Vivian (vbbcla.bsky.social)

Not a full explanation, but I think we know why Bruxish doesn't outbreak in Paldea. @vbbcla and I noticed from empirical data that Paldea outbreaks never appeared in areas 23-27 (Area Zero crater and the 4 Paldean seas). Bruxish is limited to East and West Paldean Seas.

@juanstoppable I'm not sure why you're excluding "iwa" spawners? That looks like it might be the difference between our maps.

@vbbcla i was wondering, how do you slice down the spawners? using the hattrem example anubis recently posted, i get a slightly different distribution for where hattrem *should* spawn (after excluding 'iwa' spawners.) i may also be limited by not knowing much japanese

I made detailed spawn location maps for every species in Pokémon Scarlet/Violet. These maps cover both Paldea and the DLC locations in Kitakami! Here's an example for Pikachu. These maps highlight the specific spawners in Wistful Fields as well as throughout all of Kitakami.

@LeekSeller I'm not aware of anything specific for PLA, I'd be in basically the same position as you in terms of looking for it. It might exist somewhere.

@vbbcla Thanks! Do you have something like this for PLA or do you know where I can find something similar to this for PLA?

@megarock_exe The spawners do work, they're just too far from land for land-based spawns to occur. At least, that's what it looks like.

@vbbcla So what's the reason for that? They accidentally made it spawn under the map or something? The spots are the same as claimed on the Pokedex, but even with boosters, they never appear where they should be.

@RobbiRobbRobb @Sibuna_Switch I went by the order in paldea_scene and then I arbitrarily decided that the small areas get the highest priority, in order to match in-game observations. If you find a discrepancy, I can amend the data to be accurate.

@Sibuna_Switch So I guess I'll have to get my hands on the area data with the respective 3D coordinates and check if that changes anything on my maps.

@megarock_exe I'm not aware of anyone seeing a Hattrem spawn. The issue seems to be that none of the Hattrem spawners are close enough to land, where Hattrem spawns. This is the example I'm thinking of in the README - sometimes Pokemon you expect to spawn somewhere might not.

@vbbcla So this confirms Hattrem can spawn in Paldea after all. But it's unusually rare. I certainly never saw one. What's up with that?

@mattyoukhana_ thank you Matt

You can find the maps here: spo.ink/sv_maps Special thanks to Anubis (@Sibuna_Switch) for helping me a ton, and @Kaphotics and @SciresM for the data via pkNX. Please reply to this tweet with any feedback you might have, including suggestions and corrections!

@Sibuna_Switch and i'll check out bulbapedia - thanks for the pointer! that does make sense as a place to look.

@Sibuna_Switch yea, i also spent a while trying to spawn surskits there (no encounter power) but couldn't either :) and lol @ the pokedex map, that really looks to me like it's supposed to spawn there

Why doesn't Antique Sinistea appear with Encounter Power Lv. 3 in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet? This is due to an off-by-one bug in the encounter slot determination, which decides the species of Pokémon that spawns! This bug is active as of version 1.2.0.

@Sibuna_Switch (p.s. it's funny that Surskit seemingly has a typo in the data. although you probably know about that already)

@Sibuna_Switch i also haven't heard of the "surface" problem before! in fact i just haven't really found anyone else researching this topic - i'm sure there's many people out there (and probably even a community) but i just haven't been able to find them :)

@Sibuna_Switch damn thanks sm! looking forward to checking it out when i’m back from the library :)

@Sibuna_Switch gotcha! thanks sm for the info. i’ll look around for someone who will send me a pkNX dump (that’s what i’ve been searching around for), if i don’t succeed i might just have to do it myself (i really don’t wanna mod my switch if possible)

@vbbcla My table for this single spawner in this example is still only for Violet. In Scarlet, Drifblim (and band mon Drifloon) appear at night.

@Sibuna_Switch can i find more exact encounter tables like this anywhere? (or - is there a way to find these out for myself, e.g. from a rom dump? i've been looking all over the place and i've resorted to making a twitter account lmao) x

At night, the total weight of all the Pokémon is 188, and the game rolls a number from 1-187 to decide which one spawns. The off-by-one error causes the last Pokémon (Dachsbun) to lose 1 point, and the first Pokémon (Banette) to gain 1 point. This isn't noticeable by players.