Tips for starting the game. Very spoiler lite - contains no story spoilers and only very limited location spoilers. Your First Base A large part of this game centers around building and improving a base, and later, up to three bases. Your base is defined as an area around a Pal Box – this base area appears as a large blue ring around your Pal Box. You want to situate your Pal Box away from any walls or other obstructions, because when you summon Pals out of your box to your base, they will appear behind your Palbox – if it is situated too close to an obstruction, the Pals may spawn inside the wall. But where to build your base? You’re going to need a few resources in large quantities: Wood Stone Ore (used for crafting many, many things in the mid to late game, and required in vast quantities) Paladium Crystals (used for many things, but most importantly, making your Pal balls, used to capture pals) The first two are really easy to find in the starting area, and there are actually base items you can build that allow you to mine these resources infinitely. The latter two are more of an issue. Paladium Crystals aren’t tremendously important to situate in your starting base (you can craft them from stone, and eventually, you will have so much stone there is little else to use it for) but Ore is a bit trickier – it is the metallic-looking rock formations that are larger than the normal rock. You won’t need it immediately, but you will need it soon, and once you start needing it, you will never stop needing it – it is the primary resource you use to craft things for almost the entire game, and you need massive quantities of it, as you will be using it for weapons, armor, better Pal Balls, and numerous other things. You only really need one ore node to start out with in your base (you will eventually unlock the ability to build multiple bases, and your secondary base will likely be devoted to farming metal) but it is useful to have at least one starting out. The best place for this is down a few steps from the starting area, where a metal formation is surrounded by some rocks and trees. You can even snag a Paladium Crystal formation, giving you everything you need on easy farm from the get go. If you want a base with more ore, it is possible to venture further afield and build a very good starting base with access to a large amount of ore. When you head towards the first tower, you can see an elevated area beyond it with red trees on it. As you approach the tower from the starting area, up and to the left of the tower in that area is a ruined church with a fast travel point, and behind that church is a large number of ore nodes. Building your first base here will allow you to start out with a very good metal mining base, allowing you to much more easily gather large quantities of ore. Note that your Pals will not initially be able to harvest the metal on their own; you need a pal with level 2 mining to mine for ore. Still, it is useful to have access early. In the late game, you will additionally need large quantities of coal and sulfur, but you won’t need to worry about those until you are quite high level; it is advantageous to set up bases to harvest coal at the very least, and sulfur is useful to be able to harvest in the end-game because large quantities are needed to craft end-game ammunition. There are some base locations later in the game that will allow you to harvest at least one of these resources, plus ore, which can be handy. Capturing Pals Pals are most easily captured by reducing their hit points to a low level then throwing a Pal Ball at them. Applying status ailments to Pals will also make them easier to catch. Note that you can prevent your currently active Pals from attacking by using the radial menu (accessed by holding 4 on the keyboard) and telling them not to attack; this is useful for reducing Pals to low hit point totals without killing them. You can also recall your Pal into its ball in order to prevent it from attacking, but the radial menu has the advantage that it will also stop any Pals you have with passive abilities that allow them to attack even when they aren’t your active Pal (like Daedream) from killing the Pal you are trying to capture. As you progress through the game, you will unlock better and better Pal Balls. Use them! The higher level Pal Balls have a higher catch rate, which is necessary for capturing higher level Pals, and the higher level of reliability is worth the extra resources they cost. Elements

元素弱点和抗性在本作中十分重要；弱点尤为关键，因其能造成极高伤害。 图表相当简单——大多数属性都有一个弱点和一个克制属性。普通属性的帕鲁是最差的，它们对暗属性脆弱，且没有任何属性对它们有抗性。 请注意，帕鲁既对自身元素属性有抗性，也对其克制的元素属性有抗性。 帕鲁使用与自身属性相同的攻击时，可获得20%的伤害加成；但使用其克制的元素属性攻击时，能造成双倍伤害。因此，利用克制属性比匹配元素属性更重要，但两者兼顾则最佳。你可能觉得火属性伙伴是最棒的伙伴——它们只有一个弱点，却对两种属性有克制效果。这在某种程度上是对的，但值得注意的是，游戏后期有大片区域充满了火属性伙伴，在这些地方，这些伙伴的进攻能力并不是特别强——不过游戏后期也有冰属性区域，在那里它们表现非常出色。 拥有多种伙伴类型以及多种攻击类型，有助于让艰难的战斗变得更容易，尤其是当游戏接近尾声，你不能再简单地通过等级压制来应对威胁时。利用游戏最终Boss的弱点几乎是必不可少的。此外，不同类型的帕鲁通常也拥有不同的亲和能力——例如，火属性帕鲁几乎都具备点火能力，可用于烹饪食物或熔炼铁矿；草属性帕鲁几乎都具备种植能力；水属性帕鲁则具备浇水能力。这使得拥有多种不同类型的帕鲁对于基地运营也非常重要——不过，并非所有帕鲁都局限于单一类型的工作，有些帕鲁的用途更为广泛。 自动化你的基地 你的帕鲁可以被用于自动处理基地周围的工作。提升基地等级能让你在基地中安置更多帕鲁，从而实现更多事务的自动化。不同的帕鲁拥有不同的基地技能——有些可以采矿，有些可以烹饪食物和冶炼金属，有些可以浇灌植物或运行水磨，有些可以为发电机充电等等。 帕鲁的技能等级越高，执行对应任务的速度就越快。 为基地配备并使用合适的帕鲁会让你的生活轻松许多，还能大幅加快制作和采集的速度。 前期重要帕鲁 前期游戏中最重要的三种帕鲁是夜翼、死亡梦境和墓蝠。戴梦是一只漂浮的魔法绵羊，夜翼是一只在高空飞翔的大鸟；这两种帕鲁都能在起始区域找到。戴梦是个位数等级的敌人，你很早就可以捕捉到；而夜翼等级在10级左右，会稍微危险一些。 戴梦的重要性在于【戴梦的挽具】，装备它后你可以让戴梦协助战斗，同时还能召唤第二只帕鲁。这非常实用，能让你获得比平时多得多的攻击力。 夜翼的重要性在于它是你的第一只飞行坐骑；你会使用它很长一段时间，直到找到更好的飞行坐骑。它们的飞行能力将帮助你寻找蛋、宝箱和各种重要的收集品，还能让你更快速地探索地图。此外，它们还能让你飞越水域，从而探索其他岛屿。

托巴特会在游戏后期稍晚时候出现，且只在夜间出现，位置在塔楼周围及更远的区域。这个帕鲁非常有用，因为它是第一个拥有2级采矿能力的帕鲁，能让你的帕鲁自动开采矿石。

Pal Fruits Pal Fruits grow on glowing trees in the environment; as you find them, mark them on your map so you can find them again. These spawn fruit that, when eaten, grant your Pals new attacks, similar to TMs from Pokemon, though they are not reusable. However, the fruits do respawn, so don’t be afraid of using them; as you progress into higher level areas, you will find fruits with higher-level skills in them. Generating Food The best ways to generate food is to grow plants using plantations in your base, and to have Pals that generate food items themselves in farms. Chikipi lays eggs, which can be cooked, and Caprity, the goat with a berry bush on its back, will grow berries. You can grow a few different types of plants over the course of the game as well, which can be used for crafting food items at campfires and cooking stations. Cooking food greatly increases its value and some food items will give you bonuses when you eat them. As you progress deeper into the game, you will unlock more Pals which produce food items. Note that some Pals will produce things other than food on farms; Lamball, for instance, will produce wool if farmed. Climbing the Tech Tree The tech tree is at the center of the game, and levelling up will get you access to new things to craft, which will make your life much easier. Always make sure to prioritize the buildings which are used to build things and the structures necessary to level up your base. Getting a good weapon and good armor is useful for improving your survivability and letting you help your pals more easily. The main way of gaining experience is capturing Pals; the first ten times you capture a species of Pal, you will get a substantial amount of experience. This means that capturing up to ten copies of Pals is very useful, as it will help you level up rapidly. Once you have captured at least ten copies of a Pal, capturing additional ones is generally less important, but there is a way of combining multiple Pals of the same type later on to make more powerful Pals, so if it is a Pal you’re likely to be using for a long time (such as Daedream or Nitewing, or some other Pal you enjoy using) capturing up to 21 copies of them for the combiner can be valuable. In addition, you (and your pals!) gain experience by crafting things and by fighting things – if your Pal is in your base while crafting, they will gain experience, and if they are in your party while crafting or fighting things, even if they are not your active Pal, they will gain experience. This is a good way to level up Pals if you have an underleveled Pal you want to use. Exploration is Important Not only is finding new Pals important, but finding fast travel points gets you more technology points, while bosses will help get you more lost technology points (a secondary tech tree that contains some useful things). Don’t be afraid to explore – the world is quite large, and there’s a large chunk of it which is accessible to even low-level characters. As you go up in level, you will be able to enter more and more dangerous areas, giving you access to even more stuff. Beating bosses is also useful because instead of killing them, you can instead capture them and gain strong (and sometimes, unique) Pals. Bosses will also drop lost technology items (not to be confused with the tech points), which are necessary for crafting a number of powerful items, including anything from blueprints and many later items on the tech tree. In some cases, they will also drop blueprints, which can be used to craft better equipment. Mini dungeons – little caves and similar things around the map – can give you an early power boost, as well as give you access to some new monsters you won’t find on the surface. You will find blueprints in these dungeons, which allow you to build upgraded versions of gear, which can give you a power boost as well, and also allow you to avoid spending technology points on the basic version of the item. As you progress through the game, you will find higher level versions of these dungeons, which give better and better rewards. Each dungeon also has a boss at the end, giving you access to a potentially more powerful version of the pals you would otherwise be capturing. These dungeons can also contain equippable accessories that give you various benefits, like resistance to high or low temperatures, or which boost your stats. Later dungeons give you better versions of these items. There are little bases full of human enemies, and some of these contain captured Pals – freeing those Pals will allow you to acquire them, which can get you some different Pals which ordinarily you wouldn’t be able to find until later on. Finally, there are eggs you can find in the environment. These can be hatched to get you additional Pals – some of which might be otherwise difficult to find, particularly those from huge eggs. Moreover, these Pals don’t require you to use Palballs to capture them, which is quite handy. Collecting these eggs and then hatching them can allow you to expand your Pals owned and get you experience for “capturing” new Pals. Later on in the game, you will unlock breeding, which will give you the ability to create eggs with Pals that have a mix of the traits of their parents, allowing you to make stronger and more specialized Pals.

伙伴装备能为你的伙伴提供极为实用的特殊能力。骑乘伙伴非常有用，因为这让你可以自主选择何时使用何种能力，不过其中一些最实用的能力是能将伙伴有效转化为武器，或是让它们使用特殊武器——这些能力通常能让你快速造成大量伤害，这对于迅速攻击更危险、更强大的伙伴来说极为宝贵。 需要注意的是，骑乘伙伴还有一个额外优势——骑乘状态和非骑乘状态下的所有冷却时间是分开计算的。因此，如果你有一个拥有长冷却时间技能的坐骑，你可以骑上它，使用这些技能，然后下马，伙伴就会再次使用这些技能。如果你使用帕鲁，打造能发挥其特殊能力的合适装备会让它们对你更加有用。 商人 游戏中有NPC商人，他们出售各种不同的物品，甚至还会出售帕鲁！此外，他们也会向你收购物品或帕鲁。有些物品，比如钉子，很容易制作且价值不菲，所以如果你在游戏中某个阶段缺钱，可以通过制作它们快速赚钱。不同的商人出售不同的物品，帕鲁商人的库存也会发生变化。 有些商人出售的物品或帕鲁明显比其他商人更好。在地图上标记他们的位置——你之后可能会想再次拜访他们。

别停滞不前 不要在初始区域一直浪费时间；去更远的地方探索能让你更快获得经验和新伙伴。游戏中有很多东西可以发现，即使是1级角色也能探索许多区域。随着你的进步，地图上会有越来越多安全的区域可供探索，所以不要害怕踏入新地方去见识新事物、寻找新伙伴！