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Intellectual property and takedowns

Pal Hatchery is a fan-made tool. Palworld and everything in it, including pal names, characters, artwork, icons and game data, is the property of Pocketpair, Inc. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by Pocketpair, and claims no ownership of any of their material. It appears here for identification and reference so players can look up their own game.

To Pocketpair: if any use of your material here is unwelcome, email hello@palhatchery.com and say what you want changed. We will comply promptly, up to removing artwork or shutting the site down, and you will not need to send a formal notice first.

Copyright notice (DMCA)

If you own a copyright in material appearing on this site and believe it is used without authorization, send a notice to hello@palhatchery.com including:

  1. your name, address and contact details;
  2. identification of the work you say is infringed;
  3. the URL or a description precise enough for us to find the material;
  4. a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  5. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
  6. your signature (an electronic signature is fine).

Valid notices are acted on quickly. No revenue here is tied to any single piece of content, so nothing is worth arguing about. Material named in a good-faith notice comes down first and gets discussed afterwards.

The site's own code and data

The application code is original work. Learnsets, drop tables, loot odds and every in-game name and description are our own export of the game's data files. The rest is other people's work, and not all of it comes from an openly licensed project:

  • Pal stats, the 44,849-pair breeding table and icons · tylercamp/palcalc (MIT).
  • Element types · paldb.cc, backfilled from KrisCris/Palworld-Pal-Editor.
  • Spawn points, alpha boss locations and the world-map basemap tiles · pulled from palworld.tools, a Palworld map site, rather than from a licensed release. The tiles are renders of the in-game map and remain Pocketpair's.
  • Save decompression · ooz, compiled to WebAssembly.
  • Save-format reader · ported from palworld-save-tools (MIT).

Credits are negotiable. If you maintain one of these and want the wording changed, or want it removed, just ask.

Reporting a security issue

Good-faith reports are welcome. They will never be met with legal action. Email hello@palhatchery.com, describe what you found, and give a reasonable window to fix it before publishing. Please don't test against other people's data or degrade the service for anyone else.

Response times

One person runs this as a hobby. Replies are not instant. Copyright notices and data deletion requests are handled first, and in any case within 30 days.