Bad Friends - New pal passives series (PalSchema)

Description

Version 2. 0. 0 includes 95 completely original pal passives, with player element damage, work suitability, fishing salvage, and so much more... Suddenly you find yourself stronger. Or weaker. Or somehow maybe both?

v2. 0. 0 IS NOW AVAILABLE, WITH CHANGES TO EXISTING PASSIVES & IMPLANT COSTS

CHECK CHANGELOG BEFORE UPDATING IF YOU ARE MID-PLAYTHROUGH!!!

NEW UNINSTALL EDITION OPTIONAL FILE - SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN SPOILER BELOW

BAD FRIENDS is a new collection of original pal passives added alongside existing Palworld passives. New passives are designed to occur randomly, at rates near or well-below normal passive lottery weights. The Rarities Collection has passives you might see just once or twice, or not at all. Buy surgical implants to buff your elemental teams, deal player elemental damage, boost work types, craft speed, fishing salvage, and so much more!

As new passives are added, new builds become possible. Build a team to buff only you with buffs like Dark Whisperer and Trinity, or build a team around all-new elemental passives like Pocket Dragon which changes the player's damage type to dragon and boosts your damage, and Well Trained which provides boosts to dragon damage and dragon damage resistance for both pal and player. These passives can be made stronger in conjunction with existing support passives like Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist but this mod makes no changes to ANY existing passives.

All effects are intended to be balanced, or only mildly stronger than vanilla passives: there are player buffs and debuffs, pal buffs and debuffs, team support passives, work and move speed passives... The stronger the effects, the rarer the passive is. Will you find The One? Who turns out to be the Main Character? Will you fall victim to a pal who is Deathly Contagious or stumble upon one with a cool Hover Board? Find a Smooth Talker that gives you +3 capture power and Mercy Hit for you and the pal!

If you find something unbalanced or have a suggestion: please leave a note in the posts section. If one passive keeps showing up too often in the wild, leave a note, or if a passive's effects are too strong of a buff or debuff, or just don't work, let me know! Even rare passives like The One are not designed to be a "god mode" passive. Be aware that not all passives are meant to have detailed in-game descriptions, but nearly all do, and a couple are just meant to be funny references with little or no gameplay effect. Also, if you're not seeing a rare passive occur it's probably working as designed, as there's no guarantees you will see them all.

This mod was originally developed for challenge runs: with the player's auto HP regen and outgoing dmg turned down and incoming damage turned up in your world settings, but should work equally well in more vanilla scenarios as well. If you have trouble with even normal mode tower bosses or the first Bellanoir raids, you get no shade from me, and you might find some of these new passives helpful (and hopefully fun) for you!

IMPLANTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE for selected passives: now you can custom-build a team around environmental damage types, dealing the same element types as your pals and getting damage and resistance buffs as well! Other passives selected for implants include movement, attack, lifesteal, and defense buffs, and a cold & heat resistance buff. No separate implant purchase is required from the bounty shop - simply select the passive(s) you want at the surgery table, pay a variable gold cost, and apply the passive! (If a passive from this mod isn't implantable, you must find it in the wild or by fishing/breeding. Some passives only occur very rarely on lucky spawns.)

Example Passives

You can view a spoiler-less list of the names of all passives that Bad Friends adds to the game in this article. A fully documented passives spreadsheet (with names, in-game descriptions, effects, lottery weights, etc.)