1. Palworld
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  1. Palworld

Changing the Egg Hatching Time on a Palworld Server

The PalEggDefaultHatchingTime setting controls how long (in hours) Pal eggs
take to hatch. The game default is 72. Lowering it means faster hatching.
On FSH servers this setting lives in your PalWorldSettings.ini file, which you
edit through the File Manager. (It is not one of the Startup-tab variables, so
your edit to it will stick — the config tool only manages the handful of settings
exposed on the Startup tab and leaves everything else untouched.)

Steps#

1.
Log in to the FSH Panel.
2.
Stop the server and wait for it to fully shut down.
(Edits made while the server is running are reset on shutdown.)
3.
Open the File Manager and navigate to:
Pal/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/PalWorldSettings.ini
4.
Click the file to open the built-in editor. All settings sit on one long
line
under [/Script/Pal.PalGameWorldSettings], inside
OptionSettings=(...).
5.
Find PalEggDefaultHatchingTime=72.000000 within that line and change the
number to whatever you want (for example 1.000000 for ~1 hour, or
0.500000 for ~30 minutes).
6.
Save the file, then start the server.

Important#

Keep the line format intact. Everything stays on the single
OptionSettings=(...) line, comma-separated, with the surrounding parentheses.
A stray space, a deleted comma, or a broken parenthesis makes Palworld silently
ignore the whole line and fall back to defaults.
Match the decimal format. Values are stored like 1.000000. A plain 1
usually works, but keeping the .000000 style avoids surprises.
Don't edit Startup-tab settings here. Things like server name, max players,
crossplay, and difficulty are written by the config tool on every boot, so
changing them in this file does nothing — change those on the Startup tab
instead.

Troubleshooting#

The value reverted after a restart: You either edited it while the server
was running, or you changed a setting that's actually controlled on the Startup
tab. Stop the server first, and confirm the key isn't a Startup variable.
All settings reset to default: The OptionSettings=(...) line was likely
malformed (missing comma/parenthesis). Re-open the file and check the line is
one continuous, properly closed list.
Modified at 2026-06-18 21:21:25
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