The latest Palworld update has introduced another controversial change to the game: a related bug Breeding friends This prevents amateur Pal biologists from perfecting Pal babies. Pocketpair is aware of the new bug and plans to fix the problem with another patch in the next few days.
Along with many other intended quality of life changes and bug fixes Palworld update 0.1.5.0, there were some unintended consequences. Pocketpair has already apologized for this accidentally fixed a bug This allowed players to capture tower bosses – an exploit that even I exploited just for fun. However, the problem with breeding is a new bug.
“There is an issue where buddies created through breeding retain their passives,” says Pocketpair Posted on X in a short list of known issues. “We plan to reverse this change as quickly as possible.”
The unclear wording of the topic has caused quite a bit of confusion – friends should Do you inherit passive traits from breeding, right? That is the point. Players have already done all sorts of calculations and research to figure out how this system works. The bug that is being fixed is Pals always bred with a certain passive trait.
Cattiva, for example, will always hatch with the passive trait “Coward” due to this bug. Cattiva in the wild are always cowardly, but if you breed two parents with different passive traits together, you should have a chance of your child inheriting some of these positive traits rather than being automatically slapped with cowardice at birth. Now that this bug has been fixed, players will again be able to “breed” certain passive traits out of a specific buddy species by assembling parents with desirable traits.
Pocketpair community manager “Bucky,” who posted the patch notes on the official Discord server, says a fix is coming quickly. “It will be reset in the next patch coming very soon. Within a day or two,” Bucky replied to one player.
When talking about passive inheritance of traits, one rarely delves into the player research surrounding Pal breeding, which includes extensive data information, statistics, calculators and more. So it's no surprise that this forced inheritance has upset the delicate balance of designer friends.
All Pal breeding farms should resume normal operations soon, it seems, in another patch expected to arrive later this week.
