Pal work suitability for your base
Two tools in one: a lookup that filters Pals by work type and level, and a planner that picks a small set of Pals covering your base needs.
How we calculate
In Palworld, every Pal has "work suitability" — pairs of "work type + level" across 12 work types (Kindling, Watering, Planting, Generating Electricity, Handiwork, Gathering, Lumbering, Mining, Medicine Production, Cooling, Transporting, Farming), with a level from 1 to 8. A higher level means the Pal performs that specific job faster and better at its base station.
The "Lookup" tab filters Pals by one work type and a minimum level, showing each Pal's other suitabilities alongside. The "Planner" tab takes a list of base needs (say, Mining 3+ and Kindling 1+) and uses a greedy algorithm to pick a small number of Pals that together cover every need — that is a heuristic, not a guaranteed minimum set.
The data source does not flag any Pal as "breeding-only" or "unobtainable in the game" — neither the work-suitability table nor the general Pal table carries such a field. So the only inclusion rule for this list is having at least one row in the wiki's work-suitability table: that brings in 299 Pals (including variants and special forms with their own Paldeck entry), while bosses and unused entries with no row in that table are left out.
Sources
checked 17 September 2026
Questions and answers
What does the work suitability "level" mean?
It is a number from 1 to 8 showing how well and how fast a Pal performs a specific job — a higher level means better throughput at that base station (say, a kitchen or a mine). The numbers come straight from the game's data, not made up by us.
Why doesn't the base planner always give the smallest possible set of Pals?
Finding the exact smallest set of Pals that covers every need is a so-called NP-hard problem (set cover), which cannot be solved quickly for larger inputs. So the planner uses a greedy heuristic algorithm: it produces a small, practical set, but does not guarantee the mathematical minimum.
Does the tool remove Pals only obtainable through breeding?
No. The data source (palworld.wiki.gg) does not flag any Pal as "breeding-only" or "not obtainable the normal way" — not in the work-suitability table, nor in the general Pal table. Since the source carries no such flag, we honestly show all 299 Pals that have at least one suitability row in the wiki table, with no filter, rather than inventing one.
Where does the work suitability data come from?
From the open wiki palworld.wiki.gg (CC BY-SA 4.0 licence) — a Cargo table of "Pal / work type / level" rows. We manually cross-checked 5 random Pals against their individual wiki pages, and the numbers matched.
Why does the list have 299 Pals and not every name on the wiki?
We include a Pal if it has at least one row in the wiki's work-suitability table (`PalWorkSuitability`) — that covers regular Pals and separate variants with their own Paldeck entry. The wiki's general Pal table has 5 more names with no suitability row at all: 2 are unfinished/unused entries (tagged `{{unused}}` on the wiki), 2 are legendary bosses with no work suitability even on their own page, and 1 (Dragostrophe) is a Pal whose own page mentions transporting suitability, but the suitability table itself has no row for it — a genuine gap in the source that we disclose honestly rather than hide or patch around.
Unofficial tool. Not affiliated with Pocketpair.