Palworld patch notes (June 27 update): Sakurajima is live

The Palworld Sakurajima patch notes for the new update (June 27) have now been revealed, with v0.3.1 live on both Steam and Xbox. The game's first major update brings a new area, Pals, buildings, weapons, skills, and more into the mix. It also introduces a new raid boss. Players have been eagerly waiting for Sakurajima ever since it was announced.

Read on to check out the entire patch notes for the Palworld Sakurajima update.

Palworld Sakurajima patch notes explored (June 27 update)

The official patch notes for the Palworld Sakurajima update (June 27) are as follows:

New Content

New Island - Sakurajima

A new island has appeared! Sakurajima!
Take control of the tower protected by a new faction "The Moonflowers", and free this beautiful island from their control!
Sakurajima is home to many new Pals! Explore and find new species!

Arena

An arena has appeared in the Desiccated Desert! Battle against other players to assert your dominance!
(Multiplayer exclusive content)

Stronghold - Oil Rig

An oil rig controlled by the Rayne Syndicate has appeared in the ocean! Work together with your friends to defeat powerful enemies and claim valuable resources such as crude oil!

Player level cap raised to 55!

Players can now adventure to level 55!
New technologies available
Upper limit for Pal's capture bonus has been increased from 10 to 12

New Resource - Crude Oil

You can extract crude oil by unlocking and placing a new building, the crude oil extractor, in certain spots around the world
New high-tier equipment and spheres can be crafted using the new material Plasteel which can be made from crude oil

New Raid - Blazamut Ryu has arrived! The strongest Dragon Pal in the game!

Meteorite Event

Meteorites or supplies will fall from space sometimes! There may even be an unknown Pal from outer space too...!?

Tower Boss Hard Mode

Each tower boss now has a hard mode, allowing you to face them in their ultimate form!

Also Read: All Palworld difficulty settings and how to change them

New Merchant - Medal Merchant

A merchant who will exchange a new item Dog Coin for rare items!

New Items

Mysterious Accessory Box - Permanently increases the number of accessory slots by 1
Concentrated All-Purpose Pal Extract - Increases the rank of a Pal by 1 when used
Ring of Freight - Increases your carrying weight when equipped
Vital Remedy, Stamina Remedy, Might Remedy, Speed Remedy, Burden Remedy - These new remedies permanently strengthen the player's base stats. Until now, players could only increase their stats when levelling up, but now you can reach MAX stats!

New Weapons

Laser Rifle
Flamethrower
Gatling Gun
Grenade launcher
Guided Missile Launcher
Multi Guided Missile Launcher
Meteor Launcher

New NPC cosmetic hats! Dress up like your favourite bosses!

Zoe Hat
Axel Hat
Lily Hat
Victor Hat
Marcus Hat
Saya Hat

New Pal cosmetic hats! Dress up like your favourite Pals!

Lyleen Floral Cap
Sibelyx Hat
Leezpunk Hood
Killamari Cap
Cawgnito Hat
Ribbuny Headband
Lamball Helm
Dumud Helm
Swee Cap
Dazzi Hat
Cattiva Hat

Also Read: Palworld beginners resource guide

New Buildings

Cold Food Box - Feed your Pals while keeping your food nice and cool
Sulfur Mine and Coal Mine - Gather valuable resources at your base
Pal Disassembly Conveyor - Get rid of unwanted Pals automatically! Your heart will hurt less this way...
Wall-Mounted Sign - Make notes without taking up too much space
Refrigerated Crusher - An upgraded Crusher that can break down various items into different items

New Feature - Lockpicking

You can now attempt to open locked treasure chests with the new lockpicking mini-game. Requires a Lockpicking Tool!

New Feature - Pal Skins! (Cosmetics for Pals)

You can now change Pal's skin at the new Pal Dressing Facility!
The "Sunglasses Cattiva" skin is now available for everyone! More skins will be added in future updates

Player

Pal Box capacity increased from 480 Pals to 960 Pals
Increased the maximum amount of power that can be enhanced by Lifmunk Effigies from 10 to 12
Added a setting that prevents items from being automatically picked up if it will overencumber the player

Base Related

The building system has been reworked and improved! Basic construction is now much more intuitive and smooth!
Pillars have been added. The days of accidentally demolishing a supporting wall and the entire 2nd flood collapsing are over!
Axis alignment function added
Defensive walls can now be connected
It is now possible to connect from the roof, walls, stairs, and pillars to the foundation (previously, connections could only be started from the foundation)
New building material "Glass" has been added. Keep an eye on your cute Pals from inside with glass walls!
The maximum base level has been increased to 25, and the number of bases allowed has been increased from 3 to 4 at level 25
You can now change the maximum amount of guild bases from the game options
※Note: Too many bases may lead to performance issues
You can now change the maximum amount of base Pals from the game options
※Note: Too many Pals at one base may lead to performance issues
Implemented a private lock function for chests. Your friends won't be able to steal your metal anymore!
It is now possible to permanently assign a Pal to a specific facility from the Monitoring Stand
Cakes will now be transported to chests as a priority
Readjusted the work priority order for Pals
Changes to defense facility specifications. Work pals will use them automatically even if they are not assigned to a specific facility
Measures and mitigation for base pals getting stuck when a route cannot be taken

UI

Added a lock function in the Pal Box menu
Player crosshair colour can now be adjusted and fixed an issue where the crosshair would get stuck behind the player
You can now craft items in units of 100x
Added more types of custom map markers, and increased the placement limit to 300
Statue of Power UI has been improved
Improved sorting function of Pal Box, making it easier to find the Pal you want

World

Junkyards have been added around the world! You might find some valuable items there...
A new random event has been added. Find and steal eggs from "Monster Nests" hidden around the islands!

Pals

New Pal Skills!

Unique Skills
Jumping Stinger (Menasting)
Rocket Slam (Chillet)
Protection of Fertility (Lyleen)
Raging Flame Wave (Faleris)
Thunderbolt Heavy Tank (Grizzbolt)
Polyceraunos (Orserk)
Divine Disaster II (Shadowbeak)

Neutral Skills

Air Blade
Holy Burst
Star Mine

Fire Skills

Flame Wall
Volcanic Rain
Flame Funnel

Water Skills

Splash
Wall Splash

Grass Skills

Circle Vine

Electric Skills

Thunder Rain
TriSpark
Thunderstorm

Ice Skills

Icicle Line

Ground Skills

Rockburst
Sand Twister

Dragon Skills

Beam Slicer
Comet

New Passive Skills

Philanthropist - Greatly reduces the time required to produce eggs
Impatient - Reduced cooldown on active skills
Infinite Stamina - Increased stamina (Only on mountable Pals)
Noble - Pals with this passive will give you an advantage when trading with merchants
Nocturnal - Pals with this passive become nocturnal and will work throughout the night

Multiplayer

Added a new setting that always rejects guild invites

Balance Adjustment

Due to the increase in accessory slots, accessories with the same name have been changed so they cannot be equipped more than once
Defensive accessories have been balanced due to the increase in accessory slots.
Due to the addition of many new Pals, some Pal breeding combinations have been changed
Adjusted the selling price of all Pals. The selling price of Alpha Pals is now about twice that of the original species

Bug Fixes

Mitigations have been added for an issue that caused PCs to freeze when closing the game
Changed the grappling gun behaviour to make it less likely to get stuck
Many many many other minor bug fixes

Other

A warning will now be displayed if the GPU driver is too out-of-date

Soundtrack

6 new songs have been added to soundtrack. If you have already purchased the game, please update the soundtrack.
*Please note that the soundtrack update may be delayed by about a day.

The Palworld Sakurajima patch notes that Pocketpair indeed took a lot of time to come up with content that will keep players engaged for a considerable amount of time. With a plethora of QoL changes and new content, Pocketpair should see players return to the game and take up the mantle of Pal tamers once again.

Also Read: 10 best Alpha Pals in Palworld, ranked

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