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Welcome to Pokopia

Pokemon Pokopia opens with your Ditto waking from a long slumber, transformed into a human shape. You find yourself in a withered world with only Professor Tangrowth for company. This guide covers everything you need to know to get started rebuilding the world into a thriving Pokemon paradise.

First Steps

After the opening cutscene, Professor Tangrowth introduces you to the basic controls and mechanics. Your first tasks involve learning your initial moves from the Kanto starters: Water Gun from Squirtle, Leafage from Bulbasaur, and Cut from Scyther. These three moves form the foundation of everything you do in Pokopia. Water Gun revitalizes dried-out ground and waters crops. Leafage pulls grass from the earth and creates patches of tall grass. Cut chops down trees and harvests logs for building materials.

Shortly after, you learn Rock Smash from Hitmonchan, Jump from Magikarp, and Rototiller from Drilbur. With these six abilities in hand, you have all the essential tools for the early game. Rototiller is especially important because it lets you prepare soil for farming and pick up wildflowers without destroying them.

Essential Early Tips

• Hold Y to vacuum items: This Kirby-style bulk pickup saves enormous time when gathering scattered materials. Use it constantly.

• Place your Workbench near home: Fast travel via "Return Home" teleports you to your Ditto Flag. Keeping your Workbench and Storage Boxes nearby means you can craft immediately after returning.

• Storage Boxes next to Workbenches: Materials are automatically pulled from adjacent Storage Boxes when crafting. You do not need to carry everything in your personal inventory.

• Swap run to R in settings: This frees your right thumb for camera control while running, making exploration far more comfortable.

• Hold ZL to strafe: Precision placement of blocks and items is much easier when strafing rather than turning your whole body.

• Collect everything: Even seemingly worthless items like small rocks and twigs are valued by Pokemon. You can gift them or use them in trades later.

• Inspect sparkles: Sparkles near objects hint at possible habitats. The sparkle effect shows you what environment pieces you need to attract a particular Pokemon.

• Use the in-game camera, not the Switch screenshot button: Some quests specifically require photographs taken with the in-game photo mode.

Your First Crafting Session

Your first Workbench costs just 2 Stones, which you can gather by using Rock Smash on nearby rubble. Build the Workbench, then place a Storage Box (1 Lumber) next to it. With these two items side by side, you have a functional crafting station.

Priority crafts for the early game include: a Campfire (1 Sturdy Stick + 1 Stone) for light and cooking, a Straw Bed (2 Leaves) for Pokemon housing, a Log Table (1 Small Log) and Log Chair (1 Small Log) for additional furniture. Every house needs at least three pieces of furniture before a Pokemon will consider moving in.

Building Your First Home

To create a basic house, place blocks in a square (minimum four walls, two blocks high) with a doorway opening. Place at least three pieces of furniture inside, such as a bed, table, and chair. Once the house meets requirements, nearby Pokemon may express interest in moving in.

Place a Ditto Flag outside any structure to claim it as your personal home. You wake there each in-game day and can teleport back using the "Return Home" option in the Pokedex at any time.

Befriending Your First Pokemon

Pokemon appear in the world based on habitat conditions. In the early game, the Kanto starters (Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle) appear during the tutorial, and you will quickly encounter common Pokemon like Pidgey, Oddish, and Machop.

To befriend a Pokemon, walk up to it and press A to interact. If it shows interest (indicated by a heart icon), you can ask it to follow you by pressing Up on the D-pad. Lead it to a furnished house and ask if it wants to move in. Each Pokemon has a specialty that determines what tasks it can perform, from chopping wood to generating electricity.

Understanding PP

PP (Power Points) is the blue curved bar at the bottom-right of the screen. Every move you use drains PP from this gauge. When PP runs out, you cannot use abilities until you restore it.

Ways to restore PP in the early game:

• Eat food: Berries, vegetables, and cooked meals all restore PP. Hold A with a stack of berries to fully replenish instantly.

• Rest: Sitting in chairs or lying in beds slowly restores PP, though this is the slowest method.

• Pokemon Center: Once you rebuild a Pokemon Center, its healing machine fully restores PP once per day.

Buy "PP Up" from the PC Shop (300 coins, requires Environment Level 3) to permanently increase your maximum PP. Also buy "Packing Tips" early to expand your inventory size.

Progression Overview

Pokopia uses two main progression systems: Trainer Rank and Environment Level. Trainer Rank advances through completing Important Requests (main story quests) and opens access to new areas. Environment Level is a per-area score that reflects habitat health and unlocks shops, recipes, and rare Pokemon spawns.

The main progression path is: complete Important Requests in the Withered Wasteland, which unlocks Bleak Beach and Rocky Ridges. After completing both of those areas, Sparkling Skylands opens. To see credits, rebuild the Pokemon Center in all four story areas and raise Environment Level to 5 in each.

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