Overview
Pokemon Pokopia allows players to set up automated systems that collect materials, water crops, and process resources without manual effort. These systems rely on Pokemon Specialties (Litter, Gather, Water, Burn, Chop, Recycle) working in chains with infrastructure like Community Boxes, Smelting Furnaces, sprinklers, and Water Basins. Setting up automation is a key post-game activity that keeps resources flowing while the player focuses on building, decorating, or Legendary hunting.
Sprinkler Crop Automation
What Sprinklers Do
Sprinklers automatically water tilled soil around them by drawing water from a nearby source. When properly placed, they eliminate the need to manually water crops with Water Gun. A sprinkler draws water from up to five blocks away and sprays in a diamond-shaped pattern covering a substantial area of tilled soil.
How to Get Sprinklers
Sprinklers can be found as items in Bleak Beach or Rocky Ridges. Once found, photograph the sprinkler and use the 3D Printer at any rebuilt Pokemon Center to duplicate copies. Each copy costs a small amount of Pokemetal.
Sprinkler Placement
Flatten the terrain in your desired farming area.
Dig a water hole (at least 2x2 for a self-replenishing water source) within five blocks of the crop area.
Place a plank or bridge over the water hole.
Mount the sprinkler on top of the plank/bridge.
Use Rototiller to till the soil in a diamond pattern around the sprinkler.
Plant seeds in the tilled soil. The sprinkler handles watering automatically.
Spacing tip: Prototype a small layout first. If corners of the tilled area stay dry, the sprinkler is not covering them. For larger farms, overlap the edges of multiple sprinkler zones to ensure full coverage.
Recommended Layouts
Layout | Sprinklers | Best For |
|---|---|---|
Single Center | 1 | Early game, small vegetable patch |
Overlap Grid | 4-9 | Mid-to-late game, large crop fields |
Berry Orchard | 2-4 | Sustained passive berry production |
Berry Tree Duplication
Mature berry trees (Leppa, Chesto, Pecha, Rawst, Aspear, Lum) can be duplicated using the 3D Printer for one Pokemetal each. Row them out with paths between for quick picking, and position them near habitats to boost Pokemon spawn rates. Place sprinklers nearby so berry trees within range get auto-watered.
Water Specialty Automation
An alternative to sprinklers is using Pokemon with the Water specialty (such as Squirtle, Wartortle, Shellos, Gastrodon, Slowpoke, or Slowbro). These Pokemon automatically water nearby crops and dry areas when a Water Basin is set up.
Craft a Water Basin and place it near your crop fields.
Fill the basin with Water Gun.
Assign a Water-specialty Pokemon to a habitat near the basin.
The Pokemon will automatically draw water from the basin and spray nearby fields and plants.
Water-specialty Pokemon also perform Rain Dance to affect local weather, clean off mud from surfaces, and contribute to humidity levels.
Community Box System
Unlocking the Community Box
The Community Box recipe becomes available at Environment Level 4. Purchase it from the Pokemon Center PC Shop for 100 Life Coins. Craft it at a workbench using 2 Lumber.
How It Works
The Community Box is a shared storage container that Pokemon interact with automatically. Place it near Pokemon habitats, and Pokemon with compatible specialties will deposit items into it, withdraw raw materials for processing, and return finished goods.
Gather specialty: Pokemon pick up items from the ground and deposit them into the nearest Community Box.
Chop specialty: Pokemon take logs from the box, process them into Lumber, and return the Lumber.
Recycle specialty: Pokemon take Wastepaper or Nonburnable Garbage from the box and convert it to Paper or Iron Ore.
Litter + Gather Chains
The most powerful passive farming setup combines the Litter and Gather specialties into an automated chain:
Litter Pokemon continuously drop items near their habitat without needing any input. Different species drop different materials.
Gather Pokemon pick up the dropped items from the ground and deposit them into the nearest Community Box.
Optional: Processing Pokemon (Chop, Recycle, Burn) near the Community Box withdraw raw materials and convert them into finished goods.
Place Litter and Gather Pokemon habitats adjacent to each other with a Community Box nearby. The Gather Pokemon will continuously collect Litter drops and stockpile them in the box.
Litter Pokemon and Their Drops
Pokemon | Item Dropped | Processing Chain |
|---|---|---|
Haxorus | Small Log | Chop specialty converts to Lumber |
Garbodor | Nonburnable Garbage | Recycle converts to Iron Ore; smelt to Iron Ingot |
Mareep / Flaaffy | Fluff | Used directly in crafting |
Bellsprout / Weepinbell | Vine Rope | Used directly in crafting |
Combee | Honey | Used for cooking and Pokemon attraction |
Cacturne | Sturdy Stick | Used directly in crafting |
Spinarak / Ariados / Larvesta | Twine | Used directly in crafting |
Venusaur | Leaf | Used for Salad cooking |
Squishy Clay | Burn converts to Bricks | |
Glimmet / Glimmora | Iron Ore | Smelt to Iron Ingot |
Bastiodon / Tyrantrum | Stone | Used directly in building |
Best Multi-Specialty Pokemon
Some Pokemon have both Litter and a processing specialty, making them self-contained farms:
Pokemon | Litter Drop | Processing Specialty | Final Product |
|---|---|---|---|
Haxorus | Small Log | Chop | Lumber (automatic) |
Garbodor | Nonburnable Garbage | Recycle | Iron Ore (automatic) |
Smelting Furnace Automation
Pokemon with the Burn specialty (Charmander, Torchic, Magmar, Arcanine, and others) will automatically process ores at a Smelting Furnace placed near their habitat. Load the furnace with Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Gold Ore, or Sand, and the Burn Pokemon converts them into Ingots or Glass continuously.
Important: The Pokemon will stop processing and wander away once the furnace is empty. Restock it regularly, or chain it with a Gather Pokemon that feeds ore from a Community Box into the furnace area.
Complete AFK Farm Example
A fully automated Iron Ingot farm:
Place a Glimmet or Glimmora habitat (Litter: drops Iron Ore).
Place a Machop habitat nearby (Gather: picks up Iron Ore, deposits in Community Box).
Place a Community Box between the two habitats.
Place a Smelting Furnace next to the Community Box.
Assign a Burn-specialty Pokemon (Charmander, Torchic) to a habitat near the furnace.
The Burn Pokemon draws Iron Ore from the Community Box area and smelts it into Iron Ingots.
This chain runs completely passively. Check back periodically to collect finished Iron Ingots from the furnace output.
Tips
Start with a simple Litter + Gather + Community Box chain. Add processing (Burn, Chop, Recycle) once the basics are working.
Haxorus is the best single Pokemon for passive Lumber farming. It drops Small Logs via Litter and converts them to Lumber via Chop on its own.
Sprinklers are more reliable than Water-specialty Pokemon for crop watering, since sprinklers run constantly while Pokemon wander.
Use the 3D Printer to duplicate sprinklers and berry trees. One Pokemetal per copy is a small cost for a permanent farming setup.
Place Community Boxes within the activity range of the Pokemon you want to use them. If a box is too far from a habitat, the Pokemon will ignore it.
Restock Smelting Furnaces regularly. Burn Pokemon stop working and wander when the furnace is empty.
For honey farming, place Combee (Litter: Honey) near a Gather Pokemon with a Community Box. Honey is needed for the party curry and Pokemon attraction.
Set up automation early. Even a basic Litter + Gather chain saves hours of manual material collection over a full playthrough.