Pokemon Pokopia Guide: How To Farm Pokemetal And Rare Pokemetal
Industrial progression in this game revolves entirely around feeding scrap metal into a furnace, and the grind is absolutely relentless.
Once you push past the basic survival mechanics and start seriously decorating your base, you will quickly realize that wood and stone are completely useless. The late game economy runs almost entirely on Pokemetal and its highly elusive variant, Rare Pokemetal. You need the standard metal to craft basic storage boxes and foundational furniture. You need the rare stuff to summon legendary creatures and power the most important machine in the game.
The primary issue is that the game is incredibly stingy with these resources. You cannot just walk up to a rock and hit it with a pickaxe. You have to hunt down highly specific mineral deposits, cook specific meals to buff your Pokemon, and pray to the random number generator for good drops.
I spent hours running circles in the mines trying to figure out why my drop rates were so terrible. I am going to walk you through exactly where to find these nodes, how to break them, and a massive hidden buff that will save you hours of grinding.
The Core Sources Of Pokemetal
There are a few different ways to accumulate both standard and Rare Pokemetal, but they all require a significant investment of time or resources.
How To Break Pokemetal Blocks
The absolute best way to build your stockpile is by mining fragments and throwing them in your furnace. You are looking for colorful, glowing nodes called Pokemetal Blocks.
You can find these nodes scattered deep in the mines of the Withered Wasteland and the Rocky Ridges. You can also spot them while exploring the Sparkling Skylands. If you want the highest density of nodes in a single area, you need to travel specifically to Dragonite's Dream Island.
The Hamburger Meal Requirement
When you find your first Pokemetal Block, you will likely realize that your standard Rock Smash ability does absolutely nothing to it. The block is too hard.
To actually break these nodes and harvest the fragments, you have to temporarily enhance your Rock Smash ability. You do this by eating a very specific meal. You need to cook and consume a hamburger dish. A Tomato Hamburger Steak or a Simple Hamburger Steak will instantly grant you the buff required to shatter the metal blocks.
If you want to clear an entire mine quickly, do not just punch the rocks. Bring a Graveler in your active party, eat your hamburger meal, and use the Rollout ability to smash through massive clusters of Pokemetal Blocks in seconds.
Farming Rare Pokemetal Fragments
Every single time you break a Pokemetal Block, the game rolls a virtual set of dice. Most of the time, it spits out standard Pokemetal Fragments. There is only a tiny, frustrating chance that a block will drop Rare Pokemetal Fragments instead.
If you just rely on raw mining volume, you are going to spend weeks trying to gather enough rare materials. You need to manipulate the drop rates.
The Mosslax Drop Rate Buff
If you have already suffered through the infrastructure puzzles required to wake up Mosslax, that giant sleeping creature actually becomes incredibly useful.
Completing the Brighten Things Up request unlocks the ability to feed Mosslax. If you give Mosslax high quality food with a specifically bitter flavor profile, the creature grants you a temporary environmental buff. This buff massively increases your chances of finding Rare Pokemetal Fragments when you smash colorful blocks. Never go on a serious mining expedition without feeding the giant first.
Funding The 3D Printer Heist
You might be wondering why you need to hoard all this rare scrap. It comes down to endgame customization and corporate espionage.
Standard Pokemetal is used to build heavy duty storage boxes and standard base items. Rare Pokemetal is required to forge the Clear Bell and Tidal Bell, which are mandatory items if you want to summon specific legendary Pokemon to your island.
The primary resource sink for both metals is the 3D Printer. I detailed this machine heavily in my guide to visiting developer Cloud Islands. When you visit another player or developer and take photos of their exclusive furniture, you bring those photos back to your 3D Printer to create physical copies for yourself.
Printing basic chairs and tables costs standard Pokemetal. Printing complex, highly desirable objects like the developer exclusive berry trees requires Rare Pokemetal. If you want a base that looks like it was designed by a professional, you are going to have to eat a lot of hamburger steaks and start smashing rocks.
