Once upon a time, in a land of Barns and Briars, a new season of stories began to bloom in Palia. This patch brings Animal Husbandry to life, with barns, breeding, and beloved animals galore. Build your own spooky-chic cottage, help The Gardener find his roots, and join in the harvest fun with Country Fair quests and daily rewards. From hay bales to hair dyes, fairy tales to farm life, this patch is full of charm to usher in the softer season.
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“Finally, I’ve got more folks to chin wag about all things Peki with! Don’t you worry, Ranchin is tough work, but me an’ the rest of the Daiyas will be there supporting ya! And if ya need a little more help, the Ranchin’ Association put together a helpful guide. I’ll leave a copy for ya by your animal pens!” - Delaila
Ranching has arrived in Palia, introducing the game’s very first new skill since launch. From baby animals to full-grown companions, you can discover the warmth and rewards of ranching life as part of your everyday play.
Ranching is a skill built around the simple but rewarding idea of caring for a variety of animals through the stages of life, watching them grow, collecting their resources, and breeding them to raise a state-fair champion. Each animal on your farm requires regular feeding, petting, and care to ensure they can grow as best as possible. The goal of Ranching is to provide a nurturing experience that mirrors Gardening in its rhythm: a little daily attention yields long-term growth, while consistent care unlocks deep progression and great rewards.
To begin your ranching journey, complete the quest “Like a Bird.” Once you’ve earned your glider, Delaila will arrive at your housing plot and gift you the recipe for the Barn Bell. Crafting and interacting with this bell will take you to your very own Ranch, a space designed with everything you need to get started. You’ll find multiple open areas for your animals to roam around, a register for purchasing new animals and ranching supplies, multiple easy access points to your storage, and even a dedicated breeding pen. When you step into the barn, look to your left for a reference book filled with Daiya family wisdom and everything you need to know about Ranching.
As you care for your animals, you’ll gain XP to level up your Ranching skill. As you level up, you’ll find a variety of new items available to purchase at the Ranching Store.
Skill Level | Unlock | Cost |
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Level 1 | Barn Bell - Provided by Delilah | N/A |
Level 2 | Peki | 1,000 Gold |
Level 3 | Namewell Cookie | 100 Gold |
Level 3 | Plain Cookie | 200 Gold |
Level 3 | Fast-Grow Cookie | 500 Gold |
Level 3 | Good Breed Biscuit | 500 Gold |
Level 3 | Bad Breed Biscuit | 200 Gold |
Level 4 | Trufflet Animal | 1,500 Gold |
Level 5 | Ranch Upgrade +10 Animal Storage | N/A |
Level 6 | Oopsie Cookie | 1,000 Gold |
Level 6 | Me-First Cookie | 500 Gold |
Level 6 | Predictable Cookie | 800 Gold |
Level 6 | Never-Grow Cookie | 1,250 Gold |
Level 7 | Ormuu Animal | 2,500 Gold |
Level 8 | Ranch Upgrade +10 Animal Storage | N/A |
Level 9 | Bumble Animal | 1,200 Gold |
Level 10 | Weekly Skill Challenges + Medals | N/A |
Level 10 | Cookie of the Day | 20 Medals |
Level 10 | Trait Treat | 20 Medals |
Level 10 | Roulette Cookie | 20 Medals |
Level 10 | Tasty Trait Treat | 100 Medals |
Level 10 | Worse Breed Biscuit | 10 Medals |
Level 10 | Faster-Grow Cookie | 10 Medals |
Level 10 | Better Breed Biscuit | 10 Medals |
Level 10 | Reroll Cookie | 50 Medals |
The Animals
Ranching is all about the love and joy of raising creatures through the seasons of their lives. Every animal in Ranching requires regular love and attention, but each species has unique elements that shape how you raise them. All animals are defined by four main qualities: Age, Happiness, Focus, and Items Produced. These values differ by species, changing how quickly they need care and what resources they provide.
At the start of your Ranching journey, you will be able to acquire and raise:
These 4 animals are only the beginning. The Ranching system has been built to support many more species in the future, ensuring your bustling farm can continue to grow in both variety and personality.
Each animal has three core aspects that the player cares for:
When you acquire animals, they’ll begin their life as a baby. As you take care of them, they will grow up through multiple stages of life before ultimately retiring. Animals will need to be happy and fed to age up, so make sure you continue to take care of them.
Animal Traits and Breeding
Animal traits and breeding bring a whole new layer of discovery to Ranching. Animals can have up to six traits, ranging from cosmetic flourishes to practical effects. No two animals are ever quite the same. There are hundreds of traits to discover, some shared across all species and others unique to each type, waiting to be uncovered as you progress on your ranching journey. Traits can be found as you purchase new animals, emerge randomly as they grow, or through breeding.
Breeding creates opportunities for trait inheritance as well as entirely new surprises! Once an animal reaches adulthood, you can pair it with another animal of the same species. You can breed your animals in the dedicated nursery pen on the west side of your Ranch.
When breeding, a newborn has a chance to inherit traits from each of its parents and may also develop brand-new ones. Of course, when you meet your new baby for the first time, you’ll have the joy of giving it a name!
Fair warning, babies are a lot of work, so each parent will need a little bit of time to rest before they’re ready to breed again.
Treats
With so much involved in Ranching, how do you maximize your flock’s potential? Enter treats. These special items offer a variety of benefits and adjustments, giving you new ways to guide and improve your animals. You can feed traits to an animal just like food, as long as another effect of the same type is not already active.
As noted above, you can acquire a number of basic treats from the Ranching store, such as one that lets you rename your animals, or remove a random trait from an animal. More advanced treats can be earned with Skill Medals, which are rewarded through weekly skill challenges. And finally, when donating an animal, you’ll receive a Treat Pack with increasing rewards based on the traits present on your donated animal.
Here are a few examples of notable treats you will encounter, offering a glimpse of the possibilities that await:
Treat Name | Description | Acquired By |
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Never Grow Cookie | When fed to a baby, will prevent the animal from aging | Ranching Store for Gold |
Namewell Cookie | Allows an animal to be renamed once. | Ranching Store for Gold |
Oopsie Cookie | Feed this to an animal to remove a single random trait | Ranching Store for Gold |
Feel Good Cookie | Gains a slight amount of happiness | Treat Packs |
PalSnax™ | Slightly increases how quickly your animal’s production bar fills a single time | Treat Packs |
Cookie of the Day | Feed this to an animal to grant it a single random cosmetic trait | Ranching Store for Skill Medals |
Divine Doughnut | Allows a retired animal to become a baby again while maintaining all of its traits | Legendary Treat Pack |
There’s many more sweet treats to discover as you build your farm. As one special bonus, if you complete some of the Monthly Bundles during the 0.195 patch, you’ll be able to receive Treat Packs to help jump start your Ranching experience!
Accomplishments
As with any skill, there are a wide variety of accomplishments to unlock associated with the Ranching skill, and at Skill Level 10, you’ll also unlock Weekly Skill Challenges. During the Fall Fantasy Season, you can quickly view your Ranching Accomplishments from within the Feature Guide.
Handler’s License
With the introduction of Animals, we’re also providing you a way to bring your own Animals out as your Pet and show them off to the world. In the Premium Store, you will have the ability to purchase this capability for a given species type. Once owned, you can take any of that animal species out into the world. In this patch, you’ll be able to purchase Licenses for the Peki, Trufflet, and Bumble.
Future Plans
This is the first new skill added to Palia since we launched our Closed Beta, and we have many more ideas for how to expand the skill over time. We’d love to hear your feedback on what you love, and what you wish was improved so we can make the experience better together. There’s a few things we’ve got in store already to call out:
This season we’re introducing our first Home Line, Alchemist’s Cottage!
Home lines are a major evolution of the Palia housing system, designed to give players more flexibility and modularity in building their dream homes.
The Alchemist’s Cottage comes with a touch of spooky fairytale charm, perfect for your autumn adventures. Here’s a rundown of new capabilities that this exciting addition brings:
New Home Line Capabilities:
Housing Feature Constants:
Important Notes:
“This system is still a work in progress, with many improvements to come, but we were so excited to see what players could do with the additional capabilities, we couldn’t hold it back. Over time we plan to improve the way players unlock and acquire Home Lines, create unique benefits for players who build with each Home Line, and provide more variety in building types. In 0.195, with Alchemist’s Cottage, players will be able acquire a pre-fabricated house which they can then modify and extend to their hearts content in order to experience the new capabilities of Home Lines. In the future we plan to allow players to craft many of the pieces individually.” - S6 Forseti
Read below for the new Alchemist’s Cottage items/recipes and their acquisition location(s):
Item | Loot / Craft / Purchase Location |
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Alchemist Cottage A | Purchased via the City Hall Store. Requires Furniture Making Level 10 |
Alchemist Cottage B | Purchased via the City Hall Store. Requires Furniture Making Level 10 |
Alchemist Chimney | 1x in Alchemist Cottage A |
Alchemist Rooftop Window | 1x in Alchemist Cottage B |
Alchemist Roof Connector | 2x in Alchemist Cottage A |
Alchemist Roof Trim 1 | 1x in Alchemist Cottage B |
Alchemist Roof Trim 2 | 1x in Alchemist Cottage B |
Alchemist Roof Trim 3 | 1x in Alchemist Cottage B |
Alchemist Base Room | Purchased via the City Hall Store. Requires purchase of Cottage A. |
Alchemist Twisted Column | 4x in Alchemist Cottage A, 4x in Alchemist Cottage B |
Alchemist Window 1 | 2x in Alchemists Cottage A, 2x in Alchemists Cottage B |
Alchemist Window 2 | 2x in Alchemists Cottage A, 2x in Alchemists Cottage B |
Alchemist Window 3 | 1x in Alchemists Cottage A, 2x in Alchemists Cottage B |
Alchemist Window 4 | 2x in Alchemists Cottage A, 1x in Alchemists Cottage B |
Alchemist Ivy 1 | 1x in Alchemist Cottage A |
Alchemist Ivy 2 | 1x in Alchemist Cottage A |
Alchemist Ivy 3 | 1x in Alchemist Cottage A |
Wooden Stairs | Purchased via the City Hall Store. Requires purchase of Cottage A. |
A brand new friendship opportunity is blossoming in Palia! The Gardener, a long occupant of the Earth Temple, is now ready to step beyond the temple doors and open their heart to friendship.
If you’ve completed the Earth Temple quest line, you’ll receive a visit to your plot from Einar who will invite you to embark on a unique journey to befriend The Gardener. Raise your friendship with the Gardener by chatting with him and bringing thoughtful gifts. Once you reach Level 2 Friendship, a quest will unlock that allows you to bring him to live with you on your housing plot.
Along the way, you’ll explore his dream of connecting with all Galdur through the Flow Network … and Einar’s understandable reluctance to allow such powerful reach. Complete the journey to not only restore and mend their relationship but also earn a one-of-a-kind decorative reward exclusive to this questline.
The Bahari Province Faire is coming up and Badruu is determined to help his wife beat her nemesis Maize Martingdale! He needs your help to make sure the Daiya Farms booth is the best booth it can be.
This seasonal showdown will have you rolling up your sleeves and putting your Ranching skills to the test with tasks that will have you gathering items from your own barn to help stock the booth with the finest goods in Bahari.
Not only will your efforts bring glory to the Daiya Farms name, but you’ll also walk away with some delicious treats your animals are sure to love.
Complete all the work, and you’ll secure the Rancher’s Decor Recipe Starter Pack, available only through the County Fair Bulletin Board during this patch. In the future, we plan for this pack to return in other ways, so don’t fret if you miss it…but why wait when the Bahari Province Faire glory is at stake?
A new way to keep both your looks and days in Palia fresh is here!
We are introducing over 200 rotating daily quests, each themed around helping the community. Every day, you will receive two randomly selected quests.
For now, they can only be viewed in the “P Menu”/Feature Guide, but they will eventually appear on the Community Bulletin Board in town. Don’t like the quests you’re given? You will be able to reroll your daily quests with reroll credits. You’ll receive 10 of these per patch.
Completing daily quests will reward you with Tailor Tickets. These are a new earnable currency designed to expand your style options. You can collect Tailor Tickets over time and spend them on unlocking new colors for hair, makeup, and facial hair. This system lets you grow your customization collection through regular gameplay!
Tailor Tickets open the door to a huge new customization library. We have introduced 12 in-game brands, including “Fair Isle, Fanmilly, Forest Friends, and House of Omiata.” Across these brands are over 100 palettes, containing more than 3,000 colors in total.
Like your looks as they are? All of your existing saved presets remain untouched. The original color options, called “Back to Basics”, are all still available for use. In fact, we’ve expanded the basic colors from 25 options to over 60+ shades. Like a color? You can also favorite it for easy access.
Finally, a brand-new color picker tool has been added to the hair and makeup menus, making it easier than ever to find the perfect look.
From the weathered wood of creaky barn doors to the golden glow of freshly baled hay, the Rancher’s Decor set is the heart and soul of everything country living for your home plot. Hay piled high, jugs of farm-fresh milk, or onions and apples ready for the market… it’s the rhythm of rural life right at your finger tips. You can get started by acquiring the Recipe Starter Kit from the County Fair Bundle Board. These items are available via Bulletin Board Bundles for this patch, and we will be adding them to the Ranching Guild Store in the future. Whether you’re aiming for farm-charm or simply seeking decor that feels like a crisp autumn afternoon, these pieces will make your space feel lived-in, loved, and wonderfully welcoming!
Read below for the new Rancher’s Decor items/recipes and their acquisition location(s):
Item | Loot / Craft / Purchase Location |
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Rancher's Large Haypile | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Small Haypile | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Upright Hay Roll | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Side Hay Roll | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Hay Roll Stack | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Trough | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Shelves | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Onion Bag | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Apple Bag | Recipe Starter Kit - Acquired from the County Fair Bundle Board |
Rancher's Produce Bag | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Apple Bowl | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Wooden Crates | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Toolstand | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Wooden Cart | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Wooden Barrel | Recipe Starter Kit - Acquired from the County Fair Bundle Board |
Rancher's Milk Jug | Recipe Starter Kit - Acquired from the County Fair Bundle Board |
Rancher's Green Jar | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Purple Jar | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Lopsided Fence | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Rustic Fence 1 | Crafted from Inspiration |
Rancher's Rustic Fence 2 | Crafted from Inspiration |
You didn’t think we’d leave you without a few new Plushes, did you? Flutter around with the Duskwing Butterfly Plush, make an EXTRA big splash with the XL Shark Fin Plush, and dig into the 10 brand-new Shiny Potato Pods. These spuds may be small, but they’re ready to shine a spud-light on your housing plot.
Item | Loot / Craft / Purchase Location |
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Duskwing Butterfly Plush | Rare drop from Duskwing Butterfly |
XL Shark Fin Plush | Rare Drop, Bonus Loot. Same acquisition method of River Shark Fin Plush |
Prissy the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Cyrus the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Goldie the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Maggie the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Eliot the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Rainer the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Zenni the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Lazlo the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Cappie the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Patch the Shinypod | Shinypod Prize Bag |
Autumn has arrived in Kilima, painting the trees and foliage in warm seasonal hues. The Spooky Moon Store will be making its appearance in the next update.
Your currencies now have their own home! A new “Currency” subtab has been added to the inventory menu, storing items like Skill Medals, gold, premium currency, Maji Market Tickets, Infected Essence, and more.
Plushes found in the world now come with celebratory notifications, including when you’ve discovered one for the first time!
Submitted an item but changed your mind? You’ll now be able to reclaim it, as long as the sub-bundle isn’t completed yet.
After all that hard work raising the perfect animals, why not take them on a stroll to show them off to the world of Palia? With a Handler’s License, your unique creatures will become Follow Pets that you can take with you on all your Palian adventures!
In the Premium Store, you can purchase a Handler’s License for a specific animal species. Once owned, you can take any of that animal species out into the world the same as you do now with any other Pet. In this update, you’ll be able to purchase Licenses for the Peki, Trufflet, and Bumble for 2550 Palia Coins each, giving you this ability for every animal you raise of that type now and into the future.
This means with one purchase, you’ll be able to have nearly endless varieties of Pets, with different traits, appearances, and even age (baby or adult)! The store will only show some examples, but the actual Pets available to you are the animals you specifically raise.
Notes:
But wait! There’s more! Between now and September 29th, the grab the Handler’s Essentials Bundle, perfect for getting you started in the world of Ranching. It provides a 50% off discount on all of the following:
This bundle, regularly 10,625 Palia Coins, is available for 5312 Palia Coins until September 29th. And like all bundles, prices are lowered appropriately if you already own some of the items in it. Start your Ranching experience off right with this amazing deal!
Collection Name | Outfit Names | Pieces | Price (Per Outfit/Collection) |
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Little Red | Through the Woods | Top, Bottom | 2550 Palia Coins |
Into the woods and onto spellbinding adventures. Perfect for moonlit Elderwood strolls, or trips to your grandmother's house. A purse with a cute emote tags along for every enchanted step. Hood up (or down!). Drama on.
Collection Name | Outfit Names | Pieces | Price (Per Outfit/Collection) |
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Valedictorian | School of BahariSchool of AkwinduuSchool of Umbraa | Top, Bottom | 850 Palia Coins / 1700 Palia Coins |
Top of class and top of the charts. The Valedictorian collection blends studious charm and runway-worthy details for an instant-classic look.
Pet Name | Pets | Price (Per Pet) |
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Peki | Bahari PekiBarafaan PekiUmbraan Peki | 1275 Palia Coins Each |
Small in size, big in ‘tude. Bring the barnyard wherever you go and strut your stuff with this loveable feather-fluff.
Glider Name | Price |
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Boss Balloon | 1275 Palia Coins |
Up, up, and away! Drift into adventure, Pop-A-Chapaa style, with the Boss Balloon.
Glider Name | Price |
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Pearlescent Glider | 425 Palia Coins |
Radiating timeless elegance, the Pearlescent Glider captures the iridescent shimmer of the sea and the sky.
Tool Skin Name | Pieces | Price |
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Little Red | AxePickaxeFishing RodWatering CanBowHoe | 425 Palia Coins |
Pair your tools with your tale. The Little Red toolskins adjust the right amount of forest flair to your daily work.
Landscape Name | Price |
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Harvest Homestead Landscape | 2550 Palia Coins |
Bring the golden glow of harvest to your home plot. With rolling fields and countryside charm, this landscape is as cozy as a cup of tea on a crisp autumn morning.
Collection Name | Outfit Names | Pieces | Price (Per Outfit/Collection) |
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Rose Garden | SweetbriarDamaskGrandiflora | Hat, Top, Bottom | 1275 Palia Coins / 2550 Palia Coins |
Brimming with blossoms and bursting with color, the Rose Garden dress is a celebration you can wear.
Tool Skin Name | Pieces | Price |
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Stormpact | AxePickaxeFishing RodWatering CanBowHoe | 1275 Palia Coins |
Infused with the power of the storm, these toolskins glow with otherworldly violet. Power made visible.
Disclaimer: Please note this is not a comprehensive list of all fixed issues.
We put in a lot of work this cycle to clean things up across Palia. Tons of bugs were fixed, and we have listened to player feedback to make improvements in lots of areas to help everything run smoother and feel better to play.
Disclaimer: Please note this is not a comprehensive list of all known issues.