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Overview

Life Coins are the primary currency in Pokemon Pokopia. They are used to purchase items, recipes, building kits, seeds, and upgrades from the PC Shop inside Pokemon Centers. Unlike raw materials, Life Coins cannot be gathered from the environment. They are earned through gameplay activities like completing challenges, redeeming Stamp Rally cards, and selling items. Life Coins are separate from the barter-based Trading system, where Pokemon with the Trade specialty sell items in exchange for inventory goods rather than coins.

How to Earn Life Coins

PC Challenges (Primary Method)

PC Challenges are accessed through the Pokemon Center PC terminal. Tasks include building habitats, gathering resources, befriending Pokemon, watering ground, and finding items. You must manually return to the PC to claim rewards after completing tasks; they are not auto-awarded. More challenges unlock as your Environment Level increases. Each region (Withered Wasteland, Bleak Beach, Rocky Ridges, Sparkling Skylands) has its own set of challenges.

Daily Challenges

Simpler tasks that reset every day at 5:00 AM (system clock). They are generally easier than regular challenges and provide a quick, reliable income source. One notable daily challenge, "Mysterious Feathers," requires finding both Lugia's Silver Feather and Ho-Oh's Rainbow Feather and rewards 200 Life Coins.

Stamp Rally (Major Weekly Earner)

The Stamp Rally is a weekly system that provides a large Life Coin payout:

• A stamp card is issued every Friday via the PC.

• Collect 5 unique stamps over the week (one stamp per day from any PC).

• Stamps can come from your own island, friends' islands, or Cloud Islands. Visiting multiple sources helps find rare stamps.

• Base payout: 2,000 Life Coins per completed card.

• Rare stamps increase the payout. Swap out stamps before redeeming if you find better ones.

• The week after collection is the redemption period where you exchange your completed card.

Selling Items

Excess materials and crafted items can be sold at the PC Shop. Once you have more Lumber, Stone, or other resources than you need for current projects, sell the surplus. Crafted items sell for more than raw materials.

Cloud Island Activities

Cloud Islands have their own set of challenges. Life Coins earned on Cloud Islands transfer to your main game, making Cloud Island activities a supplementary income source. Cloud Islands also have their own PC Shop with a different catalog, though the coin wallet is shared.

PC Shop Price List

The PC Shop is located inside rebuilt Pokemon Centers. It stocks building kits, Packing Tips upgrades, seeds, recipes, and more. The catalog expands as your Environment Level increases. Key confirmed prices:

The shop also carries a Daily Shop with a rotating selection that changes every day, including furniture, crafting recipes, seeds, Music CDs (played via DJ Rotom), and Dolls (used for Dream Island travel). Some rare recipes and items may only appear once and not return for a long time, so check the Daily Shop every day.

Cloud Island Shop

Cloud Islands have their own PC Shop with a different catalog from the main game. The key benefit: recipes learned on Cloud Island stay permanently in the main game. Items crafted or bought on Cloud Island cannot be transferred back, but recipes carry over. The Cloud Island shop's offerings depend on that island's own Environment Level.

Dream Islands

Dream Islands are daily resource-gathering islands accessed by showing Drifloon a doll. They do not directly reward Life Coins, but they provide rare materials including Pokemetal Fragments, Stardust, character outfits, and habitat hints. Each doll grants access to a different island type:

Dream Islands can only be visited once per day, and materials reset overnight.

Priority Purchases

Life Coins are limited, especially in the early game. Prioritize in this order:

1. Packing Tips: Rookie (300 Life Coins): Adds 10 inventory slots. The single most impactful early purchase.

2. PP Up (300 Life Coins): Permanently increases your maximum PP. Buy every time it appears.

3. Building Kits: Leaf Den Kit (50 Life Coins) for your first home, then Pokemon Center Rebuilding Kit (1,000 Life Coins) for the 3D Printer, healing, and trading.

4. Packing Tips: Intermediate and Superior as they become available (500 and 1,000 Life Coins).

5. Handy Bag (500 Life Coins): Quick-access toolbar is a major quality-of-life upgrade.

6. Habitat Hints: Useful when you cannot find enough habitat traces in the field.

7. Recipes: New cooking and crafting recipes expand your capabilities.

Late-Game Earning

In the late game, higher Environment Levels (up to 5 per region) unlock more and higher-paying challenges. The Stamp Rally (2,000+ coins per week) becomes a consistent weekly income. With all four story regions plus Palette Town unlocked, you have five sets of challenges available. Cloud Island activities provide additional supplementary income.

Tips

• Complete Daily Challenges every day. They are the most consistent Life Coin source.

• Fill your Stamp Rally card every week. Visit friends' worlds to collect different stamps for rare bonuses.

• Sell excess materials you have stockpiled. Crafted items sell for more than raw resources.

• Check the Daily Shop rotation every day. Rare recipes may appear only once.

• Life Coins earned on Cloud Islands transfer to your main game, so use Cloud Island activities as supplementary income.

• Avoid buying items you can easily find or craft. Save Life Coins for exclusive shop items.