Overview
Key items in Pokemon Pokopia are special items that cannot be crafted from raw materials or traded away. They fall into three categories: exploration tools that unlock gameplay systems, Packing Tips that expand bag capacity, and story badges earned through the Team Initiation Challenge.
Exploration Tools
Key Item | Description | How to Obtain |
|---|---|---|
Dowsing Machine | Find buried Lost Relics, Fossils, CDs, Mysterious Slates, and Dolls with Search-specialty Pokemon | Complete "Check What's Up There" request from Hitmonchan in Withered Wasteland |
Neo Dowsing Machine | Upgraded Dowsing Machine that can find special locations | Craft with 1 Dowsing Machine + 5 Pokemetal (requires 300 Pokedex entries) |
Mysterious Goggles | Visit other players' Cloud Islands and photograph items for the 3D Printer | Purchase from PC Shop for 100 Life Coins |
Substitute Doll | Give to Drifloon to travel to a random Dream Island | Found by digging at shiny dirt spots with the Dowsing Machine |
Handy Bag | Adds 10 always-visible quick-access inventory slots | Purchase from PC Shop for 500 Life Coins (Environment Level 3) |
Inventory Upgrades
See Packing Tips Books for the full breakdown. Four books expand your bag from 20 to 120 slots:
Book | Slots Added | Cost | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
Rookie | +10 | 100 LC | |
Intermediate | +30 | 500 LC | |
Pro | +30 | 1,000 LC | |
Expert | +30 | 1,500 LC |
Story Badges
Eight badges are earned by completing stages of the Team Initiation Challenge, a series of fetch quests that mirror the Kanto gym badge system:
Badge | Description |
|---|---|
Bouldery Badge | Sparkles with gray light |
Cascade-like Badge | Sparkles with blue light |
Thunderish Badge | Sparkles with orange light |
Rainbowish Badge | Sparkles with rainbow light |
Soul-like Badge | Sparkles with pink light |
Marshy Badge | Sparkles with golden light |
Volcanoey Badge | Sparkles with red light |
"Earth" Badge | Sparkles with green light |