10 Biggest Palworld Differences & Changes In The Sakurajima Update

's Sakurajima update has finally arrived and with it comes a myriad of changes from the base game. launched with massive success in January 2024, setting indie player count records on Steam. This success also came with enormous profits for developer Pocketpair, surpassing the development cost by a wide margin. This ongoing success has resulted in this first large content update.

's success came from a simple strategy, making the grind easy and giving players what they want. Though the community claimed «with guns» was met with some controversy, it filled a need missing in both the survival and creature catcher genres. The survival grind was massively lessened due to base mechanics allowing captured Pals to collect most necessary resources. Overall, can be seen as a very player-friendly game built upon its great gameplay cycle.

Here’s everything we know so far about Palworld’s massive Sakurajima update, including the release date, new pals, new faction, and new boss.

The smallest addition to Sakurajima arguably has the most potential to be great or horrible for players. Pal Skins are cosmetic options for captured Pals. To apply the new Pal Skins, players must build a Pal Dressing Facility, which can be researched at level one. Currently, it is unknown how skins will be acquired as more are added in.

Building a Pal Dressing Facility costs 10 Stone and 10 Paldium Fragments.

The Sakurajima update added one Pal skin given away for free. That skin is the Sunglasses Cattiva, which is just a Cattiva wearing a pair of sunglasses. Though simple, it is the first step into what could be an extremely creative and entertaining skin system for the future of. Another option, while unlikely, could be opening up for player-created mods to import more skins into solo worlds or private servers.

The Sakurajima update added a new looting system known as lockpicking. Lockpicks come in three tiers: Copper, Silver, and Gold Keys. Lockpicks are semi-expensive to make, requiring Ingots,