Passive Expansion

Passive Expansion

29 new passives: blessings, curses, and bloodlines - and every blessing has teeth. A companion addon to APSE that colonizes the effect systems nobody else touches: work mastery, element identities with real weaknesses, status warfare, capture synergy, economy, breeding lines, and near-death mechanics.

[h2]Work mastery[/h2] (grant real work suitability ranks)

• Foreman's Spirit - +2 Handiwork rank, +10% work speed, but SAN drains 15% faster
• Deep Vein Sense - +2 Mining rank, +50% from trees and rocks, but -10% movement speed
• Green Thumb - +1 Planting and +1 Watering rank, but hunger drains 20% faster
• Ranch Prodigy - +2 Ranching rank, +25% trust gain, but -10% attack

[h2]Element identities[/h2] (double-edged: real power, real weakness)

• Magma Heart - +25% Fire attack, immune to lava and heat, but +25% Water damage taken
• Tidecaller - attacks can soak, +30% attack against soaked targets, +15% Water attack, but +25% Electric damage taken
• Storm Conduit - attacks can shock, +20% Electric attack, but +25% Ground damage taken
• Grave Chill - attacks can freeze, +15% Ice attack, bonus capture power on frozen targets

Status warfare

• Venom Fang - attacks can poison, +30% attack against poisoned targets, but takes +25% damage while poisoned
• Ember Fang - attacks can burn, +30% attack against burning targets, but burns hurt it +50% more
• Shadow Veil - attacks can blind, +25% attack against blinded targets, but Defense -10%
• Stone Hide - immune to poison, burns, and stun, but -15% movement speed

Hunters and catchers

• Trapper's Instinct - +2 capture power, +3 more against unaware targets, but Defense -10%
• Sphere Sense - chance to recover thrown spheres, +1 capture power, but Defense -5%
• Pacifist's Gift - never lands a killing blow (foes survive at 1 HP), +1 capture power, +50% trust gain
• Night Stalker - nocturnal, +15% speed, enemies are slower to notice it, but SAN drains 15% faster

Combat rhythm

• Bloodletter - drains life from every hit it lands, but natural HP regen is crippled
• Overclocked - +20% attack speed, 15% faster cooldowns, but SAN drains 20% faster
• Adrenal Surge - +50% attack and a burst of healing at low HP, but SAN drains 20% faster
• Dead Man's Trigger - explodes when brought to the brink, +30% attack at low HP

Economy

• Golden Touch - +10% sell prices, more drops, more gathering, but Work Speed -10%
• Quartermaster - carried food spoils 50% slower and your load lightens by 12%, but Work Speed -15%
• Butcher's Bounty - double meat when butchered, drops extra loot if it dies (a grim blessing)

Survival and traversal

• Thick Blubber - immune to cold, wet, and mud, but +25% Fire damage taken
• Desert Blood - immune to heat, hunger 15% slower, but +25% Ice damage taken
• Camel's Blessing - hunger drains 30% slower, keeps recovering even while starving, but Work Speed -10%
• Mountain Goat - +50% climbing speed, +25% jump, but -20% max stamina

[h2]Bloodlines[/h2] (breeding and surgery only, never wild)

• Fertile Line - +50% breeding speed, eggs hatch 30% faster, 25% chance of an extra egg, but hunger drains 25% faster
• Alpha Blood - gains 60% more experience and +15% HP, but eats 20% faster (APSE surgery exclusive)

Rarity is tuned to vanilla and APSE conventions: the commons are genuinely uncommon finds, the rank-4 powers are exactly as rare as the ecosystem's god-tier passives, and the bloodlines never roll wild - you earn them.

Surgery table: every passive can be implanted at the operating table with the APSE Uniplant of its rank. Bloodlines take the Breeding Mutation Uniplant; Alpha Blood takes the Rank 5 Uniplant.

Mod friendly: passives join the global pool, so modded species (PalVariety2026, APSE legendaries, future pal mods) roll them naturally. Rows merge cleanly alongside other passive mods. The work-mastery line pairs especially well with work-suitability mods.

Every passive shows its full effect breakdown in-game, APSE-style: flavor text up top, exact numbers below.

Recent updates

0.4.7 - SIMPLIFIED CHINESE (简体中文):

• Full Simplified Chinese translation of all 29 passives (names and complete descriptions).
• Like the Portuguese update: the whole APSE passive set is translated too (463 strings), so every passive shows in Chinese when your game language is Chinese. Terminology matches the game's own Chinese text; APSE passives that redefine vanilla ones keep their official vanilla Chinese names.
• Nothing to configure. Requested by 木已成舟, thanks!
• Portuguese fix: Wellness Watcher and Cardio Planner had dropped their "all party Pals" clause.

Requires: UE4SS Experimental (Palworld), PalSchema, and APSE (Azomer's Passive Skill Expansion) - all on the Workshop.