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Released Pokémon Zirconium (DEMO 1 RELEASE)

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Demo
Project Version
0.4.15
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Created in Pokémon Essentials v18.1 (+MKXP)
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Plot
It is by chance one day that you fall into the Honnis Underground, left to fend for yourself with only a single Pokéball. It is through a rather unusual series of events that you find yourself wrapped up in a conspiracy involving the beloved "Baker's Dozen"! Will you save the region from chaos? Will you uncover the secrets of the Honnis Region? Will you beat 8 gyms and the Pokémon League in the process? ...Probably.
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The Honnis Region

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The Honnis region is a sprawling and diverse land filled with countless different Pokémon and cities filled with all kinds of interesting people and places.
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Though it contains countless secrets of its own, its most interesting feature is undoubtedly the Honnis Underground, a vast network of cave systems containing hundreds of Pokémon that cannot be found anywhere else in the region. Pokémon within it are more active than their surface counterparts, and there are some individuals that have demonstrated unusual amounts of strength and aggression.
It is said that the Pokémon within have the mysterious property of 'scaling' to the strength of your party!



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Features

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Treat Traits
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  • Special abilities granted upon consuming specific items, Traits come in a wide variety of effects that can be granted to any Pokémon!​
  • Grants varying stat boosts depending on a species' strength, allowing even weaker Pokémon to keep up with their evolved counterparts​
  • While a Pokémon possesses a Trait, it loses the ability to evolve via level-up, requiring it to be evolved through the party menu.
  • Through the use of the EZ-Oven and some recipes, you can even craft your own Pokétreats at any time!​

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New Forms and Evolutions
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  • The Honnis region contains an utterly massive amount of Pokémon, and depending on what part of the region you are in, some species will even take on entirely new forms.​
  • It appears that some Pokémon even possess entirely new evolutions.​
  • Yet what are the mysteries surrounding this mysterious 'Flux Stone'?​

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New Moves and Abilities, and Rebalances
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  • Freeze has been changed to Frostbite, as seen in Legends Arceus​
  • Certain 'weaker' moves and abilities have had their effects strengthened in some form​
  • Many Pokémon have had their learnsets expanded, and certain species that lacked secondary or hidden abilities have now gained them​
  • There are also a variety of brand new moves, items, and abilities!​




Various QOL Touches​
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  • NPCs that allow you to fast travel between previously visited towns and areas​
  • All trainer battles can be forfeited, rather than requiring a loss​
  • TMs can now be taught directly from the summary screen (and even in PC boxes) instead of requiring you to manually sift through your bag.​
  • Sun Dust and Moon Dust, held items that let you make time-based evolutions at any time​
  • Marks can also be acquired through defeating wild Pokémon instead of being limited to newly captured Pokémon​
  • HMs can now be used just by having them in your inventory​
  • IVs and EVs are visible on the summary screen​
  • Pokémon with hidden abilities have a 10% chance of appearing in the wild​
  • Egg Moves can now be taught at any Pokémon Center (costs Heart Scales)​
  • 'Shards', items that allow you to boost a Pokémon's IVs​
  • Happiness-based evolutions have a much more lenient threshold​
  • The PC-Link, a rechargeable machine that lets you heal and use the PC from anywhere.​

And Many More...!
Including...​
  • 2v1 Boss Battles against particularly powerful Pokémon​
  • Two additional shiny variations for every Pokémon​
  • Secret Bases​
  • Over 250 obtainable TMs​
  • Multiple battle facilities​
  • Raid Dens​
  • A wide variety of sidequests with exclusive rewards and encounters​
  • Wild encounters have a 20% chance of starting as double battles when possible, you can capture Pokémon even with two opponents on the field​
  • Soft level caps that slow experience gain past a certain threshold, boosted with each badge​
  • Online Trading & Battling​

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Team
Mak
Lead Dev, general stuff-doer
Vendily
Scripting
AOZero2
Composing

Playtesters
TanookiPrick, Donut, Glacierfury, saltymuch.jpg, Doop, senok, DoopyAngel, Ashwell, Count Sushik, HauntedDitto, KennyCatches, Ayrei, Mashirosakura, Lunarus​



Note: The game has not been developed with Joiplay in mind, and is not currently compatible with the app.
DOWNLOAD LINK v0.4.15 (Updated 09/11/25)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/40p6bjx4ojj3pt7/Zirconium_v0.4.15.rar/file
Mirror: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Nyywp-NODAZObvXSN7LJXMBFhuYloNL/view?usp=sharing
Contains 3 gyms; 8-10 hours of main story content discounting side content


Patch (v0.4.15)
Install by unzipping the file and combining the 'Data' folder within with the root game folder.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/anpypscdpqsc7am/Patch_v1.0.15.rar/file

Changelog
v0.4.15​
  • Added two additional ingredient options to every café​
  • Nerfed the encounter rates in various areas across the game​
  • Fixed sidequest event triggering if you lost to Tyson in Ambell City​
  • Fixed issue where TMs did not work on the regional eeveelutions​
  • Fixed softlock that would occur when accepting the “A Special Specimen” quest from a certain direction​
v0.4.14​
  • Fixed crash that would occur when picking up a Poison Barb during an expedition​
  • Added frequent checks to badge variable to prevent sidequest-related crashes​

v0.4.13.1​
  • Fixed issue with shuffled Pokémon form data​

v0.4.13​
  • Fixed pseudo-softlock on Route 7​
  • Fixed issue where Route 8 could not be accessed prior to completing the Gym 3 plot.​
  • Fixed issue where using the Palette Cleanser would cause Pokémon to end up with 0 HP.​
  • Fixed issue where Basculegion/G!Yamask evolution method wasn’t correctly triggering​
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v0.4.12.1 - v0.4.12.3​
  • Potential fix for crash in "Roaring Hills" sidequest​
  • Fixed issue with certain event lacking overworld sprites​
  • Fixed an issue with the wrong roaming Pokémon appearing in a route​
  • Potential fix for crash caused by faulty roaming Pokémon data​
v0.4.12​
  • Added a new puzzle room in the Autumn Grotto (requires Cut to access)​
  • Added new regional variant​
  • Added new TM​
  • Fixed issue where boss Gogoat would not revert back to regular stats if caught​

v0.4.11​
  • Added a couple of NPCs that elaborate on certain game mechanics​
  • Removed a few NPC trainers on routes to leave them less crowded​
  • Very slightly nerfed EXP gain for trainer battles again​
  • Changed the tracker to work for any Pokémon that has been seen instead of only those that have been previously captured.​
v0.4.10.1​
  • Fixed invisibility issue in the Ambell Colosseum​


Known issues​
Bugs​
  • A select few devices seem to randomly freeze upon starting specific wild or raid battles. The cause is completely unknown.​
  • Trainers will walk through followers if they are in the way of the player.​
  • Followers do not have their running animations work correctly (also present in base essentials).​
  • Selecting the same destination as your current location in the fly menu doesn’t refund your money w/ Fearow Guy.​
  • Beating a miniboss in an Expedition will very rarely cause the game to freeze​

Not technically bugs but​
  • Music does not loop correctly due to issues with v18’s version of MKXP.​
  • Scatterbug swarms will instantly disappear when the timer event triggers.​
  • A few Pokémon are missing one or more of their new shiny forms. This will be fixed at a later date.​




 
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Released patch v0.4.12, squashing a couple of bugs, but primarily focusing on more adding a little surprise for anyone that explores the Autumn Grotto after getting the HM for Cut.

On a related note, I managed to get the online servers updated slightly, fixing a couple of legality bugs that now allow the Eeveelutions as well as the signature moves of a few special Pokémon to be used and traded online.
 
Hello there, I apologize if this is not the place to report a bug but whenever I try to save Terrence from the Druants before the fight starts the game just closes, no error codes it just dies (on update v0.4.12)
 
Reukra said:
Hello there, I apologize if this is not the place to report a bug but whenever I try to save Terrence from the Druants before the fight starts the game just closes, no error codes it just dies (on update v0.4.12)
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Odd. Try running the game from the other executable and see if it gives a message. I'll check it myself once I'm home.

EDIT: Yeah, I can't seem to replicate it at all on my end even while trying out different combinations of badge count + difficulty modes
 
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hello this was the error code Exception: NoMethodError Message: undefined method `pbDisplayP' for #<PokeBattle_Battle:0x3ce0dc90>

Exception: NoMethodError
Message: undefined method `pokemonIndex' for nil:NilClass

Backtrace:
315:BattleScript_Main:366:in `pbUseItemOnBattler'
155:Battle_Phase_Attack:81:in `pbAttackPhaseItems'
155:Battle_Phase_Attack:70:in `each'
155:Battle_Phase_Attack:70:in `pbAttackPhaseItems'
346:ZUD_03_Battle_Display:183:in `pbAttackPhase'
315:BattleScript_Main:104:in `pbBattleLoop'
060:PBDebug:6:in `logonerr'
315:BattleScript_Main:104:in `pbBattleLoop'
315:BattleScript_Main:87:in `loop'
315:BattleScript_Main:87:in `pbBattleLoop'

ill try redownloading everything to see
sadly redownloading still causes the game crash
 
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Reukra said:
hello this was the error code

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ill try redownloading everything to see
sadly redownloading still causes the game crash
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I think I see what a potential cause was, though I'm not entirely sure why it would have triggered at the point that it did.
Dropping another .1 patch in the main post, let me know if the issue still persists.
 
So have been playing the game and its phenomenal. Have been having a blast and the trait system has been super fun. The game writing and looks are superb. However I want to report a little issue that is minor but still a bit weird. During the event that triggers after completing the leaf puzzle in the underground, the wild mon that you fight doesnt have a sprite shown at all during the cutscene. Subsequently after the fight the two wild mons that are in the room are also invisible. I have a screenshot of the event without a sprite just in case.
I am on the latest patch also just in case.
Thank you for your hardwork and the amazing game.
 
Heya, sometimes when i visit the underground or when i get into random battles in the overworld, the game just closes out and it sometimes just keeps doing it, good stuff though loving it so far.
 
Costosthecup said:
Heya, sometimes when i visit the underground or when i get into random battles in the overworld, the game just closes out and it sometimes just keeps doing it, good stuff though loving it so far.
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Try running it from the 'Game_old' executable if you can and see if an error message pops up when it happens.
 
Mak said:
Try running it from the 'Game_old' executable if you can and see if an error message pops up when it happens.
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when i try using game_old, it will not seem to open so i can check the issue and the cause of the problem, and i tried clicking open on it a few times.
 
Costosthecup said:
when i try using game_old, it will not seem to open so i can check the issue and the cause of the problem, and i tried clicking open on it a few times.
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Hm, unfortunate. Without any way to troubleshoot I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to fix it.
Every instance I know of that's had issues on starting battle doesn't seem to have any consistent trigger for it, which makes it a nightmare to check for.
 
Mak said:
Hm, unfortunate. Without any way to troubleshoot I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to fix it.
Every instance I know of that's had issues on starting battle doesn't seem to have any consistent trigger for it, which makes it a nightmare to check for.
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i'll see if i can do something to try and open the Game_old to see the issue with the constant crashing for me.
 
Mak said:
Hm, unfortunate. Without any way to troubleshoot I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to fix it.
Every instance I know of that's had issues on starting battle doesn't seem to have any consistent trigger for it, which makes it a nightmare to check for.
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after a bit of asking another person to try and open it, we cannot seem to open Game_old whatsoever and i don't know why we can't open it.
 
Costosthecup said:
after a bit of asking another person to try and open it, we cannot seem to open Game_old whatsoever and i don't know why we can't open it.
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Huh, I seem to be having trouble with it too, I've tested it before and had no issues, I might need to change the scripts around to be safe.
I think if you can rename the current 'Game' to something else and then rename 'Game_old' to 'Game', it should be able to open.
 
Mak said:
Huh, I seem to be having trouble with it too, I've tested it before and had no issues, I might need to change the scripts around to be safe.
I think if you can rename the current 'Game' to something else and then rename 'Game_old' to 'Game', it should be able to open.
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After doing that i was able to get the troubleshooting issue and able to get the issue screenshotted so i can show the issue. thank you for telling me to change it.
 
Is there save compatibility with future versions?
It's something I like to know before starting a game, especially one in the demo phase because often times the answer for demos will be no.

I'm eager to check this game out though, Voltsy's thumbnails of it are driving me nuts.
 
Im stuck after the first gym idk where to go i was in the caves but i dont have cut do i have to get it from somewhere
 
Lucifer said:
Is there save compatibility with future versions?
It's something I like to know before starting a game, especially one in the demo phase because often times the answer for demos will be no.

I'm eager to check this game out though, Voltsy's thumbnails of it are driving me nuts.
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Save data will remain compatible with future versions. Maintaining the save data of my original playtesters is one of the reasons I never properly updated past v18.

typierre7 said:
Im stuck after the first gym idk where to go i was in the caves but i dont have cut do i have to get it from somewhere
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Cut isn't acquired until after the second gym. You'll need to go to Route 3 and get the Rock Smash HM from a hiker there.
 
the main error from the troubleshoot was
Script '[interpreter]' line 246: RuntimeError occurred

Script error within event 3 (coords 15,15) map 285 (Miniboss Room):
Execption:TypeError
Message: Pfield_roamingPokemon:256:in '[]' no implicit conversion from nil to interger

***Full script:
pbWildBattle(pbGet(254),40)

Backtrace:
Interpeter:197:in 'pbExecuteScript'
PField_RoamingPokemon:256:in "pbRoamingPokemonBattle'
PField_RoamingPokemon:248
PField_RoamingPokemon:233:in 'call'
Event_Handlers:51:in 'trigger'
Event_Handlers:46:in 'each'
Event_Handlers:46:in 'trigger'
PField_Battles:330:in 'pbWildBattle'
(eval):1:in 'pbExecuteSript'
Interpreter658:in 'eval'

i do redownload the game but the same issue pops up again a bit later for some reason.
 
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I have absolutely no clue why that error would be triggering from an overworld encounter of all things but I threw together a quick fix and in the process fixed another major issue that was popping up with roaming Pokémon.

I updated the download links and threw in the patch, hopefully that should fix your issues.
 
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