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paramaker 101

Paramaker 101: Learn the Basics

Whether you're creating yourself, your dream family, or a completely chaotic cast of Parafolks, Paramaker is where every story begins. It offers an impressive amount of customization, from body features and clothing to personalities, talents, and relationships. If you're opening Paramaker for the first time, all of the options can feel a little overwhelming. We'll walk through each section of Paramaker, explain what every area does, and share a few helpful tips along the way!

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paramaker 101

Paramaker 101: Learn the Basics

Whether you're creating yourself, your dream family, or a completely chaotic cast of Parafolks, Paramaker is where every story begins. It offers an impressive amount of customization, from body features and clothing to personalities, talents, and relationships. If you're opening Paramaker for the first time, all of the options can feel a little overwhelming. We'll walk through each section of Paramaker, explain what every area does, and share a few helpful tips along the way!

Aspects I'm Loving

• randomization feature in individual sections • ability to get lost in character customization • endless color options via wheel & swatches

Needs Some TLC

• some icons are easy to miss if not looking for them • UI quirks where clothing disappears

What You'll Learn

  • How Paramaker is organized

  • How randomization works

  • What the best features in each section are


Before creating your first Parafolk, it's worth taking a minute to familiarize yourself with the interface. Many of these buttons can save you time or help you build better households.

Appearance

Appearance is where you'll shape your Parafolk from head to toe. Customize body proportions, facial features, hairstyles, makeup, tattoos, and more. Nearly every category includes color customization and randomization options, making it easy to create anything from a realistic version of yourself to a completely original character.

Body

Here is where you can customize height, body shape, chest shape, bottom shape, body hair and skin tone.

Tip: Adjust body sliders tocreate a wide range of unique body types

Tip: Adjust body sliders tocreate a wide range of unique body types

Face

Here is where you can customize eyes, nose, mouth, facial structure, facial hair and skin details.

Hair

Here is where you can customize hairstyles, facial hair, hair coverings and hair color.

Tip: Use the color wheel to create any hair color

Tip: Use the color wheel to create any hair color

Makeup & Tattoos

Here is where you can customize eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick, blush, full face makeup and tattoos.

Clothing

The Clothing section is where you'll build your Parafolk's wardrobe. Mix and match clothing, shoes, accessories, and custom colors to create everyday outfits, pajamas, costumes, swimwear, and everything in between.

Headwear

Here is where you can customize headwear, glasses, jewelry and medical items.

Clothing

Here is where you can customize tops, bottoms, dresses, jumpsuits, overalls, pajamas, swimwear and costumes.

Tip: Click directly on any item your Para is wearing to jump straight to that clothing category

Tip: Click directly on any item your Para is wearing to jump straight to that clothing category

Shoes

Here is where you can customize shoes, socks, tights, leggings, gloves, nails and underwear.

Tip: Use the color wheel to create any hair color

Tip: Use the color wheel to create any hair color

Accessories

Here is where you can customize eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick, blush, full face makeup and tattoos.

Personality

The Personality section shapes how your Parafolk thinks, behaves and interacts with the world. Assign attribute points, choose a personality, select a talent and customize lifestyle preferences to create a Para that feels uniquely yours.

Attributes

Here is where you can distribute attribute points between Physique, Mind, Creativity and Charisma.

Personality

Here is where you can choose a Vibe and Social Perk to shape your Parafolk's emotions, behaviors and social interactions.

Talents

Here is where you can choose a talent that highlights what your Parafolk naturally excels at.

Lifestyles

Here is where you can customize lifestyle preferences like diet, sleeping habits and cleaning habits.

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*not affiliated with the official paralives*

A passion project being built to organize news, content and gameplay for Paralives from a life long gamer

*not affiliated with the official paralives*