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Change the Palworld experience rate (ExpRate)

Set the Palworld experience rate with ExpRate: default 1, 2 is twice as much. Change it in the Config Editor and restart the server to apply it.

Updated , checked on Palworld v1.0.5.102999

ExpRate is the experience multiplier. The default is 1. A value of 2 gives twice as much experience. Pocketpair describes it as the “EXP gain multiplier.” The panel’s help says it counts for players and Pals. A change applies when the server next starts.

In the Config Editor

  1. Open the Config Editor page and choose Game settings.
  2. In the World group, find Experience.
  3. Type the number you want. The editor accepts 0 to 100.
  4. Choose Save.
  5. If the server is running, the page says “Saved, waiting for the next restart: Experience.” Choose Restart now (it disconnects everyone), or leave it for the next restart.
Game settings after a save while the server runs, Experience set to 2 and the waiting note
  1. Experience
  2. Waiting for the next restart
  3. Restart now

Type the number in Experience (1). After Save, a running server shows the note (2) and Restart now (3). Here Capture chance was also changed.

Examples: 0.5 is half as much experience. 1 is the game’s own. 2 is twice as much. 3 is three times as much.

By hand

The file is Pal/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/PalWorldSettings.ini. With server mods on, it and GameUserSettings.ini are in another folder under Pal/Saved/Config. Open Config in Files and use the folder that holds them, or use the Config Editor, which always finds them.

  1. Stop the server. The game writes PalWorldSettings.ini again when it stops, so an edit made while it runs is lost.

  2. Open the file with Edit the whole file as text in the Config Editor, or in Files.

  3. Inside the one OptionSettings=(...) line, change this pair and keep the commas between the pairs:

    ExpRate=2.000000

  4. Save and start the server.

A faster game

Experience is one dial. Two others in the same group speed things up:

  • Capture chance (PalCaptureRate) makes wild Pals easier to catch. See the capture rate.
  • Gathering yield (CollectionDropRate) changes how much trees, rocks and ore give.

All the keys and defaults are in the settings reference.

If it does not change

  • The server has not restarted since you saved.
  • The world has its own WorldOption.sav. It ignores the Config Editor’s Game settings for the settings that file holds. See WorldOption.sav.
  • You edited the file while the server ran, and the game wrote it back when it stopped.
  • A change still waiting in the Config Editor is written into the file at the next start, over the same setting in a hand edit.

More about the game: Palworld servers.

Sources: docs.palworldgame.com: Configuration

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