Getting Started
Build a valid block house and divide a larger building into rooms
Check enclosure, doors and furniture before adding extra floors or a large decorative shell.
BeginnerBuilding
Pokémon Pokopia Beginner Guides
Start here if you just booted up Pokémon Pokopia. These guides cover the first things to do in every zone and the basic systems the game doesn't fully explain.
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Getting Started
Fix a habitat that does not register or attract a visitor
Check exact objects, environmental conditions and visitor timing before rebuilding a working habitat.
BeginnerHabitats
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How to set up a shop and barter without overpaying
Power a cash register, let a trading Pokémon open its shop and use favourite items to meet the exchange value.
BeginnerCraftingTips & Tricks
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How to recycle wastepaper into paper and rubbish into ore
Give the correct raw material to a recycling specialist, start a processing request and collect the finished resources later.
BeginnerMaterialsCrafting
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How to make it rain or bring back sunshine
Build the weather ritual, set both charms to the same form and bring a helper with the correct specialty.
BeginnerHabitatsTips & Tricks
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How to raise humidity for the Slowpoke story request
Restore water flow, activate the fountain and complete the local habitat requests before asking for the final yawn.
BeginnerProgressionHabitats
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How to move liquids and create water sources or waterfalls
Learn from Paldean Wooper, collect a liquid with Y and ZR, then place or remove its source.
BeginnerBuildingHabitats
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How to unlock cooking and rescue Chef Dente
Follow the salad and bread requests in Rocky Ridges to cut the chain and free the trapped cook.
BeginnerProgressionFood & Farming
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How to grow moss, climbing vines and duckweed
Use a salad to strengthen Leafage and target the right surface for each plant.
BeginnerHabitatsBuilding
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How to move a Pokémon to another region or home
Take a companion to an available habitat or house and complete the move instead of only visiting the destination.
BeginnerPokémonHabitats
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How to travel straight to a Pokémon with Fly or Teleport
Mark a target in the Pokédex and ask a specialist to take you there within the same region.
BeginnerExplorationPokémon
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How to learn Surf and cross deep water
Meet Lapras in Bleak Beach, unlock water travel and understand what happens when your energy runs out.
BeginnerProgressionExploration
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How to learn Glide and reach other floating islands
Meet Dragonite and plan safe routes from a high starting point to a lower landing place.
BeginnerProgressionExploration
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How to learn Camouflage and copy nearby objects
Find the disguised Zorua, unlock the move and check why an object cannot be copied.
BeginnerProgressionPokémon
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How to increase maximum PP and restore energy
Buy each area's permanent PP upgrade and learn how food and recovery machines restore energy.
BeginnerTips & Tricks
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How to manage Pokémon followers and keep the group together
Invite up to five Pokémon and solve problems with hunger, narrow paths and followers getting left behind.
BeginnerPokémon
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How to use Gulpin and Swalot as portable storage
Unlock Gulpin's storage service and carry spare materials with a follower.
BeginnerPokémonMaterials
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How to learn Strength and move heavy objects
Complete Machoke's training to push, pull and rotate heavy objects without dismantling them.
BeginnerProgressionBuilding
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How to Unlock Dive and Enter Bubbly Basin in Pokemon Pokopia
Unlock and use Dive, complete Manaphy's tutorial, and enter the Bubbly Basin DLC in Pokémon Pokopia for Nintendo Switch 2
BeginnerDLCExploration
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How to Increase Inventory Space
Get more inventory space in Pokopia: every Packing Tips upgrade with its Life Coin cost and unlock, plus Storage Boxes and the Handy Bag.
BeginnerTips & Tricks
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First Steps in a New Zone
What to do first in every new Pokopia zone: build a small house, place a Ditto flag to claim it and unlock fast travel between areas.
BeginnerBuilding