Pocketpair promised the biggest Pal drop in Palworld history for 1.0, and they delivered: 72 new Pals, made up of 47 entirely new species and 25 variants of old favorites, pushing the total Paldeck to 287. A word on accuracy before we start. The spawn maps and name lists floating around this weekend are a mess. Auto-captioned videos mangle half the names, and the pre-launch spam guides invented the rest. Every name below is verified against the live Paldeck databases and Game8’s wiki, so you can search these spellings and actually find things. The Headliners Skutlass, the Sword You Can Pet The trailer’s mysterious sword eel has a name. Skutlass is a Water-type whose partner skill, Fish Fillet, transforms it into a katana in your hands with a monstrous 2,600 attack. The catch: leave it in sword form too long and it collapses from exhaustion, so treat it like a burst weapon, not a main. A fire version, Skutlass Ignis, hits even harder. Panthalus The giant whale from the trailer is a Level 70 Water-type quest boss, summoned with the Echoing Flute at the Deserted Islet, and catching it is literally how you unlock the World Tree. Bonus nobody expected: it’s a rideable flying mount, and stationed at a base it patrols the sky and bombards intruders. One per save,…
