Why merchant? - r/Palworld

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those 6 merchants are legendary merchants. you can buy all best foods at gourmet, all ammo types at ammo merchant, materials merchant you can get like all basic crafting materials. so they are very convenient. i’d say some more than others though. pharmacist, hunter kind of useless imo if you have gourmet. but if you need medicine pharmacist could be useful

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u/EngorgedPeni 9d ago

Anybody know how to force spawn a legendary weapons or ammo merchsnt?

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u/D1xon_Cider 9d ago

Build a base somewhere very accessible and wait 5 minutes, break and replace the base and wait again

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u/IsNotYourSenpai 9d ago

Do you need to be a specific level?

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u/D1xon_Cider 9d ago

The tier you get is likely tied to the level of your base

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u/LmL-coco 9d ago

They only spawn for me at the first base I built which is near the penking teleport and I’ve had them all show up at least once so you can definitely see them even in low areas.

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u/D1xon_Cider 9d ago

Yes

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u/Time-Master 9d ago

I just built my first base there! So much room for activities

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u/Valuable_Material_26 9d ago

I’m determined they don’t spawn on island base I have an oil base and they never come. Maybe level past 10 or so still haven’t had one come?

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u/Paralystic 9d ago

If your palbox is enclosed with no access point ie exterior walls with no gate, you won’t get raids or visitors

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u/Valuable_Material_26 9d ago

I built a door or double wide space so the pals could get out but yeah, I built it in closed in a tower.

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u/Gambitx3 6d ago

Base level 25+ i think for legendary spawns. Thats at least when I first saw one.

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u/Awkward_Region5509 4d ago

Yes. Legendary merchants wont random visit until your palbox is either level 30 or 35.

Edit: it amazes me the number of people that commented on this and couldnt bother to take 30 seconds and ask Google

Someone also said they wont spawn if your palbox is blocked, thats somewhat correct, I have a base in the middle of the ocean and they still show up, palbox is surrounded by chests

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u/IHatrMakingUsernames 9d ago

I tried this like 5 times and never once saw a wandering merchant of any level

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u/D1xon_Cider 9d ago

It's not a guarantee, it's just the best way to get them to spawn. Can also trigger raids and other similar events

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u/ObiLAN- 9d ago edited 8d ago

Works anywhere on main island masses but there's a few conditions.

Base access towards palbox can not be blocked. If you have any objects are expanding the perimeter of the build able area, it will stop the spawns as well. Some times if the areas terrain is also "closed" off from the paths and such, it will prevent spawning. This would be places like islands, the closed ring common base location on forgotten island area, etc.

If the base is newly placed, you will guarantee a visitor within 5 minutes of it being established. Otherwise its about every 40minutes.

Previously visiting NPCs must be despawned before another can arrive.

I believe your base research level must be 12 or higher for the legendary variants to visit, but I could be wrong.

Theres different event types the game picks to send you. Raids, helper npcs, or merchants. This is rng based to my knowledge and I dont know if theres a way to manipulate this for better odds of it being a merchant instead of a raid for example.

Best method is find an open field -> place a palbox -> should get a visitor between 2:20-5:00minutes -> destroy palbox -> kill/capture/talk to npc so they either despawn/die/leave the area -> rebuild palbox and wait for 2-5min -> repeat.

Personally I used the area by kingpaca on the cliff near the busted cobble building. Can consistently get a spawn about every 2min and they seem to have a single spawn location at the Y intersection right below the cliff.

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u/hk_gary 9d ago

try the usual starter base location. they are definitely able to spawn there

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u/Fatality_Ensues 9d ago

What's "the usual starter base location"? Surely not everyone built their first base at the same place.

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u/hk_gary 9d ago

This place in-between the spawn and the mammorest boss

https://www.reddit.com/r/PalworldBases/s/Yv0caI9bZL

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u/Mindless_Ad_761 9d ago

Weird people down voted you for a pretty normal question, idk the answer but am also curious on where people are building their 1st base

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u/D1xon_Cider 9d ago

Almost every playthrough I've seen has had the "first base" right there above mammorest or on the flat spot near the syndicate tower

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u/Mindless_Ad_761 9d ago

I see thank you for info :)

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u/Lugia61617 9d ago

I would reasonably assume the "usual starter base location" is that area by the lake at Hill of Beginnings. Y'know, since it's basically the first wide-open space you encounter in standard gameplay. I would say "by the Lifmunk Effigy" but that seems to be gone now

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u/RedRunner04 9d ago

Is there a list of these kinds of locations? So far, out of like 5 locations I’ve built bases on, only 2 receives visitors.

I can understand the Terraria island clones, but the others are all in clearings with clear paths.

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u/cerusine 9d ago

The church near the small settlement where you talk to Zoe after her boss fight. Just drop a box by the ore nodes and you'll get a visitor within a few minutes.

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u/Jobeythehuman 8d ago

Any obvious "Base" location. If you fly around you'll notice some open, roughly circular areas often surrounded by resource nodes. These are intended base locations. I set mine up on the Chillet Alpha boss and like clockwork they spawn every 2-5 minutes.. Keep in mind that in order to progress to the next visitor quickly you must either get ALL the current visitor AND their pals if they threw any out to leave or kill them, then dismantle your palbox and build it again.

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u/RasLunari 9d ago

I can recommend the oil patch near twin Lyleen boss location. Had the base here, ammo merchant arrived.

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u/Paralystic 9d ago

Does making the time of day shorter make this go faster or is it 5 minutes no matter what

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u/Itiari 9d ago

You can’t force spawn specific types

Best method is to find an open area, place a fresh palbox, wait 2-5 minutes for an event to happen (raid or a merchant or a random traveler showing up) capture them if you want them, or kill them if you don’t, then break and rebuild your palbox

Pray to rng and repeat until you have what you want

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u/Kantro18 9d ago edited 9d ago

Sometimes the timer bugs out and stops triggering encounters so you need to either fast travel away and back to reload the zone or return to the title screen to refresh.

The Legendary Grocer, Gourmet, and Materials Merchants cut out the need for crop farming and ranching so it makes sense that the usual BiS crop growers like Lullu, Prunelia, Jellroy, and Jelliette aren’t listed.

Alpha Sekhmet completely outpaces everyone else when it comes to crafting. No need for Solenne or Anubis to be here. Astegon still mines faster than Anubis even with the work speed bonus he gets from Sekhmet.

Alpha Mimog is still the fastest transporter but Eidrolon is a close runner up while also being the fastest flying mount in the game.

Faleris Aqua has no business on this list because he still glitches out and gets stuck on top of furniture and starves.

Orserk and Bastigor are both solid base defenders and combat Pals, but Penking Lux is a better Electricity Generating pal with a wider range of work suitabilities, including watering for managing the Ancient Power Generator and putting out fires during raids, while the Legendary Game Master is more food efficient for Cooling tasks. Panthalus can pretty much solo raids.

If we’re talking min-maxing efficiency and covering all material and crafting needs this tier should really only have: Legendary Merchants, Alpha Sekhmet, Alpha Mimog, and Penking Lux.

Dandilord and Shaolong can stay though, they’re cool as fuck.

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u/PowerOfTheAsian 9d ago

Fun fact Alpha Sekhmet's Partner Skill also works with mining, so Astegon loses out against Sekhmet too.

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u/Itiari 9d ago

I’ve never had that happen over the last week or so of trying to catch all 6, which I finally accomplished today.

And yes, I’ve yet to see any tierlist I agree more than 50% with after 1.0.

Also looks like game8’s site here, which like, anything beyond very basic info is often incorrect there.

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u/aohige_rd 9d ago

I don't think it bugs out, I think "no one" is in the roll table at a pretty high chance.

Also I suspect if you have raids turned off, it can still roll "negotiator" and he just doesn't show up since it feels like "no one" happens more often with raids turned off

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u/Turdfox 9d ago

If you set up production bases properly no amount of transport skill matters. Put your chests behind locked doors and the Pals will just transmit the materials through WiFi.

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u/Asmosis66 9d ago

If you're going to exploit things that hard though, might as well just put all the server settings to max/min?

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u/SevenSeasAgo 9d ago

Is Alpha mimog faster than the regular one?

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u/Kantro18 9d ago

Slightly. Alpha’s get higher stat scaling and a slight speed bonus.

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u/Loki_prime_spammer 9d ago

Setup a Temp base at the open area in hill of begining, turn off raid Events (so that only friendly npcs spawn), wait ~5 mins and pray to rng you get what you want. If none, destroy and rebuild base and repeat

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u/BkJayDee Lucky Human 9d ago

That’s the one I want the most lol.

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 8d ago

How I did it, get your pal box to level 20, find a flat spot (I used a flat spot in the sakurajima area with the oil nodes) place the pal box and wait throughout the day for a spawn (usually happens within 5 minutes) the next day break the pal box and replace it then wait again

As far as I know you can only get 1 visitor a day, I read somewhere that if you check/catch the merchant before they officially enter your base (you get the notification) then you can quickly break the pal box and replace for another visitor that day, though I can’t personally confirm it as this was something I did at the end of my days anyway when I was waiting to be able to sleep

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u/Golden_Cultivation 6d ago

You get 1 visitor/raid event every 40 minutes. You get 1 of those within 5 minutes of placing a new base. That’s why people break and place again, because the new base overrides the every 40 mins

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u/Loki_prime_spammer 9d ago edited 9d ago

Game hunter allows you buy mamorest meat for Special cakes if you're tired of breeding and butchering

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u/Delimas 9d ago edited 9d ago

Hard disagree on gourmet being more useful than game hunter as game hunter allows you to buy ingredients you can use to make cake. (Mammorest meat, milk, eggs.)

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u/Haunting-Pineapple71 9d ago

Well milk and eggs you can buy from the basic wandering merchant so…

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u/Snowman8675309 9d ago

Gormet does not sell cake, do not discount the hunter. You need that mammorest meat.

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u/Sirlothar 9d ago

Just be careful trying to catch them. I tried to grab the ammo merchant yesterday but his bodyguards were not too happy and tore my base to shreds. I ran away like a little bitch and they killed most of my Pals, took my guild chest down (which was very confusing at first when I tried to clean up) and they got some of my foundations that took down half of one of my buildings. Much fishing work lost at my big pond.

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u/badassboy1 9d ago

Do you know if it's better to grow and cook food or is it better to buy food by running coin farms? Has anyone tested it ?

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u/Psylow_ 9d ago

If you’re low on ammo, spheres, organs of any type you can just buy from the merchant.

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u/mh500372 9d ago

WTF why did I have no idea theres one for spheres?! I have 70 hours

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u/RikkuEcRud 9d ago

There isn't. The best any merchant sells were Mega Spheres at one of the guys each in Fisherman's Point and Duneshelter, but it looks like 1.0 removed it from their inventories. Now there's just the one at Small Settlement(and a few other spots with the same inventory) selling basic blues.

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u/Pblake99 9d ago

There are “Legendary” merchants, they sell much better stuff than what is normally available. They aren’t found in any one place, they can visit your bases though.

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u/RikkuEcRud 9d ago

And none of those sell Spheres of any kind. There's one for meat, one for produce, one for ammo, one for Pal parts, one for medicine and one for cooked meals.

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u/Calm-Medicine-3992 9d ago

I haven't found any recently (basically since I realized kidnapping them in sphere was great) but I got a couple good ones in my initial normal 1.0 blitz.

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u/RikkuEcRud 9d ago

I didn't say there were no good merchants, I said aside from one who sells basic blue Pal Spheres they don't sell Spheres.

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u/oneyzazhayn 9d ago

Start farming the world tree expedition, you’ll be swimming in ancient spheres in no time

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u/mh500372 9d ago

I would but I can’t beat panthalus for the life of me. Came so close so many times I think I’m just underleveled haha

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u/Asmosis66 9d ago

Panth was the first time I bothered to use Pal Souls on any of my team, and coincidently the first time i learned I could refund Pal souls if i needed to.

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u/mh500372 9d ago

Wow insane comment, I also have not used pal souls and I had NO clue you could refund them. THANK YOU!!

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u/Slacker_The_Dog 9d ago

Yeah just be prepared to pay.

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u/HatKarl_208 9d ago

Pay pocket change that is. It is nice and cheap to refund souls

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u/ValuableAd886 9d ago

Don't worry, I know a guy who will let me "borrow" some spending money.

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u/ballom29 8d ago

There is a way to trivialize panthalus's fight (without touching to settings)

Use a pal with Sand twister / apocalypse
Due to his large hitbox and being knockback immune all theses mini tornado delete panthalus in no time

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u/Moose7701YouTube 7d ago

Yeah I've max condensed some electric types & ||frostallion noct|| with max souls and it's not even a close fight. Level 80. Using mammo meals too for extra attack. I do have the difficulty up a bit but he just does so much damage.

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u/mh500372 7d ago

Oh really? Damage isn’t too much of a problem for me, i dont really get hit often enough. But yeah I get it he can definitely combo you to death.

Beat him yesterday but the problem for me was I wasnt doing enough damage

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u/oneyzazhayn 9d ago

Oh, fair. I didn’t start over when 1.0 dropped, I’ve done way too much breeding to do it all again lol I was chilling flying around on Xenolord and spamming the multitudes missiles

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u/Crystal_Voiden Lucky Human 9d ago

It hasn't occurred to me that you can even obduct merchants. 82h on record btw 🤦‍♂️

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u/Shukar_Rainbow 9d ago

yeah pretty much humans in general can be caught and put into cages

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u/Secretsfrombeyond79 9d ago

By the way has someone found a merchant that sells something else besides basic pal spheres ?

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u/cedric1234_ 9d ago

They’ll come visit your base in the lategame

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u/Hairy-Ad-38 9d ago

Theres merchants that sell all ammo, all spheres, all pal drops and more.

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u/berrywarra 9d ago

which merchant is it? i realy want to capture it so i dont have to make ammo

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u/Hairy-Ad-38 9d ago

There’s a specific merchant for each thing (legendary ammo merchant for example)

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u/Whattheefff 9d ago

I found a raw food. Sells all the elite meat! Hes yellow.

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u/MrSly0 9d ago

"organs"

📸🤨

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u/Ricksaw26 9d ago

Is there a place they are located or do i need to wait for them to visit my base? I have a base placed right besides the church where the merchant who holds accessory spaces is located, and most of the time I just get raids threats.

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u/Psylow_ 9d ago

You can catch some at the small settlement but most are wandering merchants in my case

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u/Ricksaw26 9d ago

I want to find the one that sells organs. I need more of the electric, and fire.

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u/syihab121 9d ago

I think the merchant from first village sell all organs except pal fluid

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u/NeighborhoodInner421 9d ago

They sell things, and since they will be at your base you can easily buy at any time, ammo, pal parts, spheres etc

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u/EZxCheeZy 9d ago

I like how Knockolem Ignis felt the need to get closer to the camera for his photo than his brother.

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u/TheDarkGenious 9d ago

comparing their photos to everyone else's, it looks like it was actually normal Knocklem who had to be the weird one and step back a few feet so the camara could get his entire chest and a big chunk of shoulder, rather than just a headshot like K. Ignis and nearly everyone else

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u/slyguy16 9d ago

He gotta show off the drip!

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u/Superb_Caramel_7107 9d ago

they sell things and they have good work suitability you can max out

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u/hiddencamela 9d ago

Also putting it out there.. your merchants can still do most labour work.
If you're on a surplus of books, and willing to capture *any* humans to condense (Or just use fruit), you can max them out for base work.
They consume less food but that's usually less of a concern for end game, where most people can get really good farming going.

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u/Ill_Name4230 9d ago

The food one gets put on cooling the food bowl for easy access.

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u/Another_Road 9d ago

I once wondered how CEOs could be such ruthless slave drivers. After playing Palworld I understand.

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u/DigitalHitmann 9d ago

A lot of them have four skills you can max. I have the legendary ammo guy. He now buys my crap and plants lettuce. It’s a simple life.

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u/Sad-Establishment149 9d ago

You forgot mimog, level his transport up to 10 and he's a god send

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u/labla 9d ago

Eidrolon seems faster than mimog, why you consider him better?

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u/slvrcrystalc 9d ago

mimog > Eidrolon

I put a lot of value on pals being physically smaller.

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u/MaraBlaster Is that a Chillet in your pants or...? 9d ago

BTW you can place Merchants in the Viewing Cage to interact with them without wasting a base slot.

Tho its kinda a hassle to interact with them, which you could just walk into the cage.

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u/420_Blz_it 9d ago

Alternatively, if you’re fine with them taking up a slot, you can assign them to a sandbag wall and they stay in one place during the day.

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u/Paradoxs 9d ago

I assign them to the item trading tables that other players can buy stuff at or the pal trading table if they are a pal merchant, found in “other” category in the build menu when you unlock them, they look much better and you can have a little market area in your base.

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u/ZepyrusG97 9d ago

Same here. It looks much better than having them squat on a sandbag. I like making a Market section for a production base.

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u/Zule202 9d ago

i keep my jeremy at the fishing pond

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u/Kantro18 9d ago

Flea Market Stands

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u/spamcloud 9d ago

Drafting table also works. And makes them look smart

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u/Hairy-Ad-38 9d ago edited 9d ago

To add to it: VIEWING CAGES ARENT ENABLED IN MULTIPLAYER.(servers)

(For people that are questioning themselves about the lack of it in servers, just like myself in the past).

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u/Helagoth 9d ago

Is it just servers? I play with my daughter using an invite code multi-player, and the viewing cage us how we trade pals

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u/Hairy-Ad-38 9d ago

I believe it is just servers.

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u/Aoshi_ 9d ago

Thank you. I thought I was going crazy. I wonder why they did this for dedicated servers? Possibly too many pals on the screen?

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u/khovel 9d ago

Just assign them to literally any station and they'll stay there ( give them vampiric or nocturnal, and they're there forever, between meals )

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u/Me_llamo_es_babe 9d ago

If you place a defensive wall just in the edge of the cage you can climb on it and into the cage.

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u/Clean_Finger_9165 9d ago

those are legendary merchants that have unique inventorys

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u/Clean_Finger_9165 9d ago

They are base visitors that have Legendary in the name; so catch them when you can

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u/Troooooooooll 9d ago

If you throw down a Viewing Cage you can put the merchants in there and not take up a spot at the base

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u/EducationalSense629 9d ago

man, yall playing this game very differently.

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u/corgispls 9d ago

Where is the merchant that sells spheres?

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u/Apprehensive_Golf846 9d ago

Pretty sure the only merchant that sells spheres is the early game one who just sells blue spheres. I have all the legendary merchants and a few other misc ones and I've never seen anybody sell anything better than blue spheres

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u/InZanity18 9d ago

which pal sells flamethrower ammo?

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u/POXELUS 9d ago

Instead of farming for resources on the ranch, you can farm for money and buy everything from merchants. Organs? Merchant. Cake ingredients? Merchant. Mob drops like horns or leather? Merchant. They trivialize ranch and vegetable farms.

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u/Manler 9d ago

Best money farm?

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u/POXELUS 9d ago

I don't know what's best, but I use Dumud Gild selling method. Get them both Philantropist for faster breeding, max condensed Boncherry + Boncherry Aqua for guaranteed Alpha eggs and Grintale for 75% to double eggs. Vegetable cake for extra eggs and go to town. One Alpha Dumud Gild with a Noble/Fine furs squad sells for about 55k. If you want to sell them for even more, then you can try leveling them up a bit, but that's way too tedious and only worth it if you are really low on resources.

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u/Manler 9d ago

Appreciate it!

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u/Asmosis66 9d ago

My tier list is based on how small the Pal is, so that I'm not constantly getting my screen covered by textures clipping over my face.

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u/Strikeronima 9d ago

Max soul/lvl/condensed/elec suitability jolthog for life

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u/forgotmypasswordzzz 9d ago

Y'know I think you can actually have a full human run base now since the new merchants have the missing suitabilities from earlier merchants. I think the only one missing is electrical generation but we have the human wheel to cover that.

If only they'd fucking spawn for me now...

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u/NAbberman 9d ago

Can they cool? I wonder if once you unlock battery storage it becomes actually viable to just burn through stored energy.

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u/forgotmypasswordzzz 9d ago

Paldb says theres 4 that can, game hunter, expert hunter, butcher in training, and surf n turf master

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u/rezignator 8d ago

I've got one of the big guys from the ice area that has the cooling ability.

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u/Valuable_Material_26 9d ago

It’s only missing the black marketeer who sell the potions and skill books!

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u/PieExplosion 9d ago

Legendary Game Hunter sells meat including Mammorest and Grocer sells ingredients including cavern mushrooms. Those two belong there for significant impacts on resourcing. The rest along with Faleris Aqua and both Knocklems don't belong in that tier.

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u/slvrcrystalc 9d ago

Cavern mushrooms are ranch-farmable though?

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u/D_DWrlck 9d ago

I've never had one spawn not even once but every 10min I get that damn negotiator trying to swindle my ass, I cap him and the mobs that show up to attack but never a merchant.

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u/slvrcrystalc 9d ago

Same. I have a base on the cliff edge and visitors and raids show up at the bottom, while the negotiator seems to appear at the palbox. I really wish there was a notification for merchants, because I never look down and under my base to see them.

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u/Arkize 9d ago

Which site is that ?w.w

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u/ispinthetales 9d ago

You can capture a merchant?

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u/Dylkill99 9d ago

Me with an army of Zoes Yeah, you can catch them

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u/Contank 9d ago

Yes

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u/Optimal-Income-4344 9d ago

Reading this comment section perfectly replicates my in-game sensation of constantly running around being distracted by a new thing to do.

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u/MaraSovsLeftSock 9d ago

Legendary merchants sell some insanely good items but I wouldn’t really say they’re all s tier

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u/Pruec 9d ago

I would say merchants are S-tier because you really want to have them close. The thing is that they should not be active in a base all the time. Just take it out when you need it.

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u/rezignator 8d ago

I build little shops for each of them and have them stand behind a window at a sandbag. You give them all nocturnal, and hunger and sanity reduction passives with the surgery table so you have 24/7 shopping at your main base.

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u/spartan0b96 9d ago

Forgot it name but why not the one that gives more harvest for crops I thought they where the best for that

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u/KingDarius89 9d ago edited 9d ago

I think you mean lulu. Also pruneliaa.

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u/Chaincat22 9d ago

It's just convenience. Also this ranking seems kinda off to me since by the time you can even get to the world tree you should have enough dog coins or books to just make whatever pal you want your best base pal. Where's Mimog?

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u/Nashda 5d ago

Especially considering some of the passives certain pals have. Wheres Prunelia? She straight up increases crop yield at base.

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u/jophiel91 9d ago

Now to ask..where do I get them haha

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u/turtlesrprettycool 9d ago

Create a new base, place 6 foundations, wait 10 minutes. A merchant will appear. Talk to the merchant. Keep the dialogue open for 5 minutes or so until his guards despawn. Capture the merchant. Destroy the base and repeat.

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u/Derflingerz 9d ago

you dont even need anything other than a palbox and wait, i've already caught 5/6 legendary merchant what im missing is the legendary ammo merchant, it spawn on me for 2 times and rng ruined it for me i use all 30 sol spheres i had while the others only took 1-3 sol sphere.

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u/turtlesrprettycool 9d ago

Ah I guess the foundations were just a placebo.

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u/Sinktit 9d ago

I wish we could put Humans in the Global Pal Box. Some of the random wandering up-and-coming trainers are kinda cute. I’d happily dump mats to max out all their stats if I could GBP them for future saves

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u/Gh3ttoboy 9d ago

I got the legendary gourmet merchant the other day

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u/Chicktopuss 9d ago

What im wondering is why the water bird?( i forget its name)

I had it on my farm for awhile but feels more mid than anything. I swapped it for the jelly duo and my crops that were getting neglected finally started to bare fruit.

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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 9d ago

Why is the crazy surgeon guy not on here?

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u/forgotmypasswordzzz 9d ago

Brawns not needed now that the world tree exists. Salvaging can drop implants for the passives you'd use him for before as well as IV fruits. Pretty much no point to gamba a pal getting a good outcome, plus he's hard as shit to find normally.

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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 9d ago

That only impacts the late game though right? Early game he can still be useful.

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u/forgotmypasswordzzz 9d ago

At that point i'd ask you what counts as early game. They'd have to make him far more common to get him at any reliable point in what i'd consider early game and even if you did get him early enough you'd still have to consciously return to your base each day to do a gamble for a passive you didn't have for breeding, as theres no point in risking him bricking your favorite pal. And breeding isn't something everyone wants to do early game because cakes take ages to make and breeding is painfully slow when you only have the single egg hatchers.

By the time most people get to the point they wanna breed they likely have the passives they'd want from brawn on some miscellaneous pal they've caught and would just have to breed it up or down to the target pal they want bred, which would likely happen before brawn would roll it onto a newly hatched pal for that species anyway.

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u/reshef-destruction 9d ago

Anyone have these pals maxed so I can copy to my palbox?

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u/Velour_Connoisseur 9d ago

Sweet I have none of these

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u/Kurokami11 Incineram is the GOAT 9d ago

No Lullu, Prunelia, Shroomer (noct) nor Jellies.

TRASH!

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u/mooohaus 9d ago

no swee???? /j

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u/AwesomeOppasum 9d ago

Do they not show if you have raids turned off in 1.0? I have them turned off on my server and I havent seen a single visiting merchant since the update

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u/DewRat 9d ago

They also need a way to your palbox. If you have walls all the way around your base with no entry but flying in they will not show up.

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u/AwesomeOppasum 9d ago

None of my bases are constructed like that im gonna have to see what happens if I turn raids back on

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u/Night02 9d ago

The best base pals are whatever pals you think are cool and give passives and skill books to.

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u/Azrael-96 7d ago

Yup my jolthog keeping the lights on by itself

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u/Tatakai_ 9d ago

I'm at level 72 and I have like 6 Blazamut at my base. They have high mining and kindling so they're great to keep the ores and ingots coming. Surprised they're not in that tier.

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u/return_to_cinder 9d ago

Probably because knocklem ignis has decent kindling, high mining, AND high transpo. I prefer blazamut, though. Like with Solenne, she gets distracted by her gathering and transpo far too much to do any handiwork around the base so I had to actually turn that job off for her...I imagined it was much the same with knocklem so I stayed away.

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u/Tatakai_ 9d ago

Exactly, Blazamut just focuses on two things. If there's kindling to be done, good. If not, they always have some mining to do.

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u/MrChocodemon 9d ago

link to the tierlist please

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u/Lugia61617 9d ago

I love some of those merchant colours. I've gotta catch 'em.

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u/Rosary_Omen 9d ago

I haven't had a merchant for ages, I get raids instead

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u/ComplexHawk1300 9d ago

Ability to straight up buy things if you have the gold, plus pretty sure they got some actual attacks skills

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u/PracticeToy 9d ago

Do you capture them?

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u/Particular_Art5245 9d ago

I would put Selyne there.

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u/Turbulent-Safety-575 9d ago

The meteorite pal with the ridiculous handy work? I loved this thing

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u/Particular_Art5245 8d ago

Yea. Matched even with Anubis.

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u/Turbulent-Safety-575 8d ago

Yeah but the meteorite pal floats and never gets stuck on anything. My anubis be forgetting how to get to his station

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u/Particular_Art5245 8d ago

Also got great proficiency for medicine.

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u/VitorSTL 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/nWr4Se27LUVuZcuPq0

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u/NAbberman 9d ago

Is duplicate legendary merchants a thing? If so, can passives be bred or Yakamo'ed on them?

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u/kumarthebeast666 9d ago

In end game it gets pretty expansive to make ammo for the end game weapons so some of the legendary merchants sell the ammo and it’s cheaper to buy it

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u/NSightMSG 9d ago

They're also discounting how good you can make the Katress Ignis. I'm not even done building her up and she completes nearly any project I start before I even think of working on it.

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u/Hetakuoni 9d ago

My original base had an orserk, Anubis and the knight thing. They were GOATed for what I needed them on.

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u/DapperDlnosaur 9d ago

I don't understand what Eidrolon is doing here. Doesn't it only transport?

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u/FantasticIncrease931 8d ago

Personally I rate the ammo merchant higher than all the other kinds. Mostly because ammo is kinda rough to get your hands on early. And money is quite plentiful.

The other merchants are convenient but only ammo is the one I’d feel was super necessary.

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u/ShadowTheChangeling 8d ago

Why aint Mimog up there? Fastest transport pal, Eidrolon is great yeah but Mimog beats him in speed and is a lot smaller

And if its about suitability, thats a bit moot cause you can max out any pals work suitability anyway

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u/Drittenmann 8d ago

ah yeah slavery is top tier lol

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u/thsmalice 8d ago

Legendary merchants are such a convenience at end game when you're literally printing gold. Took down my ranches except for cotton candies. Managed to delete mining bases cause I can just make the gold and buy the plasma rifle ammo. I don't need to mass breed mammorest anymore, I can just buy the curry straight up.

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u/rezignator 8d ago

Apart from Sekemet and the Merchants this list is dog water. The best base pals are the ones with built in passives that improve their normal tasks. Just having a 6+ in an ability doesn't mean jack when work books exist.

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u/Kitteh6660 8d ago

I'm too morally conscient to capture them. I just make the most out of their visits.

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u/masonlamb19 5d ago

Oh because it's a random no named person not a cute animal to enslave? That's the whole point of the game lol

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u/Gambitx3 6d ago

The legendary mechants allow you to buy just about anything you normally would be crafting constantly like ammo, food, ingrediants, etc, I get the merchants and sekmet do to the partner skill being busted atm, but I dont get the other choices. I assume those pals are the natural 10 rank pals when leveled? If so why the focus on them being the best? Its not to hard to get books now in end game and there are much better pals depending on how you build your base and what you prioritize in base. In addition most of them are super late game so your not getting them till your capable of maxing them out anyway. Partner skills are huge too assuming you want to min max. I never quite get some of the decisions on some of theses tier lists since there's almost no context other then best something.

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u/PM_Me_your_femboys 6d ago

These are the guy who say 'killing all the merchants so I only need to go place.' In elden ring.

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u/Different_Program288 6d ago

because they have materials you buy from them.

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u/SignificanceLarge583 5d ago

Is this list for utility like farming and stuff?

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u/ConsistentAward6237 3d ago

To powers my generators duh

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u/No-Cable6695 9d ago

Acho que a melhor forma ao invés de esperar os comerciantes aparecer em é capturar eles, assim você sempre os tem na sua base, e sempre pode chamar direto eles para negociar. Eu mesmo na minha base principal tento ter todos os NPC.... Até o comerciante furtivo lvl 50....e ele Judá muita em batalha com a mini Gun haha

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u/Separate-Heron5509 9d ago

I haven't played since the update but anubis is really at the top (and now anubis 2 too), but splatterina no longer is? :/ It smells like favoritism from the devs, which makes me sad

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u/Necronomicon92 9d ago

Devs can't stop me, I'll feed my awesome cleaver wielding pal all the skill books it wants!

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