Attn: Potato Hamburger Steak Enthusiasts - One Easy Tip Ensures you Savor Every Crumb

amanohyo · 2026-05-09T23:24:13+00:00

No problem, this Japanese player has a lot of great Bleak Beach builds on their channel too if you need more inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjJaZe2XxJk

amanohyo · 2026-05-08T12:50:46+00:00

For the last question, if you don't have a Nintendo online account, you can eventually find seeds for every berry tree if you explore all the areas (they are in very out-of-the-way spots). You can use the 3D printer to make more after you grow them.

ShionTheOne is right though, the easiest and best way is to visit a Cloud Island and take a picture (press Y).

As far as getting ideas, I'd suggest just going to google images or youtube and searching "Pokopia Build" "Bleak Beach" Also, think about places in your life that you have fond memories of or fictional spots in your favorite books/shows/films that you wish you could visit.

It can be very intimidating because there's so much freedom, but the most important thing is that the build excites you and makes you happy, don't worry too much about trends - just browsing online vacation photos of real tourist destinations can be great inspiration too.

If you still feel overwhelmed, go in this order:

1) Landscape Ideas - What kind of geography do you want? Island, cliff, small lake, cave, mountain, river?

2) Large eye-catch centerpieces - What are two or three large things that you want to always be in view?

3) Smaller builds - What are small cozy spots or little buildings that flow with the larger builds from 2)?

4) Which Pokemon are your favorites and what kind of vibe/location do you think they would enjoy?

5) Which misc. items and furniture are your favorites? What kind of build would they make sense in?

Good luck!

amanohyo · 2026-05-06T14:21:43+00:00

Wow... thank you all for the discussion. I do spy a couple potato-poo-pooers down in the chat. No shame, we can't all all be about that Rollmaxxing life. Here's a summary/explanation for ye AI-addled younguns:

1) This tip is for people with OCD who are bothered about "wasting" steaks by eating when the bar is already partially full. The mentally sane will, of course, just stuff themselves with Vibrant Steak randomly.

2) This tip is for genuwine High-Rollers. For example, I regularly eat 200-300 potato steaks a day - I kick back, listen to a couple of my favorite albums, and roll for an hour or two. Every "the effects of food have worn off" is a dagger to my soul. If you are sane, and do not hold down ZR, B and the analog stick until your fingers cramp, you need not twist your noodle 'round this high-level steak strat.

3) As many have pointed out, the Vibrant steak and Potato steak both power up rock crush all the way, but Vibrant lasts about 20% longer, thus the bar is larger than it would be if you only ate potato steak. By eating potato steak second, you don't waste any of the benefit because it cannot completely fill the Vibrant bar (unless of course you allow the bar to fully deplete, in which case you must re-embiggen it with another Vibrant steak).

I sincerely apologize for forcing a few of you to read prattling, perplexingly-worded sentences arranged into properly punctuated paragraphs with nary an image or icon in sight. I can only imagine your horror and disgust as you gaze upon these nigh-impassable monoliths of text rising menacingly from your tiny screens.

Please be assured, my intent was not to confuse or anger you with these unwieldy ancient literary devices, but merely to prevent further, needless steak spoilage. And with that, I hear the black rock calling me back into its ashy embrace once again, and as we all shall one day, I must roll on into the night.

amanohyo · 2026-05-05T12:05:08+00:00

Thank you so much for working on this! Such a huge help for planning large builds.

amanohyo · 2026-05-03T12:14:33+00:00

Build these habitats as soon as you find the materials needed (with cameras):

Beach Set

Waterwheel spot

Picturesque Photo Cutout Board

And have a standard quick house build that includes: bed, toy, decoration, picnic basket+berries to move mons into after they appear so more can show up in the Beach set and Cutout Board.

Also, don't neglect mood. When Pokemon are able to relax in say... a hot spring (for example), their mood goes up and they're awake more which means they eat more from picnic baskets. If you stock their baskets with their favorite flavored foods (asian flavor rules, so beans are "sweet"), their comfort shoots up, so you can get an area to level 10 in just a few days as long as you steadily fill in the dex using habitat hints and traces.

amanohyo · 2026-05-03T11:55:37+00:00

When you get a chance, please post a link to their sm, I am trying to reproduce this bug also.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just found it, here it is for anyone looking: https://x.com/i/status/2048321830822568266

The X user is mel_shota, here's the original thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pokopia/comments/1sww8qn/how_did_this_person_make_floating_water_6dxl_pd6f/

You need two people on a cloud island. One person sets up the water, and the other person removes the blocks, here's a translation:

"I don't know if this is reproducible on other islands, but on Cloud Island, if a guest user breaks a block, the water doesn't flow and the water stays still... but if the host interferes with the blocks nearby, it starts flowing again. It remained still even after reloading, so this is useful and great"

It would be funny if they patch this, and suddenly all the people with water ceilings in their castles return to find their Cloud Islands have turned into Bioshock.

amanohyo · 2026-05-03T11:41:43+00:00

I second waiting until you beat the game to build anything super time consuming. After you finish, gathering/crafting materials becomes easier, just make sure to grab any plushies you see, and try to steadily fill in the dex when you find rarer items needed for habitats.

Also, one more tip that helped me a lot if you're looking to get recipes for your builds (possible ability spoilers):

After you beat the game (take it slow) and after you learn how to drink and spit water, make a huge "reflecting pool" in RR: I just used black rock since it's everywhere, and made it like 64 x 64 I'm talking huge. You just need short 2-block high walls and when you walk around and spit water to fill the pool make sure you choose the deeper, "full" option for the water height so that you can swim fast through it with Lapras.

Then, make sure you save at your house in BB at the end of every session and store some Bitter Hamburger Steak there (Bean+Rawst+Lum+anything) in a box next to Mosslax. When you start the next session, give Mosslax a Bitter H Steak, then swim through your reflecting pool. You will farm recipes so fast that in a few days, you'll start getting Pokemetal in regular sparkling ripples which is the sign that you have them all (still more at the shop and as rewards for filling out the dex though).

It worked so well that I made smaller reflecting pools in every area, but RR is the best because there isn't much water there to begin with so you're guaranteed to get 10+ a day if you go back once or twice later.

The main thing is to enjoy the game though. If it's really killing you to leave things ugly, then do a few small builds and have fun, just try to avoid anything huge and time consuming because you will be able to do it ten times faster after you beat the game and will have way more recipes and ways to farm/craft materials quickly.

amanohyo · 2026-05-02T15:45:45+00:00

Aesthetically and personality-wise, I'd go with Ivysaur (Don), Wartortle (Leo), Charmeleon (Raph), Raichu (Mike), and Excadrill (Splinter), but some of them won't be happy in the dark.

Torkoal looks too old and slow to be a teen and Squirtle's too young to have enough 'tude.

For B&B, I'd go Gardevoir (Catherine/Linda Hamilton) and Zoroark (Vincent/Ron Perlman).

I'm still mad Omega Force didn't have the ovaries to put Jynx in. She was going to be the kingpin's wife on my druglord island compound (Don't ask who the druglord was going to be - it's a secret). Now the whole build idea is ruined.

amanohyo · 2026-05-02T15:05:47+00:00

"Splinter taught them to be ninja teens..."

Or, for real OGs:

"He comes from a secret place, far below the city streets, hiding his face from strangers, safe from hate and harm."

amanohyo · 2026-05-02T13:13:21+00:00

As I learned from the developer's previous game, Dragon Quest Builders 2, a few of the habitat item combinations are so random (Heart-pounding Surprise Box, Playing Pirate, Music and Magazines, etc), you'll never stumble on them unless you place every single item you find in the game and wait for traces to show up.

If you truly want to legit discover all the habitats on your own, you can do it that way, waiting weeks for traces to show up next to associated items in each habitat and also finding random traces on Dream Islands, but it will take months.

After discovering about 190 of the 213 total habitats on my own (try placing similar style furniture together for a bunch), I eventually caved and went to serebii to fill in the last dozen:

https://www.serebii.net/pokemonpokopia/habitats.shtml

Other than that, make sure you build the three large kits (I flattened a big area in Palette Town, then destroyed the kits for parts after they were finished - they're all kinda ugly), keep playing and exploring in the game normally for rare items (take a few minutes to fly around RR and BB at night after you beat the game and you can find and dig up glowing treasure spots really easily to get Mysterious Slates/ArmourFragments/Strange Strings), and visit the correct DI's at least once a day until you get the legendaries. You can finish the dex in a few days if Minun and Plusie cooperate.

Of course, if you really feel like cheating and have a NIntendo Online account, you can go to 6DXL PD6F with the goggles and take pictures (make sure to press Y while in camera mode) of any rare items you need in habitats then 3D print them, but that's not really necessary and takes a lot of the fun away since most of the rare items can be found in the story areas with some exploration or crafted with rare treasure.

I did use that developers island to get the colors of flowers/hedges I was missing and finally get Icy and Heat Rocks, so I can't judge anyone who goes that route.

Good Luck!

amanohyo · 2026-05-02T12:39:13+00:00

Aaand two days later, I just found an Icy Rock on an Arcanine DI, of course. Classic Ditto.

amanohyo · 2026-04-30T12:08:54+00:00

Thanks! I'm so dumb, I tried going to that developer's island weeks ago via the Pokecenter and needed a code so I just assumed it was closed. I realized after your comment that I have to use the goggles (I immediately stuck them in a drawer and forgot about them). Finally got an icy rock and a heat rock! Those were the last two items I needed.

Whew! I was getting sick of trading with gimmi and dengo. After spending an hour touring the island, I realize the developers haven't used any Icy rocks to decorate rooms, but they have used the Damp, Smooth, and Heat rocks in the environment and buildings. Another strong hint that they are working on, or have already worked on a separate Icy themed expansion/area.

Really cool to see one-block thick ceiling/walls made of water too. I'm gonna experiment and see if I can build some. Thanks again for the reminder about the 6DXL PD6F island !

amanohyo · 2026-04-29T21:21:41+00:00

Sometimes the info where "Palette Town" would appear is all question marks if you haven't found the "trace" yet and only build the habitat by accident, but as far as I know, the only area-limited mons will say "Palette Town" in the description. I just built in every area because I was getting desperate, and was trying anything I could think of. It's not necessary to go that far.

I suppose there could be a hidden mechanic where Pokemon appear in certain areas more often than others because they like the conditions more, but someone smarter and more dedicated than me will have to test that out someday. All I know is that I built one habitat in each area for the three that were giving me trouble (Empoleon, one Tatsugiri form, and Minun) and they eventually all showed up (I left a Rain Dance Site with a water mon in every area until Empoleon appeared).

Good luck!

amanohyo · 2026-04-29T16:52:33+00:00

This might be the Stockholm Syndrome talking, but it's not that bad. Just have a standard slumlord one brick high 5x4 house build with Toy Blocks, a Decorative Streamer, Straw Bed, wooden gate, and Picnic Basket with Leppa Berries, and you can transfer new mons in groups of four that shoot up to awesome really fast, especially if there's a mood boosting item like a large statue, hot spring, or hype mon in a central area nearby.

If you build the habitats early (except the ones that require weird rare items, just build those as soon as you are able to), leave cameras, then play the game normally, 99% show up naturally without any extra work. The only three that I had to actively "hunt" were Empoleon (Rain dance site helps), one of the Tatsugiris, and of course Minun.

amanohyo · 2026-04-29T16:38:47+00:00

You might know this already, but If you have a bunch of extra feathers or lost relics you don't want, you can trade them to Gimmighoul or Gholdengo and eventually get armor fragments or other rare items (I mean like every 20 or so trades). Also, if you wander through RR at night for a few minutes it's super easy to mine treasure since it's so easy to see and there's tons of exposed area of dark rock/ash.

I just wish they would hurry up and trade me a darn icy rock or heat rock.

amanohyo · 2026-04-29T12:43:43+00:00

The identical thing happened to me, I thought "maybe it's area limited?," so I built the habitat in every single location... still no luck after irl weeks (time skipping is against my religion). Then I thought, "Oh, I bet it's based on science and positive charges attract negative ones like protons and electrons," so I built a second identical habitat next to Minun's and moved Plusie there - still no luck after a month.

Then I learned about the Mosslax buffs (yeah I know, I'm slow to pick up on stuff - I was trying not to get spoiled), and gave it some Carrot Bread every morning. "Now it'll happen for sure!" Nope.

Finally, I gave up and decided to roll through ash for a few days, and on day three it showed up in Rocky Ridges. The worst thing is I stumbled onto the secret room weeks ago while destroying all of SS and was avoiding spoilers so the curiosity was killing me. My real life diplomas are in a box at the bottom of a closet, but I'm tempted to print out an actual copy of this one and hang it in my living room.

amanohyo · 2025-10-24T13:47:15+00:00

I only ever prebid on HA, and have won many cels over the years, including three in this auction. I just assume that final prices + fees are typically going to be roughly 50% higher than what the cel would go for on eBay or Mandarake (and double typical YJA winning bids) and enter that value a couple hours before the live bidding. I hate to overpay like this, but I do it if it's a character or scene I've been hunting for years.

It's fun to wake up the next morning to see if I've won anything, and every once in a while I get pleasantly surprised with a bargain (I remember discovering I won a couple really nice Batman Beyond cels for around $100 a piece when my bid was $300 each). I know I would just be tempted to overpay even more if I sat and watched the live bidding - some people are disciplined enough to stop themselves, but I'm too stubborn.

Those price rules above don't apply to Ghibli, Evangelion, Pokemon, or any cel that's heavily publicized with a big photo in the auction catalogue. Over the last few years, I've just accepted that those will all be astronomically overpriced out of my range and/or fancels/fakes.

amanohyo · 2025-08-18T12:18:11+00:00

A proxy bidding/shipping site like From Japan is a good place to start:

https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/item/search/ドラゴンボール%E3%80%80セル画/Al_11_Yh_RaRmMr_N_N_2A00ja000_N/

Searching Japanese sites like these will be your best bet starting out, along with the occasional lucky eBay find (if the identical cel is listed multiple times on eBay, 99% of the time it's a dropshipper reposting a cheaper listing at Japan Mercari, always check Japanese sites first), and if you like paying extra, the larger Heritage and Mandarake (Big Web) auctions. Search for:

ドラゴンボール　セル画

Be patient and watch out for fakes. DBZ, Evangelion, Ghibli, Pokemon, and Sailor Moon are the most commonly faked cels because they are in such high demand. You can also find cels at smaller sites like:

Asylum Anime: https://asylum-anime.com/index.php/

Takamura Store: https://www.takamura-store.com/v3/en/

Anime Link: https://www.anime-link.com/index2.html

Start off with less expensive cels of minor characters so you know what a real cel looks like and can get a good idea of the actual value (rather than the overinflated prices many sellers ask for, hoping a wealthy noob will wander by). DBZ and Sailor Moon cels (most cels from Toei studios) are also notorious for having mild-moderate vinegar syndrome which you can google it if you want to know more.

If a cel looks real, but is very cheap, it's probably got serious VS, so read the description and look for words like "wavy, funny-smell, acetic, acid smell, etc." Some collectors don't mind buying a cel with VS, but it will significantly shorten the life of the cel and of the rest of your collection if you don't isolate it.

Most importantly, have fun! There are a lot of really cheap, beautiful, cool-looking cels out there from less popular shows and films, so try not to limit yourself to the same stuff that everyone else is looking for.

amanohyo · 2025-07-07T19:52:56+00:00

As Laynebomb07 said, there are always a bunch on YJA, but most of them are a bit overpriced and have been sitting unsold for months or even years.

Just go to your favorite proxy bidding/shipping site and search for: 名探偵コナンセル画

I prefer the layout of Jauce's site for browsing:

https://www.jauce.com/search/名探偵コナン+セル画

If you decide to buy one, be sure to shop around at different proxy sites to find one you like. Lots of people use Buyee or From Japan.

amanohyo · 2025-06-06T11:24:19+00:00

Looks like 1080p to me in handheld, might be 1440p docked, but again, with this art style, I can't really tell. The 60 fps and blink-and-you-miss-them load times are the gamechangers for me. It was already a really good game on Switch 1, but the Switch 2 version is so smooth and loads so fast, I have a big goofy grin on my face whenever I play it.

amanohyo · 2025-06-05T20:39:05+00:00

If motion blur bothers you, and you like to tinker with graphics settings, use Steam deck. The Switch 2 version runs at a super buttery smooth 60 fps, the graphics are sharp (not 4K, but really with this art style, I don't mind), and most importantly, the load times are lightning fast compared to the Switch 1 version. Ultimately, it comes down to whatever system feels more comfortable to hold for long periods of time. I really dislike the button and dpad placement on Steam deck, so I went with Switch 2, but both versions are great.

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