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Poké Balls
Poké Balls are small, round objects used for capturing and containing wild Pokémon. They may not be used to capture another Trainer's Pokémon or a boss Pokémon.
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Mechanics
Poké Balls may be used outside of or during a battle with a wild Pokémon. When not engaged with a Pokémon, using the Poké Ball will throw it. This technique requires aiming at the Pokémon that is to be capture by placing the mouse cursor over the Pokémon. Using this technique, there is a small chance that the thrown Poké Ball will break into its component parts (Base, button, and base) if the Poké Ball misses the Pokémon and hits a block. If this happens, it is possible to collect the broken pieces and reconstruct the Poké Ball in the crafting interface.
If engaged in a Pokémon battle, during a turn, clicking on the Bag option will show all Poké Balls in the Minecraft inventory under the Poké Balls tab. This method requires no aim as any selected Poké Ball will be automatically thrown at the wild Pokémon.
Types
The different types of Poké Balls each have different effects, usually related to catch rate.
Beast Ball: 5x catch rate when used on Ultra Beasts. 0.1x for everything else.
Cherish Ball: 1× catch rate.
Dive Ball: 3.5× catch rate if the Pokémon is in water.
Dream Ball: 4x catch rate if the Pokémon is sleeping.
Dusk Ball: 3× catch rate in dark places. 0.1x for Ultra Beasts. 1x for everything else.
Fast Ball: 4× catch rate on Pokémon with 100 base speed or more.
Friend Ball: Sets a captured Pokémon's happiness to 200.
Great Ball: 1.5× catch rate.
GS Ball: 1× catch rate.
Heal Ball: Fully heals HP and status of captured Pokémon.
Heavy Ball: Increased catch rate on heavy Pokémon.
Level Ball: Increased catch rate the lower the wild Pokémon's level is compared to the player's active Pokémon.
Love Ball: 8× catch rate if the wild Pokémon is the same species and opposite gender as the player's active Pokémon.
Lure Ball: 5× on Pokémon found via fishing.
Luxury Ball: Causes the captured Pokémon to gain more happiness from happiness gains.
Master Ball: Catches Pokémon without fail.
Moon Ball: 4× catch rate if Pokémon is in an evolutionary family involving a Moon Stone.
Nest Ball: Increased catch rate on lower-leveled Pokémon.
Net Ball: 3.5× catch rate on Bug and Water-type Pokémon.
Park Ball: Catches Pokémon without fail.
Poké Ball: 1× catch rate, most basic Poké Ball.
Premier Ball: Causes the captured Pokémon to emit a red particle effect when sent out.
Quick Ball: 5× catch rate if used on the first turn of a battle.
Repeat Ball: 3.5× catch rate on species of Pokémon that the player already owns.
Safari Ball: 1.5× catch rate in Plains or Savanna biomes.
Sport Ball: 1.5× catch rate on Bug-type Pokémon.
Timer Ball: Increased catch rate the longer the battle is.
Ultra Ball: 2× catch rate.
Crafting
A few items are needed to begin making Poké Balls:
Although each Poké Ball differs, they are all crafted similarly:
- Smelt three Apricorns of the required colors for the desired Poké Ball (a list of which can be found here).
- Lay them in a row on the crafting table to produce a base from the Apricorns.
| Item | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Poké Ball Lid | Cooked Red Apricorn | 
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- Lay three iron ingots, aluminum ingots, silver ingots or platinum ingots in a row on the crafting table to produce iron base/aluminum base/silver base/platinum base.
| Item | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Base | Iron Ingot |
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| Aluminum Base | Aluminum Ingot |
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| Silver Base | Silver Ingot |
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| Platinum Base | Platinum Ingot |
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- Craft a stone button (a wooden button will not work).
- Put the lid, button, and base in a crafting interface (any arrangement will do), and a Poké Ball will be crafted.
| Item | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Poké Ball | Poké Ball Lid + Button + Iron Base |
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| Poké Ball Lid + Button + Aluminum Base |
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Note: Cherish Ball, GS Ball, Master Ball, and Park Ball lids cannot be crafted, if a ball breaks you'll receive these lids as of 9.0.0.
Other locations
Besides crafting, most Poké Balls can be obtained from special drops and shopkeepers.
Config settings
- "allowCaptureOutsideBattle": If set to false, players cannot throw Poké Balls and catch Pokémon outside of battle.
Poké Ball Tiering
As of Pixelmon 9.0, Poké Balls are now seperated into 3 separate tiers related to crafting. Each tier has a corresponding crafting yield and crafting ingredients specific to each tier. For Base Balls, the bases must be constructed out of the corresponding material for each tier whereas for Hisuian Balls, the lids must be constructed out of each corresponding material.
- Tier 1: 5 lids are crafted per recipe, the base/lid of these balls must be constructed out of iron or
Aluminium Ingots. - Tier 2: 3 lids are crafted per recipe, the base/lid of these balls must be constructed out of
Silver Ingots. - Tier 3: 1 lid is crafted per recipe, the base/lid of these balls must be constructed out of
Platinum Ingots.
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NBT tag IDs
The Poké Ball that a Pokémon is contained inside of is stored internally in NBT using an ID. This can be used when editing a Pokémon's NBT tags or specifying the containing Poké Ball with the /pokespawn and /pokegive commands.
| Poké Ball | ID |
|---|---|
| Beast Ball
|
26 |
| Cherish Ball
|
24 |
| Dive Ball
|
15 |
| Dream Ball
|
27 |
| Dusk Ball
|
18 |
| Fast Ball
|
10 |
| Friend Ball
|
6 |
| Great Ball
|
1 |
| GS Ball
|
25 |
| Heal Ball
|
17 |
| Heavy Ball
|
9 |
| Level Ball
|
4 |
| Love Ball
|
7 |
| Lure Ball
|
23 |
| Luxury Ball
|
16 |
| Master Ball
|
3 |
| Moon Ball
|
5 |
| Nest Ball
|
13 |
| Net Ball
|
14 |
| Park Ball
|
22 |
| Poké Ball
|
0 |
| Premier Ball
|
19 |
| Quick Ball
|
21 |
| Repeat Ball
|
11 |
| Safari Ball
|
8 |
| Sport Ball
|
20 |
| Timer Ball
|
12 |
| Ultra Ball
|
2 |
