Pal Selection Direct Hotkeys - one key per party slot

Pal Selection Direct Hotkeys

Press 1, get the pal in slot 1. Press 3, get the pal in slot 3. No cycling.

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The problem

Vanilla only gives you previous and next. To reach the pal in slot four you tap the same key over and over, watching the wheel spin past the one you wanted, and if you overshoot you go around again. Every shooter made in the last twenty years lets you press a number and land on the thing. Palworld does not, and there is no setting for it.

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The fix

Each party slot gets its own key. That is the whole mod.

The selection still moves the way the vanilla keys move it — the mod presses the game's own change handler once per step rather than writing the slot number in directly, so the on-screen wheel keeps up, animation and all. It also takes the short way round: the wheel wraps, so slot 5 to slot 1 is one step, not four.

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Default keys

1  2  3  4  5   →  1 through 5 for the first through fifth party slot[/code]

All configurable, and any slot can be left unbound. The keys also fire with the sprint modifier held, so switching works mid-sprint.

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[h2]Do this first[/h2]

Vanilla Palworld binds four actions to the number row by default

[code]1 — Change Pal (Left)
2 — Change Sphere
3 — Change Pal (Right)
4 — Command Pal

Rebind them in Options > Controls, or pressing a key will fire both the vanilla action and the slot selection.

Change Pal Left and Right become redundant with this mod. Change Sphere and Command Pal are still used constantly, so give those keys you can actually reach.

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Settings

Scripts\config.lua[/code]

[list]
[*] [b]Slot0Key ~ Slot4Key[/b] — Keys for each slots. Default 1~5. nil to bind no key.
[*] [b]SprintKeyModifier[/b] — Sprint. Default SHIFT
[*] [b]StepDelayMs[/b] — Delay between portraits spinning. Default 50. Raise when portraits moves weirdly.
[*] [b]PartySize[/b] — Slots in the party. Default 5. Raise if you use mods make party bigger.
[*] [b]Debug[/b] — logs every change to UE4SS.log.
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Key names are listed at the bottom of config.lua and are case sensitive. Restart the game after changing anything.

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[h2]If nothing happens[/h2]

Look for lines beginning with [b][noparse][PalSelectionDirectHotkeys][/noparse][/b] in UE4SS.log. If "Mod loaded successfully!" is missing, the folder layout or a file name is wrong.

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[h2]Notes[/h2]

doker44's [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/palworld/mods/4275]Weapon Swap Key Binds[/url] does basically the same thing for weapon slots. This mod follows its structure.

Client-side only. Does not modify game files or save data. Tested in singleplayer; co-op and dedicated servers are unverified.