Pokopia Pokedex Guide: 300 Entries and the 38 Recipes They Pay

Most Pokemon games treat the Pokedex as a receipt. Pokopia treats it as a payroll. Register six species and the game hands you a Storage Box recipe. Register 300 and it hands you a key to a room the developers built for themselves.

The confusing part is that Pokopia does not keep one Pokedex. It keeps three, they have different sizes, and only one of them is attached to the reward ladder. Sorting that out first saves you from grinding the wrong tab.

Three Pokedexes, not one

Serebii documents the game as carrying a main Pokedex, a Pokedex (Event), and a Pokedex (Basin). Ver. 2.0.0 added an All tab to both the Pokedex and the Habitat Dex, which is useful for browsing but does not merge the three completion tracks.

The main 300 is where the long reward ladder lives, and it is self-contained: Game8 states plainly that you do not need DLC Pokemon to complete the base game Pokedex, and Vandal's completion guide describes the 300 as not counting the event Pokemon either. If you skipped Bubbly Basin and every event since March, the completion reward is still fully reachable.

That is a better design decision than it sounds. It means the paid DLC does not gate the completion reward, and it means no event window — closed or currently running — can lock anyone out of it.

Every registration reward in the main dex

Serebii lists 38 separate registration milestones on the main dex, and every one of them pays a crafting recipe rather than a finished item.

Read the cadence and you can plan around it. The ladder pays every five entries from 15 to 100, then switches to every ten from 100 to 300. So the stretch from your first habitat to roughly a third of the dex is the densest run on the whole ladder, and the back half is a long walk between paydays. One oddity worth knowing before you count: Serebii's table jumps straight from 270 to 290, with nothing listed at 280.

The rewards themselves are decoration and infrastructure, not power. Two storage box recipes, flooring, tiling, a fireplace, a weather vane. If you are chasing the dex expecting stat upgrades, recalibrate now — this ladder pays in build parts, and the actual payoff is the room at the end.

308 rows, 300 numbers

Serebii's available-Pokemon list runs to #300 but carries 308 rows, because seven of the numbers are shared by more than one entry. Knowing which seven saves you from thinking you are eight species short when you are not.

• #041 — Professor Tangrowth and Tangrowth
• #059 and #060 — Shellos and Gastrodon, each with an East Sea form
• #079 — Pikachu and Peakychu
• #108 — Snorlax and Mosslax
• #145 — Tatsugiri, all three of Curly, Droopy and Stretchy
• #197 — Toxtricity, Amped and Low Key

The three unique variants in that list are worth a second look. Peakychu is described by Serebii as a pale Pikachu with droopier ears, Mosslax as a Snorlax that has had moss and a flower grow on it, and Professor Tangrowth as the guide who has been living alone in the ruins. They share numbers with their ordinary counterparts, and they carry completely different specialties: Peakychu has Illuminate where Pikachu has Generate, Mosslax has Eat where Snorlax has Trade and Bulldoze, and Professor Tangrowth has Appraise where Tangrowth has Grow and Litter.

The specialty column next to each entry is the most useful thing on that page, and it reads as data. Tallying Serebii's 308 rows puts Trade on 49 entries, Water on 39 and Burn on 34, while several specialties appear against exactly one Pokemon: Transform is Ditto at #047, Paint is Smeargle at #119, DJ is Stereo Rotom at #182, Party is Greedent at #192, Rarify is Porygon-Z at #220 and Engineer is Tinkaton at #270. Our specialties and building kits guide covers what those jobs do on a build site; for dex purposes, the point is that the one-off jobs have no substitute in your follower crew.

The tail of the list is also not random. Slots #280 through #288 are Eevee and all eight of its evolutions in a block, and the final twelve — #289 to #300 — are nothing but Legendaries and Mythicals, running Kyogre, the three beasts, Volcanion, the Kanto birds, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Mewtwo and finally Mew at #300. Four entries carry a ??? specialty instead of a job: Magikarp at #045, plus Kyogre, Lugia and Ho-Oh. Our legendary and mythical guide covers how each of those twelve is actually reached, and it is the section of the dex most likely to stall you.

Habitats do the registering, and there are 209

Registration here runs through construction. Serebii's habitat page is blunt about the loop: to get a Pokemon to appear, you build the habitat it wants, wait, and a wild Pokemon may show up — and it is not a guaranteed match, because others may appear instead. Once one moves in, that spot becomes its home.

The habitat list runs to 209 entries for the main game, plus 36 for Bubbly Basin and 7 from events. So 209 buildable habitats feed 300 dex slots, which tells you the relationship is many-to-many rather than one-to-one.

Three modifiers decide what actually turns up, and two of them are overrides rather than preferences:

• Location, time of day and weather all shift the appearance pool for the same habitat.
• Night-exclusive Pokemon will spawn regardless of the clock if the habitat sits somewhere dark, such as a cave or underground.
• Day-exclusive Pokemon will spawn at night if their habitat is surrounded by bright light.

Those last two are the difference between waiting for a real-world night and simply building a cave. The habitat and comfort guide covers the comfort side of the same system; for dex filling, the lighting override is the lever.

The other lever is Mosslax. Serebii's boost table lists the Spicy flavour as increasing the chance of Pokemon appearing in habitats, at three strengths depending on what you feed it: berries, drinks and vegetables are the weakest tier, simple salads, soups, breads and hamburger steaks are standard, and the elaborate dishes are the strongest. The effect runs until the in-game day resets at 05:00 local time, so it is one buff per day and you should not split it. Our cooking and recipes guide has the dish list.

One quality-of-life note that changed in August: Ver. 2.0.0 made the Pokedex search able to route you to another town using Return Home when the Pokemon you are hunting is not in the one you are standing in. Before that patch, searching for a species living two regions away just told you where it was. The update history has the rest of what shipped.

What all 300 actually unlocks

Registering the 300th entry pays the Neo Dowsing Machine recipe, and Professor Tangrowth tells you to take it to the Sparkling Skylands. From there the sequence is specific:

1. Craft the Neo Dowsing Machine. Vandal's guide puts the cost at an ordinary Dowsing Machine plus five Pokemetal.
2. Go to the northwestern island of the Sparkling Skylands with a Pokemon that has the Search specialty following you.
3. Search until the Pokemon signals that something is underneath you, then dig down.
4. You surface a second scanner, matching the one at the gates. Scan your Pokedex at the gate and — only with a full 300 — it opens.
5. Inside is the developer room from Celadon City. Serebii records three recipes there: a Printer, a shutter and a card reader, which together let you build rooms with the same locking mechanism.
6. Interact with the powered Printer and it prints a Diploma you can hang anywhere you like.

Vandal adds two details worth having: the three recipes are held in yellow Poke Balls inside the room, and completion also stamps a badge into the lower-left corner of your Pokedex screen.

And there is a cosmetic that only exists after the Diploma. Ver. 2.0.0 added the dynamic Ditto print pattern, which Nintendo Life's patch notes coverage says is obtained by talking to Smearguru once you have the diploma in hand. It keys off the diploma itself rather than a registration count, which makes it the completion flex worth going back for.

The Basin dex is a separate 50-slot ladder

Bubbly Basin ships its own Pokedex, and Serebii is explicit that you cannot obtain any of it without the Expansion Pass. It runs to #050, and its reward ladder is six rungs rather than 38:

Two things to know before you count. First, the Basin tab has the same shared-number quirk as the main one: it numbers to 50 but lists 52 rows, because Frillish at #028 and Jellicent at #029 each carry a male and a female form under one number. Game8 describes the Basin dex as 52 Pokemon on that basis, while Serebii's ladder tops out at "50 Registered" — worth knowing so you do not think you are two behind schedule.

Second, the Basin list is a coherent water block rather than a scattering: it opens on Shellder and Cloyster and closes on Phione at #049 and Manaphy at #050, with the Basin's 36 habitats as the way in. Serebii notes those species are found primarily in Bubbly Basin but their habitats can be set up elsewhere if you want them somewhere else. Our Bubbly Basin breakdown covers what the pass includes.

The seven entries you cannot farm

The third tab holds seven entries, and it is the one tied to a live window rather than to construction. Serebii's event Pokedex lists Hoppip, Skiploom and Jumpluff, then Sableye, Jirachi, Feebas and Milotic — the exact set the four events with event-only species have added since March.

None of them count toward the 300, and there is no reward ladder on this tab at all. Serebii's framing is that these are obtained only via Special Events, so a window you sat out shows as a gap here — and only here. It cannot cost you the developer room, the diploma or a single one of the 38 recipes. If you are choosing between an event evening and a habitat evening, the completion payoff sits on the habitat side. Our events guide covers which windows are worth clearing anyway.

Quick Action Checklist

• Only the main 300 pays. Basin and event entries are separate tabs with separate rules.
• The reward ladder is 38 recipes: every five entries from 15 to 100, then every ten to 300.
• Serebii's list has 308 rows for 300 numbers — seven numbers are shared by forms and unique variants, so do not double-count Peakychu, Mosslax or Tatsugiri.
• 209 main habitats feed 300 slots. Build for coverage, not one habitat per species.
• Put a night habitat in a cave or underground and a day habitat under bright light to ignore the clock entirely.
• Feed Mosslax a Spicy cooked dish for the appearance-rate boost; it expires at the 05:00 in-game reset, so spend the day on dex work.
• At 300, craft the Neo Dowsing Machine, take a Search follower to the northwestern island of the Sparkling Skylands, and dig.
• After the diploma prints, talk to Smearguru for the dynamic Ditto print.
• Expansion Pass owners have a second, much shorter ladder: six rungs, topping out at a party ball at 50.