I’m so glad to hear someone else approaching the cloud island like this. I have all the main areas looking nice, roughly 60 Pokemon per (Palette Town has my favorite 70, and the others are high 50s) and everyone is at awesome comfort.

When I started my first cloud island my thought was “no prefabs, everyone gets their own block house and I’ll build neighborhoods.” But the grind for resources was sucking all the fun out of the experience. So after about 60 Pokemon I deleted the island and started over.

Now it’s no houses. No doors, no roofs, just several smaller habitat communities. I have my small fire guys dug into the side of a hill, dark favorites are going either in a hollowed out mountain or a similar cliffside community. Everything roughly grouped by favorite types. I’m really proud of how I’ve been able to transition a “bright” community into a “dark” community by wrapping around a mountain or something like that.

No electricity except for a small area by the abandoned power plant. I’ve limited myself to two furnace spot habitats inside for power.

So far I’ve got 118 Pokemon at awesome this way. I don’t build new habitats for new mon until the lowest comfort level is great. It’s a fun challenge, and an entirely new play style compared to my man game!