How do you get Heated Body in Palworld?

No Pal spawns with Heated Body, so it comes from a Pal that rolled it — on a wild catch or a hatched egg — or from the surgery table.

Can Heated Body be bred onto another Pal?

Yes. Once a parent carries Heated Body, the child can inherit it — passives are drawn from the pool both parents carry, so pairing two carriers raises the odds.

Rank 1

Heated Body

10% decrease in incoming Ice damage.

Rank

Born with it

How to get Heated Body

No Pal spawns with Heated Body. That rules out the usual advice — you can’t start a breeding chain from a Pal that already has it, because there isn’t one. Here is what that leaves.

Inheritance from a parent that has it
Because no Pal is born with Heated Body, the first one has to come from a Pal that rolled it — passives are also rolled randomly on wild catches and on hatched eggs, so it can appear on its own.
The surgery table
Once one of your Pals has it, the surgery table can put it onto another, and from there it inherits normally.

How to pass Heated Body down

In Palworld, a child can inherit passive skills from either parent. To put Heated Body on a target Pal, breed it from a parent that carries Heated Body, then keep breeding the offspring toward your target species while retaining the passive. Use the breeding calculator to find the parent combos.

Passive-inheritance probabilities are community estimates, not official Pocketpair figures.