r/PalworldMods

So I'm doing a total overhaul for katana, beam sword and laser swords as well as partner skills related to melee it's still a work-in-progress proposal. Nothing here is final, and numbers and ranks still need balancing. I’d like to hear what you think: what sounds fun, what sounds overpowered, and what you’d change.

The two core mechanics

The rework is built around the mod's two main features.

Parry

Aim with a sword to guard against front hits. Time it right before a hit to parry: no damage, no stamina cost, and your sword hits land on weak points for a few seconds. A late guard is a normal block: reduced damage, costs stamina.

Charged Iai

Hold the Iai stance for 2 seconds to charge it. The charged strike hits several times in a wide area, dashes further, hits weak points and refills some stamina.

I have a preview of how the mod looks (although the version of it is outdated since I posted the video so it's not accurate to what will be released) it features parrying bullets. Block/Parry Test

The core idea: melee elemental affinity

In vanilla, Pals that change your attack element (Wixen, Anubis, Wixen, Frostallion…) only do it while mounted or when you activate their skill. That's not so practical for melee: you can't fight well while riding, and the endgame meta mostly will go with ranged weapons.

Proposal: selected Pals give your melee weapons an element while the Pal is fighting alongside you (summoned). This applies to all melee weapons, not just swords: bats, spears, etc. No activation and no riding needed.

• Only the summoned Pal counts, so you can't stack two elements.
• It's opt-in: only specific Pals do this, so you can still bring a Pal without changing your element.
• Guns/ranged weapons aren't affected.

Each element (except Neutral and Dragon) gets two or maybe more Pal options, with two styles:

Style	What it does while fighting alongside
Parry style	Melee becomes that element. Parrying an attack applies that element's ailment to the attacker, at any distance. Activating the Pal's skill still gives its vanilla attack bonus.
Buildup style	Melee becomes that element and your melee hits get a much stronger ailment buildup than vanilla (vanilla buildup is only 2–6 per hit). If the Pal already has a vanilla "in party" buildup, the melee version replaces it on melee hits.

The line-up

Element	Ailment	Parry style	Buildup style
Electric	Shock	Prixter Lux	Snock
Ground	Muddy	Anubis	Warsect Terra
Fire	Burn	Wixen	Renjishi
Ice	Freeze	Icelyn	Loupmoon Cryst (maybe)
Grass	Ivy Cling	Elgrove	Verdash
Water	Wet	Finsider	Ophydia
Dark	Darkness	Wixen Noct	Venusa

Example, Prixter Lux:

• Vanilla: activate → your attacks become Electric, Attack +30–50%.
• Proposed: while fighting alongside, your melee is always Electric (no activation). Parrying applies shock (around 100 buildup) to the attacker. Activating still gives the +30–50% Attack.

Special cases

• Dandilord: a much higher Poison buildup for melee only. Poison has no element affiliation kinda so it gets its own slot.
• Xenolord: the Dragon melee pick. Dragon has no ailment of its own; it shares Burn for now and might get a special condition later.
• Bastigor (Ice): idea, needs testing. A parry makes Bastigor counter-attack with one of its own moves.
• Felbat / Lovander (Dark): undecided. Parrying gives 20% life steal. Both already have 5–9% life steal while fighting together.

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Other melee partner changes

Pal	Change
Pupperai	Keeps its melee damage bonus. New: widens the parry window and increases damage.
Bushi Noct	Its +30–65% melee damage currently works in combat too, which is too strong. It goes back to vanilla (out of combat only), or the bonus gets removed.
Warsect	Its barrier is underwhelming (breaks after 1 hit). Ideas: the barrier takes 2–3 hits, and/or parrying raises your defense. It will get a parry mechanic; details are open.
Warsect Terra	Ground melee + Muddy buildup (see the table). Parry idea: a defense bonus based on your defense, or damage reflected back. Open.
Skutlass / Skutlass Ignis	Already turned into a proper Weapon Arts sword: rank-based speed, no longer incapacitated, only a charged Iai ends the skill. New: the charged Iai becomes Water (Skutlass) or Fire (Ignis); normal hits stay elementless. Active time 10 s → 15 s.
Loupmoon / Loupmoon Cryst	Its attack speed bonus stays removed (sword rank now gives attack speed). It keeps triple jump + air dash. It needs something else to make it special; still being designed.
Verdash	Triple jump + air dash buffed to match Loupmoon (they don't stack), plus Grass melee + Ivy Cling buildup.

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Questions for you

1. Does "element while the Pal fights alongside you" feel right, or would you prefer something else? Or maybe other Pals I didn't mention would have this?
2. Parry style vs buildup style: what do you think of the effects for elemental affinity?
3. Any Pal you'd swap for a better fit in its element?
4. Ideas for Loupmoon / Loupmoon Cryst?
5. Warsect: multi-hit barrier, defense on parry, or damage reflect?
6. Anything that sounds overpowered or maybe you have another idea?

Any discussion or advice from you would be appreciated for the mod's development.

I've got almost 2,000 pals across my boxes and got tired of tabbing between a breeding calculator and the game to figure out what I could actually make. So I built a site that reads my save and answers that directly. It's a personal project and still rough in places, so I'd love feedback from people who breed more seriously than I do. this is more of a personal project i know there are a lot of tools that already does this but its just a side project i started a while ago and wanted to finish it

What it does

- Reads your save locally. It parses the save on your own machine and never writes to it. Every pal comes in with its IVs, passives, active skills, level and where it's stored (party, base, Pal Box, dimensional storage).

- Paldex home. All 289 species as a grid. Ones you own are in colour with a count, ones you can breed right now glow, and the rest are silhouettes. There's a completion ring and a rotating spotlight of your highest-IV pals.

- Species pages. Partner skill, work suitability, your copies sorted by IVs, every parent pair (the ones you can do right now listed first), and a family tree of the shortest route from pals you already own.

- Breeding gaps. "28 new species within reach", grouped by how many generations away each one is, plus the species where you only have one sex.

- Passive planner. Pick a species and up to 4 passives, and it builds a lineage tree from your own pals. It tells you which pals to grab and where they're stored, the order to breed in, and which passives only one of your pals carries (so you don't lose it halfway through).

- 3D chibi models with five animations (Rest, Idle, Walk, Sleep, Petting).

- Four themes based on Palworld places: Palpagos, Mount Obsidian, Sakurajima and Feybreak.

What I'd like feedback on

1. The planner. Right now it finds a chain that *can* work and shows how diluted each parent pool is, but it doesn't give odds, because I couldn't find sourced inheritance rates I trust. Is "possible + pool size" useful, or do you really want a number? If you know of solid data on passive inheritance rates, please point me at it.

2. What's missing for you? I've been going off my own habits: IV hunting and getting 4-passive workers. Things like mount speed, cake cost or time estimates would all be possible.

3. Breeding gaps. Is "steps away" the right way to group them, or would you rather sort by how rare or useful the target is?

4. Which theme would you actually use?

It isn't public yet. I'm still deciding how to package it so people can run it on their own saves without me hosting any proprietary game files.