Chillet is a water mount - the best swimmer nobody let swim

The problem

From the game data:

[]Chillet — swim 1350, swim dash 1890[/]

[]Surfent, an official water mount — swim 900, swim dash 1440[/]

Chillet swims faster than the water mounts do. It is also faster in water (1890) than on land (1050).

The swimming animation is a real one, too. A land pal in deep water flails and barely keeps itself up; Chillet winds through it. It has a saddle, and it can already sprint across the surface in vanilla.

All because the game files list it as GroundOnly.

So its stamina drains just from floating. For a land pal that makes sense — it is struggling to stay up. But Chillet is swimming faster and more comfortably than it runs, and gets tired anyway. And without the water mount flag, fishing and salvage on the water are off.

The fix

Every pal has a MovementType value, and the game decides from that one value whether a pal is a swimmer. This changes Chillet from GroundOnly to Swim, the same value Surfent has.

[]No stamina drain on the water[/]

[]Fishing works from the saddle[/]

[]Salvage works from the saddle[/]

[]Wild Chillet and Chillet Ignis go in the water too[/]

[]Alpha versions included[/]

No stat changes, no speed changes, no new items, no unlocks. Chillet swims exactly as fast as it did before. Only the classification is fixed.

Why only Chillet

Making any pal a water mount is not hard. It is just unconvincing.

Chillet is the one pal where the animation, the saddle and the speed are all there and only the classification is wrong. So Chillet is all this touches.

Settings

Nothing to configure. Setting DEBUG to true on the first line of Scripts/main.lua logs each conversion to UE4SS.log.

Installing

Requires UE4SS (the Palworld experimental build).

Extract into

Palworld\Mods\NativeMods\UE4SS\Mods\

so that ChilletIsAWaterMount\Scripts\main.lua exists. That is the whole installation — the folder already contains an empty enabled.txt, which is what tells UE4SS to load the mod, so there is no mods.txt to edit.

Mods are only loaded when the game starts, so restart it afterwards, and make sure the mod is switched on in the game's Mod menu.

Also on the Steam Workshop, where subscribing is all it takes.

Notes

Nothing is written to your save or to the game files. One value is written when a pal is created, and that is all.

Tested in singleplayer. Dedicated servers unverified. No friends.