Chimeric Shinies

Chimeric Shinies is a Cobblemon addon that introduces a new type of mixed shiny Pokémon - Chimeric Shinies - multifacted creatures whose bodies contain a blend of shiny and non-shiny components.

Instead of every shiny Pokémon being a uniform recolour, some species that are made up of two or more individuals or components can appear as chimeras, where only certain individuals or body parts possess the shiny mutation.

This creates rare and visually unique Pokémon that feel more biologically plausible and exciting to discover.

✨ Concept

Many Pokémon are canonically composed of multiple organisms or body units:

• Magneton is three Magnemite fused together
• Dugtrio is three Diglett sharing a body
• Exeggcute is a colony of six individual eggs

In vanilla Pokémon, these always share the same shiny state.

Chimeric Shinies asks a simple question:

What if each individual component of this unit could have its own shiny state?

The result is Pokémon like:

• A Magneton with only one shiny orb
• A Slowbro with a non-shiny Shellder tail
• A Metang made up of a shiny and non-shiny Beldum pair

Each combination produces a unique variant reflected in a dedicated chimera form for you to collect!

🎲 How It Works

When a shiny Pokémon spawns, there is a chance (configurable) that the mod may assign chimeric traits that determine which body components are shiny

For supported species, the mod randomly rolls these configurations for the respective parts available

Evolution is fully supported - the shiny configuration persists and is visually resolved in later forms, and not re-rolled at a later point

🧬 Features

• Adds chimeric shiny variants for multi-component Pokémon
• Configurable spawn probability
• Plays well with any mechanisms that increase shiny odds
• Supports partial shiny configurations
• Evolutions preserve chimeric structure
• Helpful creative commands
• Multiplayer and server compatible
• Does not affect normal Pokémon
• Full Pokédex support for viewing obtained forms

⚙️ Configuration

A config file is generated on first launch:

config/chimeric_shinies.json

Options include:

• Chance of any shiny Pokémon being chimeric
  • 0 turns off the mod, whilst 100 makes every shiny of a supported species chimeric
  • note that regular shinies will not spawn if this is set to 100, I suggest therefore using a value of 99 or under
• Weighting for different chimera configurations
  • Two part chimeras only use A and B aspects, three part chimeras use A,B,C,AB,AC, and BC aspects.
  • I suggest keeping the single and combined aspects grouped at similar weights, but you are free to customise how you wish

👾 Current Supported Pokémon

The initial release focuses on Pokémon whose bodies naturally consist of 2 or 3 individuals. More are planned to be supported with future updates!

Currently supported Pokémon include

• Magnemite

Magneton

Chimera A

Chimera B

Chimera C

Chimera AB

Chimera BC

Chimera AC

Magnezone

Chimera A

Chimera B

Chimera C

Chimera AB

Chimera BC

Chimera AC

• Diglett

Dugtrio

Chimera A

Chimera B

Chimera C

Chimera AB

Chimera BC

Chimera AC

• Slowpoke Coming soon, for now, hunt Slowbro/Slowking directly

Slowbro

Chimera A

Chimera B

Slowking

Chimera A

Chimera B

• Koffing

Weezing

Chimera A

Chimera B

Paras

Chimera A

Chimera B

Parasect

Chimera A

Chimera B

Kangaskhan

Chimera A

Chimera B

• Honedge

Doublade

Chimera A

Chimera B

Aegislash

Chimera A

Chimera B

• Wiglett

Wugtrio

Chimera A

Chimera B

Chimera C

Chimera AB

Chimera AC

Chimera BC

Dracozolt

Chimera A

Chimera B

Arctozolt

Chimera A

Chimera B

Dracovish

Chimera A

Chimera B

Arctovish

Chimera A

Chimera B

Klink

Chimera A

Chimera B

Klang

Chimera A

Chimera B

Klinklang

Chimera A

Chimera B

🔧 Commands (Debug)

For testing and development the mod includes:

/chimera

This allows manual assignment of chimera states to Pokémon.

/chimera bits

This allows you to set the chimeric configuration using 1/0 on/off flags (e.g 110 = A true, B true, c false)

/chimera set

This allows you to set a specific chimera flag as true or false

/chimera get

Prints the Pokémon's chimeric values

/chimera clear

Sets all flags to false

You can also define the party slot at the end of the command

📦 Requirements

Cobblemon (fabric)

🧩 Compatibility

Designed to work alongside normal Cobblemon gameplay.

The mod only affects supported species and only when they are shiny, so it will not interfere with standard mechanics.