🐾 Cobble Instincts

Make Cobblemon feel alive.

Cobble Instincts gives Pokémon more natural and believable behaviors, making them feel like living creatures instead of entities wandering randomly around the world.

Each species has its own instincts, habits, relationships, and reactions to its surroundings. Some Pokémon hide, some hunt, some travel in groups, and others interact with the environment or even with other Pokémon.

Exploring the world becomes a way of discovering how Pokémon behave.

🌿 What You'll See

🐛 Growing Pokémon

• Caterpillars climb trees, rest among the leaves, and can eventually transform into cocoons.
• Cocoons hang beneath leaves, often appearing together in small clusters.
• Caterpillars climb down trees headfirst, just like real larvae.

🌳 Pokémon That Blend In

• Sudowoodo can disguise itself as a genuine tree, making it much harder to notice at first glance.
• Ghost Pokémon can hide in unexpected places, waiting for you to discover them.

🕳️ Pokémon That Live Underground

• Diglett and similar Pokémon dig tunnels and spend time underground rather than constantly remaining on the surface.

🐝 Groups, Swarms & Packs

Pokémon don't always behave individually.

• Beedrill can form swarms and react together.
• Houndour can attack as a pack.
• Flocking Pokémon can flee together when threatened.
• Other species may naturally gather, scatter, or move as groups.

🦅 Predators & Prey

The world has its own food-chain behaviors.

• Predatory Pokémon can hunt other Pokémon.
• Herbivores can graze and wander peacefully.
• Prey species can react to nearby predators and scatter to escape.

🌸 Pokémon & The Environment

Some Pokémon can interact with the world around them.

• Butterfree can help stimulate the growth of plants and crops.
• Other species have unique interactions based on their natural behavior.

😴 Pokémon Have Their Own Routines

Your Pokémon aren't expected to stay active forever.

If you remain idle for long enough, your Pokémon may eventually fall asleep.

✨ Unique Interactions

Cobble Instincts also adds unusual interactions and behaviors designed to make Pokémon feel connected to the world:

• 🐚 Shellder can trigger Slowpoke's evolution.
• 🎈 Drifloon can carry you into the air.
• 👻 Ghost Pokémon can hide and behave differently from ordinary species.
• 🌱 Pokémon can interact with vegetation and their surroundings.
• 🐾 Species can react differently depending on nearby Pokémon and environmental conditions.

And that's only part of what you can discover.

🆕 What's New in 0.18.0

🪺 Improved Cocoon Behavior

• Cocoons now spawn in groups of 3–7.
• Caterpillars have a 2% chance of transforming into a cocoon when they reach the leaves.
• Cocoons can hang in different directions, creating more natural-looking clusters.

🐛 Improved Caterpillar Behavior

• Caterpillars now climb down trees headfirst.

⚙️ New Configuration Menu

• Configuration can now be accessed directly from the mod list.

🌎 A More Living Cobblemon World

Cobble Instincts isn't about simply adding more animations.

It's about giving Pokémon reasons to behave the way they do.

A forest can have Pokémon hiding among the trees. A swarm can suddenly react to your presence. A predator can pursue its prey. A caterpillar can disappear into the leaves and leave behind a cocoon.

You don't just encounter Pokémon. You observe them.