Gameshark

Gameshark is a Pixelmon sidemod that alerts the player about the locations of nearby Pokémon and Pixelmon-related blocks that are of potential interest to the player.

Installation

Gameshark functions in Pixelmon versions 3.3.8 upwards and requires Java 8 to be used. Gameshark 5.0.0 is compatible with Pixelmon 5.0.0. On servers, the mod is client-side and players each have to individually install the mod to use it. The server itself does have to have Gameshark installed in order for the clients to find anything, however, clients joining the server are NOT required to have Gameshark installed. If a server has Gameshark 5.0.0 installed, clients joining with an old version of Gameshark cannot connect until they update.

Minecraft launcher

1. Download Gameshark for your version of Minecraft here.
2. Place the downloaded jar file in the mods folder.

Pixelmon launcher

1. Go to the Settings tab on the main launcher screen and turn on "Enable advanced features".
2. Edit your profile and choose the "Add Official Sidemod" option.
3. Select Gameshark from the list.

Overview

By default, Gameshark will alert the player if any of the following are found within 150 blocks of the player:

• Legendary Pokémon
• Shiny Pokémon
• Boss Pokémon
• Shrines
• PokéLoot chests

Gameshark displays its information in a box which can be freely repositioned to anywhere on the screen. Initially, when nothing has been found, Gameshark will display the player's coordinates and the biome that the player is in.

If any of the aforementioned objects or Pokémon are found, Gameshark will display them in the box. An arrow indicates the direction that the closest found object is in relative to the direction the player is facing. The distance between the closest object and the player is also shown, unless the server has disabled sending precise locations, where it will say the server's range instead of one of the highest weighted object it has found. If Gameshark finds a Pokémon, the species of Pokémon will also be displayed in the box, although the difficulty of boss Pokémon will not be displayed. However, the server can also disable sending the species name, in which case it will show as unknown. Gameshark will only find wild Pokémon; Trainer-owned Pokémon will not be tracked.

It is possible to toggle what Gameshark will search for by accessing its menu with a hotkey ('\' by default). Within this menu, it is also possible to make Gameshark search for one or more specific species of Pokémon. In order to navigate the list of Pokémon, it is necessary to search for the Pokémon's name; the list will shift down to the first Pokémon in the list whose name starts with the searched text.

The background around the directional arrow is color-coded according to what Gameshark finds.

Color	Found
Grey	Nothing
Red	Legendary Pokémon
Green	Shiny Pokémon
Blue	Boss Pokémon
Purple	Shrine
Yellow	PokéLoot Chest
Orange	Player-specified Pokémon

Commands

Note: Command syntax is displayed in the standard Minecraft command format. An explanation of this format can be found here.

• /gameshark <legendary | shiny | boss | shrine | loot | usersearch | range | updaterate | position | name | lines | boxes | enable> <value>: Toggle the config settings for whether each type of object is allowed to be found, as well as range, update rate, and what parts of the data can be sent (OP required).
  • "legendary <true/false>": Set if players can search for Legendary Pokémon.
  • "shiny <true/false>": Set if players can search for Shiny Pokémon.
  • "boss <true/false>": Set if players can search for Boss Pokémon.
  • "shrine <true/false>": Set if players can search for Shrines.
  • "loot <true/false>": Set if players can search for PokéLoot chests.
  • "usersearch <true/false>": Set if players can search for player-defined species of Pokémon.
  • "range <int>": Set radius to search in around players.
  • "updaterate <int>": Set how often to update players with new found objects.
  • "position <true/false>": Set if players can see the exact position of found objects.
  • "name <true/false>": Set if players can see the exact name of found objects.
  • "lines <true/false>": Set if players can see lines to found objects with exact positions.
  • "boxes <true/false>": Set if players can see boxes around found objects with exact positions.
  • "enable <true/false>": Enable/disable the mod as a whole.

• /gameshark fakehit clear: Clears all fake radar hits.
• /gameshark fakehit <legendary | shiny | boss | shrine | pokéloot | search> <x> <y> <z> <name>: Add a fake radar hit at position <x> <y> <z> with name data of <name> with a specified type of find.

Permissions

Vanilla permission level 4.

Config settings

All settings can be edited via ingame commands and the Gameshark GUI by pressing \.

Version history

Version history/Gameshark