Palia beginner's guide

How time works in Palia

A Palia day lasts one real hour, and Palia midnight is at the top of every real hour. That matters more than it sounds: many fish and bugs only show up at certain times of the Palia day, and some events happen at the same minute every hour.

• The daily reset is at 04:00 UTC: villager chats and gifts, rummage piles and other once-a-day things come back.
• The weekly reset is on Monday at the same time: new weekly wants and weekly challenges.
• Daily quests change at 8:00 UTC, not at the daily reset.

See the Palia clock for the time right now.

Your first day

The main story is your tutorial: it gives you a home, your first tools and the people who teach you everything else. Its first quests, in order:

1. Welcome to Palia from Jina
2. Learning the Ropes from Ashura
3. Mysterious Object from Badruu
4. Ancient Battery from Jina
5. Like a Bird from Jina
6. Echoes of the Unknown from Jina

"Welcome to Palia" hands you Makeshift Axe, Makeshift Pick, Worktable: enough to clear your plot and start building.

Every quest has a walkthrough on our quest pages.

The skills, and who teaches them 9

"Learning the Ropes" sends you round the villagers who teach the first skills. The rest you'll pick up along the way. Each skill levels on its own; the XP guides show the fastest way up.

The first levels come quickly (240 XP for level 2), and each one after takes a bit more, up to 5,000 XP a level from level 9. Eating keeps your focus up, and focus adds a bonus to all the XP you earn, so cook and eat as you go.

Villagers and friendship 29

Palia has 29 villagers. Friendship is built a little every day:

• Talk to each villager once a day.
• Give one gift a day each. Things they love count for more, and every villager has a short list of weekly wants that changes on Monday.
• Friendship levels unlock their quests and rewards, and for some, romance.

See every villager: what they like, where they are right now and this week's wants.

Every day

• Chat and gift the villagers you're befriending.
• Daily quests: 2 a day, each helping you level a skill. Every daily quest.
• Rummage piles: one in each region a day (two in Elderwood and the Royal Highlands). Where they are.
• World events, every hour at the same minute:

Every week

• Weekly wants: each villager's wish list, new every Monday.
• Weekly challenges for each skill, also reset on Monday.
• The bulletin board has bundles to fill for rewards; it changes with each patch.
• About once a month, the Maji Market opens in the evenings for a week.

Things to collect

There's always something to tick off:

Let Palia Pal keep track

Palia Pal is a free, fan-made companion that answers "what should I do next?":

• Home

  The Palia clock, what's next in the next few minutes, today and this week.

• Field

  Which fish, bugs and creatures are out right now, and where.

• Villagers

  Weekly wants, who you've chatted to and gifted today, and where everyone is.

• Tasks

  Crafter timers, your shopping list, weekly challenges and the bulletin board.

• Collections

  Tick off everything you catch, cook and find.