Useful Links
The sites, tools and communities this handbook draws on and points to. The living sources are the official modding wiki and the community Discord; PalCodex curates and organizes on top of them.
Communities & primary docs
Section titled “Communities & primary docs”- Palworld Modding Wiki - the primary community documentation and the canonical step-by-step for many techniques curated here.
- Palworld Modding Community Discord - where this knowledge is shared and discussed; the source of the credited guides.
- Official Pocketpair Discord - the game’s official community.
- Palworld on Steam - the game.
Core tools
Section titled “Core tools”- FModel - browse and export cooked assets. See FModel.
- UAssetGUI - edit cooked
.uasset/DataTables. See UAssetGUI. - repak / retoc - pack and unpack containers. See repak & retoc.
- RE-UE4SS - the scripting runtime. See UE4SS.
- Audacity - audio editing for audio mods.
Essential files & frameworks
Section titled “Essential files & frameworks”-
PalworldModding/UsefulFiles - prebuilt
Mappings.usmap(so you don’t have to dump it yourself) and theMemberVariableLayout.inithat stops UE4SS crashing when generating usmap / Lua types. See UE4SS crashes.Source: Okaetsu - original message
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PalSchema installation docs - the authoritative install guide pairing the correct Palworld UE4SS + PalSchema. See PalSchema.
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Mod Config Menu (UI) (Nexus mod 577) - a framework that gives your mod JSON-backed config with an in-game settings UI, instead of rolling your own.
Source: Okaetsu - original message
Community guide repositories
Section titled “Community guide repositories”- Reaper’s Palworld_Modding_Guides - including the Kawaii Physics guide.
- UnrealModSkeletonFixer - Shifty’s tool for custom animations.
Credits
Section titled “Credits”- The core links list is maintained in the community Discord’s useful-links channel by the server team; the per-technique resources are credited on their respective pages.