🧭 Cobblemon Realms – Version 6.0

The wait is finally over.

More than two months after Cobblemon Realms v5.9.4, Version 6.0 marks one of the largest evolutions the modpack has ever received.

During this development cycle, Cobblemon Realms has grown far beyond simply bringing existing mods together. I developed five brand-new mods specifically around the needs of the modpack, while many of my existing projects, datapacks and resource packs also received major updates for this release.

At the same time, exploration has been expanded with Legendary Monuments, numerous new dedicated structures, redesigned dungeons, new encounters, Team Rocket, new Pokémon forms and models, improved progression, major quality-of-life systems and extensive performance work.

And all of this arrives as Cobblemon Realms celebrates the 150,000 download milestone.

Welcome to Cobblemon Realms v6.0.

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🛠️ Five New Mods Built for Cobblemon Realms

Version 6.0 introduces five new mods developed specifically around Cobblemon Realms.

These projects allow important systems to be designed around the modpack itself rather than relying entirely on unrelated addons, while still remaining independent projects that can evolve outside the pack.

• Cobblemon QoL Suite: advanced PC management, hunting progression, Pokémon information, spawn alerts, native integrations and server optimizations.
• PokeSnacks Controls: better control over Poké Snack limits, standby queues, attraction effects and balancing while preserving Cobblemon's native system.
• Create: Advanced Optimization: dedicated optimization and diagnostic systems for large Create factories, packages, logistics networks, trains and processing chains.
• Pokemon Fly Transitions: cinematic Pokémon-inspired transitions for supported teleports and travel systems.
• Rustling Spots: Team Rocket Addon: Jessie and James can now interrupt Rustling Spot encounters and challenge players with dynamically generated Team Rocket battles.

These new projects join the growing collection of custom Cobblemon Realms systems already used throughout the modpack.

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🏛️ Legendary Monuments & A New Era of Exploration

Cobblemon Realms v6.0 introduces Cobblemon: Legendary Monuments, dramatically expanding the way Legendary and Mythical Pokémon can be discovered.

Instead of simply waiting for an extremely rare Pokémon to appear, Legendary Monuments introduces unique structures, special items and dedicated summoning mechanics built around individual Legendary encounters.

Depending on the Pokémon, your journey may involve collecting clues or footprints, finding special monuments, crafting ancient items, gathering Pokémon souls, navigating labyrinths, solving challenges or completing other unique requirements before the encounter can begin.

The system includes dedicated mechanics for a huge selection of Pokémon, including Pokémon such as Zacian, Zamazenta, the Swords of Justice, the Legendary Birds, the Legendary Beasts, the Regis, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Darkrai, Cresselia, Celebi, Mew, the Lake Guardians, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Arceus, Xerneas, Yveltal and many more.

Legendary Monuments is only one part of the exploration expansion.

Many additional dedicated structures have also been introduced throughout Cobblemon Realms v6.0, giving exploration, Pokémon encounters, progression and special events far more physical locations to discover across your worlds.

Legendary hunting is becoming an adventure of its own.

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🚀 Team Rocket Has Arrived

Prepare for trouble.

The new custom Rustling Spots: Team Rocket Addon brings Jessie and James into the Cobblemon Realms exploration loop.

When investigating a Rustling Spot, there is now a rare chance for Jessie or James to suddenly appear and intercept the encounter.

• Added rare Jessie and James interruptions to Rustling Spots.
• Added custom Team Rocket NPC appearances.
• Added randomized and iconic Team Rocket dialogue.
• Added character-inspired Pokémon pools for Jessie and James.
• Trainer strength dynamically adapts to the player's current Pokémon team.
• Team sizes and compositions can vary between encounters.
• Added support for both single and double battles.
• Added dedicated victory rewards.
• Stronger Pokémon and evolutions become available as trainer levels increase.
• Separate cooldowns are used for victories, defeats, disconnects and abandoned encounters.
• Added full English and French support.

If a Team Rocket battle cannot start correctly, the original Rustling Spot encounter continues normally instead of being lost.

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🏟️ Arena & League Progression

• Arena entry reactivation no longer uses a timer after leaving an arena.
• Arena entry blocks now rearm only after the player steps onto another block and then returns.
• Random tick speed is now forced to 0 only inside arena dimensions so foliage and arena blocks remain stable.
• Normal vanilla-style ticking remains unchanged outside arena dimensions.
• Reworked the League Hall host dialogue to clearly distinguish Gym Challenge PvE, Battle Court PvP and spectating.
• League progression dialogue now more clearly explains how to access the player's next eligible arena through League doors or Overworld entrances.
• Improved Badge Box tooltips with Region, Gym Leader, Type, order and obtain date.

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⚔️ Pokémon Battles, XP & AI

• Added Pokémon XP action bar popups during trainer battles.
• Added an action bar queue so XP notifications appear one after another instead of replacing each other.
• Trainer battle Pokémon XP is now awarded immediately after a KO instead of only at the end of the fight.
• Player XP and Pokémon XP notifications now have separate display options.
• Reworked global Pokémon XP calculations to better follow the official Pokémon experience process.
• When a wild Pokémon is defeated by the player's Pokémon, every eligible Pokémon that dealt damage and did not faint can receive EXP.
• EXP distribution is affected by the number of participating Pokémon, while EV gains are not divided by participant count.
• Wild Pokémon now attempt to target the last entity that attacked them.
• Added support for Cobblemon Size Variation in Pokémon aggression calculations.
• Larger Pokémon can be more aggressive by default, with new configuration options available for adjustment.
• Re-enabled the Pokémon flight mechanic. Current behavior may still be affected by recent changes to Cobblemon's Pokémon AI.

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📱 Rotom Phone

A fully functional Rotom Phone is now available in Cobblemon Realms.

Players can unlock and install applications directly onto their phone, turning it into a central tool for several multiplayer and Pokémon systems.

• Added the Messaging App, including quests.
• Added the GTS App.
• Added the Wonder Trade App.
• Added the Union Room App.
• Added the Holo-Skin App.
• Added the Safety Settings App.
• Players can now reorder installed apps.
• Added the newest PokéInfo App.

PokéInfo provides detailed information about Pokémon including:

• Base Stats
• Abilities
• Evolution
• Training
• Spawning
• Breeding
• Type Defenses
• Level Moves
• Learnable Moves

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🌌 Distortion World Dungeon Rework

The previously empty Distortion World arena has been completely expanded with a new dedicated encounter.

• Added a new altar inside the arena.
• The altar can summon Giratina's Shadow.
• Added a dedicated boss battle against Giratina's Shadow.
• Players must fight with their Pokémon while avoiding attacks inside the arena.
• Special balm can appear around the arena and can be used to help dissipate the shadow.
• Dungeon runs can feature up to three different additional objectives for bonus rewards.

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⛏️ Underground Dungeon Rework

• Rebalanced Hiker trades.
• Added new trader NPCs.
• Underground dungeon runs can now feature up to three objectives for additional rewards.

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🌴 Safari Rework

• Several Safari biomes have been reworked.
• Improved the overall exploration and encounter experience inside the Safari.

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🐉 New Pokémon Content

• Added Revavroom Starmobiles, inspired by the iconic Team Star bosses from Pokémon Scarlet & Violet. Starmobiles can be driven by up to four players at once.
• Added Black Fog, a powerful ancient form of Haunter. Black Fog can appear alongside groups of Gastly and can also be used in battle.
• Added the Medieval Mage Celebi costume. Interact with Celebi's costume slot using an Iron Ingot to apply it.
• Added several Pokémon Legends: Z-A Mega forms with currently known abilities.
• Added the Eelevate ability.
• Added the FireMane ability.
• Iron Head can transform into Behemoth Blade or Behemoth Bash when the appropriate Rusted Sword or Rusted Shield is held.

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🎨 Pokémon Models, Animations & Riding

• Completely reworked Shadow Mewtwo and Armored Mewtwo with dedicated custom models.
• Added models for all three Gigantamax Clone Starters.
• Added a fully animated Virizion, animated by Skieye.
• Added riding support for Cobalion.
• Added riding support for Druddigon.
• Added riding support for Garbodor.
• Added riding support for Terrakion.
• Added riding support for Virizion.
• Added riding support for Blacephalon.

Animation & Visual Reworks

• Jigglypuff
• Wigglytuff
• Inkay
• Malamar
• Meditite
• Medicham
• Meowstic
• Espurr
• Galvantula
• Iron Hands

Mega & Special Model Animation Reworks

• Mega Aggron
• Mega Swampert
• Cosmog
• Cosmoem
• Mega Audino
• Mega Kangaskhan
• Mega Mewtwo Y
• Mega Mewtwo X
• Mega Venusaur
• Mega Altaria
• Mega Sceptile
• Mega Charizard Y
• Mega Sableye
• Mega Manectric
• Mega Medicham
• Mega Gengar
• Ash-Greninja

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🚲 PokeBike Update

• Added bike variants for every wool color.
• Added an animated Rainbow Bike.
• Added Diamond Bikes.
• Added Emerald Bikes.
• Added Iron Bikes.
• Added Netherite Bikes.
• Added Copper Bikes.
• Added ore-style particles for material bikes.
• Bikes can now be recolored using dyes and supported material items.
• Improved bike speed.
• Improved headlight lighting.

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🎵 Music Interface Update

• Added a smoother action bar overlay with fade-in and fade-out.
• Added Page Down as a shortcut for the next track.
• Added Page Up as a shortcut for the previous track.
• Added an option to stop music when the player dies.
• Added playlist import and export using share codes.
• Added playlist sharing directly in chat.
• Shared playlists can be imported through a clickable chat action.

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🎒 New Adventure Tools

• Added new Cobblemon backpack upgrades.
• Added the PC Upgrade.
• Added the Smart Heal Upgrade.
• Added the Campfire Pot Upgrade.
• Added the Rider's Relic, increasing all riding stats by 100.

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🧬 IV & Training Changes

• Reworked Obsidian Caps.
• Obsidian Caps now reduce both base and Hyper Trained IVs by 1.
• Added individual Void Caps for each stat.
• Void Caps reduce the selected stat's base and Hyper Trained IV to 0.
• Added the new Void Caps to loot pools.

⚠️ Important: Legacy Void Caps have been removed from the game. Existing old Void Caps will be lost after updating.

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💰 Loot & Structure Rebalance

Structure Chests

• Removed leaves from structure chest loot tables.
• Reduced tool rewards from basic structure chest loot tables.
• Reduced Shulker Shell availability in rare structure chests.
• Reduced Totem of Undying availability in rare structure chests.
• Increased Heart of the Sea availability in rare structure chests.
• Added chances for all tool types to appear in rare structure chests.

Common Loot

• Increased common Poké Ball drop weights by 20%.
• Increased Great Ball drop weight by 25%.
• Increased Ultra, Luxury and Premier Ball weights by approximately 28% to 30%.
• Increased specialty Ball weights by 25%.
• Increased rare Ball weights by 30%.
• Increased Sport, Safari and Dream Ball weights by 35%.
• Increased basic healing item weights by 20%.
• Increased high-tier healing item weights by 12% while preserving their rarity.
• Increased EXP Candy weights by 18%.

Rare Chest Loot

• Increased overall Poké Ball availability so rare chests are noticeably more rewarding than common chests.
• Increased Great, Ultra, Luxury and Premier Ball weights.
• Improved Quick, Timer, Dusk, Repeat and Heal Ball availability.
• Improved Level, Fast, Moon, Dive, Safari and Dream Ball availability.
• Increased Heavy, Love, Lure, Park, Cherish and Beast Ball weighting while preserving their rarity.
• Increased availability of all Ancient Ball variants.
• Beast Balls, Cherish Balls, Ancient Origin Balls and other high-value variants remain jackpot-level rewards.

Structure Loot Integration

• Selected Supplementaries items can no longer be found in generated chests and must be crafted.
• Selected Create items can no longer be found in generated chests and must be crafted.
• Selected XP Book items can no longer be found in generated chests and must be crafted.
• Reworked loot for YUNG's Extra Structures.
• Reworked loot for Moog's structure mods.
• Added missing food loot to Towns and Towers structures.

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🌿 Rustling Spots Rework

The main Cobblemon Rustling Spots system has also received a major update alongside the new Team Rocket addon.

• Added many Pokémon across all default encounter pools.
• Improved Pokémon pool balancing across all existing spot families.
• Netherflame spots now use separate Pokémon pools for solid blocks and lava.
• Final evolutions and stronger Pokémon are generally rarer and appear at higher levels.
• Rustling Spot messages now adapt to each spot family.
• Encounter and loot messages now better match water, sand, snow, leaves, caves and other spot types.
• Reduced default Water spot spawn chance by 40%.
• Reduced default reward sound volume by 50%.
• Reward sounds now play only once per interaction even when multiple reward rolls occur.
• Removed custom ambient sounds from world spots.

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🗺️ World & Interface Improvements

• Sculk Shriekers are no longer replaced with Cobblemon Trial Spawners.
• Wardens can therefore spawn normally again through vanilla Sculk Shrieker behavior.
• Endermites now spawn normally again.
• Silverfish now spawn normally again.
• Outbreaks are now less common.
• Reorganized and improved several buttons on the left side of the full-screen map.
• Added several additional quality-of-life improvements for world exploration.

FTB Chunks

• Added client settings access directly from the chunk claim screen.
• Added server settings access directly from the chunk claim screen.
• This remains useful when access to the large map is restricted by game-stage progression.

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🇫🇷 Localization

• Added a French translation for Myths and Legends.

Thanks to FabLeKebab from the Cobblemon Realms Discord community for the translation.

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🔥 Performance & Backend Improvements

• Updated NeoForge to 21.1.248.
• Optimized starter flow checks to avoid frequent recursive Cobblemon player-data scans.
• Reduced repeated NPC processing when multiple players are near the same NPC.
• NPC look-at logic now processes each tracked NPC once and selects the nearest player.
• Split arena maintenance tasks by frequency to reduce per-tick workload.
• Shop stock persistence now uses in-memory dirty state with batched saves.
• Sell-limit persistence now uses in-memory dirty state with batched saves.
• Wallet history persistence now uses in-memory dirty state with batched saves.
• Reduced Create package scanning inside the Realms dimension by tracking package entities directly.
• Occasional recovery scans remain available for Create packages when required.
• Updated wallet transaction history labels to use existing localization keys.

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🛠️ Fixes

Arenas, Spawn & NPCs

• Fixed NPC dialogue portrait positioning so character models are better aligned inside dialogue popups.
• Fixed arena entry blocks immediately retriggering teleportation when a player returned onto the same block.
• Fixed right-clicking empty space being blocked at spawn in the Realms world.
• Food, Poké Balls and right-click reward items can now be used correctly without breaking spawn protection.
• Fixed arena rooms not being released correctly after players left.
• Fixed players being sent into higher-numbered arena rooms while earlier rooms were already available.
• Fixed potential disk read spam during starter selection checks.
• Fixed duplicated NPC rotation and roaming processing caused by overlapping player scan areas.

Pokémon, Battles & XP

• Fixed incorrect global Pokémon XP gain calculations.
• Fixed Pokémon receiving trainer battle XP without action bar feedback.
• Fixed XP action bar messages replacing each other too quickly.
• Fixed trainer battle Pokémon XP conflicting with end-of-battle rewards.
• Fixed Pokémon only gaining EXP from melee attacks.
• Fixed Meloetta having no drops.
• Fixed a crash involving Mewtwo.
• Fixed several species additions.
• Fixed untradable Necrozma forms being tradable through Lunarizer mechanics.
• Fixed solo fusion items not correctly applying their effects.
• Fixed the Rotom model.

Pokédex

• Fixed a major client freeze caused by large Pokédex updates.

Shop & Wallet Storage

• Added useful error logging for previously silent JSON read and write failures.
• Fixed full JSON files being rewritten after every shop transaction.
• Fixed full JSON files being rewritten after every wallet history update.
• Fixed non-atomic JSON writes for shop stock, sell limits and wallet history.
• Fixed a hardcoded French fallback string in sell-limit time displays.
• Fixed old hardcoded wallet history labels such as deposit and withdrawal currency names.

Advancements & Inventory

• Fixed incorrect advancements referencing older Elite, Team Magma and other trainers from previous RCT and Arena systems.
• Fixed missing sorting buttons in chests.

World Creation

• Fixed a possible crash during world creation settings validation.
• Fixed another crash during world creation.

Particles

• Cascade particles no longer accumulate while the game is paused.
• Optimized several particle systems.

Curtains

• Fixed possible client/server desynchronization when placing curtains.
• Fixed ghost curtain blocks appearing client-side and disappearing after relogging.

Cobble Furnies

• Fixed the Stove recipe book incorrectly treating player inventory slots as crafting slots.
• Fixed recipe-book crafting clearing or moving unrelated inventory items.
• Stove recipe-book ingredient scanning now checks only the actual 3x3 crafting grid.
• Clearing a Stove recipe now clears only the crafting grid instead of the entire Stove container.

Rustling Spots

• Fixed some spots displaying incorrect environment text.
• Fixed Water spots sometimes using grass-themed messages.
• Fixed automatic spot spawning causing chunk loading and server lag.
• Fixed surface spots not spawning correctly following the chunk-loading optimization.
• Fixed Cave spots incorrectly appearing to take priority over surface spots.
• Fixed reward sounds being heard several times from a single interaction.
• Fixed Lava spots selecting unsafe terrestrial Fire-type Pokémon.
• Fixed missing Pokémon that could never appear in their intended default pools.

Breeding

• Fixed Bug/Fairy Eggs displaying as Bug/Electric Eggs.
• Improved breeding performance, particularly for automation setups interacting with storage systems such as Sophisticated Storage.

Localization

• Fixed broken French accented characters in several translations.
• Fixed broken accented characters in action bar messages.

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📦 Our Story Project Updates

Alongside the five completely new projects, many existing Our Story projects have also been updated for Cobblemon Realms v6.0.

• Music Interface: new playlist sharing, improved controls and smoother overlays.
• PokeBike: new bike variants, recoloring, particles and riding improvements.
• Cobblemon Rustling Spots: expanded pools, balancing and environment improvements.
• Cobblemon Realms – Biome Expanded Spawns: massive biome and world-generation compatibility expansion.
• PokeBadges: improved badge information and management.
• Enhanced Pokemon Boss Bars: refreshed Pokémon-inspired boss bar visuals.
• Cobblemon QoL Suite: brand-new all-in-one Cobblemon quality-of-life system.
• PokeSnacks Controls: brand-new Poké Snack balancing and control system.
• Create: Advanced Optimization: brand-new Create performance and diagnostic system.
• Pokemon Fly Transitions: brand-new cinematic travel transition system.
• Rustling Spots: Team Rocket Addon: brand-new Jessie and James encounter system.

Many other bundled mods, resource packs and shaders have also been updated to newer compatible versions for Cobblemon Realms v6.0.

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➕ Added Mods

• Cobblemon: Legendary Monuments: new structures, legendary encounter mechanics, summoning systems and special progression items.
• Cobblemon QoL Suite: custom mod developed for Cobblemon Realms.
• PokeSnacks Controls: custom mod developed for Cobblemon Realms.
• Create: Advanced Optimization: custom mod developed for Cobblemon Realms.
• Pokemon Fly Transitions: custom mod developed for Cobblemon Realms.
• Rustling Spots: Team Rocket Addon: custom mod developed for Cobblemon Realms.
• Sodium Extra: additional graphics and Sodium configuration options.
• Create Ultimine: additional mining integration for Create.
• Cobblemon: Trainers Backpack: new Pokémon-oriented backpack upgrades.
• Create: Enchantment Industry: new Create-based enchanting and experience processing.
• Create: Connected: additional Create building and connectivity features.

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⏸️ Temporarily Removed Mods

• Distraction Free Recipes: temporarily removed.
• Cosmetic Megas: temporarily removed due to current issues.

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🗑️ Removed Mods

Version 6.0 also performs a major cleanup of the modpack. Several obsolete, redundant, unused or replaced mods have been removed to reduce overlapping systems and keep the pack easier to maintain.

• Equipment Compare
• Cobblemon Counter
• Cobblemon Tim Core
• Cobblemon Unchained
• Cobblemon Spawn Notification
• EpheroLib
• Pet Your Cobblemon
• Enchantment Level Language Patch
• EnchantmentLevelBreak
• Loot Integrations: Dungeons and Taverns
• Sodium/Embeddium Extras
• Sodium/Embeddium Options Mod Compat
• Cobblemon: Extra Structures
• Immersive Engineering
• Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks
• AU: Immersive Engineering
• Tomtaru's Cobblemon & Immersive Engineering Tweaks
• FTB Ranks
• Cobblemon Integrations
• Cobblemon Firework Capsules
• Easy Mob Farm
• Chunky Border
• Nether Chested
• Feature Recycler
• Cobblemon Info for REI / EMI / JEI
• Cobblemon Mass Outbreaks
• Cobblemon Smartphone
• Cobblemon: Parting Gifts
• Server Country Flags

Replaced Systems

• Cobblemon Info for REI / EMI / JEI has been replaced by the new Cobblemon QoL Suite information systems.
• Cobblemon Smartphone has been replaced by the new Rotom Phone experience.

Immersive Engineering Removal

Immersive Engineering has now been permanently removed from Cobblemon Realms.

Its dedicated addons, integrations, custom recipes and custom loot have also been removed from the modpack.

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💙 Thank You for 150,000 Downloads

Cobblemon Realms has changed enormously since its first release.

Version 6.0 represents an important step toward making the modpack more than a collection of compatible mods. More systems are now developed specifically around the experience I want Cobblemon Realms to provide, while major community projects such as Legendary Monuments allow exploration and Legendary progression to become deeper than ever before.

Between the five new custom mods, Team Rocket, Legendary Monuments, new structures, dungeon reworks, the Rotom Phone, new Pokémon content, updated riding systems, major loot changes and extensive technical improvements, there is a huge amount of new content waiting to be discovered.

Thank you to everyone who plays the modpack, reports issues, sends suggestions, creates content, supports the project and helps the Cobblemon Realms community continue to grow.

150,000 downloads later, the next chapter begins.

Welcome to Cobblemon Realms v6.0.