Base Pal Management: How to Disable Work Suitabilities

Base Pal management in Palworld comes down to one switch: you can turn an individual work suitability off on a single Pal, so a rank-6 hauler stops abandoning your chests to swing an axe. This guide covers where that toggle lives, what each of the 12 jobs costs you when it fires at the wrong moment, and the exact Pals whose second job is worth switching off.

Where Base Pal Management Lives

Every work-suitability toggle in the game sits on the Monitoring Stand. The first tier unlocks at Tech Lv 7 for a handful of Wood and Stone, which means base pal management is available long before you have Pals worth managing — build it the moment you unlock it. The two upgrades don't add new controls; they cut how fast working Pals burn SAN, which matters more the harder you push a full roster. If you only ever build one, the base stand already does the whole job.

Stand	Tech Lv.	Build Cost	What You Get
Monitoring Stand	7	30× Wood, 10× Stone	Per-Pal work orders — allow or prohibit each kind of work
High Quality Monitoring Stand	28	100× Ingot, 30× Cement	Same controls, plus reduced SAN drain on every working Pal
Ancient Monitoring Stand	71	100× Soralite Ingot, 5× Ancient Civilization Core	Holographic interface that keeps Pals calm even in harsh conditions

How to Switch Off a Work Suitability

One caveat worth knowing before you go switching everything off: a Pal with every job banned will simply stand idle, and a station with no eligible worker never runs. Cut the distractions, not the coverage — if you ban Handiwork on your only Handiwork Pal, your assembly lines stop. Our work optimizer is the fast way to see which job ranks a roster actually covers before you start trimming.

Every Job You Can Turn Off

There are 12 work suitabilities, and they are not equally dangerous. A job's pull is roughly the number of base structures that call for it — Handiwork has 23 of them and Kindling has 17 (torches, fireplaces and candlesticks all count), so those two grab wandering Pals constantly. Lumbering has only 2 stations yet 63 Pals can do it, which is why the Logging Site is the single most common thief of a specialist's time. Transporting is the outlier: zero stations request it, because hauling happens on its own all over the base.

Read the middle column as a warning list. Any Pal that holds Handiwork, Kindling or Watering as a throwaway rank-1 or rank-2 side job is going to spend real time at those stations, because there are dozens of them scattered around a mature base. Farming is the safe one — a single structure, the Ranch, asks for it, so a Farming side job almost never pulls a Pal off task.

The Pals That Actually Need a Job Disabled

Of the 286 Pals that can work a base, 138 hold three or more jobs and 50 carry two or more at rank 5 or better. That second group is the problem set: when two jobs are close in rank, the game has no reason to prefer the one you care about, so the Pal takes whichever station it happens to be near. These are the ones worth a trip to the stand, with the job to keep and the job to ban.

Pal	Keep	Ban	Why It Matters
Wumpo	Transporting 6	Lumbering 5, Cooling 5	A rank-6 hauler that keeps getting pulled to the Logging Site by a rank-5 axe job
Anubis	Handiwork 6	Mining 6, Transporting 4	Dead tie at 6 — nothing stops it drifting to the Ore Mining Site instead of your assembly line
Knocklem	Mining 7	Transporting 7	Two rank-7 jobs on one body; ban whichever your base already has covered
Dandilord	Planting 8	Handiwork 6, Medicine Production 6, Gathering 5	The best planter in the game and it holds three more jobs at 5+ — the single biggest gain from one toggle
Renjishi	Kindling 8	Handiwork 6, Gathering 5, Transporting 5	Rank-8 Kindling wasted at a workbench, in a base full of 17 Kindling stations
Bastigor	Cooling 8	Lumbering 6, Mining 5	Your whole cold chain depends on it; Lumbering 6 is strong enough to steal it outright
Silvance	Medicine Production 8	Planting 6, Handiwork 6	The top medicine worker, distracted by two rank-6 jobs
Lyleen	Planting 7	Gathering 6, Handiwork 5, Medicine Production 5	Four jobs, all 5+ — it will do anything except stay on the plantation
Selyne	Handiwork 7	Medicine Production 6	Rank-7 Handiwork is too scarce to spend at a medicine bench
Flaracle	Kindling 7	Handiwork 6	Handiwork's 23 stations will outbid your furnace every time
Dupin	Kindling 7	Handiwork 5, Medicine Production 4	Same trap as Flaracle, one rank lower on the distraction
Blazamut	Mining 7	Kindling 6	Rank-6 Kindling is high enough that torches and furnaces keep winning
Necromus	Lumbering 6 or Mining 6	The other one	A perfect tie — pick a side or it alternates
Paladius	Lumbering 6 or Mining 6	The other one	Identical split to Necromus; treat the pair the same way
Dualith	Mining 6	Transporting 6, Lumbering 5	Three jobs at 5+ on one Pal — the messiest worker in the game to leave unmanaged
Venusa	Handiwork 6	Gathering 6, Medicine Production 5	Handiwork and Gathering tie at 6, and Gathering has plantations everywhere
Cryolinx Terra	Lumbering 6	Mining 5, Transporting 4	Only 2 Lumbering stations exist, so anything else it can do will win the race
Orserk	Generating Electricity 8	Handiwork 3, Transporting 4	Your generator cannot afford downtime for a rank-3 side job

If you only fix four of these, make it Dandilord, Renjishi, Bastigor and Orserk — each one is a rank-8 ceiling in a job that nothing else on your roster covers as well, and each is losing time to something a much cheaper Pal could be doing instead. The centaur pair are the opposite case: there is no wrong answer, just pick a lane so they stop switching.

Wumpo — the Hauler That Keeps Wandering Off

Wumpo carries Transporting 6, Lumbering 5, Cooling 5 and Handiwork 3, and its listed best job is Transporting. The catch is that its transport speed is only 150, so it's already the slow, heavy-load kind of hauler — every minute it spends at a Logging Site is a minute your chests don't get filled. Ban Lumbering and Cooling and it does exactly one thing. Wumpo Botan has the same shape (Transporting 6, Lumbering 5) and wants the same treatment.

Anubis — a Dead Tie Between Handiwork and Mining

Anubis is Handiwork 6 and Mining 6, with Transporting 4 on the side. Nothing in the game breaks that tie for you, and since Handiwork has 23 stations against Mining's 8, which one it lands on is mostly a question of base layout. Most players want the Handiwork — it's the job that gates crafting throughput — so ban Mining and Transporting and let a dedicated miner like Aegidron take the ore.

Renjishi — Rank-8 Kindling Stuck at a Workbench

Renjishi holds the Kindling ceiling at rank 8 alongside Handiwork 6, Gathering 5 and Transporting 5. It's the worst offender in a decorated base, because torches, candlesticks and fireplaces all register as Kindling structures — 17 of them in total — so the Pal looks busy while your furnace sits cold. Ban everything but Kindling and it stays on the smelting line.

Dandilord — Four Jobs, One That Matters

Planting 8, Handiwork 6, Medicine Production 6, Gathering 5, Transporting 3 — Dandilord is the most over-subscribed high-end worker in the game. It's the only rank-8 planter, and it's also good enough at three other jobs to be constantly elsewhere. This is the clearest single toggle in base pal management: ban the other four, keep Planting, and your farm output changes immediately.

Transporting Steals the Most Workers

140 of the 286 workable Pals have Transporting — just under half the roster — and no structure ever requests it. Hauling is triggered by loose output sitting on the ground, so any Pal with the job will drop what it's doing to run a delivery, no matter how bad it is at the running. That's fine on a rank-6 hauler. It's terrible on a rank-8 specialist with Transporting 2, and there are nine of those.

Pal	Its Real Job	Transporting	Transport Speed
Solenne	Handiwork 8	2	250
Silvance	Medicine Production 8	2	500
Flaracle	Kindling 7	2	300
Dupin	Kindling 7	2	350
Wistella	Handiwork 6 / Medicine Production 6	1	300
Carnibora	Planting 6	2	330
Sekhmet	Handiwork 6	2	375
Splatterina	Handiwork 6	2	180
Venusa	Handiwork 6	2	200

Wistella is the sharpest example — Transporting 1, the lowest possible rank, on a Pal that's rank 6 at two genuinely scarce jobs. Splatterina is close behind at transport speed 180, slower than almost anything you'd deploy on purpose. Ban Transporting on all nine and hand the job to a real hauler: Knocklem and Eidrolon both move at speed 400, and Faleris Aqua hits 500 at rank 5.

Pals You Never Have to Manage

67 Pals have exactly one work suitability, which makes them immune to the whole problem — there is nothing to ban, because there is nothing else they can be distracted by. These twelve are the strongest single-job workers in the game, and every one of them is a slot you can fill and forget. If you're building a base you don't want to babysit, staff it out of this list first.

Pal	Its Only Job	Rank
Aegidron	Mining	8
Jetragon	Gathering	8
Jormuntide	Watering	7
Neptilius	Watering	7
Jormuntide Ignis	Kindling	7
Frostallion	Cooling	7
Frostallion Noct	Gathering	7
Starryon Primo	Gathering	7
Suzaku Aqua	Watering	6
Eidrolon	Transporting	6
Tetroise Primo	Mining	6
Silvegis	Lumbering	6

Aegidron and Jetragon are the two rank-8 specialists here, and they're both single-job — pair either with a managed Pal and you've covered two ceilings with one toggle between them. Eidrolon is the useful oddity: rank-6 Transporting as its only job, at speed 400, so it does the hauling nobody else should be doing.

The Short Answer

Build a Monitoring Stand at Tech Lv 7, then go through your deployed roster and ban every job except the one you deployed each Pal for. The 50 Pals carrying two or more jobs at rank 5+ are where all the wasted time lives — Dandilord, Renjishi, Bastigor, Anubis and Wumpo most of all. Everything else can be left alone, and the 67 single-job specialists never need touching at all.

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