Discover everything you need to know about all materials in Pokémon Pokopia, including how to get them.
Materials are the basic items that are collected in the world and used for crafting, building furniture, and constructing structures on Pokémon Pokopia. Locating them can be challenging, as they cannot be found in only one area.
You can either pick them up from the ground, use Pokémon moves, or process the raw materials to get what you want. Getting your hands on multiple materials helps you progress and complete specific quests. They are also mainly used for increasing Pokémon comfort and unlocking features in your base.
What are the materials in Pokémon Pokopia?
Materials are the raw resources in Pokémon Pokopia that you found processed while exploring the world. They are used mainly for crafting purposes or completing specific quests. Sticks, Leaves, and Stones are the basic resources that you can get right after entering the world.
Materials can create items like a Straw Bed, Log Table, Log Chair, Bookshelves, Campfires, and more at the workbench. These crafted items are crucial for decorating your town and increasing Pokémon comfort. Some materials are required to build things like Building Kits, Storage Boxes, Town infrastructure, and more.
You placed the crafted furniture inside habitats to boost the comfort level, unlocking new features and making Pokémon happy. Papers are mainly needed for building projects and for some quests.
How To Collect Materials
The game allows you to gather resources in multiple ways. You can collect different materials by picking them up from the ground, using Pokémon moves, using Pokémon abilities, breaking resources, and processing raw materials.
Pick Up Materials from the ground
The simplest way to get your hands on the materials is by picking them up from the ground. You can find multiple basic items scattered all around the world. Walk towards the material and press the Y button to collect it. Holding this button allows you to gather multiple nearby items quickly. You can collect items like Stones, Leaves, Sticks, and loose resources from the ground.
Use Pokémon Moves
Using the specific Pokémon moves allows you to spawn many materials around the world. Cut, Rock Smash, and Leafage are the major abilities that you must use to gather more resources. Use the Cut move to get leaves from grass and small logs from wooden objectives. You need to equip the move Cut, stand near the objective, and press ZR to cut the object.
The Rock Smash ability allows you to gather materials like Stone, Ore, Squishy Clay, and more. The process of using this ability is also the same as that of Cut. The major purpose of using this ability is to unveil hidden materials inside rocks or blocks. Leafage is used to create grass patches that later can be cut or help create habitats.
Explore the World
Most of the materials can be found by exploring different areas. Materials inside Poké Ball collectibles are scattered around maps. You can also find some resource nodes like clay blocks, ore deposits, or other objects. All the materials can’t be found in only one region, so you have to explore other zones to get your hands on more items.
Process the Materials
Some raw materials cannot be used directly in Pokémon Pokopia, as they’re processed by Pokémon to create usable crafting materials. Lumber, Bricks, Glass, or Metal Ingots are the perfect example of the items that you gain by processing the raw materials. The common way to process materials is by asking a Pokémon to refine them.
The Pokemons come with a specialty that lets them convert the resources into useful items. Make sure to collect the raw materials first and then find a Pokémon with the correct specialty. Speak with the Pokémon and choose “Look at this” to provide the materials. It will then process the material and refine it after a while. You can obtain the 5x Lumber by processing 1x Small Log via Chop specialty.
All Materials in Pokémon Pokopia
| Materials | How To Get |
| Honey | Inspect sparkling flower beds Combee in its habitat |
| Sturdy stick | Collect while exploring Use a cut on wooden objects Cacturne in its habitat |
| Stone | Picked up while exploring Use Rock Smash to destroy the blocks |
| Leaf | Use Cut on tall grass and vines Venusaur in its habitat |
| Small log | Cut down worn lumber or trees Haxorus in its habitat |
| Vine rope | Use Cut on vines to obtain it Bellsprout and Weepinbell drop it in their habitat |
| Glowing mushrooms | Obtained from inside the secret caves |
| Twine | Destroy the textile garbage or cut cobwebs. |
| Sea glass fragments | Obtained from muk-covered tiles on Bleak Beach |
| Seashell | Explore the shoreline of Bleak Beach. |
| Nonburnable garbage | Explore the Bleak Beach |
| Squishy clay | Break down clay blocks in Onix’s cavern and on Bleak Beach. |
| Fluff | Mareep and Flaffy drop it in their habitat. |
| Wastepaper | Explore the Sparkling Skylands |
| Copper ore | Destroy Copper ore blocks in Ridge mines. |
| Iron ore | Break down Iron ore blocks in the Rocky Ridge mines. Provide non-burnable garbage to the Recycle specialty Pokémon. |
| Gold ore | Destroy Gold ore blocks in the Ridge mines. |
| Pokemetal fragment | Find Pokemeta ore blocks in the Withered Wasteland mines and Sparklin Skylands and destroy them. |
| Rare Pokemetal fragment | Breaking Pokemetal blocks the Withered Wasteland Mine. |
| Crystal fragment | Break down large crystals in the Rocky Ridge mines. |
| Lumber | Use the Pokémon with Chop Specialty to process small logs. |
| Brick | Use Pokémon with Burn specialty to process Squishy clay. |
| Copper ingot | Smelt Copper ore in the furnace. |
| Iron ingot | Smelt Iron ore in the furnace. |
| Gold ingot | Smelt Gold ore in the furnace. |
| Pokemetal | Smelt Pokemetal fragment in the furnace. |
| Rare Pokemetal | Processing a Rare Pokemetal fragment into a smelting furnace. |
| Glass | Smelt sandstone or sand in a furnace. Obtained by breaking the broken windows. |
| Paper | Provide Wastepaper to Pokémon with the Recycle specialty. |
| Armor fragment | Break down glowing spots. |
| Stardust | Explore Dream Islands to find it. |
| Red paint | Find a Pokémon with the Crush specialty and give a Leppa Berry. |
