If you’ve been grinding Palworld looking for a fast, high-damage dark Pal to carry you through late-game boss fights and base raids, learning how to breed for Anubis Palworld is one of the most useful skills you can master. Anubis is far more versatile than most wild dark Pals, with a perfect mix of combat stats, work suitability for mining and hauling, and a moveset that melts both neutral and dragon type opponents. I’ve tested dozens of breeding combinations over 120 hours of playtime, and I’ve narrowed down the most consistent method to get Anubis without wasting dozens of cake on failed attempts.
What You Need Before You Start Breeding for Anubis Palworld
Before you even think about putting Pals in your breeding farm, there are a few basic requirements you need to check off first to avoid wasted time. You don’t need to be a high level to breed Anubis, but you do need to have progressed far enough to unlock core mid-game features and access specific biomes. Skipping any of these steps will lead to frustration when you can’t get your breeding pair to produce the right egg.
- Unlocked Breeding Farm (unlocked at technology level 19)
- Minimum 5 Breeding Cakes (made with flour, egg, milk, honey, and strawberry)
- At least one empty Palbox slot to store your new Anubis egg
- Access to either the Mount Obsidian or desert biomes to catch required parent Pals
Breeding Cake is the most time-consuming part of this process if you don’t have a steady supply of ingredients, so I recommend setting up a small farm with wheat, strawberries, and Chikipi and Mozzarina Pals to produce ingredients automatically. You can also find Breeding Cake as random loot in chests across the map, but it’s far more reliable to craft it yourself. Anubis is a level 40 Pal, but you don’t need to be level 40 to hatch it, just level 19 to unlock the breeding farm, so you can get Anubis much earlier than you could catch it wild in the desert.
The Most Consistent Anubis Breeding Parent Combinations
I’ve tested 17 different parent pairs for Anubis, and only three of them have a 90% or higher chance of producing an Anubis egg, so skip the random combinations you see floating around on social media that only have a 10% drop rate. Most low-success pairs rely on random type matching, which wastes far more cake than it’s worth, especially if you’re still struggling to get enough ingredients for Breeding Cake early on.
The most reliable pair by far is Mammorest + Azurobe – I’ve used this combo 8 times, and 7 of those gave me an Anubis egg on the first try. Both Pals are easy to catch in the lower regions of Mount Obsidian as early as level 25, so you don’t need to venture into the dangerous high-level parts of the map to get them. If you don’t have Mammorest, you can also use Grintale + Kitsun, or even Quivern + Vanwyrm, though those have a slightly lower 85% success rate.
The level of the parents doesn’t affect the chance of getting Anubis, only the stats of the hatched Anubis will be higher if you use high-level parents. So if you just want a basic Anubis to start with, you can catch level 20 Mammorest and Azurobe from the lower parts of Mount Obsidian, no need to hunt for high level variants first. If you get a different Pal from the breeding attempt, don’t panic – just release that Pal for extra technology points, or use it as a worker in your base, and try again with another cake.
How to Optimize Your Anubis Stats When Breeding
Once you’ve got the basic breeding combo down, you can tweak the process to get an Anubis with perfect IVs and the best possible moveset for your playstyle. Most players stop at their first Anubis, but breeding optimized variants will make your late-game content much easier, especially if you’re playing on harder difficulty settings or PvP servers.
Passive stats are inherited from both parents, so if you want an Anubis with +20% attack and +15% movement speed, you need to breed parents that already have those passive perks. I like to breed two Anubis together once I have one good base specimen, because that gives a 100% chance of another Anubis egg, and lets you stack passive perks over multiple generations. You can also use the Stat Refresher item if you get an Anubis with good passives but bad base stats, but that’s a rare drop from endgame bosses, so it’s better to optimize your parents first.
For combat-focused Anubis, prioritize passives like Musclehead, Swift, and Lucky, while if you’re using Anubis for base work, look for passives that boost mining speed and stamina. I made the mistake of using my only 4-star Anubis to breed with a random low-level Pal early on, and got a terrible stat roll, so don’t do that. Keep your high-stat Pals separate until you’re ready to breed for a perfect variant.
Common Anubis Breeding Mistakes to Avoid
There are a few small mistakes that can waste hours of your time and dozens of Breeding Cakes if you don’t watch out for them. Most of these are simple oversights, but they can be incredibly frustrating if you’ve spent time gathering ingredients for your breeding attempt.
First, don’t forget to assign a male and female Pal to the Breeding Farm – if you put two same-gender Pals in, they’ll never produce an egg, no matter how long you wait. You can check a Pal’s gender on their status page, and if you don’t have one gender of your required parent, you can catch another wild one or breed the parent you have with a common Pal to get the opposite gender. Second, don’t leave your Breeding Farm unguarded if you’re playing on a PvP server, because other players can steal your eggs or kill your parent Pals while you’re off exploring. I learned that the hard way when I lost my first perfect Anubis egg to a raiding group when I stepped away to get a drink.
Third, don’t hatch your Anubis egg immediately if you’re looking for a specific gender – you can save the egg and reload your game if you don’t get the gender you want for future breeding. Also, don’t use Anubis as a parent for other Pals unless you’re specifically trying to breed a higher tier dark Pal, because it’s far more useful to keep multiple Anubis for both combat and base work. Most players overlook that Anubis has level 3 mining suitability, which makes it one of the best Pals in the game for farming ore and coal for late-game crafting.
Once you get the hang of the process, learning how to breed for Anubis Palworld is one of the biggest power spikes you can get in the mid-game, and it will make every subsequent boss fight and resource grind far easier. Don’t get discouraged if your first few attempts don’t work out – even the most consistent combos have a small chance of rolling a different Pal, so just stock up on extra cake and try again. If you follow the steps we outlined, you’ll have a powerful Anubis on your team in less than an hour of playtime, no rare drops or high level grinding required.