Palworld's raid negotiator wants 40,000 gold. Nobody paid.

Palworld v1.0 added a raid negotiator: an NPC who shows up a few minutes before an attack and offers to call the whole thing off — for a price. In the post that kicked this off, the price was 40,000 gold. r/Palworld’s collective response was less “let’s negotiate” and more “let’s not.”

You prepare for war, three wolves show up

The first running joke was the gap between the threat and the actual raid. Players described cancelling expeditions, recalling their level-80 team, and hauling out expensive weapons like the Plasma Cannon for a full defensive stand — only for the attack to be a handful of level-10 Direhowls or a lone Syndicate grunt. The recurring punchline: refuse, and the negotiator all but tells you to run home before you decide to build your walls any higher.

The community’s answer: catch and sell

From there the thread converged on one plan. Several players pointed out that if you attack the negotiator first, the raid starts right away — no waiting out the timer. Better still, you can capture him, and he reportedly sells for around 6,000 gold at a merchant. That flips the math entirely: every visit becomes income rather than a shakedown. “We don’t negotiate with terrorists” showed up more than once, usually right before someone dropped him into a Pal Sphere.

The best tangent was the fantasy of selling a captured negotiator to the next negotiator — answering “40,000 gold?” with “how about I hand you the last guy who tried this instead?” One player even runs their first base as a prison farm, so a fresh negotiator has to walk through a crowd of captured predecessors breaking rocks just to make his pitch.

The one thing scarier than a raid

The punchline everyone agreed on: the only raid worth fearing is the tax office. If you would rather take captives than corpses, keep a Ring of Mercy equipped so the finishing blow leaves the target alive for the sphere — every Pal’s base catch difficulty is listed in our Pal catalog. For the boss side of raids, the community also learned a hard lesson about the arena Pal Box in the Bellanoir fight.

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