PalworldAfter two-and-a-half years of early access, Palworld is launching into full release tomorrow, July 10. It’s a moment that brings both good news and some potential bad news: The price isn’t going up, which is very nice, but if you have any old mods left installed, you may run into trouble.
Pocketpair said in today’s caution that it supports modding, writing, “we look forward to seeing all the amazing mods that will be made after 1.0.” The potential for trouble, particularly for people who are coming back to the game for the 1.0 release after a long time away, is found in old and “potentially harmful” mod data that may still be lying around.
“The upcoming 1.0 update for Palworld makes significant changes to the game’s systems,” Pocketpair explained. “If you still have mods installed from the past, especially mods that have been left installed since around 2024, you may encounter problems such as crashes when launching or playing the game, corrupted save data or save data failing to load, [or] quests or events becoming impossible to progress.”
Simply disabling mods isn’t sufficient, because data and mod loaders may still be loaded when the game starts, even if the mods themselves are switched off. The only way to be sure is to nuke it all from orbit—which is to say, manually delete all the relevant data.