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Topics: Pokemon, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
Topics: Pokemon, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
Pokémon Pokopia couldn’t have had a better launch.
It landed to critical acclaim, very quickly becoming a hit with players; in fact, it’s been a major system seller for the Nintendo Switch 2 and sits as the highest-rated Pokémon game of all-time.
While devs have dropped several patches addressing bugs, the vast majority of us would likely describe the game as bug-free. I’ve certainly never encountered one in 60-plus hours.
What one player has stumbled across though is a mistake or exploit which could ruin all of your hardwork.
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As you’ll know, players are required to improve the environment level of the game’s various lands in order to progress on certain missions and unlock all of the items that the game has to offer.
The best method is undoubtedly to level up the Withered Wastelands, Rocky Ridges, Bleak Beach, and Sparkling Skylands haphazardly.
That way, you can unlock a ton of items and block types before decorating the various biomes properly to your liking.
This is what most players have done, including myself and reddit user sbronzo.
As spotted by ComicBook, sbronzo issued a warning, though, pertaining to this method after relocating a previously dumped building in the Sparkling Skylands.
The user had built a wooden house in the Sparkling Skylands but later decided to use a relocation kit on it as it didn’t exactly fit the area’s theming.
Once a building is stored within a relocation kit, you have to build it elsewhere to rid yourself of the kit before you can relocate anything else.
Believing they could cut a corner and just dump the kit and building for good, sbronzo wrote that they “dropped [the kit] while transformed as Magnemite over the abyss in Sparkling Skylands”, sending the kit plummeting below.
“Turns out now I can’t relocate anything forever since if I try to do that, a message just says, ‘You’re still relocating something else’ and prevents me to move forward. Bummer,” said sbronzo.
“In hindsight, the message, ‘This looks important… Are you sure you want to drop it?’ might have been worth listening to while dropping the kit.”
If you too are hours and hours deep into decorating your various lands in Pokémon Pokopia, that anecdote likely will have sent a shudder down your spine.
While sbronzo can continue placing new buildings, they’ll no longer be able to relocate any pre-existing buildings which is a nightmare for anyone who took the ‘get the environment level up quick’ approach.
Hopefully, devs might catch wind of sbronzo’s predicament and deploy a workaround of some sort so this doesn’t happen to any other players.
“When I accidentally despawned my power plant etc kits, they showed up in loot bags in front of the Pokémon Center in the zone where I despawned them the next day. Wonder if the same thing happens with relocation kits?” replied a helpful creepyflora.
“Yeah, try the lost and found. If that doesn't work, flood the world with useless items/blocks until things start despawning then try again,” added ReneeTheGhost.
Apparently, 513 is the magic number of how many things an overworld can hold before it's overloaded.
There’s a small chance the relocation kit might then depspawn.
Unfortunately, sbronzo hasn’t issued an update so here’s to hoping some of this advice might have helped.
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