Safety
Mod safely
Mods touch your game files and, sometimes, your save. Six rules keep both intact — none of them optional, all of them cheap.
Palworld 1.0
Backups first
Official sources only
The rules
Six habits of modders who keep their saves
If something breaks
Crash on startup, broken save, weird behavior online — the recovery procedure is always the same, and it always ends with a clean, unmodded game:
- Delete the UE4SS mods. Empty the
Modsfolder inside your UE4SS install (Pal\Binaries\Win64\UE4SS\Modson Steam). - Delete your .pak mods. Remove everything you added to
Pal\Content\Paks— the whole~modssubfolder if you followed the guide. - Verify game files. Steam → Palworld → Properties → Installed Files → Verify integrity of game files. Anything a mod overwrote comes back stock.
- Launch the game clean. Only when vanilla works, reinstall mods one at a time — and restore your backed-up save if you had to roll back.
Still broken after that? The problem is not your mods. Check docs.palworldgame.com and the Palworld Modding Community Discord for known 1.0 issues.