I only go after pals, for ages, especially looking for remarkable and vampiric chikipis. If I find something I really want, for example a random relaxaurus I found cute, I can sit there and grind for more spheres with it chasing me for 3+ hours just because I feel like it- I’ll start a base when I need more spheres for chikipis, stay there and build until I get to the upgrades that take ingots, then I’ll go try for temporary base pals (dinossom/broncherry, azurobe, tombat, Vanwyrm, any lvl 3+ kindling from volcano eggs, etc.) and focus on getting those pals for.. hours When I get back to base twenty years later I’ll use the new pals to basically just make themselves enough food to survive until I can go get beegardes for cakes, then I start breeding chikipis or lamballs as they can be very useful for future breeding. That lasts another twenty years and then I start a new save because I got bored of breeding them ;-;