Sensible LOD Boost

Sensible LOD Boost

Keep cliffs, rocks and ancient ruins detailed farther into the distance.

If distant sandstone looks smoothed over and ancient ruins become shapeless blocks, Sensible LOD Boost gives the original scenery more room to stay loaded. It extends the main world's scenery loading range, moving the transition to simplified distant scenery farther away.

Choose your range

• 4x — Recommended: 1,024 m. The Workshop default and a strong middle ground.
• 2x — Less: 512 m. A gentler increase, with earlier distant transitions.
• 6x — More: 1,536 m. The broadest detailed scenery coverage of these presets.

The multipliers compare the main scenery loading radius with vanilla's 256 m. They do not multiply every object's individual LOD distances or guarantee an exact transition distance for each object. Foliage and the separate far-mountain range retain their game settings. Original textures and individual mesh LODs are untouched.

See the difference

The image gallery includes labelled vanilla, 2x, 4x and 6x gameplay screenshots. Numbered outlines point out the sandstone shelves, ruin rooflines and waterfall scenery to inspect. Full frames are retained. These are separate play sessions, so camera position, distance and lighting vary; they are visual examples, not a fixed-camera benchmark.

Requirements and compatibility

Palworld for Windows on Steam and compatible Palworld UE4SS. Validated in local single-player. Multiplayer, dedicated servers and Linux/Proton have not been validated for this release. No PalSchema required.

Use one copy and one range preset. Disable HLOD Fix or any other mod changing the same world-partition ranges before using this mod. Restart after changes.

Performance

All three presets were visually tested around Mount Obsidian. The 4x and 6x routes were reported smooth on the test PC. Results depend on your hardware and surroundings. Start at 4x and choose a shorter or longer range to suit. Some distant simplification remains, particularly at 2x. Every world region and travel transition has not been individually tested.

Installation

Subscribe to Sensible LOD Boost and its required UE4SS Experimental (Palworld) item. Enable both in Palworld's Mod Management, apply changes and restart the game. Do not also install a manual/Nexus copy or a second UE4SS runtime.

Changing the range

The Workshop download starts at 4x. With the game fully closed, open the mod's Scripts/sensible_lod_settings.lua and set Multiplier = 2, 4 or 6, then restart. Other values disable the mod. Workshop updates may replace this settings file, so check your chosen value after an update.

For separate manual downloads of all three presets, visit Sensible LOD Boost on Nexus Mods. Use one installation route.

Uninstallation

Save and close the game, disable/unsubscribe from this item, apply the change through Mod Management and restart. The runtime range override is not stored in your save file.

Support me on Ko-fi

If you enjoy the mod and want to support future Palworld projects, visit RsdntEvle on Ko-fi. Support is always appreciated and never required.

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• Endgame Logging - Mythical Wood
• Moving Eat Animation Fix
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• Stair Handrails
• Expedition Whistle Fix
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• Sensible Pals - Arrival Assist (Beta)
• Sensible Base Shape - Square Bases
• Sensible Monitoring - Better Site Management
• Sensible AutoAiming - Shoot Them In The Face
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Credits

RsdntEvle / rsdntevle1: concept, direction, in-game testing and release.