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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP)
Secret Base Guide: How to Make a Secret Base
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Use a Digger Drill to make a Secret Base in the Grand Underground. Read on to learn how to make more Secret Bases, how to decorate the Secret Base, where to get Digger Drill, and how to find your Secret Base in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP).
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How to Make a Secret Base
Video Walkthrough
Use Digger Drill on Wall
To create a Secret Base, face any wall in the Grand Underground while you have a Digger Drill in your inventory and Press A to burrow a hole into it.
You can only have 1 Secret Base; building another in a different area will dismantle the existing base and consume your digging drill.
Get Digger Drill for Free from Underground Man
The Underground Man in the house next to the Pokemon Center in Eterna City awards you the Digger Drill after completing his 3rd mission, which involves digging for treasures.
Underground Man Missions and Rewards
Purchase More Drills from Sphere Traders
You can get more drills by purchasing them from Sphere Traders in the Grand Underground. These traders look like Hikers and will sell you Digger Drills for a random amount of Small Spheres.
Expand Your Secret Base
Some Sphere Traders in the Grand Underground can expand your secret base, which increases the amount of statues you can place! These services require a lot of spheres so make sure to dig up as many as you can if you want to display all your statues!
How to Decorate the Secret Base
Place Pokemon Statues
Decorate your Secret Base with Pokemon Statues which will increase your encounter rate of the Pokemon you'll find in the Pokemon Hideaways.
Use Pedestals to Customize Statues
You can use Pedestals purchased from Sphere Traders to customize your displayed statues depending on their size. For example, larger statues will require bigger pedestals to display.
Display Shiny Statues
Shiny Statues are rare shiny versions of Pokemon Statues that are color green instead of the usual gray.
These statues also increase encounter rate of Pokemon, though it's currently unknown if they affect shiny encounter chance. We'll keep you up-to-date as we uncover more information!
Enter Photo Mode with Y
Press the Y Button while inside your Secret Base to enter Photo Mode and use the Left Thumbstick the pan or zoom around. Take pictures of your statue collection and share it with your friends!
How to Find Your Secret Base
Once you have made your secret base, you can find it by looking for the red diamond icon in the Grand Underground Map. You must be in the same zone as your Secret Base to see the red diamond icon.
If you have lost your Secret Base, enter each zone of the Grand Undergrand and check your map to see if the icon appears.
Pokemon BDSP Related Guides
Grand Underground Guides
| Grand Underground Maps & Data | |
|---|---|
| All Underground Pokemon | Grand Underground Map: Items & NPC Locations |
| Grand Underground Guides | |
| Pokemon Hideaways | Underground Man Missions |
| List of Statues and Effects | How to Get Shiny Statues |
| Digging for Treasure | All Treasures and Appearance Rates |
| How to Make a Secret Base | How to Find Diglett |
| Sphere Trader Locations | List of Spheres |
| List of Pedestals | |
| Removed Features | |
| Capture the Flag | Traps |
| Decorations | |
Grand Underground Pokemon Locations
| Hideaways and List of Pokemon | ||
|---|---|---|
 Fountainspring Cave  |
 Stargleam Cavern(Various types) |
 Dazzling Cave(Various types) |
 Grassland Cave |
 Spacious Cave(Various types) |
 Big Bluff Cavern  |
 Riverbank Cave(Various types) |
 Volcanic Cave |
 Sandsear Cave |
 Rocky Cave |
 Bogsunk Cavern |
 Still-Water Cavern |
 Whiteout Cave |
 Icy Cave |
 Glacial Cavern |
 Swampy Cave |
 Typhlo Cavern |
 Sunlit Cavern(Various types) |
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Anonymous almost 4 years
Anonymous almost 4 yearsI forgot my secret base location and I couldn't find it on the map. How do I find it?
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Highly recommend building your base just beneath whatever Pokémon center you fly to most. Just fly to the center, dig down, and make the base. Hard to lose it that way!