22 of 28 balls have a full craft path (lid + button + iron base). No lid recipe: Master, Beast, Cherish, Dream, GS, and Park. Park has a ball recipe, but the lid itself cannot be crafted.
Craft a ball
Shapeless: matching lid + stone button + iron base.
Iron base is a row of 3 iron ingots and yields 5 bases.
Cook the matching apricorn (furnace, smoker, or campfire), then craft the lid.
| Lid | Cooked apricorns | Yield |
|---|---|---|
| Poké Ball | 3 red | 5 |
| Great Ball | 2 blue + 1 red | 3 |
| Ultra Ball | 2 black + 1 yellow | 1 |
Catch rates
Live catch code applies these modifiers:
- Master Ball and Park Ball always catch.
- Species
capture_rateand remaining HP. - Sleep and freeze: 2.5×. Paralysis, poison, toxic, and burn: 1.5×.
- Catching Charm in the offhand: 2×.
- Step encounters: 1.5×.
- Ultra Beasts: 0.1× on every ball except Beast Ball.
Great and Ultra share the same 1× ball modifier as a Poké Ball.
Specialty balls:
- Quick: 5× on turn 1 of a battle.
- Fast: 4× if target base Speed ≥ 100.
- Heavy: catch-rate stages by weight (409.6 kg +40, 307.2 +30, 205 +20, 102.4 no change, below −20 floor 1).
- Repeat: 3.5× if that species is already owned.
- Net: 3.5× vs Bug or Water.
- Dive: 3.5× if target is in water.
- Nest: 1 + (40 − level) / 10 when level < 30.
- Love: 8× same species, opposite gender, neither genderless.
- Dusk: 3× at night.
- Timer: min(1 + 0.3 × turn, 4) during battle.
Lure Ball fishing bonus is not implemented.
Level / Moon / Dream / Heal / Safari / Sport / Premier / Cherish / GS still use 1×.
Pokédex
Pattern IGI / DBD / IRI: iron, glass pane, red dye, battery, redstone.
Dye it 15 colors shapeless, or craft a rainbow Pokédex with a ring of dyes.
Geodex
The Geodex recipe uses a respawn anchor.
| Function | Geodex | Geodex+ |
|---|---|---|
| Search a found biome | Arrow if within 500 blocks | Arrow if within 700 blocks |
| Saved biomes | Up to 5 | Up to 10 |
| Found biomes | All three dimensions | All three dimensions |