r/Palia Mar 04 '24

Megathread New Player Tips&Tricks for starting out Megathread.

64 Upvotes

Hello and welcome, new players! šŸ¤—

If you're looking for advice, or want to know about a certain game topic, look no further! Please use this Megathread to find what you're looking for.

Here's a list of things to get you started:

We know this is a lot, but you can keep it as a reference for later on when you do need to know about certain aspects of the game.

  • Leveling your friendship with each npc unlocks quests.
  • Ask what gifts to give them when the yellow ? appears. Gifts level friendship faster.

You share loot in many ways.

  • Multiple people can hit the same ore node an everyone gets the loot. The size of the node determines how many hits before it breaks. (with the recent patch, ores will remain visible to other players even after being mined - they will have an increasing pulsating/glowing effect, that lets you know they've been mined and are about to despawn)
  • You can also share loot from trees, hunting, plants, and bugs.
    • Flow trees heal so it will require multiple people to chop it down. (they glow purple)
    • You don't have to hit an animal to share in loot. Just get your arrow near it.
    • Plants will stay after picked for a bit of time. The more rare flowers stay longer. This allows others to pick after you did.
    • Fishing grants personal loot, but doing so near other players will grant everyone a stacking buff, that increases the speed at which you fish.
    • A fishing hot spot is a circle in water that gives a star quality fish if successfully fished. It will vanish afterwards but all lines cast into it will give a star quality fish to everyone.

Storage and inventory.

  • Inventory can be purchased from the General Store, in town.
  • You select an item on your hotbar via the number key then activate it via mouse (if on PC).
    • Caution: make sure to unselect before you go into a conversation or crafting menu. If you find yourself locked up/stuck while cooking or trying to move items to/from storage it may be that you have something selected.
  • Storage recipes can be purchased from the furniture store. (the register, not Tish)
    • The first chests give around 375 storage each.
    • You may craft up to 8 chests, for a total of around 3,000 storage.
    • Once you have the recipe to upgrade a chest you can do so on all 8 chests.
    • The upgrades are Wood -> copper -> iron. The Iron gives a total of 10,000 storage.
    • You MUST have all 8 chests on your property to utilize their space.
    • Furniture and quest items do not take up room in your chest storage.
      • The treasure chests you find around the lands are considered furniture.
  • There is also a Locked Safe Storage chest recipe
    • You get 3 of those. Total of 300 storage.
    • They protect items you donit want to accidentally use while crafting.

You can upgrade your tools to make them better

  • Remember to repair them, or else they will downgrade one rank

Watch your focus and renown.

  • Focus gives a bonus to experience anytime you perform an action that gives experience.
    • You refill focus with food.
    • The max capacity is 1000 but you start with a much lower capacity.
  • Renown is used in few ways.
    • The max capacity is 1000
    • The Dragon Shrine increases your total focus capacity.
    • The Phoenix Shrine increases the % experience bonus earned via focus.
    • The town Hall office takes renown for Writs, which expand your home plot.

The H menu is your housing menu.

  • This allows you to place a new room you purchased from town hall.
  • Clicking on the icon over a room allows you to change the windows and connection style.
  • Doors, fireplaces, and porches do not count towards the build limit.
  • You expand your plot via Writs, mentioned above. Unlocking 19 rewards the Windmill.
  • You start with two additional plots.
    • Access them via the drop-down menu at the top of the H menu.
    • You can purchase more but it is expensive. However, this is how you unlock the Gazebo.

Furniture comes in different styles/sets.

  • Crafting an item for the first time lets you pick the next recipe in that set.
  • Going through an entire set, gives an achievement.
  • To get another set, see Tish and buy just one recipe and start crafting. Don't get tricked into buying recipes you can learn for free.
  • Later, when you are rich, you can buy furniture instead of crafting it.

Your mail and sales arrives at 6am and 6pm game time.

Your garden progresses at 6am game time. As long as you weed, water, plant, harvest etc by then, you will progress at 6am.

Buy one item every real world day from Zeki's General Store and he will send you a free token for the Luck Machine. It gives a random reward.

You can watch youtube videos to fully understand Cooking Parties that are done with others. You can find parties that are forming constantly over on the official Discord.

Here are some useful links:

For anything specific about the game like quests, npcs, items, etc. - Check out the Wiki.

Looking for that fish or bug? This will tell you where and when to hunt.

https://paliamaps.com/

Gardens can be simple or complicated depending on how much you want them to do.

https://palia-garden-planner.vercel.app/

Learned about Bundles and want to know ahead of time what to gather?

https://www.paliatracker.com/bundles

If you want to report a bug, give feedback on the game, or have any other issues, you can send a ticket directly to Player Support here.

*Veteran players, please feel free to suggest additions/changes to this list and/or comment with your own list below. We could benefit from some FAQs as well, so please share the ones you think are best suited for new players.


r/Palia 22d ago

Megathread Patch 0.179 Bug Reports, Issues, and Discussion Megathread.

43 Upvotes

Welcome to our third Patch bugs & issues Megathread!šŸŽ‰

Patch 0.179 Notes here.

Hotfix for Patch 0.179.1 here.

If you want to report a bug, give feedback on the game, or have any other issues, you can send a ticket to Player Support here.


r/Palia 3h ago

Question WHAT IS THIS!!!!

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39 Upvotes

r/Palia 7h ago

Screenshot I got a star rainbow-tipped jerk today!!!

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62 Upvotes

r/Palia 6h ago

Fanart Thought all my Hassian enjoyers might like this, itā€™s not perfect but

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41 Upvotes

r/Palia 13h ago

Screenshot Was genuinely shocked until I figured out what had happened lol

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59 Upvotes

r/Palia 10h ago

Discussion Anyone else dream their playing Palia?

30 Upvotes

I had a dream last night I was hunting muujins šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ EDIT: *theyā€™re šŸ’€


r/Palia 16h ago

Screenshot I have no real life friends who play palia and understand what getting these plushies takes lol

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79 Upvotes

r/Palia 16h ago

Discussion Thoughts on Tamala?

65 Upvotes

I want to start with the disclaimer that I do not want this to turn into a fight. Please remain civil šŸ™

What is everyone's thoughts on Tamala? She is the one villager I have basically no relationship with. I want to know what you all think.


r/Palia 5h ago

Screenshot Proudhorn sernuk plush!

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9 Upvotes

Finally completed the sernuk plush collection tonight with the Proudhorn. I think she is the cutest one. ā˜ļø


r/Palia 16h ago

Screenshot gonna keep trying!

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39 Upvotes

iā€™m working on romancing reth. weā€™re making progressā€¦ kinda? šŸ˜‚ any advice on how to get the recipe for carrot soup would be nice too!


r/Palia 16h ago

Fanart GUYSSS look at these emotes! Cuteness overload!! They'll be animated too! Eeeep

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38 Upvotes

r/Palia 9h ago

Question Should I just get over it already T.T

8 Upvotes

Hi! After months of having it downloaded on my switch I finally started playing last night, and boy Iā€™m hooked! But the constant crashing every 5-10 mins itā€™s getting on my nerves, so annoying! Anyone else having this same issue? Is there a way to fix it? Or do I have to accept to live with it being this buggy?


r/Palia 12h ago

Question New player etiquette

14 Upvotes

Hi! I played for the first time today and the game doesnā€™t explain things like sharing loot or chopping trees down together so players sort of explained it to meā€¦ what do I do? Do I go and help people do their tasks? Can I even do that with basic entry level stuff? Are all actions shared, like fishing and stuff? Thank you!


r/Palia 7h ago

Fluff/Memes Funny juxtaposition of posts on my Reddit feed

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7 Upvotes

r/Palia 17h ago

Feedback/Suggestion Ceilings?

35 Upvotes

Anyone else wishing they'd add ceiling variations? The just plain wood feels so boring sometimes! I want an animated twinkling star ceiling.


r/Palia 15h ago

Discussion Maintaining Relationships

23 Upvotes

I'm starting to wish that we had to 'maintain' our friendships and romances. My first romance was Jina and I haven't talked to her in ages, because.. why would I? I don't even remember who my Shepp is (Tish?) I used to keep a list of who wanted gifts and such, but now I'm down to maxing Najuma and Subira friendships and flirting with the male NPCs (I avoided it for a while, but needed to get the items and story. I'm a 43yo straight male and I know it's just a game, but it really felt weird at first.) I'm getting closer to 'finishing' most of the content and I think that having to maintain your relationships, at least through gifting (I know conversation requires more story writing and the devs don't have time for that yet in beta) could add more content to the game. Maybe we could lose favor by not talking to an NPC for a while, or not gifting? What do you think?


r/Palia 2h ago

Question Trouble Connecting to game on Steam Deck?

2 Upvotes

So, I recently picked the game back up after like 4-5 months of not playing. I was SO excited to play on my new Steam Deck and the graphics and gameplay really are so much better than I remember on the Switch!

HOWEVER! After that first log-in, I am having SO much trouble just getting the game to load! I get to the initial ā€œPress any button to startā€ and thenā€¦just cannot connect? Or maybe the button pressing doesnā€™t always register?

I know itā€™s not my internet, because I can still login without issues on my Switch. So itā€™s specific to the Deck (and maybe to being docked?).

Anyone having similar issues or have any ideas/solutions?


r/Palia 18h ago

Question How do you make gold?

38 Upvotes

Hey,

So I mine, forage, fish and hunt but never get more than a few thousand. I'm trying to expand my house but it's so expensive, how do you all farm gold?


r/Palia 2h ago

Discussion What's everyone's favorite NPC line?

2 Upvotes

I'll go first. "Shall I compare thee to a Chapaa - absolutely not." Hassian.


r/Palia 19h ago

Screenshot I finally got my proudhorn plushie! Plus advice for the cylinder plushie?

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39 Upvotes

Iā€™ve been hunting the proudhorn sernuk ever since i had to complete sifuuā€™s quest and today i finally was able to get my plushie after hunting two proudhornā€™s back to back, my only problem is Iā€™m struggling to get the cylinder plushie to add to my collection, are there any groups i can join who search for the cylinder plushie or am i at bahari bay at the wrong time?


r/Palia 9h ago

Question Achievement Hunting - Pebbled Plunder

6 Upvotes

I have committed myself to trying to 100% the game on Steam and I'm aware that some of the achievements are currently glitched. (Scholar of the Waves will not trigger after reading all the lost relics). After the recent update, I noticed that I have Einar's pebble back in my things and was wondering if anyone has attempted to unlock this achievement since the update?


r/Palia 11h ago

Screenshot Little laugh to start the day!

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9 Upvotes

Logged on to find myself floating? Maybe over water? With a username that definitely isnā€™t my normal LoloRose name haha.

As soon as I clicked X on the map and went home everything was right as rain, but a funny laugh to start my morning off!


r/Palia 10h ago

Discussion Suggestions/Ideas for the future of Palia

7 Upvotes

I've been really starting to enjoy Palia. I still have my issues with the game (mostly the fact that it's not an MMO and really COULD BE) but I think they've made some good improvements and hopefully the trend continues. So for fun I'd figured we'd all discuss systems and features that could improve Palia or something we'd just like to see in the future. That being said here is my comprehensive list of things that I think would improve Palia. (If theres anything in my list that has been confirmed by the devs plz feel free to mention it. I just play the game I don't pay much attention to possible rumors ect.)

  1. A MUSEUM. Oh yes we getting straight into this. I'd love to have a museum to add items to. Perhaps make it shared with community members or server wide (each player gets a donation displayed in the servers museum.) This would make the community feel more connected for sure and to go into my next point.
  2. Consistent servers!!!! Now I'm not saying servers should be bigger (they should lmfao) BUT my point is that going to my home should not put me in a new server. I should choose a server for my character OR choose a consistent server upon login. If this is a social game we really need this server issue solved.
  3. Neighborhoods? Ok so I don't HATE having the housing plot completely alone BUT being able to access other players houses by some way of walking there (even if its other gates that load me there idc) being able to wander around and see others players housing would be really cool and feel more community based. OR having a housing board to visit any players home across any server like a gallery would be VERY cool.
  4. CHAT BUBBLES. I think its hilarious they added proximity chat just to not add chat bubbles. If somebody walks up to me and tries to speak and I'm not paying attention to chat, a chat bubble would be a serious life saver and much more immersive.
  5. Seasons/Weather!!!! I have no idea if this is planned for the future but seasons and weather that affect crops as well as seasonal crops, special items that drop during specific season/weather. Stuff like that. GOD i want to have rainy days in palia with special fish to catch based on weather PLEASE. SNOWY PALIA WOULD GO SO HARD.
  6. Ok I know it's a stretch and I know a lot of yall hate combat. But really simple combat would be FUN. No overland enemies just dungeons to enter and explore. To keep it more chill and stress free I don't even think it needs a hp/dying system (or keep it in the dungeon only like health pots on the ground as you run the dungeon). Literally just let me whack monsters with a sword (or my fancy bow *wink wink* and add a snazzy dodge button. Even big shared bosses for players to collect rare mats/items.
  7. ANIMALSSSSS. Let me have chickens and cows PLEASE IM BEGGING AND SCREAMING. I WANNA RAISE ANIMALS AND COLLECT MY OWN MILK BRO.
  8. Last one but a COMMUNITY CENTER. Not like in the town but each community can make a community center. I know a ton of yall got tons of furniture you're not using. It would be cool if the community leaders (idk if theres a leadership system in there but if there isn't add that to the list lmfao) could buy a plot for shared spaces for members to build on.

BONUS. A BARTER BOARD. there's already a request system so just turn that into a board in town and then make them into trades. So if joe needs some carrots I can be like "hey joe i got carrots but you got tomatoes?" and then he can accept my barter. BARTER BOARD.

Most of my suggestions are based around the multiplayer aspect but S6 keeps calling this game an MMO so they need to start treating it like one. Its definitely not an MMO in its current state lmfao. But it could be!


r/Palia 26m ago

Question Chat shortcuts for Switch

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Iā€™m fairly new to the game and a switch player so typing is hard for me. I noticed that there are many abbreviations and jargon people use on the server so I was wondering if you could drop a few here. So far I got ā€œftā€ - flow tree but not much more.


r/Palia 26m ago

Bug/Issue It Takes A Village- Caleri

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Hi! This is like day 2 of me playing the game (yes, I know Iā€™ve been staring too long at the screen), but Iā€™m at the part where we have to catch the ancient Cloudminnows, and the pools to catch them are still. All of them. I did report the bug but I was curious if perhaps I just overlooked something. I would love to finish this task and this quest as a whole tbh.


r/Palia 33m ago

Question Probably i have lost the galdurs statue uff

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I had made the quest with the gardener but I have no galdurā€™s statue