Palworld Alpha Pals

The game files list 201 alpha Pals with a known spawn. 148 of them appear inside one of the 10 caverns; the rest spawn in the overworld, where the files give a level but no named zone.

Mostly in caverns. Hillside Cavern (30 alphas), Isolated Island Cavern (30 alphas), Astral Mountains Cavern (20 alphas) are the densest. Caverns respawn their boss on a timer, which makes them the reliable way to farm a specific alpha rather than hunting the overworld.

Yes — an alpha is a larger, higher-level version of the same species with a boosted stat line and its own capture rate. Catching one gives you a Pal well above the level you could otherwise get at that point in the run, which is why alphas are worth detouring for.

Cavern alphas do: leaving and re-entering the dungeon rerolls the boss. Overworld alphas respawn on a world timer instead, so they are less predictable to farm.

It is datamined from game 1.100.427. Patches 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 were bug fixes with no spawn changes, so the table holds. If Pocketpair moves spawns in a content patch, this page is regenerated from the game files.