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How to Paint Your Buildings - Home Sweet Home Update

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Building a base is not just about placing walls and roofs anymore. The Home Sweet Home update added Paint Mode, which lets you change the color of your structures after they are built. This makes it easier to organize your base visually, highlight important areas, or maybe you want your base to match your outfit. No? Just us?

ULTRAKILL V2 armor equipped on a player character standing outside a base, showing the red armor design and glowing yellow wing blades.

Opening Paint Mode

To begin, open the build menu by pressing B on your keyboard. From there, select Paint Mode at the bottom of the screen or press P to open it directly. This opens the paint menu and allows you to start applying color to nearby structures like foundations, walls, and ceiling tiles.

Build menu interface showing the option to switch between Disassembly Mode and Paint Mode.

Painting and Color Options

Once Paint Mode is active, press Q to select a color, then left click on the object you are currently focused on to apply it. The color is applied immediately, so you can see the change as you work. If you want to remove paint from an object, press R to clear the color.

Metal Foundation paint menu displaying available color swatches and paint options while editing a base structure.

Pressing E opens the color customization menu. This allows you to adjust the color instead of using one of the preset options!

Edit Palette menu in Palworld showing color selection sliders for hue, saturation, and brightness, with a blue color currently selected.

Exiting Paint Mode

When you are finished painting, right click to return to the main build menu. Press Esc to close the menu entirely. That'll come in handy when enemies show up.

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