Annoying Pokemon Pokopia Bug Isn't Game-Breaking After All

Pokemon Pokopia is the smoothest-playing Pokemon game in a long time, but a glitch that locked players out of relocating their buildings caused quite a scare before it fixed itself. The Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive quickly became the critically best-received Pokemon title of all time for its adorable presentation and addictive building mechanics. Fan reception to the Pokemon games on Switch and Switch 2 has been mixed, so to see Pokemon Pokopia get so much praise, even if it’s a spinoff, is a good sign for the series.

Pokemon Pokopia is a simulation game best described as a “town builder,” developed by Omega Force, the team behind Dragon Quest Builders 2. Unsurprisingly, Pokopia plays a lot like the Builders games. Combat isn’t the primary focus, construction is done block by block, and the character models are all adorable. In Pokopia, instead of playing as a trainer, you play as a Ditto who wakes up in a world where humans have disappeared. Working together with Professor Tangrowth to rebuild, the player creates habitats for Pokemon in the hopes that humanity will eventually return.

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Pokopia Player’s Relocation Glitch Fixes Itself

On the Pokopia subreddit, user sbronzo shared their story of how they got locked out of Pokopia‘s relocate function that lets players pack up old buildings and move them somewhere else, and in a follow-up post, how things turned out alright after all. After building a house in the Sparkling Skylands that they felt ended up clashing with the environment, they decided to pack it up using a Relocation Kit. However, Pokopia only lets players relocate one building at a time. If they want to relocate another building as well, they’ll need to place the kit with the first building somewhere and have it rebuilt.

Since sbronzo didn’t want the building in the first place, they tried to discard it by throwing the packed-up Relocation Kit into the abyss of the Soaring Skylands. Once they tried to relocate something else, though, they got the same message as before when they threw away the first kit, saying that they couldn’t relocate anything at the moment because they were still “relocating” that initial building. Since the first building and Relocation Kit were thrown somewhere the player couldn’t access, this would’ve wound up locking the player out of relocating another building. That is, until the Relocation Kit appeared safe and sound in their Lost and Found two days later.

In a game like Pokopia, a player’s sense of aesthetics will be one of their primary drivers. It’s why Pokopia fans have built amazing things, only limited by their imaginations. If they don’t like how something looks in one place, they need to be able to remove or at least relocate it. Soft-locking the player out of moving things wouldn’t stop them from progressing, but it would make the game less fun because it would make every placement permanent for structures that can’t be manually broken down. While sbronzo says it took two days for the Relocation Kit to appear in the Lost and Found, it’s a relief that it appeared before they did anything like resetting their save file. Now, Pokopia players can rest a bit easier when dealing with Relocation Kits.