Daycare Garden

❗ This is a 1.12 feature, and has been replaced in 1.16 with Day Cares. This page exists for archival purposes only.

**Daycare Gardens** are the replacement for Ranch Blocks in Obscuros.

❗ **Up to 11 Ranch Blocks can currently be purchased and placed within the Daycare Garden.** For info on how they work, check the Pixelmon Breeding wiki page. Note that breeding environments are disabled and it will take around 12 minutes to get an egg. This is a **temporary fix** due to Daycare Gardens not currently producing eggs or XP as intended. *If you accidentally pick up the Ranch Block and lock your Pokémon inside, you can unlock them by talking to the NPC at /warp Daycare.*

**Features:**

* **Breeding:** Purchase Daycare NPCs and unlock more space for your Pokémon breeding
* **Level-Up:** Purchase & place upgrades to grant Pokémon XP over time
* **Breeding Bonuses:** Purchase & place upgrades to unlock permanent effects to your Daycare Garden such as increasing the chance of egg being found, or even slightly increasing the chance of an egg being shiny or having better IVs
* **Decorating:** Purchase & place decorations to beautify your Daycare Garden, increase its score and get into the leaderboard!
* **Garden-Hopping:** Visit other player's Gardens, check out their Pokémon, and see what they've done with their place.

## Commands

* /warp daycare - visit the Pokémon Square Daycare, which gives Daycare Garden info and allows you to unlock your own Daycare Garden if you have not already
* /daycare - open the daycare menu to enter your Daycare Garden, view the Leaderboard, or open your Daycare Inventory
* /daycare gems - view your Daycare Gems balance
* /daycare visit <name> - visit another player's Daycare Garden
* /daycare leave - leave the Daycare Garden you're currently in, and return to your previous location
* /daycare takealleggs - retrieve all eggs remotely from your Daycare Garden

## Unlocking & Using your Daycare Garden

Each player can unlock their very own Daycare Garden by talking to the NPC inside the Pikachu building at /warp Daycare.
When your Daycare Garden has been unlocked, you can visit it by using /daycare.

At first, there is a **3.3%** chance to get an egg from each pen **every 1 minute**. However, you can increase this up to **15%** if you purchase and place all egg-boosting decor. Note that egg production is currently somewhat inconsistent, so the percentages may not always seem to fire correctly. These percentages were implemented to compensate for the inconsistency, so they may change over time as we evaluate and test the Daycare pens more, and will likely change if egg production becomes more consistent.

When an egg is ready, you'll get a notification in chat. You can see which pens have eggs by checking the NPCs, if they have an egg they will display "Egg Found!" above their head. Each pen only produces one egg at a time, regardless of how many Pokémon are inside.

Note that if the server restarts while you're online and in your Daycare Garden, you may get stuck on the "Logging in..." screen. If this happens, try cancelling and logging back in a couple times. If the issue persists for more than 5 minutes, post in the #bugs-and-issues channel in the Obscuros Discord and a staff member will assist you when available. You can avoid this by being aware of the scheduled restarts and not being online in your garden when they occur.

## Daycare Garden Pens

Each pen has an NPC assigned to it to manage the Pokémon within. Each player starts off with one pen that can contain 4 Pokémon. To unlock the other pens, you will need to purchase their **keys** in the Daycare Garden Shop. Some pens have a different max amount of Pokémon, as stated in the name of the key. The keys are the first items in the shop, so they are easy to find.

After buying a key for a new pen, you will need to place it to unlock the pen. However, if you do not want to keep the key placed, you can send it back to the inventory and the pen will stay unlocked.

## Decorations

Decorations are furniture or blocks that you can purchase and then place in your Daycare Garden. Effect Decorations unlock upgrades for your garden while placed within. Other decorations are decorative only.

Decorations can be purchased from the Daycare Garden Shop. To retrieve or put away decorations, talk to the Inventory NPC or use /daycare inventory. Simply click the item in the menu that you want to pick up or put away. To place items, simply right-click where you want to place it. You can pick it up in your player inventory by shift-left-clicking it.

**❗ WARNING ❗** Any decoration with an inventory (such as chests and boxes) will not save the items within if you pick them up or return them to the inventory. Avoid mishaps by not storing valuables, and emptying them before tidying up. Items lost will not be refunded.

**❗ WARNING ❗** Be careful not to buy or place decorations just before a **server restart**, or your data for the purchase may not be saved properly. We expect a fix for this will be released soon, but until then, be aware of the current time and restart schedule, and do not buy/place decorations within 10 minutes of a restart. Restarts occur at **12am/pm**, **3pm**, **6am/pm**, and **9pm EDT**.

Decorations cannot currently be stacked or organized in the Daycare Inventory after purchase. If you want to keep it organized, it's good to purchase them in an orderly manner.

More decorations, both with effects and decorative-only, will be added in the future. It is also possible that existing decorations may have their effects altered if they are found to be unbalanced.

### Decorations with Effects

You can see what effects a decoration has by hovering over it in the shop or inventory. All decorations with effects are on the first page of the shop for easy access.

Decoration effects stack with each other. For example, each Hay Bale gives 2 XP per minute to Pokémon in the garden. If you buy and place all 10 Hay Bales, your Pokémon will gain a total of 20 XP per minute!

If you no longer want the effect a decoration has to affect your Daycare Garden, simply put it back in the Daycare Inventory. Decorations that are not placed will not affect the garden.

### Scoring and Leaderboard

All Effect Decorations, and more valuable decorative decorations, have a score. The more valuable an item is, the higher its score will be. Players with the 5 highest-scoring Daycare Gardens will be displayed in the leaderboard, accessible from the /daycare menu. You can also check your own score in the menu.

Building blocks do not currently have a score, but it is possible this may change in the future.

Currently, the leaderboard is a little clunky, as it shows all decorations in your own daycare, which obscures your score. This issue has been relayed to the developer, and will hopefully be resolved in the near future.

## Daycare Gems

Decorations may cost either regular PokéDollars or Daycare Gems. Most Effect Decorations require Gems. You can obtain gems in a variety of ways:

* Raid Shop (/warp OutskirtStand)
* Octillery's Vote Shop (/warp Chests)
* Fishing Contest Shop (/warp FishingHamlet)
* Bug-Catching Contest Shop (/warp NationalPark)
* Battle Pass
* Pokémon Snap Contest

Even more ways to obtain Gems will be added in the future.

## Visiting Other Players' Daycare Gardens

You can visit other players' Daycare Gardens with **/daycare visit <name>**. You can also visit the top 5 scoring Daycare Gardens by clicking them in the leaderboard menu.

You can leave via the **/daycare** menu, or by using **/daycare leave**. It will return you to the place you were last.

## Current Bugs/Limitations

* ❗ Be careful not to buy or place decorations just before a **server restart**, or your data for the purchase may not be saved properly. We hope a fix for this will be released soon, but until then, be aware of the current time and restart schedule, and do not buy/place decorations within 10 minutes of a restart. Restarts occur at **12am/pm**, **3pm**, **6am/pm**, and **9pm EDT**.

* ❗ Any decoration with an inventory (such as chests and boxes) will not save the items within if you pick them up or return them to the inventory. Avoid mishaps by not storing valuables, and emptying them before tidying up. Items lost will not be refunded.

* Some Effect Decorations will list in their description that the effect is "per minute". For decorations that affects XP gains, this is true. However, for decorations that affect breeding/eggs, it is actually per 10 minutes.

* Decorations that are more than 1 block tall (such as tall flowers) must be removed by clicking it in the Daycare Inventory. Attempting to remove it manually will cause a visual glitch, but if you do this by mistake you can still remove it via the Daycare Inventory.

* The Leaderboard currently shows all decorations a player has in their Daycare Garden, making it impossible to see the player and score. We expect this will be fixed in a future update.

* If the server restarts while you're online and in your Daycare Garden, you may get stuck on the "Logging in..." screen (This may also occur if you log out while in your Daycare Garden). If this happens, try cancelling and logging back in a couple times. If the issue persists for more than 5 minutes, post in the #bugs-and-issues channel in the Obscuros Discord and a staff member will assist you when available. You can avoid this by being aware of the scheduled restarts and not being online in your garden when they occur.

## Tips

* Use /unbreed <slot> to pay $10,000 to make that Pokémon unbreedable. This is essential for selling BP Pokémon, to avoid other players using the Pokémon for breeding. Selling only unbreedable Pokémon helps breeds retain their value, and keep breeding profitable for players!
* To learn the details of how to get BP Pokémon through breeding, check out Bulbapedia's Breeding page.
* If you don't want your Pokémon to run all around the garden, you can enclose the areas they spawn in with fences or other blocks.