New Player Guide

# **Guide for new players**

## Creating an account:

After downloading the game here. You can open the game and will see the login screen.

After clicking 'new user?', choose your name, password & starting appearance with several different hair styles and clothing options.

Once you are happy with your sprite and after ensuring that your name does not break any of the rules, agree to the terms of use, then click register. After which you will be able to login and start playing the game.

## Side Icons:

#### Time of Day

In the top right corner, you can see the server time. Server time is in UTC.

PBO has day cycles of 12 hours. So every 12 hours, dawn, day, dusk, night happens.

6:00-11:59 is daytime, 12:00-17:59 is nighttime, 18:00-23:59 is daytime again & 00:00-5:59 is nighttime again. Hovering over the time will also show whether its day or night.

Day and night have specific spawns, as well as some Pokémon require specific time conditions to evolve.

1. Eevee: Umbreon will be the evolution if Eevee is leveled up with happiness during the nighttime, and Espeon will be the evolution if the level up occurs during the daytime.
2. Alolan/Galarian forms: If a Pokémon doesn't have a base Alolan/Galarian form, you can get the Alolan/Galarian form here by evolving it at night. (eg; Koffing, will become Weezing if evolving in daytime, where it will be Galarian Weezing if nighttime. Galarian Slowbro has Galarian Slowpoke as base form, so regular Slowpoke will only turn into regular Slowbro.
3. Rockruff:
	* Lycanrock's Midday form will be obtained by evolving a Rockruff during the daytime.
	* Lycanrock's Midnight form will be obtained by evolving a Rockruff at nighttime after the first hour. (13:00-17:59 and 01:00-05:59)
	* Lycanrock's Dusk form will be obtained if evolving a Rockruff in first hour of nighttime. (12:00-12:59 and 00:00-00:59)

#### Map

Under the clock, is the map. To unlock the it, you must advance the story quests until you receive the map item:

* For Sinnoh, you'll get it after giving the parcel to Barry in Jubilife.
* For Jvaloh, the map is obtained after showing Aunt May the Family Amulet.

Besides seeing where you are, you can also see where a swarm is happening.

Inside the map interface, you can check what Pokémon spawn on the map you are currently in. The image is replaced with a silhouette overlaid with a '?' if you haven't encountered the Pokémon before.

       There are also some icons to show how to encounter them.

* Top right will show what time of day they appear
	+ A sun: day time spawn
	+ A moon: night time spawn
* Bottom left will show how to encounter it
	+ Grass: move through grass
	+ Fishing rod: fish near (or on) water
	+ Surf wave: surf on water

#### Donator Store

The Donator Store is the shop where you can spend gems. Gems are PBO's premium currency.

Server wide boosts, membership, mounts, outfits, premium gamepass, etc. can all be purchased in the Donator Store.

## Settings:

The settings are divided in 4 categories:

1. Gameplay: Several options to change settings affecting the gameplay including language, toggling following Pokémon, toggling catch animations, etc.
	* *Note: Disabling other players can help against lag when playing on low end device/internet.*
2. Sound: All settings involving sound. Includes disabling battle music and other sounds.
3. Graphics: Here you can find the all settings related to graphics. UI scaling, zooming in & out, toggling full screen.
	* *Note: Disabling dynamic lighting can help in caves & together with the weather & particles effect, has the most influence on performance on low end devices.*
4. Hotkeys: Adjustable hotkeys for certain actions.
	* *Note: Every action has to be 1-to-1 key to action as to not break the rule against using macros.*

## Sidebar (bottom left)

#### Trainer Card

The Trainer Card consists of 5 tabs. You can check your own by clicking the icon, or check other players' trainer cards by clicking their sprite & selecting show trainer card.

* Player Info tab: Shows player specific stats that are visible by everyone. These include join date, Pokédex progress, and pvp wins and losses.
* Pokéball tab: Shows the current team the player is holding. Can be disabled in settings under gameplay, 'Show trainer card', as to not show team for pvp/tournaments/dynamax raids/etc.
* Badges tab: Shows all the player's badges, can toggle between regions by clicking the region.
* Journal tab: Here you can type whatever message you want. You can even use colors by typing the color between [ ] in caps.
	+ *E.g.: [GREEN] for green text.*

1. The last tab is different when checking on yourself or when checking on others.
	* On yourself: Here you can change your look by equipping decoration items gained in-game.
		+ Looks can also changed be changed in the bag.
	* On others: You can view other player's achievements.

#### Bag

The Bag is where all items the player collects are stored.

* A search function can be found at the bottom of the bag window. This will search the current tab for the specified item.

* 5 quick use slots are available to use as you like. You can access them via the hotkey (standard ctrl+1-5) or by using the quick use wheel by clicking yourself.

The bag is divided in multiple parts:

1. General: Several items can be found here, such as;
	* Items that are used outside of combat like lures, blaze radars, repels, shiny trackers, etc.
	* All held items except berries.
	* Story items.
	* Unopened packs like costume packs, gem packs, etc.
	* Sellable items like gold nugget, star piece, etc.
	* Evolution items.
2. Pokéball: Shows all your pokéballs.
3. Medicine: Shows all your usable battle items, including berries, potions, revives. Also houses ability changing items like, IV Randomizers & IV Potions.
4. Machines: HM's, TM's & TR's are stored here.
5. Miscellaneous: Houses your currencies other than cash. It also holds chests and safari tickets.
6. Customisations: Houses mounts and costume items.
7. Red trashcan: You can drop unwanted items by dragging items to this red bin. You'll be asked how many & if you are sure you want to drop.

#### Friends

Friends is where you can add friends to interact and play with. The friends menu also allows you to see when those who are added to it are online, as well as allows for easy messaging by clicking the chat bubble.

Add friends by clicking their player sprite in game then clicking "Send friend request"

Doubles as the blocked list as well. Blocking someone will remove the ability to whisper each other. Access the block list by clicking the red 'X'

#### Crew

Crews are an important part of PBO and contain a lot of helpful features such as the Crew Bank and Crew Skills. You may join any existing crew that invites you, or you can create your own.

#### Trade House

The Trade House is where all trading takes place. Both Pokémon and items can be traded on the Trade House.

#### Achievements

Some achievements give rewards, also doubles as the leaderboard. You can see the top 10 players server wide on several statistics including shiny hunter, shiny collector, ultra rare fainter, max Dynamax damage and many many more. The top 10 can be filtered by daily, weekly, monthly or all-time.

You can see your own placement and amount by hovering over the trainer icon next to period filter.

#### Ranked Battles

For more info on Ranked Battles see this guide on ranked battles.

#### Pokédex

The Pokédex shows every Pokémon from generation 1-9 and their move sets and abilities they have in-game. Not every Pokémon in the Pokédex is currently available in PBO.

## Sidebar (top right)

### Help:

Shows a good overview of several helpful things. Including link to the official website & discord on the bottom.

### Roaming Tracker:

Shows all roaming pokemon, you unlock them while going through story (or they are in a timed event, like regice on the picture).

### Luck Protection:

Shows your progress towards luck protection. Encountering wild pokemon on maps with UR/legendary available, increases your progress. Fainting wild mons doubles this progress.

Once at 100%, it will say 'Activated' & double the encounter rate towards that rarity. It always resets once finding an UR/legendary for their respective rarities.

### Quest Tracker:

Helps with your story progression. Isn't meant as a full walkthrough, that is on the forum (Official Sinnoh Walkthrough; Official Jvaloh Walkthrough; Player Made Sinnoh Walkthrough (PT); ]Player Made Jvaloh Walkthrough (PT); ]Player Made Jvaloh Walkthrough (ENG)).

The quest tracker helps a ton when not playing for a while and coming back. But also helps a lot when a little stuck on what to do next.

### Events:

Shows the next upcoming time each event happens including a timer (which is rounded down, so 1 hour and 58 minutes will show as 1 hour).

Full event schedule is on the discord.

### VS Seeker:

A feature that you unlock during story (is not colourized before you get the vs seeker in the story). Gives an overview of your level, the NPC's you can fight & their locations.

You also use this to reset it. Full explanation on vs seekers you can find here.

### Fishing Rod:

Shows your current fishing level aswell as your progress to the next level.

Battery shows how much you can fish untill you have to repair it. More info on fishing is in the fishing guide.

### Daily Objectives:

Shows several things you can do for extra rewards. Resets daily at midnight server time.

### Gamepass:

Shows your progress in the monthly gamepass and place to be to claim the rewards.

Right side shows what you get with the basic gamepass (bought from any pokémart ingame for 10K f), left side shows what you get with the premium gamepass (1K gems in gem shop). The premium gamepass automatically unlocks the basic one.

More info on gamepass is here.

### Repel:

Unlocked when using repel item. Doesn't do anything except showing you have it activated. You can stack repel items in this game, getting more than 250 steps before needing to refresh.

### Experience Priest:

Unlocked when server has a total of 100.000 F donated to the /priest\_exp. For a full hour, all experience gains are doubled.

Hovering over it shows when it ends.

### Swarm:

Unlocked when a swarm is happening, either by someone using a swarm flute or an automatically triggered one by the server.

Clicking the button shows which map(s) have the swarm happening & what pokemon are in that swarm.

Hovering over shows when it ends.

The possible spawns on swarms are listed in the spawn lists on the forum. Sinnoh Spawns (outdated on swarm pokemon & levels); Jvaloh does not have them listed (yet)

\*Enter example picture of swarm\*

### Membership:

Unlocked when you activated membership from the gem store. Hovering over shows when it ends.

More info on membership is here.

### Lures:

Unlocked when a lure is used. When clicked, shows where there are lures activated & when they end.

A lure increases the odds of rare & higher rarity pokemon encounters with +25%/+50%/+100% when 1/2/3 lures are active on a map for an hour.

\*Enter example picture of active lures\*

### Blaze Radar:

Unlocked when you used the blaze radar item from bag. When clicked, shows how many encounters you have left before it expires (in chat as a system message).

A blaze radar prevents you from fainting/fleeing from a shiny/ultra rare/legendary pokemon when encountered within 3000 encounters of the activation, buyable in any pokemart for 3000 F.

When you try fleeing/using any move on a shiny/ur/legendary, will trigger a captcha (4 digit code) you have to enter before being able to do anything else. After the captcha, you can still faint it, blaze radar won't make the pokemon survive a lethal hit.

In Progress Experience Boosts:

An overview of all used experience boost items ('global experience boosts') & their end times.

They stack on top of each other.

### Dynamax:

When clicked, shows the damage everyone dealt to the dynamax mons (your own damage is repeated on the bottom). Can scroll down to see past the top 11.

Full explanation on the dynamax event is in the PVE guide.

Several player made guides on dynamax & can be found on the forum under player made guides, mine is more teambuilding here. This one (PT) has more info on the dynamaxed pokemon themselves.

### Crew wars:

When clicked, shows the crew holding the base currently.

Under that, shows the win/loss & score for every crew in the crew wars.

Full explanation on crew wars is here.

Screenshot of the maps in crew wars are here.

### Fish Competition:

When clicked, shows top 30 in the event with the weight of their heaviest fish next to it. Different colours making the reward tiers clear.

Full explanation on bug competition is on the PVE guide.

### Bug Competition:

Shows top 30 in the event with the amount of pokemon they caught, the amount of competition balls they used & the score they got. Different colours making the reward tiers clear.

Full explanation on bug competition is on the PVE guide.

## Quick Assign:

The Quick Assign Menu can be accessed by clicking on yourself.

Items you put in the quick assign menu in the bag will show up alongside all the HMs you own, the emotes you can use and the mute sounds button.