Palette Town

Overview

Palette Town is the sandbox area in Pokemon Pokopia, accessible across the bridge from the Withered Wasteland after completing the tutorial. Unlike the four story areas, Palette Town is a massive blank canvas designed for freeform building, creative projects, and multiplayer collaboration. The area has minimal pre-existing terrain, allowing players to freely build and terraform with endless possibilities. The name is a wordplay on the original Pallet Town from Kanto, with "Palette" referencing an artist's palette.

Palette Town is home to a significant number of exclusive Pokemon that can only be found here, even if their habitat is built in another area. All eight Eeveelutions are recommended to be built in Palette Town due to available space, and Eevee itself is exclusive to Palette Town, attracted with the Pretty Flower Bed habitat, as are the three Kanto Legendary Birds. The area can be renamed at any time using the Pokemon Center PC, and rebuilding its Pokemon Center is not required to see the game's credits.

How to Unlock

Palette Town becomes accessible shortly once you learn Rock Smash from Hitmonchan (by building an Exercise Resting Spot, befriending Hitmonchan, and completing its request), break through soil bricks blocking the western path, and build a bridge using blocks to cross the gap. It is the first area players can visit beyond the starting zone and does not require any specific Trainer Rank to enter. After learning Rock Smash and breaking through the soil bricks, build a bridge across the gap on the far left side (west roadway) of the Withered Wasteland to reach it.

Eevee and Eeveelutions

When first entering Palette Town and interacting with the Computer at the Pokemon Center, Eevee appears automatically and asks for help finding its friends. Eevee has a Trade specialty and likes warm habitats, soft stuff, stone stuff, cute stuff, letters and words, group activities, and sweet flavors. Each Eeveelution requires building a specific habitat with a unique food item that must be unlocked through a Special Challenge.

Every Eeveelution habitat follows the same base recipe: 1 Seat (any type), 1 Table (any type), and 1 unique food item. The food items are earned by completing the Special Challenges listed below.

Note that Espeon only spawns during the daytime and Umbreon only spawns at nighttime, following the Day and Night Cycle. All other Eeveelutions appear at any time of day once their habitat is built.

Legendary Birds

The three Kanto Legendary Birds are also exclusive to Palette Town and can be attracted using special habitat kits.

Once befriended, the Legendary Birds can travel with you to any area and move into houses like regular Pokemon.

Other Exclusive Pokemon

Beyond the Eevee family and Legendary Birds, several other Pokemon are exclusive to Palette Town. These Pokemon will only appear if their habitat is placed in Palette Town, even if the same habitat type exists in other areas. All Palette Town exclusive Pokemon are Common rarity.

Special Challenges

Special Challenges are Palette Town-specific tasks that unlock recipe items needed for Eeveelution habitats and other rewards. They track various activities performed in Palette Town, such as growing flowers, powering machines, building roads, and befriending Pokemon. Progress can be checked at the Pokemon Center PC.

Completing Special Challenges provides:

• Unique food items required for Eeveelution habitats

• Habitat construction reward items

• Exclusive crafting recipes

All-Region Flora

In the four story areas, grass, flower, and hedge types are region-specific (each biome restricts certain varieties). In Palette Town, this restriction is lifted: players can use all types of flowers and grass from every region, providing maximum creative freedom for habitat design and decoration. This means habitats that require region-specific materials (like Red Pretty Flower Bed (Wildflowers x4) from Rocky Ridges or Pink Pretty Flower Bed (Wildflowers x4) from Sparkling Skylands) can all be built in Palette Town.

Multiplayer Hub

Palette Town serves as the primary zone for multiplayer activities:

• Co-Op Building: Up to four players can build together simultaneously in Palette Town. The area is shared to other players when playing in co-op mode. Other story areas are exploration-only for visitors.

• Visiting Friends: When visiting another player's world via Link Play, you gain access to their version of Palette Town, including all their builds and customizations.

• Cloud Islands: A separate persistent multiplayer mode where friends share a co-op island that can be played even when the host is offline. Items cannot transfer back to the main game, but recipes learned on Cloud Islands carry over.

• Star Piece Trading: If either player encounters an unfamiliar Pokemon during multiplayer, they can use a Star Piece to send it to their own world.

• GameShare Sessions: Players on the original Nintendo Switch (via GameShare compatibility) are limited to Palette Town when connecting with Switch 2 players.

Creative Building

Palette Town's large open space and flat terrain make it ideal for ambitious building projects. Without the environmental obstacles and story constraints of other areas, players have maximum creative freedom.

• The area starts mostly blank, allowing for custom layouts and themed neighborhoods.

• Players can construct elaborate structures, design villages, and experiment with different architectural styles.

• The post-game move Magnet Rise (vertical flight and mid-air block placement) is particularly useful here for tall constructions.

• Roads can be built using blocks; the Umbreon challenge requires 300 road blocks, encouraging infrastructure development.

• Lifts can be installed for vertical transportation; the Glaceon challenge requires 5 lifts.

• The area can be renamed at any time via the Pokemon Center PC to match the player's creative vision.

• Long after the credits roll, Palette Town remains a place to expand and refine, turning Pokopia into a true sandbox.

Differences from Story Areas

Tips

• Visit Palette Town early to trigger Eevee's appearance. Sylveon's unlock condition (encounter 10 different Pokemon) and Espeon's condition (get a Pokemon housemate) are easy to achieve early on.

• Umbreon requires the largest grind: 300 road blocks built AND nighttime play. Start placing road blocks early so the challenge completes alongside normal play.

• Jolteon's unlock (power 50 machines) requires significant electrical infrastructure. Complete Bleak Beach's electricity questline first to learn the system.

• Vaporeon's unlock (12 different flower seeds) is achievable by collecting seeds from all five areas as you progress through the story.

• Build the Legendary Bird habitat kits in Palette Town because of the large open space. The Abandoned Power Plant Kit for Zapdos especially needs room.

• Use Palette Town as your experimentation area. Since there's no story to disrupt, you can try building techniques and habitat layouts risk-free.

• Share your Palette Town creations with friends through co-op or Cloud Islands multiplayer modes.

• Since all region flora types are available in Palette Town, you can build every habitat type here for maximum Pokemon variety.