The Team Initiation Challenge, also known as the “Do the… Team Initiation Challenge?” request, in Pokemon Pokopia is a questline that starts early in the Withered Wasteland region after Professor Tangrowth leads you to the mysterious sand-covered lighthouse on the beach.

Each of the eight challenges in this questline requires you to donate specific items from your inventory. Completing each one grants a unique badge and advances the story toward the game’s ending. This guide will provide you with tips and tricks on how to complete all Team Initiation challenges in Pokemon Pokopia.

Challenge 1: Basic Foraging

• Required Items: 5 Leppa Berries
• Reward: Bouldery Badge

1. Approach trees in the Withered Wasteland and press A to headbutt them.
2. Collect at least 5 Leppa Berries that drop from the trees.
3. Return to the tower on the beach and interact with the box to submit your Leppa Berries.

Challenge 2: Early Farming

• Required Items: 10 Beans, 10 Tomatoes, 10 Wheat
• Reward: Cascade Badge

1. Unlock basic farming in Withered Wasteland.
2. Buy and plant seeds in tilled soil plots for beans, tomatoes, and wheat.
3. Water your crops daily with Water Gun using Slowpoke or a similar Pokemon.
4. Harvest your crops when they’re ready and submit to the tower.

Challenge 3: Wood and Soft Materials

• Required Items: 20 Lumber, 5 Fluff, 10 Paper
• Reward: Forest Badge

1. Befriend Grass or Wood Pokemon and use chopping moves on trees to collect lumber.
2. Shear Wooloo or similar fluffy Pokemon around homes to collect fluff.
3. Collect wastepaper from ruins or recycled junk at abandoned structures.

Challenge 4: Building Materials

• Required Items: 40 Bricks, 20 Gold Ingots, 50 Concrete
• Reward: Rainbowish Badge

1. Unlock mining and smelting after a new region of Rocky Ridges.
2. Mine clay and stone, then process at kilns and workbenches, using Burn moves on solid clay to produce bricks.
3. Mine gold ore in rocky mountains and smelt it at the forge.
4. Mix processed stone and sand to produce cement at an advanced workbench.

Challenge 5: Tech and Energy Components

• Required Items: 50 Electricity, 10 Crystal Fragments, 5 Tinkagears
• Reward: Boulder Badge

1. Befriend Electric Pokemon like Magnemite and use Thunder Shock and Discharge moves in generators and power spots.
2. Build and upgrade generators in your habitats for passive power generation.
3. Mine crystals in sparkling caves in regions like Sparkling Skylands and use Rock Pokemon to break crystal deposits.
4. Craft Tinkagears at the Tinkmaster workbench, using iron ingots and Mechanic Pokemon.

Challenge 6: Advanced Furniture Crafting

• Required Items: 4 Industrial Beds, 4 Office Desks, 4 Resort Lights
• Reward: Comfort Badge

1. Craft Industrial Beds at the advanced workbench by combining lumber, fluff, and metal frames.
2. Office Desks will require wood, metal, and crafted parts.
3. Resort Lights will need electronics, crystals, and glass.

Challenge 7: Household Appliances

• Required Items: 1 Washing Machine, 1 Refrigerator, 1 Game Boy System
• Reward: Tech Badge

1. Craft both a washing machine and a refrigerator using metal ingots, electricity components, and pipes.
2. Reach at least Environment Level 5 at Sparkling Skylands and receive a Game Boy System as a reward at the PC outside the local Pokemon Center.

Challenge 8: Final Celebration

• Required Items: 1 Photo, 2 Party Poppers
• Reward: Final Badge

1. Use the in-game camera to snap a specific shot of your completed habitat with a group of befriended Pokemon.
2. Craft Party Poppers from paper, fluff, and small explosives.
3. If your Environment Level is high enough, this will trigger a story conclusion with the final cutscene.