Palworld Breeding Calculator

Find the child of any two pals, or every parent pair for the pal you want — with a chain-breeding planner and passive-skill odds. Free, instant, and updated for Palworld 1.0.

Data current as of 2026-07-31 · game v1.0 · 299 pals · 44850 combinations

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What is a Palworld breeding calculator?

Breeding in Palworld is deliberately opaque. The game never shows you what a pair of pals will produce, and many players waste hours hatching random combinations while chasing one specific pal — a powerful Anubis for the team, or a perfect worker for the base. Behind the scenes every species has a hidden breeding power value, and the child is simply the species whose breeding power is closest to the average of its two parents. Without that table, targeted breeding is pure guesswork.

A breeding calculator removes the guesswork. This one answers both directions of the question instantly: pick two parents to see their child, or pick a target pal to see every breeding combination that produces it — the two searches every pal breeder needs daily. All 299 species and 44850 possible pairs are computed locally in your browser from real game data — no account, no downloads, no waiting.

How breeding works in Palworld 1.0

The formula

The child's species is determined by averaging the two parents' hidden breeding power values and matching the closest species. That is why two strong pals often produce a strong child of a completely different species.

Unique combos

A set of hard-coded exceptions overrides the formula — specific pairs that always produce one special species. Those species can only be obtained from their unique combo (or by breeding two of their own kind).

Same-species-only pals

Legendary and boss-tier pals such as Jetragon, Orserk, Grizzbolt, Lyleen and Faleris cannot be bred from other species at all in 1.0 — you must catch a male and a female in the wild, then breed them together.

One gender-dependent pair

Katress × Wixen is the only pair where gender decides the child: Katress (female) + Wixen (male) hatches Katress Ignis, while the reverse hatches Wixen Noct.

Every pair needs ♂ + ♀

Whatever the combination, you always need one male and one female of each parent species.

What changed in Palworld 1.0 breeding

The 1.0 release rewrote the entire breeding table, which is why so many older guides are now wrong. The most repeated example: Penking + Bushi no longer makes Anubis — in 1.0 that pair produces Sibelyx. Former unique-combo pals such as Orserk, Grizzbolt, Lyleen and Faleris moved to same-species-only breeding, 72 new species joined the roster, and dozens of classic recipes changed outcome. If a guide was written before the 1.0 launch, double-check it here — this site's data is extracted from the current 1.0 game files and shows the update date at the top of every page.

Passive skills and IV inheritance

End-game breeding is less about the species and more about the stats. The child inherits between 1 and 4 passive skills from its parents' combined pool — 40%, 30%, 20% and 10% respectively — plus up to 3 additional random passives. Getting all four desired passives onto one pal is therefore about a 10% roll per egg even with perfect parents. Individual values (IVs) work similarly: the child inherits 1–3 IV stats (50%/33%/17%), and each inherited stat then takes one parent's value at random. The Breeding Planner computes the exact per-egg odds for your specific parents — including IV breeding targets — and its chain solver maps the shortest breeding path from the pals you already own to the pal you want, rendered as a step-by-step breeding tree.

How to use this calculator

Find the Child

Click either parent slot, browse or search the pal grid (no need to know names — pick by picture), and the child appears instantly. Swap or reset with one tap.

Find the Parents

Pick a target pal (try the trending shortcuts) to list every combination that produces it, starting with the same-species pair.

Plan a breeding chain

Open the Breeding Planner, tick the pals you own, and get the shortest breeding chain to any reachable target, laid out as a step-by-step breeding tree.

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FAQ

How does breeding work in Palworld 1.0?

Each pal has a hidden breeding power. The child is the pal whose breeding power is closest to the average of both parents, with hard-coded exceptions (unique combos) and one gender-dependent pair (Katress x Wixen). The game never shows these values, so a calculator is required to breed a specific pal.

How do I breed a specific pal?

Use the Find Parents tab: pick the pal you want and it lists every breeding combination that produces it. If none of the pairs work for you yet, the Breeding Planner computes the shortest breeding chain — the full breeding tree of intermediate pairs — starting from the pals you own.

Is this calculator updated for Palworld 1.0?

Yes. The 1.0 release rewrote the breeding table, so pre-1.0 combos are outdated. This site uses data extracted directly from the current 1.0 game files, last updated 2026-07-31.

Does Penking + Bushi still make Anubis?

No. That was the pre-1.0 recipe and many outdated guides still repeat it. In Palworld 1.0, Penking + Bushi produces Sibelyx instead. Anubis now comes from other pairs — check the Find Parents tab for all 234 current combinations.

Why can’t I breed Orserk, Grizzbolt, Lyleen or Faleris from two different pals?

In Palworld 1.0 these pals can only be hatched from two parents of the same species (e.g. Orserk + Orserk). You need to catch a male and a female in the wild first, then farm eggs for better passives.

Do I need a male and a female pal to breed?

Yes — every pair needs one male and one female of each parent. The pair Katress x Wixen is special: the child species also depends on which parent is female (Katress female + Wixen male gives Katress Ignis; the reverse gives Wixen Noct).

What are the odds of passing down passive skills?

The child inherits 1–4 passives from the parents (40/30/20/10% respectively), chosen from their combined distinct passives, plus up to 3 random ones. Inheriting all 4 desired passives is therefore about 10% per egg in the best case. The Breeding Planner computes the exact odds for your pair.

What is the Breeding Planner?

A free companion tool for the two harder jobs every pal breeder runs into: chain breeding (it maps the shortest breeding path from the pals you own to the one you want, shown as a step-by-step breeding tree) and inheritance odds (per-egg probability for your desired passives and IV stats). Your pal list is stored only in your browser.