Pokemon Pokopia’s first patch is on the way, according to a recent Nintendo blog post. The update will squash a number of bugs that prevent players from making progress during certain quests.
Specifically, a bug that prevents players from talking to Squirtle about building a home in “Wasteland Wilderness” and a bug that prevents Professor Tangrowth from following the player in the “Bleak Beach” request “Find a Pokemon Center!” will soon be addressed. Nintendo says the update will fix these issues for all players, including those who have already encountered them and are currently softlocked.
It seems that most of the issues the update aims to fix are the result of player freedom, as Nintendo couldn’t predict every possible way players might approach an objective. For example, the bug preventing Professor Tangrowth from following the player only occurs if the player has destroyed the cracked blocks in the bridge before Professor Tangrowth has crossed it.
Nintendo hasn’t shared exactly when Pokopia’s first patch will go live, but the blog post says the update “will be released soon.” The full patch notes are listed below, but as the original blog post is in Japanese, they’ve been translated to English via machine translation and may contain errors (via Eurogamer).
Known issues
- When requesting “Let’s build a home!” in “Wasteland Wilderness” Squirtle moves up a tree and cannot be spoken to, preventing the request from progressing.
- In the “Bleak Beach” request “Find a Pokémon Center!”, if you destroy the cracked blocks on the bridge before Professor Tangrowth crosses it, it will be difficult to progress with the request.
- When performing the “Find a Pokémon Center!” request in “Bleak Beach,” if you follow certain steps, the event to repair the bridge in the quest will not occur, and you will not be able to progress with the request.
- In “Rugged Mountain Town,” if you follow certain steps, the event where you encounter “Rotom” will no longer occur.
- When the request “Let’s clean up the roads!” in “Rugged Mountain Town” occurs under certain circumstances, it becomes difficult to progress with the request.
- The type of “Spinarak” in the Pokédex is incorrect.
Planned improvements
- In the “Wasteland Wilderness” request “Break the rocks with a Rock Smasher!”, if you place another block in the position of the cracked block near the “Onix”, it will be difficult to understand how to proceed.
- In the “Bleak Beach” request “Take the Professor with you!”, if you place another block in the position of the cracked block near “Snorlax”, it will be difficult to understand how to progress.
Future plans
- An update to correct the above will be released soon. Even if the problem has already occurred, applying this update will resolve it. We will continue to investigate any other issues not mentioned above.