DropItemAliveMaxHours
How long dropped items survive before despawning. Ships as 1.000000; takes a decimal multiplier (written with six decimals, as the file does). From the items on the ground group of the shipped settings file.
How to set it
shipped fileThe setting lives inside the single OptionSettings=(…) line under [/Script/Pal.PalGameWorldSettings] in PalWorldSettings.ini. Change this fragment, keep the rest of the line intact:
DropItemAliveMaxHours=1.000000Shown with the shipped default. The config generator writes the whole line for you and refuses keys the file does not have.
Default
1.000000
Verbatim from DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini, build 4570874460. Value type is inferred from that default — the file has no schema.
None of the generator’s presets change DropItemAliveMaxHours; it stays at 1.000000 in all of them.
Also in items on the ground
The “what it does” line at the top is ours, written from the key, its type and its default; the default itself and the syntax are the file’s. DefaultPalWorldSettings.ini, shipped with the Palworld dedicated server (depot 2394010). Defaults are verbatim from that file; the grouping and the notes are ours. All 120 settings · admin commands.
Extracted from Palworld’s game files on (build 4570874460).