Cobblemon Mod Guide: Tips, Controls & Screenshots

How to Use Cobblemon

From your first starter to competitive teams, here is how to get the most out of the mod.

Beginner guide

Pick a starter you enjoy when you first join a world.
Collect apricorns and craft a stack of Poké Balls early.
Weaken wild Pokémon before throwing a ball.
Build a Healing Machine at your base.
Store extra Pokémon in the PC and keep six in your party.

Advanced guide

Hunt Alpha Pokémon for strong, rare catches.
Use TMs to shape movesets around your team plan.
Scout Habitats with a map mod to find specific spawns.
Set up Pasture Blocks for a living ranch.
Tune spawns with datapacks on your own server.

Best practices

Back up your saves folder before every update.
Keep Cobblemon and its Kotlin library on matching versions.
Use a curated modpack for your first playthrough.
Give the game at least 4 GB of memory.

Keyboard shortcuts

Send out or recall lead PokémonR

Cycle party selection↑ ↓

Open party summaryM

Dismount while ridingShift

Default bindings can change between versions. Check Options, Controls, Key Binds, Cobblemon.

Tips and tricks

Plant apricorn trees next to your base for a steady supply of balls. Keep one land, one water and one flying mount in your party so no coastline or cliff slows you down. Night and rain change which Pokémon appear, so revisit favorite biomes at different times. When a battle goes badly, switching out is often smarter than pressing on.