How to capture people in Palworld

To capture a person in Palworld, first provoke and engage that NPC in a brawl to reduce their health.

Pal Spheres are an incredibly powerful tool in Palworld that not only helps players capture any Pal for themselves. And it even helps players catch other people. When you catch someone, you will receive their support from your base. If you want to try catching people in Pal Spheres, try following some of the suggestions below.

How to catch people in Pal Spheres

To capture one, first provoke and engage that NPC in a brawl to reduce their health. You can do many things to reduce their health, by using weapons, sending Pals to fight or using traps. The lower the NPC's health, the higher the chance of catching them.

When their health is low, throw Pal Spheres at that NPC's location. Then this ball will do its job.

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If that NPC escapes, draw them back into the fight and continue draining their health before you throw another orb. Catching people is not as easy as catching animals, so you need to be persistent to catch a person.

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Although when players capture people, the capture rate will be lower than Pals, but if the orb is strong enough and the health is low enough, you can completely capture NPCs in the game. At the same time, if you do it in a friendly village you will be wanted for committing a crime.

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An NPC that you successfully capture, you can use them and summon them to fight other enemies. Or assign NPCs to your base to turn them into "builders" to assist with additional crafting tasks. They only have abilities suitable for Handiwork, meaning they can only help you with crafting tasks in your base.

How to sell people in Palworld

Although they can be used as a party member or turned into a builder at the base. You can also sell them to the Merchant NPC for gold coins, and selling them for money is quite easy and simple.

All you need to do is go to Merchants like Black Marketeer or Small Settlement Pal Merchant. Then select the NPC you want to sell. Confirm completion of "human trafficking" and choose to receive gold coins.

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One interesting thing is that when you arrest people, there will be a message that this practice is inhumane on Palpagos Island. Even though you capture people, the system will have uses for the people you capture, even killing NPCs for meat. But the system still rates your actions as inhumane, even though only in the game.

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The main benefit of capturing NPCs is that if you capture various types of traders, you can see them permanently appearing at your base to buy and sell resources whenever you need them.