By the gamers, for the gamers. In this guide, I have compiled some handy tips and tricks I usually use while playing the game. Hopefully you learn a thing or two by reading through it. Introduction These are more of practical tips for things happening inside Palia based on my own playtime and lessons learned by watching Palia content creators on YouTube. I won't go into details about things since most of these information can be found by lurking through the Discord or wiki or dedicated third party websites. Heads up that this guide is more in the style of "oh, that's a thing?" and "wow, didn't know you can do that, nice," rather than "so how do you do this thing?" This guide might contain spoilers (I'm not sure whether what I write over here can be considered as spoiler or not), so proceed with caution. I won't be putting spoiler tags. [14/05/24] I grew bored once again of Palia, so this guide will not be updated in the near future. While that might be the case, the tips included here should be applicable in the game so long as there isn't any major changes in the game. Have fun playing the game! Tips and Tricks Usual shortened terms in Palia: - FT: Flow Tree - FG, FTG, grove: Flow Tree Grove - Pal: Palium - Magic deer, disco stag, proudstag, whatever they call it: Proudhorn Sernuk You can login to the game near xx:05 or xx:10 AM/PM IRL to quickly get a 'double harvest' in a single play session (getting plants before and after xx:15 AM/PM). Useful if you're holding off watering/harvesting your plants while exploring the field. Don't like the 2-3 seconds of animation-lock after your food is ready to take? You can skip the animation by picking up the food immediately. Always try having 1 stack of food of your choosing, 100+ bug smoke bombs, 100+ slowdown arrows, 100+ worms, 100+ glow worms, 100+ magical arrows (optional), and 100+ flare arrows at all times. Limiting yourself to just doing one specific activity while out in the field is a rather bad choice in my opinion. - Only 1 stack of food means more spaces for other things you can gather in the field. - 'Better' bug smoke bomb doesn't increase the chance of catching bugs, the bug belt is the important one for that. Exception for Supreme Smoke Bomb which has 100% catch rate for every bugs. - Slowdown arrow is much better than Iron arrow, but that's my personal advice. Especially good at slowing magical creatures like magic chapaa and magic muujin. - Worm/Glow worm for occasional bubbles in many fishing surfaces. - Magical arrow to nullify the magic animal effect, but is optional if you're confident with your aim. - If you don't plan to carry around magic arrows, bring things you plan to do more (Love hunting? Arrows galore. Bug connoisseur? More smoke bombs). Either that, or just bring a stack of Repair Kit to repair your tools on the go and finally use that dusty, lonely anvil in Bahari. I never did that, but you could. - Flare arrow to help mark things you want to share with others. My personal best food to carry around is Starred Stuffed Cabbages (restores 412 focus). It's very filling, the ingredients are easy to gather, and no sudden-timed cooking step at all while preparing it. My second best food to carry around is Starred Chili Oil Dumplings since it restores 525 focus, slightly bit more than half of maximum focus bar. Pick your choice, I won't tell others. Many NPCs will gather pretty close around Kilima Square on 16:30+, good for increasing friend/romance meter in quick successions. Flow Grove always spawns on 00:00 at Bahari Bay, so search for its appearance on that time or ask away in the chat. An epic bug will appear inside the grove area as well (and there's a chance it's the starred version too), so try to be the first! People often don't share that bug appearance. It's always better to help catch an animal/bug when you see another player doing it near you when you got the time as it means less resources spent from your side. You can slowly complete your weekly missions that way. The other player might be grateful too, so it's a win-win situation. Finish Flame Shrine Bundle and Gale Shrine Bundle ASAP. Waves Shrine Bundle can kind of wait a bit. Roots Shrine Bundle is good if you care about farming FT in your own plot. Learn animation cancelling to speed up your gathering activity. Do you want to be more 'cost-effective' on gifting at the cost of less immersiveness of the game? Some NPCs accept Morel Mushroom bought from Zeki General Store as acceptable gift. My personal best, most hands-off, passive money-making tool in Palia is a big number of Glow Worm Farms combined with mushroom bought from Zeki (the price become more than double worth of the store base price) Get a yellow/shining fishing bobber ASAP, it helps track your bobber location when fishing at night if you're having a hard time looking at your bobber. Rebind your Bow and Bug Belt into something you can easily reach, since these two tools are usually needed quickly (e.g. you see someone hunting and the animal is coming straight at you, you're going somewhere and suddenly hear that "a bug is near you and now trying to flee" sfx). I put mine in Q and E button respectively. Hold your walk button (default is Ctrl) to show your pinged area on the field. It will appear as a light beacon falling from the sky. Jump while moving to skip the slowdown effect when nearing the Kilima-Bahari and Farm-Kilima/Bahari entrance. If you want to farm flower seeds faster, have a friend help you by sending a request of a finished flower then re-request it back to you. Your friend will get the seed of said flower even if the flower was done growing in your side, and when given back to you, now you have 2 seeds of same flower. Very useful in getting that number of seeds up fast. Use your autowalk button to move anywhere, combined with Sprint. This is even better than Toggled Sprint since you don't need to keep your finger on forward button. Need to know if that specific rock is a pal node from afar? Use your camera (default button is K) and zoom in to see slightly further from your spot. Treat it like a telescope or something. The black market didn't sell any furniture you were looking for? You can either try to learn server-hopping through YouTube, or do the happy-go-lucky way as I do by going into the jump course and returning back immediately to the black market... at a different server. This doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's better than nothing, ay? The list may continue when I feel like it / there are several nice additions from the comments / if I find more wrong info from my own list since I don't always second-check this thing before pushing it live. Useful Links Several helpful third party websites for playing Palia. I'm not endorsed by any kind whatsoever. Palia Wiki[palia.wiki.gg]- It's a wiki, duh. Palia Tracker[www.paliatracker.com]- Massively helpful in keeping track what's happening in the game and what you can prepare beforehand. Palia Garden Planner[palia-garden-planner.vercel.app]- Plan ahead for your crops here. Paliapedia[paliapedia.com]- I admittedly don't use this since I never really have to, but seems pretty nifty. Palia Housing Planner[palia-garden-planner.vercel.app]- Start your dream house by preparing your concept here. Rummage Piles[palia.th.gl]- Very helpful in tracking daily rummage piles. I don't know why but the website use up lots of memory, so there's your warning before clicking. Closure Thanks for reading this page. You got some more useful info? Drop it on the comment, I might add it to the guide when I feel like it. You know the drill by now if you're reading this code. Up to you, though. https://accounts.palia.com/sign-up?referral=9a08efc3-88b9-4ba0-9bfb-5b4ff980ce9c