Pal Time Tweaks

⏱️ Pal Time Tweaks

Rule your time!

Take control of Palworld's most annoying waits. A lightweight, config-based mod: open one text file, change a few numbers, done.

Palworld 1.0.4: If mods stopped working after the update, that's UE4SS itself needing an update, not this mod. Re-install / update UE4SS (Experimental) in your in-game Mod Management, then restart. This mod works on 1.0.4 as-is — no update needed here.

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🛠️ What you can adjust

• 👹 Boss dungeon cooldown – respawn time after defeating a boss
• 🍰 Cake work amount – make cake (needed for breeding) far cheaper to cook
• 🥚 Breeding time – get the egg from the breeding farm faster
• 💗 Pal Box revive time – downed Pals recover sooner
• 🗺️ Pal expedition time – send Pals on expeditions and get them back much sooner
• 🔬 Research work amount – Pal work research projects cost far less labor
• 🛢️ Crude oil extraction – oil extractors pump much faster
• 🎣 Fishing pond – Pals catch fish much faster
• 🌱 Skill Fruit planter – skill fruit trees grow much faster
• 🧭 Fast travel from anywhere – open the map and travel without walking to a statue or base

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📝 How to configure

Open this file in any text editor:

...\Palworld\Mods\NativeMods\UE4SS\Mods\PalTimeTweaks\Scripts\main.lua[/code]
All settings are at the very top, each with its default noted. Change the numbers and restart the game.

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[h2]🔢 Default values[/h2]
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[*]Boss dungeon: [b]2 min[/b] [i](game default 60)[/i]
[*]Cake work: [b]35%[/b] of original [i](~65% faster)[/i]
[*]Breeding: [b]60 sec[/b] [i](game default ~300)[/i]
[*]Pal Box revive: [b]1 min[/b] [i](game default 10)[/i]
[*]Expedition time: [b]17%[/b] of original [i](a 30 min run becomes ~5 min)[/i]
[*]Research work: [b]35%[/b] of original [i](~65% less labor)[/i]
[*]Crude oil: [b]6.25%[/b] of the work [i](much faster extraction)[/i]
[*]Fishing pond: [b]25%[/b] of the work [i](~11 min per fish becomes ~2.5 min)[/i]
[*]Skill Fruit planter: [b]10%[/b] of the grow time (watering work reduced too)
[*]Fast travel from anywhere: [b]on[/b] (disabled inside dungeons, towers and arenas)
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[h2]⚠️ Requirements[/h2]
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[*][b]UE4SS (Experimental)[/b] – installed automatically as a dependency
[*]Don't forget to [b]enable the mod[/b] in Settings > Mod Management in-game.
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[h2]📌 Heads up — it's a mod[/h2]
Pal Time Tweaks is a mod, so please keep that in mind. It's built to be clean and to work exactly the way it should — but as with any mod, an occasional crash or unexpected hiccup can happen, and that's completely normal. If you run into a bug, let me know and I'll fix it.

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[h2]💡 Notes[/h2]
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[*]Works in single-player and as host.
[*]A collapsed cave does not reopen at the exact same spot – that's how Palworld works. The respawn setting controls how many caves appear across the map overall.
[*]Undiscovered caves keep their long natural timer; the open-time setting only affects caves you've already visited.
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[h2]📋 Changelog[/h2]
[b]v1.5[/b]
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[*]🌱 New: Skill Fruit planters grow much faster (watering work is lightened too, so it doesn't become the new bottleneck).
[*]🧭 New: optional fast travel from anywhere on the map — no need to walk back to a statue or base. Still disabled inside dungeons, towers and arenas.
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[b]v1.4[/b]
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[*]🎣 New: adjustable fishing pond speed — a catch that took ~11 minutes now takes ~2.5.
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[b]v1.3.2[/b]
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[*]🐛 Fixed a stutter when mounting/dismounting. Thanks Senia for the exact fix!
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[b]v1.3.1[/b]
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[*]🐛 Fixed a recurring stutter some users experienced. The mod no longer runs anything on a repeating timer — settings are applied a few times right after load and then via game events only.
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[b]v1.3[/b]
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[*]🛢️ New: adjustable crude oil extraction speed — oil extractors pump much faster (running ones speed up too).
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[b]v1.2.1[/b]
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[*]🐛 Fixed: the research cost reduction now also applies once a research is started — previously the selection screen showed the reduced cost but the running research kept the full amount.
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[b]v1.2[/b]
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[*]🔬 New: Pal work research (Lab) projects now cost far less labor to complete.
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[b]v1.1[/b]
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[*]🗺️ New: Pal expedition duration is now adjustable. All expeditions scale together (a 30 min run becomes ~5 min by default).
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[b]v1.0.2[/b]
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[*]⚠️ Removed the cave open / respawn timers. They could make caves vanish too fast and, in rare cases, remove a dungeon while a player was still inside (could require a world rollback). Boss dungeon, cooking, breeding and Pal Box revive are unaffected.
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[b]v1.0.1[/b]
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[*]🐛 Fixed a recurring stutter/lag spike (every ~10–15s).
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[b]v1.0[/b]
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[*]Initial release.
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