The Pixelmon Modpack

"1.20.2 (Alpha 6)"

• The Java requirement for 1.20.2 is Java 17. This will come shipped with most launchers. For manual installation, you may need to install a later JRE.
• The minimum Forge version for this update is 48.1.0 and is required for a Pixelmon client to run.
• Worlds from 1.16.5 may not work with newer versions of Minecraft. Consider backups before updating.
• If using datapacks, consider refreshing every update for default datapack fixes from Pixelmon.

Additions:

• Added a new palette format to all palette-driven data.
• Adds the partyFaintRespawn gamerule (disabled by default, and can be edited from the World Creation singleplayer screen):
  • When this is enabled players will be teleported back to their last respawn point when they have 0 battle capable pokemon remaining in their party.
  • If keepInventory gamerule is disabled the player will drop the items in their inventory.
  • This will not apply for players in creative.
  • This will not apply for players with a temporary mode party.
• Added a button to the Discord Rich Presence allowing people to join the Pixelmon Discord.
• Added support for servers to add a button to a link of their choosing in the rich presence under config.yml:server-discord, discord-invite and server-name, defaulting to blank - if the invite is invalid, the button will not show.
• Added the Pumkin, Drash, Eggant, Strib, Nutpea, Ginema, Kuo, Yago, Touga, Niniku, and Topo berries to the creative menu.
• Added bone mode debug [F3+'], showing both bones on Pokémon models and their name.
• Added sphere model for bone display.
• Added elf palette option to Christmas ball logic!
• Adds tags for pulse, bite, bullet, dance, explosive, powder, punch, slicing, and wind moves.

Pokémon:

• Added Flutter Mane.
• Added Capsakid.
• Added Scovillain.
• Added Flittle.
• Added Espathra.

Cosmetic Palettes:

• Added 'Christmas' Pichu.
• Added 'Elf' Pichu.
• Added 'Christmas' Pikachu.
• Added 'Elf' Pikachu.
• Added 'Christmas' Raichu.
• Added 'Elf' Raichu.
• Added 'Christmas' Dratini.
• Added 'Elf' Dratini.
• Added 'Christmas' Dragonair.
• Added 'Elf' Dragonair.
• Added 'Christmas' Dragonite.
• Added 'Elf' Dragonite.
• Added 'Christmas' Munchlax.
• Added 'Elf' Munchlax.
• Added 'Christmas' Snorlax.
• Added 'Elf' Snorlax.
• Added 'Christmas' Pawmi.
• Added 'Elf' Pawmi.
• Added 'Christmas' Pawmo.
• Added 'Elf' Pawmo.
• Added 'Christmas' Pawmot.
• Added 'Elf' Pawmot.
• Added 'Christmas' Iron Leaves.
• Added 'Elf' Iron Leaves.
• Added 'Christmas' Slitherwing.
• Added 'Elf' Slitherwing.
• Added 'Christmas' Mew.
• Added 'Elf' Mew.

Structures:

• Added Water Town in Oceans, our most involved town yet!
• Added Water Gym structure.
• Added Water Town structures: Gym, Town Center, PokeCenter, PokeMart, Blacksmith, Church, Lighthouse A and B, House A-D, Kelp Farm a and B, Pier A-G, Fallback A-E, Deco A-H, Clutter A-T and Buoy A-C.
• Added Water Gym Trainers to Water Gym structure: Elite A-F, Grunt A-I and Gym Leader A-F.
• Added Swift Boat in Oceans.
• Added Yacht Boat in Oceans.
• Updated Fishing Boat, Magikarp Boat, Sail Boat and Submarine in Oceans.
• Updated land Arc Chalice structure in Extreme Hills.
• Updated Pumpkin House rarity for rarer, less common spawns.

Moves, Items and Abilities:

- Added tests for Damp ability.
- Added tests for Dancer ability.
- Added tests for Dazzling ability.
- Added tests for Delta Stream ability.
- Added tests for Disguise ability.
- Added tests for Zen Mode ability.
- Added tests for Wind Rider ability.
- Added tests for Wonder Guard ability.
- Added tests for Wandering Spirit ability.
- Added tests for Victory Star ability.
- Added tests for Aftermath ability.
- Added tests for Anger Point ability.
- Added tests for Arena Trap ability.
- Added tests for Battle Armor ability.
- Added tests for Berserk ability.
- Added tests for Cheek Pouch ability.
- Added tests for Clear Body ability.
- Added tests for Cloud Nine ability.
- Added tests for Color Change ability.
- Added tests for Comatose ability.
- Added tests for Contrary ability.
- Added tests for Cursed Body ability.
- Added tests for Magic Guard ability.
- Added tests for Magician ability.
- Added tests for Intimidate ability.
- Added tests for Shields Down ability.
- Added tests for Simple ability.
- Added tests for Slow Start ability.
- Added tests for Contrary ability and Z-moves.
- Added tests for Intrepid Sword ability.
- Added tests for Liquid Ooze ability.
- Added tests for Magic Bounce ability.
- Added tests for Lightning Rod ability.
- Added tests for Desolate Land ability.
- Added tests for Dry Skin ability.
- Added tests for Emergency Exit ability.
- Added tests for Flash Fire ability.
- Added tests for Frisk ability.
- Added tests for Gluttony ability.
- Added tests for Guard Dog ability.
- Added tests for Immunity ability.
- Added tests for Neutralizing Gas ability.
- Added tests for Storm Drain ability.
- Added tests for Sturdy ability.
- Added tests for Suction Cups ability.
- Added tests for Sturdy ability.
- Added tests for Sword of Ruin ability.
- Added tests for Synchronize ability.
- Added tests for ScreenCleaner ability.
- Added tests for SapSipper ability.
- Added tests for Aromatherapy ability.
- Added tests for HealBell ability.
- Added tests for MagnetPull ability.
- Added tests for Moxie ability.
- Added tests for MultiScale ability.
- Added tests for Mummy ability.
- Added tests for Natural Cure ability.
- Added tests for Own Tempo ability.
- Added tests for Pastel Veil ability.
- Added tests for Pick Pocket ability.
- Added tests for Prankster ability.
- Added tests for Primordeal Sea ability.
- Added tests for Protosynthesis ability.
- Added tests for Ripen ability.
- Added tests for Rock Head ability.
- Added tests for Rough Skin ability.
- Added tests for SheerForce ability.
- Added tests for SereneGrace ability.
- Added tests for ShieldDust ability.
- Added tests for PoisonTouch ability.
- Added tests for ShellArmor ability.
- Added tests for ShadowTag ability.
- Added tests for Opportunist ability.
- Added tests for Glaive Rush move.
- Added tests for U-Turn move.
- Added tests for Acupressure move.
- Added tests for After You move.
- Added tests for Assurance move.
- Added tests for Aura Wheel move.
- Added tests for Baton Pass move.
- Added tests for Belch move.
- Added tests for Bide move.
- Added tests for Boomburst move.
- Added tests for Brick Break move.
- Added tests for Sky Drop move.
- Added tests for Follow Me move.
- Added tests for Weakness Policy held item.
- Added tests for White Herb held item.
- Added tests for Sitrus Berry held item.
- Added tests for Shell Bell held item.
- Added tests for Shed Shell held item.

Spawning:

• Added Flutter Mane to Small End Islands
• Added Capsakid to Arid and Mesas during the Day. Added chance to spawn with a group of Capsakid.
• Added Scovillain to Arid and Mesas during the Day.
• Added Flittle to Savannas and Arid during the Day. Added chance to spawn with a group of Flittle.
• Added Espathra to Savannas and Arid during Day.
• Added Taiga, Old Growth Pine Taiga, and Old Growth Spruce Taiga to all forest spawning biome types.

Datapack:

• Updated PCs to only drop when mined with a Silk Touch pickaxe.
• Added a new palette format to all palette-driven data. Datapacks prior to 9.2.6 will fail to load as a result of the new formatting and optimizations. To convert your datapack, please use our converter.
• Added & implemented the "infinite" model locator officially retiring "DUAL_MODEL", "DUAL_MODEL_TEX" (etc) model factories.

          "palettes": [
            {
              "name": "none",
              "sprite": "pixelmon:pokemon/000_missingno/all/base/none/sprite.png",
              "models": [
                {
                  "model_predicate": {
                    "type": "pixelmon:always"
                  },
                  "models": [
                    {
                      "model": "pixelmon:pokemon/000_missingno/all/base/none/model.pqc",
                      "texture": "pixelmon:pokemon/000_missingno/all/base/none/texture.png"
                    }
                  ]
                }
              ]

• Added scaling to model data so we can scale individual attachments on palettes (and also preparation for removal of PQC).

                          "model": {
                            "model": "pixelmon:hat/hat.pqc",
                            "texture": "pixelmon:hat/texture.png",
                            "scale": 0.9,
                            "offsets": [
                              0.0, 0.8, 0.8
                            ]
                          }

• Added axis-based scaling for all dimensions along X, Y and Z (example, "scale": [2.0, 1.0, 1.0]).

                          "model": {
                            "model": "pixelmon:hat/hat.pqc",
                            "texture": "pixelmon:hat/texture.png",
                            "scale": [2.0, 1.0, 1.0],
                            "offsets": [
                              0.0, 0.8, 0.8
                            ]
                          }

• Added support for attaching models to other models via bone anchor points. For an in-use example, see the 'Elf' and 'Christmas' palettes.

"models": [
                {
                  "model_predicate": {
                    "type": "pixelmon:always"
                  },
                  "models": [
                    {
                      "model": "pixelmon:pokemon/172_pichu/all/base/none/model.pqc",
                      "texture": "pixelmon:pokemon/172_pichu/all/base/none/texture.png",
                      "attachments": [
                        {
                          "attachment_point": "Hat",
                          "model": {
                            "model": "pixelmon:hat/hat.pqc",
                            "texture": "pixelmon:hat/texture.png",
                            "scale": 0.9,
                            "offsets": [
                              0.0, 0.8, 0.8
                            ]
                          }
                        }
                      ]
                    }
                  ]

• Added christmas and elf palettes with Christmas Hat attachment.
• Added support for palettes to use the Minecraft particle system - palette particles can now utilize vanilla particles.

"particle": {
                "probability": 0.1,
                "options": {
                  "type": "pixelmon:shiny",
                  "diameter": 2.5,
                  "lifetime": 30,
                  "tint": {
                    "red": 255,
                    "green": 215,
                    "blue": 0,
                    "alpha": 255
                  }
                }
              }

Changes:

• Updated Water as a viable block for Pokémon to spawn of for water spawns.
• Updated boss drops to support Forge-style NBT entries.
• Updated Shrine Orbs craft into themselves with max damage (or 0 KO charges).
• Updated Shrine Orbs unrepairable so that they might not be combined into an anvil.
• Optimized rendering by removing some redundant Matrix multiplication.
• Updated Miraidon sprite.
• Updated Walking Wake sprite.
• Updated Lechonk model and animations.
• Updated Swalot and Gulpin model and animations.
• Updated Kilowattrel to now drop a Swift Feather instead of a Swift Wing.
• Updated Gholdengo to drop a Relic Silver instead of two Relic Gold.
• 20997 Updated Silicon to use the ingot tag.
• 20997 Updated all metal ingots to use the ingot tag.
• 20997 Updated aluminium and aluminium ore tags to Bauxite.
• Removed the Pixelmon Anvil, as it is no longer required to craft Poké Balls.
• Updated all instances of the Pixelmon Anvil to Minecraft's Anvil.
• Updated all Pixelmon blocks to include a Minecraft map block color.
• Updated lang to combine pixelmon.interaction.abilitycapsule and pixelmon.interaction.abilitypatch into pixelmon.interaction.abilityitem.
• 5489 Updated Ability Patches to change Pokémon with their Hidden Ability to their first Ability.
• 19808 Updated speed calculations to Generation 7+, which recalculates speed at every turn, reworking in turn Pursuit and switching mechanics.

Config:

• Added itemconfig.yml.
• Moved multiplePhotosOfSamePokemon, allowAmuletCoin, and amuletCoinMultiplier to itemconfig.yml.
• Added bottleCapLevel to itemconfig.yml, which defaults to 50.
• Updated minimum-distance-between-spawns config setting to 5 blocks, down from 15 blocks .
• Updated minimum-distance-from-centre config setting to 5 blocks, down from 18 blocks.
• Updated maximum-distance-from-centre config setting to 30 blocks, down from 64 blocks.
• Updated spawn-replacements in and around villages to be lower leveled species.
• Updated the village Golurk Iron Golem spawn replacement to be uncatchable.

Fixes:

• Fixed the normal map breaking with attachments and only using the attachment texture.
• Fixed the com.google package not being correctly relocated causing load errors.
• Fixed the direct connect screen being broken by the recent changes to the server list.
• Fixed Pokemon continually trying to chase and fight the player after a battle.
• 21209 Fixed a server crash from a fishing bobber entity or anything else interacting with a Pokémon Egg and attempting to cast it to a Player.
• 21085 Fixed wishing pieces dropped from within inventory no longer cause the player's held item to be consumed.
• Fixed Pokémon following or attacking the player while in spectator mode.
• 21218 Fixed Pokémon being unable to complete biome conditions for evolving.
• 21221 Fixed players being unable to use the Bee Spawn Egg to spawn Bee Pokémon.
• Fixed statues not being able to be animated.
• Fixed a crash caused by the starter list erroring when a player disconnects immediately after joining.
• Fixed Pokemon with the walksonwater or walksonlava tag being unable to walk on that fluid.
• 21252 Fixed medicines curing statuses outside of battle.
• Fixed improper spacing in starter lang ribbons.
• Fixed ability slots reverting on evolution when changed using the Pokémon Editor.
• 21262 Fixed a crash caused by wearing a photo on a player's head.
• Fixed random shiny sometimes failing to give a shiny with non-shiny palette listings.
• 21282 Fixed missing texture sprites for all Pixelmon Music Discs.
• Fixed Pawmo's hitbox and size.
• Fixed Lechonk's walk failing to loop properly.
• 19240 Fixed Swalot and Gulpin's animation deforming their models.
• 21225 Fixed Chien-Pao missing from raid spawning.
• Fixed Revavroom spawn level range.
• Fixed Tandemaus and Maushold dropping the wrong type of cheese.
• 21307 Fixed Delta Shards being obtainable in Mineshafts when they should not be there.
• 21296 Fixed Kingambit failing to drop Silver Ingot.
• Fixed Ultra Gingko Trapdoor tag failing to load.
• Fixed curry recipe parsing errors for Boiled Egg, Brittle Bones, Smoke Poke and Toast recipes.
• Fixed owned Minior not changing to Core form when out of battle.
• Fixed water spawning not working properly as underwater typed when spawning Pokémon extremely deep underwater.
• Fixed Pokémon not taking freezing damage when in contact with Powdered Snow blocks, except for Ice types.
• Fixed Treasures of Ruin Pokémon stat jsons requiring hyphens.
• Fixed registry entry utils like /checkspawns use backwards compatibility with un-hyphenated yet hyphenated Pokémon names.
• 21278 Fixed data loss of Day Care Pokémon caused by concurrency issues happening on login.
• 21325 Fixed gym signs deleting the item in the block instead of droping it.

Battles:

• Fixed Dancer not having the correct list of moves to copy from.
• Fixed Focus Sash, Focus Band and Sturdy never blocking confusion damage.
• Fixed Suction Cups ignoring Moldbreaker.
• Fixed multiple Of Ruin abilities stacking stat reductions in battle.
• 21280 Fixed the turn, weather and terrain information not appearing in the right side of the battle screen.
• 15176 Fixed Dynamaxed Pokemon being able to switch out, switch back in, and use Max Moves and stay dynamaxed, despite not having the appearance.
• 21239 Fixed transformed Pokémon from using the Disguise ability.
• Fixed spectators getting stuck in permanent spectator mode after spectating into a raid.
• Fixed Wandering Spirit triggering when dynamaxed.
• Fixed Wind Rider blocking Tailwind from applying.
• Fixed Wind Rider activating against Sandstorm.
• Fixed an error caused by a non-existing trainer for changing weather conditions.
• Fixed an error caused by changing forms when the entity itself does not exist.
• Fixed Moldbreaker preventing Anger point from increasing the attack stat.
• Fixed Seismic Toss, Night Shade and Parental Bond not being identified as a multi-hit move.
• Fixed a server crash coming from attack animations.
• Fixed flee moves such as Roar and Red Card sometimes randomly selecting a currently sent out Pokémon.
• Fixed Comatose not correctly identifying the Pokémon asleep when they have 0 statuses.
• Fixed Comatose not doubling the power of Hex or Wake-Up Slap.
• Fixed berries erroneously applying healing after Neutralizing Gas leaves the field.
• Fixed Neutralizing Gas not disabling extreme weathers caused by abilities such as Desolate Land.
• Fixed Gastric Acid (and similar moves) not disabling Neutralizing Gas when used.
• Fixed Imposter applying after Neutralizing Gas leaves the field.
• Fixed Shields Down blocking all non-entry hazard statuses.
• Fixed Slow Start not resetting count when Neutralizing Gas appears.
• Fixed Emergency Exit not working properly after a multi-hit move.
• Fixed Emergency Exit not properly working after damage at the end of turn, such as poison-inflicted damage.
• Fixed horde battles crashing occasionally when starting battle due to a null battle controller in their AI.
• Fixed occasional crashes in battle cased by LegacyRandomSource.
• 21258 Fixed switch-in abilities triggering too early during simultaneous switches.
• Fixed EnforcedSwitching triggering twice.
• Fixed Blue Flare and Bolt Strike boosting Fusion Bolt and Fusion Flare.
• Fixed Parting Shot soft-locking the client if used without a Pokémon to switch to.
• Fixed Pursuit only triggering if already targeting the switching Pokémon.
• Fixed Expanding Force failing to boost power on Psychic Terrain if not forcibly grounded.
• Fixed Sky Drop damaging the wrong target after Ally Switch.
• Fixed Sky Drop making contact on the first turn.
• Fixed Sky Drop allowing targets to mega-evolve.
• Fixed redirect abilities, such as Lightning Rod, not absorbing allied attacks.
• Fixed redirect abilities, such as Lightning Rod, sometimes triggering before Follow Me.
• Fixed redirect abilities and statuses, such as Lightning Rod, sometimes activating in the wrong order.
• Fixed Wonder Guard blocking Sky Drop before its attacking turn.
• Fixed Expanding Force and Thrash re-targeting by moving to their move effects.
• Fixed Focus Sash, Focus Band, and Sturdy never blocking confusion damage.
• Fixed Suction Cups ignoring Mold Breaker.
• Fixed multiple Of Ruin abilities stacking stat reductions.
• Fixed SapSipper absorbing self-targeting grass moves.
• Fixed Aromatherapy and HealBell not healing allied trainers.
• Fixed Aromatherapy bypassing Substitute and SapSipper.
• Fixed HealBell bypassing Soundproof.
• Fixed abilities logic firing before held item logic when statuses are added to Pokemon in battle.
• Fixed addreneline orb incorrectly interacting with intimidate.
• Fixed PickPocket working even after being swapped out off the battle field.
• Fixed Prankster incorrectly blocking moves when moves are enforced by Encore.
• Fixed Protosynthesis working with extreme weather.
• Fixed weather changes not calling the change to any held items.
• Fixed booster energy activating before the initial switch in at the start of a battle.
• Fixed Z-Nature Power not dealing any damage.
• Fixed stack overflow crash caused by Opportunist.
• Fixed ShieldDust not blocking all additional effects against the target.
• Fixed SheerForce not triggering for many additional effects.
• Fixed PoisonTouch not being considered an additional effect (to be blocked by ShieldDust).
• Fixed Frostbite chance ignoring SereneGrace and WaterPledge boosts in Hail.
• Fixed ThawTarget moves (ie Scald) thawing frozen targets if SheerForce is active.
• Fixed SparklingAria not curing burns against ShieldDust.
• Fixed Barb Barage being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Bide being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Bolt Strike being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Bone Club being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Comeuppance being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Double Shock being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed False Surrender being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Final Gambit being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Gear Grind being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Hold Back being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Mortal Spin being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Nuzzle being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Plasma Fists being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Raging Fury being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Strength Sap being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Terrain Pulse being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Thunder Cage being marked as a non-contact move.
• Fixed Triple Kick being marked as a non-contact move.

Translation:

• Updated Italian translation.
• Updated Ukrainian translation.
• Updated Traditional Chinese translation.

Developer:

• Added Ability#modifyConfusionDamage and HeldItem#modifyConfusionDamage.
• Moved variables and control of dynamaxing the model of a Pokemon from the PixelmonWrapper class to the PixelmonEntity class.
• Added PixelmonWrapper#attackAlly(I)V for simplifying the selection of attacking moves.
• Added BattleTestHelper#setupDoubleBattleBuilder to allow double battles.
• Changed BattleController#takeFullTurn to do a turn for each active pokemon instead of always 2.
• Added check to getGrowth to prevent scaling on null values.
• Fixed PokemonBuilder#ability not creating a new instance of the ability given.
• You no longer need to manually register battle tests with the "UnitTestRegistry" class and instead should use the BattleTestClass annotation.
• The PixelmonUnitTest class has been deleted as it is no longer needed.
• The UnitTestRegistry class has been renamed to BattleTestRegistry.
• The UnitTest annotation has been renamed to BattleTest.
• Removed the test identifier from the BattleTest annotation and changed it to instead just use the method name.
• Added the BattleTestHelper with useful functions for creating No-Op wild battle participants, quickly starting frozen battles, and skipping through frozen battle's ticks.
• Changed all battle test functions to have the BattleTestHepler parameter.
• Added & exposed BattleController#doTurnLogic and BattleController#takeFullTurn for manipulating frozen battles with a bit more ease.
• Added PokemonBuilder#ability(Lcom/pixelmonmod/api/registry/RegistryValue;)Lcom/pixelmonmod/pixelmon/api/pokemon/PokemonBuilder overload.
• Added PokemonBuilder#moves([Lcom/pixelmonmod/api/registry/RegistryValue;)Lcom/pixelmonmod/pixelmon/api/pokemon/PokemonBuilder overload.
• Added PokemonBuilder#species(Lcom/pixelmonmod/api/registry/RegistryValue;)Lcom/pixelmonmod/pixelmon/api/pokemon/PokemonBuilder overload.
• Added BattleTestHelper#createDefaultPokemon for creating a Pokemon with the default settings (level 100, serious nature, max IVs, max happiness, in a PokéBall).
• Added PixelmonWrapper#attackOpponent(I)V for simplifying the selection of attacking moves.
• Added PixelmonWrapper#attackSelf(I)V for simplifying the selection of attacking moves.
• Adds the PartyFaintRespawnEvent for canceling the above mechanic in given situations.
• Made EVYields class immutable.
• Made EVYields class a record.
• Added EVYields#setHP, EVYields#setAttack, EVYields#setDefense, EVYields#setSpecialAttack, EVYields#setSpecialDefense, EVYields#setSpeed, EVYields#addToHP, EVYields#addToAttack, EVYields#addToDefense, EVYields#addToSpecialAttack, EVYields#addToSpecialDefense, EVYields#addToSpeed, EVYields#set, and EVYields#multiply.
• Added EVGainEvent and EVGainEvent.Double for handling when EVs are gained.
• Renamed BattleController#turn to actionIndex to better separate it from battleTurn.
• Added EffectBase#modifyTargets.
• Added StatusBase#stopsEvolution.
• Added PixelmonWrapper#canEvolve.
• Added Ability#preventsRedirection.
• Added Ability#modifyConfusionDamage and HeldItem#modifyConfusionDamage.
• Fixed PixelmonSpecies#TAPU_FINI being a MissingNo.