Ruthless Palworld 1.0: Demfire’s Challenge Run
Game Title: Palworld | Version: v1.0+
These game settings for Palword 1.0 are designed to be challenging and based on my permadeath run on the initial release of Palworld (permadeath, hard, ended 0.1.4.1).
I will edit this page on launch day (July 10, 2026) if any setting is modified by the 1.0 update (unlikely).
Server Settings
The “hardcore” preset is easy mode, we’re going to transform the “hard” preset into a custom hardcore instead.
1. Pick the [Hard] difficulty, then click on [Custom Settings], this will preset all sliders to the proper values already, except 1.
2. Scroll down to [Damage to Player Multiplier] and get the value from x4 to x5, don’t touch any other slider.
3. Scroll all the way down and:
[Enable Fast Travel] to OFF.
[Hardcore Mode: Perm…] to ON.
[Hardcore Mode: Pals…] to ON.
[Allow Pal Genetic…] to OFF.
[Allow Pals to be…] to OFF.
Gameplay Rules
Blind
Don’t lookup any external information, Palworld 1.0 reworks a lot of stuff making the game different from the initial release.
Permadeath
Gameover when you die, each Pal that dies can also not be revived (this is part of the hardcore settings).
Single Pal per Fight
You can still unsummon/resummon it in order to avoid damage, just don’t send another Pal out.
Same Pal Breeding
If you want an Anubis, you will have to catch 1 male Anubis and 1 female Anubis in order to breed it.
Tower 1-Escape
You are allowed to exit the first time if you clearly don’t have the damage (the timer is a dps check).
In my original permadeath run, after Palworld released in Early Access, I beat the end boss with less than 10 seconds left on the timer. The settings were the default “hard” ones, with permadeath on top since the hardcore settings were not yet in the game. These new settings are slightly harder, setting the damage taken to the max value of x5 from x4 and having Pals not revive through the new hardcore settings.
Have fun.