff is time and Cake investment. Each breeding attempt costs one Cake, which requires growing Wheat, farming eggs, milk, and honey at your Ranch. This is why setting up an automated Cake production line at your base is a prerequisite for serious breeding. Once your base produces Cakes continuously, breeding becomes a numbers game — the more attempts you make per hour, the faster you converge on your ideal passive combination.
Ranch Pals — What Each Ranch Pal Produces
The Ranch is a base building that automatically generates resources when specific Pals are assigned to it. Understanding which Pals produce which Ranch drops is essential for both Cake farming and general resource collection:
Ranch Pal
Resource Produced
Notes
Chikipi
Eggs
Fast egg production — assign multiple Chikipi for higher output
Mozzarina
Milk
Produces milk for Cake; also drops Low Grade Medical Supplies
Beegarde
Honey
Slower honey production; honey is rarest Cake ingredient
Vixy
Gold Coins / Arrows / Pal Spheres
Digs up items randomly — excellent Gold source
Caprity
Red Berries
Fast berry production for Cake and food
Cremis
Wool
Used for clothing crafts
Sibelyx
High Quality Cloth
Late-game cloth for advanced armor
Lamball
Wool
Faster wool than Cremis
Woolipop
Cotton Candy
Unique food item
Flambelle
Flame Organ
Passive flame organ source without killing
Kelpsea
Pal Fluids
Passive Pal Fluid source
Egg Types and Incubation in Palworld
Palworld eggs come in different types corresponding to element categories — each type requires specific temperature conditions in the Egg Incubator for optimal (faster) hatching. The nine egg types are: Common (no temperature preference), Scorching (requires heat — place near fire or in hot biome), Frozen (requires cold), Electric, Rocky, Damp, Dark, Dragon, and Verdant. Build the appropriate temperature environment around your incubators: place them near Campfires or Heaters for Scorching eggs, or in cold biomes for Frozen eggs. A Pal with Temperature Control work suitability assigned near incubators also helps regulate temperature automatically.
Bottom Line
| Best breeding calculator | palworld.gg/breeding-calculator — forward and reverse search |
| Cake recipe | Flour x5 + Red Berries x8 + Eggs x7 + Milk x7 + Honey x2 |
| Best base worker Pal | Anubis (Mining Lv3) — breed via Penking + Bushi |
| How to breed Anubis | Penking + Bushi = most accessible early-game combo |
| How to breed Astegon | Relaxaurus + Relaxaurus Lux = most reliable combo |
| Best combat passives | Legend + Muscle Head + Ferocious + Swift |
| Best worker passives | Artisan + Work Slave + Serious + Lucky |
| Do Pals evolve? | No — no evolution mechanic; variant forms are separate species |
| Change breeding speed | World Settings → Custom → Egg Incubation Speed multiplier |
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Palworld breeding work?
Palworld breeding requires a Breeding Farm (unlocked at level 19), one male and one female Pal, and a Cake in the farm’s item slot. The two Pals breed to produce an Egg, which you incubate in an Egg Incubator to hatch the offspring. The offspring species is determined by the mathematical average of the parents’ internal power values — use the breeding calculator at palworld.gg/breeding-calculator to see exactly which offspring any pair of Pals produces.
What is the best breeding combo in Palworld?
The best breeding combos depend on your target Pal. For Anubis (best base miner): Penking + Bushi. For Orserk (top combat): Grizzbolt + Relaxaurus. For Lyleen (best planting worker): Mossanda + Petallia. For Shadowbeak (fast flying mount): Kitsun + Astegon. Use palworld.gg/breeding-calculator to reverse-search any target Pal and see all possible parent combinations.
How do you breed Anubis in Palworld?
To breed Anubis in Palworld: catch a Penking (found near the Moonless Shore area, level 15-20) and a Bushi (found in the Bamboo Groves area, level 20-25). Place one male and one female in the Breeding Farm with a Cake. The egg produced will hatch into Anubis. This is the most accessible early-to-mid-game Anubis breeding combo.
How do you make Cake in Palworld?
Cake is crafted in a Cooking Pot using: Flour x5 (made in Mill from 3 Wheat each), Red Berries x8, Eggs x7, Milk x7, and Honey x2. For automated Cake production: grow Wheat on a Wheat Plantation (Lifmunk or Lyleen to harvest), assign Chikipi to Ranch for eggs, Mozzarina for milk, and Beegarde for honey, with a Kindling Pal at the Cooking Pot to auto-cook.
How do I change breeding speed in Palworld?
Change breeding speed in Palworld through World Settings when creating a new world (Custom Settings → Egg Incubation Speed multiplier) or by editing PalWorldSettings.ini in your save folder for existing worlds. On dedicated servers, edit the server’s PalWorldSettings.ini. Set the Egg Incubation Speed to 30-50x for fast breeding sessions — the default speed makes eggs take many in-game hours to hatch.
Do Pals evolve in Palworld?
No — Pals in Palworld do not evolve. There is no evolution mechanic. Variant forms of Pals (like Mossanda Lux or Jormuntide Ignis) are separate species that must be caught or bred independently. Breeding is the closest equivalent to progression — combining two Pals produces a specific offspring species, which can be planned using the breeding calculator.
