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Beginner's Guide to Pokopia: Tips and Tricks

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★ Tip: Use Frames to organize your Storage.
☆ Build Habitats with Ditto's Moves.
Build Houses and Structures for your Pokemon
☆ Increase Comfort & Environment Levels.
★ Redeem Mystery Gifts for free items & furniture.
☆ Limited Time Event: Befriend Hoppip until 3/24!

Pokemon Pokopia - Beginner
Here is a beginner's guide to Pokemon Pokopia! Check out gameplay tips and tricks as well as guides that can help you as you play the game.

Beginner's Guide to Pokopia

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Inspect Sparkles for Habitat Hints

Inspect Sparkles for Habitat Hints

You may occasionally see sparkles near an object in the world. Inspecting these sparkles may give you a hint on a possible habitat you can create using that object.

Sparkling spots in water may instead lead you to items. It's worth taking a look at any unusual spots you see in the world. You're bound to discover something interesting!

Habitat Dex: How to Build Every Type of Habitat

Pokopia Follows the Real-Time Clock

Professor Tangrowth Napping at Night

The game follows the clock on your Nintendo Switch 2 system, which means that the current time in-game should be the same as the current time where you live. If it's daytime where you are, it'll be daytime in-game.

Keep this in mind when trying to find Pokemon with specific time of day requirements and when waiting for construction projects to complete at specific times.

Time Traveling Guide: How to Change the Time of Day

Hold Y to Inhale Items

Inhale Items

You can pick up items individually by approaching them and pressing Y. However, if there are multiple items on the ground that you want to get, you can save time by holding the Y button to inhale all loose items in front of you.

Eat Food to Replenish PP

Restore PP With Leppa Berries

Moves that Ditto learns from other Pokemon consume PP. The PP meter is the blue curved bar that can be seen at the bottom right part of the screen, above the active move.

If you run out of PP, you'll get tired whenever you try to use a move. You can recover PP by eating food such as berries.

How to Recover PP

Utilize Pokemon Specialties

Each Pokemon has at least one specialty that can allow them to help out in rebuilding the island. Check your Pokedex to see what specialties a Pokemon has.

If a Pokemon has a specialty you need, you can ask the Pokemon to follow you by talking to it or by pressing up on the D-pad. Then, lead it to the item or location you need its help for.

List of Pokemon by Specialties

Increase Pokemon Comfort Levels

Each Pokemon has a particular preference for how their habitat should be like. This influences their comfort level.

Ask a Pokemon, "How's your comfort level?", in order to see if their habitat needs improvement. They'll give you hints for what they want, and you can place the appropriate items within their habitat.

The comfort levels of all your Pokemon friends directly influence your Environment Level.

How to Increase Comfort Level

Construct Buildings

4 Players Building

Although many Pokemon enjoy the outdoors, you can create homes for them to increase their comfort levels. Buildings can be constructed using building kits or by making one yourself block-by-block.

Building kits are built by Pokemon with specialties that match the building requirements as long as the materials required have been provided. Buildings take time to complete, and you will be notified on when construction will finish.

A building made by hand using blocks requires at least four walls and must be at least two blocks in height in order to classify as a building. This is the best way to make large or tall buildings that you can use in a variety of ways.

How to Build Houses and Structures

Add 3 Furniture Items to Make a Home

3 Furniture Items in a Leaf Den
If you want to turn a building into a home, place at least three furniture items inside it. Then, when it's ready, you can ask a Pokemon to follow you and reassign them the house as their new habitat.

Place a Storage Box Next to a Workbench

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It's best to place a storage box right next to a workbench. Doing so allows you to draw materials from the storage box instead of your inventory when crafting at the workbench.

Just remember to add materials in the storage box beforehand!

Crafting Guide: How to Craft Items

Power Items with Electricity

Power Lines from a Windmill

Some items such as lamps and other lighting fixtures require electricity in order to function. Electricity can be generated from Electric-type Pokemon or from energy sources such as windmills and distributed through power lines.

If you're thinking of using electrical items in your buildings, consider planning an electrical grid for an organized distribution of electricity on your island.

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List of Tips and Tricks Guides

All Tips and Tricks

Beginner Guides
Character Customization Appearance Options What to Do First
Best Items to Buy First How to Save
List of Controller and Mouse Mode Controls List of Settings and Best Settings
Building Guides
How to Rebuild the Pokemon Center How to Give Ditto a House
How to Build Houses and Structures How to Move Houses
How to Demolish and Remove Houses How to Remodel a House
How to Make Roads How to Make a Hot Spring
How to Build and Place Roofs How to Level the Ground for Building
How to Create a Water Source How to Create Elevated Ground
Habitat Guides
How to Make a Habitat Darker How to Make a Bright Habitat
How to Raise Humidity How to Make a Dry Habitat
How to Make a Warm Habitat How to Make a Cool Habitat
Gameplay Guides
How to Increase Comfort Level How to Raise Environment Level
How to Recover PP How to Increase PP
Time Traveling Guide How to Change the Weather
All Daily Activities All Missables and One-Time Events
How to Complete the Mysterious Mural How to Break Glowing Spots
How to Use the Dowsing Machine How to Find Rare Pokemon
Cloud Island Guide Money Farming Guide
Photo Mode Guide How to Get More Photo Frames
How to Expand Your Bag How to Customize Items
How to Use the Handy Bag Lucky Day Effects
Best Pokemon Specialty to Follow You Around How to Have Pokemon Follow You
How to Fast Travel How to Get Unstuck
How to Move Pokemon Between Areas How to Increase Trainer Rank
How to Plant Seeds to Grow Crops How to Move Plants and Trees
How to Unlock Palette Town How to GameShare Pokopia
3D Printer Guide How to Find Missing Pokemon
How to Place Blocks Below You How to Use Mouse Mode
Stamp Rally Guide How to Unlock Emotes
Best Mosslax Offerings How to Use Vending Machines
How to Organize Your Storage Best Items to Trade
How to Get Electricity to Power Your Island How to Activate the Withered Wasteland Waterwheel
How to Use the Smelting Furnace How to Farm Materials
How to Open All Gates How to Complete a Pokemon's Unfinished Business
How to Go to the S.S. Anne How to Chat with Pokemon
Mini Game Guides
How to Play All Mini Games How to Play Jump Rope
How to Play Hide-and-Seek Look That Way Mini Game Guide
FAQs
Can You Evolve Pokemon? Can You Find Shiny Pokemon in Pokopia?
Can You Change Your Island Map? When Does A New Day Start?
Should You Go to Bleak Beach or Rocky Ridges? What Does Resting Do?
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