Livelier Pokemon adds enhanced animations, behaviors, and abilities to make Pokemon feel more alive and dynamic in the world. Your Pokemon can now apply status effects, provide buffs to players, interact with the environment, and much more!
Pokemon can apply various status effects to entities:
Pokemon apply aura effects to their owner. At base level, effects are level 1, but with increased friendship, they upgrade to level 2.
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Power Spot | Applies Strength |
| Friend Guard | Applies Resistance |
| Serene Grace | Applies Luck |
| Victory Star | Applies Haste |
| Healer / Pastel Veil / Sweet Veil | Periodically clears all status effects on the Owner |
| Magnet Pull | Increases the item pickup radius of the Owner |
Pokemon can apply permanent* status effects on themselves based on their abilities.
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Disguise / Ice Face | Applies Absorption |
| Heatproof | Applies Fire Resistance |
| Swift Swim | Applies Dolphin's Grace |
| Intrepid Sword / Huge Power / Pure Power | Applies Strength |
| Dauntless Shield | Applies Resistance |
| Speed Boost | Applies Speed |
| Slow Start | Applies Weakness and Slowness for 10 seconds |
| Poison Heal | Poison heals instead of dealing damage |
Pokemon with aura abilities apply effects to all valid targets in the area.
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Tablets of Ruin / Beads of Ruin / Sword of Ruin / Vessel of Ruin | Applies Weakness to nearby entities |
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Seed Sower | Increases rate of crop growth |
| Electric Surge / Hadron Engine | All nearby entities are immune to Slowness and nearby Electric Pokemon gain Strength |
| Grassy Surge / Seed Sower | Increases rate of crop growth, entities heal slowly and nearby Grass Pokemon gain Strength |
| Misty Surge | All nearby entities are immune to negative status effects and nearby Dragon Pokemon gain Weakness |
| Psychic Surge | All nearby projectiles stop and nearby Psychic Pokemon gain Strength |
These effects trigger when the Pokemon is attacked by another entity making contact (not from a projectile).
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Rough Skin / Iron Barbs | Damages the attacker |
| Effect Spore / Poison Point / Toxic Debris | Chance to inflict Poison |
| Flame Body | Chance to light attacker on fire |
| Cursed Body | Chance to inflict Mining Fatigue |
| Tangling Hair / Gooey | Chance to inflict Slowness |
| Static | Chance to inflict Paralysis |
| Pressure | Items used to damage the Pokemon will lose durability faster |
| Magic Bounce / Synchronize / Mirror Armor | Status effects will be reflected back to the attacker |
| Aftermath | Will create an explosion on death that does not affect the environment |
| Innards Out | Deals the same damage back to the attacker on death |
Certain Pokemon and abilities grant immunity to specific effects.
| Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Magic Guard / Good as Gold / Full Metal Body | Immune to all status effects |
| Type/Ability | Immunity |
|---|---|
| Poison Types / Steel Types / Immunity | Immune to Poison |
| Electric Types / Limber | Immune to Slowness and Paralysis |
| Flash Fire / Flare Boost | Immune to fire (if not already) and gains Strength |
| Well-Baked Body | Immune to fire and gains Resistance |
| Wonder Guard | Can only be damaged by attacks it would be weak to, but only has 1 hp |
| Queenly Majesty / Armor Tail / Dazzling | Immune to projectiles |
| Bulletproof | Immune to projectiles and explosions |
Special abilities that don't fit into other categories.
| Pokemon/Ability | Effect |
|---|---|
| Ball Fetch | Will retrieve an Owner's Poke Ball that failed to capture a Pokemon |
| Fire Types / Sudowoodo / Bonsly | Will escape to shade during rain and thunderstorm |
| Bad Dreams | Players who sleep nearby will wake up and take damage |
| Unaware | The Pokemon takes fixed damage from all sources |
| Lightning Rod | If lightning strikes nearby it will be redirected to the Pokemon and have no effect |
| Abra | Will randomly teleport around |
| Voltorb/Electrode | Will target nearby players and explode when nearby. Does not trigger on shiny Pokemon |
| Damp | Prevents Creepers, Voltorb and Electrode from exploding |
| Suicune | If Suicune is holding a Golden Apple, it will consume the apple and purify all nearby Zombie Villagers |
Pokemon can summon local weather effects. Duration can be extended with the right "rock" held item.
| Weather | Effect | Summoned By |
|---|---|---|
| Rain | Extinguishes fire and allows Riptide Tridents to be used | Drizzle, Primordial Sea |
| Snow | Slows down and freezes nearby hostile mobs (excluding Stray) | Snow Warning |
| Sandstorm | Damages nearby hostile mobs (excluding Husk) | Sand Stream |
| Sun | Grants nearby players Night Vision | Drought, Desolate Land, Orichalcum Pulse |
| Strong Winds | Grants nearby players Jump Boost and Slow Falling | Delta Stream |
| Clear | Removes the effects of nearby weather | Air Lock, Cloud Nine |
Vanilla Minecraft mechanics modified to incorporate Cobblemon.
You can craft Golurk using Chiseled Polished Black Tumblestone the same way you would build an Iron Golem.
Creepers flee from cat Pokemon, making them safer to have around!
Skeletons flee from dog Pokemon, providing natural protection.
Mining in the overworld has a small chance to spawn a Geodude.