Base Design Ideas: Decor Themes and How to Share Your Base

Need base design ideas for your next Palworld build, or want to show off the one you already finished? This guide gives you six decor themes with the exact sets, furniture, and costs behind each one, every faux plant and statue worth placing, and how to grab a clean screenshot of your base to share with other players.

Base Decor at a Glance

Decorating is its own progression track. The build menu carries 157 furniture pieces and 22 light sources on top of the seven structure sets, and almost none of it does anything mechanical. That's the point: once your production lines are running, this is what turns a work camp into a base people actually want to see. The table below is the short version of what you're working with.

What	Detail
Structure sets	7 — Wooden (Lv. 2), Stone (Lv. 19), Metal (Lv. 30), Glass (Lv. 45), Japanese-Style (Lv. 49), Clean (Lv. 62), Ancient (Lv. 67)
Furniture pieces	157, from a 5-Wood stool up to a 100 Hallowed Bar statue
Light sources	22, starting with the Mounted Torch at Lv. 6
Faux plants	31 across 9 color families, first ones at Lv. 12
Faction flags and banners	19, first ones at Lv. 11
Cheapest statement piece	Brick Fireplace — 30 Wood + 15 Stone at Lv. 8
Most expensive decor	Moon Lord Statue — 100 Hallowed Bar

Before you start: everything has to sit inside a Palbox radius, so a showpiece build is really a question of which base you're willing to give up floor space in. Park the decor at a base that doesn't need every tile for factories, and check our best base locations in Palworld 1.0 if you want a scenic spot with room to spread out.

6 Base Design Themes to Try

Each theme below pairs one structure set with the furniture family that was clearly made to go with it. The level column is when the *whole look* becomes buildable, not just the walls, so that's the number to plan around. Rustic Cabin and Antique Manor are the realistic early picks; Japanese Retreat is the most complete theme in the game; Ancient is the endgame flex.

Theme	Structure Set	Full Look At	Signature Pieces	Why It Works
Rustic Cabin	Wooden	Lv. 8	Wooden Counter, Wooden Bench, Brick Fireplace, Fur rug	Every piece is Wood and Stone, so you can build it the day you place your first Palbox
Antique Manor	Stone	Lv. 22	Grand Piano, Antique Grandfather Clock, Antique Couch, Antique Carpet	The largest single furniture family, with 27 Antique pieces covering every room type
Industrial Yard	Metal	Lv. 49	Traffic Light, Barricades, Metal Barrels, Beware of Eikthyrdeer Sign	Street furniture sells a factory base; most pieces are just a few Ingot
Japanese Retreat	Japanese-Style	Lv. 56	Japanese Hearth, Folding Screen, Stone Lantern, Faux Cherry Blossoms	The most complete theme, with 15 matching pieces landing together at Lv. 55
Glass and Neon	Glass	Lv. 46	Street lamps, Chandelier, Claw Machine, Arcade Game Cabinet	Glass walls show off the lighting and the arcade corner from outside
Clean Lab	Clean	Lv. 62	Large Ceiling Lamp, Emergency Exit Signs, Traffic Cones, Laboratory Desk	Polymer is light to haul, so big white halls are easy to supply

If you only build one showpiece, make it the Japanese Retreat. It's the one theme where a single tech level hands you seating, tables, lighting, storage, wall art, and garden pieces all at once, and the Japanese-Style Furniture Set and Japanese-Style Hot Spring finish the look. The catch is Hardwood, which runs 4 per foundation and 10 to 20 per furniture piece.

Rustic Cabin (Lv. 2 to Lv. 8)

This is the look nearly everyone starts with, and it holds up better than you'd expect. A Wooden shell costs 2 Wood a piece, and the cabin furniture all lands by Lv. 5: Wooden Chair and Bench at 10 Wood, the Wooden Counter at 30 Wood plus 5 Stone, and a Wooden Decorative Wall Shelf for 5 Wood and 5 Stone. Add the Brick Fireplace at Lv. 8 as the centerpiece and a Mounted Torch or two for 5 Wood and 2 Stone each, and you have a warm, lived-in room for pocket change.

Antique Manor (Lv. 9 to Lv. 22)

The Antique family is the biggest matched set in the game, with pieces for every room: carpets from Lv. 9, desks and round tables at Lv. 14, mirrors, a bathtub, and a folding partition at Lv. 16, both pianos at Lv. 17, and the Grandfather Clock at Lv. 22. Put it inside a Stone shell and you get a proper manor house. Budget some Cloth and Flame Organ for the carpets and sofas, since those are the pieces that pull in materials you won't already have stacked.

Japanese Retreat (Lv. 49 to Lv. 56)

Japanese-Style walls arrive at Lv. 49, but the decor doesn't show up until Lv. 55, when 15 pieces unlock together: the Japanese Hearth, Floor Chair and Cushion, Writing Table, Folding Screen, Hanging Scroll, Bonsai, Deer Scare, Incense Burner, Stone Lantern, Paper Lantern, a matching chest, and the Moonflower banners. One level later, Faux Cherry Blossoms finish the garden. The Flower Arrangement is the only piece with a rare input, one Beautiful Flower each, and there are only 27 of those on the whole map on the Beautiful Flower layer.

Clean Lab and Ancient Citadel (Lv. 62+)

The two late sets are opposites. Clean runs on 1 Polymer per foundation and pairs with the Lv. 47 Large Ceiling Lamp and Emergency Exit Signs for a spotless research-facility look. The Laboratory Desk and Chair (Polymer only) aren't on the regular tech list, so grab them when you can and treat them as a bonus. Ancient costs 2 Soralite Ingot per piece and has no matching furniture family, so it works best as a bare, monumental shell dressed with statues and faction banners rather than tables and chairs.

All Faux Plants and What They Cost

Faux plants are the fastest way to make a base look finished, because a strip of greenery hides every awkward foundation edge. There are 31 of them, and they come in two price classes: trees at 20 Wood early on and 20 Hardwood later, and bushes at 20 Fiber. Mixing two color families that share a biome, like Tropical with Desert or Snowy with White Bush, looks more natural than a single repeated tree.

Plant Family	Pieces	Unlock Lv.	Cost Each
Faux Greenery + Faux Bush	4	Lv. 12	20 Wood
Faux Crimson Foliage	3	Lv. 14	20 Wood
Faux Golden Foliage + Golden Bush	4	Lv. 16	20 Wood (trees) / 20 Fiber (bush)
Faux Bamboo	3	Lv. 23	20 Wood
Faux Flowering Bush	2	Lv. 23	20 Fiber
Faux Tropical Greenery + Tropical Bush	4	Lv. 27	20 Hardwood (trees) / 20 Fiber (bush)
Faux Desert Greenery	3	Lv. 37	20 Hardwood
Faux Snowy Greenery + White Bush	4	Lv. 49	20 Hardwood (trees) / 20 Fiber (bush)
Faux Cherry Blossoms	3	Lv. 56	20 Hardwood

The table covers 30 pieces; the 31st is the Faux Rock at Lv. 14 for 20 Stone, which is great for breaking up a long garden path. Everything before Lv. 27 runs on plain Wood and Fiber, so the early families are basically free to spam. For the per-set breakdowns, see the Faux Cherry Blossoms Set and Faux Tropical Greenery Set guides.

Statues and Trophy Pieces

Statues are the pieces people notice first in a screenshot. The two you can simply research are the Frostallion Statue at Lv. 64 and the Jetragon Statue at Lv. 79, both 100 Stone, so they're cheap in materials and gated only by level. The rest aren't on the normal technology list, which makes them the real bragging-rights pieces.

Statue	Tech Lv.	Materials	Notes
Jetragon Statue	Lv. 79	100 Stone	The highest-level decor piece in the tech list; honors Jetragon
Frostallion Statue	Lv. 64	100 Stone	Same cost as Jetragon's, 15 levels earlier; honors Frostallion
Lyleen Statue	—	100 Stone	Not on the regular tech list; honors Lyleen
Yakumo Statue	—	70 Stone	The cheapest statue; honors Yakumo
Moon Lord Statue	—	100 Hallowed Bar	The priciest decor in the game; see how to get the Moon Lord Statue

The functional monuments double as decor too. The Statue of Power (Lv. 9, 20 Stone and 10 Paldium Fragment) and the Great Eagle Statue fast travel point (5 Paldium Fragment and 10 Stone) both look good at the head of a courtyard, and you need them anyway. Framing them with a pair of street lamps is an easy way to give a base an entrance.

Faction Flags and Banners

There are 19 flags, standards, and banners, one set per faction, and they're the quickest way to give a base an identity. The early ones are Ingot and Cloth; from the Lv. 39 PIDF set onward they switch to Refined Ingot, and from Lv. 50 they also want High Quality Cloth. Wherever both pieces use Ingot, the vertical banner costs half as much as its standard, so banners are the better pick for lining a long wall.

Faction Set	Unlock Lv.	Vertical Banner Cost	Standard / Flag Cost
Rayne Syndicate	Lv. 11	10 Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth	20 Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth
Free Pal Alliance	Lv. 20	10 Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth	20 Wood, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth
Brothers of the Eternal Pyre	Lv. 28	10 Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth	20 Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth
PIDF	Lv. 39	10 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth	20 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 Cloth
PAL Genetic Research Unit	Lv. 50	10 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth	20 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth
Moonflower	Lv. 55	10 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth	20 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth
Feybreak	Lv. 60	10 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth	20 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth
Azure Covenant	Lv. 71	10 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth	20 Refined Ingot, 10 Fiber, 20 HQ Cloth

The Free Pal Alliance Standard is the odd one out: it's the only researchable standard built from Wood instead of Ingot, so it's the cheap way to plant a big flag at Lv. 20. Moonflower is the natural match for a Japanese Retreat since it unlocks at the same Lv. 55 as the rest of that theme.

Lighting a Showpiece Base

Lighting is what makes a night screenshot work. Early on you only have fire: the Mounted Torch (Lv. 6), Brick Fireplace and Fireplace (Lv. 8), and Wall Torch (Lv. 14). At Lv. 26 the electric fixtures arrive together (Chandelier, Lamp, Wall Lamp, and two floor lamps), each needing Electric Organ and Nail. The four street lamps at Lv. 46 all cost the same 20 Ingot, 3 Electric Organ, and 3 Nail, so pick them purely on shape.

Light	Unlock Lv.	Materials	Best Spot
Mounted Torch	Lv. 6	5 Wood, 2 Stone	Paths and palisade walls on a starter base
Brick Fireplace	Lv. 8	30 Wood, 15 Stone	The centerpiece of a cabin or manor living room
Chandelier	Lv. 26	20 Ingot, 3 Electric Organ, 3 Nail	Tall halls and manor dining rooms
Retro Street Lamp	Lv. 46	20 Ingot, 3 Electric Organ, 3 Nail	Plazas, bridges, and base entrances
Large Ceiling Lamp	Lv. 47	30 Refined Ingot, 5 Circuit Board, 5 Nail, 1 Bio Battery	Big Clean-set labs and hangars
Japanese Paper Lantern	Lv. 55	10 Hardwood, 3 Flame Organ	Indoor corners of a Japanese Retreat

Mix warm and cold light. A Glass or Clean build under nothing but street lamps looks like a car park; drop a few fireplaces or paper lanterns inside and the whole thing reads as lived-in from outside.

How to Share Your Base Design

Getting a good shot is mostly about clearing the clutter. The game has a Photo Mode you can open from the command wheel, and hiding the HUD there gives you a clean frame with no hotbar or markers in the way. From there it's just picking the right angle and time of day.

Take the Screenshot

1. Tidy up first. Send extra Pals back to the Palbox so they're not wandering through the frame, and clear dropped items off the floor. 2. Wait for dusk. Your lights switch on and the sky does most of the work. 3. Open Photo Mode, hide the HUD, and frame the base from slightly above so the roofline and the garden both fit. 4. Take a second shot inside of your best room. Interiors are what other builders actually want to copy.

Post It With the Useful Details

A picture gets likes, but the details get your design copied. When you share it on a community board or social feed, name the structure set, roughly how many foundations the footprint is, and the level you built it at. If it's a multiplayer build, say whether it's on a dedicated server and never post account IDs; share an invite code instead. Our Palworld multiplayer guide covers how invite codes and servers work.

The Short Version

Start with a Rustic Cabin because it's all Wood and Stone, move to an Antique Manor once Lv. 22 hands you the clock and pianos, and save a Japanese Retreat for Lv. 55 and up. Line every edge with faux plants, top the entrance with a faction banner and a statue, light it for dusk, and take the picture in Photo Mode with the HUD off.

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