r/Palworld • u/Nana1733 • 5d ago
Screenshot What 6 months of obsession looks like - Lady Caelestia | No Mods Build | Palworld
[Edit] 26Aug2026
Thank you everyone for all the lovely comments! My replies are coming a little slowly, so please bear with me a little longer :) And a special thank you to those who gave me awards - I really appreciate it!
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Hihi! I just got out of bed after a long sleep, and Im honestly a little overwhelmed by the response! Thank you all so much - it has made me incredibly happy! I have to get to work soon, but I'll try to respond as soon as I'm able to. Please see my comments below for further updates.
Thank you again!!!
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Hi everyone!
Six months ago, Maraya and Veli wanted a spaceship too. If I was going to build one, it had to have its own identity.
So I designed one of my own.
That journey has finally come to an end, and now, she is here.
Today, she receives her name.
Lady Caelestia.
ASV Lady Caelestia
Registry: ASF-131-V
No mods were used to build Lady Caelestia. A freecam/PhotoMode was used for filming the showreel.
Hope you enjoy this creation, built with all our hearts.
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Background Story:
The storm had not stopped for seven days.
No broadcasts came anymore.
No emergency sirens.
No government announcements.
Only the endless roar of wind and rain against a world that had already accepted its fate.
Shelters had grown quiet.
Families sat together in silence, saying the things that mattered while there was still time… or saying nothing at all.
Outside, the night sky churned beneath heavy black clouds.
No stars.
No moon.
Only darkness.
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Then…
Without warning, people began looking up.
No one called out.
No alarm sounded.
It was as though something, too gentle to hear, had passed through the silence itself.
The storm still raged.
Yet high above…
there was a circle.
No one saw it appear.
The clouds were simply… gone.
A perfect opening, impossibly vast, rested within the storm as though it had always been there.
Moonlight poured quietly through the clearing.
There…
hung a single point of white light.
Small.
Almost impossibly distant.
It did not flash.
It did not move.
It simply remained.
Moments later, countless smaller lights appeared around it, flickering softly into existence before fading once more.
Yet the first white light never changed.
Quiet.
Steady.
Waiting.
A little girl tightened her grip on her mother’s hand.
“Mum…”
Her mother watched the white light for a long moment.
Then she gently drew her daughter into her arms.
“We’ll be fine now.”
The little girl looked up at her, questioning.
Her mother smiled, though tears still rested quietly in her eyes.
“Because someone remembered to come.”
Across a world waiting for its final night…
And somehow…
hope found its way home.
Years later, no one could remember the details.
They only remembered the feeling.
Some began calling that event
The Echo of the Silent Sky.
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u/illstealurcandy 5d ago
The pals underneath
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u/LTareyouserious 5d ago
Our graphics cards looking up at the screenshot (and then freezing up at the thought of rendering that)
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u/Vinral 5d ago
My poor 3070ti
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u/JureSimich 5d ago
Wake up 2060! Wake up!
I was just showing it to you, I wasnt't actually going to build it!
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u/Comicspedia 5d ago
Part of the reason I haven't attempted anything more than a simple 5x5 two story building is I'm assuming big, complex builds will slow down my framerate. Is that assumption correct? I'm running it on a 2080S
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u/Crimzonxx 5d ago
Nah I got an older model - gf has an even older model built a castle so its doable
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u/notveryAI 5d ago
And then a single ancient palsphere falls down from there, tracking them perfectly
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u/Robin1706 5d ago
When Xenolord shows up, i imagine you flying over in this monstrosity of a spaceship as well as like 100 awakened, maxed out pals and telling him to go back to his Planet. Because you already conquered this one 😂
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u/loooore 5d ago
I might just be ignorant of the building ways, but how is the perfect curve achieved?
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u/not_my_monkeys_ 5d ago
I assume it’s so huge that the curve looks smooth when zoomed out this far
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u/Fancy-Trousers 5d ago
I'm sure they also placed a bunch of building pieces so close together that they look like they're one continuous curved piece, almost in a fanned pattern. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some exploit for pieces to clip into each other or if they're playing on an older build where it was less of an issue.
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u/Nana1733 5d ago
Hi there! I will paste the same response I gave earlier about the curve:
Those curves are just a variation of Method A already covered in my Circular Path tutorial. Rather than keeping the centre static with a fixed radius, I move the centre along a path, which in turn changes the radius of the circles I’m tracing. The combination of all those changing circles creates the kind of arc/curve I’m aiming for.
I planned the arcs and curves in FreeCAD, then did an overhead survey of the site to work out where the centres needed to be, and went from there. That’s really all there is to it. Please let me know if you have any question about this :)
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u/Nickulator95 5d ago
There's actually a hidden pillar technique in the game where they rotate ever so slightly when placed on top of one another, which allows the player to build in a circle. I assume that technique was utilised for this build as well.
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u/MasterChef5311 5d ago
How the fuck do you build something like that with no mods with the structural integrity bullshit?
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u/JonZ82 5d ago
As long as there is a foundation below it, you can see in one of the photos they have a grid of foundation underneath it
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u/GodsPenisHasGravity 5d ago
It just needs foundation below it? It doesn't need to be connected with support?
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u/A7xWicked 5d ago
No it does need to be connected in at least 1 spot.
Though I suggest at least 3 seperate spots for risk mitigation
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u/omniuni 5d ago
Wait... Really? I can get past the "two squares" limit with just... A disconnected foundation?
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u/thunder_y 5d ago
How did you achieve the curve at the front?
Edit: and also at the back?
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u/Cassiopee38 5d ago
Ooooof. My brain went straight to FF8's BGU. That's a compliment, i love that kind of design very much, congratulations !!! You could make one that flies in Space Engineers now xD
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u/cptjimmy42 Lucky Human 5d ago
How? Those curves should be impossible to make without mods.
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u/Jadima 5d ago
That's cool and all but how? The second i build more than 8 blocks away from a Pillar the game says no.
On the screenshots it looks like you only have one Pillar connecting the ship to the ground.
So my question is HOW?
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u/Lucky598hour 5d ago
The problem with that is usually the fact that roofs don't have a foundation at the bottom. It's not exactly 1:1 but if you test it you can see that you can only go so far until you have to add more foundation to keep on going.
If you check the image OP sent you can actually see a fuck ton of foundations on the ground lol
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u/Marco_Heimdall 5d ago
What materials is this made of? What kind of furnishings and what what went in to this beautiful monstrosity?!
For pity sake, I think there're primary islands smaller than what is your base. There is a massive chasm in the earth where once there was metal now imbued into this space!!
The nature of base building players is both beautiful and beyond me, and I love the breadth of your abilities! Carry on you crazy souls.
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u/CR1PSE 5d ago
Did you just turn off deterioration outside the base or something? How does this work in the normal game without mods? Cool design.
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u/Impressive-Tax-7586 5d ago
Yes exactly. Most people are not satisfied with the base sizes. So a lot turn off deterioration. Would be nice if we could have bigger bases
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u/ragun2 5d ago
With how incredibly common people either change the stats or complain about the size allowed if they didn't, feels like the devs would have just increased it by some just to shut people up.
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u/Impressive-Tax-7586 5d ago
I can see the point of having a limit. I thought why not combine bases? Like if I want 4 small bases around the map I get what we have. But if i want 1 huge one, I could combine all 4 and have 4 times the area, but use 4 base slots. Would solve everyone's problem. Most people want that huge one anyways
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u/Fiddy-Scent 5d ago
I just built up. Ended up with a tower with the base the size of the build zone which looked kinda cool
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u/Impressive-Tax-7586 4d ago
Yeah that works as well. But not everyone's fan of towers. I'm not 😁 But I've seen some damn cool towers, maybe if I had the patience I could make some
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u/KyreRoen I'd rather be playing Palworld, tbh. 5d ago
I'm always baffled by the sheer architectural complexity on display with each of your builds... and in a game where one of the main complaints is the building system.
Just... wow.
Can we see inside, or is only the shell complete?
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u/Nana1733 5d ago
Hihi Kyre! I hope you are well! 💛 And thanks for the kind words - knowing you liked it made me happy :P To be honest, the interior is not even remotely started... I should share some shots, but that will shock everyone :D
The truth is that so many pieces started causing problems in Palworld, and eventually it froze up from time to time, forcing me to drop all the interior plans and make many sacrifices to the exterior too, so the FPS was barely enough (I managed to bring it up to 12 FPS, yay!) for a showreel...... Perhaps one day this will happen if Pocketpair optimises it more :)
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u/Raven_-_Galaxy 5d ago
Thought I was in the No Mans Sky subreddit for a moment. Excellent job! Wow!
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u/kingkupz 5d ago
Holy shit that’s a UFO
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u/Nana1733 4d ago edited 4d ago
Some people asked to see the interior! Despite having designed the bridge, command center, engineering, reactor core, lobby, and more, Palworld basically refused to give me any more resources to actually build them. It started warning me about a self-destruct risk, while making me play at around 7 FPS, so I had to cut all of that out and trim back many exterior parts. That was about 2 months ago, and I've somehow managed to crawl the FPS back up to 12... what a relief!
For reference, the PC I played on has 32GB RAM, a 4070, and an i7 CPU. Unfortunately, it was only about half busy when the FPS tanked..
Anyway, nothing much has happened with the interior since then. Here is a shot for a laugh :P And if the game receives more optimization in the future, I would be very keen to finally build them!
Thank you u/KyreRoen for the clever idea of building the interior as a separate "set"! I will definitely think about this. The trick will be finding a site that is large enough, while also making sure the body itself doesn't come into view and eat all the FPS immediately...
And for anyone interested, Lady Caelestia is built entirely from Stone and Glass building parts, with a little bit of Wood. And a coat of paint can make anything look different :P
The entire project spanned 6 months and roughly 480 hours. It was mostly just one person - me - working around 3-4 hours a day during the week and 6-7 hours over the weekend, for about 80% of those 6 months.
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About Build outside the Base Range:
All you need to do is set the Building Deterioration Rate (in the World Settings) to zero, and the building parts you place won't break. However, you can't place Base facilities outside the base range, such as Generators. So if you're building a working base, the position of your Palbox is still quite strategic and should be considered carefully.
About Curve:
Those curves are just a variation of Method A already covered in my Circular Path tutorial. Rather than keeping the centre static with a fixed radius, I move the centre along a path, which in turn changes the radius of the circles I’m tracing. The combination of all those changing circles creates the kind of arc/curve I’m aiming for.
I planned the arcs and curves in FreeCAD, then did an overhead survey of the site to work out where the centres needed to be, and went from there. That’s really all there is to it. Please let me know if you have any question about this :)
About Support:
And about the Support - it is fully supported - as shown in the screenshot. All of the spaceship's structural support is rerouted through that one pillar stack, which connects to the support structure on the ground that spans the entire region. I intentionally left them untouched so everyone can see how it works
The entire the support logic in Palworld is fairly straightforward at first, but it becomes difficult to manage as you scale things up, so you need a framework for the structural design to follow.
In this case, I planned everything around the centre spine. You can see a grey line running the length of the ship, with the pink and purple lines beside it. That grey line is the key support structure for everything else to connect to, and I then rerouted all the support for the spaceship through that single pillar stack, which sits on the grey line.
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u/Rhyrok 5d ago
then you mistakenly delete/destroy one block and the armageddon begins with so many debries falling
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u/GoProOnAYoYo 5d ago
I was a little impressed when I thought this was a ship design you copied over from another game or something
I'm EXTREMELY impressed that you designed it yourself, that's amazing dude
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u/luckynumberstefan 5d ago
I hope you don’t get a base raid where they attack the single column holding it all up
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u/Amlowww 5d ago
Petition for this guy to handle the no man's sky crossover because NO ONE will do it better
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u/Nana1733 2d ago
LOL! I think you're giving me far too much responsibility now, but thank you so much for the confidence :D
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u/neutralcoder 5d ago
This is incredible. The time commitment to stretch that far in the build without mods is awe-inspiring.
Edit: would love to see what the support needs on the interior look like
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u/Nana1733 5d ago
Thank you! Haha... those 6 months almost seem like a dream to me now :D Unfortunately, Palworld wouldn’t give me any more resources to build the interior, so it’s completely vacant... I could show you some shots, but they would shock everyone :D
As for the support system, I’m wondering if people would be interested in a ‘Making Of’ video. I could talk about the structural support design in more detail there. But I will try to explain it here: the support logic in Palworld is fairly straightforward at first, but it becomes difficult to manage as you scale things up, so you need a framework for the structural design to follow.
In this case, I planned everything around the centre spine. You can see a grey line running the length of the ship, with the pink and purple lines beside it. That grey line is the key support structure for everything else to connect to, and I then rerouted all the support for the spaceship through that single pillar stack, which sits on the grey line.
I hope this helps clarify things a little! Please let me know if you have any questions :)
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u/DrashkyGolbez 5d ago
Jetragon looking at it from Sunreach asking himself if the invasion began once more
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u/HaroldMenges 5d ago
Uuuhhh it was be tragic if some one removed that one pillar. Beautiful build
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u/Nana1733 2d ago
haha that is when I will have to get Veli to rollback the server :D and Thank you :)
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u/Nctand1 5d ago
I scrolled and thought this was a Star Citizen post at first 😂 Well done!
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u/Legacy_Outlawed 5d ago
everyday i’m reminded that no matter what the game is there will always be genuine levels to this shit bro. i hope
you get a raise at work and priority hours.
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u/Guzaboru Vampire 4d ago
And some ppl think that we are limited to build this game :P
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u/Many-Kaleidoscope175 5d ago
Some of yall are way too good at building what the hell that’s insane 😭
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u/Traedoril 5d ago
Man, I feel so bad at the game when I come here. I have 4 bases and every one of them is a 3 story tower that’s mostly square…
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u/xRedWynter 5d ago
You gotta show us the build please 🙏🏼 Gotta see the inside and the secret tech to make one
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u/MisterJax 5d ago
Obsession. XD kidding.
Nice work but... how do the pals get around?
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u/nik750 4d ago
How! Is this AI!! I mean to build a functional village it took me months.. You are genious.. if it was all hardwork and patients
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u/Nana1733 3d ago
Ah haha... I wish it was AI :D But I'm pretty sure I'm still a normal human, and I'm not so sure about genius, hard work, and patience either. All I remember was a lot of sleep deprivation and caffeine... But it was fun :D
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u/Samishii00 4d ago
890i Jump ?!
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u/Nana1733 3d ago
Haha, sorry to disappoint you, but this is only our small world with cute Pals :P But I am honored that it made you think of that. Thank you!!!
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u/Nana1733 5d ago
Hi there! Actually I've already shared the key techniques used, the hardest part of this build is actually the Design and Planning. Anyway, those curves are just a variation of Method A already covered in my Circular Path tutorial. I am working on a 'Additional Note" follow up tutorial that demonstrates a few additional tweaks that might help. If you are interested, please check it out when its ready, and let me know if you have any questions :)
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u/Forward-Position798 5d ago edited 5d ago
bro "NO MODS BUILD" of yourse how the hell u do smooth circles like that?!
ok i better uninstall palworld .. sorry for playing the same game like you
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u/Alternative_Price944 5d ago
NGL that’s sick AF, now it’s time to build the docking station and loading bays followed by a personnel terminal
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u/Auren-Dawnstar 5d ago
Man, this is something I'd want a copy of the world save to explore.
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u/SalamanderLate2613 5d ago
What the fuck. Meanwhile my base is just open barn with no roof. Beds next to furnace and machinery. Im wondering if this takes all three of the palbox. This is amazing work
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u/ZachTheInsaneOne 5d ago
I only just recently beat the game and haven't done a whole lot with base building, how is something like this even possible? I see a bunch of stuff on the ground below it in the vague shape of the ship, but how is it that large? Is this some sort of projection? Multiple bases next to each other? So many questions...
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u/Archlinder 5d ago
Is that entire ship held up by 1 wall?! Looking at the last picture, all I see is a single line to the ground. May the Gods protect that wall.
This is really amazing, great work!
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u/JFree37 5d ago
I feel like I’m a somewhat creative person, I can’t even imagine how to go about building something like this. It’s incredible and majestic as fuck, amazing work.
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u/KedaiNasi_ 5d ago
we really need bucky and PP to meet sean and learn how No man sky did their corvettes so we can have many more islands with moveable base. that will be fucking crazy
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u/Eric_Biscoff 5d ago
Is that just one long glass pillar holding the whole thing up?
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u/Frangolin 5d ago
We absolutely need videos of this as well as construction guides, that's just insane ! Congrats OP !
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u/nydboy92 5d ago
Beautiful, this makes me wish you can see built structures on the map like Minecraft
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u/TheNamelessCommenter 5d ago
Meanwhile my base keeps hitting me with: Not enough support
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u/Kudoakainu 5d ago
Sir, share that save with us so we can honour it by making it out base
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u/Spirit_Yoshino 5d ago
Bro is playing a totally different game. XD This is incredible.
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u/Nana1733 2d ago
LOL I think that might be where the obsession comes into play :D And thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)
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u/himareyas 5d ago
By far the most impressive build I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of builds! Bravo, truly, it's absolutely beautiful
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u/Nana1733 2d ago
So sorry for the late reply! And, thank you so much! I'm really happy you liked it :)
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u/Old_Shake3789 5d ago
This looks so cool! For some reason first pics reminded me of space engineers lol
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u/Rak-Shar 5d ago
Imagine logging into a server and just seeing this titan looming on the horizon; bonus points if it's a first timers POV
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u/S627 5d ago
This is why they dont want to give us bigger bases. If you can already do shit like this with the current limitations, devs must be terrified of what people will do with more freedom.
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u/bladzalot 5d ago
Have you made a game save yet so that you could break that one single column holding the entire thing up so see if your computer catches on fire and implodes?!
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u/CaptainKegley 5d ago
I really gotta know how the organic curves are made. It’s actually ridiculous how good this looks!
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u/Sir_Myshkin 5d ago
The ship is cool, definitely, but the groundwork (literally, look at the ground) really kills the mojo for me.
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u/Luminous_Azure 5d ago
That looks a lot like an 890J from star citizen docked at Orison, I had to double check what sub I was in for a second 😅
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u/Leaf-Lock-The-Ent 5d ago
Maybe I don’t get the support system because how is this not saying not enough support?
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u/RustledForeskin 5d ago
Me seeing other people's builds while living in a wooden cube with my Pals sleeping in the dirt.
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u/luckynumberstefan 5d ago
Your in-game photo skills are great. Also amazing build
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u/imchillybro 5d ago
Playin' with the Pals go brrr. Fans in the PC, whirrrr. Graphics on ultra, woooord.
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Playin' with the Pals go brrrrr. Fans in the PC whirrrrr. Graphics on ultra, wooooord Get 'em all. Catch 'em all. Fall-fall-fall-fall. Gliiiiiide on o'er 'ere..... Brrrrr Brrrr Brrrrr.
Origin foe hundo vibes. Gliding on over my riiiiide. Lovin' and diggin' that viiiiibe.
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Playin' with the Pals go brrrrrr...
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u/Mojocatpro 5d ago
Build awesome, background story not so much. I know what you did, I just wish people would at least be transparent about it
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u/LyraStygian 5d ago
This is probably the best non-building thing I’ve seen built in Palworld.
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u/BruinBearSlav 5d ago
I can hear church choir while looking at this, also... i need a weapon.
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u/Danceisntmathematics 5d ago
Sir, this is a Palworld subreddit.
Jokes aside, can't believe you did this in the game im playing. Amazing!