Palworld multiplayer: how to join your friends online

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Palworld - two players ride on the backs of giant Pals together

As is the case with so many survivalcraft games,Palworldis great for chilling, grinding, and crafting with your pals. The human ones, I mean, but also your Chikipis and Lamballs. Basic Palworld multiplayer allowsup to 4-player co-opbut community servers and dedicated servers can host up to 32 players. And although there is no crossplay at launch, Pocketpair says that’s in its plans for the near future.

Here’s what you need to know about starting multiplayer games in Palworld and what you can actually do with your friends once they’ve joined.

How to start multiplayer in Palworld

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Palworld - game options menu showing an invite code for multiplayer

The first thing to know about Palworld multiplayer is thatevery character is tied to the world or server where you made themand can’t be transferred between saves. So in every new server or co-op world you join, you’ll have a separate character with their own progression. Pocketpair does say that it plans to have a “server/save transfer method later on during development,” so that may change eventually.

To host a local co-op session for your friends, here’s how to start:

To join a friend’s multiplayer world, you can use that invite code in the “Join multiplayer game (invite code)” portion of the main menu. From there you’ll enter character creation if it’s a world you’ve not played in yet.

If you’re experienced with survival game hosting, you can also create adedicated server for Palworldso your friends can log in even when you aren’t playing.

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What you can do in multiplayer Palworld

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Is there crossplay in Palworld?

At launch, there is no crossplay between the Steam and Xbox versions of Palworld. However crossplay is on thePalworld roadmap for early accessand Pocketpair says it’s “working to make this a possibility as soon as possible.”

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