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a cozy home for your Cloud Island.
Pokonook is a fan-made ledger for Pokopia — the cozy Pokémon spin-off that launched exclusively on Switch 2 on March 5, 2026. It’s a place to wander other trainers’ Cloud Islands in Cloud Visit mode, drop your Address Code so friends can visit, find a Magic Number worth rebuilding your terrain around, and swap Link Codes for live co-op on the LFG board.
Why this exists
When Pokopia launched, the community scattered across Reddit, Discord, and Facebook groups. Addresses and Magic Numbers flew by faster than anyone could bookmark them. Great Cloud Islands showed up once and vanished into the scroll.
Pokonook is the opposite of that — a slower, editorial space where builds keep their shape. You can filter by biome, browse a creator’s full page, or hunt for Cloud Islands that share a Magic Number. Nothing scrolls away.
Three codes, three jobs
Pokopia has three different codes that each do a different job. Keeping them straight is the whole reason this ledger exists.
🔑 Address Code
8 characters · persistent
Type this in-game on your Switch 2 to visit someone’s Cloud Island. Async — the host doesn’t need to be online. If their island has Cloud Visit mode on (the in-game Virtual Mode toggle), you can wander but your actions won’t save.
⚯ Magic Number
8 digits · terrain seed
Type this in-game when creating a new Cloud Island to rebuild on identical terrain. Does not let you visit.
🔗 Link Code
6 characters · ephemeral
One-shot key for live co-op in any instanced area — Palette Town, a Nintendo biome (Withered Wasteland, Bleak Beach…), or a Cloud Island. Not indexed here — post on the LFG board, expires in 72h.
Sometimes you’ll need two of them. Touring a creator’s Cloud Island async, then meeting up for live co-op in their Palette Town or a Nintendo biome, for example: the Address Code gets you to the island, the Link Code opens the live session. Pokonook keeps them separate so you always know which one does what.
You only get one Cloud Island slot per save, so the Magic Number matters most when you’re starting over — or dreaming about it.
Who builds this
Hi, I’m Hyphysaurus — a bilingual part-time teacher (7+ years ELA / Spanish) and self-taught developer. Pokonook is a one-person project built on evenings and weekends, with the same love of cozy systems that Pokopia itself runs on.
I also build PlotFirst, a writing & planning tool for long-form fiction, and a few other projects that live in the same “slow directory” space. The DittoMark mascot, the paper-grain overlay, and the springy hover easing are all drawn and tuned by hand.
Values
- Credit the community. Every source, every font, every data feed gets a shoutout on the credits page. Nothing here would exist without r/Pokopia, PokéAPI, Serebii, and Bulbapedia.
- Respect the trademark. Pokonook is a fan project, not a Nintendo affiliate. No ripped sprite art, no Pokémon-branded merchandise, and a DMCA path on day one for anyone who wants their content removed.
- Editorial over transactional. This isn’t a marketplace. There’s no scarcity, no inflated prices, no pressure to trade. Just a ledger of places worth visiting.
- Ship fast, stay cozy. The game is six weeks old. The tools to track it should move at the same speed — but without losing the paper-grain.
Say hi
Bug reports, build submissions, feature ideas, polite complaints — all welcome at the contact page.
Pokonook is a fan-made community directory. Pokopia is a trademark of Nintendo / Game Freak / The Pokémon Company International. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.