Pokémon Pokopia: Top 10 craziest builds in the first week
Pokémon Pokopia is only been available for a week, but eager builders are already showing what they can create with just a few blocks and some nice furniture. And sometimes with far more than just a few blocks.
There are already many top-notch structures in Pokémon – from impressive architecture to video game-inspired designs. Here are 10 of the best we’ve seen so far.
Pokémon Pokopia Cliff House
Pokémon Pokopia teaches you early on that a house is made of specific materials—leaves and bricks, or mortar, stone, and wood. You build it and place it in your surroundings. This game takes a slightly different approach. It’s something that’s integrated into the environment. DirgeofElliot carved staggered rooms into a rock face, laid brick floors, and made it truly cozy for a cave. It’s a clever idea to rethink space utilization and how, with the right approach, you can make everything homey and beautiful.
Beach party
Bleak Beach no longer seems so desolate thanks to this construction project. The barren coastline is being transformed into a real party zone, with promenades, palm trees, and seating areas on one side, and a stage with great lighting and space for an impromptu dance floor on the other. And since being covered in sand from head to toe isn’t much fun, there’s a nice little shower area for rinsing off and a couple of pools to keep the Grass and Water Pokémon comfortable.
Greenhouse café
The YouTuber ZoiBean, who is also a prolific builder and designer for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, has created a multifunctional space with this café. It’s part café, part storage space – with the storage options cleverly disguised as shop fittings rather than the usual “containers with item labels” seen in other buildings.
Furthermore, it partially serves as a greenhouse with a strong focus on nature, thus simultaneously functioning as a collection of Pokémon caves without being intrusive. ZoiBean provides the building plans in the video, so you can build the café yourself if you’re interested.
Real House Build
A solid house can be just as impressive as some flashy new builds, and this one boasts a few extra features that make it stand out even more. For example, the trellis stones in front of the house. “Where did they get those?” you might ask, and the answer is: they didn’t. Reddit user Catsareme simply turned a few fence elements upside down and stacked them on top of each other to make them.
Gamer cave
Investing three hours of building time in this Pokémon project, as user Own-Quail8489, reports, initially seems a bit confusing. But the small starry sky room is just the tip of the iceberg. (Respect to the first-aid station, too! Safety first.) Behind it lies a much larger room with music switches, a stage, toys and plush animals, various play structures – and loads of starry sky bricks. These aren’t exactly easy to find, and even if you were to gather all the bricks from the museum ruins, it probably wouldn’t be enough to create this room. No wonder it took so long.
Moss Lax Grotto
Water is tricky to work with in Pokopia, which makes this almost altar-like grotto with Mosslax at its center all the more impressive. The mysterious statues and the Poké Ball variant reminiscent of Ionic columns are nice details, as is the offering in the foreground. Equally charming, however, is the sunken garden surrounding it, with its colorful grasses and flowering hedges.
Honorable mention is due to this more practical water system, which transforms the Withered Wastes into something like an alpine fairytale village.
Sky Island
The streamer Zackingball spent over five hours building a floating island above the wasteland. “Island” doesn’t really do it justice, though. It’s more like a planned, floating settlement with closely spaced yet well-spaced enclosures, small but not too small plots for each Pokémon, a small grove, flowerbeds, a tiny park, and even room for water features and campfires.
Most of the recipes for this can be found early in the game. So, if you don’t mind building a ladder to the sky and running back and forth with the building materials, you can build it yourself. The complete video with an overview of the island is available on Twitch.
Flower shop
This charming little boutique is a prime example of what can be achieved in a small space. Every corner is perfectly furnished – the small bookshelves and reading nook, the subtle lighting, the lovingly arranged flowers, and the natural, rustic aesthetic. Everything is perfectly in the trendy boho style. And judging by the video, the boutique has become a popular meeting place where Pokémon enjoy the outdoors and relax together. Trendy and functional – it couldn’t be better.
Palette Town
There have been several attempts to recreate Professor Oak’s laboratory and perfectly capture the look of Alabastia. But this recreation of Xenamii comes closest to the original of all. The houses exude that typical Gen 3 chic from FireRed and LeafGreen. Oak’s lab is cozy yet professional. The layout is perfect, and there’s even a small path leading to the meadow just outside of town where you can find Tangela. Now all that’s missing is a Pokémon to truly capture the fascination of technology.
Cathedral
Square_Intern_3380 had a great idea for what to do with all the stained-glass windows lying around – build a Pokémon church. The glass and its kaleidoscope of colors are, of course, the highlights, but small details like the clock on the wall, the books, and the microphone on the pulpit also lend the cathedral a sacred feel. Maybe Pinsir and Heracross can finally get married. And if Game Freak ever introduces Arceus to Pokopia, at least they’ll have a nice place to visit.
