Cobblemon Synchro Machine

Become the Pokémon. In survival. In multiplayer.

The Synchro Machine lets you merge with any Cobblemon Pokémon — inheriting its model, stats, moves, ability, and held-item effects. No battles required. Every morph is fully visible to other players in real time, with the mod's own custom UI and Cobblemon's real move sounds and particle effects.

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How It Works

Craft or obtain the Synchro Machine item and open the team screen (G). Load Pokémon from your Cobblemon party into team slots, then select an active slot to morph. Model, animations, sounds, and stat passives apply immediately. Switch slots to change form on the fly.

Prefer to start your whole adventure as a Pokémon? Enable Start as a Pokémon at world creation (see below) and skip the item entirely.

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Features at a Glance

• Full-body morph using Cobblemon's own renderer
• HP, armor, movement speed, flight, and water breathing from real stats
• 4-move combat with PP management and speed-scaled cooldowns
• Cobblemon's real per-move sounds and particle effects play on your morph
• 100+ ability effects — passive auras, contact triggers, damage multipliers
• Off-hand held items (Choice Band, Life Orb, Eviolite, and 20+ more)
• Transform into any Pokémon, mob, or player (species-dependent)
• Mega Evolution via Mega Showdown integration
• In-world move effects — dashes, block-breaking, explosions, teleports
• Fully redesigned, custom-textured UI — team screen, move HUD, emote wheel, and in-game config screen
• "Start as a Pokémon" — optional world-creation mode with a configurable starter roster
• In-menu healing — heal/revive your team with Cobblemon medicines, or sleep to fully rest
• In-game config screen from the pause menu
• Cosmetics, emote wheel, and swing animations
• Wild-Pokémon reactions — wild Pokémon flee from your morph, and defeating them grants it EXP
• Rival/counterpart species reactions between morphed players
• Custom, data-driven lore entries for the team screen
• Full survival multiplayer support

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A Note on the UI

Every Synchro interface is now drawn with the mod's own textures rather than borrowing Cobblemon's — the team screen, the move HUD, the move-swap picker, the emote wheel, the evolution/confirm dialogs, and a new in-game config screen all share a consistent, hand-made look. Hover states, cooldown sweeps, type badges, and HP bars are image-based and fully restyle-able.

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Keybinds

All bindings are rebindable in the vanilla Controls menu under the Cobblemon Synchro Machine category. (The config screen itself isn't a keybind — open it from the pause menu via the Synchro Machine icon.)

Key (default)	Action
G	Open the Synchro team screen (server validates requireItem before opening)
Z / X / C / V	Fire move slots 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 while morphed
H	Toggle the move HUD overlay
Y	Transform into the entity in your crosshair, or revert if already transformed
Y (detransform)	Dedicated revert-only bind — never triggers a new transform
B	Toggle morph visibility: hide Pokémon form ↔ restore last active form (no stat change)
J	Hold to open the emote wheel; release over an option to apply it
U	Equip held item as a cosmetic on the model; empty hand removes the current cosmetic

Note: Transform (Y) and Detransform (Y) share the same default key but are registered as separate bindings so you can rebind them independently.

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Stats & Passives

The server reads your Pokémon's actual stats every second and writes them as real Minecraft attributes.

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Flight — Species flagged as capable of flying in Cobblemon's behaviour data grant Creative-mode flight. Switching to a non-flying Pokémon removes it immediately and cancels active flight. Flight can be disabled, or limited by a stamina timer, in the config.

Water Breathing — Aquatic species receive a permanent Water Breathing status effect, refreshed every second.

Max HP — The Pokémon's HP stat is added on top of vanilla 20 HP, capped at +80 HP.

Pokémon HP	Bonus HP	Total HP (hearts)
45 (Magikarp)	+4.5	24.5 (12.25♥)
75 (average)	+7.5	27.5 (13.75♥)
100	+10	30 (15♥)
255 (Blissey)	+25.5	45.5 (22.75♥)

Armor & Toughness — Defense → armor points (cap 20); Sp. Defense → armor toughness (cap 8). Held items like Eviolite and Assault Vest multiply these values.

Movement Speed — Derived from species behaviour data and the Speed stat using a square-root curve. Choice Scarf (×1.5) and Iron Ball (×0.5) apply an additional multiplier. Set useAdjustedMovementSpeed = false to use vanilla walk speed instead.

Incoming Damage Scaling — Optionally scales damage taken by the species' bulk, clamped between configurable min/max multipliers, so tankier Pokémon feel tankier.

Ambient Cries — Your Pokémon plays its ambient sound once per minute, audible to all nearby players (toggleable).

Party Sync — Optionally mirrors EXP and levels gained while morphed back onto the matching Pokémon in your Cobblemon party.  

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4-Move Combat

Keys Z / X / C / V (all rebindable) map to your four move slots. Physical moves draw from Attack; special moves from Sp. Atk.

Each move use plays the species cry, an attack animation on the model, and Cobblemon's own per-move sound effect and particle visual on your morph — so a Flamethrower looks and sounds like Flamethrower.

PP is consumed on every use. Restore it by sleeping in a bed, via saturation ≥ 6 (restores +1 PP every 30 seconds), or with /synchro restorepp.

Move cooldown scales with the Pokémon's Speed stat — faster Pokémon fire moves more frequently (baseline 1 second at Speed 75; floor 0.5 s; ceiling 5 s).

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Damage Formula

base   = clamp(1, 40, (power / 50) × (attack / 100))
damage = base × attackBoost × abilityMult × itemMult × moveDamageMultiplier

The moveDamageMultiplier config (default 3.0) is the primary balance dial. Stat-boosting moves (Swords Dance, Nasty Plot, Shell Smash, etc.) stack an internal attack multiplier up to ×4.

Move Effects in the World

Category	Examples	Behaviour
Dash moves	Quick Attack, Aqua Jet, Bullet Punch, Aerial Ace, Flare Blitz	Launches the player up to 10 blocks; collides with and damages the first entity hit
Block-breaking	Drill Run, Dig, Rock Blast, Bulldoze, Hyper Beam, Heat Wave	Breaks a shaped block pattern in the look direction (configurable)
Explosion moves	Self-Destruct, Explosion, Mind Blown	Real world explosions; player is immune to their own blast (configurable)
Teleport moves	Teleport, Phantom Force, Shadow Force, Abyss Dive	Raycast teleport up to 64 blocks; damaging variants strike the nearest entity on arrival
Terrain moves	Grassy Terrain, Leaf Storm, Petal Blizzard, Seed Flare	Applies bone meal in an area around the player
Healing moves	Recover, Roost, Moonlight, Healing Wish, Lunar Dance	Restores 50% or 100% max HP

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Move HUD

Press H to toggle the HUD overlay. When visible, it displays a vertical column of four move tiles anchored to the bottom-right corner of the screen, drawn with the mod's own UI textures.

Each tile shows:

• The move's type icon and name
• Current PP in color-coded text: white when full, orange at ≤ 25%, red at 0
• A cooldown sweep — a textured overlay that drains as the cooldown expires, with all text and the type icon rendered on top of it so they stay readable
• A glow highlight when the move is ready (no cooldown, PP remaining)

Empty move slots use a distinct dimmed tile. A brief status line below the grid displays the remaining cooldown in seconds when a move is on cooldown.

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Team Screen

Open with G (subject to requireItem). The screen is a fully custom redesign drawn with the mod's own textures.

Layout: a 3-column panel — left column (Pokémon model, name, level, type badges, held-item slot, Evolve button), center column (tabbed content), right column (6-slot team panel + Close button).

Team Panel (right column)

Each occupied slot shows the Pokémon's name, level, and an HP bar.

• Left-click an occupied slot to switch the active morph to that Pokémon
• Right-click an occupied slot to open a small action menu — Heal / Revive (see Healing) and Remove
• When loaded from your party in replace mode, clicking a slot replaces it with the incoming Pokémon

Content Tabs (center column)

The center panel has three tabs:

Tab	Icon	Contents
Info	Info icon	Dex number, Species, Type(s), Original Trainer, Nature, Ability + ability description, and any custom lore
Moves	Moves icon	4 move tiles showing type, name, power, accuracy, and PP. Click a tile to open the move-swap picker — a level-gated list (your level-up moves up to the current level, plus TMs that unlock as you level, scaled by move power). Click a move to slot it.
Stats	Stats icon	Hexagonal stat chart with four sub-tabs: Stats (base stats), IVs (0–31), EVs (0–252), Other (see below)

Other sub-tab (under Stats): shows a Friendship bar (current / 255) and additional metadata. Friendship accumulates while morphed and affects certain evolutions.

Held-Item Slot

The left column displays a 16×16 icon slot below the Pokémon model showing whatever item is in your off-hand. This is a visual indicator only; equip the item in your off-hand in your inventory to activate its effects.

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Healing

No more permanent damage — two ways to patch your team up:

• Items: Right-click a Pokémon in the team screen and choose Heal (or Revive if it's fainted). The mod lists the matching Cobblemon medicines in your inventory — Potion, Super/Hyper/Max Potion, Full Restore, Revive, Max Revive — and applies the one you pick, consuming it.
• Rest: Sleep through the night in a bed to fully heal and revive your entire team at once.

Party-slot HP bars make it easy to see at a glance who needs healing.

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Start as a Pokémon

An optional way to begin a world already merged with a Pokémon — no item required.

Enable it from the Create New World screen (a Synchro Machine toggle in the corner) or with the synchroStartAsPokemon game rule. When enabled, each new player is shown a starter selection screen on first join: every first-stage ("baby"/base) Pokémon at level 5, with gender selection where the species supports it. Choose one and you spawn already morphed into it, with a level-appropriate moveset.

The starter roster is fully configurable (generated from the Cobblemon species registry by default), and the Synchro Machine item is automatically made optional in this mode.

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Abilities

Over 100 abilities are implemented across four hook points: passive tick (every second), on-hit-received, on-hit-dealt, and damage multiplier.

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Contact-on-Defend — triggers when an entity hits the morphed player

Ability	Effect on attacker
Flame Body	30% chance to set attacker on fire
Poison Point	30% chance to poison attacker
Static	30% chance to apply heavy Slowness
Rough Skin / Iron Barbs	Deals 1/8 of attacker's max HP
Effect Spore	30% chance: burn, Slowness, or Blindness
Cursed Body	30% chance to apply Nausea
Gooey / Tangling Hair	Applies Slowness
Aftermath	Deals 1/4 of attacker's max HP on KO
Synchronize	Shares active Poison / fire / Slowness with attacker
Perish Body	Wither III on both player and attacker

Contact-on-Attack — triggers after the player deals damage

Ability	Effect
Moxie / Chilling Neigh / Grim Neigh / Beast Boost / Battle Bond / Soul-Heart	Brief Strength boost after a KO
Poison Touch	30% chance to poison the target
Corrosion / Toxic Chain	30% chance to badly poison the target
Libero / Protean	Brief Strength burst on each hit
Stench	10% chance to Slow target (flinch proxy)
Poison Puppeteer	Confuses poisoned targets with Nausea

Damage Multipliers — always-on flat

Ability	Multiplier
Huge Power / Pure Power	×2.00
Gorilla Tactics / Dragon's Maw / Rocky Payload / Steelworker / Steely Spirit / Stakeout / Sniper / Hustle	×1.50
Tough Claws / Transistor / Sheer Force / Battery / Sand Force / Analytic	×1.30
Neuroforce / Tinted Lens / Parental Bond	×1.25
Adaptability / Skill Link / Aerilate / Galvanize / Pixilate / Refrigerate / Normalize	×1.20
Rivalry	×1.12
Sap Sipper / Victory Star / No Guard	×1.10
Aura Break	×0.75

Damage Multipliers — move-category conditional

Ability	Move category	Multiplier
Strong Jaw	Bite / fang moves	×1.50
Sharpness	Slicing moves	×1.50
Mega Launcher	Pulse moves	×1.50
Technician	Low-power moves	×1.50
Punk Rock	Sound moves	×1.30
Iron Fist	Punch moves	×1.20
Reckless	Recoil moves	×1.20

Passive Aura Effects

Weather abilities (Drizzle, Drought, Sand Stream, Snow Warning, Primordial Sea, Desolate Land, Delta Stream) activate a localised weather zone while in combat. Sand Stream applies Wither to all nearby entities with no type filter. Terrain abilities (Electric Surge, Grassy Surge, Misty Surge, Psychic Surge) grant status effects while grounded. Misty Surge also clears all status effects. Intimidate and the four Ruin abilities apply AoE debuffs in a 8–12 block radius.

Speed abilities (Swift Swim, Chlorophyll, Sand Rush, Slush Rush) grant their speed bonus unconditionally — there is no weather check.  

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Held Items

Put a Cobblemon item in your off-hand — it functions as the Pokémon's held item. The item icon is shown in the held-item slot on the team screen.

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Damage multipliers (applied per move use)

Item	Effect
Choice Band	×1.5 to physical moves
Choice Specs	×1.5 to special moves
Life Orb	×1.3 to all damaging moves + 10% max HP recoil on hit
Muscle Band	×1.1 to physical moves
Wise Glasses	×1.1 to special moves

Type-boosting items (×1.2 to matching type)

Charcoal · Mystic Water · Sharp Beak · Soft Sand · Hard Stone · Silver Powder · Spell Tag · Black Belt · Poison Barb · Silk Scarf · Metal Coat · Dragon Fang · Twisted Spoon · Miracle Seed · Magnet · Never-Melt Ice · Fairy Feather

Defense multipliers

Item	Effect	Condition
Eviolite	×1.5 Defense, ×1.5 Sp. Def	Pokémon must still have an evolution
Assault Vest	×1.5 Sp. Def	Always

Speed multipliers

Item	Effect
Choice Scarf	×1.5 movement speed
Iron Ball	×0.5 movement speed

Passive tick effects (every second)

Item	Effect
Leftovers	Restores 1/16 max HP
Black Sludge	Restores 1/16 max HP (Poison-type) or deals 1/8 max HP damage (others)
Sticky Barb	Deals 1/8 max HP damage
Flame Orb	Sets holder on fire (enables Guts, Flame Body interactions)
Toxic Orb	Applies Wither I (enables Poison Heal)

On-hit effects

Item	Effect
Shell Bell	Heals 1/8 of damage dealt (min 1 HP)
Life Orb	10% max HP recoil (in addition to the ×1.3 boost)

Other: Soothe Bell doubles friendship gain · Lucky Egg grants +50% Pokémon EXP while morphed  

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Transform

Press Y while morphed to copy the entity in your crosshair. Press Y again or use the dedicated detransform keybind to revert.

 Expand | Transform type |Who can do it |What changes | | ------------------------------ |---------------------------------------------------------------------- |----------------------------------------------- | | Full Pokémon swap |Any morphed player (looking at a Pokémon entity) |Model, moves, and stats fully replaced | | Illusion — visual-only Pokémon |Zorua / Zoroark lines only |Looks like the target; own stats and moves kept | | Vanilla mob disguise |Illusion or Transform-capable species (Ditto, Mew, Smeargle, Imposter) |Cosmetic only | | Player skin copy |Illusion or Transform-capable species only |Cosmetic only; exact skin + cape |

Mob and player-skin transforms are gated behind enableMobTransform and enablePlayerSkinTransform (both true by default). Non-eligible species receive an error message and the transform does not proceed.  

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Visual Features

• Cobblemon move VFX/SFX — each move plays its real Cobblemon particle effect and sound on your morph
• Held-item rendering — Off-hand items appear in the Pokémon model's hand
• Attack swing animation — The Pokémon model plays a swing animation on each move use
• Emote wheel — Hold J to open a radial animation picker; release over an emote to play it
• Cosmetics — Press U with an item in hand to equip it as a cosmetic on the model; empty hand removes it
• Toggle Morph — Press B to hide the Pokémon form and appear as your player character (no stat change)

Emote Wheel Options

The wheel has six segments (one per 60°), rotated to match their position around the center:

Emote	Pose
Sleep	SLEEP pose
Battle Ready	battle-standing (battle_idle animation)
Float	FLOAT pose (water-type underwater idle)
Hover	HOVER pose (flying-type airborne idle)
Swim	SWIM pose (water swim)
Stop Emote	Clears the active emote and returns to default

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Evolution, Friendship & Mega Evolution

Open the team screen to evolve any slot that has an available evolution. Cobblemon's own evolution requirements (level, item, trade, etc.) are respected. When a single evolution is available the button reads → [Species name]; branching evolutions show Evolve ▾ and open a picker.

Friendship accumulates at +1 per minute while morphed (Soothe Bell doubles this). The current value and a progress bar are visible on the Other sub-tab of the Stats tab in the team screen. High friendship unlocks certain evolutions.

Mega Evolution requires the Mega Showdown mod. Right-click with a compatible Mega Stone to transform, with the full Mega Showdown particle/animation sequence playing on your morph. Stats and passives update immediately, and a configurable timer controls the Mega duration.

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Rival & Counterpart Species

When two morphed players come within 24 blocks, species pairs from Pokédex lore react.

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Rivals — both players receive a Strength burst

Rivals	Lore basis
Zangoose ↔ Seviper	Eternal rivals bearing each other's scars
Pichu / Pikachu / Raichu ↔ Mimikyu	Mimikyu despises Pikachu's fame
Kyogre ↔ Groudon	Ancient primal war over land and sea
Tyranitar ↔ Duraludon / Archaludon	Territorial clash in mountain ranges
Tinkatink / Tinkatuff / Tinkaton ↔ Rookidee / Corvisquall / Corviknight	Tinkaton hunts Corviknight to steal their steel
Cresselia ↔ Darkrai	Natural opposites — sweet dreams vs nightmares
Heatmor ↔ Durant	Heatmor preys on Durant colonies
Arceus ↔ Giratina	Giratina was banished for its violence
Mew ↔ Mewtwo	Mewtwo resents its origin as Mew's clone
Reshiram ↔ Zekrom	Split halves of the original dragon
Shelmet ↔ Karrablast	They steal each other's armour to evolve
Passimian ↔ Oranguru	Opposing forest tribes
Sableye ↔ Mawile	Fight over the same gemstone deposits
Skrelp / Dragalge ↔ Clauncher / Clawitzer	Territorial ocean rivals
Vullaby / Mandibuzz ↔ Rufflet / Braviary	Opposing raptor clans
Hitmonchan ↔ Hitmonlee	Rival fighting disciplines
Throh ↔ Sawk	Rival martial arts — judo vs karate
Scyther / Scizor ↔ Pinsir	Fierce territorial forest rivals
Scyther ↔ Heracross	Forest territory competition
Gothita / Gothorita / Gothitelle ↔ Solosis / Duosion / Reuniclus	Version-exclusive psychic opposites

Counterparts — both players receive Regeneration

Counterparts	Lore basis
Plusle ↔ Minun	Supportive duo
Volbeat ↔ Illumise	Romantic counterparts
Latias ↔ Latios	Eon twins
Lunatone ↔ Solrock	Moon and sun in balance
Spritzee / Aromatisse ↔ Swirlix / Slurpuff	Sweet-themed X/Y counterparts
Petilil / Lilligant ↔ Cottonee / Whimsicott	Flower-themed B/W counterparts
Clefairy / Clefable ↔ Jigglypuff / Wigglytuff	Fairy-type icons
Ho-Oh ↔ Lugia	Tower guardians of sky and sea
Xerneas ↔ Yveltal	Life and destruction in balance

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Multiplayer

The mod must be installed on both the server and every client. The server tracks morph state and broadcasts it; each client uses the mod to render other players' Pokémon models, sounds, and move effects. Active morphs are synced to newly joined players within 40 ticks.

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Requirements

Dependency	Required?
Minecraft 1.21.1	Required
Fabric or NeoForge	Required
Cobblemon	Required
Mega Showdown	Optional (Mega Evolution only)

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Configuration

All settings can be changed in-game from the config screen (pause menu → Synchro Machine icon) or by editing config/cobblemon_synchro_machine.json.

 Expand | Setting |Default |Description | | --------------------------- |------- |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | moveDamageMultiplier |3.0 |Global move damage scalar — primary balance dial | | enableBlockBreakingMoves |true |Allow moves to break blocks in the world | | enableExplosionMoves |true |Allow Self-Destruct / Explosion to create real explosions | | enableTransformMove |true |Allow Transform in a move slot to trigger a transform (keybind always works) | | enableMobTransform |true |Allow eligible species to copy vanilla mob appearances | | enablePlayerSkinTransform |true |Allow eligible species to copy other players' skins | | useAdjustedMovementSpeed |true |Derive walk speed from stats; false = vanilla speed for all morphs | | requireItem |true |Require the Synchro Machine item in inventory to open the team screen | | requireOwnership |false |Only allow syncing Pokémon the player owns | | keepSyncedOnRespawn |false |Restore the active morph after death/respawn | | enableFlight |true |Grant flight to flying-capable species | | flightStaminaSeconds |0 |Flight stamina limit in seconds (0 = unlimited) | | enableAmbientCries |true |Play the Pokémon's ambient cry once per minute | | syncXpToParty |false |Mirror morph EXP/levels onto the matching party Pokémon | | enableWildPokemonXp |true |Defeating wild Pokémon as a morph grants it EXP | | enableWildPokemonReaction |true |Wild Pokémon flee from your morph when struck | | enableIncomingDamageScaling |true |Scale damage taken by the species' bulk | | incomingDamageScaleMin |0.25 |Minimum incoming-damage multiplier | | incomingDamageScaleMax |4.0 |Maximum incoming-damage multiplier | | megaDurationSeconds |30 |How long a Mega Evolution lasts | | megaCooldownSeconds |60 |Cooldown between Mega Evolutions | | morphEyeHeightMode |species |Camera eye height: species (Pokémon's own) or player | | turnBasedBattles |false |(Experimental) Right-click a wild Pokémon while morphed to start a Cobblemon turn-based battle |  

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Commands

 Expand | Command |Description | | --------------------------------------------- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | /synchro morph <player> <pokemon> |Set a player's active morph | | /synchro clearmorph <player> |Remove a player's active morph | | /synchro teach <player> <move> |Teach any move (Showdown ID) to the active morph — bypasses the level gate | | /synchro restorepp <player> |Restore all PP on the active morph instantly | | /synchro info <player> |Display morph data for a player | | /synchro reload |Reload the config without restarting |