Additions:

• A new research quest, "A Challenger's Folly," has been added.

  • This research can be started by visiting any Pixelmon town.

• New Deepslate Metals have been introduced:

  • Bauxite Ore
  • Silver Ore
  • Platinum Ore

• New Deepslate Gems have been introduced:

  • Ruby Ore
  • Sapphire Ore
  • Crystal Ore
  • Silicon Ore

• New Deepslate Evolution Stone Ores have been introduced:

  • Moon Stone Ore
  • Ice Stone Ore
  • Shiny Stone Ore
  • Thunder Stone Ore
  • Leaf Stone Ore
  • Water Stone Ore
  • Fire Stone Ore
  • Sun Stone Ore
  • Dusk Stone Ore
  • Dawn Stone Ore

• New NPCs have been introduced for each of the following towns: Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Fire, Ghost, Grass, Ground, Ice, Steel, and Water.

• The following NPCs will now appear in the world:

  • Nurse Joy
  • Doctor John
  • Gym Staff
  • General Shopkeepers
  • TM Shopkeeper
  • Mail Shopkeeper
  • Curry Shopkeeper
  • Daycare Staff
  • Gemologist
  • Daycare Shopkeeper

• Nurse Joy, and Vendor NPCs now appear in villages.

• Five new cosmetic Furfrou haircuts have been added: Dandy, Debutante, Heart, Matron, and Star.

• Zeraora is now available in a Strike palette variant.

• JEI integration has been added for Poké Ball recipes, allowing for easy viewing and crafting.

• JEI now displays recipes for TMs and TRs.

• Pokémon drop information is now viewable in JEI.

Changes:

• New Deepslate ores will now generate in the world.
• Furfrou's natural form has been updated with an improved model, textures, and animations.
• Regular ore textures for Pixelmon metals, gems, and Evolution Stones have been updated with improved designs.
• Red Rock Peaks and Cypress Wetlands are now supported.
• Valley Clearing, a Terralith biome, has been added to the Plains category.
• 22584 Background color for the notice overlay can now be customized.
• 22584 Notice overlay border color and gradient are now customizable.
• Fedora, Fez, and Tophat developer hats now feature updated models.
• Tandemaus and Maushold now spawn only indoors in Plains and Taiga Villages at night, on planks, with a maximum light level of 3.
• Added an anticondition to villages and towns, lowering the amount of Pokemon within them.
• Elekid, Magby, Bonsly, Pichu, and Cleffa have been removed from Ultra Space spawns.
• Dandy and Debutante palette Furfrou now spawn in Birch biomes (morning and afternoon, respectively) and Star palette Furfrou spawns in Plains in the afternoon, all with a spawning weight of 5.
• Strike palette Zeraora now spawns in Ultra Plant at night.
• Furfrou spawn levels have been updated to 15-45.

Fixes:

• The Move Tutor UI now correctly displays the required quantity of item costs when teaching a move.
• Move Tutors now require the correct quantity of items as specified in their configuration, rather than accepting only one.
• 22634 Furnace recipes for Pixelmon Ingots now use newly added raw minerals as ingredients, ensuring proper smelting functionality.
• 15875 Gigantamax Charizard no longer displays stray black pixels on its belly; shiny variant knee markings now use the correct colors.
• 19300 Galarian Moltres' lower beak now faces straight, improving its appearance.
• Slowking's arms now properly appear behind its body rather than glitching through.
• Mudkip now stands correctly on the ground without clipping into terrain.
• Darmanitan Zen form now appears upright, and Galar form renders without stretching or flipping.
• 22616 Bunnelby has received an improved model with updated textures and animations.
• Clauncher and Clawitzer feature new animations.
• Gigalith now renders properly without clipping through terrain.
• Oinkologne Male now renders correctly and no longer clips through terrain.
• 15939 Coalossal's shiny form now displays the correct stack of coal colors.
• 22616 Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, and Tinkaton now face forward and walk properly.
• A brand new Zeraora model has been introduced, featuring updated textures and animations.
• Galarian Articuno's walking animation has been corrected so its legs move properly.
• Pheromosa's model no longer displays stray geometry on its head.
• 17478 Cresselia's texture has been fixed to remove stray pixels on its underbelly.
• Zebstrika and Blitzle now feature animations and emissive effects.
• 17174 Charizard's Zombie palette sprite now displays a purple flame to match its model.
• Beedrill now flies properly above ground and no longer clips beneath the terrain.
• Zeraora's texture has been updated for improved accuracy and now includes paw pads.
• Azumarill, Hatenna, Morelull, and Slugma now render smoothly and no longer appear blocky.
• Morelull's model no longer clips into terrain and animates correctly.
• Porygon's Alter texture has been fixed to match its UV map and render properly.
• 19051 Gallade's left knee now bends and turns correctly.
• Notice overlay background now displays with proper transparency, and sprites now face each other as intended.
• 3D Pokémon in the notice overlay now face the correct direction or appear too dark.
• Cosmetic items now render correctly in the cosmetics editor screen, resolving issues with inverted normals.
• Visual artifacts at the top and bottom of list-based screens, including Spawners, Tutors, Relearners, and Battle Rules, have been removed.
• The highlight box for selected moves in the Move Tutor screen now appears properly centered.
• Move descriptions in the tutor and relearner screens now display within their designated areas and no longer overlap with the cost section.
• The dialogue input screen no longer displays a blurry background over the input box, improving text clarity.
• Shrine orb items now use data components instead of damage values, preventing unintended filling through anvil repairs.
• Resolved a client crash that occurred when having a Pokémon sprite on your head while using Iris Shaders.
• Replace and delete move messages now display the Pokémon's proper name in chat, even for Pokémon without nicknames.
• The correct Pokémon name is now shown in the move delete screen of the summary menu.
• Resolved a crash that could occur when clicking empty slots in the Pokémon selector UI for Move Tutor and Transfer Tutor screens.
• 22652 Server no longer crashes when initializing a Pokémon's animation in the cloning machine.
• 22640 Money is now correctly aligned in the inventory UI, regardless of the amount displayed.
• Pokémon cries have been normalized for consistent volume, preventing extreme loudness or inaudible effects.
• The "Save to Preset" button now saves presets to a generated directory within the current world directory.
• NPC presets now sync properly to the client.
• NPC preset saving now functions as intended.
• The pixelmon:spec team supplier codec now operates correctly.
• 22617 Pixelmon spawners now generate Pokémon at random levels within the specified range, instead of always spawning at the maximum level.
• 22587 Old and New Running Boots now properly grant a speed boost when equipped.
• The animation toggle button has been removed from the Pokémon Editor summary tab.
• The ':' character can now be entered in the NPC preset screen filter, allowing full use of preset names.
• The Infuser no longer retains infusion time when recipe ingredients are changed mid-process.
• Switching between different recipes in the Infuser now correctly applies the intended infusion duration for each recipe.
• Vitamin and non-vitamin infusion recipes now always use their correct infusion times, regardless of previous items used.
• Custom particles now render correctly, including battle effects and Shaymin transformation.
• The Poké Ball beam effect now displays as intended.
• Battle animation particles are now visible in multiplayer.
• The blackout screen now triggers when all Pokémon faint outside of battle, matching expected behavior.
• The Pixelmon inventory sidebar can now be upscaled, allowing for higher resolution edits via resource packs.
• EVs are no longer doubled when a Pixelmon has the Uninfected strain of Pokérus.
• EV gain and capping logic have been corrected, ensuring proper EV distribution and preventing stats from being reset or incorrectly limited.
• Permission registration errors no longer appear when players are de-opped.

Battle Fixes:

• Transform moves now display correctly in the battle UI after a Pokémon uses Transform, ensuring the moveset updates as expected.
• 22645 Players can no longer use the "last used item" button to catch a Pokémon during Horde battles when more than one wild Pokémon remains.
• The battle log now displays messages immediately on the battle screen, allowing for smoother progression.
• Using /endbattle now ends battles instantly, even when messages are pending, resolving issues that previously required players to click through turn 0 messages.
• 22566 Running /endbattle multiple times no longer results in a disembodied state or camera lock.
• Fixed a crash caused by Iris when rendering the battle controller tile entity.
• The NoCrits property now defaults to false, ensuring critical hits are enabled by default in PvP battles.
• 22595 Evolving a Pokémon during an NPC battle no longer causes a soft lock after the battle ends.
• 22595 The camera now behaves correctly if no valid target exists or after leveling up a Pokémon mid-battle.
• 22595 Exp. All now functions properly for all party Pokémon.
• 22631 Pokémon experience now updates correctly after battles, ensuring experience is saved on both the Pokémon and its entity.
• Move requirements now use a more precise search method, allowing unabbreviated specs like iv and ev specs to function as intended.

Language:

• New translation keys have been added.
• Translations have been updated for Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Developer:

• 22650 Added new interaction events: pixelmon:defeat_leader, pixelmon:lose_to_leader, pixelmon:defeat_champion, and pixelmon:lose_to_champion.
• 22650 Added the pixelmon:set_string_context interaction result.
• Added the pixelmon:finish_healing interaction event.
• Interaction events can now be defined and managed through datapacks.
• Added JSON support for interaction events, enabling custom event creation.
• NPCs can now be set as pushable or unpushable using the new pushable property (default: true).
• NPCs now support a title property, allowing for custom titles above their name tag (default: none).
• NPC icon rendering has been improved.
• Introduced enabling placeholder support in text components.
• Added the pixelmon:apply_spec interaction result, allowing Pokémon context to apply specified properties through interaction.
• Added the has_research interaction condition for use in custom interactions.
• The pixelmon:defeat_trainer event now returns an empty interaction result.
• Introduced pixelmon:defeat_npc, which now handles the logic previously managed by defeat_trainer.
• StringContextDataProvider now converts all data to string automatically, improving flexibility and removing the need for type-specific data providers.
• Added support for appending tasks to the end of the evolution query process.