(SERVER) Expedition XP - Pals Level While Away

Expedition XP

Pals sent on expeditions come home with more than loot — they come home with LEVELS. Expeditions become a real progression path: a nursery for your under-leveled pals and a steady lane for everyone else.

Server-side mod. It installs on whoever runs the world — a dedicated server, or your own game in single-player. Other players need nothing, and installing it only on a client does nothing at all.

How the reward works

• Anchored to the expedition — each expedition pays XP rated to its tier's unlock level. Higher expeditions, bigger rewards.
• The nursery curve — pals UNDER the expedition's level get a catch-up bonus (up to 1.8x). A low-level pal on a high expedition leaps; send the babies out and they come back grown.
• No free rides at the top — pals far OVER the expedition's level earn ~nothing. Maxed teams must graduate to bigger expeditions.
• Every run counts — a floor guarantees each completion is worth a real chunk of the pal's next level, even at high levels.
• Mass expeditions welcome — the whole assigned crew earns, whether that's five pals or a hundred.

Single-player or multiplayer?

• Single-player / co-op host: just subscribe — done.
• Dedicated server: this mod is SERVER-SIDE. Install the Scripts folder as a UE4SS Lua mod on the server; players need nothing. Subscribing on a client does NOT affect a dedicated server's world (the mod stays passive on pure clients by design).

The fine print

• XP lands the moment an expedition completes — including runs that finish while the server is offline (paid on next boot). A ledger guarantees no run ever pays twice.
• Pals level up right in the box — no need to deploy them. Levels and XP use the game's own experience curve.
• Tuning lives at the top of Scripts/main.lua: XP rate, catch-up bonus, over-level falloff, and the tier-to-level anchor table (defaults track the tower progression).
• Works alongside expedition speed/requirement mods.

Requirements

UE4SS — auto-installed when you subscribe.

If something breaks

Crashes are rare but real, and so is "it just stopped working". A good report usually gets it fixed fast -- past bugs in this mod family were found and fixed precisely because players sent the right files. Start here: [olist] [*]First, update every Darn mod you have -- DarnMenu, DarnToasts and DarnUI as well as the mod itself. These share libraries, and updating one while another stays old is the single most common cause of a mod behaving strangely or not running at all. If that fixes it, you are done. [*]Before you relaunch, copy UE4SS.log from the UE4SS folder the mod is installed under (Steam installs: Palworld\Mods\NativeMods\UE4SS\UE4SS.log). It is overwritten on the next launch, so grab it first -- it usually names the problem outright. [*]If the game CRASHED, grab its own crash record too: the newest folder in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pal\Saved\Crashes. [*]Include the mod's version: open ESC -> Mod Options -> this mod's page -- the version is shown at the top (needs DarnMenu 1.7.4+; it is also printed near the top of UE4SS.log at every launch). Note whether you play singleplayer or on a dedicated server, what you were doing just before, and your other mods. [*]Zip it up, upload to gofile.io (free, no account needed), and post the link in a comment -- or, if you also use Nexus, file it on the mod's Bugs tab there, which is hardest for me to lose. [/olist]

AI disclosure

Being upfront: these mods are built in collaboration with an AI assistant (Anthropic's Claude). I'm a software engineer — the design and direction are mine, and I take a critical eye to the function of the code, review it, and test it in real play. AI drafts the code and much of the text; it saves me a great deal of time and is honestly what makes creating these mods feasible at all. If AI-assisted work isn't your thing, no hard feelings — you deserve to know before subscribing.