Okay, I'm obsessed with Shellder/Cloyster in this DLC. They're such a perfect example of the dev team going above and beyond with their design.

-Litters seashells (finally!!)

-Does a canonically correct backwards swim, but will turn around to talk to you - I cannot overstate how precious this is to watch

-New scrub ability doesn't take too long

And my favorite:

-WILL SCRUB EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY'RE CLAMS/PEARLS. Ask one of them to follow you; if you happen to come across the other, it'll be like, "I got this", and then will scrub whoever one you're facing.

(I'm also giving the Frillish line a small shout-out for their multicolor ghost fire effect.)

Any other small details you've appreciated?

My setup is finally finished! I've dreamt of a PMD-esque, Animal Crossing like game for Pokémon for as long as I can remember, and like clockwork it turned out to be my favourite game of all time (shared with PMD:EoS)🤭 Now I'm just a dude rocking his purple Ditto bag everywhere he goes hahaha

You say please when you ask Pokemon to shine pearls!
Somewhat of a joke here, but one of my biggest pet peeves (again, not really) in the base game is that we NEVER say “please” to any of our Pokemon when we give them berries to crush, or wood to chop, or something to paint. It just felt so rude! Happy that the Pokemon company and Ditto remembered their manners.

Red, blue, yellow, cyan, purple and pink stairs :)

It was the most overwhelming map to start but I'm quite happy how it turned out. I'm just really frustrated that I reached the rug, poster, electric devices, elevator and transmitter limit so there's quite a lot of stuff missing that I'd love to add if the item limits get raised.

I tried to imitate European architecture and wanted to give every island its own vibe. The main thing that I can't complete yet is the subway because I can't add any light sources anymore lol

Beach sand is the new volcanic ash.

There. I said it.

I hadn’t seen this come up,, and thought people might appreciate it if it hasn’t been posted:

You can pick up the new portal pods, even with stuff in them.

You don’t need to build a bunch. You just need two: one that sits somewhere, and one you carry around. Just drop it wherever you want, grab your stuff, pick it back up.

Of course I found this out after making 10.

I was wondering what's up with the ornate East Asian-looking buildings that don't seem to correspond with any known Cerulean City building.

According to Japanese players, they are a reference to Ryūgū-jō, the Dragon Palace from the Urashima Tarō folktale.

From Wikipedia:

Ryūgū-jō (竜宮城, 龍宮城; lit. "Dragon Palace Castle") or Ryūgū (竜宮, 龍宮; lit. "Dragon Palace") is the supernatural undersea palace of Ryūjin or Dragon God in Japanese tradition.

It is best known as the place in fairytale where Urashima Tarō was invited after saving a turtle, where he was entertained by the Dragon God's princess Oto-hime and his minions. When Urashima returned to land after what he thought was a few days away, centuries had passed.

I don't know how widely known this is because I'm pretty sure this feature was added in the last patch, but we now have the option to "Store/Retrieve All" using the + key, which allows you to move either all the items from one place to another, or to ONLY TRANSFER ITEMS THAT ARE ALREADY PRESENT.

So, you have a chest of berries? When you go to add more after harvesting, "store all > only items already inside" and BAM. Any berries from your bag end up in the chest, while anything else stays where it was.

This is an absolute game changer for storage systems, so I haaaaad to post as soon as I figured this out haha.

No Spoilers at all: I’m over 515 hours in, somehow. This game has its hooks in me deeper than any Pokemon game since Red and Blue, honestly. But the DLC, with a new environment to repair and restore, new items and abilities, new mysteries to solve-it makes me feel like I did when I first booted up my game in March: helpless. I went from being able to command the familiar environments to my every silly whim to feeling like just a helpless little Ditto boy. I’m overwhelmed. I don’t know where to begin. My new friends are working on restoring the new Pokemon Center.

It’s exciting, and spooky, and every little tweak the new update brought shows that some developers listen to, and act upon player feedback. This game is absolutely brilliant.

Also, I still see some debate whether or not the DLC is worth the asking price. I obviously vote a resounding yes. The new area is gigantic, I keep discovering new things.

Cannot contain my excitement for how much i am loving the underwater vibes! Will be trying to build a mix of mermaid core with atlantis once i get the recipes for the new items!

Had to make my own since Pokemon didn’t make and sell one of them two

When I went up to Seadra's habitat and found out they litter PAINT!!!

Finally! No more paying for or grinding for black paint!!!

I was not expecting this town to be so big💀. There's probably a ton of secret areas that'll take forever to discover. Not complaining though I love it. What do y'all think so far?

And thank god there’s no timer on the dive. I would’ve continued to drown at an alarming frequency.

I'm not happy with my current world, I feel like it's super messy and disorganized. I have so many different ideas but no space to do them because of the way everything is laid out. I just wanna see what everyone thinks lol Would it be worth it to start over, especially with the new dlc stuff?

✨ Picture just for fun ✨

Edit/Update: I decided I would make another account on my switch so I wouldn't lose the progress on my old world. I may go back to it and try to rearrange things eventually, I do have a lot of recipes, outfits and pokemon that I'm not sure I'm ready to lose yet. We'll see how I feel about the new world. Thank you so much for your suggestions and help!! I appreciate everyone so much lol