🥚Complete Overview of Breeding
Breeding has just been introduced with the latest Beta update 0.21. Here you'll find everything you need to know about breeding on the server!
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What is Breeding?
Like in the base Pokemon Games, breeding is a mechanic where two compatible pokemon can be placed within a Day Care to produce a Pokemon Egg based on both parents. You can hatch this egg via walking which will hatch into a Pokemon. There is loads of benefits for breeding for Pokemon like inheriting IVs, Abilities, Natures, Increased Shiny chances plus many more.
While most of the mechanics is the exact same for how it's set up in the base games, there are a couple changes to better fit with Pixelmon so it's ideal to read through it all if you don't know 100% how it all works on Pixelmon.
How to Breed Pokemon
Day Care
To initially get started with breeding, you first need to obtain a Day Care. This is easy by being accessible through the shop, or generated in relevant structures.
Once you have a Day Care, you can go ahead and place it down within your realm. You can place up to 6 Pokemon within the Day Care, being 3 pairs. Each of these pairs will function independantly, allowing you to obtain multiple eggs at once.
Before the Pokemon begin to breed, you must provide a list of items for the Day Care, based on the typings of the species involved. These can be submitted using the green tick button, with the items in your inventory.
Once the requested materials are satisified, the Pokemon will begin breeding and be placed onto a timer. Once this expires the breeding will have completed and the egg can be collected from any Day Care. During this time, you may track the progress of the pair through the breeding interface within the inventory.
Egg Groups
The next step is to get two compatible pokemon to breed with each other via egg groups. For two pokemon to breed with each other, they need to breed with compatible egg groups. You can find a list of all these below:
To find out which Pokemon fits under a certain egg group, you can use the following link to determine this: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_National_Pok%C3%A9dex_number
Ditto
Now Ditto is a little bit different in that it can breed with any egg group (excl Undiscovered and itself) meaning it is a fantastic addition to your gameplay if you plan on breeding a fair bit. As long as the other pokemon is able to be bred, then you can use Ditto to breed for a egg regardless of the gender of the Pokemon in question.
Breeding
Once you have both a Day Care and two compatible (Male and Female) Pokemon, you can place these within the Day Care and wait until the timer ends.
NOTE: The egg timer will progress no matter your current location.
You can see an example of what this looks like with the screenshot shown below:
From there all you need to do is interact with a Day Care and select the tick once again to obtain your egg. This will be placed within your party or PC.
Hourglasses
Hourglasses are a set of powerful items that assist in breeding, making the process easier through lifting certain restrictions. They may be utilised by placing them onto the breeding box within the Day Care to alleviate whatever restriction they directly apply to.
The abilities of each hourglass are as follows:
Isi's Copper Hourglass 
Skip a single item requirement for a pair of breeding Pokémon
Isi's Silver Hourglass 
Skip 25% of the overall timer for a pair of breeding Pokémon
Isi's Gold Hourglass 
Skip all item requirements and 100% of the overall timer for a pair of breeding Pokémon
Isi's Diamond Hourglass 
Skip all item requirements and 100% of the overall timer for all three pairs of breeding Pokémon
How to Hatch Pokemon Egg
Hatching the egg is incredibly easy! All you need to do is place the egg within your party and walk around with it. Each step will take away from the count you'll be able to see on the egg. Progress can be checked through use of the /eggsteps command, providing information on how much farther you must walk.
As soon as the count reaches 0, a pop-up with the egg will appear ready to be hatched, after which you will get the Pokemon in your party.
Breeding for Inherited Stats, Moves, Forms and Abilities/Natures
One of the best things with Breeding Pokemon is that you can push down certain abilities, natures, IVs and obtain special egg moves via breeding.
STATS : Only 3 random IVs stats will be pushed down to the baby pokemon (if no item is used) with the other 3 stats being randomized. You can use Destiny Knot and Battle Items to get more IVs/specific IVs pushed down instead. You can see more about these items within the next section of this guide.
MOVES : Pokemon that are hatched will start out with all moves they can learn at level 1, but if both parents know a move they can learn via lvl up then the egg will inherit this move. This is true with egg moves as if either parent knows a egg move then it will be pushed down to the baby pokemon. Additionally any moves known by the father which the offspring can learn via TMs will be passed along.
NATURES : You are able to breed down a specific nature from a parent by giving it a Everstone. If you give both parents a Everstone then which nature the Pokemon will have is randomized between the two natures. Natures changed via mints will not be breed down the new nature to the baby pokemon.
ABILITY : If you are trying to breed down a specific ability, then it's ideal that you breed with a ditto to ensure that the egg gains the ability. Otherwise you will want to breed with a female parent as you have a 80% chance for their ability (20% for it to be random) to be pushed down and a 60% chance for it to be pushed down if it's a hidden ability. This makes female pokemon incredibly valuable for breeders to have especially when working with Hidden Abilities. You can't breed a Male with a Hidden Ability with a Non-Ditto Pokemon as the ability will not be inherited by the baby Pokemon. If neither parent have a Hidden Ability, then you can not gain the Hidden Ability via breeding.
FORMS : Offspring will always prioritise the default version of the species, i.e. without any regional form, unless a parent with a regional form is holding an everstone.
POKE BALL : If both parents are of the same species, the Poke Ball passed along to the offspring has equal chance to derive from either parent. Otherwise if the parents are of different species, the mothers Poke Ball will be passed along. For genderless pairs, the Poke Ball of the Pokemon in the right slot is favoured. Exceptions include Master Balls and Cherish Balls, which cannot be passed to offspring.
GROWTH : The offspring typically inherits the growth value lying between both parents, acting as an average. However there exists some variation allowing for either growth lying directly beside the averaged value (occuring even if both parents are of the same growth).
Items used for Breeding
Here you can find a selection of items that have effects for breeding which players will find useful to be using.
Destiny Knot
You can give a Pokemon a Destiny Knot to one of your Pokemon to Hold in which this will select 5 random IV stats from both parents [not just the Pokemon Holding the item] which will be inherited to the Pokemon Egg. This means if you have IV stats that are 31, if that specific stats is selected them that will be inherited into the egg. The other IV stat that isn't being selected will be randomized.
There is no way to select what IVs are chosen with the Destiny Knot.
Power Items
Power Items [Power Weight, Power Bracer, Power Belt, Power Lens, Power Band, Power Anklet] can be given to the pokemon being bred to give a specific IV stat corresponding to the item used. Below is a table of what each of the items will pass over:
Power Weight
HP
Power Bracer
Attack
Power Belt
Defense
Power Lens
Special Attack
Power Band
Special Defense
Power Anklet
Speed
This means if you give a Power Anklet to Parent #1 and a Power Weight to Parent #2 then you will gain the respective Speed and HP stat corresponding to the parent stats.
Mirror Herb
If you want to learn a egg move to a respective Pokemon and you have another Pokemon who has this move then you can give the Mirror Herb to the pokemon that you wish to learn it and throw both of these within the Day Care. The pokemon will then be able to learn this move without needing to finishing the breeding process.
Everstone
You are able to breed down a specific nature from a parent by giving it a Everstone. If you give both parents a Everstone then which nature the Pokemon will have is randomized between the two natures. Natures changed via mints will not be breed down the new nature to the baby pokemon.
Alternatively with everstones you can use them to breed for specific regional forms by giving it to the non-ditto parent while breeding to gain the specific form.
Shiny Hunt Methods via Breeding
Masuda Method
Masuda Method is a way for players to have increased shiny chances for Pokemon that comes out of eggs. Unlike in the games where you need one Pokemon parent from another game language (i.e. English with Japanese), all you need is a pokemon with a different OT for this to work.
METHOD: Place your Pokemon that has your OT and another Pokemon of choice with a different players OT for the masuda method to work.
For just using Masuda Method for breeding it increases chances from 1/4096 to a whopping 1/585!
FAQ [Frequently Asked Questions]
Q ~ Can I breed two Ditto's together to gain a random Pokemon?
No you will not gain a egg with a random pokemon by breeding two Ditto's together.
Q ~ How can I obtain a Phione?
You can get Phione by breeding a Manaphy or Phione with a Ditto via the Day Care.
Q ~ Can you get Pixelomon exclusive textures from breeding?
As of now it's not designed to take account of custom textures Pokemon have in Pixelmon. This will be something that changes in the future.
Q ~ Can I breed two genderless Pokemon together?
Outside of ditto, you can't breed two genderless pokemon together. Parents have to be a male and a female in order to breed.
Q ~ Does hatching eggs give a dex entry?
Yes you can hatch eggs in order to gain a dex entry which goes towards
/dexrewards
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