How to use the Monitoring Stand in Palworld

Directing your Pals has never been easier.

The player using the Monitoring Stand in Palworld.
Screenshot by Dot Esports

There’s nothing worse than trying to refine ore into ingots only for your Kindling Pals in Palworld to decide it’s more important to bake a Cake instead. Pals just aren’t great are prioritizing, but luckily for players, using the Monitoring Stand allows you to direct them much more efficiently.

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The Monitoring Stand is a game-changer for improving the work cycle present on each of your bases. Without this item, it’s nearly impossible to get Pals to focus on the tasks you want them to do, so you need to know how to use the Monitoring Stand in Palworld.

What does the Monitoring Stand do in Palworld?

The player standing at a Monitoring Stand in Palworld.
Regulate your Pals with ease. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The Monitoring Stand can be used to control exactly what kind of work your Pals do in Palworld. You can interact with it to modify their overall labor efforts and also specifically turn the various types of work suitabilities on and off for each Pal to help them prioritize whatever tasks you desire.

How to get a Monitoring Stand in Palworld

You can purchase a Monitoring Stand at Technology tree level 15 for two Technology Points. Once you have it unlocked, you can build this structure using 30 Wood and 10 Stone.

Since these are two pretty basic resources, this item is decently easy to obtain and should be added to your base as soon as possible so you can better manage it. Pals often get overwhelmed and struggle to focus on specific tasks when you don’t use this item, especially when they have a lot of work suitabilities, so narrowing down your Pals’ focus is the best way to go.

The Monitoring Stand item in Palworld.
It’s pretty easy to unlock and craft. Screenshot by Dot Esports

How to direct Pals using the Monitoring Stand in Palworld

There are two ways you can use the Monitoring Stand to direct Pals in Palworld, both of which can be done simply by approaching a built Monitoring Stand and pressing one of the two buttons to select one of the options that appear next to it.

  • Set work mode: This allows you to choose what level of work you want all of your Pals to be performing.
  • Set work preferences: This allows you to specifically toggle on and off specific work capabilities and combat for each individual Pal.

All work mode options in Palworld

There are four different work modes you can put your entire base in, ranging from a more relaxed work approach to a brutal one. Each work mode you choose affects work speed, movement speed, SAN depletion, and hunger depletion in a different way.

  • Relaxed Work – Asks Pals to perform a moderate level of work.
    • Work speed: Low
    • Movement speed: Normal
    • SAN depletion amount: Low
    • Hunger depletion amount: Low
  • Normal Work – Asks Pals to do a humane level of work.
    • Work speed: Normal
    • Movement speed: Normal
    • SAN depletion amount: Normal
    • Hunger depletion amount: Normal
  • Hard Work – Asks Pals to perform a cruel level of work.
    • Work speed: High
    • Movement speed: High
    • SAN depletion amount: High
    • Hunger depletion amount: High
  • Super Hard Work – Asks Pals to do brutal work.
    • Work speed: Highest
    • Movement speed: Highest
    • SAN depletion amount: Highest
    • Hunger depletion amount: Highest
All four work options in Palworld.
How much work do you want your Pals to do? Screenshot by Dot Esports

All work preferences in Palworld

Using the work preference option at the Monitoring Stand, you can toggle on and off specific work suitabilities and whether Pals should engage in combat if a situation that calls for a fight surfaces. All of the work preferences you can modify are as follows, although each Pal only has access to a few of these options depending on their specific work suitabilities, which you can check in the Paldeck.

The work preference options in Palworld.
You can freely choose what activities your Pals perform and avoid. Screenshot by Dot Esports

All of the work suitabilities your Pals have are marked with a green checkmark by default, which means they will perform the related task. Clicking on any of the green checkmarks in their row will turn it into a red X, which means they will no longer do that task as long as you have it toggled off.

Using this system at the Monitoring Stand, you can completely regulate how each Pal works at your base. You can keep your Pals engaged in all the possible work suitabilities they have, or you can instead eliminate all but one or two if you want them to solely focus on a couple of specific tasks. All the choices you make aren’t permanent and can be modified whenever you want by visiting your Monitoring Stand to make your desired changes.

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Kacee Fay
Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Minecraft, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Phasmophobia, general gaming, streaming, and more. She has been avidly writing and gaming her whole life and now spends her time combining the two. Kacee graduated from San Diego State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Certificate in Creative Editing and Publishing. She then joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022 before transitioning to a Staff Writer in 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys buying more books than she can read, gaming alone or with friends, drinking too much tea, attending concerts, fangirling over movies and television, listening to music, and spending time with her family, friends, and pets, who are the most important parts of her world.
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