The Pixelmon Modpack

"1.20.2 (Alpha 6)"

• The Java requirement for 1.20.2 is Java 17. This will come shipped with most launchers. For manual installation, you may need to install a later JRE.
• The minimum Forge version for this update is 48.0.30 and is required for a Pixelmon client to run.
• Worlds from 1.16.5 may not work with newer versions of Minecraft. Consider backups before updating..
• If using datapacks, consider refreshing every update for default datapack fixes from Pixelmon.

Additions:

• Added the Witch Hat cosmetic.
• Added a Witch Hat to all PokéStop. Happy Halloween!
• Added comments to most of the Pixelmon config settings.
• Added /statuespawn <spec> command which spawns in a statute with a given spec.
• Added new specs for statues including:
  • animated, animate
  • annimationframe, frame
  • animationtype
  • bbmode, boundingboxmode
  • canmove, movement
  • statuetexture, texturetype, texture
• Added support for existing Pokémon requirements to statues including:
  • Crowned
  • Egg Group
  • Form
  • Gender
  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Growth Stage
  • HasSpecFlag
  • Lake Trio
  • Legendary
  • Logical AND, NOT and OR
  • Nickname
  • Palette
  • Position
  • Primal Evolution
  • Random Species
  • Shiny
  • Species
  • Type
  • Ultrabeast
• Implemented support for BMD2.
• Implemented support for GeckoLib.
• Added the cel shader
• Added the black and white shader
• Added the rainbow shader
• Added new specs:
  • friendship: for comparing against a specific friendship, and setting a specific friendship.
  • maxfriendship: for doing a less than or equal check against a friendship value (and setting a random number from 1 to the number given).
  • minfriendship: for doing a greater than or equal check against a friendship value (and setting a random number from the value to 255).
  • rainbow
  • b&w
  • cel
  • shader:<shader id> i.e. shader:pixelmon:cel
• Added 5 tags for which biomes will have harsh sunlight in battle. These tags are for the duration of in-game time of one, two, four, six, and eight hours, with the mid-point centered around noon (6000 in Minecraft time).

Pokémon:

• Added Tandemaus.
• Added Maushold.
• Added Varoom.
• Added Revavroom.
• Added Charcadet.
• Added Armarouge.
• Added Ceruledge.
• Added Veluza.
• Added Tatsugiri.
• Added Dondozo.
• Added Annihilape.
• Added Dudunsparce.
• Added Kingambit.
• Added Scream Tail.
• Added Cyclizar.
• Added Greavard.
• Added Houndstone.
• Added Tinkatink.
• Added Tinkatuff.
• Added Tinkaton.

Palettes:

• Added 'Witch' Misdreavus.
• Added 'Witch' Mismagius.
• Added 'Witch' Hisui Zorua.
• Added 'Witch' Hisui Zoroark.
• Added 'Witch' Shuppet.
• Added 'Witch' Banette.
• Added 'Witch' Greavard.
• Added 'Witch' Houndstone.
• Added 'Witch' Tinkatink.
• Added 'Witch' Tinkatuff.
• Added 'Witch' Tinkaton.
• Added new JUMP! Gyarados palettes: Skelly, Calico Orange White, Calico White Orange, Calico Orange Gold, Orange Two-Tone, Orange Orca, Orange Dapples, Pink Two-Tone, Pink Orca, Pink Dapples, Gray Bubbles, Grey Diamonds, Grey Patches, Purple Diamonds, Purple Patches, Apricot Tiger, Apricot Zebra, Apricot Stripes, Brown Tiger, Brown Zebra, Brown Stripes, Orange Forehead, Orange Mask, Black Forehead, Black Mask, Blue Saucy, Blue Raindrops, Violet Saucy and Violet Raindrops. Thank you to Masked_Flare for the artwork!
• Added new JUMP! Gastrodon palettes: Gray Bubbles, Purple Bubbles, Violet Saucy, Apricot Saucy, Moons, Gold East, Gold West, Gray Diamonds, Purple Diamonds, Brown Stripes, Blue Stripes and Sun. Thank you to Masked_Flare for the artwork!
• Added new JUMP! Grapploct palettes: Alien, Clubs, Diamonds, Irish, Martian, Red Ringed, Starry and Yellow Ringed. Thank you to Masked_Flare for the artwork!

Structures:

• Added Pumpkin House to Plains biome.

Sounds:

• Added new cries for Cetitan, Chi-Yu, Eiscue, Lokix, Nincada, Ninjask, Oinkologue, Revavroom, Shedinja, Stakataka, Stonjourner, Walking Wake and Wo-Chien.
• Updated cries for Krookodile, Meltan, Melmetal and Necrozma.

Moves, Items and Abilities:

• Added Snow weather.
• Added Hospitality ability.
• Added Toxic Chain ability.
• Added Supersweet Syrup ability.
• Added Minds Eye ability.
• Added Chilly Reception move.
• Added Snowscape move.
• Added Trailblaze move.
• Added Chilling Water move.
• Added Pounce move.
• Added Mirror Herb item.
• Added Blank Plate item.
• Added Booster Energy item.
• Added Legend Plate item.
• Added Punching Glove item.
• Added Loaded Dice item.
• Added Sweet Heart item.
• Added Leader's Crest item.

Spawning:

• Added 'Witch' specie palettes spawning to Pumpkin House structures during Day and Night.
• Added Legend Plate as a drop item to Arceus.
• Added Manmade and Indoors as spawning locations for all 'Witch' palettes.
• Added Manmade and Indoors as spawning for Hatenna and Gothita line.
• Added Hatenna and Gothita as Day spawning to Pumpkin House structures.

Datapack:

• Added Teal Mask species in sprite-mode: Dipplin, Poltchageist, Sinistcha, Okidogi, Munkidori, Fezandipti, Bloodmoon Ursaluna and Ogerpon.
• Added Punching Glove to Village Tannery's loot tables.
• Added Punching Glove and Loaded Dice to uncommon boss drops.
• Added Punching Glove and Loaded to shopkeepers.
• Added Mirror Herb in foraging and various chests.
• Added Blank Plate in Village Temples, Pillager Outposts, Ultra Space Pokéchests and Legendary boss drops.

Changes:

• Updated tray icon to spoopy-Halloween Pixelmon icon!
• 20810 Changed the default value of allow-t-r-reuse to false in the config for game parity.
• Removed, and replaced, Pixelmon's amethyst with Minecraft's amethyst.
• Improved Showdown Importer to resolve required IVs and Hidden Power (move) types.
• Updated the PokéStop to use GeckoLib rendering.
• Updated the PokéStop to enable animation.

Fixes:

• Fixed Zygarde Cells being placeable on blocks that are not solid.
• Fixed Zygarde Cells deleting from a block changing next to them.
• 20595 Fixed Roasted Magikarp not evolving into Zombie Gyarados.
• Fixed Pokemon eye height not correctly scaling with their growth.
• 18280 Fixed importing Toxtricity sometimes giving the incorrect form.
• Fixed Pokémon rendering in cyan on Mac OS devices.
• Fixed player's Pokémon randomly wandering around when in survival mode.
• Fixed the Pokémon's flags rendering on top of the level in their nameplate.
• Fixed Pokemon flags rendering as lang keys.
• Fixed Pixelmon network not correctly disconnecting vanilla clients.
• Fixed the dialogue input screen not allowing input.
• Fixed the dialogue input screen rendering very dark.
• Fixed the Poké checkers being very dark.
• Fixed the random spec consuming other specs that start with the word random (i.e. 'randomability').
• 21157 Fixed raid dens kicking nearby players.
• 21157 Fixed boss Pokémon kicking nearby players.
• 21157 Fixed evolving a Pokémon kicking nearby players.
• Fixed setting the shader parameters of a Pokémon kicking nearby players.
• Fixed a few sizing issues with some recent Generation 9 Pokémon.
• Fixed the tutorial toast having the missing texture background.
• Fixed the tutorial toast text having a drop shadow.
• Fixed the trade machine screen breaking when two players propose a Pokemon to trade.
• Fixed spawning conditions with multiple structures requiring all structures listed to be present to validate the spawn.
• Fixed Kingambit being undexable.
• Fixed missing emissive for Bellibolt.
• Fixed erroring spawning for Arc Chalice (Land), Arc Chalice (Water), Fairy Gym, Articuno Shrine, Zapdos Shrine, Moltres Shrine, Ilex Shrine, Towers of Waters, Towers of Darkness and Spear Pillar.
• Fixed spawning conditions with multiple structures requiring all structures listed to be present to validate the spawn.
• Fixed missing Scarlet and Violet Pokédex tab.
• Fixed mounts fainting in battle triggering the vanilla Minecraft death animation.

Battles:

• Fixed rare server crash caused by specific battle endings.
• Fixed a rare catch crash issue on servers with non-existent Pokémon in battles.

Translation:

• Updated Ukrainian translation.
• Updated Traditional Chinese translation.

API:

• Added StatueSpecificationProxy for creating statues from specs & checking if they match a spec.
• Changed statues to default to not animated (Pokemon will remain default animated).
• Added BattleHoverGoal, replacing the FlyingPersistentGoal given to a Pokémon which is flying in a battle, to hold it in place hovering for the duration of the battle only. This goal stops being on once the battle is over.
• Changed FlyingPersistentGoal to now guard against invalid flyRefreshRateSpeed values in flying parameters.
• Split HeldItemChangedEvent into
  • HeldItemChangedEvent.Pre, which is ancelable and can modify item.
  • HeldItemChangedEvent.Post, which cannot be canceled or modify item and fires after item is set.
• Changed Pokemon#setHeldItem to return a boolean if the held item was set.
• Moved trainer effects to a registry.
• Added WalkingModelPredicate.