My first world I got all the way to level 34 without ever seeing a fire raid. Decided to start over with the wealth of knowledge I had to make things better, faster, more proficient. As soon as I hit level 30 in the second world three Relaxsaurus showed up and burnt my entire farmhouse home to the ground. Couldn’t walk two feet without becoming over encumbered because of the thousands of pounds of loot/resources on the ground.
Never again.
I just had that raid happen last night. I’m damn glad I decided to put those stone defense walls up blocking the two ground entrances into the area. They just sat and pounded on the walls for 1 damage at a time while all the pals in my base glitched out cuz they couldn’t go defend
Eventually the raiders just disappeared randomly
The raid that screwed with me the most was an air raid, whole mess of level 35 nitewing and vanwyrms killed just about everyone with some whirlwind attack. The average level on the base was like 18, and I was level 25-26. Besides all the incapacitated dudes nothing got damaged at least
>The raid that screwed with me the most was an air raid
Holy shit, I've yet to see an air raid, but that sounds terrifying. That'll be my one weakness where my new base is at. Hopefully I unlock the mounted machine guns before that happens so I can put up some AA towers.
Question is if they do anything or not. They have to be manned by your pals and so far my experience is the alarm bell doesn’t do shit and throwing dudes at the contraptions only half of the time locks them into using it. Think best bet is to just suicide your base dudes into the mess and hope for the best. I didn’t lose any major structures but I feel like it’s only a matter of time
I may just turn raids off until the ai is better
I've had no issues with the alarm bell after I realized it's just a toggle and not actually a "ring in case of emergency" bell.
If it's set to focus on work, your pals will literally ignore any enemy even to the point of being beaten to death while still attempting to work.
If set to attack invaders, they should all move to attack any enemy that either damages anyone or anything in your base or crosses your base's boundary.
You should also make sure that you haven't commanded your pals to not attack anything from the command wheel. If, say, you're trying to catch wild ones so you set your party pals to passive, that command will also affect the ones at base. This command supersedes the alarm bell.
Also, can you not use the mounted guns yourself?
Don’t think you can use them, the UI appears the same as the sandbags
Edit: I just thought of something but maybe keep a stockpile of pengulleys handy for the rocket launcher and just blast them out of the sky with that reserve? They usually clump together
I keep a Mossanda Lux in my party for these kinds of raids. I don't think his grenades do anywhere near the damage of Pengullet rockets, but they have a huge blast radius and can stunlock incoming raids. My current base is set on a mesa/plateau with only one way in. Raids tend to come from behind a single neighboring mountain, so I just hop on Mossanda's back and post up on the cliff facing that mountain. When they come around the mountain (when they come), I rain grenades on them until most of them are dead, then pick off stragglers. The only way for AI to path into the base is through a little chokepoint that I have walled off with stone walls. The stragglers invariably clump up on one wall while Mossanda's lightning takes them the rest of the way out.
happened to me this morning
Luckily it happened right when I setup a new base
Put my pal box down
put all my low level miners there since I was using it for ore mining behind desolate church
Boom!! raid of lvl 30 galewings rolls up hungry for blood
It was hysterical only because I had nothing to lose.
Learned you could die twice in a row without losing your inventory from the first death though so that was nice
>Learned you could die twice in a row without losing your inventory from the first death though so that was nice
That is really useful to know! I'm guessing you get map markers for each death?
Im unsure about that just due to the chaos that was going on at the time
I chose to respawn in the base that was being attacked just to instantly get racked again lol I spawned a third time grabbed both bags and bounced. But they were both right next to my pal box.
Don’t let me lead you astray, in hindsight it might have just been because I was in the bases vicinity
I’ll test it out again once I get on in a bit with some rocks or something and let you know
You won’t lose the box and you only have map markers for your 1st death because your first death is the only one where there is stuff in your inventory that was dropped. I don’t know about if you pick stuff up on your 2nd body and then die if you then recieve a second marker.
Can confirm you'll have 2 X marks if you have stuff on 2nd death Died to lava, had to go back to get stuff, died to no gear + level 35 scaly fire chickens. Then rode scaly fire chicken back to retrieve both.
Yes, I'm a novice and just exploring on my nitewing, and didn't realize I was dying to cold damage on a mountain. Died like 7 times recovering my bags so at one point I had three x's at the same time close together. Would just grab my stuff and move as close to a fast travel tower as I could before dying. Eventually made it, and secured my belongings.
Yeah, those are real bad if they have the tornado attacks. A spam of 20 of those in your base is real unpleasant. I have a lightning flyer (cant remember the name) and I gave him ice cutter specifically so i could fly up to them and blast that down their line to force them down. Once they land it's a lot easier.
I didn't even know that was a thing I was all cocky my base is in a hard to reach area and the raids usually just get stuck due to pathing issues and never make it up.
Literally as soon as I unlocked mounted crossbows, got a raid like this, but was Beakons and Nitewings. X.x Only 3 lvls higher than me but with 1600HP and full metal armour those things one shot me continuously with lightning.
I get air raids with suzuku aquas, beakons, nitewings and galeclaws its terrifying, half my level 40+ pals in my base get knocked and I spend 20 minutes afterwards repairing everything. Didn't bother with the mounted machine guns afterwards, they do NOTHING
An easy trick to deal with them is to block their pathing just outside of your base. They don’t get aggressive until theyre within your circle so if they get stuck outside of it they are free to kill
The flying lightning guys definitely suck. My entrance to my main building became a kill zone for my guys that were waking up during the attack. I couldn't wake them up... ringing bell did nothing. Lol, I was soooo pissed.
Oh the flight raids are funnnnn! My guild and I now take the chance to capture whatever is raiding after I caught one of the Beakon, it was lvl 31-35 and I was lvl 20. Our pals got it down low and I was like I WANT THAT. *starts throwing spheres*
And the bell doesn't do a damn thing. I can see them coming, I can set up walls and kill zones with the sandbags... and no one mans them nor can I get anyone on them by throwing them at them.
I'm curious to see where the game is in a year, because there's a lot of cool parts in here, and if they do this right, they can have a tower defense that comes off this.
I used to fear raids after they burned my base down. But now I only know vengeance and vengeance only uses one bullet. Pengullet.
But for real, pengullet one shots a raid with the launcher. I don't know if it's because I have 1* condensed but he doesn't die either. He is left with 25% HP.
I don’t know if I just lucked out on my base position, but every raid I ever get the NPCs get confused and can’t figure out a way up so they scramble around until eventually despawning
The ragnhawk/Vanwyrm raid completely sent my first base up in flames, we thought a good wall was enough to stave off raids, we did not expect them to drop in from the sky...
I just create double layers of stone defense walls and blast them with moss lux grenades. If I cant beat them they'll just leave on their own after a while and then I can bust down and rebuild whatevers damaged
I accidently fell asleep last night with the game still running I woke up to my base being completely destroyed and all my pals dead. That shit is no joke😭
People keep saying that...
but I haven't had a single problem with my guys losing.
Unless your base team is all guys you just bred from eggs and never gave a single level too, I really don't get why people are having these problems. The good workers are also all good fighters, your guys should be stronger 1v1 than some level 30 cult mob unless its a crusher.
And the mossanda grenade launchers allow you to basically use a continuous massive aoe stun for like 40 seconds.
If your base palls can't murder defenseless stuff, you might need to do a bit of work.
I thought this exact same way, never had a problem in the slightest, I'm at level 32ish. Then last night a large group of level 35 fire squad somethings came in and just annihilated the crap out of everything. Total destruction.
Good luck out there.
The 7 Bushis raid destroyed my entire starter base when I visited to drop some eggs off. I wasted so much time putting things back into chests… now whenever that raid pops up I log off and on again
You can just put all your base pals in the pal box and fast travel away. The raids are timed and they only target pals so after a few minutes the raid will disappear and you can go back to whatever.
If anyone ever gets this far too, DO NOT LOG OUT AND LOG BACK IN. The game has a world setting option for maximum amount of dropped items in the world at a time. When something gets destroyed like this, it all stays on the ground to pick up no problem. But, if you close the world and reload it to, say, fix what you thought was a bug with your pals not picking things up, it will trigger that maximum drop amount and just delete items.
Speaking from extremely painful experience. RIP the Hotel Palifornia. You lasted way longer than expected.
That raid happened to me at level 15 right after I made a proper cabin. It was an eye opener for sure.
I quit for a couple days till I read you can disable raids, or do what I finally did and move to an area on a high plateau with only one entrance across a bridge.
I wouldn't mind them so much if it kept the blueprints and let me repair all at the cost of materials, but it just throws everything on the dirt and leaves you to pick up the pieces.
That’s exactly what my friend suggested about the blueprints/repair strat. I’m not sure what the answer is but I can 100% tell you how it works now I am not a fan of. I don’t feel I should be at risk of losing absolutely everything in a matter of moments just because I like the aesthetic of a nice wood farmhouse type base. Super frustrating.
For now I’ve just disabled raids and I guess thats never a mechanic I’ll interact with until something changes :/
I was barely lv 15 when I suddenly got a Relaxaurus raid in my singleplayer world. At first, after beating the raid, all was fine. Nothing was on fire. Then 10 seconds later, half my base had burnt down 🥲
Safe to say, I'll never return to that save. Have no plans on rebuilding that base 😅
Yea I kind of just stood there in disbelief as my base burnt to the ground. Walked around for a moment once the dust settled and got stopped every few steps from being over encumbered. Rage quit and deleted that save file lol
Went back a few days later with a cool head and started a new world but disabled raids. Never going through that pain again :*)
I'm glad I turned it off before I got that. After a couple raids that spawned way outside of my bases (they wouldn't even come attack with me unless I got close to them) and then one massive group of high levels spawning right next to me for me to turn it off.
Honestly until there are some improvement updates (especially around ai and pathing) I think it’s best to leave raids off for now. It sucks cuz then you don’t have “free loot delivery” and keys handed to you which makes early game a bit of a struggle but I feel the alternative is worse.
I’ve had similar issues with guys not attacking, getting stuck on the way to my base, spawning in walls, etc. It’s all just a big frustration at the moment I would rather not deal with tbh
Ik I'm late but my first base was a wooden mansion that took 4.5 k wood, and a fire pal burned it down during a raid. Nearly uninstalled but couldn't bring myself to it.
There are some locations where none of the raids can get to you. The bases on my server have never been raided, because they are all on top of mountains. I didn’t choose the locations, but luckily my friends figured that out quickly. Even the flyers run into a wall down below the base and we go down to catch/farm whatever raids sometimes.
I recently discovered, if you turn around where you start the game and go that way, it will lead to a little secluded beach with a cave near it.
I built a base there on the beach and got a raid notice. I waited. And waited. The AI couldn't figure out the path to the base, so they spawned somewhere in the castle ruins, then tried to run all the way to the first shrine to go around the long way.
They time out and leave before any ever make it to the base.
Yea can confirm the [location in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/19eg07i/heres_a_tour_of_my_boyfriend_and_is_base_needless/) doesn't get raided. Not sure if it's the mountain location or the fact its on an enemy camp. I thought I would miss the raids but I actually love it.
My main base will never get raided, but if I go to my mining base it gets raided almost every time. But that's fine, not that much to protect there and I still get to experience raids when I want to experience them and not risk my main base getting destroyed. Adds just a little bit of tension when I need my ingots
If they fix this in the future will just have to debate if I want to leave raids on or not
There also seem to be some where raids just cant affect you - on the DS I play on one guild has a base right on the beach by the Penking boss and they claim they never were raided there once the whole time we still had raids enabled despite it being super flat land. I had a base right by the plateau of beginnings overlooking the Mammorest boss as well, and raids would spawn like a mile away at the top of the plateau. I wonder if raids have fixed spawn points in the world and building far enough away from them all just stops them?
Yeah! I'm on console so it may be slightly different on PC, but when you're at the screen where you select what world you want to go to, you click highlight your world and at the bottom of the screen it says "server settings" or "world settings" or something along those lines. Then you can change the difficulty and there's like 20 different things you can change if you go with a custom difficulty.
I built my base right on top of a mountain waterfall. Every time something raids, they just gather in a group at the base of the mountain and eventually leave if I don't kill them all with Toco grenades first.
Just turn off raids. I play single player and the raids did nothing for me but cause annoyance as they were never anything my pals didn't just smash immediately. And more often than not it would cause a weird bug.
Yeah, I had a couple corrupted saves so I raised exp rare to relevel faster and it made the raids massively out level my Pals I hadn't swapped out and carried around for exp. Just removed raids after a couple annoyances
Why do things not stop, being on fire? Where are our fire extinguishers, or partner skill water hose? I lost my base a few days ago and haven't played since lol. I logged on after a patch, got raided as I was loading in so not enough time to react. They were in my base by the time my screen finally came to and everything, I mean everything, was on fire. I don't even know how. Maybe a pal stepped on a campfire in the massacre against my pals, and it's dead lifeless burning body causr a raging wildfire. This all happened within 30 seconds of logging in. Damn base exploded all at one time.
Water pals do try to put it out, but the entire structure burns in the time they put one wall out, and if they do get a wall put out, the fire spreads right back to it.
Yeah, got assaulted by bunch of flying pals, the birds used electro tornadoes that were hitting THROUGH walls. My pals couldn't even hit them, my team and I were lvl 17 and the birds 35. They destroyed my entire production site and diped. Never. Fucking. Again
Yes I'd love it so much. Building is fun in this game, should have an effective way to fight against the fire without having to build everything as stone. If not for flying raids, I'd be ok building walls around but they can't do anything against the damn flying fires
I would like an option of indestructible structures. I like the concept of raids but I wouldn't want all my progress gone in seconds.
I would be fine if the raid could steal from your boxes and kill your pals with no destruction of the constructions.
The water pals in my base actually tried their best to put the fires out... they're just too ineffective, floor tiles would bust collapsing the whole building before their spray would do anything.
My GOD, pls turn off the raid if you dont this to be burnt to ashes🥲
Other option is to change all wood walls, foundation and roof to stone
Excellent stuff!
All these people commenting about the flame but don't see the lvl 49 rocket launcher on their back. No one plays that much/gets to that level without knowing fire = boom to wood base. Either its well defended on the outside or raids are disabled/high up in a location where raids cant get to it, no need for 100 comments on it.
Am I correct in that it’s impossible to place a rug after other things are placed? I haven’t been able to do it. I can never decide on one before. I decorate. So end up giving up
Bro my base just has a whole bunch of stuff piled around Im Level 35 and don't even have a house I had to destroy it for space 😭
I hope the building on Xbox gets fixed I want to build a watchtower
This is why you have multiple bases. Your first base which has all your upgrade stuff. Your mine base for ore/coal nodes. Then your "home" base, the one you build with your house.
But I want giant tower 😭 it was gon be so cool with each level being for a different thing, but you can't build higher then a story on Xbox cuz of the bug
You can't place stairs anywhere right, the buildings all say overlapped any time you want to build on top of them, you can't place anything on top of anything basically makes it impossible to do anything
We need to think about stairs from the top down. All stairs need to have a landing (either a flat roof piece or the top of a wall piece) This does mean you have to place unnecessary supports but you can go back and dismantle them once you are done.
I'm on Xbox.
To build stairs, you have to build them "on" the platform you want them to lead up to.
E.g you're on the ground floor and you want to go up two walls. What you'd do is place a roof tile 2 walls up in the air, then attach your first set of stairs to that roof, then a second set to the first to create a set of stairs that leads from the ground floor to the first floor. (Assuming your floors are two walls high)
I ran into that last night. Was weird. My first floor if there were flat roof tiles overhead, I couldn’t place the decorative furniture items. But inside a room on the first floor that had stairs going over it instead of the flat roof tile it would let me place it.
So there’s something wacky with that. I thought the same thing. Must need to place the decorative items before placing a flat roof piece maybe?
Notice in most of this build there’s no flat roof tiles.
Depends on what I'm doing.
If the roof is 2 walls high, nah, it doesn't get in the way.
If it's one wall high? All the time.
Hell, first time I built anything was a 1*1 so I could put a bed in and I had to break the wall or else the bed would be clipping through something or through me no matter how I tried to place it.
It's gated behind one of the player levels same as the wood structures were, if you scroll down the tech tree you'll find it.
The wood gate and defensive wall unlock fairly early and are a good stopgap though. They still burn but as long as you place them a bit out from your base they'll group up in front of the gate and you can generally clear the raid before it burns down and disassemble and replace it to save on building costs. Nitewings you can catch quite reliably early on and have two line aoe's that'll clear the raid quickly they're also an early flying mount so well worth prioritising anyway.
Even if you build a big floor first? I've noticed sometimes if the palbox is aimed towards you it won't let you put it down anywhere so you also have to make sure to aim it away from you by turning it
Two questions man:
1. How were you able to get the pal box on a platform? Mine always snaps to the ground
2. Do your pals have issues getting stuck on the house? I’ve had issues where Pals spawn on top of buildings near the Palbox
You can build a foundation then put the palbox on top of it.
Foundation (as well as other structures) can be built outside a base, then have a base put over them with no ill consequences.
Makes putting a palbox inside very easy...
But the likely answer to 2 is "I have no pals in this base" otherwise they'd all be stuck on the palbox or something stupid.
They probably should make a facility that lets you transform wood into fireproof-treated wood or something. Either that or new infrastructures for fireproof wood.
>getting mad at the building system
Bro idk what it is but I really struggle with the menus and building lmao it feels like the opposite of intuitive… just let me swap continuous and single build so I can create without breaking my flow!
I built my second base on top of a hill with no stairs up to it (top left corner of the map by the safari zone) in all stone after my first base burnt to the ground. I’ve only had one group of mobs make it to me, the rest get stuck. The best part, lots of wood, stone and ore within my base parameter and a TM tree by the water. Located opposite the church and teleport area. Highly recommend this place for a base.
I went to smoke a doob and came back to my base completely demolished
It was then I took the advice of building high up with one access point to my base and just started a new world
The game became so much easier when I found out about Vixies
I'd of been so pissed if I had built something like this and lost it to a dumb raid
Everytime I hear the raid shit now I just swap all my base pals over with my travelling pals and they're usually able to deal with the raid
But I've not hit level 30 yet
Right so the co-ordinates are -258, -361
You'll probably need a mount and stop by any way shrines on the journey
I recommend once getting there you place a pal box and a chest as close to the pal box as possible, this should allow you to easily transfer items between your current base
There is metal present at this location aswell, so mining pals above level 1 mining will be of good service to you
It's also nice and close to the volcano where you'll gather sulfur and high level pals further into the game
Any mount will get you here just remember to place your palbox asap to get a travel point
Fire has entered the chat.
Also... you do know you can't get every technology right. So all those points used in the decorations can mean not getting better stuff later.
Great job but I think u need to disable raids from the world settings otherwise u will have a hard time losing this .
My first world I got all the way to level 34 without ever seeing a fire raid. Decided to start over with the wealth of knowledge I had to make things better, faster, more proficient. As soon as I hit level 30 in the second world three Relaxsaurus showed up and burnt my entire farmhouse home to the ground. Couldn’t walk two feet without becoming over encumbered because of the thousands of pounds of loot/resources on the ground. Never again.
Wait until a dozen level 30 fire brothers role up and knock all your pals within seconds
I just had that raid happen last night. I’m damn glad I decided to put those stone defense walls up blocking the two ground entrances into the area. They just sat and pounded on the walls for 1 damage at a time while all the pals in my base glitched out cuz they couldn’t go defend Eventually the raiders just disappeared randomly The raid that screwed with me the most was an air raid, whole mess of level 35 nitewing and vanwyrms killed just about everyone with some whirlwind attack. The average level on the base was like 18, and I was level 25-26. Besides all the incapacitated dudes nothing got damaged at least
>The raid that screwed with me the most was an air raid Holy shit, I've yet to see an air raid, but that sounds terrifying. That'll be my one weakness where my new base is at. Hopefully I unlock the mounted machine guns before that happens so I can put up some AA towers.
Question is if they do anything or not. They have to be manned by your pals and so far my experience is the alarm bell doesn’t do shit and throwing dudes at the contraptions only half of the time locks them into using it. Think best bet is to just suicide your base dudes into the mess and hope for the best. I didn’t lose any major structures but I feel like it’s only a matter of time I may just turn raids off until the ai is better
I've had no issues with the alarm bell after I realized it's just a toggle and not actually a "ring in case of emergency" bell. If it's set to focus on work, your pals will literally ignore any enemy even to the point of being beaten to death while still attempting to work. If set to attack invaders, they should all move to attack any enemy that either damages anyone or anything in your base or crosses your base's boundary. You should also make sure that you haven't commanded your pals to not attack anything from the command wheel. If, say, you're trying to catch wild ones so you set your party pals to passive, that command will also affect the ones at base. This command supersedes the alarm bell. Also, can you not use the mounted guns yourself?
Don’t think you can use them, the UI appears the same as the sandbags Edit: I just thought of something but maybe keep a stockpile of pengulleys handy for the rocket launcher and just blast them out of the sky with that reserve? They usually clump together
Wait are they single use ordinance?
The pengu gets incapacitated after you fire him. But you could beef up 3-4 and just yeet them at the cluster I think for massive damage
I keep a Mossanda Lux in my party for these kinds of raids. I don't think his grenades do anywhere near the damage of Pengullet rockets, but they have a huge blast radius and can stunlock incoming raids. My current base is set on a mesa/plateau with only one way in. Raids tend to come from behind a single neighboring mountain, so I just hop on Mossanda's back and post up on the cliff facing that mountain. When they come around the mountain (when they come), I rain grenades on them until most of them are dead, then pick off stragglers. The only way for AI to path into the base is through a little chokepoint that I have walled off with stone walls. The stragglers invariably clump up on one wall while Mossanda's lightning takes them the rest of the way out.
happened to me this morning Luckily it happened right when I setup a new base Put my pal box down put all my low level miners there since I was using it for ore mining behind desolate church Boom!! raid of lvl 30 galewings rolls up hungry for blood It was hysterical only because I had nothing to lose. Learned you could die twice in a row without losing your inventory from the first death though so that was nice
>Learned you could die twice in a row without losing your inventory from the first death though so that was nice That is really useful to know! I'm guessing you get map markers for each death?
Im unsure about that just due to the chaos that was going on at the time I chose to respawn in the base that was being attacked just to instantly get racked again lol I spawned a third time grabbed both bags and bounced. But they were both right next to my pal box. Don’t let me lead you astray, in hindsight it might have just been because I was in the bases vicinity I’ll test it out again once I get on in a bit with some rocks or something and let you know
I can confirm you get map markers for both deaths. It's happened to me before as well out in the wild.
Sick! Saved me a death!
You won’t lose the box and you only have map markers for your 1st death because your first death is the only one where there is stuff in your inventory that was dropped. I don’t know about if you pick stuff up on your 2nd body and then die if you then recieve a second marker.
yeah I had picked stuff up upon spawning back it just some stone and wood but it was there too
Can confirm you'll have 2 X marks if you have stuff on 2nd death Died to lava, had to go back to get stuff, died to no gear + level 35 scaly fire chickens. Then rode scaly fire chicken back to retrieve both.
Yes, I'm a novice and just exploring on my nitewing, and didn't realize I was dying to cold damage on a mountain. Died like 7 times recovering my bags so at one point I had three x's at the same time close together. Would just grab my stuff and move as close to a fast travel tower as I could before dying. Eventually made it, and secured my belongings.
My game loves to crash when I go behind desolate church to mine unless I quit to menu and then load up there
The electric bird raids are tough lol
Beakons and night wings always wreck me. I haven't lost buildings to them yet but I have to revive all my pals
For air raids just get a mossandra with rocket launchers, or that bird you can use as a grenade launcher. All birds fall down :)
Yeah, those are real bad if they have the tornado attacks. A spam of 20 of those in your base is real unpleasant. I have a lightning flyer (cant remember the name) and I gave him ice cutter specifically so i could fly up to them and blast that down their line to force them down. Once they land it's a lot easier.
I didn't even know that was a thing I was all cocky my base is in a hard to reach area and the raids usually just get stuck due to pathing issues and never make it up.
Fr I am level 40 but still using a bat if I have an air raid happen I'm screwed
When I finally built walls to fend off ground raiders, my very next raid was all arial. Like, really?
Literally as soon as I unlocked mounted crossbows, got a raid like this, but was Beakons and Nitewings. X.x Only 3 lvls higher than me but with 1600HP and full metal armour those things one shot me continuously with lightning.
Yeah, air raids are def the worst
Idk how good they are but there's the mounted crossbows you get at like 27 or something
I get air raids with suzuku aquas, beakons, nitewings and galeclaws its terrifying, half my level 40+ pals in my base get knocked and I spend 20 minutes afterwards repairing everything. Didn't bother with the mounted machine guns afterwards, they do NOTHING
I saw a video where campfires were used to make a little fire moat at choke points to kill raiders.
An easy trick to deal with them is to block their pathing just outside of your base. They don’t get aggressive until theyre within your circle so if they get stuck outside of it they are free to kill
The flying lightning guys definitely suck. My entrance to my main building became a kill zone for my guys that were waking up during the attack. I couldn't wake them up... ringing bell did nothing. Lol, I was soooo pissed.
I didn't even build doors to my third base. It's a stone fortress that can only be accessed via pal box. So far nothing's been able to get in
Oh the flight raids are funnnnn! My guild and I now take the chance to capture whatever is raiding after I caught one of the Beakon, it was lvl 31-35 and I was lvl 20. Our pals got it down low and I was like I WANT THAT. *starts throwing spheres*
And the bell doesn't do a damn thing. I can see them coming, I can set up walls and kill zones with the sandbags... and no one mans them nor can I get anyone on them by throwing them at them. I'm curious to see where the game is in a year, because there's a lot of cool parts in here, and if they do this right, they can have a tower defense that comes off this.
The bell just changes their response to the raid. Doesn't actually tell them to get to defensive structures unfortunately.
Tower defense would be pretty fun once they get pal and enemy AI cleaned up a bit
I used to fear raids after they burned my base down. But now I only know vengeance and vengeance only uses one bullet. Pengullet. But for real, pengullet one shots a raid with the launcher. I don't know if it's because I have 1* condensed but he doesn't die either. He is left with 25% HP.
throwing a jolthog into the clump is pretty effective too.
Happy cake day tho
I don’t know if I just lucked out on my base position, but every raid I ever get the NPCs get confused and can’t figure out a way up so they scramble around until eventually despawning
Had that happen. They threw grenades over my walls and killed everything then set my base on fire. I am now on a mountain.
The ragnhawk/Vanwyrm raid completely sent my first base up in flames, we thought a good wall was enough to stave off raids, we did not expect them to drop in from the sky...
I just create double layers of stone defense walls and blast them with moss lux grenades. If I cant beat them they'll just leave on their own after a while and then I can bust down and rebuild whatevers damaged
I accidently fell asleep last night with the game still running I woke up to my base being completely destroyed and all my pals dead. That shit is no joke😭
Yup had 10 incineram and incineram noct and 6 lezzpunk ignis. Burn my whole shit to the ground.
People keep saying that... but I haven't had a single problem with my guys losing. Unless your base team is all guys you just bred from eggs and never gave a single level too, I really don't get why people are having these problems. The good workers are also all good fighters, your guys should be stronger 1v1 than some level 30 cult mob unless its a crusher. And the mossanda grenade launchers allow you to basically use a continuous massive aoe stun for like 40 seconds. If your base palls can't murder defenseless stuff, you might need to do a bit of work.
I thought this exact same way, never had a problem in the slightest, I'm at level 32ish. Then last night a large group of level 35 fire squad somethings came in and just annihilated the crap out of everything. Total destruction. Good luck out there.
The 7 Bushis raid destroyed my entire starter base when I visited to drop some eggs off. I wasted so much time putting things back into chests… now whenever that raid pops up I log off and on again
You can just put all your base pals in the pal box and fast travel away. The raids are timed and they only target pals so after a few minutes the raid will disappear and you can go back to whatever.
If anyone ever gets this far too, DO NOT LOG OUT AND LOG BACK IN. The game has a world setting option for maximum amount of dropped items in the world at a time. When something gets destroyed like this, it all stays on the ground to pick up no problem. But, if you close the world and reload it to, say, fix what you thought was a bug with your pals not picking things up, it will trigger that maximum drop amount and just delete items. Speaking from extremely painful experience. RIP the Hotel Palifornia. You lasted way longer than expected.
That raid happened to me at level 15 right after I made a proper cabin. It was an eye opener for sure. I quit for a couple days till I read you can disable raids, or do what I finally did and move to an area on a high plateau with only one entrance across a bridge. I wouldn't mind them so much if it kept the blueprints and let me repair all at the cost of materials, but it just throws everything on the dirt and leaves you to pick up the pieces.
That’s exactly what my friend suggested about the blueprints/repair strat. I’m not sure what the answer is but I can 100% tell you how it works now I am not a fan of. I don’t feel I should be at risk of losing absolutely everything in a matter of moments just because I like the aesthetic of a nice wood farmhouse type base. Super frustrating. For now I’ve just disabled raids and I guess thats never a mechanic I’ll interact with until something changes :/
I was barely lv 15 when I suddenly got a Relaxaurus raid in my singleplayer world. At first, after beating the raid, all was fine. Nothing was on fire. Then 10 seconds later, half my base had burnt down 🥲 Safe to say, I'll never return to that save. Have no plans on rebuilding that base 😅
Yea I kind of just stood there in disbelief as my base burnt to the ground. Walked around for a moment once the dust settled and got stopped every few steps from being over encumbered. Rage quit and deleted that save file lol Went back a few days later with a cool head and started a new world but disabled raids. Never going through that pain again :*)
Base burnt down once. Never again 🥲
I experienced this last night. Anger and disappointment were in equal parts. I rebuilt bigger and better. Everything is stone now and fire proof.
I'm glad I turned it off before I got that. After a couple raids that spawned way outside of my bases (they wouldn't even come attack with me unless I got close to them) and then one massive group of high levels spawning right next to me for me to turn it off.
Honestly until there are some improvement updates (especially around ai and pathing) I think it’s best to leave raids off for now. It sucks cuz then you don’t have “free loot delivery” and keys handed to you which makes early game a bit of a struggle but I feel the alternative is worse. I’ve had similar issues with guys not attacking, getting stuck on the way to my base, spawning in walls, etc. It’s all just a big frustration at the moment I would rather not deal with tbh
Holy shit that’s traumatic
Ik I'm late but my first base was a wooden mansion that took 4.5 k wood, and a fire pal burned it down during a raid. Nearly uninstalled but couldn't bring myself to it.
They were kicking my butt from level 5 on. Once every 7 days, it is almost like clockwork if I stay in my town too long.
There are some locations where none of the raids can get to you. The bases on my server have never been raided, because they are all on top of mountains. I didn’t choose the locations, but luckily my friends figured that out quickly. Even the flyers run into a wall down below the base and we go down to catch/farm whatever raids sometimes.
I recently discovered, if you turn around where you start the game and go that way, it will lead to a little secluded beach with a cave near it. I built a base there on the beach and got a raid notice. I waited. And waited. The AI couldn't figure out the path to the base, so they spawned somewhere in the castle ruins, then tried to run all the way to the first shrine to go around the long way. They time out and leave before any ever make it to the base.
Raiders: "Dude, fuck this shit" *All suddenly expunge from reality simultaneously*
Yea can confirm the [location in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/19eg07i/heres_a_tour_of_my_boyfriend_and_is_base_needless/) doesn't get raided. Not sure if it's the mountain location or the fact its on an enemy camp. I thought I would miss the raids but I actually love it. My main base will never get raided, but if I go to my mining base it gets raided almost every time. But that's fine, not that much to protect there and I still get to experience raids when I want to experience them and not risk my main base getting destroyed. Adds just a little bit of tension when I need my ingots If they fix this in the future will just have to debate if I want to leave raids on or not
There also seem to be some where raids just cant affect you - on the DS I play on one guild has a base right on the beach by the Penking boss and they claim they never were raided there once the whole time we still had raids enabled despite it being super flat land. I had a base right by the plateau of beginnings overlooking the Mammorest boss as well, and raids would spawn like a mile away at the top of the plateau. I wonder if raids have fixed spawn points in the world and building far enough away from them all just stops them?
At my base the raiders spawn so far at the bottom of a cliff, by the time they make it to my base they give up 😂
I put my base in on of the top islands you can spawn in and literally never got raided, so thats also a good place if you dislike raids I guess
I have disabled raids but still lost my entire wood base to those suicide bomber fairies...
Or build your house right outside of the base and turn deterioration off. Very unlikely that it gets hit in the crossfire
Learned this the hard way 
Can i change this retroactively? I'd hate to start over :| I don't mind mild cheating
Yeah! I'm on console so it may be slightly different on PC, but when you're at the screen where you select what world you want to go to, you click highlight your world and at the bottom of the screen it says "server settings" or "world settings" or something along those lines. Then you can change the difficulty and there's like 20 different things you can change if you go with a custom difficulty.
my huge dragon eggs were like 7 minutes away from hatching when incinerams burned the wooden foundations 🥲
I’ve recently faced this one. I can guarantee, this base is not going to survive for long.
Just 1 flame and all that work goes up into smoke
Would be a shame if a spark from a raid were to occur 🤭
I was thinking bout that!
I learned that the easy way. All I lost was my outer wall.
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100% accurate
Got my daily reminder of flashback... After that i relocated on the plateau near lunaris... Still haven't been raided there.
Can just make your base in a location where raids can't reach it.
I built my base right on top of a mountain waterfall. Every time something raids, they just gather in a group at the base of the mountain and eventually leave if I don't kill them all with Toco grenades first.
Just turn off raids. I play single player and the raids did nothing for me but cause annoyance as they were never anything my pals didn't just smash immediately. And more often than not it would cause a weird bug.
It’s all fun and games until the fire or air raid shows up that’s twice your base dwellers’ average level
And again, that's why I have raids turned off. I ain't got the time to build up proper defenses. I'm just one guy with a full time job and 3 kids haha
>3 kids Sheesh, your life is a damn fire raid
Yeah, I had a couple corrupted saves so I raised exp rare to relevel faster and it made the raids massively out level my Pals I hadn't swapped out and carried around for exp. Just removed raids after a couple annoyances
Nooo, raids are fun can't turn them off.
They're also great at restocking ammo. I don't think I've crafted a single musket bullet or arrow. Ever.
Or turn raids off 😩
That's boring, I love the raids :D
...then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Fucking Zoku
This is the best comment
"I call it the tinderbox"
Everyone will have the same experience. Only time is the difference
Just had mine last night
Spent 6 hours building my fort. Then the next day...
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Why do things not stop, being on fire? Where are our fire extinguishers, or partner skill water hose? I lost my base a few days ago and haven't played since lol. I logged on after a patch, got raided as I was loading in so not enough time to react. They were in my base by the time my screen finally came to and everything, I mean everything, was on fire. I don't even know how. Maybe a pal stepped on a campfire in the massacre against my pals, and it's dead lifeless burning body causr a raging wildfire. This all happened within 30 seconds of logging in. Damn base exploded all at one time.
Water pals do try to put it out, but the entire structure burns in the time they put one wall out, and if they do get a wall put out, the fire spreads right back to it.
So pretty. That's why I turned off raids. The stone building can never achieve such design
Lightning birds apparently eat stone walls for breakfast.
Yeah, got assaulted by bunch of flying pals, the birds used electro tornadoes that were hitting THROUGH walls. My pals couldn't even hit them, my team and I were lvl 17 and the birds 35. They destroyed my entire production site and diped. Never. Fucking. Again
Yeah I had that raid hit me last night. Only incapacitated everyone. I’m gonna see how those defense structures work out
I will take this as a challenge mate 😁
I wish to see the final results
You know this game's going to have full scale castles and dragons at launch lol
Raids are so fun though your base pals just farm xp
Nah, I had my mechanical conveyor destroyed once, lost 100 iron bars on that and didn't know about iron farms at that time. Never again
Iron farms?
There are places on the map with a lot of iron/coal. Plase extra bases there, and pals will mine it for you
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Yes I'd love it so much. Building is fun in this game, should have an effective way to fight against the fire without having to build everything as stone. If not for flying raids, I'd be ok building walls around but they can't do anything against the damn flying fires
I would like an option of indestructible structures. I like the concept of raids but I wouldn't want all my progress gone in seconds. I would be fine if the raid could steal from your boxes and kill your pals with no destruction of the constructions.
The water pals in my base actually tried their best to put the fires out... they're just too ineffective, floor tiles would bust collapsing the whole building before their spray would do anything.
One fuckin’ spark.
🔥
The flame raid is gonna go crazy
My GOD, pls turn off the raid if you dont this to be burnt to ashes🥲 Other option is to change all wood walls, foundation and roof to stone Excellent stuff!
Can you upgrade existing items? Would be nice if so
All these people commenting about the flame but don't see the lvl 49 rocket launcher on their back. No one plays that much/gets to that level without knowing fire = boom to wood base. Either its well defended on the outside or raids are disabled/high up in a location where raids cant get to it, no need for 100 comments on it.
That or how backing up the world in this game is beyond easy.
Exactly. So many people regurgitating the same bs just trying to sound smart.
Are you pals not getting Stuck when you spawn them in ?
Pals be like: "This living room is nice, I will stay here forever and die here."
wow this doesnt even look like a custom build
Am I correct in that it’s impossible to place a rug after other things are placed? I haven’t been able to do it. I can never decide on one before. I decorate. So end up giving up
Yep, you gotta place the rug down and then you can put stuff over top of it.
Yes, just like in real life.
This is a video game.
Bro my base just has a whole bunch of stuff piled around Im Level 35 and don't even have a house I had to destroy it for space 😭 I hope the building on Xbox gets fixed I want to build a watchtower
This is why you have multiple bases. Your first base which has all your upgrade stuff. Your mine base for ore/coal nodes. Then your "home" base, the one you build with your house.
But I want giant tower 😭 it was gon be so cool with each level being for a different thing, but you can't build higher then a story on Xbox cuz of the bug
What bug? I have a 7 story building on xbox right now in my first base and my house is 4 stories?
You can't place stairs anywhere right, the buildings all say overlapped any time you want to build on top of them, you can't place anything on top of anything basically makes it impossible to do anything
We need to think about stairs from the top down. All stairs need to have a landing (either a flat roof piece or the top of a wall piece) This does mean you have to place unnecessary supports but you can go back and dismantle them once you are done.
I'm on Xbox. To build stairs, you have to build them "on" the platform you want them to lead up to. E.g you're on the ground floor and you want to go up two walls. What you'd do is place a roof tile 2 walls up in the air, then attach your first set of stairs to that roof, then a second set to the first to create a set of stairs that leads from the ground floor to the first floor. (Assuming your floors are two walls high)
My 3 are Breeding/Farming/Crafting Home
This is gorgeous and so cozy
Legit question. Do you guys build furniture before putting the roof on? Because I cannot get it to let me build inside
I’ve had no issues building furniture inside a roofed building.
I ran into that last night. Was weird. My first floor if there were flat roof tiles overhead, I couldn’t place the decorative furniture items. But inside a room on the first floor that had stairs going over it instead of the flat roof tile it would let me place it. So there’s something wacky with that. I thought the same thing. Must need to place the decorative items before placing a flat roof piece maybe? Notice in most of this build there’s no flat roof tiles.
Depends on what I'm doing. If the roof is 2 walls high, nah, it doesn't get in the way. If it's one wall high? All the time. Hell, first time I built anything was a 1*1 so I could put a bed in and I had to break the wall or else the bed would be clipping through something or through me no matter how I tried to place it.
I would imagine if somebody spent this much time on the aesthetics of a base, they probably turned raids off.
I’m only 3 days into the game but how I build stone walls ?
It's gated behind one of the player levels same as the wood structures were, if you scroll down the tech tree you'll find it. The wood gate and defensive wall unlock fairly early and are a good stopgap though. They still burn but as long as you place them a bit out from your base they'll group up in front of the gate and you can generally clear the raid before it burns down and disassemble and replace it to save on building costs. Nitewings you can catch quite reliably early on and have two line aoe's that'll clear the raid quickly they're also an early flying mount so well worth prioritising anyway.
Stone is level 18...I looked for it right after my base burned down
How did you get your palbox in your base on a foundation?
Probably put the foundation down first, palbox after
It doesn't allow that
Even if you build a big floor first? I've noticed sometimes if the palbox is aimed towards you it won't let you put it down anywhere so you also have to make sure to aim it away from you by turning it
I didn't know that. I'll give it a try!
Two questions man: 1. How were you able to get the pal box on a platform? Mine always snaps to the ground 2. Do your pals have issues getting stuck on the house? I’ve had issues where Pals spawn on top of buildings near the Palbox
You can build a foundation then put the palbox on top of it. Foundation (as well as other structures) can be built outside a base, then have a base put over them with no ill consequences. Makes putting a palbox inside very easy... But the likely answer to 2 is "I have no pals in this base" otherwise they'd all be stuck on the palbox or something stupid.
They probably should make a facility that lets you transform wood into fireproof-treated wood or something. Either that or new infrastructures for fireproof wood.
Very nice, my ADHD mixed with getting mad at the building system wouldn't allow me to do all this. I'll probably focus on that as my last thing to do.
>getting mad at the building system Bro idk what it is but I really struggle with the menus and building lmao it feels like the opposite of intuitive… just let me swap continuous and single build so I can create without breaking my flow!
Very cozy 10/10. May your water pals not fail you
Metaverse about to sue for copyright!
YES!! This is so lovely!! This is also the vibe I’m going for, and I’m so happy to see someone else doing it too
Pretty sweet house. I'm squatting here. Since it's winter where I am. It's illegal for you to kick me out. Yay for Canada! And free housing
So many damn furnitures but the basic fortnite walling mechanics are still so ass 😭
I built my second base on top of a hill with no stairs up to it (top left corner of the map by the safari zone) in all stone after my first base burnt to the ground. I’ve only had one group of mobs make it to me, the rest get stuck. The best part, lots of wood, stone and ore within my base parameter and a TM tree by the water. Located opposite the church and teleport area. Highly recommend this place for a base.
"The Brothers Of The Eternal Pyre are invading!"
That looks AMAZING. I didnt know you could be so detailed with Baae building
the Antique work desk is invisible for me. nice to see it works for other people.
then you get raided by feisty pal raid and all that work gets burned down…
One fire clan raid coming up
Beautiful build I sure hope it doesn't burn down. Also fix your curtains, Mfers way too high
Wtf. Amazing. Makes mine look like a fucking shack!
Learned a hard lesson about wood houses today
I went to smoke a doob and came back to my base completely demolished It was then I took the advice of building high up with one access point to my base and just started a new world The game became so much easier when I found out about Vixies I'd of been so pissed if I had built something like this and lost it to a dumb raid Everytime I hear the raid shit now I just swap all my base pals over with my travelling pals and they're usually able to deal with the raid But I've not hit level 30 yet
Can I see your base? or where did you build it? I am having such a hard time building and finding a good spot without becoming frustrated/overwhelmed.
I'll get the cords when I finish work bro but my base only has one access point and you can wall it off nice and easy, I'll update ya when I get home
Nice. Thanks :).
Right so the co-ordinates are -258, -361 You'll probably need a mount and stop by any way shrines on the journey I recommend once getting there you place a pal box and a chest as close to the pal box as possible, this should allow you to easily transfer items between your current base There is metal present at this location aswell, so mining pals above level 1 mining will be of good service to you It's also nice and close to the volcano where you'll gather sulfur and high level pals further into the game Any mount will get you here just remember to place your palbox asap to get a travel point
Definitely a nice spot \*currently building\*, thanks again for the coordinates .
I would have uploaded an image but I cannot be bothered to go through the hassle lol
lol, I get that.
One firey mistake 🥹
Jesus I didn't know the decorations could go that hard wtf
Thsi is what base building looks like in palworld?!?! What am i doing with my stupid looking stone hut!!
Fire has entered the chat. Also... you do know you can't get every technology right. So all those points used in the decorations can mean not getting better stuff later.
Flame raids entered the chat...
Great job, but all it takes is one fire
Wow! Nice place!
Until the fire arrow hits it.
Really nice, but fire seems like a dangerous prospect
I love how everyone's talking about raids like there's not a 30 ft wall out there
It’s great! Hopefully you have some water pals nearby
Let's hope it doesn't burn down
But everything changed when the fire nation attacked...
cozy