Pokemon Pokopia Guide: Finding All 11 Notes And Uncovering The Grim Lore
Discovering the horrifying reality of a collapsed Kanto region is exactly the kind of environmental storytelling I have been begging this franchise to deliver.
Pokemon Pokopia takes a surprisingly dark turn with its lore. Instead of focusing entirely on cheerful creature catching and mixing bright paint colors for your base, the game forces you to reckon with what happened before you arrived. The Human Records menu serves as an encyclopedia of this tragedy.
A specific subcategory of these records is simply called Notes. There are eleven of them scattered across the ruins of the map. Some are lying plainly in the dirt, others require you to reconstruct entire buildings, and a couple are hidden behind an incredibly frustrating layer of random number generation. Collecting all eleven is mandatory if you want to fully complete your log and understand the grim history of the region.
I spent days digging through the rubble and fighting the random spawn mechanics to piece this puzzle together. I am going to walk you through exactly where every piece of paper is hiding.
Scavenging The Open World
The first four items on your list are static spawns. They are sitting in the dirt waiting for you to pick them up while you explore the various biomes.
Withered Wasteland
You will find the Improving Your Quality of Life note sitting in the northeast section of the map. Look for a ruined house containing a decaying workbench near the gate that leads into Bleak Beach.
Bleak Beach
The How to Open a Shop document is located in the southern section of this coastal region. Check the ruined remnants of a shop building located just southwest of the local Pokemon Center foundation.
Rocky Ridges
The Tomorrow's Meals note is tucked away in the southeast corner of the Rocky Ridges zone. Look for the remains of an old outdoor kitchen area. The paper is resting on a stone ledge sandwiched between a box and a broken sink.
Sparkling Skylands
Once you push into the final explorable zone, head toward the eastern edge of the map. The Observation Notes are resting on the floor right next to the massive Area Gate.
The Pokemon Center Journals
Notes seven through ten require actual manual labor. You cannot just pick them up off the ground. The game hides them inside the region specific medical facilities.
To acquire Someone's Journal #1 through #4, you have to fully restore the clinics in the Withered Wasteland, Bleak Beach, Rocky Ridges, and Sparkling Skylands. If you have been ignoring your civic duties and stockpiling resources, you need to read my guide on how to quickly rebuild Pokemon Centers. Once a building is fully repaired and operational, simply walk inside and grab the journal waiting on the counter.
Exploiting The Dream Islands
This is where the completionist grind becomes truly miserable. The Shopping List and the Schedule Management Notes are not sitting in fixed locations. They spawn entirely at random within the underground cave sections of Drifloon's Dream Islands.
It does not matter if you travel to the Eevee island or the Pikachu island. The drops are not tied to specific dolls. You just have to get incredibly lucky while digging in the dirt near the underground firepits.
I refuse to respect arbitrary time gating mechanics, and you should not either. The smartest way to farm these two specific notes is to cheese your Nintendo Switch system clock. Travel to any Dream Island, run down into the cave, and check for a collectible. If you do not find the note, run back to Drifloon and leave the island. Manually fast forward your console clock by a full day in your system settings, relaunch your trip, and try again. It is a tedious process, but manipulating the clock saves you weeks of real world waiting.
Claiming The Final Entry
The eleventh and final record requires zero exploration. The Grunt's Journal is handed to you automatically. You just need to finish the main story campaign and watch the credits roll. Once you load back into the game, the final piece of the lore puzzle will be sitting comfortably in your inventory.
