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Poké Balls and tools

Craft Poké Balls from apricorns, live catch rules, and Geodex recipes.

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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 recipe from three iron ingots

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.

LidCooked apricornsYield
Poké Ball3 red5
Great Ball2 blue + 1 red3
Ultra Ball2 black + 1 yellow1

Catch rates

Live catch code applies these modifiers:

  • Master Ball and Park Ball always catch.
  • Species capture_rate and 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

Pokédex crafting grid

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.

Geodex crafting grid including a respawn anchor

Geodex+ crafting grid

FunctionGeodexGeodex+
Search a found biomeArrow if within 500 blocksArrow if within 700 blocks
Saved biomesUp to 5Up to 10
Found biomesAll three dimensionsAll three dimensions

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