Figuring out the best base locations in Palworld can be a difficult task. Pocketpair drops you into a large open world and essentially says “go for it, buddy” without any real indication of which places might be most useful.
While you can use any location as a base Palworld, the right ones give you easy access to valuable materials and make your crafting efforts go much smoother. For our money, here are the best base locations Palworld for all the tools you need.
Best base locations in Palworld
We’ve selected six base locations that give you access to a wide range of resources, including coal, ore, sulfur, and even ancient civilization components. Here are the six best basic locations at a glance Palworld:
- Windy plateau: Defensible and ideal for obtaining early resources
- Hill: Easy access to lots of ore
- Twilight Dunes: Close to coal and high quality Pal oil
- Sealed Realm of the Guardian: Ideal for obtaining coal and ore
- Seabreeze Archipelago: Good source of sulphur
- Chillet Alpha Pal: Solid place to farm old civilization parts
Palworld limits the number of active bases you can have at a time, based on your level. If you’re looking to make a trade, our base moving guide can help.
Windy plateau — best early base location
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I had no idea what I was doing when I started Palworld and randomly dropped my first base on the edge just below the first fast travel point. Turns out this is a pretty good place for one. You’ll be near several stone nodes and trees – both of which replenish after a day or two in the game – and there’s plenty of room to experiment with building houses and facilities.
It is also an easily defensible location. Rocks guard your south side, while steep cliffs surround you to the north and west. The only paths your enemies can have are the stairs to the east, and there’s quite a large area of open ground between there and the ruins where your base is – perfect for setting traps and sending friends into battle.
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The downside is that you can’t access dungeons, Alpha Pals, or ore nodes. This is really a beginner’s location.
Hillside – best base location for ore
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The southwestern part of the Hillside region – the area with autumn leaves everywhere – has a lot to offer. The location at the top of this paragraph is fantastic for logging camps, with dense forests in all directions and few wild friends roaming around.
Just south of that spot is a clearing with several ore nodes. Place your base somewhere in between, and you’ll likely never need basic resources again. There’s even a Syndicate base not far away and a bridge separating you from it, giving you a natural defense barrier and an easy way to keep your base safe.
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Twilight Dunes – best base location for high quality Pal oil
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The Twilight Dunes region is rich in resources despite being so small, and is also noticeably lacking in fast travel points, making it ideal for base building.
Coal is the big draw here, as quite a bit of it needs to be grown. However, you are also in the middle of the habitats of Dumud and Digitoise, the two best – and easiest – ways to get high-quality Pal oil. You’ll need plenty of materials to make firearms, so if that’s high on your list, this is a solid place for your next base.
You can also find two sulfur nodes just outside the western entrance to the desert, so if you have a flying Mount Pal you can fly there in a few seconds every day and stock up.
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The big caveat is the Twilight Dunes region itself. There’s a large, open space in the middle of the dunes that’s perfect for a Palbox, but it’s also surrounded by potentially hostile Pals. Placing it on one of the rocky slopes gives you a natural defense against raids, but your hard-working friends can’t go up or down to harvest and bring back materials.
Your best bet is to build a heavily fortified base with lots of traps and some walls enclosing the coal nodes. Use strong, high-level friends who can also fend off enemy attacks.
Sealed Realm of the Guardian – best base location for coal
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To the east of the Sealed Realm of the Guardian dungeon is a quiet spot full of coal and ore nodes. You’ll need a lot of coal for buildings and equipment in the late game, so if you don’t like Twilight Dunes, this is a strong alternative. You’re also not far from the sites in Beegarde, so if you have room for a ranch, you can start a honey farm here too.
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The only downside is that the terrain makes placing facilities a bit difficult. You can use wooden platforms to level out the landscape when you place your Palbox, giving the building floor an even layer for your other facilities. The location we chose is on a flat, but narrow hilltop. However, if it’s too much effort or you need more space, consider just building a Palnox for easy and fast travel and mining your coal manually.
Seabreeze Archipelago – best base location for sulphur
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It may seem like stone is the main draw for this base location, but that’s only halfway true. The Seabreeze Archipelago is worth your attention for a few more reasons. One of these is the quartet of fairly high-level dungeons here, all of which are good sources of brimstone and strong friends. You can also challenge a handful of Alpha Pals, and there’s even a wandering merchant.
The spot we picked has a few ore and stone nodes, along with lots of trees, and there is a skill fruit tree on the west side of the island.
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Chillet Alpha Pal – best base location for Ancient Civilization Parts
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This may seem like a strange choice, but be patient. Chillet is the first Alpha Pal – the giant Pals with names in large letters – that is easy to interact with. It is a level 11 Ice-type and, like other Alpha Pals, drops Ancient Civilization Parts when you catch or defeat it. They respawn after about a realistic hour, so here’s a handy source of Ancient Civilization parts just outside your camp.
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The area along the river and hills east of Rayne Tower also supports herds of Teaphant, low-ranking Water Pals. By the time you’re ready to build a second base at level 10, you can breeze through them and conquer them to get a dozen Pal Fluid stacks or more each time. Pal Fluids appear in several mid- to late-game crafting recipes, so you’ll need quite a few even after building a hot spring during the tutorial.
This hillside spot is just a bridge walk from Chillet and also has a few ore junctions for you.
If you start in Palworld, we have guides for you, including a beginner’s guide and typing table, plus guides on how to obtain ore and sulfur. If you’re ready to take on the first Tower Boss, we’ve got a guide for that too, plus a list of all the Tower Boss locations and all the flying mounts.