Game Updates

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Patchnotes

Campaign Changes

• Players now start with a Razz Berry (Quickstart starting items unchanged).

General Changes

• The Campsite Node now has a different trade pool and always offers consumables.
  • Trade offers increased from 2 to 3.
  • The first two trades are always two different common berries.
  • The third trade is always a rare consumable.
• Discarded moves drawn from Bottle Caps, Training Targets, Hidden Spots, Keepsake charged effects and Shrine events are now placed on the Pokémon discard piles to be eligible as reward from the Ancient Wisdom shrine events.
  • Moves generated in NPC parties are not discarded to the Pokémon discard piles.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Some bugfixes and discussed QoL changes.

Patchnotes

Campaign Changes

• Losing a badge battle now grants players a compensation to not fully lose a whole turn worth of progress.
  • Players may choose one reward (each) from two different compensations:
    • One of: 2 Journey Points, all Tier 1 Apricorns, 1 Star Piece
    • One of: 1 Oran Berry, 1 Lum Berry, 1 Enigma Berry
  • In addition, players gain following compensation based on the badge type:
    • Gym: 1 Bronze Bottle Cap
    • Titan: Half (rounded up) of the used Titan Shards
    • Star: Half (rounded up) of the used Star Emblems
• All Ability Patches in evaluation rewards have been replaced with Silver Bottle Caps.
• Titan Pokémon cannot spawn with Lum Berries and Razz Berries anymore.

General Changes

• The Special Hidden Spots at the start of the game contain more Silver Bottle Caps and fewer Ability Patches.
  • Players are in need of moves more than abilities, so some changes have been made to make Bottle Caps more available
• When closing an anomaly, the corresponding player now receives 1 Shiny Razz Berry.
  • This is currently the only way to gain Shiny Razz Berries. 
  • Shiny Razz Berries add 1 critical hit to capture rolls if the initial roll was not enough.
  • Shiny Razz Berries have the Ripened modifier and force a Dry flavour in the Berry Mixer.
• Increased the bonus requirements for the Heavy Ball from max. 4 initiative to max. 6 initiative.
• Decreased the base dice of Beast Ball from 5 to 4 but increased the added dice value from 2 to 3 against Legendary Pokémon.
  • This is just to bring it more in line with other conditional rare Poké Balls.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue with the Eco Infusion (Eco Essence Keepsake) that caused it to apply the wrong trait.
• Fixed special Ruined Treasure cards that did not have their effects in the description of the cards.
• Removed left-over tokens on the board from internal testing.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

This is the last patch planned for Season 0.
All follow-up patches will be bug-fixed only and then we'll be back for the full release in november!

Patchnotes

Map Changes

• Added some elevation to the north east of Medali
• Various trees and reefs have been repositioned.
• Legendary Shrines are 33% more likely to generate a Legendary Pokémon matching the shrine's types.

Campaign Changes

• A successful Titan Pokémon capture now awards the player with 3 additional Journey Points and 2 Star Pieces
  • In COOP and GROUPS mode, all group members gain 2 Journey Points and 1 Star Piece instead.
• A successful battle against a Star Captain now awards the player with a Flavour Mint that contains an economy trait.
  • The trait can be: Tasty, Shooting Star, Fetch, Value, Lucky or Alchemy
  • In COOP and GROUPS mode, all group members gain such a (random) Flavour Mint, but cannot gain the Alchemy trait.
• The difficulty of early game Team Star Ambushes has been decreased.
• Titan Pokémon now have a set initiative value per acquired Titan Badge:
  • Starting at 6, then increasing to 7, 8, 10 and 12.

Held Item Changes (1.1.4b)

These changes are temporary to see how they feel. Feedback appreciated. Main goal of these changes are better interactions with and against very speedy and very bulky Pokémon, as well as adjusting underused items

• Tricky Charm has been removed.,
• Life Orb has been removed.,
• Safety Goggles has been removed.
• Lagging Tail has been added: The holders initiative is set to 1.  At the end of the opponent's turn (if the holder was attacked this turn), you may disable this item for the remainder of the battle to half (rounded up) the current initiative of the attacker (for the rest of the battle).
• Punching Glove has been added: The attack strength of the holder's first move each turn is increased by 1 if the holder's initiative is higher than the initiative of the active opponent and the active opponent has more than half their health remaining.
• Binding Band has been added: The active opponent cannot switch out and when the holder faints, the active opponent cannot flee. Decrease the initiative of the active opponent by 2 (for the rest of the battle) whenever the holder is switching out.
• Wide Shield has been adjusted and now also contains (a buffed) Safety Goggle effect: The holder only takes half damage (rounded up) from self-inflicted damage (including battle fatigue) and status effects (Confused and Poisoned). The holder and it's neighbours (in your party) cannot be targeted by opponent's effects and damage while not being the active Pokémon in battle.
• Magic Charm has been adjusted to not force the effect anymore and now also add a status symbol: Add 1 status symbol to all attack rolls of the holder while the holder is inflicted with a status effect. If the holder has any status effects during your turn, you may disable this held item for the remainder of the battle to heal all status effects from the holder, then inflict all healed status effects on the active opponent, if possible.
• The Keepsake Metal Coat's bonus to equip 2 Tricky Charms has been replaced with being able to equip 2 Lagging Tails.

QoL

• The following On Demand items now guarantee that the first generated card matches the learnable type and tier (up to Strong) of a random Pokémon in your team:
  • Bronze Bottle Cap, Silver Bottle Cap, Ability Capsule, Ability Patch
  • This does not apply to Star Piece exchanges, found Bronze Bottle Caps and Ability Capsules in Hidden Spots or Shrine events.
• The Rulebook has been expanded with the following information:
  • Battle Keyword: Switched into battle
  • Battle Keyword: Cannot be copied
  • Habitat information to find the correct locations for your encounters
  • New Titan and Star Badge rewards (mentioned above)

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the Dalizapa Standing to mis-generate bonus events under certain circumstances.
• FIxed Flabébe's evolution cost.
• Fixed Latios having the wrong move.
• Fixed Partner Naganagel's stat total (25 to 22) and adjusted Partner Poipole's evolution cost (15 to 12)
• Attempted to fix an issue that caused the Berry Mixer to sometimes not reward items.
• [1.1.4a] Fixed an issue that might cause a wrong anomaly to spawn when the artifacts Metal Ionizer or Rough Jewel are activated.
• [1.1.4a] Fixed an issue that caused the Treasure Collector Node to not generate trades when playing with the Generic Trades nuzlocke rule.
• [1.1.4a] Fixed an issue that caused the first evaluation to scored higher than expected when playing COOP or GROUPS mode with 4 or more players.
• [1.1.4b] Fixed Training Target not generating cards under certain conditions since the 1.1.4 patch.,
• [1.1.4b] Fixed locations of Warped Apricorn Trees that spawn by the Folklore Ancient Murals,
• [1.1.4b] Removed the possibility to exchange Star Pieces for Ruined Treasure cards when playing with the Sealed Away (R) and (RB) nuzlocke ruleset.,
• [1.1.4b] Fixed the colouring of Area Zero tiles to match the new habitat standard colours.,
• [1.1.4b] Added a missing tile in the north which caused a tile floating in mid air.,
• [1.1.4b] Fixed encountered Legendary Pokémon during Bonus events breaking the usual following discovery.,
• [1.1.4b] Fixed the modifier Utopia which was able to bypass the Frozen Timeline event restrictions.,
• [1.1.4b] Fixed the Keepsake Balm Mushroom which did not apply the Exotic modifier to the Berry Mixer correctly with its Overworld I effect.,
• [1.1.4b] Fixed the Keepsake Geo Pebble which neither removed Geo correctly nor spawned the traded item.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Second teraforming patch.
Last patch is scheduled for sunday, afterwards no more patches planned except emergency bugfixed.
Work will be shifted to the full release content in November.

Patchnotes

Map Changes

• Habitats of Pokémon have been standardized:
  • All Cold Plains areas are now purple tiles.
  • All Temperate Mountain areas are now beige green tiles.
  • All Warm Plains areas are now desert tiles.
  • All Warm Mountain areas are now clay tiles.
• Glaseado Mountain has been updated slightly for better pathing.
  • The surrounding area to the north east (Mt. Scourge) and south have been redesigned to contain more habitat variety
• The elevation of Tagtree Thicket and sourroundings have been adjusted.
• Evergreen Shelter (south east of Mesagoza) has been redesigned.
  • A small desert has been added to the south east of this area on the coast line.
• Cortondo and the surrounding area has been elevated.
• The mountain area north of Mesagoza (Paldean High Temple area) has been extended and is accessable on both sides now
• The western side has a Cold Ocean spring which turned varies river tiles into Cold Ocean as well.
• Smaller changes have been made to:
  • Asado Desert
  • Alfornada area
  • Dalizapa village area
  • Gavonara village area
• Lots of Apricorn Trees and Reefs have been shifted or replaced to make all colours of Apricorns more available in all areas.

Campaign Changes

• Evaluation calculation has been changed to make it fairer and slightly easier early game, without punishing players falling behind as harshly.
  • Evaluation grades have been updated to the the following values:

  • Old Grade	New Grade	Comment
    -	E	Given to empty seats
    E	D
    D	C	reduced requirements
    C	B
    B	A
    A	S	reduced requirements
    S	✫	increased requirements slightly
    SS	✫✫	increased requirements slightly
    SSS	✫✫✫

    • These changes have been made to avoid giving players a D-grade early one, which might feel discouraging. The usually archived grades are now C-S instead of D-A.
  • The evaluation score of Stamps and Artifacts has been increased slightly.
  • The evaluation score of Black and Peach Apricorns has been decreased slightly.
  • The best 6 Pokémon of every player are now evaluated from the start, removing the badge requirement for additional evaluated Pokémon.
    • This change was made to not double-punish unlucky players who lost an important badge battle. They already dont have the badge, but now they do not lose out on valuable Pokémon scores anymore.
  • The evaluation breakdown has been looked into to supply more accurate feedback. To archive this, the score "✫" has been added above the S score and should be seen as 'more than expected/required' (E-✫).

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Ithe charged effect of Balm Mushroom to not award any items.
• Fixed an issue that caused evaluation breakdowns to not persist between saves and rewinds.
• Fixed an issue that swapped the evaluation breakdown score of "Items" and "Rare Items".

Known Issues

• Various shiny models are missing for new Partner Pokémon.
• The custom Star Piece exchanges only have a makeshift cost entry for now.
• Flabebe has the wrong evolution cost (15 instead of 5)
• Partner Naganadel has the wrong stat line since it was accidently updated with the major card rebalance in 1.1.0.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

One of 3 small patches to change the landscape a little and make habitats easier to see and find.

Patchnotes

Map Changes

• Asado desert has been redesigned.
• The Tagtree Thicket (east) has been elevated to make the movement less boring on the right side.
  • A mountain lake has been added
• The area around Medali Woods (north-west) has been redesigned
• Water tiles have received different colour tints to be able to differentiate between water habitats.

Keepsake Changes

• The battle effects and held item effects of Amulet Coin have been changed to be less punishing.
• Covert Cloak now generates it's custom Star Piece exchange for Trait Mints.
• The texts of Lava Cookie was slightly changed to match its effects better.

General Changes

• Campaigns start with 2 additional Fallen Stars in the Hidden Spot pile.
• The negative effect of Nightsky Telescope has been removed.
• Nova Academia now starts with a face-up Treasure Colletor Node instead of a Nightsky Telescope.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Imbalance cards to redraw a new card into a wrong slot during Shrine discoveries.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Folklore Broken TImeshift and Wormhole Sightings to affect less shrines than expected.
• Fixed the text of the Folklore Ancient Murals to match its effect.
• Fixed an issue that caused Partner Pokémon to not have the Keepsake trait.
• Fixed the ability text and color tint of the Keepsake ability Error Code.

Known Issues

• Various shiny models are missing for new Partner Pokémon.
• The custom Star Piece exchanges only have a makeshift cost entry for now.
• The Keepsake-only Error Code ability chip does not have the Keepsake color tint.
• Partner Pokémon currently do not spawn with the Keepsake trait.
• Covert Cloaks additional custom Star Piece trade is not added correctly.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Patchnotes

Bugfixes

• Fixed the instant reward issues of the Keepsakes Ancient Stardust, Reaper Cloth and Balm Mushroom
• Fixed an issue that caused the charged effect of Adventure Bag Keepsake to not award any item.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Greenhouse effect of the Seed Planter Keepsake to not reward berries sometimes.
• Fixed an issue that caused wild encounters to not generate correctly when Keepsakes with type-specific encounter bonuses are in use.
• Fixed an issue that caused Star Ambush battles to not generate correctly sometimes and generated a regular trainer battle instead.
• Fixed an issue that caused encounters to break after a Titan Cave has been discovered.

Known Issues

• Various shiny models are missing for new Partner Pokémon.
• The custom Star Piece exchanges only have a makeshift cost entry for now.
• The Keepsake-only Error Code ability chip does not have the Keepsake color tint.
• Partner Pokémon currently do not spawn with the Keepsake trait.
• Covert Cloaks additional custom Star Piece trade is not added correctly.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Keepsakes are finally here and with it probably a huge amount of issues and bugs.
Feel free to reach out in discord, I will try to patch up as many issues as I can over the next days.
Thank you for your patience and support!

Patchnotes

Additions

• Keepsakes have been re-added! Of out 60 planned ones, 57 have been added with this patch.
  • Azure Fruit, Destiny Knot and Twisted Branch are still causing issues in the internal testing and will be added during the upcoming bug fix patches.
• Keepsakes can now be unlocked by every player independently, requiring the following costs:
  • Overworld I: 2 Pink Apricorns, 2 Green Apricorns, 2 White Apricorns
  • Overworld II: 3 Black Apricorns, 1 Peach Apricorn
  • Battle I: 4 Journey Points, 3 Star Pieces
  • Battle II: 8 Journey Points, 5 Star Pieces, 1 Peach Apricorn
  • Keepsake effects have been simplied to an extend but they should still have their own identity. With some easier effects, adding new Keepsakes will be more managable in the future.
  • Most stats buff effects have been moved to Battle II.
  • Various new Keepsake-only items and globally available consumables and balls have been added.
  • Partner Zuroa and Partner Poipole have been added with their corresponding evolution.
  • The custom Star Piece exchange page at the end of the Recipe Book is now available.
• Added and repositioned dev tokens beneath the campaign selection.
  • Some are in preparation for Season 1.

Campaign Changes

• Weak Pokémon generated in NPC parties will only generate with 1 move.
• The trade costs for Star Emblems and Titan Shards has been reduced.
• The evaluation penalty when playing with 4+ players (due to shared shrines) has been reduced
• The evaluation penalty for Keepsakes has been adjusted to offset the required costs needed to upgrade Keepsakes.
• The Quickstart modifier now gives every player 1 less of every Tier 2 Apricorn, but players gain an additional Journey Point.
• Changed the very underused Equalizer Nuzlocke ruleset to First Choice, which forces all wild encounters to only generate 1 option until players increase their available options with already available campaign (or Keepsake) interactions.

Card Changes

• Most Pokémon cards have been adjusted and overperforming stat lines have been buffed:
  • Weak Pokémon base stats have been increased from 8-11 to 9-12
  • Moderate Pokémon base stats have been increased from 12-15 to 13-16
  • Strong Pokémon base stats have been changed from 16-20 to 17-20
  • Mega/Gmax Pokémon gained +1 stat (from 21 to 22 base stats)
  • Legendary Pokémon gained 1 base health (except still evolving ones) to change them from 22-26 to 23-27.
• Some ability texts have been refactored to improve their use cases. You can filter abilities by 'Updated'.
• Some moves have been adjusted. You can filter moves by 'Updated'. .

Item Changes

• Lum Berry now bypasses the Drowsy effect (to cure it).
• Heal Ball capture rate has been increased from 4 to 5.
• Heavy Ball capture rate has been increased from 3 to 4, but the additional capture bonus has been changes from +3 regular hits on slower Pokémon to +2 regular hits on Pokémon with 4 (or less) initiative.
• Premier Ball capture rate has been increased from 4 to 5.
• Moon Ball capture rate has been changed to 4 and now adds an additional dice for every inflicted status on the target.
• Luxury Ball has been re-added with a capture rate of 5.
• Beast Ball has been added with a capture rate of 5 and a bonus against Legendary Pokémon.

QoL

• Not chosen Keepsakes are automatically returned to their decks and bags when a Keepsake is selected and in use.
• Nightsky Telescopes now produce additional Hidden Spots much faster.
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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Team Star Ambushes to generate the wrong encounter in some situations.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Berry Mixer to not generate rewards under certain circumstances.
• Fixed various typos on tooltips.
• Fixed a rare issue that softlocked the campaign progression when hard resetting turns.

Known Issues

• Various shiny models are missing for new Partner Pokémon.
• The custom Star Piece exchanges only have a makeshift cost entry for now.
• The Keepsake-only Error Code ability chip does not have the Keepsake color tint.
• Partner Pokémon currently do not spawn with the Keepsake trait.
• Star Ambushes still seem to generate normal trainer battles sometimes.

Known Keepsake Problems

• The following instant rewards are currently not being awarded correctly:
  • Ancient Star Dust: Space Trait
  • Reaper Cloth: Gem Mint
  • Balm Mushroom: 2 Tiny Mushrooms
• The following effects do not work correctly:
  • Adventure Bag: Charged effect does not spawn an item as expected
• The following effects might cause errors:
  • Keepsake effects that increase the rate of specific wild Pokémon types to have traits will cause Apricorn Trees to not load correctly.
• The following interactions have some issues:
  • Star Ambush, Star Fortress and Gym Battles do not scale their Battle Boons correctly when Keepsakes are enabled.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Slight adjustments made to the cards and added the newly revealed Mega Evolution.

Patchnotes

Additions

• Added presets to the campaign selection. Players may toggle the preset menu to look at some setting suggestions to play with. These are recommended settings from the Seasons team that work together pretty well.

Campaign Changes

• The resources required to upgrade Team Star Hideouts have been reduced in PVP mode to allow single players to upgrade hideouts more reliably.
• The 4+ player evaluation penalty has been slighty reduced.
• The quickstart evaluation penalty has been re-distributed to be less harsh during the first evaluation.
• The evaluation bonus when playing in SHORT mode has been increased since the current requirement reduction was not appropriate enough.

Map Changes

• The southern and the south-east ports have been relocated. All ports have been put in standardized locations and are 7 tiles away from the nearest city.
• The Evergreen Shelter area (south-west of Mesagoza) has been redesigned slightly. 2 additional Yellow Apricorn Trees have been added.
• The elevation of the Green Apricorn Tree tile in the north next to Gavonara Village has been lowered by 1 to make the access to the ocean easier.

Card Changes

• Mega Malamar has been added.
• All Pokémon with a stat total of 8 have been increased to 9, this also resulted in the evolution cost of these Pokémon to be reduced by 1.
  • This is a first small patch for the updaing bigger balance adjustment in Version 1.1.0. The tiers and stats of Pokémon will be redistributed from 8-11 (Weak), 12-15 (Moderate), 16-20 (Strong), 21 (Mega/Gmax), 22-26 (Legendary) to 9-12 (Weak), 13-16 (Moderate), 17-20 (Strong), 22 (Mega/Gmax), 23-27 (Legendary) in the next patch.
• Some ability texts have been refactored to improve their use cases. You can filter abilities by 'Updated'.
• Some moves have been adjusted. You can filter moves by 'Updated'. 
• Mega Aggron's signature move has been renamed from Iron Armor to Armor Polish.

Item Changes

• Kee Berry does not generate anymore in NPC parties until the corresponding challenger (player) has 5 or more badges.
• The following battle items have been adjusted:
  • Blast Crystal: Changed to a glass cannon support item with the effect: If the active target faints while the holder is your active Pokémon and the holder does not switch out: Deal 2 damage to the next (opposing) Pokémon switching in and decrease its initiative by 1 until the end of the battle. Disable this item (after the effect was used).
  • Star Shield: Inproved the resistance effect by reducing the damage from quad-effective moves against the holder by -2 instead of all super-effective moves being -1.
  • Focus Sash: Effect changed to: While the holder is at full health, the holder can only take damage equal to half its maximum health (rounded up) from the calculated damage of opponent's attacks. Disable this item when this effect is triggered in battle.

QoL

• Additional unused buttons on the Assa Tool have been removed since they might have caused issues when clicked.
• The dice trackers in the battle arena have been expanded by a tracker for whether or not the active Pokémon can switch out in battle.
• Added addtional information about Area Zero access to the unlock section of the player notebook.
• Fixed various typos on cards.
• Changed the color of the health tracker bar on Pokémon cards depending on the current health left.
  • The overhealth color has been changed from red to pink.
  • If the Pokémon's remaining health is 50% or less it is now yellow.
  • If the Pokémon's remaining health is 50% or less it is now red.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused a Team Star Hideout to not appear at the start of the campaign under certain circumstances.
• Fixed an issue that caused held items to be stuck on the card action panels when a Pokémon is moved off of it.
• Fixed the habitat of Kingambit to match its pre-evolutions.
• Fixed an issue that caused Pokémon card to not be discarded when defeated by the Auto-Fight feature.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Drawn Inspiration effect to spawn Apple consumables on wild encounters.
• Fixed an issue that caused a bag of rare Poké Balls to appear during random events under certain conditions when the Red Soul Dew effect was active.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Lockout modifier to not be applied correctly when playing with 4+ players, causing each badge to still only be available once instead of the expected two copies.

Known Issues

• The evaluation summary seen when hovering over an evaluation score in the player's notebook does not persist when rewinding or reloading the table.
• Pokémon may learn traits that overlap with learnable types or status immunity.
• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Small content and slight campaign balance update.
Originally, Keepsakes were meant to return today, but they are delayed till a later time, due to decals in the rework of Keepsakes for the new table.
Check the discord regularly for further updates.

Patchnotes

Additions

• Added the 'Treasure Collector' Node that allows players to trade their unwanted Titan Knowledge Shards for other items.

Changes

• Changed the starting Nodes in Nova Academia from Campsite, Campsite, Stabilizer, Destabilizer, Telescope to Campsite, Campsite, Tera Den, Treasure Collector, Telescope
• Reduced the diffculty of early game Team Star Ambushes slightly.
• Added an additional Port to the north-west coast of the board to make it more accessible. This also included moving Leaflet Village slightly.
• Updated the text on Tera Blast to highlight that it cannot be used as Typeless move.
• Made the evaluation grades for C, B, A  and S slightly easier to reach.
• Changed greed anomalies to only request four common berries instead of occasionally ask for a rare consumable as well.

QoL

• Added stamp panel hover tooltips to quick-view stamp requirements. The hovers are slightly above the center of stamps since you cannot stamp onto a button, even if the button is invisible.
• Added an evaluation summary when hovering over an evaluation grade. This summary displays the approximate scores players got for individual content in their player area sorted by priority and importance.
• Added new Player Token icons and 16 different varieties, made by SleepyTheSlime.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the rift anomaly to not accept Terastal Pokémon.
• Fixed the descriptions on various Hidden Spots.
• Fixed an issue that caused wild encounters to not reset a 'Check' result correctly when the evolution tree contains 5 Pokémon.
• Fixed an issue that caused move cards and ability chips to disappear when moving them through the storage area. This mostly caused issues for the two eastern player seats.

Known Issues

• Pokémon may learn traits that overlap with learnable types or status immunity.
• Pokémon generated from the Drawn Inspiration effect may not have the correctly consumable.
• Pokémon defeated from the Auto-Fight feature do not get discarded correctly.
• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear
• The habitat of Kingambit does not match the pre-evolutions

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Patchnotes

QoL

• Attempted to fix the issue of move cards clipping into each other when moving pokemon (with moves) with poke balls around by altering the poke ball movement logic with a priority system.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the Greed Anomalies to not accept the requested items under certain circumstances
• Fixed an issue that caused cards moves from the encounter generators to the arena to vanish inside the arena sometimes until they are moved back to the encounter generator area.
• Attempted to fix the issue with Hidden Spots not correctly spreading on the map at the start of the game.

Known Issues

• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear
• The habitat of Kingambit does not match the pre-evolutions

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Emergency hotfix since Titan Pokémon encounters did not work.

Patchnotes

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Titan Pokémon discoveries to not be usable.
• Fixed the text message of the Z-Cell artifact that should inform players about the bonus item given to a random player.
• Fixed several issues that caused the Auto-Fight feature to not calculate the type and move type(s) of Terastal Pokémon correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused a debug cast to appear on the map whenever a discovery was initiated.

Known Issues

• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear
• The habitat of Kingambit does not match the pre-evolutions

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

A smaller patch to fix everything that was reported but not touched yet.

Patchnotes

Rulebook

• Added information about discovering empty tiles.

Changes

• Updated Shrines to allow Imbalance and Rumor cards to generate on the first card on generic Shrine tiles (since this usually benefits player's early game).
• Increased the Star Emblem and Titan Shard requirement for the 3 (Star/Titan) badge onwards when playing in COOP mode with 4 (or more) players.
• The trading costs of the following items has been lowered: Bronze Bottle Cap, Ability Capsule, Silver Bottle Cap, Ability Patch, Rare Doll, Flight Feather, Trait Mint
• Increased the chance slightly for Legendary Pokémon to be Terastal.
• Increased the amount of Hidden Spots spawning when an anomaly is closed from 5 Regular and 2 Special Hidden Spots to 7 Regular and 3 Special Hidden Spots.

QoL

• Improved the routine when gym rewards are given to players in GROUPS and COOP mode.
• Added the Debug Panel to apply traits and specific Terastal types to Pokémon. The Debug Panel is spawned by clicking on the Seasons Kernel token.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the 'Haunted City' Event to not apply its effect to update trade costs in Cities.
• Fixed the missing snap points on the Fallen Star panel and Ruined Treasure discard panel.
• Fixed a rare issue that would cause Hidden Spots to not be spread over the map at the start of the campaign.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to re-fight a Titan they already obtained a badge from.
• Fixed an issue that caused caught Titan Pokémon that changed forms during battle to not have the Lesser Titan Trait applied to them.
• Fixed an issue that caused surrounding Apricorn Trees to not spoil (in Spoiled Habitats Nuzlocke mode) when they have a much higher altitude than the discovered tree.
• Fixed an issue that caused Legendary Bonus events to increase the spoil grade (in Spoiled Habitats Nuzlocke mode) of Apricorn Trees.
• Fixed an issue that caused Terastal Pokémon generated in a Legendary encounters to not be Legendary tier.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastery Challenge to apply the wrong amount of locked party slots.

Known Issues

• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear
• The habitat of Kingambit does not match the pre-evolutions
• The Terastal-type of Pokémon used in Auto-Fight is not applied correctly.
• The info message posted by the Z-Cell artifact displays the wrong information.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Lots of problems were reported after the first full day of gaming.
I hope I was able to fix all of them.

Patchnotes

Rulebook

• Added information about PvP battles
• Added instructions how to set up battle parties for 3v3 battles
• Updated gym challenge information to go into detail that all group members in CO-OP and GROUPS mode receive their gym reward and get new cards after a gym battle is won by any group member

Changes

• Reduced the amount of random additional Special Hidden Spots added at the start of the campaign from 4 to 3 (per player). The minimum amount of added Special Hidden Spots is still 10.
• Legendary wild encounters have 1 additional option to choose from by default. The third option is still added after acquiring 4 Titan Badges in Nova Academia.
• The chance for the Event state to change at the start of a turn is increased by 50%.
• The following changes have been made to starting items in Nova Academia:
  • In the normal starting items, the Ability Capsule has been replaced by a second Bronze Bottle Cap and 2 Journey Points where added
• In Nova Academia, the evaluation grade requirements have been increased slightly when playing with 4 (or more) players to offset the additional items gained from Shrine Events.
• In Nova Academia, the evaluation requirements for the "C" grade have been slightly reduced
• When starting the Nova Academia campaign, players are now dealt 3 random gym challenge cards of which one has to be selected as their starting gym challenge. The rest is discarded.
  • The Card Action Panel has been adjusted to be able to return (or discard) gym challenge cards.
• Gym challenge rewards of Co-op gym challenge cards have been rebalanced and contain less rewards for the "gym reward", but all group members in CO-OP and GROUPS mode now receive their gym reward when a group members wins a gym battle.
• Various gym challenges and challenge rewards have been adjusted.
• Added unique music tracks for Team Star Ambush, Team Star Captain and Titan Pokémon battles.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the Gallora Standing to not apply +2 Star Piece limit to players.
• Fixed an issue that caused Cherish Balls to not generate during NPC battles when the requirements were met.
• Fixed an issue that caused several Pokémon models to not be returned correctly when the card left the arena.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Campaign Select Panel to move behind the rulebook after a campaign as started.
• Fixed several issues that caused the Distortion Trait to generate outside of wild encounters.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Ribbon Stand Node to generate Flavour Mints correctly.
• Fixed an issue that left generated consumables behind when a player failed to auto-capture a wild Pokémon.
• Fixed an issue that caused the 'Spoiled Habitat' nuzlocke ruleset to add additional spoil stages to Apricorn Trees when the wild encounter was rerolled.
• Fixed an issue where Warped Apricorn Trees spawned by the 'Ancient Mural' Folklore to not be discoverable.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Titan Pokémon figurined to not randomly roam between turns when playing on FREEPLAY mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Lockout modifier had no effect when playing in GROUPS mode with 4 (or more) players.
• Fixed the name and text of Ability Capsules found in (regular) Hidden Spots.
• Fixed several issues that caused Traits to lose their text (but not effect) when rewinding or reloading a started campaign.
• Fixed several issues that caused evaluation rewards to not be applied correctly when playing with 2,4 or 6 players.
• Fixed an issue that caused Team Star Ambushes and Team Star Captains to generate with the wrong team setups when battling them with 4 (or less) badges acquired.
• Fixed several issues that caused gym challenges of group members in CO-OP and GROUPS modes to not be replaced when a group member won a gym challenge.
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Known Issues

• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear
• The habitat of Kingambit does not match the pre-evolutions
• All tiers of the Mastery challenge currently disable 5 PC slots instead of 2, 4 then 5.

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

Day 1 patchnotes based on received feedback and problems that occured in-game.

Patchnotes

Rulebook

• Added Blackout rule clarifications
• Added missing information rule clairfications about Coop and Group mode for Nova Academia

Bugfixes

• Fixed distortion anomalies eating your offered Pokémon
• Fixed Distortion Traits being able to generate on NPC parties when a distortion anomaly is active
• Fixed starter Pokémon not generating at least 3 two-stage evolutions
• Fixed Meteorite artifact not adding 1 to the Star Piece limit
• Fixed gym challenge cards not being PvP cards after defeating a gym when playing in PvP mode
• Fixed Star Fortresses and Titan Pokémon not requiring more offering to be challenged in Coop and Group mode

Known Issues

• Gallora Standing does not apply the extra Star Piece limit correctly,
• The encounter generators do not generate Cherish Ball on high-end encounters,
• Some Bronze Bottle Caps found in Hidden Spots have the wrong description,
• Varoom model does not leave the arena when recalled,
• Team Star Fortress battle music does not play,
• The campaign panel is moved behind,
• Distortion traits may be applied from Mints, which should not be happening,
  • Distortion traits may also be applied to a Pokémon that was cleansed at a distortion anomaly
• new gym challenge cards are not given to all applicable players in coop/group mode,
• Ribbon Stands dont work correctly
• Gym challenge cards in COOP and GROUPS mode do not refresh afor all affected players after someone defeated a gym and obtained a new card
• WIld encounters that flee from unsuccessful auto-capture attempts leave their held consumable behind
• Some traits do not function correctly anymore when a table is reloaded
• The 'Harvest' battle boons text incorrectly mentions that it spawns additional exotic berries while all rare consumables may appear
• The habitat of Kingambit does not match the pre-evolutions
• Music playing during Titan Pokémon battles and Team Star battles (ambush + captain) is incorrect
• When playing with Spoiled Habitats rules in a Nuzlocke game, rerolling Apricorn Trees/Reefs spoils them
• Rewards given out after evaluations are applied incorrectly
• Team Star Ambushes and Star Captains spawn an incorrect amount of Pokémon for theit 3v3 battles
• Warped Apricorn Trees spawned by the a Folklore event do not work correctly
• Titan Pokémon do not roam correctly (or at all) in Freeplay mode
  • This also affects roaming Legendary Pokémon
• Lockout does not work correctly when playing with 4+ players in GROUPS mode
  • Since currently, that would allow each badge to exist twice

Pokémon: Seasons - Arrivals

The full release of Pokémon: Seasons is right around the corner, but until then we want to test all the changes and improvements that have been in development for the past few months. For this reason, we are hosting a Season 0 release over the course of a few weeks to see how the new systems are received and work out so we can make final tweaks and changes before the full release with Season 1 is announced. 

The following list contains the most noteworthy changes made to the table compared to the pre-release version. The pre-release was used as a testing ground to see how some of the ideas the team had would work out and how well players like them. Based on feedback and our hundreds of hours playing the table, a lot of adjustments have been made to make the table easier to navigate and game easier to play and enjoy without losing the "Seasons" feeling that we originally aimed to create.

While finishing the final steps in the development process of the table, quite a few intended changes mentioned in the preliminary notes have been cut, reworked or removed since the changes did not hit their intended goal.

Content explicitely added by Keepsakes are not part of these patchnotes and information about it will be available at a later time.

Patchnotes

Table Content

• The Tabletop Simulator table has been replaced with a bigger variant
• The size of player areas has been increased
• The storage area has been expanded
• The battle arena (and encounter generators) have been expanded
• The map has been elevated on additional tiles to be more immersive
• The stability tracker and region stability have been removed
• The roaming legendary tracker has been removed

World Map

• The following tokens (and functionality) have been removed:
  • Three villages, including Cabo Poco (old starting village)
  • All landmarks (Geyser Chambers, Temple of the Sea, ...)
  • Team Star Outposts
  • Two Shrines and two Legendary Shrines
• The following new tokens have been added (campaign independent):
  • One additional Port to the east of Artazon (south-east)
• The following tokens have been adjusted:
  • Various Shrines and Legendary Shrines have been relocated
  • Most villages have been relocated to be more spread out on the map
  • Various apricorn trees have been moved or replaced to have a better variety in some areas
  • The League Reception token has been repurposed as the Challenger's Plateau
    • Effect differs between campaigns
  • The Paldean High Temple has been repurposed
    • Can no longer summon legendary Pokémon with artifacts
    • Roaming legendary Pokémon tokens spawn at the Paldean High Temple and actively roam the region
  • The Ruined Caves have been replaced by Sealed Caves (see 'Anomalies')
• Area Zero (surface) is now accessable via the Area Zero Base Camp (City) token
  • Flight access differs between campaign
  • All shrines in Area Zero (surface) have been replaced with permanent Paradox and Wormhole Shrines.
  • All apricorn trees are warped, generating random encounters from all tiers (up to strong)
  • Villages have been removed
  • The Terastal Cave token has been added

Player Areas

• Following changes have been made to the player areas:
  • [New] An overview panel has been added at the top of the player areas to keep players informed about their stats and current state of the region, this includes:
    • Current hand size and movement speed
    • Current states of weather, folklore, events and the player's standing (see 'Events')
    • Temporary effects
  • [New] An artifact area has been added to allow players to activate and manage their found artifact (see 'Items')
  • [New] The Berry Mixer has been added to allow players to turn unused consumables into other items (see 'Items ')
  • [New] A capture zone has been added to allow players to store Poké Balls used for "Auto-Capture" during discoveries
    • The limit of Poké Balls used during Auto-Capture has been set to 5.
  • [New] The player inbox (as part of the overview panel) has been added and serves as delivery space for automatically received items
  • [New] Every player has their own Discovery tablet
  • The bag panel has been modified to support a dynamic maximum limit of Star Pieces per player
    • The Star Piece limit can be changed by various effects and modifiers during campaigns
  • The card actions panel has been expanded to support all cards attached to an owned Pokémon and has its own Poké Ball area for easy navigation
    • Most On Demand items (see 'Items') can be activated in a designated slot
  • The storage has been redesigned and also served as panel for artifacts and the Berry Mixer
  • The keepsake panel has been increased in size to support a new progression method (see 'Keepsakes')
  • The campaign panel (top-right) has been increased in size to support various additional features
  • Hoving over stamps on the stamp panel now displays the requirement
  • The crafting costs of all battle items have been adjusted (see 'Items')
  • The Star Piece exchange is now interactive (see 'Crafting')

Pokémon Cards

• The majority of Pokémon have been rebalanced (see Database)
  • The stats of Legendary Pokémon have been adjusted and generally reduced
• All card in the Pokémon decks are now copies when drawn, allowing the same Pokémon to encountered multiple times.
• Mega Evolution and Gigantamax Pokémon now share the encounter tier with the base form instead of being Legendary.
• All Mega Evolution Pokémon and most Legendary Pokémon received unique moves.
• Legendary Pokémon with alternative forms either change their signature moves or gain a passive ability
• The following cards have been added to the table:
  • Shuckle (Amber Form)
  • Cramorant (Mega Evolution)
  • Partner Zorua & Zoroark
  • Partner Poipole and Naganadel
  • Additional forms of Mothim have been added for the Trash and Sand Cloak forms
    • This was done to avoid the issue of Mothim requiring 5 learnable types (Bug, Flying, Grass, Ground, Steel)
• The following Pokémon received a new passive ability:
  • All fully evolved fossil Pokémon → Ancient Force
  • All fully evolved ultra beasts → Ultra Space
  • All Paradox Pokémon → Paradox
  • Shuckle (Amber Form) → Resin Shell
  • Nincada → Living Husk
  • Latias (Eos Form) → Lightspeed
  • Latios (Eos Form) → Lightspeed
  • Kyogre (Primal Form) → Storm Flood
  • Groudon (Primal Form) → Desert Storm
  • Rayquaza (Stratos Form) → Stratosphere
  • Zacian (Crowned Form) → Righteousness
  • Zamazenta (Crowned Form) → Righteousness
  • Partner Zoroark → Starry Illusion
• The signature move of Terastal Pokémon has been changed to Terastal-type, treating the move as the Terastal-type of the Pokémon.
  • When defeating (or evolving) a Terastal Pokémon, the learnable move matches the original type of the move and not Terastal-type

Attack Cards

• The majority of moves have been rebalanced (see Database)
• All cards in the attack deck are now copies when drawn, allowing the same move to exist multiple times
• Legendary moves can no longer be learned from NPC battles and cannot be drawn from the attack deck by usual means
  • Legendary moves can only be acquired when drawn by the Golden Bottle Cap item effect or when learned from a wild legendary encounter by offering a Peach Apricorn after defeating it, creating a matching move card in this instance and returning the Pokémon card.
  • The moves of some legendary encounters (in specific locations only) cannot be learned, this includes:
    • Terapagos (Crater Cave encounter)
    • Chien-Pao (Sealed Cave encounter)
    • Chi-Yu (Sealed Cave encounter)
    • Ting-Lu (Sealed Cave encounter)
    • Wo-Chien (Sealed Cave encounter)
    • Judgment from Arceus is currently unavailable, since Arceus cannot be encountered
• The effects of the signature move of Gigantamax Pokémon cannot be copied (by other effects such as move effects of Mimic or Kinesis)
• The signature moves of all Mega Evolution Pokémon are not in the attack deck (just like Gigantamax signature moves

Ability Cards

• The majority of abilities have been rebalanced (see Database)
• All cards in the ability deck are now copies when drawn, allowing the same ability to exist multiple times
• Pokémon may learn abilities matching any learnable (instead of having to match the main types)
• 'Always active' abilties have been reworked to 'persistent' abilities.
  • These effects are always active, even when the Pokémon is defeated or in the PC
  • The name of persistent abilities is underlined to identify them

Items

• All items have been categorized into: Battle Item, Consumable, Artifact, On Demand Item, Poké Ball
• The effects of various items (including all artifacts) have been rebalanced (see Database)
  • The crafting costs of battle items has been adjusted (see 'Crafting')
• Every Pokémon may equip one held item, if not stated otherwise (either battle item or consumable)
  • If not overruled by effects, each party is only allowed to use each battle item once
• Players may use 3 consumables as ingredients in the player's Berry Mixer to create new items within a set amount of terms
  • Every consumable has flavour values and combining different consumables in the Berry Mixer creates a different result
  • Every basic 'flavour' has a different item pool, including: Apricorns, On Demand Items, Exotic Balls and Berries, Mints and more
  • Rare consumables add additional special flavours to the recipe that modify the result
• Artifacts can no longer be equipped and instead are used in the player's artifact areas to activate passive effects
  • Players may activate up to 5 artifacts at once
  • Artifact slots unlocks differs between campaigns
• Alpha Tokens and Tera Raid Tokens are no longer items and are only considered Hidden Spots (see 'Traits')
• Dynamax Bands and Mega Stones have been removed (see 'Traits')

Crafting

• The recipe book has been updated with additional features
• The Star Piece exchange has been made interactive, awarding the exchange reward with a click of a button
  • The exchange automatically subtracts the required Star Pieces from the player's balance
• A page for custom Star Piece exchanges has been added to the last page to allow campaigns or other content to add additional exchanges dynamically

The crafting costs of battle items have been adjusted to following values:

The Star Piece exchange has been changed to following entries:

*The Star Piece exchange for the Golden Bottle Cap is limited to 1 exchange per player during campaigns.

Traits

• Traits have been added as a new modifier for Pokémon cards
• Traits are visible at in the top-right corner of Pokémon cards (as an interactable decal)
• Traits provide a permanent buff to the Pokémon or the owner of the Pokémon
• Traits are (internally) split into various categories:
  • Battle Traits improve the stats or battle interaction of Pokémon
  • Economy Traits generate currency, items or improve trade interactions
  • Misc Traits are a collection of all other traits (such as ones that improve player stats like hand size or affect the overworld)
• Addtional characterics of traits:
  • Some traits can only be acquired by Terastal Pokémon
  • Some traits can only be acquired by On Demand items
  • Some traits are added by special game features (Such as Starter Pokémon, Partner Pokémon or events)
• Players can add traits to their Pokémon with On Demand items
• Some traits cannot be removed or 'minted' (Turned into an On Demand item)
• Alpha Pokémon and Tera Raid Pokémon now spawn with corresponding traits instead of a held item
• Pokémon that have a Mega Evolution or Gigantamax form now require a specific trait to change forms
• The complete list of available traits can be found in the Database.

Status Effects

• The following changes have been made to status effects (compared to the Legends of Sinnoh base game)
  • Confused now also deals 3 damage to the Pokémon when using a second move in the same turn (in addition to same move in a row)
  • The attack strength bonus against Frozen Pokémon is reduced to 1 (from 2)
  • Drowsy is changed to disallow the Pokémon to use their held item. In addition, the Pokémon battle fatigue increases by 2 when attacking
• A special status effect called 'Dazzling' has been added. This status effect is exclusively added to specific encounters and cannot be applied during battle.
  • The Pokémon is immune to other status efects
  • The held item and ability of the Pokémon cannot be disabled
  • The Pokémon does not take damage from battle fatigue

Capture Rates

• The overall capture rate of Pokémon is increased
  • This varies between campaigns
• The following additional capture rules have been established:
  • An additional capture dice is rolled against wild encounters with 3 (or less) health remaining
  • Applied status effects add 1 regular hit (each) to capture rolls
  • All equipped (in-battle) Razz Berries may trigger for a capture attempt
• Decreasing the base capture rate of wild encounters differs between campaigns

Hidden Spots & Nodes

• Blue Artifacts (and Blue Hidden Spots) and Mystery Hidden Spots have been removed
  • All Blue Artifacts have been converted to normal artifacts (see 'Items')
  • The Mystery Hidden Spots spawned by 'Mystery Event' shrine events have been replaced by Special Hidden Spots
• Apricorn Stashes (Hidden Spot) now appear in 2 variations: Normal and Small
• Black Apricorn Stashes are much rarer than before
• The amount of Fallen Stars available at the start of campaigns has been reduced from 8 to 4
• The following Hidden Spots have been added:
  • Small Red Apricorn Stash (Hidden Spot)
  • Small Blue Apricorn Stash (Hidden Spot)
  • Small Yellow Apricorn Stash (Hidden Spot)
  • Small Pink Apricorn Stash (Hidden Spot)
  • Small Green Apricorn Stash (Hidden Spot)
  • Small White Apricorn Stash (Hidden Spot)
  • Bronze Bottle Caps (Hidden Spot)
  • Silver Botte Caps (Special Hidden Spot)
  • Trait Mint (Special Hidden Spot)
  • Team Star Ambush (Special Hidden Spot)
  • Anomaly Disaster (Special Hidden Spot)
• The following Hidden Spots have been removed:
  • Trainer Ambush (replaced by Team Star Ambush)
  • Training Target (replaced by Silver Bottle Caps)
•  Existing Nodes have been reworked and new Nodes have been added:
  • Paldean Stabilizer → Wild encounters spawn with traits more often, but are less likely to have abilities or consumables
  • Paldean Destabilizer → Wild encounters spawn with abilities and consumables more often but are less likely to have traits
  • Nightsky Telescope → Chance to spawn Hidden Spots nearby every turn, but whilst face-up, new Fallen Stars cannot be added to the overworld
  • Ribbon Stand → Turns a trait into a mint for a fee ("Minting")
  • Terastal Den → Nearby Apricorn Trees/Reefs are more likely to generate Terastal Pokémon more likely, but these encounters have less options to choose from
  • Glitter Key → Used for Glitter Anomaly (see 'Anomalies')
• The cost for picking up Nodes has been decreased from 5 to 2 Journey Points

Events

• World Events and World Event cards have been removed
• Regional States replace the previous World Event functionalities
• The Weather state:
  • 9 different weather types are available. Each increases the encounter rate of two different Pokémon types. Additionally, Pokémon from a specific Biome are more likely to be Terastal.
• The Folklore state:
  • Changes interactions with Shrines and general map tokens
• The Event state:
  • Temporary bonuses for various interactions on the table, including trades, shrines, wild encounters and campaign progression
• All states are visible in the overview panels of players for easy notice
• Weather and Folklore states are changed upon encountering specific Inbalance shrine events
• In addition, players now have a "Standing" state that can be changed in villages (in most campaigns) for a fee
  • Standings provide an ongoing effect for the player until they change to a different Standing

Discoveries

The following discoveries have been adjusted:

• Settlements
  • The trade offers in settlements have been rebalanced:
    • Cities stay the same and offer Apricorns, berries and Poké Balls only
    • Villages are more likely to offer Peach Apricorns, common On Demand items and Artifacts
    • Ports now have 3 trade offers to choose from and are more likely to generate Exotic items and rare On Demand items
  • 'Unique' trades generate more intuitively placed and have an additional indicator
  • Cherish Balls can no longer be acquired from trades
• Wild Encounters
  • Wild encounters may generate with traits, an ability and consumables
    • Traits are applied when the encounter is first generated
    • Abilities and consumables are applied when an encounter is chosen
  • Auto-Catch no longer requires players to move Poké Balls to the discovery. Instead a corresponding zone is provided near the Poké Ball storage in player areas
    • Only 5 Poké Balls may be used for Auto-Catch at any given time
  • The additional move pool for Alpha and Tera Raid Pokémon has been reworked
• Shrines
  • Imbalance events cannot generate as the first card during shrine events anymore
  • A new scripted type of Shrine cards, the 'Shrine Rumors' have been added. 
    • These events are rare but have unique scripted effects when chosen
• Legendary Shrines
  • Act like regular shrines with increased chance to generate Imbalance and Rumor events
  • When players are under the effect of the 'Box of Treats' On Demand item, Legendary Shrines will generate a wild Legendary Pokémon encounter instead
    • Each (of the 9) Legendary Shrine has 2 preferred types. Legendary Pokémon of those types are more likely to generate
    • Players may learn the signature move of defeated Legendary Pokémon when offering a Peach Apricorn
      • In this case, the signature move is granted as attack card and the Pokémon is returned to the Legendary Pokémon deck

Anomalies

• General anomaly interactions have been simplified and randomly spawning anomalies have been removed
• Anomalies now have 4 dedicated positions on the overworld to appear at and replace the previous Cave Tokens (now Sealed Caves)
  • If all Sealed Caves are occupied with anomalies, no additional anomaly can spawn
• When an anomaly spawns, the Sealed Cave is changed to the correspondong anomaly and a Treasure of Ruin Pokémon token is placed on top.
  • Every Treasure of Ruin Pokémon has their own anomaly
• The following anomalies are available going forward:
  • Rift Anomaly (Chien-Pao)
    • Requires a specific Pokémon offering to close (usually a Pokémon of a specific type)
    • The offered Pokémon is discarded
    • While active, wild encounters are less likely to have abilities or consumables
  • Glitter Anomaly (Chi-Yu)
    • 3 new Nodes are added to the map whenever a Glitter Anomaly spawns and all Nodes are shuffled and placed face-down on the overworld.
    • One of these Nodes is a 'Glitter Key' Node required to close the Glitter Anomaly
    • While active, players are less likely to generate Bonus Events during discoveries
  • Greed Anomaly (Wo-Chien)
    • Requires a specific set of consumables as offering (mostly common berries)
    • While active, rare trade offers are less likely to generate in settlements
  • Distortion Anomaly (Ting-Lu)
    • While active, wild encounters may generate with the Distortion trait.
    • A Pokémon with the Distortion trait is required to close the anomaly. In this case, the Distortion trait is replaced by a random rare trait.
    • While active, the number of options to choose from during wild encounters is reduced
• Every type of anomaly can exist multiple times at once
  • In this case, the negative effect stacks for every anomaly of the same type
• When closing an anomaly, new Hidden Spots appear in the overworld and the player that closed the anomaly may fight the corresponding Treasure of Ruin Pokémon
  • This Pokémon is always Terastal (random type) and has an ability, consumable and the Ruined trait.
  • This encounter can be redone for every closed anomaly, even if the Pokémon was captured before (static encounters)
• Players holding 3 matching Ruined Treasure cards in their hand are immune to the negative effects of the corresponding active anomalies.

Encounter Generator

• The encounter generator has been visually overhauled and each side of the battle arena has their own generator now
• Generation logic of NPC battles has been greatly improved
  • Bad move and ability combinations are much less likely to generate on important campaign battle
  • NPC battles can generate Terastal Pokémon and Pokémon with traits
• Held items have been moved to a designated zone for easier management
• NPC battles can generate with 'Battle Boons' to increase the strength of the battle opponent (see Database)
  • Battle boons provide additional effects to the NPC party before or during battle
  • These may also affect the generated party itself and increases the potential of the generated party

Keepsakes

• Most Keepsakes have been reworked in incorporate the changes made to the table (see Database)
• Exotic items no longer require specific Keepsakes to appear during play, Keepsakes may increase the availability of Exotic items though.
• Keepsake effects are now unlocked by specific resources. 
  • The left overworld effects favour Journey Points
  • The right battle effects favour Star Pieces
  • The cost of unlocking effects differs between campaigns

Campaign - Nova Academia

As the spiritual successor of the pre-release campaign 'Victory Road' a new campaign has been created and added to this release, replacing the 'Victory Road' campaign. 'Nova Academia' is a turn limited free roam campaign to ease players into the table functionalities of Pokémon: Seasons. The goal (in all variations) is to collect as many badges (of 18 available) as possible before the Academy Finals begin after three evaluation periods. Players are free to choose what badges (and in which order) to acquire to help them place high during the Academy Finals. 

Campaign Content

• Players take the role of students of the Paldean Academy in Mesagoza and are tasked to prepare for the upcoming Academy Finals
• In order to strengthen their knowledge of Pokémon and battles, players should aim to acquire badges from the different sources available to unlock new features and make exploration and team building easier
• When the campaign is started, 18 badges (one of each type) are randomly assigned to:
  • 8 gyms in all cities, except Mesagoza
  • 5 Titan Pokémon
  • 5 Team Star Hideouts
• 5 Titan Caves tokens are randomly placed on the overworld (from a selection of pre-defined valid locations)
  • 5 Titan Pokémon figurines are placed on top of the Titan Cave tokens
• 5 Team Star Hideouts are randomly placed on the overworld (from a selection of pre-defined valid locations)
• Players are free to chase any personal goals and targets they have in their mind
•  Badge acquisition and requirements:
  • The strength of badge encounters is determined by the global amount of badges and player owns and the amount of badges of the same type owned.
  • Gym Badges
    • Gym badges are awarded for defeating the gym leaders in Cities
    • After defeating the gym, the currently owned Gym Challenge card is discarded and a new one has to be taken (from a selection of option)
    • Gym Challenge card contain 2 missions of which one has to be completed to be eligible to battle the next gym
    • In addition, Gym Challenge cards contain a "Gym reward" at the bottom that is awarded to the player after defeating the next gym
  • Titan Badges
    • Titan badges are awarded for capturing Titan Pokémon by discovering a roaming Titan figurine when the requirements are met
    • Players require Titan Shards to encounter Titan Pokémon
    • Unidentified Shards can be acquired from trades, random events and Hidden Spots.
      • Shards can be identified as a random type matching the available Titan Pokémon.
      • Matching shards can be used to challenge the roaming Titan Pokémon for the badge
    • When discovering the Titan Pokémon, all required Knowledge cards are discarded and players may choose 1 (Terastal) Pokémon from the generated encounters as the Titan Pokémon encounter. 
      • The Terastal-type always matches the corresponding Titan Cave and badge
      • The Titan Pokémon has massively increased stats during the encounter and has the Dazzling status effect until defeated
  • Star Badges
    • Star badges are awarded for defeating Team Star leaders in a 3vs3 battle
    • In order to battle Team Star leaders, the Team Star Hideouts have to be supplied with resources to be upgraded into Team Star fortresses where the leaders can be battle.
    • Team Star Hideouts require a specific assortment of resources (Journey Points, Star Pieces, Apricorns, common Berries) in order to be upgraded.
      • The player who supplies the required items is awarded with bonus items and a Team Star emblem, required to battle Team Star leaders.
    • The first 2 Team Star leader battles require 1 Team Star Emblem
      • The third and fourth leader battles require 2 Team Star Emblems
      • The fifth leader battle requires 3 Team Star Emblems
    • Team Star emblems are acquired from random events, winning against Team Star Ambush battles (Special Hidden Spots) and delivering resources to Team Star Outposts
• After a set amount of turns, all players will under-go the Academy Evaluation which will score the player's progression and acomplishments in a grade.
  • Players with a good grading score will receive a bonus for the Academy finals at the end of the campaign
  • Players with lower scores are awarded additional items to catch up to other players
• At the end of the campaign, all players will individually undergo the Academy Finals, challenging an NPC opponent matching the strength of the highest players' evaluation score
  • If all players have a low score during final evaluation, the NPC opponent will match a set minimum score instead
  • All players that pass the Academy Finals will have an additional following event to complete, based on the played game mode (see below)

Campaign Settings

• Game Length
  • Standard (25 turns, evaluation after turn 8, 16 and 24)
  • Short (20 turns, evaluation after turn 6, 12 and 18)
  • Freeplay (no turn limit or evaluations, Finals start when all badges are acquired)
• Game Modes
  • Co-op
    • All players are considered a 'project group' of academy students and acquired badges are counted for all players
    • Evaluation periods grade all players individually and are score by the average of all grades
    • All badges are slightly harder to acquire, this increases further when playing with 5+ players
    • Acadamy Finals: All players who won their Academy Finals battle can combine their teams to form a 6 Pokémon party ultimate team, ignoring all usual party restrictions, except battle item limit. Items may be used from all eligible players. This team has to battle against the team of the Academy Champion and is generated with a slightly higher score than the highest player's evaluation score.
  • PvP
    • All players are individual academy students, aiming to be the top score amongst the players
    • Evaluation periods grade every player individually
    • by default, every badge can only be acquired by one player (or 2 if playing with 5+ players)
      • this can be changed with a campaign modifier
    • Acadamy Finals: All players who won their Academy Finals are put into a single elimination bracket against each other (and NPC parties), tiered by the evaluation scores of the players. If an uneven amount of eligible players exist, the highest scored player(s) may skip a match.
  • Groups
    • All north players are grouped together and play against all southern players (group vs group)
    • Evaluation periods grade all players individually and each group receives the average score of all their players
    • by default, every badge can only be acquired by one group
      • this can be changed with a campaign modifier
    • Acadamy Finals: All players who won their Academy Finals battle can combine their teams (within their groups) to form a 6 Pokémon party ultimate team, ignoring all usual party restrictions, except battle item limit. Items may be used from all eligible players. Those parties battle against each other to determine the winning group.
• Rule Sets
  • Challenge Mode
    • Additional toggles to increase the difficulty of the campaign in a challenge score based system
    • The higher the score from active challenges, the more difficult the campaign will be
    • Players are free to choose which challenges are active before starting the campaign
  • Nuzlocke (recommended for 3 or less players and Freeplay mode)
    • Special Nuzlocke rules apply and are enforced on the table. These can be toggled individually before starting the campaign
    • This includes (X being a configurable setting):
      • Spoiled Habitats: Discovering Apricorn Tree (or Reef) spoils them and all other surrounding Trees. After an Apricorn Tree has been spoiled X times, it cannot be discovered anymore by any player.
      • Sealed Away: Ruined Treasure cards cannot be acquired.
      • Equalizer: All Hidden Spots and Special Hidden spots have a set order to appear, making sure that the available loot is balanced. Shrine events are guaranteed to generate Imbalance events on the third card.
      • Generic Trades: Trade types are pre-determined. Eg. a city trade always offers a Poke Ball and a berry, a village always offers a rare consumable and peach apricorns. Ports offer a generic item (ball, berry, apricorn), a rare consumable and an on demand item
      • Caretaking: Fainted Pokémon of players are marked after battles. A Pokémon fainting X times has to be discarded.
        • When Pokémon are discarded this way, attached move and abilities cards may be moved to different applicable Pokémon.
• Starting Modifiers
  • Quickstart: Players receive additional starting items to hasten the game flow. 
  • Outbreak: Terastal Pokémon are significantly more likely to appear. 2 starter Pokémon are Terastal.
  • Keepsakes: Enables Keepsakes for the campaign. Increases the quality and difficulty of generated NPC parties.
  • Lockout: Every badge can only be acquired by one player (2 if playing with 5+ players). Enabled by default when selecting PvP or Project mode.
  • Utopia: The Weather and Folklore can change randomly at the start of new turns.
  • Summer Sale: 2 Additional Ribbon Stand Nodes are added at the start of the game.

Campaign Rules

• Players start with: 
  • 1 Starter Pokemon from a selection of 6 available ones (at least 3 are 2 stage evolutions)
    • Each starter Pokémon generates with an ability
    • Starter Pokémon have the Companion trait
  • 3 Blue, 3 Yellow and 3 Red Apricorns
  • 2 Oran Berry and 1 Lum Berry
  • 4 Poké Balls
  • 1 Bronze Bottle Cap and 1 Ability Capsule
  • 2 Rare Dolls
  • 1 random Gym Challenge Card
• Campaign starting statistics:
  • 3 Base Movement Speed
  • 5 Base Star Piece Limit
  • 5 Base Hand Size
  • 2 unlocked Artifact Slots
  • 3 party slots
    • Able to have Pokémon up to the Moderate tier in the party
  • 6 PC slots
    • Pokémon of all tiers can be stored in the PC
• Players may freely choose any village on the map as their starting tile
• The base capture rate (weak to legendary) of wild encounters is set to 3, 7, 11 and 13
• Capturing a Legendary Pokémon awards 3 additional Star Pieces
• The following unlocks are available from acquiring badges throughout the campaign:
  • General Unlocks
    • 2 Badges: 4th party slot unlock
    • 4 Badges: 5th party slot unlock
    • 6 Badges: 6th party slot unlock
  • Gym Badges
    • Every acquired gym badge increases the chance for wild encounters to have traits, consumables and abilities
    • After every gym, you gain an additional chosen reward from your Gym Challenge card
  • Titan Badges
    • Every acquired titan badge decreases the capture rate of wild encounters by 1
    • 1 Titan Badge: Moderate and Strong encounters generate additional options
    • 2 Titan Badges: You may learn moves from defeated wild Legendary Pokémon for a Peach Apricorn
    • 3 Titan Badge: You may fast-travel to Area Zero Base Camp
    • 4 Titan Badges: Legendary wild encounters have more options to choose from
    • 5 Titan Badges: Learning moves from wild Legendary Pokémon is free
  • Star Badges
    • Every acquired star badge increases the chance for rare trade offers to generate
    • 1 Star Badge: Peach Apricorns are more likely to appear in trade offers
    • 2 Star Badges: New trades are added to villages and ports
    • 3 Star Badges: Rare trades are cheaper for you
    • 4 Star Badges: Ports are guarenteed to generate Unique trades
    • 5 Star Badges: Rare trades are cheaper for you
• The following stamps are available:
  • Close an anomaly
  • Defeat a Team Star Ambush
  • Play an Assemble effect
  • Own 1 of each badge type (gym, titan, star)
  • Own 4 unique non-consumable held items
  • Own 6 unique traits
  • Activate 3 artifacts
  • Own 7 differernt Apricorns
  • Acquire a Peach Apricorns from discoveries
  • Capture a Legendary Pokémon
  • Capture a Terastal Pokémon
• The following stamp rewards are available:
  • 1 Yellow, Red and Blue Apricorn
  • +1 Movement Speed & Hand Size
  • +1 Artifact Slot
  • +1 Movement Speed & Hand Size
  • 1 White, Pink and Green Apricorn
  • +1 Movement Speed & Hand Size
  • 3 Black Apricorns
  • +1 Artifact Slot
  • 1 Peach Apricorn
  • 1 Golden Bottle Cap
  • 1 Cherish Ball

Others

• The map tokens for Anomaly Shrines and Anomaly Villages have been temporarily removed from the table until the release of Season 1 (due to being used in other campaigns)
• The trackers for battle changes on the battle arena (weather / folklore) have been removed (due to not being necessary anymore)
• Various leftover testing bags and decks have been removed
• Scenery objects used for discovering have been reduced beneath the table (due to being copied going forward)
• The rulebook has been removed from the table and is replaced with info sheets for important content
  • The rulebook has been moved to the website
• Various tablets have been added to browse the database and rulebook
• The Navigate effect may be played at any time during a player's turn and not just at the beginning
  • The Navigate effect of ignoring encounters from Special Hidden Spots lasts for the whole turn

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where Terastal Pokémon might generate from the wrong tier and habitat during wild discoveries
• Fixed an issue where an error message was thrown whenever dice were rolled too fast in the battle arena
• Fixed a rare issue where cards taken from NPC parties would seemingly vanish when the rest of the NPC party is returned by the encounter generator
• Fixed a rare issue where trade offers would not generate and throw an error instead
• Fixed an issue where Hidden Spots can appear on the League Reception / Challenger's Plateau token
• Fixed various mismatched learnable types between evolutions on Pokémon cards
• Fixed an issue where Hidden Spots could spawn (and stack) on the same tile
• Fixed an issue where Discovery Tablets would stop working when trying to use them while a player token does not exist or is not placed on any discoverable tile
• Fixed Honedge

Introduction

Preliminary patch notes for the upcoming Season 0 release of Pokémon: Seasons. Content is subject to change until release and some content has been cut from the patchnotes to avoid spoilers or in-work features. All changes are compared to the latest Pre-Release version from March 2025.

Summary

• Major card balance update
  • All updates are available in the database
• Moved game to a bigger table is order to support all new features
• Updated the world map
  • Updated various paths and tokens
  • Added Area: Zero (underground) map
• Redesigned player area
• Improved Terastal Pokémon
• Added Traits
• Updated items and introduced new artifact system
  • Re-balanced held items
  • Extended On Demand items
  • Improved visuals
• Updated and added new Hidden Spots and Nodes
• Various discoveries have been updated
• Reworked anomalies
• Reworked world events
• Extended shrine events
• Removed world stability
• Updated and added new Keepsakes
• Updated Ruined Treasure cards
• Improved Encounter Generator
  • Optimized NPC party generator
• Updated 'Victory Road' campaign
  • Improved the start-up routine
    • Added and updated modifiers
  • Updated progression
  • Added access to Area: Zero (surface area)
  • Reworked end-game
• Many bug fixes and new QoL improvements

World Map

• Various new tokens have been added:
  • Anomaly Shrines (available via Folklore)
  • Wormhole Shrines (available via Folklore)
  • Team Star Bases (available via ???)
  • Giant Ruins (available via ???)
• Overworld:
  • Removed 3 village tokens and moved the other 9 to new locations
  • Added a Port to the south-east coast close to Artizan
    • Moved (southern) Port Cobo slightly to the west
  • Moved various Legendary Shrines to new positions
  • Team Star outposts have been removed
  • The 3 Ruins (Landmarks) have been removed
  • Various Apricorn Trees and Reefs have been shifted around slightly
  • The Paldean High Temple no longer summons Legendary Pokémon during discovery (see 'DIscoveries')
  • The Ruined Caves have been replaced with Sealed Caves (see 'Anomalies')
• Area: Zero (surface)
  • Accessible via fast-travel from Cities after unlocked through individual campaign progression
  • Contained Warped Apricorn Trees have been shifted around slightly
  • Shrines have been replaced with permanent Anomaly Shrines
  • Villages ('Base Camps') have been removed
  • Access to Zero Underground is restricted in Season 0.
• Area: Zero (underground) → Zero Underground
  • Map has been added beneath the overworld
  • Inaccessible during Season 0 through normal gameplay

Player Area

• The size of player areas has been increased
• New additions:
  • The Overview panel has been added to keep track of world events as well as hand size, movement speed and active temporary effects
  • Artifact slots have been added to to store and activate up to 5 artifacts
  • Berry Mixer has been added to to turn unused consumables into new items
  • Capture Zone for storing Poké Balls used for Auto-Catch feature
• Updated areas:
  • The Card Actions panel now supports all attached cards of Pokémon and can now use and activate most On Demand items
  • Storage area has been redesigned to include the Berry Mixer and Artifact slots
  • Ball Storage was extended by a wild slot (for alternative balls) and the Capture Zone
  • The Keepsake panel has been increased in size to support a new unlock method
  • The Progression panel has been increased in size to support various features for multiple campaigns.
  • The crafting costs of held items have been updated.
  • The Star Piece exchange has been reworked.

Terastal Pokémon

• The signature move of Terastal Pokémon is now Terastal-type, treating the move as the Terastal-type of the Pokémon.
  • When defeating (or evolving) a Terastal Pokémon, the learnable move matches it's original type and not 'Terastal'
• Wild Terastal encounters have a high chance to spawn with a Terastal-only trait (see 'Traits')
  • Abilities and consumables are more likely on wild Terastal Pokémon

Traits

• Traits have been added as a new modifier for Pokémon cards
• Traits have been added and visible at in the top-right corner of Pokémon cards (as an interactable decal)
• Traits provide a permanent buff to the Pokémon or the owner of the Pokémon
• Traits are (internally) split into various categories:
  • Battle Traits improve the stats or battle interaction of Pokémon
  • Economy Traits generate currency, items or improve trade interactions
  • Misc Traits are a collection of all other traits (such as ones that improve player stats like hand size or affect the overworld)
• Addtional characterics of traits:
  • Some traits can only be acquired by Terastal Pokémon
  • Some traits can only be acquired by o
  • On Demand items
  • Some traits are added by special events or game features (Such as Starter Pokémon, Partner Pokémon or events)
• Wild encounters have a chance to generate with a random trait
• Players can add traits to their Pokémon with On Demand items
• Some traits cannot be removed or 'minted' (Turned into an On Demand item)
• NPC parties have a chance to generate Pokémon with battle traits.
• Complete List of available traits:

Items

• Held Items:
  • Artifacts are no longer held items (see 'Artifacts')
  • The 20 (currently available) held items have been rebalanced
  • Berries and other 'one-time use held items are now referred to as 'consumables' in-game
    • Any three consumables can be used in the Berry Mixer to create new items.
  • Players may equip duplicates of consumables to their Pokémon, but each normal held item is still limited to 1
  • The following held items no longer exist:
    • Tera Raid & Alpha Token → now traits
    • Dynamax Band & Mega Stone → now traits
• On Demand Items:
  • Various new items have been added or reworked.
    • Currently 15 On Demand items exist
  • The design has been overhauled with a new pink flavour
  • On Demand items can now be activated from the Card Action panel
• Artifacts:
  • No longer considered held items and cannot be equipped.
  • Artifacts can now be 'activated' from the new artifact slots in the player bags.
    • Up to 5 artifacts can be active at any one time per player.
    • Artifacts can only be removed from a slot during (own) Village discovery for a fee
    • Form changing artifacts for Legendary Pokémon keep the effect, but have to be in an artifact slot to be used
  • Artifacts have a passive overworld / discovery / player effect that is always active as long as the artifact is in an active slot
    • Artifacts do not have any effects that can affect the player's Pokémon stats or battle interactions.
    • Blue artifacts now have passive effects too (niche effects) and can be activated in artifacts slots as well

Hidden Spots and Nodes

• Apricorn Stashes now appear in 2 variations: Normal and Small.
• Black Apricorn Stashes no longer spawn at the beginning of main campaigns, but will be added to the overworld later on.
• Bronze Bottle Caps (On Demand) have been added as Hidden Spots.
• Generic Trainer Ambushes have been replaced by Team Star Ambushes with unique rewards.
• The amount of Alpha, Tera Raid and Ambush tokens has been decreased at the start of main campaigns
• The amount of Fallen Stars has been reduced from 8 to 4 at the start of main campaigns.
• Training Target tokens have been replaced with Silver Bottle Caps, which have the same effect as the previous version of Training Targets.
• New options have been added to Mystery Hidden Spots.
• Mystery and Blue Hidden Spots will now appear more often.
• Nodes have been extended:
  • Paldean Stabilizer → Wild encounters spawn with traits more often, but are less likely to have abilities or consumables and ???
  • Paldean Destabilizer → Wild encounters spawn with abilities and consumables more often but are less likely to have traits and ???
  • Nightsky Telescope → Chance to spawn Hidden Spots nearby every turn, but whilst face-up, new Fallen Stars cannot be added to the overworld
  • Ribbon Stand → Turns a trait into a mint for a fee ("Minting")
  • Terastal Den → Nearby Apricorn Trees/Reefs are more likely to generate Terastal Pokémon more likely and ???
  • Glitter Key → Used for Glitter Anomaly (see 'Anomalies')

Discoveries

The following discoveries have been updated with new and improved features

• Villages
  • During main campaigns, players may now 'join' a village now and change their personal standing (see 'World Events')
  • The trade pool for Villages (and Ports) have been updated to include most new On Demand items
    • 'Unique' trades now have an improved visual
• Ports
  • Now have 3 trade offers to choose from
• Wild Encounters
  • Wild Pokémon may spawn with traits, abilities and consumables
    • Traits are already visible on the initial generation of encounters, but abilities and consumables only spawn after a wild Pokémon has been chosen
  • Auto-Catch no longer requires players to move Poké Balls to the tablet. Instead each player has a dedicated zone in their player area to store the Poké Balls for Auto-Catch.
    • Only 5 Poké Balls may be used for Auto-Catch at any time.
  • Alpha and Tera Raid Pokémon now spawn with their corresponding traits.
    • The additional moves of Alpha and Tera Raid Pokémon have been reworked
• Legendary Shrines
  • Legendary Pokémon will no longer spawn randomly here anymore
    • Players require the Box of Treats On Demand item to spawn a Legendary Pokémon selection
    • Every Legendary Shrine has two dedicated types. Legendary Pokémon of these types will appear here more often
    • Players can now learn the move of a defeated Legendary Pokémon when offering a Peach Apricorn. In this case, a copy of the signature move is created.
    • Almost all Legendary Pokémon can now be encountered this way. Only some special cases have alternative encounter conditions.
      • This currently includes Arceus, Eternatus, Necrozma, Terapagos, Chien-Pao, Chi-Yu, Ting-Lu and Wo-Chien, Starmobile Revavroom, Spiritomb
  • Imbalance events and rarer shrine events will spawn here more often
• Shrines
  • Can no longer generate Imbalance events on the first drawn cards
  • Shrine events have a chance to spawn a rarer event card called Shrine Rumor. 
    • These cards have unique scripted effects.
• Paldean High Temple
  • Discovering this token will yield no discovery.
  • Events and Shrine events have a chance to spawn a Legendary Pokémon (token) at this location
    • The spawned Pokémon is guaranteed to be Terastal and has a rare trait.
    • The token is removed after discovery.

Anomalies

• Anomalies will no longer spawn randomly on the overworld anymore but have 4 dedicated spots instead (where the Ruined Caves where in the previous version)
• Anomalies will only spawn when there is a spot available. If all four Sealed Caves already have anomalies, no new anomaly can spawn.
• 5 different types of anomalies exist. Each has their own negative effect and a way to be closed.
• Anomaly types:
  • Rift Anomalies represent the Pre-Release anomaly and require a battle against a strong NPC party including a Terastal Anomaly Pokémon.
  • Greed Anomalies increase the costs of all trade offers while active.It spawns with a selection of trades. Once all trades in this anomaly are done, the anomaly closes.
  • Glitter Anomalies add 3 new (random) Nodes to the overworld. Turns all Nodes face-down and shuffles them around. One of these Nodes is a Glitter Key, needed to close this anomaly. Whilst active, less new Hidden Spots will appear.
  • Distortion Anomalies reduce the amount of Pokémon encountered during discoveries. Wild Pokémon may spawn with the Distortion trait. Bringing a Pokémon with the Distortion trait to this anomaly closes it. The trait is then replaced with a random rare trait.
  • Broken Anomalies unseal the Treasure of Ruin Pokémon inside the Sealed Cave. The Pokémon is always Terastal and has the Ruined trait. Anomaly closes after the Pokémon is encountered for a battle. While active, no new Events can happen and players may not change their standings (see 'World Events').

World Events

• The World Event cards have been removed and replaced with a better solution.
• The table now has 3 global states: Weather, Folklore and Event. These are visible in the overview panel in every player area for quick reference.
• Weather:
  • 9 different weather types. Each increases the encounter rate of 2 different Pokémon types. And wild Pokémon of a specific habitat spawn with traits more often.
• Folklore
  • Made changes to overworld tokens and Shrine interactions.
  • Has a chance to turn Legendary Shrines into Wormhole Shrines or Paradox Shrines. During this period, the Legendary Pokémon found here are from a different pool (Ultra Beasts and Paradox)
• Event
  • Temporary, usually beneficial random event for all players, such as better trades, free items or more
• Weather and Folklore can be changed with Imbalance events from Shrine discoveries
• Events can randomly change or end between turns but will last at least 3 full turns when active.
• Next to these global states, a personal state has been added: Standing.
  • Every player can have a standing, visible from in the Overview panel of their player area
  • Standing give the players a unique permanent buff throughout the main campaigns
  • Players may change their standing during Village discoveries. Each village has their own unique standing.
    • Every time a player changes their standing, the fee increases. The first change is free.

World Stability

• Stability has been removed due to being too unreliable. Unique effects of stability have been reworked into other areas of the table.
• Keepsakes no longer require stability to unlock effects, instead players can spend resources to progress and unlock Keepsake effects permanently
  • See 'Keepsakes' for more information

Keepsakes

• Most Keepsakes have been reworked to include the new table features
  • Most battle bonuses have been shifted into the held item(s)
  • The amount of Keepsakes has been increased to 80.
• Exotic items are no longer only acquirable with specific Keepsakes in play. Some Keepsakes can add them permanently to trade pools though.
  • All exotic items are available through various means such as the Berry Mixer, the Event state or Random Events
• Keepsake effects can now be unlocked permanently by spending resources
  • The overworld (left) effects require Black Apricorns
  • The battle (right) effects require Star Piece
  • Additional Journey Points are required for progression and the second effect on each side requires a Peach Apricorn

Ruined Treasure Cards

• The cost of assemble effects has been increased to 4 symbols
• "Symbol" cards have been added to the deck
  • Cannot be played on their own but provide 2 symbols for assemble effects
  • with 8 Fallen Stars, each Symbol Card grants a special bonus when played
• 4 Fallen Stars will now add another symbol to all 'Symbol' cards
• 8 Fallen Stars will now add another symbol to all 'Symbol' cards
• 'Navigate' may be played at any time during the player's turn. Navigate now protects from Special Hidden Spot encounters for the whole turn.

Encounter Generator

• The Encounter Generator has eceived a visual overhaul.
• Generator logic for NPC parties has been drastically improved. 
  • Bad move combinations or useless effects are far less likely since all moves have now got specific internal tags now to allow the generator to combine moves together better
  • NPC parties are now (internally) sorted into normal, elite and boss encounters. Each have their own logic to generate fitting parties
    • Pokémon in NPC parties may be Terastal. In this case, the original Pokémon type has to match the encounter, but not the random Terastal-type.
  • Pokémon can now be generated with battle traits
  • Held items are generated with better variety and Poké Balls can be chosen for every Pokémon generated from a selection.
  • Boss NPC battles have a chance to generate with unique passive effects ("tactics")
    • to counter-play Ruined Treasure cards and make fights more challenging

Victory Road Campaign

• Players now begin with at least 3 Starter Pokémon that can evolve twice (three stage evolutions)
  • All Starter Pokémon generate with the Companion trait.
• The game starts with a face-up Nightsky Telescope Node.
• Players may freely choose a starting village from the 9 available ones.
• The campaign progression has been updated
  • Players may use Beyond Limits (Gigantamax,  Mega) at 5 badges
    • Players receive one Megamax Mark On Demand item with 5 badges. This applies the Beyond Limits traits to a valid Pokémon.
  • Players may flight to the Area: Zero survey station with 6 badges
    • All players receive a secret Ace Challenge after 4 badges. This challenge has to be completed (secretly) in order to be eligable to participate in the Ace Duel at the end of the campaign
  • Legendary Pokémon can be used in battle with 7 badges
• When the first player acquires 3/6/8 badges, a random anomaly spawns, if a slot is available
• Additional gym challenges have been added
• The Academy Ace Tournament has been changed into the Ace Duel:
  • During this campaign, players will have an Ace Score tracker available in their player area
  • The score can be increased by various mothods:
    • challenging different overworld trainer ("Challengers")
    • closing anomalies
    • defeating Team Star Ambushes
    • ???
    • ???
    • ???
  • Reaching specific milestones rewards players
  • Players with 8 badges, a specific (???) Ace Score and a completed Ace Challenge are allowed to re-challenge one gym in the region as their Ace Duel.
    • Whenever the first player completes their Ace Duel, a turn timer starts for the remainder of the game.
    • All other players have to use these remaining turns to finish their own Ace Duel.
      • All players who won their Ace Duel at the end of the game will be seated into a round robin game with each other.
      • The player with the best win rate out of all players has one final battle against a random Ace Champion
      • This final battle ends the campaign.
• Stamps have been replaced
  • Stamps:
    • Close an anomaly
    • Defeat a Challenger or Team Star Ambush
    • Play an Assemble effect
    • Discover the Cave Entrance in Area: Zero
    • Own 6 unique non-consumable held items
    • Own 6 unique traits
    • Activate 3 artifacts
    • Own 7 differernt Apricorns
    • Acquire a Peach Apricorns from discoveries
    • Capture a Legendary Pokémon
    • Capture a Terastal Pokémon
  • Rewards:
    • 1 Yellow, Red and Blue Apricorn
    • +1 Movement Speed & Hand Size
    • +1 Artifact Slot
    • +1 Movement Speed & Hand Size
    • 1 White, Pink and Green Apricorn
    • +1 Movement Speed & Hand Size
    • 3 Black Apricorns
    • +1 Artifact Slot
    • 1 Peach Apricorn
    • 1 Golden Bottle Cap
    • 1 Cherish Ball
• The game modifiers have been updated:
  • Quickstart: All starter Pokémon generate with a second move and an ability. The starter bag has been revamped.
  • Terastal Outburst: Terastal encounters are (even) more likely. NPC parties have a higher chance to have Terastal Pokémon.
  • Keepsakes: Players may now choose from 5 different Keepsakes instead of 3.
  • Travellers (4 or less players): 2 player slots are replaced with traveller slots, allowing spectators (or short-term visitors) to participate temporary with unique features.
  • Hidden Agenda: All players start with a unique random optional questline. 
  • Multiverse: All cards exist an infinite amount of times. Allowing Pokémon to appear multiple times. Move and ability cards can have duplicates.
  • Utopia: All unique Ruined Treasure cards from various Keepsakes are added to the Ruined Treasure deck.
  • Disasters: Imbalance events appear more often. The Weather and Folklore may change randomly between turns.
• Different game modes have been added:
  • Standard → the standard Victory Road experience. 2 gym challenges needed to progress. Gym fight encounter logic increases with each badge.
  • Rush → for a faster table. Gym challenges are replaced with an instant reward bag. Players start with additional resources. Special rules apply to hasten game flow.
  • Starfall → an incremental challenge mode for experienced players. See below.
• Starfall has been added as an optional incremental difficulty modifier.
  • Comes with 25 different difficulty levels. Can you get the highest Ace Score in a successful run?
  • (1): Turn limit is set to 50
  • (2): Players do not start with berries.
  • (3): Difficulty for gyms 5-8 is increased
  • (4): The game starts with 0 Fallen Stars on the overworld
  • (5): Adding additional options to shrines is more expensive
  • (6): Difficulty for gyms 1-4 is increased
  • (7): Turn limit is reduced to 42
  • (8): The game starts with an active anomaly (not Broken Anomaly)
  • (9): Initial Star Piece limit reduced to 3. Initial Hand Size decreased to 3.
  • (10): The game starts with less Special Hidden Spots. The quantity of refreshed Hidden Spots is reduced.
  • (11): Players have to complete all gym challenges instead of 2
  • (12): Players are less likely to find Random Events.
  • (13): All gym battles generate much better and calculated parties
  • (14): All wild encounters have one less option to choose from
  • (15): Turn limit is reduced to 35
  • (16): The game starts with 3 active anomalies (different ones, not Broken Anomaly)
  • (17): Most trades are more expensive
  • (18): Traits and trait-related items appear less often
  • (19): Players receive and must complete two Ace Challenges.
  • (20-25): ???

Quality of Life

• The new Encounter Generator splits both "NPC party" zones into their own and the management of them has been improved
• The Cards Action panel can now activate and process almost all On Demand items, instantly applying effects or spawning cards nearby (moves, abilities)
• The Star Piece exchange is now interactive
• The player areas now track Hand Size, Movement Speed and Star Piece limit dynamically and visually.
  • The numbers are updated at the start of player turns
• 'Found Items' events now have a button that teleports the items to a designated place in the player areas
• Wild Legendary encounters have the (so far unavalable) 'Discard' button in the arena replaced with a 'Learn' button, allowing players to create a copy of the signature move of the Legendary Pokémon to learn after defeating the Pokémon and offering a Peach Apricorn.
• Global effects that interfere with wild encounters are now visible during discovery (Nodes, anomalies, etc.)
• [Victory Road] discovering cities now disables the gym battle if the player already owns the badge
• [Victory Road] old gym challenge cards are now automcatically discarded when a player acquires a new one

Others

• All Pokémon can now learn abilities matching any of their learnable type. 
• The storage space for world events has been removed
• The storage space for roaming legendary Pokémon has been removed
• Terastal Pokémon are now always generated as copies, allowing the same Pokémon to exist multiple time as Terastal
• Legendary Pokémon encounters (except token encounters) now have at least 2 options to choose from
• All trade pools have been updated and improved
• The catch rate of wild Pokémon is updated. Special rules may apply for specific encounters.
• A huge amount of bug fixes