For every Pokémon Pokopia player who just wants to have a cozy time interacting with Pokémon, there’s another one who wants to min-max their resource farming. A Japanese X user by the name of nanapercent recently unveiled their in-game resource collection facility, which cleverly automates the process by boxing in Pokémon so they have no choice but to engage in forced labor.
Post translation: I’ve finally completed a fully automated resource collection station in Pokémon Pokopia! I used the slowness of lava to create a water system that flows at regular intervals. This allows resources to pile up indefinitely without you having to lift a finger! Please give it a try if you’re interested!
Nanapercent divides their Pokémon into two “tribes.” Members of the first “scattering” tribe are caged by railway gates on the upper part of the station and farm for resources. After a set amount of time has passed, the water mechanism activates and washes the resources away to the station’s lower part. It is there that the second “sorting” tribe collects the resources and puts them in bins for easy collection.
Post translation: Here’s how to use it:
1. Place a surveillance camera in a spot slightly away from the enclosure.
2. Angle the camera in such a way that you have a close-up of the sorting tribe but cannot see the gathering tribe.
3. Leave the game running.
To prevent the sorting tribe from de-spawning, nanapercent places a surveillance camera just above the station’s lower part. Once in place, all you have to do now is use the camera to look at the second tribe (take extra care not to look at the tribe above), and watch as your resource reserves grow.
While some players question if the station is just a forced labor camp in disguise, the structure is nevertheless a godsend for those who want to focus on the game’s more creative aspects without having to complete the main campaign. Since crafting items, furniture, decorations, and structures requires several different crafting materials, having a seemingly infinite supply of resources for the cost of leaving the game for a while seems like a pretty good deal.
Pokémon Pokopia is available for Nintendo Switch 2.
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