Palia first look and guide

Palia intro

This is a week in progress as I have only been playing a few weeks and also, being beta, the game is still evolving, so things get added, removed, altered.

I will add a menu system, probably tomorrow, along with screenshots and videos.

Anyway, it’s free to play, but with fairly discreet links to cosmetics needed to fund the game, which is fair. Microsoft/Blizzard and the like should take lessons from them!

For a beta it looks pretty solid to me. It has strong Stardew Valley vibes, but with added elements of other games of the genre, like Traveller’s Rest, Ale and Tale Tavern, and Pathea Games ‘My Time at… series, like My Time at Portia.

So, there’s mining, herbing and gathering, crops, farming and ranching, hunting, fishing, bug hunting, crafting furniture to style your house, house building (a la Minecraft or moreso Sims). Pets to be unlocked. Added elements like jumping games and cards games. Plushies to collect if that’s your thing.

It is already a pretty friendly game too, lacking the toxic enducing traits of other MMOs I could mention (e.g. pvp, pay to win, nonsharable resources that have an in game or even rela world value…) Here, you find a gold ore node and you tap it for yourself and call it out for others. If you are in a party, they all get the same rewaard, if it’s someone passing by, they can wander only and tap it for themself (within a 3 minute window).

There’s also a “show your home” thing, were people can give your house likes, or you can visit theirs, giving tickets to but more stuff. Then there’s organised events with more rewards, daily mini events to run across.

They are areas that need work, like kitchens and build up guilds (communities), but for a beta, it is solid.

Whack-a-shmole is fun too, but I’ll leave you to find that one.

Intrigued and want to give it a try? Perhaps use this ‘refer-a-friend link Palia. No real reward for me, just a few xmogs (I’ll probably not use five) for the first five people I attract into the game via RAF. No big deal, but it at least shows this page is getting interest.

Or just go direct to Singularity 6 for Palia news, or vist Palia’s Steam page.

 

 
Suggestions for the developers:

As a plug, my budding community (guild) in Palia is ‘Remnants of Chaos’

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Making friends with NPCs, and their DAILY liked/loved items

tldr; As far as I can tell, experimenting and Googling, the quality of the items does not make a difference, but – for daily gifts – the nature of the item does and most if not all the guides I’ve seen are clueless on this point!

For instance, they’ll say they like “a,b, c, and d through h”, but the reality is, effectively, they’ll take the item off you, but they’ll don’t really want it, they only want… and there’s the rub. There’s is NOTHING in the game that says, for instance, “Najuma told you Hodari really likes pickled eggs with his breakfast” (as a daily). In time, I hope, this guide will provide that.

However, I do note that you can’t give them the same item twice in a week, so if Eshe was happy with grilled oyster on a Monday, don’t offer her them again for the rest of the week!
Typically, the responses are:

I’m not a big talker in real life, so chatting daily to every NPC in a game, finding and giving them gifts to unlock progress… Needing a spreadsheet and guides to see what everyone likes because you need then to like you to progress in the game… Urgh!

Anyway, each real-life day, you can give ONE gift to each villager in town – each day. The more liked or loved the item the faster the relationship develops. So, you are essentially buying their love! I didn’t like it in Stardew Valley, or other games, and I don’t like it here, but it is what it is.

The easy part is knowing who it’s most important to get on your side, and why.
(e.g. Tamala so she’ll open her potion shop, Najuma for her glider help, Nai’o for a stables board, and Daelila to unlock your ranch)

The hard part though is knowing what they like, or don’t. The progress bar is a bar, so you can’t say, for instance, ‘apple pie*’ is better than ‘apple pie’ or if even an apple would give the same result. The weekly asks are another mmatter, but if you want to build up rapport faster, you need to pamper them daily too, too fill out the week.

There are daily things they like and always like, and weekly things that change all the time, so you have to talk to them to find what it is and then get one for them. This gives you seven items a week to farm or source, some of which have additional conditions, like you have to make it yourself.

I’ve started being more methodical and testing it myself as most of the guides are either outdated and just wrong, or else, well, not that helpful, actually.

Responses can vary wildly (I’m paraphrasing), but all seem to give three hands as a response, so how do you really know!?

I have several pages of notes from my own tests and from Googling other guide – at least one of which tried to infect me with malware! It will take a month or two to test these out, so, for the most part, these below are other peoples suggestions. As such, it’s a vague guide, but on parr with what others suggest – untill I test it (or Singularity 6 change stuff again).

The aim is get them to jump for joy at the items and a disheartening, “Meh, whatever, I’ll take your junk” is not it!

I suspect many items from below have changed over time as they develop the character, e.g. making them quirky, or fastidious, or vegetarian, or favouring fish or soup… Or whether they want more of the stuff they themselves need, farm or sell (saving them work) – or they are sick of it and want something else.

For clarity, if you offer them a weekly want the game overlays a white blob (like) or red heart love) over the item, but for daily items in general, nothing. Give us a clue, Singularity 6!

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Farming ahead for relics

Sorted from Palia wiki

Gathering / tree chopping / (gardening) /(crafted)

Fishing:

Mining:

Bugs

Hunting:

Rummage piles (etc)

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Fishing

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Bug hunting

Coming next, probably tomorrow