Getting Started

New to modding Palworld? Start here. This section orients you before you dive into a specific discipline.

Read this first

• Palworld 1.0 vs early access - the single most important thing to understand when reading any Palworld modding guide. A lot of community knowledge was written during early access (early 2024) and some of it no longer applies to Palworld 1.0. Every page on PalCodex carries a version-status banner so you always know what you’re looking at.

What “modding Palworld” actually means

Palworld is an Unreal Engine 5.1 game, and mods fall into a few broad families:

• Asset mods - swap or edit cooked assets (models, textures, audio) and repackage them as .pak files. See Asset, Model & Texture Modding and Audio Modding.
• Data mods - change game values in DataTables (recipes, stats, drops) without touching Unreal. See Data & DataTable Modding.
• Script mods - run logic at runtime with UE4SS Lua. See Lua Scripting.
• Framework / library mods - the tooling you build on top of to make the above faster and cleaner. See API & Framework Mods.

The rough path

1. Understand the 1.0 vs early access situation.
2. Set up your tools (FModel, UAssetGUI, repak, mappings).
3. Pick an approach - and if you’re unsure, read API & Framework Mods to decide which framework fits your goal.
4. Make a change, package it, and test.

If you get stuck, the Troubleshooting & FAQ section collects the errors and fixes that come up most often in the help channels.