MetaBot Desktop Adds Palworld, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and Dark and Darker

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks with our heads down building out three new game hubs, and they’re all live in MetaBot Desktop now. If you play Palworld, RuneScape: Dragonwilds or Dark and Darker, the app just got a lot more useful for you — full reference data, planning tools and interactive maps, all one alt-tab away instead of buried in a browser tab you’ve had open since March.

These three are a bit different from what we’ve built before. There’s no match history or post-game breakdown here, because none of these games really work that way — you’re not finishing a 30-minute ranked match and wanting a scoreboard. What you do want, constantly, is a second screen: where does this thing spawn, what breeds into what, which class perk is actually good, what’s in this dungeon room. So that’s what we built.

Everything below is available in all 10 supported languages, and all of it is cached aggressively so it opens instantly rather than spinning while you’re mid-raid.

Palworld

Palworld got the biggest build of the three: eight content tabs and four tools.

The Paldex is the centerpiece. Every Pal with computed tier badges — using the same formula our website tier list uses, so the two don’t disagree with each other, a long-standing pet peeve of ours — plus filters by element and by work suitability. Every row has two shortcuts: Find on map, which jumps you straight to that Pal’s habitat drawn as a heat overlay on the world map, and How to breed, which drops you into the Breeding Lab with the target pre-filled.

Alongside it: full Items, Moves, Passives and Technology tabs (the last with an Ancient-only filter), a Work tab organized by all 12 job types, and a Bosses tab with arena locations you can pin on the map.

The World Map covers both Palpagos Islands and the World Tree. There are over 38,000 objects on it across eight layers — ore, chests, dungeons, fast travel, the lot — which load in as you enable them, so you’re not waiting on a wall of data you didn’t ask for. Boss arenas are on by default, and habitat overlays mean you can pick a Pal and see where it actually lives.

The Breeding Lab does three things. Put two parents in, get the child. Put a child in, get every pair that produces it. Or — and this is the fun one — use the path planner: tell it what you have and what you want, and it searches for a multi-step breeding chain to get there. It’ll find routes like Foxparks + Penking → Gloopie, then Gloopie + Bushi → Katress. It also handles gender-locked combos properly, so if a pairing produces a different Pal depending on which parent is male, you’ll see that instead of getting a confidently wrong answer. If a target genuinely isn’t reachable from your current roster, it tells you that too, rather than pretending. Speaking of your roster: there’s a My Pals list you can maintain, and it feeds into everything else.

The Base Planner lets you lay out a base and save it, and it comes with a workforce optimizer — pick the jobs you need covered and it assembles a squad that covers them, weighting each Pal’s usefulness against how much food it eats. A Pal that’s marginally better at Kindling but eats twice as much is often the wrong call, and the optimizer knows it. Flip on “Only My Pals” and it plans with what you’ve actually caught. If it can’t cover a job, it says so plainly instead of quietly leaving it out.

Boss Prep is the newest addition. Pick a boss, get the elements to bring and the elements to avoid, the top counter Pals by combat tier, and the best counter moves. We list moves without filtering by learnset on purpose — Skill Fruits mean any Pal can learn anything, so pretending otherwise would just hide options from you.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds

Dragonwilds was the first game we built in this new content-first shape, and it set the template the other two follow. Seven tabs: Overview, Items, Quests, Skills, Bestiary, Buildings and Fishing.

The Quests tab is a real tracker, not a wiki dump. Every objective is a checkbox and your progress saves — close the app, come back tomorrow, it’s still there. Quests are grouped into Main and Other so the critical path is obvious.

The Bestiary does something small that we’re quietly proud of: for each creature it cross-references that creature’s weaknesses against every weapon’s damage types and just tells you which weapons are effective. No mental table lookup.

On the tools side, the World Map carries around 11,700 markers with smooth pan and zoom. Search is more forgiving than it looks — the game’s item names and its world-object names don’t always match, so searching “Yew Logs” will correctly take you to Yew Trees. There’s also a Vault Explorer for working through vault layouts, and a Build Planner where you can save base designs and jump from any building straight to where its materials come from on the map.

Dark and Darker

Dark and Darker is the one that fought us hardest on detection, and it’s worth mentioning: it’s our first game that isn’t necessarily on Steam. Plenty of you run it through the IRONMACE launcher instead, so the app checks both — Steam install and standalone install — and launches whichever one you’ve actually got.

Five tabs. Items covers 789 item archetypes with full per-rarity stat breakdowns, similar-item comparisons and price history where it exists. Quests is a checkable tracker like Dragonwilds’, with merchant info attached. Bestiary covers 60 mobs with portraits and stats.

Classes is the one to look at first. There’s a tier board up top, then per-class base stats, all 145 perks with notes, and every spell and skill. The class-specific stuff is handled properly too: Bard songs, Druid shapeshifts and Sorcerer’s merged spell list with its mode tiers all render as their own thing rather than getting flattened into a generic list.

Dungeon Maps were the hardest piece of engineering in this release. Dark and Darker builds its maps out of rotating tiles, so a naive image-on-a-canvas approach falls apart immediately. Ours is tile-aware — each tile positioned and rotated correctly, with markers rotating along with it — and it includes chest tiers and High Roller variants. Browse by dungeon, filter by what you’re hunting.

Build Browser pulls community builds you can browse and favorite, and any build deep-links out to the full web calculator if you want to fork it and tinker.

We had a market-prices tab in the plan for this release and we pulled it. The upstream data source we relied on went dark mid-build, and shipping a market tab with stale or missing prices is worse than not shipping one — half-accurate prices in a full-loot extraction game will actively cost you gear. The groundwork is done and it’ll turn on the moment we have a reliable data source again.

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Also in the box

All three games get the usual MetaBot extras: live Twitch streams, clips and YouTube content in the Entertainment section, and the trending search bar on each Overview so you can jump to any item, Pal, quest or mob without hunting through tabs.

A note for existing users

If you’ve been using MetaBot Desktop for a while, these three won’t just appear in your sidebar. We think adding games to your nav without asking is obnoxious, so new games stay hidden for existing users by default. If you play any of them, head to Settings → Games and switch them on. Dark and Darker is the one exception — if you’ve got it installed we’ll surface it for you, since detecting an install is a pretty strong signal you want it.

New users will see all three in the setup flow, pre-selected based on what’s actually installed on your machine.

How to get the update

MetaBot Desktop updates automatically, so most players will have these the next time they launch the app. If you want them immediately, restart MetaBot Desktop or grab the latest build from our download page.

New here? MetaBot Desktop is a free companion app — live in-game overlays, automatic match tracking and detailed post-game breakdowns for competitive games, and full data hubs, maps and planning tools for games like Palworld, RuneScape: Dragonwilds and Dark and Darker.

Guides for all three are being written now and they’ll show up in the Guides section as they land. If something’s wrong, missing or just annoying to use, tell us — this is the first release for all three hubs, and the fastest way for them to get good is you telling us where they aren’t.

Go catch something, chop something, or die in a dungeon. We’ll be here.