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Best Materials to Farm for Indigo Disk

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Farm Pokemon Materials for the Item Printer by auto-battling multiple Sableye in a cave in Paldea's East Province (Area Three) while having a Dark or Ghost Encounter Sandwich Buff in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV) The Indigo Disk. Read our guide for the step-by-step instructions on how to farm Pokemon Materials and the best materials to use in the Item Printer.

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Best Pokemon Materials for Item Printer

Sableye Gems Are Easy to Farm

There's a spot in a cave in East Province (Area 3) where you can easily farm Pokemon Materials that you can use for the Item Printer. We can exploit the cave's narrow passage to have all the Sableye spawn in one spawn point and have our Pokemon auto-battling them.

Though Sableye Gems do not give the highest conversion rates, it can compensate with the amount you get from this farming method.

Leave Your Pokemon to Auto-Battle for 30 Minutes

If everything works out, your Pokemon can be auto-battling for as long as possible. Occasionally, however, your Pokemon may be forced to retreat. If it does, you can re-enable the Let's Go function and auto-battle more Sableye.

With this method, you can easily farm 999 Sableye Gems in around 30 minutes.

How to Auto Battle and Evolve Pokemon

Other Pokemon Materials to Use

Note that these are the conversion rates with a fully upgraded Item Printer.

Pokemon Materials with 68% Rate

Ditto ImageDitto Happiny ImageHappiny Beldum ImageBeldum Magby ImageMagby

Pokemon Materials with 54% Rate

Delibird ImageDelibird Spiritomb ImageSpiritomb Rhyhorn ImageRhyhorn Lapras ImageLapras
Drilbur ImageDrilbur Porygon ImagePorygon Duraludon ImageDuraludon -

Pokemon Materials with 45% Rate

Frigibax ImageFrigibax Tatsugiri ImageTatsugiri Deino ImageDeino Dratini ImageDratini
Larvitar ImageLarvitar Rotom ImageRotom Dreepy ImageDreepy Sableye ImageSableye
Orthworm ImageOrthworm Bombirdier ImageBombirdier Bagon ImageBagon Larvesta ImageLarvesta
Klawf ImageKlawf Eevee ImageEevee Axew ImageAxew Gible ImageGible
Carbink ImageCarbink Trapinch ImageTrapinch Exeggcute ImageExeggcute Jangmo-o ImageJangmo-o
Elekid ImageElekid Horsea ImageHorsea Tentacool ImageTentacool -

How to Farm Pokemon Materials for Item Printer

  1. Prepare A Pokemon that Moves Fast
  2. Find Cave Entrance in East Province Area Three
  3. Go Right to Find the Cave's Dead End
  4. Eat a Dark or Ghost Encounter Sandwich
  5. Auto-Battle Sableye in the Cave's Narrow Passage
  6. Move to the Dead End to Spawn More Sableye
  7. Repeat the Process if Your Pokemon Retreats

Prepare A Pokemon that Moves Fast

Varoom ImageVaroom Rayquaza ImageRayquaza Solgaleo ImageSolgaleo

The Pokemon we recommend for this farming strategy are Varoom, Latias, and Solgaleo, mainly for their movement speed for auto-battles.

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Find the Cave Entrance in East Province (Area Three)

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Find the Cave Entrance
The cave entrance can be found in one of the lower areas of the East Province's quarry. Fly to the East Province (Area Three) fast travel point and start heading east. The cave would be in the second lower area to the north.

Go Right at the Fork to Find the Cave's Dead End

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Go Right at the Fork
Once you enter the cave, turn right at the fork. This would lead you to a dead end with a nearby trainer.

Eat a Dark or Ghost Encounter Sandwich

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Eat a Dark or Ghost Encounter Sandwich
Once you enter the area with the dead end, set up a picnic and eat a sandwich that would give you the Encounter Power: Ghost or Encounter Power: Dark sandwich buff. This almost guarantees that only Sableye will spawn in the area.

Encounter Power Sandwich Recipes

Auto-Battle Sableye in the Cave's Narrow Passage

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Auto-Battle Sableye
Bring out your Pokemon to start auto-battling the Sableye. Clear the dead-end area and slowly clear all the Pokemon up the cave's passage to the halfway point of the dead-end and the fork.

How to Auto Battle and Evolve Pokemon

Move a Bit to the Dead End to Spawn More Sableye

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Move a Bit to the Dead End
Once you clear the halfway point of the passage, move back to the opening of the dead-end area. You should notice that there's one point of the passage's walls the Sableye spawn in. You want that point to be the edge of where your Pokemon can keep battling.

When done right, a group of Sableye will start spawning at that exact spot repeatedly, and your Pokemon will keep battling them.

Repeat the Process if Your Pokemon Retreats Earlier

Occasionally, your Pokemon may automatically retreat. If it does, repeat the process of clearing out the narrow passage up to the spawn point again and return to the dead-end.

How to Use Pokemon Materials

Convert to Items with the Item Printer

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet SV - Convert to Items with the Item Printer
The primary reason for this farming method is to use the materials on the Item Printer. The Item Printer converts the materials into other valuable items, including rare Poke Balls and Tera Shards.
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Create Technical Machines (TM)

Technical Machine Moves - Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV)
In addition to League Points, Pokemon materials are used for creating TMs. These are then used to teach moves to your Pokemon.

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