How to access the Pokopia Limited Event and get Hoppip

The first Pokopia Limited Event, More Spores for Hoppip, is live and has you travelling to Dream Islands looking for cotton spores for Hoppip in Pokopia. You can then cash them in for rewards at the Withered Wasteland Pokemon Centre

It's worth noting you need to have rebuilt the Withered Wasteland Pokemon Centre to access this event, and and it isn't accessible on Cloud Islands.

How to access the Pokopia Limited Event "More Spores for Hoppip"

The first Pokopia Limited Event is called 'More Spores for Hoppip' and is live now, ending on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 1PM PDT / 4PM EDT / 8PM GMT. However, it won't actually end until 5am in your local time.

More Spores for Hoppip, as the name suggests, allows Pokemon Pokopia players to befriend Hoppip, and they'll move into town if given a habitat to call home. Hoppip will also ask you to collect special cotton spores that only appear on Pokopia Dream Islands during the Limited Event time period, and you'll be able to exchange them for Hoppip-themed picnic items inside Pokemon Centers.

Once you've purchased these picnic-themed furniture items, you'll be able to create new bespoke habitats for Hoppip, as well as Skiploom and Jumpluff.

These Pokemon will only be able to be lured in during the More Spores for Hoppip Limited Event, so don't miss out.

When you launch the game during the event, you'll be told that an unknown Pokemon is the talk of the "talk of the town". You'll need to visit the Pokemon Centre, which you'll find is covered in beautiful spring flowers.

You'll find Hoppip floating nearby, and when you speak to it, it'll automatically get added to your Pokedex. Hoppip will ask you to collect cotton spores, and will take up position behind the counter inside the Pokemon Center, where it will sell the special, event-exclusive items.

How to find cotton spores in Pokopia

Pokopia cotton spores are only available on Dream Islands, which means you'll need to find some Pokemon plushies and a Drifloon in order to start gathering.

Pokemon plush can be found at glowing spots in the ground, and you'll also get one through the request Drifloon gives you when you first attract him to your town.

The plush you use (such as Eevee, Clefairy, or Dragonite) will determine the kind of Dream Island you go to, but all of them will contain cotton spores.

You can only visit one Dream Island per day, but you can revisit that same island as many times as you want (handy when you've maxed out your pocket slots).

We found Cotton Spores all over the Dream Island we visited (via an Pikachu plush), from inside caves to the tops of mountains, and down the sides of cliffs. Just hold down Y to collect what cotton spores you find, just like other resources.

What can you exchange Pokopia cotton spores for?

When you've collected plenty of Pokopia cotton spores for Hoppip, you can visit them in the Withered Wasteland Pokemon Centre. Everything you can exchange for cotton spores will be on the trade spots in front of Hoppip. So far we've found:

• Dandy flower seeds (costs 5 clusters of cotton spores)
• Flower backpack (costs 5 clusters of cotton spores)
• Flower cushion (costs 10 clusters of cotton spores)
• Flower garland (costs 5 clusters of cotton spores)
• Flower table (costs 10 clusters of cotton spores)
• Flowery table setting (costs 10 clusters of cotton spores)
• Hoppip water bottle (costs 5 clusters of cotton spores)
• Juice trio (costs 5 clusters of cotton spores)
• Lunch box (costs 5 clusters of cotton spores)
• Picnic blanket (costs 15 clusters of cotton spores)

You can buy items more than once, so grab everything you want before the event ends on March 24. Sadly, the flower backpack is just a decoration and not one you can wear.

Hoppip habitats, and how to get Skiploom and Jumpluff

In order to complete the Hoppip evolution trio, you'll need to set up special habitats using event items.

• Hoppip habitat
  • Yellow carpet: 4x Dandy Flowers
• Skiploom habitat
  • Yellow carpet: 4x Dandy Flowers
  • Field-Trip Friends: Flower Backpack, Lunch Box, Hoppip Water Bottle
• Jumpluff habitat
  • Yellow carpet: 4x Dandy Flowers
  • Dandelion Lunchtime: 1x Dandy Flowers, Lunch Box, Flower Cushion, Flowery Table Setting

Set up these habitats in much the same way as others, and you'll find that Jumpluff and Skiploom will eventually move in. Meanwhile, since you can't ask Hoppip to follow you, you have to simply wait until the end of the event to assign it to its own home.

Be sure to check out our Pokopia Mystery Codes guide for all other limited-time gifts.

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