Compatibility
Minecraft: Java Edition
1.20.1–1.20.2
1.16.5
Platforms
Forge
Supported environments
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Changelog
"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
andserver-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:
► Click to view all tests
- 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.
► Example of Missing No's new palette format
"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).
► Example of attachment scaling
"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]
).
► Example of axis-based scaling
"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.
► Example of anchor points
"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
andelf
palettes with Christmas Hat attachment. - Added support for palettes to use the Minecraft particle system - palette particles can now utilize vanilla particles.
► Example of particle usage
"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
andpixelmon.interaction.abilitypatch
intopixelmon.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
, andamuletCoinMultiplier
toitemconfig.yml
. - Added
bottleCapLevel
toitemconfig.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
orwalksonlava
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
andHeldItem#modifyConfusionDamage
. - Moved variables and control of dynamaxing the model of a Pokemon from the
PixelmonWrapper
class to thePixelmonEntity
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 toBattleTestRegistry
. - The
UnitTest
annotation has been renamed toBattleTest
. - 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
andBattleController#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
, andEVYields#multiply
. - Added
EVGainEvent
andEVGainEvent.Double
for handling when EVs are gained. - Renamed
BattleController#turn
toactionIndex
to better separate it frombattleTurn
. - Added
EffectBase#modifyTargets
. - Added
StatusBase#stopsEvolution
. - Added
PixelmonWrapper#canEvolve
. - Added
Ability#preventsRedirection
. - Added
Ability#modifyConfusionDamage
andHeldItem#modifyConfusionDamage
. - Fixed
PixelmonSpecies#TAPU_FINI
being a MissingNo.
Dependencies
Structory_1.20.2_v1.3.4.jarAdded via overrides
journeymap-1.20.2-5.9.18-forge.jarAdded via overrides
Structory_Towers_1.20.2_v1.0.5.jarAdded via overrides
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