Pals dont seem to work if you're not nearby

[Bummer6]

I've got a mining base set up, but unless I'm standing right by it observing the pals working, very, very little is produced. I'll come back after three hours only to find two ore in the storage crate.

[Kyutaru]

We know. They don't feed themselves either which is why if you logout for 10 hours you'll come back to all of them suffering from starvation and depression.

Automation only works on tasks you can simulate, not ones that require pathing. You can harvest crops, water mills, flame furnaces, or chop wood from a lumber yard, but you cannot harvest actual ore nodes or real trees without physically being present (the server will just stop running those tasks after a while).

[Bummer6]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

We know. They don't feed themselves either which is why if you logout for 10 hours you'll come back to all of them suffering from starvation and depression.

Automation only works on tasks you can simulate, not ones that require pathing. You can harvest crops, water mills, flame furnaces, or chop wood from a lumber yard, but you cannot harvest actual ore nodes or real trees without physically being present (the server will just stop running those tasks after a while).

That seems like a glaring issue in a game centered on automation

[Grimbor]

It's early access and early in that as well. Just because it sold millions won't make the development cycle happen in weeks or even months.

[drizzt043_043]

don't use your base as a fast travel as that triggers the bug your referring to. i've gotten 20k ore last night when i stopped using my bases as a fast travel.

[LeoFIN uTube]

In singleplayer automation works and does not require player around.
I dont know how it works on private/official servers.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by LeoFIN uTube:

In singleplayer automation works and does not require player around.
I dont know how it works on private/official servers.

Im playing single player and I can say that isnt strictly true. Things keep "working" but transporting completely stops. If I go out, when I come back, everything produced from the farm, or mined, etc, is all just lying on the floor. Worse, all the pals are bugged standing over something that needs transportation doing nothing until I pick it up myself.

[Amduskas]

Singleplayer here, and it seems like some things are accounted for when the player is absent.
Progress on work benches seems to still happen.

What stops, and can even bring production to a halt, is transportation doesn't happen, and any natural nodes will not be harvested (e.g. trees, ore nodes, etc...).

[DirtyMick]

Huh? Maybe it's different on single player. I've never had a pal get sick or injured in my world, and I often come back to 300 arrows being done in my workbench, and 100 ingots. No one is starving ever, but there is often tons of ore laying on the ground in my second base. Also there's always tons of spheres and arrows and wool in my ranch when I come back, so they are still ranching for sure. But yeah, maybe it's just in single player, things are less buggy.

[Bummer6]

Originally posted by Grimbor:

It's early access and early in that as well. Just because it sold millions won't make the development cycle happen in weeks or even months.

Early access is not an excuse

[MewTressym]

Chunk rendering. If no player is present the chunk isn't loaded. While this isn't a voxel game, it does make sense that the server wouldn't load an area a player is not specifically in.

The reason some functions seem to still work while you aren't there is because the time for it to finish is set by the beginning of the process, so say for example you put an egg in and it says 72 hours and you change the server time to 80 hours forward in days/time the egg will show as ready, it's not that 72 hours passed, it's that the servers clock registers that marker as passed. Things like Ranchs and Breeding pens have timer checkpoints on a recurring, so it'll show the eggs, but the pals themselves would not have theoretically have moved in that time and the game simply would have used predictive pathing to place the mob in whatever position it is in when you get back, which is also why they sometimes appear in walls, or stuck in base borders (IE: the blue line indicating your base edges).

Different dev teams will call these functions different things and they don't always work the same way depending on how they code it, but the basic premise is the same.

[Cotaks]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

We know. They don't feed themselves either which is why if you logout for 10 hours you'll come back to all of them suffering from starvation and depression.

I rent a dedi server, no issues been offline the whole night, now i got 6k lumber 5k stone and 2.5k berries.

Official servers suck! rent a dedi for 5 bucks.

[Sel Und Irae]

10 people with no game design background and self taught from youtube made this game, They had peanuts for a budget.

It'll take time but this will very likely be fixed in the future alongside content updates.

They actually have a budget now.

[Sel Und Irae]

Originally posted by Cotaks:

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

We know. They don't feed themselves either which is why if you logout for 10 hours you'll come back to all of them suffering from starvation and depression.

I rent a dedi server, no issues been offline the whole night, now i got 6k lumber 5k stone and 2.5k berries.

Official servers suck! rent a dedi for 5 bucks.

Official servers are likely overloaded atm, Way too many people playing this game for something that had 10,000$ Budget. Some triple A games have worse servers and they have millions of dollars in budget. I'd say official is doing it's job just fine given the environment, Give it half a year they'll probably fix the servers.

[tommor]

Mining base doesnt work? I bet you use turtles to mine ore. Switch them to the fish thats in the same region as turtles and your problem will be solved.

[MewTressym]

Originally posted by Cotaks:

I rent a dedi server, no issues been offline the whole night, now i got 6k lumber 5k stone and 2.5k berries.

Official servers suck! rent a dedi for 5 bucks.

Player hosted dedis can have persistent worlds more readily then only by chunk loaded, it's extremely unreasonable to expect Palworld to have persistent full worlds loaded on officials. Or any game for that matter.