Palworld Pal List 2026: All 287 Pals and Why Every Database Disagrees

The Authoritative Count: 287 Entries After 1.0

Palworld's 1.0 update ended Early Access and, according to Pocketpair's announced date, arrived on July 10, 2026. Steam's store listing shows July 9, a one-day discrepancy that the sources do not explain.

The update added 72 Pals to the roster, including variants (one breakdown puts it at 47 entirely new entries and 25 variants). That brought the Paldeck total to 287, the figure Pocketpair put on the game when it left Early Access on 10 July 2026. For a deeper look at everything that shipped that day, our Palworld 1.0 Patch Notes Breakdown covers the full scope.

The numbering is where readers get confused. Variant entries carry a letter suffix rather than a fresh number. Fuack Ignis sits at 5B, Celaray Lux at 7B, Tanzee Ignis at 23B. That is how 287 entries fit inside 204 numbered slots. If you are scanning a Paldeck and wondering why the count exceeds the highest number you see, the suffixes are the reason.

Why Pal List Totals Keep Changing

The competing totals are easy to find, and each maps to a specific source. Palworld Hub currently publishes 299. Palworldbreedcalculator lists 300 roster entries. Pindrop.gg advertises 301 Paldeck entries. Older pages still float counts from before July 2026, including figures as low as 156.

None of these are Pocketpair's number.

The 287 figure is the one tied to the official 1.0 count: Pocketpair put the total at 287 when the game left early access on 10 July 2026, and the game's data lists the same number. The others come from a few predictable places: off-by-one rounding in how a database handles a special entry, catalogs that include non-Paldeck or unreleased Pals carried in game files but never shipped, and sites that simply have not updated since before the 1.0 launch. One database even flags a single entry as unconfirmed while still counting it toward its total.

The practical takeaway is simple. Before trusting any database's headline number, check its "last updated" stamp. And treat any list that does not include 1.0 additions like Pupperai, Clovee and Tanzee Ignis as out of date, no matter how confident its header looks.

What 1.0 Changed Beyond the Headcount

The 72 new Pals did more than pad a list. They were slotted into the breeding value range, which means many pre-1.0 breeding combos now produce a different Pal than they used to. Anyone following an older palworld breeding guide or plugging pairs into a stale palworld breeding calculator may find the results no longer match their expectations. If you are planning a palworld breeding farm around a specific outcome, verify the combination against a post-July 2026 source.

The update also introduced the Sunreach sky-island region, the World Tree endgame, a level cap raised to 80, Mutation breeding and Tower bosses (sources differ on the count, with one guide listing nine and another describing eight). Sakurajima (v0.3.1) had previously added 24 Pals, split between 14 regular entries and 10 variants or fusions.

For anyone hunting the top of the Paldeck, the legendary sub-list remains a distinct category worth knowing. Eight Pals carry the game's top rarity value of 20: Bellanoir, Bellanoir Libero, Paladius, Necromus, Frostallion, Frostallion Noct, Neptilius and Jetragon. One note of caution if you are tracking Jetragon: sources conflict on its post-1.0 location, with one guide placing the alpha at Dragonmark Peak and another reporting a move to Sunreach Island. Treat any single location claim as unconfirmed until you verify it in-game.

The List Is About to Change Again

Two live developments will move the roster count again, and both are worth tracking.

The 2026 Global Popularity Poll, held in September 2026, named Sekhmet the top Pal and Zoe the top character. Pocketpair announced the results alongside the reveal of the next update. The studio has not confirmed whether the rankings will influence the content of that update.

That update is Palworld: Side by Side, announced for Winter 2026. Early coverage billed it as a huge winter update, but Pocketpair has since clarified that it is effectively update 1.1, not a new game and not a massive expansion. The studio's head of publishing, John "Bucky" Buckley, said Pocketpair does not want to simply "release 100 new Pals" with the next update, which points to a slower roster-growth cadence after 1.0's 72.

Set your expectations accordingly. There is no confirmed Pal count for 1.1, so any specific number circulating now is speculation.

The Number to Remember, and How to Keep It Accurate

Here is the one-line answer: 287 Paldeck entries, numbered to No. 204. Sources that count 84 element variants put the Paldeck at 288 entries, so treat the variant tally as approximate.

Keep that figure accurate by following a simple habit. Trust Pocketpair's own announcements and Steam news for roster facts and dates. Use the databases for what they are genuinely good at, browsing stats, work suitability, spawn maps and breeding combinations, and always check their update stamps before quoting a total. The palworld pal list will be wrong again the moment Side by Side lands in Winter 2026, and this is where to check what it adds.