Despite its earliest comparisons toPokemon, practical experience has shown thatPalworldis, broadly, way more similar toARK: Survival Evolvedand other survival sandbox titles than it might seem at a glance. This includesthe game’s eagerness to allow players to do whatever, including engaging in slavery.
Indeed, capturing dozens (if not hundreds) of magical creatures to do your bidding is iffy when taken out of context, but the funny thing is thatPalworlddoesn’t stop there, either. Not only can you put all those creatures to work making guns in aFactorio-esque manufactory, but you’re able to also add actual, veritable human NPCs to their ranks, too.
Capturing human NPCs
UnlikePokemon, which does its absolute best to avoid dubious fridge horror and whatnot,Palworldis more than happy to let you capture anyone and anything, if you want to. To that end, if you ever end up coming across a human trader NPC, you cancapture them just as you would any other Pal.
Are humans Pals? Are Pals…humans? What’s the relationship between the two types of creatures inPalworld? We don’t know, andPalworldsure as heck doesn’t care enough to even bother explaining. Instead, you can gowild. In fact, if you’re “lucky,” you may even end up capturing the very cops that come running when youbreak the law inPalworld.
Now, we don’t know just yet whether this is an official feature, a bug, or just a strange interaction between the game’s many complicated gameplay systems. One thing that suggests the ability to capture humans is a bug, for example, is that there’s no capture chance UI when you aim a Palsphere at them. Still, until the developer itself chimes in, we just don’t know if this is intended.
Should you capture humans in Palworld?
Now that we’ve established the fact that youcancatch humans inPalworld, the question that remains is whether you should even be attempting to do so in the first place. The answer is a tentative ‘yes,’ though you should only really attempt to capture trader NPCs to have ready access to them whenever needed.
The odds of you catching a human are extremely slim, note. Expect to spend plenty of Palspheres on any given human NPC you might be trying to catch, in other words. Further, armed human NPCs, such as the PIDF combatants, only appear to be using their firearms tobludgeontheir enemies into submission. Worse yet, humans don’t get any of the regular Pals’ special passive abilities, and they cannot be equipped with custom weaponry either.
As this isPalworldwe’re talking about, it’s important to note two other things about captured humans:youcannotuse them as mounts, and we’re extremely thankful for the fact that they are excluded from the game’sPal fusion systems.
