How to Play with Friends in Pokémon Pokopia: Complete and Solve

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Playing Pokémon Pokopia with friends is one of the most enjoyable features of the game. You can spend hours building and customizing your island, turning it into whatever you imagine.

Whether you want friends to visit your island online or work together to create something new, there are several ways to play online. You can showcase your town in a sandbox mode or invite friends to see what you’ve built. Here’s what you need to know about how these options work and how to visit other islands.

How To Play Online

There are three main ways to play with friends in Pokémon Pokopia:

Invite others to visit your town
Visit a friend’s town
Play on your own Cloud Island

All these options support both local and online play. You’ll be given a shareable link or code so friends can find and join your game. Each mode allows up to four players at once.

Invite Others To Visit

This option lets friends, either nearby or online, visit your town. During their visit, they are in Spectator Mode, meaning they can’t access certain moves or use items. It’s mainly for showing off your town. If you want friends to help you build or improve your town, you’ll need to go to Palette Town instead.

Inviting friends from Palette Town allows them to assist you in developing your town, though their capabilities will be limited based on what you’ve unlocked.

Visit A Friend

You can visit your friends’ towns in person or online, but you’ll still be in Spectator Mode. You won’t be able to make permanent changes to their town, but you can work on your own Palette Town. Your progress in the main story carries over, so the more you’ve unlocked, the more you can do when visiting.

When visiting, any items held by other players, except for the host, will be removed from their inventories and stored in the Lost & Found box in Palette Town, which the host can then retrieve.

Cloud Island

Create a separate world where you and friends can do everything together—kind of like your own private server.

How to unlock Cloud Island:
You need to reach at least environment level 1 in your town after unlocking the Withered Wastelands. Then, select the Link Play option at the bottom of the PC menu to start.

Playing on Cloud Island:
Cloud Islands are unique worlds that users can access anytime, even when you’re not there. You can let others explore freely or enable Virtual Mode to restrict changes. You can set a Link Code to only allow trusted friends access.

If someone has the code, they can join and edit your island, even in Virtual Mode. You can generate a Link Code or directly enter it with the goggles to visit a specific Cloud Island.

Important notes:

Items, recipes, and Pokémon traces you find on Cloud Islands are saved.
Purchases you make on the island only work there—they can’t be transferred back. Items are stored in the Cloud Island’s PC.
You can take photos, change object modes, and 3D print items from your friends’ islands.
If you want your Cloud Island to look like a friend’s, enter their Magic Number; this copies the layout but not their items.
Only one Cloud Island can be active at a time; creating a new one overwrites the old.

Creating a Cloud Island:
Go to the Link Play menu and choose “Play on a Cloud Island.” You can search for an existing one by code or create a new one, which will generate a sharing code. Alternatively, use the goggles to type the code directly.

Once set up, you and your friends can start building or customizing your island.