How do you get rid of a wanted level in Palworld?

Wanted status is what happens when a stray attack clips a villager, or when you decide the merchant's stock is better taken than bought. Armed guards spawn, they hit hard, and they keep coming.

What triggers it

• Attacking or killing villagers or merchants
• Attacking guards in a settlement
• Attacking Syndicate members in some contexts
• Splash damage from an area attack while fighting near a town — the most common accident

That last one catches people constantly. A grenade or a wide Pal attack aimed at a wild Pal near a settlement counts as an attack on whoever it clips.

How to clear it

1. Break pursuit

Get away from the guards. A flying mount is the cleanest exit; a fast ground mount works too. Distance is what matters.

2. Fast travel out

If you have a fast travel statue unlocked and you are not carrying restricted materials such as Ore or Coal, teleport away. Pursuit does not follow through a teleport.

3. Wait

Once you are clear and no longer engaging anyone, the status expires on its own. Do something useful in the meantime — a mining run or an Alpha circuit is a fine way to pass it.

4. Or just die

Dying resets the pursuit. It costs you dropped items depending on your world's death penalty setting, so it is the last resort rather than the first.

Avoiding it

• Do not use area attacks near towns. Switch to single-target weapons inside settlement boundaries.
• Recall your Pal before entering a settlement. An aggressive Pal can start a fight you did not.
• Do not loot NPC buildings while guards are watching.
• Buy rather than steal. Merchant stock is cheap once you sell surplus Pals, and a dead merchant is a supply line you have removed from your own game.

That last point is worth taking seriously. Merchants sell Wheat Seeds, Pal Spheres and the technology reset item. Killing the Small Settlement merchant makes your Cake and breeding chain noticeably harder to start.

If guards keep finding you

Guards track your last known position. Change direction after leaving line of sight rather than running in a straight line, use terrain and cliffs to break sight, and get airborne if you can. Once they lose you, they stop.