How to Use the Monitoring Stand in Palworld 1.0

The Monitoring Stand is the base management console in Palworld. It lets you decide how hard your Pals work, which jobs each Pal is allowed to do, and which workstation a Pal stays glued to. Without it, Pals wander between tasks on their own, so a miner might drop an ore node to go chop trees or plant seeds.

Quick answer: Unlock the Monitoring Stand in the Technology Tree at Level 7 for 2 Technology Points, build it with 30 Wood and 10 Stone inside your base, then interact with it. Press F to set the work mode, V to allow or ban specific jobs per Pal, and C to lock Pals to fixed workstations.

Player interacting with the Monitoring Stand in Palworld — The Monitoring Stand controls work intensity and job assignments for every Pal at a base (Image via Pocketpair).

Unlock and build the Monitoring Stand

You need the technology unlocked before you can place it. Both the Wood and Stone requirement are cheap, so you can add it to a base early.

Open the Technology Tree and unlock the Monitoring Stand at Level 7. It costs 2 Technology Points.

Gather 30 Wood and 10 Stone, then place the structure anywhere inside your base boundary. It has a health pool of 4,000, so raiders can damage it.

Walk up to the built stand. Three prompts appear on screen, one for each function it controls.

Set the work mode (F)

Press F to open the work mode menu. This sets a single baseline effort level for every Pal at the base at once. Higher intensity finishes tasks faster but drains sanity (SAN) and hunger much quicker, so you need enough food and rest facilities to keep up.

Work mode	Work speed	Movement	SAN drain	Hunger drain
Relaxed Work	Low	Normal	Low	Low
Normal Work	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal
Hard Work	High	High	High	High
Super Hard Work	Highest	Highest	Highest	Highest

Tip: Only push Hard or Super Hard Work when you need a short burst of production and you have high-tier food plus a hot spring ready to offset the sanity loss. Leaving a base on Super Hard indefinitely leads to depressed, injured, and slacking Pals.

Toggle work preferences per Pal (V)

Press V to open the work preferences grid. The left side lists every Pal stationed at the base, and the columns are the work types. Each Pal only shows the roles that match its own suitabilities.

A green checkmark means the Pal will do that job. Click the checkmark to switch it to a red X, and the Pal will stop doing that task. This is how you force a multi-talented Pal to focus. Turn off everything except the one or two jobs you want it handling, and it stops abandoning a workstation to do something else.

The work types you can allow or ban include the following.

Kindling, Watering, Planting
Generating Electricity, Handiwork, Gathering
Lumbering, Mining, Medicine Production
Cooling, Transporting, Farming, Combat

Selecting a Pal shows its full details on the right, including level, gender, SAN, stats, current task, and skills. None of these choices are permanent. Return to the stand any time to flip a job back on.

Lock Pals to a workstation with fixed assignment (C)

Press C to open the Assignment Board. This ties a Pal to a specific structure so it never wanders off, which replaces the old method of physically picking up a Pal and throwing it at a station.

Select a facility from the Base Facilities list on the left, such as a Logging Site, Crusher, or High-Quality Workbench.

The board filters the right column to only show Pals with the matching suitability. For a Logging Site, that means only Pals with the Lumbering trait appear.

Assign the Pal you want. It will now stay on that station. Remember to free it once the job is done, otherwise it sits idle instead of picking up other chores.

Upgrade to the High Quality Monitoring Stand at Level 28

Once you reach Level 28, you can build the High Quality Monitoring Stand. It works exactly like the basic version for work modes, preferences, and assignments, but it adds a passive area buff that lowers the natural SAN cost of labor. Working conditions improve, so the Pals at that base are less likely to become dissatisfied.

Detail	Monitoring Stand	High Quality Monitoring Stand
Required level	7	28
Materials	30 Wood, 10 Stone	100 Ingot, 30 Cement
Workload	2,000	300
Passive effect	None	Lowers SAN cost of labor

You will know the setup is working when Pals stop hopping between stations and stick to the jobs you left checked, and when a fixed assignment keeps a single Pal parked on its workstation. If a Pal still ignores a task, check that its work type is not toggled off in the preferences grid and that another facility has not pulled it away through a fixed assignment.