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  1. 8 updatesQuestion of the Day · Trade shelf & bulletin board · Gijinka of the Month · Pokérus · Birthday announcements · Booster blessing · Calendar · OC lookup
    • Question of the Day — answer on the site

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      The new Question of the Day page under Characters lists every question with all of its answers. Choose Answer as your OC on any question, pick one of your approved OCs, and write their answer.

      PokiBot posts it in the QOTD thread just like /qotd answer and saves it to your OC's page. Use Edit on one of your answers to update or remove it.

      Guide: Question of the Day
    • Trade shelf & bulletin board — find trades before you sell

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      Show up to 3 items you're offering and 3 you're looking for on your Profile → Bag and character pages. Press Offer for trade on any bag item, or Want this on another member's bag — it saves on its own, and your shelf lists members whose bags line up with yours. /sell now shows when members are looking for an item.

      The new bulletin board forum is home for trades, giveaways, RP requests, and anything else. PokiBot keeps a post for your trade shelf there, helps tag each post, and a /trade run in a trading post marks it done once the trade goes through.

      Guide: Trade shelf & bulletin board
    • Gijinka of the Month — welcome new members for double mon

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      Mods now feature new (and longtime) members as Gijinka of the Month, each with one of their OCs. Meet everyone featured on the home page and the GotM page, and PokiBot posts a welcome whenever someone new is featured.

      While a member is GotM, draw their featured OC or submit an RP log with them, title it "GotM: Title", and earn ×2 mon on approval. Everyone in the RP log earns the boost, the GotM included; a GotM drawing their own featured OC earns regular mon.

      Guide: Gijinka of the Month
    • Pokérus — a new contagious host every week

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      Every Sunday at midnight US Eastern, PokiBot announces a new Pokérus host. The host earns ×2 mon on every art and writing submission they send that week. The current host, their OCs, and the deadline are always on the home page.

      Draw one of the host's OCs or submit an RP log with them, and title it "Pokérus: Title" — each submission is an entry in the draw for next week's host. Submit by 11:59 PM US Eastern on Saturday.

      Guide: Pokérus
    • Birthday announcements — celebrate every character's big day

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      On each character's birthday, PokiBot posts a little celebration for them in the announcements channel, with their portrait, species, and village.

      Birthdays come from each character's record and post at midnight US Eastern. Nobody gets pinged.

      Guide: Calendar
    • Booster blessing — 3,000 mon a month for boosting

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      Boosting the Pokimono Discord server now earns 3,000 mon every month. New boosters receive their first 3,000 mon the moment they boost.

      On the 1st of each month (midnight US Eastern), PokiBot blesses every current booster and posts a thank-you in Arceus Shrine. The blessing comes once per member per month, and it shows as Server booster in your wallet.

      Guide: Booster blessing
    • Calendar — birthdays, events, and quests in one place

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      The new Calendar under Characters shows every approved character's birthday, running events, and each month's village quests.

      Tap a date to see who is celebrating and which events start, close sign-ups, or end that day. Use the filters to focus on birthdays, events, or quests.

      Guide: Calendar
    • OC lookup — show off any character in chat

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      Type ! glued to a character's name, like !hizashi, and PokiBot replies with their portrait, species, level, village, job, and who plays them, plus a button to their character page.

      First names, last names, full names, and Pokimono IDs (like !C00012) all work. When a name fits more than one OC, the others are linked under Also matches.

      Guide: Chat shortcuts
  2. 1 updateArt commissions thread
    • Art commissions thread — share your commission info

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      Artists can now advertise commissions in the Art commissions thread in #art-talk. Copy the pinned template, fill in your prices, slots, and examples, and post it as one message.

      Keep one post per artist and edit it when your status changes, or delete and repost to bump it up to once a week. Looking for art? Browse the thread and DM the artist whose style you like.

  3. 3 updatesDrinking contests · 18+ art & writing · Berry farms
    • Drinking contests — think you can outdrink Hizashi?

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      /drink challenge pits your OC against any other OC. Each round both drinkers press Drink! to roll a d20, and the first to 5 strikes passes out. Poison typing and your OC's tolerance (set with /drink tolerance) give Advantage or Disadvantage automatically.

      PokiBot saves every OC's wins, losses, and head-to-head results — check them with /drink stats and see the top drinkers with /drink leaderboard.

      Guide: Drinking contests
    • 18+ art & writing — submit with a content warning

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      Tick This piece is 18+ / NSFW under Content rating when you submit art or writing, and add content warnings so people know what to expect.

      18+ pieces sit behind a warning in the gallery, on character pages and profiles, and in the review queue, and open only when someone chooses Show.

      On Discord, post 18+ art in an NSFW channel. Anywhere else, tick Mark as spoiler when you upload the image (or wrap an image link in ||bars||). The site checks your post when you submit.

      Change the rating anytime: while a piece waits for review, use Mark 18+ on its card under Art queue on your profile, and once it's in the gallery, use the button in its viewer. Mods can also mark a piece 18+ during review.

      Guide: Submit art & writing
    • Berry farms — ripe bushes are shared

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      Every member can pick each ripe bush once with /berryfarm tend, so visiting later in the day still finds fruit.

      A bush stays up for 24 hours after its first pick, then the patch returns to bare soil for new planting.

      Guide: Berry farming
  4. 2 updatesShed Shell · Combat record
    • Shed Shell — slip free of traps

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      An OC holding Shed Shell can Run or use Teleport in /battle even when trapped by Wrap-style moves, Mean Look, Block, Spider Web, Anchor Shot, Shadow Tag, Arena Trap, or Magnet Pull.

      Running away still depends on Speed, and the holder's own Ingrain roots still keep it in place.

      Guide: Item catalog
    • Combat record — battle stats on every OC page

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      Each roster character's page has a Combat record: wild battles fought, wins, losses, and escapes, total damage dealt, duel results, and their top rival — the OC they've dueled most.

      It also tracks times fainted and revived, HP restored with /pray, and for Healers and Potions Masters, patients treated with /job heal. Wild battles count up to the daily limit of 10.

  5. 7 updatesItem catalog · Item descriptions · Art gallery · Selling items · Art gallery · TMs · Job Mechanics
    • Item catalog — filter by job focus

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      The item catalog has a Job focus filter: pick Gather, Combat, Culture, or Crafting to see items that come from that focus track on village work.

      Pair it with the Job filter to see exactly what one job brings home on that focus — for example, Farmer on Combat days. With a job picked, "Crafted by this job only" shows just the items that job makes on Crafting shifts.

      The Held item category now lists every held item, including Leftovers, Life Orb, Choice Scarf, and Eviolite.

      Guide: Item catalog
    • Item descriptions — in your bag and on Discord

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      On the site, hover an item name in any Bag to read what it does. Tap or click the name to open that item in the item catalog — handy when you're browsing someone's bag for a trade.

      In Discord, /item lookup shows what any catalog item does, its buy and sell prices, and how many you carry. It works in any channel.

      Guide: /item commands
    • Art gallery — edit tags on approved art

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      Open one of your approved pieces in the gallery and choose Edit tags to add or remove the characters in it. The piece then shows on those characters' pages and in the gallery's character filter.

      Quest EXP and reputation stay as they were awarded at approval.

      Guide: Art gallery
    • Selling items — see what they craft

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      When you sell a crafting ingredient from your bag or the item catalog, the confirmation now lists every item it's used to craft and how many each craft takes.

      Crafters may want those materials — you can send them to another member with /gift item or /trade instead.

      Guide: Item catalog
    • Art gallery — search and filters

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      Search the Art gallery by title, artist, or tagged character, and narrow the results with the new filter menu. Your active filters show above the results.

      Guide: Art gallery
    • TMs — Pokémon Champions movepools

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      TM choices on your character's Moves panel now include the moves your species learns in Pokémon Champions, alongside its regular TM moves.

    • Job Mechanics — shift focus guide

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      Job Mechanics now opens with the four shift focuses — Gathering, Combat, Crafting, and Culture — and what each one pays, plus a step-by-step walk through a daily shift and how the focus is picked.

      Guide: Job Mechanics
  6. 6 updatesShrine healing · Gifts & trades · Mention DMs · Art permissions on character pages · OC lines · Berry farms
    • Shrine healing — heal an OC once a day

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      New /pray sends one of your OCs to their home village shrine. They come back at full HP, back on their feet if they fainted, with any status effect cured.

      One prayer per day across your whole roster, resetting at midnight US Eastern. If the OC you pick is already healthy, the prayer stays unused for later. Finish any wild battle or duel first.

      Guide: Shrine healing
    • Gifts & trades — share mon and items

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      /gift mon and /gift item send mon or bag items straight to another member. /trade offers a swap of mon and items: the other member gets Accept and Decline buttons, and both sides swap the moment they accept. Offers stay open for 15 minutes.

      Send up to 10,000 mon and 20 items per day across gifts and trades (resets at midnight US Eastern). Add a note to any of them for the receipt, and both members see the exchange in their wallet activity.

      Guide: Gifts & trades
    • Mention DMs — know when your OC is named

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      Turn on /rp mentions (or the switch on Profile → Roleplay) and PokiBot DMs you a quote and link whenever someone names your OC in the Roleplay channels, the RP scenes forum, │・headcanons, OC discussion, or the art channels. It starts off.

      Guide: Mention DMs
    • Art permissions on character pages

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      Each character page now has an Art permissions panel showing what's okay when others draw that OC. Set yours in the Art section of Edit, or for all your characters at once on Profile → Roleplay.

      The Pokédex roster can filter by art permission, so artists can find OCs open to fan art.

      Guide: Pokédex
    • OC lines — react ❌ to delete

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      Posted an OC line by mistake? React ❌ on it within 15 minutes to delete it. Replying with a new line in that window still edits it.

      Guide: Character aliases
    • Berry farms — tend from your village channel

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      /berryfarm tend tends the farm of the village channel you run it in. Head to your village channel and run it there.

      Guide: Village berry farms
  7. 6 updatesHealer & Potions Master · Question of the Day · Wild battles · Battles run in village channels · PokiBot guide · Art submissions
    • Healer & Potions Master — treat patients

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      Healer (Gale Spring) and Potions Master (Noir Vale) OCs can treat an OC from their home village with /job heal. A visit restores part of the patient's max HP, gets fainted OCs back up, and cures status conditions.

      Run it in the healer's home village Roleplay channel. Each OC can be treated once per day. Healers start at 2 patients a day restoring 50% HP, growing to 5 patients at full HP as their reputation rises.

      Guide: Healing at the village practice
    • Question of the Day

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      /qotd ask posts a numbered question in the Question of the Day thread under │・headcanons and pings everyone with the QOTD role. /qotd answer replies as one of your OCs, and the answer is saved to that character's page.

      /qotd role turns the pings on or off for you, and /qotd delete removes your question or an OC's answer. Each member can ask one question every 12 hours.

      Guide: Question of the Day
    • Wild battles — 10 per OC per day

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      Each OC can start 10 wild battles per day across Discord, the website, and PokiBot challenges. The battle log shows how many you've used, and the count resets at midnight Eastern.

      Guide: Battling
    • Battles run in village channels

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      /battle wild and /battle challenge run in your village Roleplay channels. PokiBot opens a thread for your OC (⚔️ OC name · battles) and reuses it for that OC's next fights, so village roleplay stays easy to read.

      Wild species and field weather follow the channel you're in.

      Guide: Battling on Discord
    • PokiBot guide — browse and search commands

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      Mechanics → PokiBot now has a sidebar grouping every command by topic, plus a search box to jump straight to the one you need.

      Guide: PokiBot
    • Art submissions — edit tags while pending

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      Update which characters are tagged on an art submission while it waits for mod review.

      Guide: Submit art & writing
  8. 4 updatesRP scenes · Dice rolls · Character leaderboard · Battle updates
    • RP scenes — turn order and tracking

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      /rp start opens a scene post in the RP scenes forum with up to four partners. PokiBot tags everyone, tracks whose turn it is, pings the next writer, and keeps a running tally of posts and words.

      Use /rp join, /rp leave, /rp skip, and /rp mark (Pending, Ongoing, Paused), then /rp end for the final tally. /rp starttracking picks up a post you opened yourself and counts what's already written. /rp dms chooses when PokiBot DMs you about your turn.

      On the site, Tracked RPs lists every scene and lets you start one, and Profile → Roleplay shows whose turn it is in each of your scenes.

      Guide: RP scenes
    • Dice rolls

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      /roll rolls any dice: d20, 3d6+2, 4d6kh3 (keep the highest 3), d20adv, exploding 3d6!, d%, and Fate dice 4dF. Name the roll and roll several times at once. /rd20 is a quick d20.

    • Character leaderboard

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      /levels characters shows the top approved characters by level, then OC XP. Levels on the site has a matching Characters tab.

    • Battle updates

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      Hidden Power picks its type from the target's weaknesses, following Legends: Arceus rules.

      Disable seals a wild Pokémon's move; with every move sealed, it uses Struggle. Trick, Bestow, Magician, and Pickpocket follow each fighter's held item slot.

      Bag items are for before and after wild battles: finish the fight, then use /item use.

      Guide: Battling
  9. 3 updatesArt gallery · Art & writing submissions · Thread counts & exports
    • Art gallery

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      The new Art gallery shows approved art submissions, with an artist filter and a full-size viewer. Each member's profile has a Gallery tab for their own pieces.

      Guide: Art gallery
    • Art & writing submissions — revisions and withdrawals

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      When mods ask for revisions, you get their note on Discord. Update the piece and resubmit it. You can also withdraw a pending submission from your profile.

      For co-written pieces and RP logs, each collaborator enters their own word count and earns mon for their own words.

      Guide: Submit art & writing
    • Thread counts & exports

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      Run /rpcount inside any RP thread for each member's posts and words, OC lines included, sorted by posts or words. /rpexport sends you the whole thread as a text or Word file, oldest post first, with an option to include OOC lines.

      Guide: Thread counts & exports
  10. 1 updateCharacter applications
    • Character applications — edit while pending

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      Edit your character application while it waits for mod review. The form shows whether it's under review or needs changes.

      Guide: Application guide