Pal Insight: Breeding Link

A PLAYER REQUEST BECAME BREEDING LINK

Breeding Link started with a request from Nexus Mods user TXDRAGONXT: bring the Pals already owned in game into a breeding calculator without access to the dedicated server's world save.

That was the missing link: planning from your own collection should not depend on having the save file.

So I built a bridge from the in-game Palbox itself. Whether you play solo or multiplayer, enter a base and press F8. The cratex.app calculator opens with your Palbox already loaded—no manual entry and no save upload.

Breeding Link runs on your own client. On multiplayer servers, the server owner and other players do not need to install it.

Thank you, TXDRAGONXT, for the request that gave this project its start.

PLAN WITH THE PALS YOU ALREADY OWN

Choose a target Pal and the passive skills you want, then explore and compare breeding routes in the calculator. There is no need to enter each Pal by hand or keep switching back to the game to note down their gender and passives.

The imported information includes:

• Pal species
• Gender
• Passive skills
• Palbox page and slot position, so you can find each Pal again in game

Breeding Link reads the current player's own Palbox. It brings that information into the web planner; you still do the actual breeding in game.

QUICK START

For Palworld 1.0+ on Steam / Win64.

1. Close Palworld. Download UE4SS for Palworld and extract the standard package’s dwmapi.dll and ue4ss folder into <Palworld>/Pal/Binaries/Win64/.
2. Download this mod’s ZIP and extract it into the game folder containing the Pal directory, merging the included Pal folder.
3. Launch the game, enter a base and press F8.

Your browser will open the calculator with your Palbox data loaded. After catching or hatching Pals, or rearranging your Palbox, press F8 again to load an updated list.

Use one installation channel only. Do not combine Nexus Mods, CurseForge, or Steam Workshop copies, and do not mix Win64 and WinGDK packages. Close Palworld before installing or updating.

DO I NEED PAL INSIGHT?

Pal Insight is optional. With the required UE4SS runtime installed, Breeding Link works through its default F8 shortcut on its own.

If you also have Pal Insight installed, open:

F6 > Extensions > Pal Insight: Breeding Link

Use this panel to change the shortcut. The in-game settings panel requires Pal Insight.

Processing messages, settings, and release history support all 17 Palworld interface languages.

YOUR DATA

No save-file access or save upload is needed. The imported Pal data is processed locally in your browser and is not uploaded to an external API or application server.

TROUBLESHOOTING

F8 does nothing

• Confirm that your character is inside a base.
• Confirm that UE4SS loaded Breeding Link.
• With Pal Insight installed, check the shortcut under F6 > Extensions.
• Make sure only one Breeding Link installation is present.

The calculator opens without Pals

Wait until the Palbox has loaded in game, return to a base, and try again.

If the problem continues, please include your platform, game and mod versions, single-player or multiplayer mode, reproduction steps, and complete UE4SS.log. These details help me find the cause more quickly.

Discord: https://discord.gg/F72EfbSCcN

BREEDING CALCULATOR

Open the cratex.app Palworld Breeding Calculator

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Changelog

Unreleased

1.0.3 - 2026-10-02

Fixed

• Fixed shortcut changes being blocked by keys another mod no longer uses. Possible conflicts now warn and allow saving; active conflicts may still trigger multiple actions.
• Fixed shortcut selection for numpad digits and punctuation keys.
• Release notes now include previous versions and translations for all 17 supported languages.

Changed

• Mod activation now follows UE4SS. To disable a portable installation, remove or rename enabled.txt, set corresponding mods.txt entries to PalInsightBreedingLink : 0, and restart the game.
• Use stable platform-only CurseForge file names: Steam (Win64) and Game Pass (WinGDK).

1.0.2 - 2026-09-20

Fixed

• Dedicated-server clients can automatically synchronize unopened pages while exporting from an open Palbox.

1.0.1 - 2026-09-10

Fixed

• Fixed a settings action that could retain keyboard or controller focus after completion and display an incorrect inactive colour.

Changed

• Added an acknowledgement for TXDRAGONXT, whose dedicated-server use case inspired Breeding Link's client-side Palbox workflow.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-07

Added

• Added F8 to open the breeding tool directly from the game while inside a base.
• Reads the current player's Palbox and transfers Pal species, gender, passive skills, and Palbox positions to the breeding tool.
• Supports multiplayer servers by reading Palbox data already replicated to the local game client.
• Transfers data through the browser URL fragment and processes it locally, without save-file access, an external API, or a server upload.
• Added a localized processing notification while Palbox data is being prepared.
• Added an independent settings page opened from Pal Insight's Extensions page, with shortcut configuration, release notes, restore defaults, and close controls. It reuses Pal Insight's settings host and on-screen control guide for a consistent keyboard, mouse, and controller experience.
• Added interface support for all 17 Palworld languages.