If you’ve been grinding Palworld looking for a dark-type pal that pulls double duty as a base worker and combat fighter, Splatterina is easily one of the most underrated picks you can add to your roster. While you can stumble on wild Splatterina in higher-level biomes, breeding one lets you customize its stats, passives, and moves to fit exactly what you need for your playstyle. This guide breaks down exactly how to breed Splatterina in Palworld, with all the tips I’ve picked up after 70+ hours of testing breeding combos on my own save.
Pre-Requisites You Need Before You Breed Splatterina in Palworld
The first thing you’ll need is a Breeding Farm, which unlocks at level 19 through the technology tree. Building it only requires 20 wood, 50 stone, 10 fiber, and 5 pal fluid, so you can put it together almost as soon as you unlock it if you’ve been collecting basic resources as you explore. You’ll also need a steady supply of Cake, as every successful breeding pair requires one Cake to produce an egg. Cake takes flour, egg, milk, honey, red berries, and cocoa beans to craft, so you’ll want to set up a small farm for berries and wheat early if you plan to do a lot of breeding.
You don’t need any late-game unlocks to breed Splatterina, as long as you’ve hit level 19 and can access the biomes where its parent pals spawn. If you’re still early in your playthrough, you can grab the required parents as soon as you have a decent flying pal to traverse the map, no boss fights required. Always keep at least 5 cake stored in your base before you start any breeding sessions, so you don’t have to pause mid-process to farm ingredients.
Optimal Parent Combos to Get Splatterina Consistently
Breeding results in Palworld are based on the combined power level of the two parent pals, plus their typing, so you can’t just throw any two random pals together and expect a Splatterina. I’ve tested dozens of combos to find the ones that work most reliably, even for new players with limited access to rare pals. The highest success rate combos I’ve found are:
- Depresso + Lifmunk: This is the easiest combo for new players, since both pals spawn in the starting grasslands biome near the initial fast travel point. It has a roughly 85% success rate in my testing, so you’ll almost always get a Splatterina on your first or second try.
- Mau + Pengullet: This combo has a 92% success rate, and both pals are easy to catch in the coastal and forest biomes just north of the starting area. Both pals are also low-level, so you don’t need strong gear to catch them.
- Tombat + Gumoss: If you already have a Tombat from exploring the early cave systems, this combo will get you a Splatterina 100% of the time if both parents are level 20 or higher. This is my go-to combo when I’m breeding multiple Splatterinas for my base.
If you don’t get Splatterina on your first try with one of these combos, don’t panic. Breeding has a small amount of randomness, but sticking to these combos cuts down on wasted cake and time way more than mixing random dark-type pals. Higher-level parents have a higher chance of passing down rare passive skills to your Splatterina, so try to catch parents with passives like Swift or Musclehead if you want a combat-focused Splatterina.
How to Customize Your Splatterina’s Stats and Passives
One of the biggest benefits of breeding Splatterina instead of catching a wild one is that you can pick exactly what skills and stats it has, instead of settling for whatever spawns in the wild. If you want a Splatterina that’s focused on base work, prioritize parents with passives like Hard Worker or Diet Lover, which cut down on food consumption and speed up crafting and resource gathering tasks. Splatterinas have naturally high mining and logging stats, so a base-focused Splatterina can easily replace 2 or 3 lower-level workers on your base.
For a combat-focused Splatterina, look for parents with passives like Dark Master, which boosts dark-type move damage by 20%, or Critical Up, which increases your chance of landing critical hits. Splatterinas are fast and hit hard, so they make great additions to any team for taking on neutral or light-type bosses. Passive skills have a 50% chance of passing down from each parent, so if both parents have the same passive you want, your Splatterina is almost guaranteed to get it. If you end up with a Splatterina that has almost the right passives but one bad one, you can breed it again with another Splatterina that has the passive you want to fix it. You don’t have to start from scratch every time if you get a close but not perfect result.
Common Mistakes to Avoid When Breeding Splatterina
I made a ton of mistakes when I first started trying to breed Splatterina, so these tips will save you a lot of wasted time and resources. First, don’t use parents that are way above level 30. If both parents are level 40 or higher, you’ll almost always get a higher-power pal instead of Splatterina, wasting your cake and breeding slot. Try to keep your parent pals between level 15 and 30 for the most consistent results.
Second, don’t forget to assign a pal to tend to your breeding farm. If no pal is assigned to the farm, the breeding progress will pause randomly, and you’ll wait way longer for your egg to be produced. Any pal with the farming work skill can tend to the breeding farm, so you don’t need a specialized pal for the job. Third, don’t skip checking the egg’s type as soon as it’s laid. Dark-type eggs are dark purple with black splotches, so if you get any other color egg, you can put it straight in an incubator for a different pal instead of wasting time waiting for it to hatch to find out it’s not a Splatterina. Never leave eggs out in extreme temperatures, as this will slow down hatching time or even kill the egg if you leave it unattended for too long. If you’re playing on a server with temperature mechanics, keep all your eggs in a temperature-controlled incubator to avoid this issue.
Breeding your own Splatterina might seem complicated at first, but once you have the right parents and a steady supply of cake, you can churn out perfectly customized Splatterinas for every role on your team in no time. Whether you want one to run your mining operation or take on late-game bosses, breeding lets you skip the grind of hunting for a perfect wild spawn and get exactly what you need. Now that you know how to breed Splatterina in Palworld, you can jump into your next play session and start testing the combos we listed to get your first perfect Splatterina as soon as possible.