A Palworld map that ticks itself off.
PalMap reads your save file and marks everything you've already collected — effigies, bosses, fast travel points, watchtowers, notes and pickups. Keep it open while you play and it updates itself.
➡️ Download PalMap ⬅️
That link downloads a .zip. Right-click it → Extract All, and put the folder anywhere you
like (Desktop is fine).
Don't run it from inside the zip — Windows won't let it work properly. Extract it first.
1. Install Node.js — only if you don't already have it. Go to nodejs.org and click the big green LTS button, then install it.
2. Double-click Start PalMap.bat
A black window opens and your browser opens the map with your progress already filled in.
Leave the black window open while you play. Close it when you're done.
Windows may warn about an unrecognised app. Click More info → Run anyway — that warning appears for any program without a paid certificate.
On Mac or Linux there's no
.bat: open a terminal in the folder and runnpm start.
Your save is found automatically — there's nothing to set up.
- Save — pick which world, if you have more than one. They're listed by name.
- Auto — on by default, re-checks every few minutes while you play.
- Sync now — check immediately instead of waiting.
- Categories — tick a box to show or hide that kind of marker.
- Click any marker on the map to tick it off by hand.
Next to each category is one of two symbols:
| ⟳ | Fills in automatically from your save. |
| ✋ | You tick these yourself — Palworld doesn't record them, so nothing can detect them. |
The ● button decides what happens to things you've already found: ● keep showing them, ◐ fade them, ○ hide them. Shift-click to change every category at once.
Is this safe? Will I get banned? No. PalMap only reads your Palworld save — it never changes it, never touches the game, and never sends anything anywhere. Palworld has no anti-cheat. You can leave the game running.
Do I have to close Palworld? No. Play normally and the map keeps up.
I collected something and it didn't show up. Palworld only writes your save to disk every few minutes. The status line tells you when the game last saved — if that's older than when you picked the thing up, it'll appear on the next sync.
Where is my progress kept?
Things marked ⟳ come from your save, so they're never lost. Things you tick by hand are stored in
a progress.json file inside the PalMap folder — keep that file and you keep your progress.
It can't find my save.
Click "Or pick a .sav file manually…" and choose a file from
AppData\Local\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\<numbers>\<numbers>\Players\
Can my friend use it? Yes — send them the download link above, or just copy the whole folder to them.
Around 760 collectibles that you can actually finish:
Effigies · Alpha Pals · Caged Bosses · Tower Bosses · Fast Travel · Watchtowers · Notes · Items · Dungeons · Treasure Maps · Warp Points · Skill Fruit Trees
It leaves out chests, eggs, ore and fishing spots on purpose. Those respawn forever, so they can never be completed — and there are thousands of them, which would bury the island in icons.
| Start PalMap.bat | The thing you double-click. |
app |
The map itself. |
docs |
Screenshot and notes for the curious. |
tools |
Scripts for rebuilding map data from game files. You'll never need these. |
| everything else | Plumbing. Leave it alone. |
Made by Void Possum. Free and open source (GPL-3.0).
Map and icons belong to Pocketpair, Inc., used here for a free fan tool. Save decompression by ooz-wasm; map by Leaflet.
Curious how it works? See docs/TECHNICAL.md.