Lifmunk, a Grass-type pal in Palworld, Paldex number 4

How to breed Lifmunk.

Rarity 1 · 50% ♂ · wild Lv 1-14 37 parent pairs

The easiest pair that hatches Lifmunk

Sparkit and Lifmunk is the cheapest pair that hatches Lifmunk in Palworld 1.0, out of 37 pairs that work. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 1.

both catchable in the wild · found from about level 1. Parents must be opposite genders.

The lineageread left to right
Pairs that make Lifmunk
Sparkit × Lifmunk both catchable in the wild · found from about level 1
Pengullet × Chikipi both catchable in the wild · found from about level 1
Lifmunk Lifmunk

Easiest pair first · rarest child first. Every parent pair is in the list below.

Gender odds on the Sparkit and Lifmunk pair

Both Sparkit and Lifmunk hatch 50/50 male, so every one you catch is a coin flip and two of each covers it. Lifmunk comes out 50/50 too. Two of the same gender produces nothing at all, however right the pair is.

Weak to

Fire

Deals double to

Ground

Paldex entry

“Intelligent as a five to seven-year-old human child. It makes a wonderful partner, but there have been more than a few cases where they've killed their master after learning to use weapons.”

Lifmunk is a Grass-type pal with 37 parent pairs in Palworld 1.0, and not one of them is a special one-off recipe. Wild ones sit at level 1-14. It is an early-game catch, so nothing needs breeding. Best jobs: Planting 1, Handiwork 1.

Breed rank3020
Rarity1/20
SizeXS
Activeday
Wild level1-14
Passive slots4/4
Gender 50% ♂ · 50% ♀

Partner skill

Lifmunk Recoil. When activated, leaps onto the player's head and uses a submachine gun to follows up player attacks.

Rank 1 → 5: 15 · 16 · 18 · 21 · 25

Work suitability

Stats

HP 75 weak
Attack 70 weak
Defense 70 weak
Stamina 100 weak
Run speed 400 weak
Ride speed 550 weak
Transport 250 average

Scaled across all 299 pals. Lifmunk is not a fighter. Planting 1 is what you keep it for.

Trust scaling

HP+5.3
Attack+3.7
Defense+3.7

Stat gain per trust rank, straight from the game's own parameter table. Read it as what Lifmunk is worth after you have actually used it.

Drops

Per kill or capture. Each item links to every pal that drops it.

All 37 parent combinations for Lifmunk

Every pair that produces Lifmunk averages to its breed rank of 3020, and 37 pairs in the Palworld 1.0 table hit that number. Opposite genders, cake in the breeding farm, then the egg goes in an egg incubator. Every pair here is two wild catches.

Why an older Lifmunk combo list won't work

Pre-1.0 guides name a recipe. The 1.0 table works on averages: a pair produces Lifmunk when the two parents' breed ranks average to its 3020. 37 pairs hit that average. A page showing five or six rows is quoting a sample, not the set.

Ours is the game's real 44,849-pair table, shipped verbatim rather than approximated from the rank formula. The 19,044 figure still in circulation is 138 squared, the pre-1.0 roster of base forms counted as ordered pairs, so it measures something else. One pair shows the difference. Every calculator downstream of palcalc ships Panthalus and Panthalus as breeding true, and the game's own tables prove it cannot, because that pair yields Aegidron.

The shortest breeding path to Lifmunk

Lifmunk is one of the pals a starter box already holds, catchable at level 1-14, so there is no chain to build. It is one of the 59 species every route on this site is measured from.

Lifmunk passive skill odds per egg

A clean four-passive pool across both parents gives 10.0% per Lifmunk egg, which is about 22 eggs for a 90% shot at all four. Every extra passive skill on either parent lowers it.

You wantParent poolPer eggEggs for 90%
4 specific passives4 10.0%22
4 specific passives5 2.0%114
4 specific passives6 0.7%345
3 specific passives3 30.0%7
3 specific passives4 15.0%15
3 specific passives5 6.0%38
2 specific passives2 60.0%3
2 specific passives4 25.0%9

One junk passive on a parent can double the eggs you need. The per-egg column is the chance every passive skill you want lands on the egg, with random extras allowed. The roll behind these numbers is worked through in Palworld passive inheritance odds per egg, and the planner ranks the pairs in your own box by them.

Is Lifmunk worth breeding, or should you catch one?

Catch one, and early. Lifmunk shows up from level 1, so you will meet one long before a pair is worth assembling. You almost certainly own one already. 37 pairs is a wide enough net that one of them probably matches your box.

Breed it anyway once you own one. A pair is how you roll passive skills; catching is how you get the species.

Where to find Lifmunk in the wild

Lifmunk spawns in Sea Breeze Archipelago and 5 other areas, at level 4-14. Another 25 of its spawn points sit outside every named region.

day 211 spawn points
RegionLevelSpawn points
Sea Breeze Archipelago4-14109
Isle of Murmurs4-629
Marsh Island1-324
Fortress Ruins5-719
Windswept Island5-73
Deep Bamboo Thicket4-62

Lifmunk work suitability and drops

Lifmunk has Planting 1 and Handiwork 1 in Palworld 1.0, and drops Ancient Civilization Parts and Low Grade Medical Supplies when killed or caught. Those levels and the drop rows come from our own export of the game's tables.

What Lifmunk is actually for once it hatches

Planting 1 is the best it does, which is base filler out of a ceiling of 8. Check best Planting pals for anything that does it properly. Attack 70 beats only 4% of the roster, so it is filler on both counts.

Lifmunk active skills and partner skill

Lifmunk learns 8 active skills as it levels, the last at level 70. Its partner skill is Lifmunk Recoil. That learnset is our own export of the game's level table, cooldowns and all.

What Lifmunk breeds into as a parent

Paired with other species, Lifmunk produces 107 different children, the rarest of them Kingpaca and Elizabee. A parent that wide is worth a farm slot on its own.

Lifmunk breeding FAQ

Can you breed Lifmunk in Palworld?
Yes. 37 pairs produce Lifmunk in the Palworld 1.0 breeding table. Both parents have to be opposite genders, in a breeding farm, with cake in the feed box. The cheapest of those pairs is Sparkit and Lifmunk, and the egg then needs an egg incubator to hatch.
What two Pals make Lifmunk in Palworld?
Sparkit and Lifmunk, opposite genders. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 1, which makes it the cheapest of the 37 pairs that produce Lifmunk. Every other pair is listed on this page. Both parents average to its breed rank of 3020.
Can you catch Lifmunk in the wild in Palworld 1.0?
Yes, at level 1-14. Its spawn points fall inside 6 named regions, the densest Sea Breeze Archipelago, where they run level 4-14. There is no alpha Lifmunk, so field spawns are the only source of one. The map on this page marks 211 spawn points for it in total.
Are these Lifmunk breeding combos updated for Palworld 1.0?
Yes. Every pair here comes out of the game's real 44,849-pair table, shipped verbatim rather than approximated. All 37 of Lifmunk's pairs are in the list. Panthalus and Panthalus is the usual tell of a stale list, and the game's tables rule it out.
Can Lifmunk be bred in the early game?
Yes. Lifmunk is one of the pals a starter box already holds, catchable at level 1-14, so nothing has to be bred first. Any pair you build from it is about rolling passive skills rather than about getting hold of the species.
Can Lifmunk inherit all four passive skills from one egg?
Only if both parents' combined pool is exactly those four. Lifmunk is born with no fixed passive, so all four slots are open, and a pair like Sparkit and Lifmunk has to carry nothing else. A clean four-passive pool is 10% per egg, about 22 eggs for a 90% shot.

Route this pair from your own save

Pal Hatchery reads your Level.sav in your browser and tells you which half of the Sparkit and Lifmunk pair you already own. It reads genders, levels and passive skills off the save, then routes from there. Nothing is uploaded.

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