How to Create a Pal Obits Page in Palworld
You've spent forty hours breeding a specific breed of Pal, and now it's gone. The standard game doesn't give you much to work with when something dies except a notification that pops up and then disappears. Some people just move on, but others want a record. That's what Pal Item Obituaries A Final Tribute To The Loved And The Lost is about — it's not an official feature, it's a community-driven way to document the Pals you've lost. There are two real ways people do this. The first is the manual route: you take screenshots of your Pal, note its stats, skills, and how it died, then drop them into a Google Doc or Notion page. It's slow. I have a Notion database with about sixty entries and it took me roughly three weeks to get through them because I kept going back to verify IVs and egg moves. The second method uses a spreadsheet with a template. I built one that pulls your Pal's name, species, level, rarity, skill set, and date of death, then appends a short paragraph about what happened. The key trick is naming your files in a consistent format right from the start. I use YYYYMMDD-PalName.jpg. If you wait until after the fact, you'll lose track and you'll end up with files like screenshot_final_v2_updated.png that are impossible to match to the right entry.
What Most People Miss When Tracking Pals
The game records a Pal's death in your log, but the log entry is vague. It tells you the name and species, but it doesn't tell you the cause. I learned this the hard way when a Level 52 Brute Bonnet died during a raid and my first draft said nothing about how. Go back into your battle history and check the logs if they're still there. If not, you're working from memory, and memory is unreliable for details like whether a Pal died from enemy damage, terrain, or self-inflicted collapse from overwork. Another thing that bites people is the fusion mechanic. When two Pals fuse, the resulting entity has its own identity. I once tried to create an obituary for a fused Pal that had been decomposed back into its components. The fusion was the one that died, but both parents were still alive. That distinction matters if other people are reading your tribute and trying to figure out which Pal you're actually mourning.
The Workaround I Use Now
When a Pal dies, I don't create the obituary right away. The game world is noisy at the moment of loss. Instead, I take a screenshot of the inventory and the Pal's status screen within ten minutes while it's still in the data, then I wait a few days before writing anything. That gap means I can be more factual. I also cross-reference the Pal's skill list against the wiki because the game sometimes fails to display a learned skill correctly on the status screen after a certain patch. If your obituary lists wrong moves, it loses credibility fast. Reddit has a few dedicated threads for this kind of thing, and the Palworld subreddit gets a steady stream of obituary posts. Discord servers tied to clans are more personal. I've seen people host shared Trello boards where every member of a base contributes their own Pal's memorial. If you're doing this for a single Pal, a simple Imgur album or a pasted image in a thread works fine. If you're building a collection, a shared Google Sheet with tabs for each species is easier to maintain than individual documents. One important detail: if you plan to publish these anywhere public, don't include real names or photos of other players unless they've given explicit permission. The community is smaller than it looks, and someone will notice.
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Common Pitfalls
The biggest issue I see is inconsistency. One person will write a paragraph about each Pal's personality. Another will just paste a stat block with no context. Neither approach is wrong, but the lack of a shared standard makes it hard to browse another person's collection without guessing what they've included. I recommend settling on a minimum set of fields before you start your second entry: Pal Item Obituaries A Final Tribute To The Loved And The Lost works best when it's structured enough to be readable but loose enough that you can actually finish it. Perfectionism is the main reason people stop keeping these records. I've seen a lot of half-finished spreadsheets with five or six entries and then nothing after that. Palworld doesn't support this natively because the developers haven't built a memorial system into the game. That's fine. The community filled the gap because the emotional attachment people have to their Pals is real, and having a way to acknowledge that loss makes the time spent breeding, training, and managing them feel less disposable. The obituary itself isn't about the game mechanics. It's about acknowledging that something you invested effort into is gone and deciding to record it rather than let it vanish.
If you want to start, pick one dead Pal, gather the screenshots, open a blank document, and fill in the fields I listed above. Don't overthink the first entry. The formatting will tighten up as you go.
