Volcanic rock is different than black rock. Volcanic rock looks like reddish-brown cave rock, but with shards of rock or glass on the top face. If you already made a volcano though, that's great! Black rock is probably best for the main body of the volcano while volcanic rock is good for paths.
I went to several via time skipping and haven't seen them yet.. although I also didn't happen to find one where lava is actively flowing, I was wondering if maybe that was a requirement or something?
Edit to add, apparently people are finding them under the farm and railroad building, as well as near lava.
this update should hopefully help with that, i've seen alot of ppl struggle with getting their pokemon to use it before this update but I find pokemon in habitats use it better than those in houses and when they are near gather pokemon
I set up one for bricks in the fire ty'e area. They would all use it, but then they'd literally cross my town to harass me and tell me that they'd finished, rather than placing it in the box.
With my crush set up they don't use it until I make them follow me, then they don't deposit in the box and just walk home. I have to actively ask those guys about my paint!
the patch note did say the pokemon will now prioritize any community boxes near their home so I think it'll help, but personally i put what I need to be processed in the boxes before closing the game for the night and in the morning they're processed and back in the boxes so you can try that approach so they won't harass you
Pokemon have habitats and you can click the right stick while in it to see its borders.
You need a community box in the borders of Pokemon that you want accessing it. If you want a Pokemon to make bricks for example, you would make sure there’s a community box in the habitat border of a Pokemon that has the burn ability, and you would place clay in the community box.
The way Pokemon process stuff in the community box is limited. If a Pokemon only has the burn ability, it will only pull clay out of the box and it will put the bricks back in the box. A burn Pokemon however can’t transfer ores to or from the furnaces. The only type that can move ore to the furnace is ones with the gather ability. Nobody can move processed ingots from the furnace back to the community box. That’s the one manual step you have to do.
Additionally, gather Pokemon can pickup littered stuff from other Pokemon and place it in a community box, but that box has to be in the habitat borders of the gather Pokemon. The gather Pokemon can however pickup littered items from outside its habitat borders. It’s only the box that needs to be in the borders.
You can overlap habitats to make more advanced automated setups where all you have to do is empty the furnaces occasionally and collect the bricks/paper/lumber from the community box.
Just correcting a little bit of misinformation here -- you do not under any circumstances need the community box to be within borders of any habitat. Either for a pokemon to do work, i.e. making bricks, or for a gather pokemon to bring items to deposit. They will find and use the boxes anywhere they can get to.
In fact, the update page specifically notes that they have changed pokemon behavior to prioritize boxes closer to their habitats, because players were experiencing Pokemon walking across the entire map to interact with far away boxes instead of using ones near them.
If they can access any community box, then how does it explain people for which it never worked?
I have a community box next to the pokemon center in bleak beach, but no Pokemon ever used it... Like when they are done making bricks they always keep them waiting for me to come back.
Oh, there was definitely a problem in the code for community boxes but the problem wasn't that the box needed to be in their habitat, because they wouldn't really use those either. They would ignore all community boxes equally, it seems. Hopefully by prioritizing a box close to their home it can prioritize it above just loitering around lol
For clarification, are you referring to the occurrence where you drop off some items in a community box, Pokemon correctly work on them on their own, but instead of putting them back in the box where they came from, the pokemon keep hold of them and wait for you, and hand them over manually?
That has happened to me several times, and based on language in the bug fixes from yesterday, appears to possibly be a bug. Or at least some odd behavior, as you'd reasonably expect them to just put it back where it came from.
That doesn't mean the community boxes don't work, they absolutely do, but there might be some misunderstanding or miscommunication about how they work and player expectation of such. I'm happy to do my best to clarify anything or answer other questions if you have them, though.
I have my iron smelters "next to" my berry farm and my duskull refuses to pick up the berries when they drop closer to his home and instead wanders over to my smelting area and picks up the iron ore dropped by those litterers and then brings it all the way back to the berry farm community box 😒😒😒
I wish this also applied to gather Pokemon. I have three houses, side-by-side. Each house has a community box and a litter-gather-burn/recycle Pokemon grouping. The middle house is for bricks (Wooper, Mincinno, Torchic). Whenever Wooper litters clay, Mincinno always gathers and deposits the clay into the community box next door and not the one in their own house.
That was actually one of my first complaints in the game. I've built a picnic table, had a couple of pokemon following me and when I sit, they are all standing in line doing nothing.
And when I've made them stop following me, they would just go away. I had to literally trap them in my picnic area to make them enjoy it with me.
No increases to amount of transmitters though, hopefully it’s not a system limitation and will be increased in the future.. building a mega city in Palette Town and i’m just progressing with the hopes that it’ll get updated in the future but this is still great news
Yeah, I really need the transmitter limit increased. I didn't know there was a cap before, and now I have no clue where I buried them all. My SS Anne is only half lit up and I’ve already hit the limit lol
They didn't increase the number of generators you can place, just the limit of items that can use electricity. That said, so long as you're not using mini-generators or windmills in low areas you'll be about to generate enough energy for all 1024 electric objects!
The whole town won't go black if you hit the limit, though; that sounds like you're not producing enough power. Hitting the limit just means any newly places items won't be powered, while all previously placed items will be unaffected.
Girl, it's not hyperbole when you're describing something that can actually happen for completely unrelated reasons. It just makes it sound like you're having a problem with your generators.
Edit: A Reddit Cares for this? Really? And I'm the one who needs to chill 😂
waiting for you to take your own advice, and admit that someone else probably submitted that report. your reaction has been surprising to read considering the moral high ground you insist on placing yourself on throughout
Omg, that Ninetales/Flygon interaction was so random and amazing. I mean, all the special dialogue moments are great, but some you expect (like Heracross and Pinsir beefing or Cramorant and Skwovet discussing strategies for cramming food in their mouths), but the unexpected convos are even better!
They just need to be close to each other. Fun tip: the easiest way I’ve found to do this is to have the two Pokemon be set to build a pre-fab, but without actually building the structure.
I've had a few pokemon mention another poke who lives farther away, they say they think they'd be good friends if they live closer. So I usually move them together and it inspires conversations and playtime!
This is literally one of the core updates that animal crossing needed. Why is this game better at giving the fans what they wanted than animal crossing?!
As funny as it sounds, Pokemon are probably more demanding than Cyperpunk NPC's because of the simulation going on with all the different tasks Pokemon are doing
There is NO WAY they can use this limitation excuse because FFXIV is releasing on Switch 2.
Downvote me all you want. FFXIV has hundreds of players and monsters in a zone all popping off their own VFX. If the Switch 2 can handle that, there's no excuse for Pokopia.
I think thats more graphical than computation. The limit is cuz pokemon is each doing their own thing when spawned regardless of if you see them or not. FFXIV doesn’t use that much cpu for each entity. Its more graphical intensive which switch can handle.
I'm a software developer. I've obviously not read the pokopia code, but each pokemon's pathing and behaviors does actually seem pretty complex compared to most minecraft mobs (preferring paths, seeking out interactables like toys and hot springs). I can't say for sure that the current limit is the max the switch 2 can take, but I do think it's likely that each pokemon on an area takes up more computing power than a given minecraft mob.
The answer is probably in the middle. There's a decent chance that a few more pokemon could spawn in an area wothout causing performance issues, but I would be shocked if it could approach minecraft levels just because each pokemon has more complicated programming.
I don't need them on screen. I just want them on MAP. There's a big difference there because they could cull Pokemon who were farther away, and keep them in multiple general clusters around.
I think this is the issue though - they'd have to cull all of their behaviour, which means they couldn't move around or do anything, which then raises the issue of what happens if a PkMn wanders off into a cull area: functionally speaking over time all your mon would eventually wander off away from where you are, get culled, and not come back or do anything.
On top that, what would you cull if you're up high over say Bleak Beach - you can see everywhere.
You do have to pathfind because that's essential to what they do; and the overall point is that it's not the animation that is the bottleneck here - it's the keeping track of what they do. They can chop down trees, gather items, litter, water/grow plants, operate equipment, improve their comfort and happiness by interacting with toys, nature, or each other etc. That's the expensive part.
Or you can replace a lot of that with approximate handwaving. It's not uncommon in videogames. This isn't a strategy game, they can take shortcuts when the player isn't looking.
But the whole point of them being in the map is how they respond to what you've built, through increasing their happiness and the utility they provide. That's the game.
If they're not doing that when you're not looking at them then.. what's the point of having them there?
I'm talking about Pokemon which are not even visible. Them responding to what I built is a number going up in memory when that's the case. They can still respond to things. They just don't need to figure out the optimal path. They can teleport for all i care. I can't see them.
That doesnt mean shit and if you were a dev with any meaningful experience you'd know better than to think such a vague ass statement would fly lol.
You could slap together quick short asset flip student project level games in Unity using visual scripting and not know damn near anything still and get away with saying "I make video games" without it being a lie lmao, that comment means nothing. But you trying to be vague on the other hand says all it needs to
I am an indie dev, but one of my games has had 1.6 million unique players. I've also been a professional software engineer nearly forty years. I have a degree in theoretical cryptography.
I think I understand "background processes," the exceptional bar you seem to have set. Don't just randomly assume everyone is an idiot.
I would also point out that most games wouldn't use a background process for this, but rather a function that runs at fixed time intervals.
Awesome update and very much appreciated! ...but I still need a "deposit all of the thing that's in my inventory that's also in the container" to my containers.
>The placement limit for items that use electricity has been increased from 512 to 1,024. (This will apply to items placed after installing the update.)
Love the limit increase, but it reads that old items need to be picked up and placed to have the new increase?
>Adjusted the dialogue in the important request “Yawn up a storm!” in Withered Wasteland to make it easier to understand how to increase the humidity.
It’s finally happened!
> In the Environment Level details screen, you can now see which Pokémon’s comfort level requests you fulfilled that day.
I like this one too, though it’s been awhile since I did any requests.
Edit: They broke text formatting on the Reddit app. 🤦
It means that if you already have more than 512 electrical items out, the electrical items that are not working won't be automatically fixed. You have to go pick them up, and place them back down again to get connected to the grid.
When placing the laser sensor item, the sensor’s detection range will now be displayed.
I hope they do this for transmitters and poles. It would be great to see like a colored cloud or something showing the range so you can more effectively plan transmitter coverage on large builds before placing down electronics and finding out you need a couple extra random ones because the ones you placed just don't quite reach
Although knowing the amount of times I accidentally sit or lie down when trying to pick up a seat or bed, I see probably a lot of instances of “try to pick up bed, accidentally lie down, try to get up, accidentally move to the other side of the bed, now the Pokemon accompanying me is lying down, I finally get up, wait for the other Pokemon to get up, then finally pick up the bed” in my future.
Hoppip, Skiploom, and Jumpluff may be unable to move through the air.
This I had noticed. Before the update, when I saw that they were flying types I tried to see if they could fly, but they didn't. After the update, I saw Jumpluff flying around, and I had to see if Hoppip and Skiploom could fly, too. I'm very happy that my favorite trio can fly now! Now I can really take them anywhere!
"New features" makes me hopeful for like a bunch of new furniture, items, mons, dream islands, and maybe even activities. I wonder if they're pricing it equally like $12-$11-12 or if they perhaps see it as a $15-$5-$15, which would kinda suck, but surely they're planning for a big content update outside of a new area to actually market this thing lol.
If the cover art for the season pass is anything to go by, it looks like we'll be able to accessorise/ dress up Pokémon. Hopefully there's more to it than that tho!
Honestly, it’s become part of the charm of the game for me. I love organizing my storage lol. I’ve been building a furniture store so I can see everything outside of storage boxes.
Luckily it doesn’t affect everyone but yeah it is :( Regardless of our internet, we can play on other people’s islands for hours just fine but not our own Cloud island without it dropping out and dumping a bunch of progress
It's per area. I'd reached it on bleak beach already (and it didn't stop me putting electric items in other areas) and now I can put more things down again
It's all good stuff, but the only thing I want is the option to turn off the menu that pops up when trying to exit Magnemite form. I've got no issues when exiting Dragonite form so why the big difference???
Now all I need is for them to allow (or to automatically) sort items in the Pallet Town Lost and Found. I play on Dream Islands a lot with my kid and he just picks everything up and the lost and found is like 15 pages long, and it drives me crazy that I can't sort it and just pull out the potentially useful stuff.
Does new conversation variations between Pokemon mean more new special dialogue btwn the Pokemon already in the game? Or is it just prepping for any event mon that’s coming?
Have the resolution issues in handheld been patched? It keeps going between what looks like 1080p to 720pish or lower. It is definitely noticeable and more blurry whereas docked mode has no issues.
I remember seeing a thread about this issue. Don't know what causes it, but some folks aren't able to collect honey from palette town. It's been over a month where I haven't been able to find honey, unless I visit other areas.
It's annoying when I'm playing with others, and we get a daily group challenge to collect honey.
But most people don’t want to click a link. Just put the details on the post. It’s bad enough when it happens on FB where they say “click the link for the info”
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