Area 3
Rocky Ridges
Pewter City valley, buried in volcanic ash
A mining town under ash, with the museum still standing. Rocky Ridges introduces cooking (rescue Chef Dente from a barrel), music (find DJ Rotom in a cave) and the Mood system — you must push the town's mood to 100 to throw the party that becomes the area's story climax. Repeating that party later, with a cannon and fireworks, is how you recruit Volcanion.
Story events here
1Important Requests are the story quests you work through with Professor Tangrowth and the area’s Pokémon. Finishing one raises the area’s Environment Level and your Trainer Rank.
Pokémon you only find here
1Most Pokémon will move into any area once you build the habitat they like. These are the few genuinely tied to this one, worked out from the areas each Pokémon lives in on Serebii’s habitat pages.
What you can find here
271Naturally occurring materials 19
these respawn, so they never run out
Terrain, plants and blocks 100
the ground, rock, grass and trees the area is built from — dig or cut them up and take them
Items lying around the area 110
placed objects, picked up once
What the Poké Balls hold 10
the Poké Balls scattered about the area open on these
Treasure you can dig up 17
what a treasure map digs up here
From the fishing spots 15
Sparkling Ripples, which Bubbly Basin calls Whirlpools
Shop unlocks by Environment Level
50| Level | Unlocks |
|---|---|
| Lv. 2 | |
| Lv. 3 | |
| Lv. 4 | |
| Lv. 5 | |
| Lv. 6 | |
| Lv. 7 | |
| Lv. 8 | |
| Lv. 9 | |
| Lv. 10 |
Raising an area’s Environment Level puts new stock in its shop. An entry marked “recipe” unlocks the crafting recipe rather than the item; click any of them to open its entry.