Pokémon Pokopia’s first patch is out and it mostly just introduces bug fixes to help with some quest progression troubles players were having. The game has only been out for a little under two weeks, and that’s plenty of time for the sickest of sickos to create a laundry list of quality-of-life changes they’d like to see added to the life sim, but you’ll find none of those in this first update.
It makes sense that Pokopia’s first update would be a little underwhelming, as some of the bigger changes fans are asking for, like overhauls to the game’s cumbersome storage system, aren’t going to be integrated overnight. For now, it seems like Game Freak and Omega Force are focused on getting fixes out for game-breaking bugs and some fringe cases of obfuscated quests. Hopefully bigger changes are on the way, such as some kind of tweak to the storage system that lets you locate items you’ve hidden away somewhere that you forgot about. Until then, here are the full patch notes:
Latest update: Ver. 1.0.2 (Released March 17, 2026)
We have implemented improvements to address the following issues:
- During the request “Rock Smash your way to treasure!” in Withered Wasteland, if the player places other blocks over the cracked blocks near Hitmonchan, it becomes difficult to understand how to progress the request.
- During the request “To Snorlax!” in Bleak Beach, if the player places other blocks over the cracked blocks near Snorlax, it becomes difficult to understand how to progress the request.
Additionally, the following issues have been fixed.
If these issues have already occurred in your game, applying this update will resolve them.
- During the request “Help make a home!” in Withered Wasteland, Squirtle may move on top of a tree and become impossible to talk to, preventing progress.
- During the request “Find the Pokémon Center!” in Bleak Beach, if the cracked blocks on the bridge are broken before Professor Tangrowth crosses the bridge, it will become difficult to make progress on the request.
- During the request “Find the Pokémon Center!” in Bleak Beach, a specific sequence of actions may prevent Professor Tangrowth’s bridge repair request from triggering, preventing progress.
- In Rocky Ridges, a specific sequence of actions may prevent the event in which the player meets Rotom from occurring.
- During the request “Clear off the path!” in Rocky Ridges, if the request is triggered under certain conditions, it will become difficult to make progress on the request.
- Spinarak’s type is listed incorrectly in the Pokédex.