Fossils

A Fossil ore found in a gravel bed

Fossils are rocks that contain the remains and DNA of Pokémon from millions of years ago. They are obtained from mining Fossil blocks, which are found between height levels 12-50 in gravel piles. They're fairly uncommon finds so it may take a while to find one. They will generate before any gravel in the world begins falling due to gravity, which is something to keep in mind while searching for them. Unlike the gravel surrounding them, Fossil blocks are not affected by gravity.

When mined, the fossil block will yield one of the possible covered Fossils except for the covered Root Fossil, as Lileep is not implemented in Pixelmon yet. These covered Fossils can be cleaned in a Fossil cleaner by right-clicking the Fossil cleaner while holding a covered Fossil.

Fossil types

Once a covered Fossil have been cleaned, one of the nine types of Fossils will be obtained. These include:

Finding Fossils

There are two common ways to find Fossils.

One is to search caves for gravel piles between the height levels 12 and 50.
The second, more efficient one is to find an Ocean/Deep Ocean biome and look for Fossils from a boat or water/flying mounted Pokémon. Since the floor of the ocean mostly consists of gravel, Fossil blocks are open to spot from above. To mine them underwater it is useful to create an air bubble with a door.

Fossil Pokémon

By placing one of the above fossils into a Fossil machine, the process of resurrecting the ancient Pokémon within the Fossil will begin, and will take several minutes of waiting to be completed. The Pokémon that will be revived depends on the Fossil put inside the machine. Once the Pokémon is resurrected, any Poké Ball can be placed in the machine to obtain the Pokémon. All Pokémon brought back to life through the Fossil machine will start off at level 1.

Bugs

Armor Fossils do not have models inside a Fossil cleaner or Fossil machine.

Unimplemented

Root Fossils do not work in a Fossil machine. This is because Lileep and its evolution Cradily have not yet been implemented in the mod.