Changelog

Welcome to the Pokemon Odyssey full changelog page, where patch notes for both new and old versions of Pokemon Odyssey are listed. You can find details on new content added in each version, as well as bugs that have been fixed. This list is a helpful resource for checking what’s being added to the game.

Pokemon Odyssey Full Changelog

Version 4.1

• THE EXPANDED BAG VERSION IS HERE!

Creator Note: This version includes several fixes and introduces the infinite bag capacity feature. For this reason, Version 4.1 is not compatible with your previous save files. Please use this version only if you’re planning to start a new save.

Version 4.0.3

• Fixed a crash Issue during an event with Olympia in the 4th Stratum;
• Fixed an Issue with Expert Belt’s chest on Faraway Island.

Version 4.0.2

• Fixed some dialogues;
• Fixed some random freeze instances and glitches after beating some trainers;
• Removed the Friendship-increasing berry shop at the guild. Now there’s a NPC that increases the friendship of your mons to its max value;
• Fixed a bug that was preventing Leafeon, Glaceon and ||Yggdreon|| to be registered in the Dex. It’s not retroactive, so you’ll have to evolve them again;
• Added “Lullaby” to the sound moves list;
• Added “Expert Belt” on Faraway Island;
• You can now register unobtainable mons in the Dex:
  • B.B. Mawile & B.B. Kecleon -> Read Silva’s notes in his Lab in Etria during the postgame
  • Lords of the Sea -> Read Napier’s notes in her shop in Aqua Resort
• Jigglypuff and Wigglytuff now learn Rotten Egg at level 10 and Lullaby at level 30 (Lullaby was too strong during early game);
• The key item “Quest Log” has been renamed to “Story Log”;
• Mawile has been buffed:
  • HP: 60 -> 80
  • Speed: 50 -> 60
• Shift Gear has been added to Mawile’s learnset;
• Camerupt has been rebalanced:
  • HP: 80 -> 90
  • Atk: 100 -> 80
  • Speed: 50 -> 60
• Slaking has been nerfed:
  • HP: 150 -> 140
  • Atk: 140 -> 120
  • Def: 100 -> 90
• “Call: Allies” BP has been nerfed: 70 -> 50;
• Replaced Spearow and Fearow’s Defiant with Rock Head;
• New sprites for Spearow, Fearow and Feraligatr (credits to @Lodestar195 on Discord ).

Version 4.0.1

• Fixed some dialogues
• Fixed some movement permissions
• Fixed a bug regarding the Lavender Town ghost encounter in the 8th Stratum
• Fixed an issue in Jagged Mountain
• Fixed an issue with the Dex not showing the wild mons in the Sandy Caves
• Fixed an issue that was preventing Vulpix from appearing in the wonder trade
• Fixed an issue with Octazooka and Needle Arm’s priority
• Fixed an issue with Call: Owl’s effect
• Removed the double confirmation from MementoVitae

Version 4.0

• Full story is completed
• Added remaining Towns and Maps
• Lots of Bug Fixes
• And Much More

Version 3.5.4

• Fixed some movement permissions in the 5th Stratum
• Fixed some typos
• Fixed a bug causing some… weird interactions during battle (I don’t want to talk about this)
• Barboach/Whiscash: Unaware -> Swift Swim
• Sunkern/Sunflora: Added Chloropyll to its secondary ability slot
• Slightly improved Regice’s backsprite (I’ll probably make a better one for the final release)

Version 3.5.1 to v3.5.3

• All are minor hotfixes

Version 3.5

• Improved Titlescreen
• Improved New Game/Continue screen
• Improved maps and graphics
• Pokémon Compendium (Pokédex)
• Third wave of Etrian Variants, for a total of 72 regional forms
• Improved some Etrian Variants’ sprites
• Reworked gathering/mining points moreover, the sign next to them will tell you which items can be obtained
• F.O.E. boost
• Ev-Editor
• 2 new sidequests
• Type-effectiveness during battle
• Less delay between in-battle text and move animations
• Chest system instead of overworld Pokéballs
• Picnic Mode (Easy mode, no level caps)
• “Cutscene skip” function after you lose a battle during a story event
• New moves: Trailblaze, Flame Charge, Solar Blade, First Press, Volt Switch, U-Turn, Flip Turn, Phantom Force, Coil, Foul Play, Star Drop, Summer Tango, Spring Tango, Bright Song, Life Ballad, Rapid Fire, Toxic Reap, Wilting Miasma, Ladybug Rush, Volt Wings, Sealing Light, Crazed Shout, Whip Ripper, Phalanx Guard, Venom Gust, Double Hammer, Stomp Crush, Icy Aria, Frost Curse, Divine Storm, Izuna, Fukubari, Kumogakure, Tagen Battou
• Last but not least: Level Candy!
• Level Candy is a key item (unlimited use) you’ll be able to obtain by interacting with the Nintendo Switch in Nyx’s house from v3.5 onwards.
• How does it work? It’s pretty simple, lemme explain:
  • If you use this candy RIGHT BEFORE a Captain battle, your party level will be set to the current Level Cap-1 (in case you wanted to evolve your Pokémon via level up). Let’s say you’re about to fight the first Captain (Level Cap = 18) your party will be set to Level 17
  • If you use this candy BEFORE REACHING the Captain, your party level will be set to the previous Level Cap.
• BUGFIX
  • Fixed some typos
  • Fixed some tile permission errors
  • Fixed a problem regarding Choice Scarf not working as intended

Version 3.5

GAMEPLAY RELATED

• Fifth Stratum: Abyssal Shrine.
• Sixth Stratum: Frozen Grounds.
• New Sidequests.
• New Pokémon type: Aether.
• 20 new Aether type moves.
• 28 new Etrian Variants.
• Replaced the “frozen” status effect with Frostbite.
• New moves: Final Gambit, Sucker Punch, Close Combat, Air Slash, Triple Axel, Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, Tail Slap.
• Added a notification whenever a Stratum is cleared, a level cap is increased and when F.O.E.s are catchable.
• New battlesprite for Olympia, Ace Trainer (F) and Ace trainer (M).
• Modified some learnsets.
• Decreased Vitamins cost from 3000 to 1500.
• Fixed some typos.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue regarding Life Orb having no recoil;
• Fixed a crash issue regarding F.O.E.’s drops on less accurate emulators;
• Fixed a crash issue regarding the Pokémon summary screen on real hardware.

Version 2.6

• Fixed an issue regarding shiny encounters becoming Bad Eggs after being captured (GOD AT LEAST I HOPE SO);
• Removed the guaranteed shiny option from Talrega’s fountain;
• Shiny encounter rate has been set to 1/1024 (the old one was 1/8192);
• Fixed an issue regarding callAsm and battlestring functions;
• Fixed an issue regarding Choice Scarf not boosting the user’s speed;
• Fixed an issue regarding Technician not boosting low BP moves;
• Fixed an issue regarding Boomburst not being recognized as a sound-based move;
• Fixed an issue regarding Sandy Shock’s stats;
• Fixed an issue regarding some learnsets;
• New Pokémon added: Kleavor (use Black Augurite on Scyther);
• New abilities added: Moxie, Defiant, Competitive, Skill Link;
• New moves added: Shell Smash, Quiver Dance, Stone Edge, Stone Axe (70 BP, 95 Accuracy high-crit move, Kleavor only);
• Pokémon gender ratio has been set to 50% (except for male/female only species);
• Learnsets and abilities have been updated (for example Butterfree now learns Quiver Dance, Furret has Fur Coat etc etc);
• New items added: Eviolite, Rocky Helmet, Flame Orb, Toxic Orb, Life Orb, Assault Vest, Weakness Policy, Light Clay;
• Sitrus Berry’s effect updated: it now restores 25% of max HP instead of just 30 HP;
• Pokéball containing TMs are now yellow;
• New move animations for: Mysticalfire, PowerUpPunch, Aura Sphere, Head Smash, Iron Head, Poison Jab, X-Scissor, Icicle Crash, Drain Punch, Shadow Sneak, Aqua Jet, Bullet Punch, Shell Smash;
• Bag, TM Case and Treasure Pouch have now a better UI;
• Reworked TM case: you can now see which Pokémon are compatible with a determined TM before teaching it;
• You can now see your team and current game version in the “Continue/New Game” screen;
• Hard Mode bosses updated with new held items and moves;

Version 2.5

• 3 new secondary islands: Aqua Resort, Jagged Mountain and Faraway Island;
• 21 new regional variants: Rattata, Raticate, Sandshrew, Sandslash, Krabby, Kingler, Smoochum, Jynx, Ponyta, Rapidash, Aerodactyl, Meganium, Typhlosion, Feraligatr, Stantler, Poochyena, Mightyena, Barboach, Whiscash, Relicanth, Mismagius;
• Added lore text on the Third Stratum Stele, in Etria and Etria’s Graveyard.
• Revamped Pokemon icons;
• Revamped overworld graphics;
• Revamped overworld sprites;
• Mood-accurate portraits;
• Pre-battle mugshots for major boss fights;
• New move tutors;
• Initial Stamina value: 10 -> 20;
• Buffed Stamina value: 20 -> 40;
• It’s now possible to change game difficulty whenever you want by interacting with the poster at Nyx’s house;
• Explorer Kit replaced with Adventurer Codex (basically a Pokedex);
• Evolution specialist added at the Guild of Talrega (NPC that tells you how to evolve your Pokemon);
• Fixed a bug regarding shiny encounters becoming Bad Eggs after being captured;
• Fixed some movement permissions;
• General buff to underperforming Pokemon.

Version 2.0.3

• Fixed an issue regarding Salamence’s cry;
• Fixed an issue regarding Electivire’s learnset;
• Fixed an issue regarding Tinted Lens description;
• Fixed some typos;
• Doduo, Mr.Mime and Houndour added to Talrega’s wonder trade;

Version 2.0.2

• Fixed an issue regarding traded Pokémon obedience (tag me if it happens again);
• Removed the use of Field Moves (Waterfall, Dig etc etc) from the Pokémon Menu;
• Added Farfetch’d (Galar) and Sirfetch’d (check the documentation later);
• Fixed some typos.
• Fixed some movement permissions.

Version 2.0.1

• Fixed an issue regarding Dawn Stone not working on Kirlia;
• Fixed an issue regarding Link Stone not working on Haunter;
• Fixed an issue regarding Brave Bird having less PP than intended;
• Fixed an issue regarding shiny Pokémon appearance after trading with the bug catcher at the Krabby Club;
• Fixed some typos/errors;
• Fixed some movement permissions;
• “Waterfall” added to Whiscash, Quagsire and Poliwrath’s learnset.

Version 2.0 (QoL Update)

Items Added:

• Expert Belt
• Wide Lens
• Toxic Orb
• Flame Orb
• Choice Specs
• Choice Scarf

Abilities added:

• Sniper
• Technician
• Unaware
• No Guard
• Tinted Lens
• Filter
• Solid Rock
• Regenerator
• Competitive
• Defiant
• Protean (Kecleon exclusive)
• Super Luck
• Snow Cloak
• Adaptability
• Scrappy
• Unburden
  – Gluttony