Changelog icon Game changelog

Launcher self-repair for the sprite file

During the recent update, the sprite file update failed for some players. Once that happened, every further update kept failing — the patcher checks your existing file first and refuses to continue if it's damaged — so those players were stuck, with a full clean reinstall of the client as the only way out.

The launcher now fixes this on its own. On launch it verifies your sprite file and, if it's damaged, downloads a fresh copy, checks it, and replaces it automatically — no reinstall needed. Affected players are unblocked and updates apply normally again. This is already active; there's nothing you need to do.

Creature sprite position correction

Added a system that corrects how creature/Pokémon sprites are positioned on their tile, per facing direction, so off-centered sprites now sit where they should. It comes with two options in the client settings:


Enable Pokemon correction — turns the position correction on or off (on by default).

Fix Pokemon healthbar position — places the health/name bar neatly at the top of the sprite instead of the old fixed spot.

Heads-up: this system isn't fully finished yet — more corrections are coming in a later update. If a creature looks off to you in the meantime, please turn it off under Options ("Enable Pokemon correction").
Quality of Life — Container auto-stacking



• Items now stack automatically when they enter a container that already holds an incomplete stack of the same item — no matter how they get there: moving them by hand, buying from an NPC, looting, or quest and box rewards. If it can stack, it will.

• You can still split stacks on purpose — separating items within the same container won't auto-merge them again.


These changes will be applied after the next server restart.
Client Performance — Smoother FPS (August 12, 2026)



• Fixed an issue where your FPS slowly dropped the longer you stayed in busy, heavily-decorated areas. It now holds steady.

• Biggest improvement on the OpenGL client, with noticeable gains on DirectX11 too.


You'll feel it most in crowded, busy zones — Lanakila being a prime example — and during long sessions in the same area.
Catch tools — Fixes

After the next server restart, fixed:



Spectrier could never actually appear from the Ghost Detector's Shiny pool due to an internal name issue. It is now obtainable as intended.

Pyroar could never actually appear from the Fiery Fisher Rod's strong pool (Houndoom Bait) due to an internal name issue. It is now obtainable as intended.
After the next server restart:

Stackable items
All TMs are now stackable, plus the following items:


Pokémon boxes: red, green, purple, yellow, blue box, clone box, Shiny box, PAPOI box, INQ box, hot, aero, cute, dusty, natural, scary box, Kanto box 1–4, Johto box 1–4, Hoenn box 1–4, Sinnoh box 2–4, Kalos box 2–4

Evolution items: sun stone, moon stone, leaf stone, shiny stone, dusk stone, dawn stone, razor claw, king's rock, metal coat, dragon scale, upgrade, protector, magmarizer, electrizer, Dubious disc, Mt Coronet Fragment, TM Ancient Power, TM rollout, TM Double Hit

Tickets: experience ticket, Extra fiery fishing ticket (2h), Extra loot ticket (8h), Extra Pokemon experience ticket (12h)

Addons & cosmetics: Summer suit addon, Facebook addon, Summer addon ticket, Easter addon 2023, addon bag #2, Outfit bag, Common/Rare Aura Unlocker, Christmas aura unlocker #1, charm unlocker, Golden Pass Card, Nurse Hat, Scarf, Ancient Helmet, Golden Cross, Eyepatch, Monocle, Bloody Knife, silver pumpkin

Food & treats: Ice cream set (Shiny Psyduck, Bulbasaur, Pikachu, Psyduck, Slowpoke, Snorlax), Goomy gellato, Swirlix icecream, Slurpuff icecream, Alcremie dessert, Teddiursa cookie, Cleffa bubble tea, Mc Blaziken, Sir Sala'd, Meganium Stuffed Potato, Rainbow Feather, Beholder Book, rose encased heart

Keys: Castform access key, Key to Pokemon Paradise, Submarine key

Other: Donation gift, 15th Anniversary Cake, Ability reset, mega stone unlinker


Battle Pass
Several missions weren't counting all eligible items. Fixed — Open a Pokemon box, Use rare candies and Sell stones to NPC now count every valid box, rare candy and evolution stone.
Client


• Fixed bag/container windows that could get stuck at a tiny, almost invisible size, making them very hard to reopen. Container windows now always keep a minimum size of one full row of items, and any window already stuck this way repairs itself the next time you open it.


Roulette event — the reward rotation received a batch of new items (held item boxes, food, machines, TMs, rare candy and more). The golden round can now award a Cleffa Bubble Tea or a TM228 Fiery Tornado alongside the golden star — the golden star stays the rarest prize.

Sticker mixer — Pokémon Bistro album stickers can no longer be used in the sticker mixer.

Stackable items — the following now stack, saving inventory space:


Keys: nightmare, Haunted Forest, Christmas, Valentine, Anniversary, Carrot, Cave of Cuddles, Luminescent Crystal Maze and Voltstrike dungeon keys, key to the Ultra Wormhole, Enchanted Path Pendant.

Tickets: Extra loot (90 min / 3h / 24h / 72h), Extra experience (1h / 2h / 5h), Extra Player experience (12h / 48h), Extra catch rate (90 min / 3h / 5h / 8h / 24h), Faster fishing (12h), Extra bug hunting (2h), Frond Island, Twin Rocks and Cute Island tickets.

Food dishes: Celery Roll, Bonsly Sausage, Combusken Beef, Sudowoodo Sausage, Golden Sudowoodo Sausage, Wartortle / Blastoise / Squirtle Cioppino, Vanilla / Quince / Cherry / Apple / Blueberry / Cherubi cake, Applin pie, Dedenne dessert, Grilled Magikarp dish.

Evolution items: spin machine, water stone, thunder stone, fire stone.

Rare candies: Pineapple, Raspberry, Coconut, Hazelnut.

Addon items: Wizard hat, Adventurer Hat, addon bag, addon backpack, Christmas addon bag, season addon box.


Crusher — the crusher now accepts a large batch of old event items and stickers from retired albums, so you can clear them from your inventory. Newly accepted:


Event tokens: spooky token, Spooky Token Box, PokéSpring token, Padvent Token, Winter token, Bronze / Silver / Golden Summer Token, birthday token, Christmas token, New Year dice event ticket.

Christmas items: blue / purple / yellow / green present, Christmas candy cane, box of Christmas lights, red / green / blue Christmas bauble, Christmas cookie.

Old materials: red / blue / yellow / purple seed, carrot seeds, wood (tree / dwarf tree / yellow maple), Blue Easter key, orange egg, empty glass.

Old cooking ingredients: tomatos, turkey, egg, salt, fish, potato, lettuce, garlic.

Retired sticker boxes: Viral Vibes, Pantheon, haunted collection, maple dreams, frozen echoes, masters of the journey (+ missing), Pokémon all-stars, across the horizons, the Christmas spirit, style masters (+ missing).

• Plus any leftover stickers from retired albums.
After the next server restart:

New TMs


• TM262 Wildfire

• TM263 Blue Flare

• TM264 Firestorm


Interactive world map


• New "City names" toggle to show or hide town labels on the map. Off by default, and the client remembers your choice.

• Higher-resolution overview: the map now renders up to native 1 pixel per tile, so it stays sharp when you zoom in.
Proficiency Dex — Combo Search



• New Combo search tab: you can now search the Proficiency Dex by a combination of proficiencies at once, not just one at a time.

• Enter up to three proficiency keywords (e.g. catch charm + boosts ice type) and instantly get every Pokémon that learns them.

• Match mode toggle — All (Pokémon that have every proficiency you entered) or Any (at least one).

• Results update live as you type, and each field autocompletes against the actual proficiency text.

• Click any result to jump straight to that Pokémon's full proficiency tree.


Live now under Resources → Proficiencies: https://www.padventures.org/index.php/p/v/proficiencies
After the next server restart:



• Corpses hidden by !hide_bodies no longer block interacting with tools (Ghost Detector, Ice Hammer, and similar) on the object beneath them. A corpse that is not hidden will still block the object underneath, as before.

• Daily Calendar make-up tasks: expired tasks are now removed from the Tasks window automatically, they now work for players above level 999, and taking your very first make-up task no longer leaves you stuck.

• Fixed high-level players going over the movement speed cap after using Dive and returning to the surface.

• Fixed a crash in the launcher and the in-game News window caused by certain link formatting in news posts.
New on the website — Proficiency Dex

The official Proficiency Dex is now live on the website:



• Every proficiency in the game — 189 of them — with its icon, full description, and the list of Pokemon that can learn it (hover over a card to reveal it).

• A search box to filter proficiencies by any part of their description.

• A "By Pokemon" view: search any of the 1005 Pokemon with proficiency data and see its full 9-level proficiency tree, level by level.


The data comes straight from the game itself, so it is always accurate and up to date.

Check it out: https://www.padventures.org/index.php/p/v/proficiencies