FAQ

This FAQ (Frequent Answers & Questions) answers any common questions you may have while playing *PokeWilds*.

**Helpful Links**

* Beginner's guide
* House Building
* Habitat
* Ledge Creation Guide (by Corn\_Portal#8392)
* Advanced Ledge Creation Guide (by cole-s-warner)
* Item Drops
* Evolution Items
* How to download and install the game on Linux by twitch boomdoom12345678#1990

## FAQ

### Controls

Arrow keys to move
Keyboard Z = A button
Keyboard X = B button
Keyboard Enter = Start button (Can be used to sort moves and items and confirming with the "A Button")
Hold keyboard X to run.
Keyboard A/C = L/R (Shoulder Buttons, allows you to cycle through different materials building options when using Dig or Build.)
### About

#### Q: What is PokeWilds?

A: PokeWilds is a procedurally generated sandbox game based on the Pokémon franchise. Much like Minecraft, the world is divided into biomes and you can find different Pokémon in different biomes. Fully explore the world, build houses, structures, farms, pens for your Pokémon... You decide!

#### Q: What's the current version?

A: PokeWilds is currently in version 0.8.10. There's no ETA on the next update, but the game IS being actively worked on.
A record of versions (including the current version) can be found HERE.

#### Q: Where can I download the game?

A: Check out the downloads channel on the Official Discord. (*Click here for the Invite link to the Official Discord*)

#### Q: Is there multiplayer?

A: Not currently, but 0.9, the next major version of the game, apparently will bring online multiplayer to PokeWilds, alongside a plethora of other features.

#### Q: Do I need an emulator to play?

A: Nope! The game runs natively on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's coded with Java and the libGDX framework.

#### Q: Can I play PokeWilds on mobile?

A: Not currently, sorry. There's plans for it.

#### Q: What are the shiny odds?

A: 1 in 256. This may be adjustable by the user in a subsiquent update.

### Gameplay

#### Q: How many legendaries are in the game?

A: There are currently seven legendaries in the game. More get added with every major update!

#### Q: How do I gather resources?

A: You can use the Field Move Cut, known by most Grass-types. Using it to cut down trees and grass will give you building resources. Additionally, Rock types have the field move Smash which allows you to destroy boulders and get materials as well.

#### Q: How can I build a base?

A: Fighting types know the Field Move Build. After you've gathered resources, you can build walls and a roof to create a house. Inside, you can place furniture by using Build as well. A bed is an essential piece of furniture as it allows you to restore your party to full health quickly and cure status conditions. Building a door between two house tiles will allow you to create side and back doors, too. Show us your builds in wilds-creations! Guide: House Building

#### Q: How do I make a bed?

A: Collect Silky Thread, from Bug-types, and Soft Feathers, from Flying-types, to build a bed.

#### Q: How do I build gates to my pens?

A: Building a door(s) between fence tiles will produce a gate instead.

#### Q: How do I destroy something I built?

A: Use Cut. (Materials used for its construction will be fully refunded recovered automatically.)

#### Q: How do I use Teleport?

A: You can't just Teleport anywhere! You must first build Teleport Beacons in the map, and, when using Teleport, you can select one of the Beacons to be Teleported to it.

#### Q: How do I go to other Worlds?

A: Surf/Fly to the farthest North/South/East/West edge of the map and attempt to go further. This will NOT erase your existing world, nor reset it.

#### Q: How do I get back to my original World? Can I Teleport?

A: You just Surf/Fly back the same direction(s) you came from. You cannot Teleport between worlds but you can Build Teleport Beacons close to the edge of a world(s) to make travel to/from faster.

#### I can't Teleport! Help!

Move around a bit, if you're near the edge of your world's map, move away from the edge a bit before trying again.

#### Q: How do I make my Pokémon stop using its Field Move?

A: Stop and hold X (or whatever key/button is assigned to "B").

#### Q: Why are my Pokémon uncomfortable?

A: Pokémon require their preferred Habitat tile(s)/objects to be happy. Dual-type Pokémon may require the tiles corresponding to both their types. For instance, Chikorita merely needs Tall Grass to be happy, due to its pure Grass-type, while Jumpluff requires both tall grass and trees, as it is a Grass/Flying type. Pokémon will only produce materials when they're happy.

(You also may need to pick up and drop a Pokemon as they will not react to changes in the environment if they were already in the overworld when they occured.)

#### I read a sign and my text changed/is now glitchy!

Walk into tall grass to get an encounter. It's not a bug!

#### World generation is taking over 10 minutes.

There is a rare issue where world generation gets stuck - close the game and retry (the game will prompt you to save when you exit).

#### Q: Is there a Pokédex?

A: The Pokédex will be added on the next major update. There is an out of date but still mostly comprehensive Google Info Sheet. Otherwise, you can simply click on a type in the Wiki like Ghost to view all Pokemon with that type. With each page listing all other types in the game.

#### Q: How do trade evolutions work?

A: In single player mode, trade evolutions are now stone-based evolutions. Here's a with these new evolutions, as well as where to find the stone evolutions: Evolution Items.

### Technical

#### How to configure settings.txt

* Do not include spaces around the "=". Change the values/text to the right of the "=" to change the controls/settings.
	+ Change key mappings using the 'keyboard-' lines. Keys must be capitalized.
	+ muteMusic - set to true to mute all in-game music.
	+ specPhysSplitEnabled - set to true or false to toggle special physical split.
	+ battleAnims - set to false to prevent all battle and evolution animations from playing (WARNING: This will make it impossible to cancel the evolution of a Pokemon.)
	+ textSpeed - set to "inst" to make text appear instantly.
	+ zoom - Increase the value to zoom in closer on the character, or decrease to zoom your view further out.

#### How to restore a save file from backup

1. If the game stops loading your save file (ie it's corrupted), you can try using the save file's backup with contains your second-to-last save. - The backup save is named <game-name>.sav.backup
2. Rename <game-name>.sav.backup to <new-game-name>.sav.zip and extract contents
3. The extracted contents need to be a directory called <new-game-name>.sav/ with game, map0,0 etc files inside
4. Load the new save file (<new-game-name> in the game's menu)

/!\ Please note that in 0.8.5 and onward the backup is already zipped, therefore you only have to rename it and extract it.

#### How to start the game in dev mode (Windows 10 or later)

1. Open the folder containing pokemon-wilds.exe
2. Shift + right-click in the folder and select 'Open powershell window here'
3. Type cmd in the window and press enter.
4. Type pokemon-wilds.exe dev into the window and press enter. Adding angle\_gles20 to the command can also fix the following issues: - OpenGL version-related error messages. Issue where the game doesn't pick up keyboard input.
5. If step 4 didn't work, check the name of your application file, if it's pokewilds.exe then you need to type "pokewilds.exe dev" during step 4.