In the slice of life MMOPalia, you will have several different tools to use in your day-to-day life. There isn’t a set path you need to follow when it comes to upgrades, but upgrading your tools will cost you in both money and materials. You will also need to have the right recipes in order to upgrade your tools.

As tools do break down over time and become weaker with use, you will need to ensure that you are paying attention to which tools you are using most and verify those are up to scratch. you may, ultimately, upgrade tools in the order you best like them. However, there are some tools worth prioritising, especially as upgrading will increase your skills in that field and allow you to do specific tasks within Palia more efficiently.

Palia Hunting

7Upgrade Your Bow To Make Money Faster

Shooting more efficiently will help you make a quick profit

When you first start playing Palia, you will likely be looking toearn a bunch of money. One of the quickest and most efficient ways of making money is through hunting, which requires a bow. Once you have mastered aiming and shooting your bow, you can easily find yourself hunting a bunch of different animals, which all dropitems to be sold.

Once you’ve upgraded your bow, you canshoot farther than before, allowing you to hunt from further away from the individual animals you are looking to gain resources from, thus increasing your success rate.

An avatar in Palia using a hoe

6Upgrade Your Hoe To Farm Faster

Get a larger plot for planting, fast

You could end up spending a lot of time in Palia farming your own plot. Upgrading the hoe will allow you totill more farm landon the housing plot.

Spending time using the hoe willincrease your farming skilland allow you to upgrade it, so that you can then till a larger area on your plot at once. This larger area can be used for planting more seeds, and ultimately growing more crops as well. It’s very useful when it comes to keeping your farm efficient and getting all of your plot in order quite quickly.

An avatar in Palia who cannot cut bigger trees because of the size of their axe

5Upgrade Your Axe To Remove Large Trees

Make sure your farm is clear with an upgraded axe

The axe is one of the first tools you will get in Palia, and with it, you may cut down small bushes and saplings. Upgrading this tool allows you tochop down much bigger, thicker trees and wood, which otherwise are stuck where they are.

When clearing out your plot, you will find a few trees that are stuck in place, and an upgraded axe is the only way to actually remove them, which can be useful when placing new items on your plot. Upgrading will also increase the damage dealt, so you will find it easier to chop smaller items too.

A character in Palia breaking a rock

4Upgrade Your Pick To Gain More Resources

When you gain the axe, you’ll also get a pick to remove a lot of the rocks on your plot. Unlike the axe, there aren’t large rocks that you need to remove from your plot, that aren’t breakable with your current pick. However, you will want to upgrade your pick so that you can start gaining different minerals.

You will not be able to mineIronorPaliumuntil you have upgraded your pick. and you’ll need these resources to craft various objects within the game. Your pick will then also be more efficient at mining other rocks that you want to break.

palia player standing next to a dragonfly

3Upgrade Your Belt To Catch New Bugs

Gain special rewards with this upgrade

The belt is used to capture different bugs that can be found out and about. Bugs are then either sold or can be displayed in terrariums. You’ll likely want to upgrade your belt to make bug catching less challenging, as there are a bunch of differentspecial rewardsthat can be obtained by catching specific bugs.

Upgrading your belt will give you a higher chance to daze bugs, making it easier to catch bugs with each upgrade. There are some bugs which are very tricky to catch without upgrading your belt, so you might as well get it done.

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2Upgrade Your Rod To Nab Tricky Fish

Make fishing a breeze with an upgraded rod

Your rod is used to catch various fish and works a lot like the belt, but each upgrade has a little bit more to it than the belt. First, when you upgrade your rod, you will gain better line health, making fishing easier. More upgrades will also allow your rod to move faster, which is almost needed when it comes to catching specific fish.

You will also gain special rewards bycompleting accomplishments in fishing, so it’s worth the upgrade, especially if you struggle to fish!

Palia farming gold

1Upgrade Your Watering Can To Help Plants Thrive

Speed up your chores with the upgraded watering can

You are able to upgrade your watering can, which will allow your can tohold more water and water more crops at once. This can be helpful if you want to be much quicker at your daily chore of watering.

This is a pretty simple upgrade that doesn’t do too much apart from make it easier to water your plants, so it’s not one that you need to rush to get the resources for or rush to get done. Once you’ve gotten your other upgrades sorted, you might as well complete your collection by upgrading your watering can!