How to Picnic: All Features and Benefits

The Picnic feature is a new mechanic that allows you to play with your Pokemon and friends, as well as make sandwiches and take photos. Learn more about picnics and its features such as online multiplayer, showering your Pokemon, or getting catch, encounter and shiny boosted sandwich powers in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV).

How to Have a Picnic

The player can choose to have a picnic anywhere in the vast areas of the Paldea Region. You can instantly set up a table for your Pokemon to help them gorge down on a hearty meal.

All Picnic Features and Bonuses

Groom and Shower Pokemon

While on a picnic, you can wash and scrub your Pokemon at their leisure to provide comfort and a bit of HP for your weary companions outside of battle.

Play with Pokemon

You may also play with your Pokemon to help them get the energy they need for a well earned lunch.

Make Sandwiches for Encounter, Catch, Raid and Shiny Boosts!

I made my own sandwich while picnicking, which was novel enough, but I likely wouldn’t revisit the physics-based minigame often if it weren’t for the small buffs the meals provide. These buffs do a range of things, from increasing a specific type’s effectiveness to increasing spawn rates of specific groups of Pokemon - even Shiny Pokemon!
Source: IGN

Players will be able to make sandwiches for their Pokemon during Picnics using a variety of condiments and fillings. There are over 80 different sandwich recipes confirmed so far, each one providing a unique combination of boosts.

As detailed in the October 21 Hands-On Preview, these boosts are similar to Pokemon X and Y's O-Powers, with type specific boosts and bonuses including increased catch power, encounter power, teensy power, raid power and even shiny power! Sandwiches will also restore your Pokemon's health and increase their affection level.

Take Pictures with Pokemon

In commemoration of your fun time with your Pokemon pals, a nice picture will go a long way to cement your bonds. Use the Camera App to take photos of your team at your picnic site.

Camera App Guide and How to Use

Obtain Eggs in Picnic

Don't forget to explore the area when you're having a picnic. After some time, there's a chance you may find a Pokemon Egg in your picnic basket!

How to Breed Pokemon and Hatch Eggs

Multiplayer Picnic With Friends

Just like Pokemon Sword and Shield's Curry feature, in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Picnics you will be able to play with up to 3 other friends. You will be able to play with each others' Pokemon, take selfies together and more! At this stage it is unclear whether you will be able to make sandwiches together.
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How to Get More Eggs During Picnics

Get More Eggs with Egg Power

You will be able to get more Eggs during Picnics if you have Egg Power active. Even if you eat a meal with Egg Power Level 1, you will still be able to gather more Eggs compared to setting up a Picnic with no Egg Power at all.

Number of Eggs Obtained Will Depend on Compatibility and Egg Power Level

Species	Trainer ID	Egg Power Lv.	Eggs Per Minute
Different	Same	0	~ 0
		1	≤ 1
		2	≥ 1
		3	~ 2
Same → Different →	Same Different	0	~ 0
		1	≤ 2
		2	≥ 2
		3	~ 3
Same	Different	0	~ 0
		1	≥ 2
		2	≥ 3
		3	~ 4.5

The number of Eggs you can get when breeding will depend on both the Pokemon's compatibility and the level of Egg Power you have.

If you breed a Pokemon of the same species (a male and female Pikachu for example) which originated from different trainers, you can potentially obtain more Eggs during the Picnic. On the other end, if you breed Pokemon of differing species (a Pikachu and Ditto, for example) caught by the same trainer, you will likely get less Eggs than usual.

Additionally, the number of Eggs you can obtain will also be influenced by the level of Egg Power active. You will get more Eggs with Egg Power Level 3 and less Eggs with Level 1, while you will rarely get any if Egg Power is not active.

Egg Power Sandwich Recipes

Item and Egg Checks Explained

Egg Power Lv.	Time For Egg/Item	Egg Check %
0	60 sec	< 10%
1	10 sec	> 80%
2	10 sec	> 80%
3	10 sec	> 80%

The game checks whether you can get an item or an Egg during Picnics. If you set up your Picnic table next to a sparkling item on the ground you will be able to obtain that item multiple times if you check the basket from time to time, or get an Egg if you brought Pokemon that can breed.

Without Egg Power, the game will regularly check for items and will have less chance generating Eggs even if you bring compatible Pokemon.

Additionally, the game will still perform the check even if you cannot get any items, i.e. setting up a Picnic without any items nearby. This means that you will not get more Eggs even if you start a Picnic on clear grounds, free from any sparkling items.
How to Do the Picnic Item Farm Glitch

Egg Power Lets You Get More Eggs

If you set up a Picnic with Egg Power active, Egg checks appear to happen almost twice as often as item checks.

Without Egg Power active, the game will do the check approximately once every minute, but almost every check will be an item check, whether you can get an item or not. This is why you will likely not get any Eggs without Egg Power active, as the game is checking for items more frequently without that Meal Power.

On the other hand, if you have Egg Power active, most item/Egg checks will be for Eggs, meaning you can start getting a lot more Eggs.

Do note that you will only get Eggs if you bring compatible Pokemon with you during the Picnic. Having a Ditto in your party means that any Pokemon that can breed will be able to produce eggs!

Ditto Trading Board

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