Dataminer Reveals How Terrifying Palworld PvP Could Be

is a surprise smash success, breaking Steam records and accumulating millions of players in under a week. While there's a large enough map and enough to do in the fairly expansive survival title, some are already looking toward the future and what's in store for the creature-collecting game. A recent data mine uncovered after the latest update reveals what could potentially be in store for the future, and one item is causing a stir among people who play.

Currently, is limited to a single-player or cooperative experience, but a recently released roadmap provided more clues to what the developers of the game, Pocket Pair, have in store for the next year. One huge inclusion is introducing a PvP element, which would completely change how people approach the survival title.

According to a recent data mine of as posted by Palworldtrainer (via Dot Esports), the new Radar Sphere "" Though the item description says that the chance of successful capture is low, losing one's favorite Pal is a scary thought to anyone who wants to play PvP.

After all, though it's easy to catch many Pals across the world, bosses and higher-level creatures have lower base capture rates and could require multiple Pal Spheres of varying quality to capture. Furthermore, modifying different Pals' move sets through special skill fruits takes time and could mean having to level-up Pals for a second time to re-create the Pal that was lost.

Breeding Pals in is also quite time-consuming, making the risk of losing a bred Pal even greater.

While the basic multiplayer mode enables a party of four, dedicated servers can support up to 32 players, leaving a lot of potential for the upcoming PvP mode that was announced with the Palworld Early Access roadmap. It isn't the first open-world survival title to take on PvP, with another popular indie survival game,, featuring the option for PvP heavily in that title. Another obvious correlation that could be made is the PvP in, which actually served as an inspiration