Pokémon in Vanilla Minecraft --
Pokémon Cobalt and Amethyst is a 1.8.8 single player vanilla Minecraft map that recreates the original Pokémon role-playing game in Minecraft. This includes battling, capturing, and training Pokémon, fighting trainers, and challenging Gym Leaders and, ultimately, the Pokémon League. Everything you love in Pokémon is now here as a vanilla adventure map, ready to play! Experience the open world and 3D sensation Minecraft offers!

The map places itself in a never-before-seen region, featuring a new set of 136 Pokémon and a new story dominated by an antagonist threatening to release a Legendary darkness that demands tribute. It is your task to seek the truth with the help of the region's Professor and your rival - either capture it before it's too late, or take Team Tempest down while saving the lives of those closest to you.






BRIEF GAMEPLAY SHOWCASE (more gameplay can be seen in the release video above):



MAP SETTINGS & REQUIREMENTS (as seen in the release video)
This is a 1.8.8 vanilla Minecraft single player game.
Please allocate at least 2 GB RAM to your Minecraft client.

Estimated gameplay time: 60-80 hours
Before downloading this map, watch the associated release video at the top of the page in full. This will allow you to familiarise yourself with the map's in-game mechanics as well as provide visual confirmation that your client is adjusted to the correct settings.

Points to consider (in order):
1. Run Minecraft version 1.8.7 or 1.8.8 for optimal playing experience. Install the map as normal (you do not need to install the resource pack separately; it has been embedded into the world save). Please do not use any other resource packs.
2. It is recommended that you install Optifine at optifine.net/downloads and ensure you are running no other mods. Although playing the map without Optifine is sufficient, you may notice visual imperfections and/or frame lag especially on weaker computers.
3. Please set your chat settings to the following (this may be adjusted according to your Minecraft client's resolution): Scale: 100%; Focused Height: 120px; Unfocused Height: 100px; Width: 320px
3a. Set your language to U.S. English.
4. Please set your view distance to at least 16 chunks, and FOV to normal.
5. Set the volume for 'Music' to 0.
6. Do NOT backtrack in chat. This generally includes attempting to click buttons in previous chat logs. Avoid spam clicking buttons. Previous chat logs serve as memory only.
6a. Do not quit out of the map in the middle of dialogue/cutscene, function, or battle. This will break the map (if this occurs to you, please contact me immediately).
6b. If there is a clickable arrow in the most recent chat log, you must click it before doing anything else.
7. All Items work via right-click, except the Bike which is activated by dropping it (default key: Q).

In order to avoid or remedy any game-breaking glitches, MAKE FREQUENT BACKUPS of the map.

WALKTHROUGH & FULL POKéMON DATA (+ BUG TRACKER): http://phoenixsc.me/pokemon-cobalt-and-amethyst-official-walkthrough/

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PROLOGUE (BACKGROUND STORY)
Mathers, Team Tempest Leader, was an Archbishop in the Church of Arceus, raised in the Church, for the Church, and to serve the Church. He, however, saw the constant battling and fighting of trainers and the different teams tearing apart the world, and began to doubt his upbringing – he began to doubt his purpose. After word spread that a young child had found a Pokémon called Giratina, one only mentioned as a whisper in the doctrines of Arceus, Mathers began to do research into the Distortion World (antimatter), and found himself drawn deeper and deeper to it.

After word reached the Suliqu region that a child captured Arceus, Mathers self-excommunicated from the church and began searching for a new place to direct his desires. His interest in the Distortion World only increased from there as he learned that many more beings existed in the Distortion World, and that their intents were opposite that of Arceus. Mathers, seeking now to bring back the fallen victims of the previous evil teams, as the Church of Arceus viewed them as a “necessary evil”, desired, initially, only to right the supposed wrongs that were so often allowed to occur. Thus, Team Tempest was formed, named after a storm, the righteous anger of a fallen Archbishop, named thus to mock the church of Arceus as they would only view his intents as a “natural disaster” to be taken no more seriously than any other simple storm.

In his studies into Distortion as a whole, Mathers learned of a place where there were strange weather phenomena: the small town of Chalet. He investigated with those drawn to his cause, and eventually found a lighthouse on a frozen beach. Upon further investigation, they discovered a weak point between the dimensions, a rift between the dimensions of order and chaos, caused by a creature who called Mathers further into the caves; as the Call of the Premier bathed the area, Mathers figured Premier a god, rather than a secret hidden away by Arceus. Through time, as the followers of Team Tempest grew, their ideals became less and less holy, but still grounded in righteousness, as their leader began to submit to the Call of the Premier, beginning to create Shadow Pokémon near the weak point between dimensions, until the rift was fully opened, and the shadow Pokémon were no longer necessary. At this point, a young child turns 15 years of age, and leaves home for the sake of becoming a Pokémon master…