How to cure Depressed status in Palworld

palworld depressed and shocked lamball pal jumping with sparks around it

palworld depressed and shocked lamball pal jumping with sparks around it

The realism in Palworld also includes the alienation your Pals can feel if forced to work too long. Once your Pals are working for you, you need to take care of them else they can develop Depression. If your Pal becomes Depressed, it can become a serious problem that you need to cure quickly.

If your Pal stays at a low Sanity for way too long, it becomes Depressed and this is one of the more serious conditions that requires expensive medicine to cure. So today we'll learn how to cure the Depressed status in Palworld before it ruins your Pal's mental health.

While you're here also learn how to build Hot Springs and how to build a base for you and your Pals.

How to cure Depressed in Palworld

If you want to avoid the Depressed status, we suggest building large comfy beds for Pals and keeping their SAN high by building a few Hot Springs as well. Work and movement speed are both significantly reduced for Pals with the Depressed status effect. Now let's see how to cure it.

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Build Medieval Medicine Workbench

You unlock the Medieval Medicine Workbench from the Technology menu when you hit Level 12. It's necessary because it's the only production facility that allows you to craft different medical supplies.

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Crafting it requires the following materials:

Out of these, you might have some trouble sourcing the nails but they're easily craftable using Ingots.

Craft High-Grade Medical Supplies

With the Medieval Medicine Workbench ready, it's now time to produce High-Grade Medical Supplies, which can then be used to cure the Depressed status effect.

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Craft the High-Grade Medical Supplies using the following ingredients:

You can find Bones by hunting down Rushoar in the starting areas. Crafting can take a while, so we suggest leaving it to a Pal with the Medical Production job suitability.

Feed High-Grade Medical Supplies to Pal

Now that you have your High-Grade Medical Supplies ready you need to walk up to the affected Pal and either press 4 on the keyboard or RS on the controller to open up the interaction menu.

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From here, choose the Feed option and feed the High-Grade Medical Supplies to cure the Depressed status effect for good. Rinse and repeat this method for any Pal that becomes Depressed.

Alternative Method

You can find High-Grade Medical Supplies by purchasing them from Traveling Merchants at the cost of 3,000 apiece. This method is a lot more expensive than the one we've listed above, but if you're short on time and urgently need, medicine it's good to know.

That's all you need to know on how to cure the Depression status effect in Palworld. For more guides, be sure to learn how to farm Sulfur and how to quickly get Gold Coins in case you need to buy emergency medicine.

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