Changing the Egg Hatching Time on a Palworld Server
PalEggDefaultHatchingTime setting controls how long (in hours) Pal eggstake to hatch. The game default is
72. Lowering it means faster hatching.PalWorldSettings.ini file, which youedit 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.
2.
(Edits made while the server is running are reset on shutdown.)
3.
Pal/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/PalWorldSettings.ini4.
line under
[/Script/Pal.PalGameWorldSettings], insideOptionSettings=(...).5.
PalEggDefaultHatchingTime=72.000000 within that line and change thenumber to whatever you want (for example
1.000000 for ~1 hour, or0.500000 for ~30 minutes).6.
Important
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.
1.000000. A plain 1usually works, but keeping the
.000000 style avoids surprises.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
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.
OptionSettings=(...) line was likelymalformed (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