Palworld's Tides of Terraria update introduced the Pal Surgery Table, which allows you to change the passives of your Pals. This is done using implants, which can alter an existing skill or add a new passive one to your Pal. While expensive, this process allows you to customize Pals according to their task.
Despite having a variety of passives, patch 0.6.0 only allows you to implant a handful of them. This guide will list each one of them alongside their effect.
Every passive available for the Pal Surgery Table in Palworld

Since Palworld is in early access, you don’t have the option to implant any passive on your Pal. Notable skills like the Flame Emperor, Ice Emperor, or Legend are not yet available, but you do get a good amount of starter choices.
Here are all the implants readily available with the Pal Surgery Table:
- Mercy Hit: Will not reduce the target’s health below 1.
- Nocturnal: Does not sleep and continues to work at night.
- Philanthropist: When assigned to a Breeding Farm, breeding speed is increased by 100%.
- Impatient: Active skill cooldown reduction of 15%.
- Fit as a Fiddle: Max stamina 25% (This effect is only valid for rideable Pals).
- Nimble: 10% increased movement speed.
- Dainty Eater: Hunger decreases 10% slower.
- Diet Lover: Hunger decreases 15% slower.
- Positive Thinker: Sanity drops 10% slower.
- Workaholic: Sanity drops 15% slower.
- Brave: Attack 10%.
- Ferocious: Attack 15%.
- Hard Skin: Defense 10%.
- Serious: Work Speed 20%.
Here are all the implants purchasable from vendors:
- Serenity: Active skill cooldown reduction 30%, Attack 10%.
- Bruly Body: Defense 20%.
- Muscle Head: Attack 30%, Work Speed -50%.
- Infinite Stamina: Max stamina 50% (This effect is only valid for rideable Pals).
- Runner: 20% increase in movement speed.
- Artisan: Work Speed 50%.
The vendor implants can be acquired from the Vigilante Bounty Officer in Small Settlement and the Arena Merchant at the Arena Entrance. They are a one-time purchase, with more expected to be added in future updates.
Changing passive costs a lot of Gold

While the idea of making a super Pal sounds neat, the process will require a lot of Gold. Depending on the rarity, you must pay varying amounts of gold for each passive change. Here is the cost of each type of passive:
- Red: 10,000 Gold
- White: 10,000 Gold
- Yellow: 50,000 Gold
Apart from changing the passives, you can change the gender of your Pals. This process requires a Pal Reverser, which can be acquired from vendors or as a random loot from sea salvage.
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- All new Pals in Palworld Tides of Terraria update, and where to get them