Overview
The PC Shop is a store accessed through the Pokemon Center PC terminal. It sells recipes, seeds, building kits, furniture, utility items, and upgrades in exchange for Life Coins. Rather than offering everything from the start, the shop functions as a progression-based catalog that expands alongside your Environment Level. As you improve each area and befriend more Pokemon, additional items become available for purchase.
The shop also features a daily rotating selection of items that refreshes every day at 5:00 AM. This makes the PC Shop part of the game's daily loop, giving players a reason to check back regularly for new stock.
How to Unlock the PC Shop
The PC Shop is not available from the very beginning. To unlock it, you need to:
Discover the Pokemon Center PC terminal in your starting area.
Complete your first Challenge listed on the PC.
After finishing your first Challenge, the shop section of the PC becomes active. From that point forward, you can browse and purchase items whenever you interact with any Pokemon Center PC.
Currency
The PC Shop uses Life Coins as its currency. Life Coins are earned primarily through PC Challenges (including daily ones), the Stamp Rally system, and selling items. You must return to the PC to manually claim challenge rewards after completing objectives; they are not awarded automatically. The PC Shop is separate from the Trading system, where Pokemon with the Trade specialty sell items in exchange for inventory goods rather than coins.
Shop Structure
The PC Shop is divided into two sections: permanent items and daily rotating items.
Permanent Items
Permanent items are always available once unlocked. They include key upgrades like Packing Tips, PP Up, the Handy Bag, Security Cameras, Building Kits, and the Pokemon Center Rebuilding Kit. These items do not rotate and can be purchased at any time as long as you have reached the required Environment Level.
Daily Rotating Items
The top row of the shop displays a rotating selection of items that changes every day at 5:00 AM. Early on, this row shows three item slots. As your cumulative Environment Level increases across all areas, the daily row expands to five slots. Daily items may include furniture, crafting recipes, seeds, decorations, and sometimes rare materials like Pokemetal. The daily rotation is different for each player, so there is no universal daily schedule.
Shop Expansion and Environment Level
The PC Shop inventory grows as you raise each area's Environment Level. New recipes, materials, furniture, and building kits unlock at higher levels. Each region (Withered Wasteland, Bleak Beach, Rocky Ridges, Sparkling Skylands, and Palette Town) has its own set of shop items tied to its own Environment Level. Items unlocked in one region's shop may differ from those in another.
At Environment Level 10, every item in that region's PC Shop catalog becomes available, including kits to change the appearance of Pokemon Centers. If your Environment Level drops (for example, by removing Pokemon from the area), any unpurchased items tied to that level will become locked again until you raise the level back up.
Key Items and Prices
The following are some of the most important items available in the PC Shop. Prices are listed in Life Coins. Availability depends on your Environment Level and region.
Bag and PP Upgrades
These upgrades permanently improve your carrying capacity and energy. They are among the highest-priority purchases in the game.
Item | Price | Effect | Unlock Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
100 Life Coins | Increases bag capacity by 10 slots | Available immediately when the shop unlocks | |
500 Life Coins | Increases bag capacity by 30 slots | Unlocks in later regions | |
1,000 Life Coins | Increases bag capacity by 30 slots | Unlocks in later regions | |
500 Life Coins | Adds 10 bag slots and provides a quick-access toolbar for frequently used items | ||
Varies by region | Permanently increases your max PP, letting you use more moves before needing to eat food |
Additional Packing Tips and PP Up items become available as you discover new areas. You can purchase one of each per region, so upgrading across all regions adds up to a significant boost. For more details, see the How to Expand Your Bag guide.
Utility Items
Item | Price | Effect |
|---|---|---|
100 Life Coins | Place in any habitat to monitor it remotely via the Pokedex Camera App. Alerts you when an undiscovered Pokemon appears in the area. Operates indefinitely with no maintenance. | |
Habitat Hints | Varies | Provides clues about what environments attract specific Pokemon. Useful when trying to discover new habitat types. |
Pokemon Center Rebuilding Kit | 1,000 Life Coins | Required to rebuild a Pokemon Center in each region. The rebuild also requires materials and at least 8 Pokemon living in the area. |
Building Kits, Recipes, and Seeds
The shop sells a rotating and expanding selection of Building Kits (pre-made structure blueprints), crafting recipes, and seeds. Beginning Den Kits come in sets at affordable prices and are good early-game purchases for housing Pokemon quickly. Seeds for planting berry trees, vegetables, and decorative plants are also available, though you will need to plant them on watered ground and wait for them to grow. Recipe sets unlock new crafting options at the Crafting Table.
Furniture and Decorations
As your Environment Level rises, the shop stocks more furniture items including seats, beds, tables, lighting, toys, and decorative pieces. Furniture is used to fill habitats and houses, which helps raise Comfort Levels for your Pokemon. Some furniture items appear only in the daily rotation, so checking the shop each day is important if you are looking for a specific piece.
Pokemetal
Pokemetal ingots occasionally appear as daily items in the PC Shop, typically in the Withered Wasteland shop first. These ingots are used for crafting advanced buildings and items through the 3D Printer. If you spot Pokemetal on sale, it is worth buying, since the alternative method of obtaining it (mining Pokemetal Blocks and smelting fragments) requires a Pokemon with the Burn specialty and access to specific mining locations.
Cloud Island Shop
Cloud Islands have their own separate PC Shop with a different inventory from the main game. The Cloud Island shop uses the same Life Coins currency and is tied to the Cloud Island's own independent Environment Level. Items purchased on a Cloud Island stay on that island, with one important exception: recipes learned on a Cloud Island carry over to your main game permanently. This makes recipe purchases on Cloud Islands especially valuable.
Recommended Purchase Order
Life Coins are limited in the early game. The Best Items to Buy First guide covers this in detail, but here is a quick summary of priority purchases:
Priority | Item | Reason |
|---|---|---|
1 | Packing Tips: Rookie | Your default bag fills up quickly. The 10 extra slots from this 100-coin upgrade make a noticeable difference from the start. |
2 | Available at Environment Level 3. Increasing your max PP means less downtime eating food to recover energy. | |
3 | Also unlocks at Environment Level 3 in Withered Wasteland. The 10 extra slots and quick-access toolbar streamline inventory management. | |
4 | Requested Items | Pokemon requests often ask for specific items. If the requested item is in the shop, buying it is faster than crafting or finding it in the wild. |
5 | Security Camera | At 100 Life Coins, it is cheap and helps you monitor habitats remotely so you can spot new Pokemon without walking there. |
6 | Pokemon Center Rebuilding Kit | Costs 1,000 Life Coins but is required for rebuilding Pokemon Centers. Save up for this as soon as you reach Environment Level 3. |
Avoid spending early Life Coins on furniture or decorations unless they are needed for a specific request. Upgrades that expand your bag and PP capacity have a much larger long-term impact.
Tips
Check the daily items every day. The rotating stock resets at 5:00 AM. Rare items like Pokemetal and hard-to-find recipes can appear without warning.
Each region has unique shop items. The shop inventory at the Withered Wasteland PC differs from the Bleak Beach PC. Visit each region's Pokemon Center to see what is available.
Recipes carry over from Cloud Islands. When visiting Cloud Islands, prioritize buying any recipes you do not already have, since those are the only purchases that transfer back permanently.
Environment Level drops lock items. If you remove Pokemon from an area and your Environment Level decreases, any unpurchased items tied to that level become locked again. Make sure to buy important items before reorganizing your Pokemon.
Earn Life Coins through Daily Challenges. Completing the daily challenges at the PC is the most reliable way to fund your purchases. The Stamp Rally provides a large weekly payout of 1,500 Life Coins (or more with rare stamps).
The shop is separate from Trading. Pokemon with the Trade specialty run a barter-based shop where you exchange items instead of coins. The PC Shop is coin-based only.