Cobblemon with a side of salt 

The cobblemon vs pixelmon argument feels very huge corpo grocery store vs mom and pop corner store. Pixelmon is overall more finished and polished, but feels a little uncanny and sterile, while cobblemon is more homegrown and open source, but not entirely put together

As a dev for this mod I cannot explain how amazing the Cobblemon Dev team is to work with. They are all so kind and passionate about what they do and always focus on what would be good for players and not for their wallets. Best dev team I have ever been a part of!

Remember when the original pixelmon was shut down by the pokemon company a year before they released the freemium Pokemon Quest, featuring voxel-like graphics?

full odds shiny joltik changes a man

An addon that actually turns Vanilla Minecraft Mobs into Cobblemon themselves would be hilarious and amazing. "I Choose You, Pig...!"

As a Animator for this mod, I cannot say how stunning, and frankly honored I feel when working and seeing all the progress that's been made by others in the team! The feeling is even more amplified seeing a youtuber I love watching and have been watching since I was in Middle school, review and talk about it! Thank you Scott, and I can't wait for the what the future holds!

Super excited to see our team's work highlighted in a salt videos :D

Heya Mr. Falco, thanks for the kind words and support :) The trailer for 1.4 was my baby and I can't wait to share more cobblemon footage in the near future! I'm glad you enjoy the project and thanks for showing it to others! Hope we get to see more cobblemon content from ya!

4:00 I'm sure someone has already said this, but they actually plan to add animations for EVERY move. They have three of them showcased somewhere in the announcements channel of the server (I think) and it looks amazing! I'm so excited to see where this mod goes, that's exactly what I've wanted in a pokemon game

It's so wild to see something I'm contributing to featured in a Side of Salt, but it's so refreshing hearing such nice words about it! As some others have said, there's a lot of sweet things coming around the corner, everyone on the team is so passionate and talented that it's all beyond what I had dreamed was possible in Minecraft.

To simplify the whole Pixelmon Vs Cobblemon Argument that's old, tired, and pointless by now: Pixelmon is Quantity Cobblemon is Quality

Always love seeing creators shout out fan made mods and such. These kinds of thinfs are always lovely to see, and i hope you'll continue to do stuff like this in the future. Bravo!

Props for putting a mod into the spotlight

I honestly wish mainline pokemon games had you working together with your pokemon more often, kinda like in the anime. I find it hilarious how Cobblemon and *Palworld* of all things made me bond with my pokemon more than most mainline entries did. Being able to *really* work together with your mons in battles, building, crafting, and working together to build a base (assuming you didn't go down the slavery route in palworld,) really makes you feel like you're more connected and bonded with your pals and pokemon, way more than they were in the mainline games in-fact. You really remember those little moments where they helped you build your first furnace in palworld, or helped you navigate out of a cave in cobblemon, or when your pidgeot helped you place down the blocks to finish your roof. I really hope the next entry in Pokemon gives our poke-pals even more uses outside of battling, because they add a lot into making those pokemon feel more real.

another dev shared this video with the rest of our team and i can definitely say i loved the video:) everyone has such passion for this mod and they are wonderful people to work with. still extremely surreal to see things that ive built being used in a youtube video, it strikes me with motivation to get on my pc and work on builds for the mod lol. impressive that your video can do that to someone. cant wait to see you guys explore the ruins in the next update:)

Pro gamer tip : "Click on the name of your pokemon in any gui that allows you to select your pokemon to be able to change it !" - Hatsune Miku, President of the United States

One thing I'm a bit sad you didn’t mention was the fainting/idle animations being f-ing amazing. Tandemaus is by far my favorute

Speaking of integration with vanilla minecraft: non-pokemon mobs can still attack you while in a pokemon battle, but you can press R to suspend the battle and take control of your character back at any time, so it's no like pixelmon where turning on vanilla mobs means they can just get a free kill while you stand there like an idiot. Also, you run from battle by actually running from battle because they automatically end if you get too far away.

SCOTTT NOOOO THE NINTENDO NINJA'S HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN!

Genuinely a Pokémon MMO would be amazing

He made a whole video just to show off a full odds joltik. That, I can respect.

I use to play pixelmon a lot, but when I saw and tried out Cobblemon I had this huge realization of "this is what Pokémon In Minecraft should feel and look like, not like the Pokémon where strong armed into the game, but integrated into the game elegantly crafted to fit the blocky esthetic Minecraft has" like you can tell the mod creators have a lot of passion for this project and I look forward for what comes next in this mod

You know it’s good when all the salt is going to the real games and not the mod

Artist on the mod here, tysm for checking us out!!!

I’d will vouch for the folks on the cobblemon islands server; who have been adding more and more of the dex over the past few months and even fixing some of the issues the vanilla has. Highly recommend if anyone wants a server to try this out on.

Something not mentioned in this video (Because at the time of upload the feature is disabled for overhaul iirc) is that with smaller pokemon you can have them ride on your head/shoulder and they give you passive buff effects! Like for example having a Joltik ride on your shoulder would give you night vision.

I genuinely hope to see Cobblemon improve in the future. One of my favorite parts of playing pixelmon is scrambling to catch a legendary when a notification pops up, so I want to see how Cobblemon handles their legendaries. Structure based legends are cool, but I’d love to see at least some rng when legendaries are fully implemented.

There are better Pokémon games in Minecraft now, than the actual main-line games. I just can't.

Been playing Cobblemon since release. It's already come so far! I can't wait to see where it goes next. My friends set up a server where we each picked our favorite gmy/elite four member and built a team and gave out pokemon to anyone who could beat us. There's so much you can do in it b/c it's still Minecraft but there's just pokemon around.

I’ve been following Cobblemon for the last several months and only played it recently for the first time. It really is an incredible mod with a ton of potential to be the “definitive” Pokémon mod. The thing I’d love to see the most at this point is a dedicated Minecraft server because I’ve had issues with getting all of my friends onto one LAN world.

Its kind a nuts how much more natural of a pokemon world a minecraft mod is vs a nintendo open world game like legend of arcius feels.

I remember my brother putting so much effort in a community pixelmon server, saying it was the kind of game he loved to see with Pokemon. Now, he's putting his efforts into making mods for Palworld, as we both found pure sugar cane fun with that game. Also being a modmaker, I wish all the peeps working on this mod the best of luck in growing this to higher places.

The salt is "Gamefreak, Get it together."

This is what Palworld achieved that the mainstream game didn't

Some of my friends are actually helping animate the Pokémon models for this mod, which is pretty cool.

*I'm living for the Kingdom Hearts sound effects used for the vid ^^*

The worst part of 3D models is that they don't express any personality and just stand there in an standard pose doing nothing The difference between black/white 2 and X & Y forward is huge

Minecraft mobs and their Types: All passive overworld Mobs - Normal Parrots - Flying Sheep - different type based on the colour of the wool (I think it'll be fun) Llama - Fighting Allay - Flying, Fairy Bats - Flying Bee - Poison, Flying Polar Bear - Ice Snow Fox - Normal (it's a shiny Fox. Same with Ocelots and Cats) Frog - Water, (ground, plant, ice. Depending on type) Phantom - Ghost, Flying Spiders - Bug Cave Spiders - Bug, Poison Zombie - Ghost Drowned - Ghost, Water Husk - Ghost, Fire Skeleton - Ghost Stray - Ghost, Ice Whither Skeleton - Ghost, Poison Creeper - Plant Charged Creeper - Plant, Electric All water mobs - Water Axalotl - Water, Fairy/Fighting Gaurdian - Water, Electric Elder Gaurdian - Water, Electric Blaze - Fire Ghast - Fire, Flying Magma Cube - Fire, Ground Strider - Normal Piglin - Normal Piglin Brute - Fighting Hoglin - Fighting, Rock Shulker - Fairy Endermite - Dark Enderman - Dark, Fairy Warden - Ghost, Ground Wither - Ghost, Fire Ender dragon - Dragon, Dark Pillagers - NPC Trainers Vex - Flying Ravager - Fighting Witch - Poison Whatever the Evoker summons from the ground - Ground, Dark

Been playing Cobblemon with a few friends and it has been a blast, cannot wait to see what else is released for this mod

Okay, you’ve sold me. I had a big Minecraft phase a couple years ago and this seems ideal for me to kick off a modded Minecraft phase.

if you want balls that work better out of battle, what I've loved using are Safari Balls, which use Yellow and Green Apricorns, plus a bit of copper. ABSOLUTELY worth the cost imo, since it's the Great Ball's catch rate.

I also loved Legend's ball hucking mechanic

Man, stuff like this is so much more immersive with mobs capable of being battled with your pokemon It's cool there are addons trying to make them do more in the world! Sheep pokemon dropping veal and wool, the porygon there seemed to be messing with the redstone too! Maybe there's an addon that makes rock and steel type pokemon act like silver fish that can hide among stone and ore blocks. So much potential

This project is already so exciting to see, even in its unfinished state. I can't WAIT for the complete pokemon + minecraft experience, considering it's most likely the unironically best way to experience pokemon at all. A sad truth, but one that is better than no such alternative existing.

A little weird seeing a side of salt video for a mod.

Your cobblemon streams were a delight to watch

Hell yeah, cobblemon has been my favorite Minecraft mod since Tekkit.

Cobblemon pokeball: - 4 berries + copper ore - crafts 4 balls Pixelmon pokeball: - 5 iron for a hammer - 7 iron for anvil - 3 iron for bottom ball part - 3 red apricorns for top of ball - smelt the 3 apricorns - craft the top and bottom of ball - craft a stone button - smash the top with a hammer on the anvil for like 5 seconds - smash the bottom with a hammer on the anvil for like 5 seconds - combine top, bottom, and button for 3 pokeballs

There’s also a lot of little cobblemon servers that need more love! A good example is the cobblemon roanoke server! They host weekly tournaments for legendaries and stuff, they have a great community and they do fun events all the time, with even a gym circuit (spoiler alert, im the first gym member, and they might be looking for more idk). So if anyone is interested in cobblemon, I recommend finding a good server with good people if you don’t have any friends to play with, since it’s just as much of a blast!

Hearing there’s a mod to fight alongside your Pokemon has captured my interest again! Really wanted to use my Pokemon against monsters out there

One thing I adore (idk if its in base cobblemon or not) is that in the pack, "big chad guys plus" mons will aggro depending on species if you attack em, angive effects relating to it. For example I hit a mabostiff and got blinded and killed BUT! This also applies to your mons and the higher the level the more damage they do, so ya can have your mons out with you and they'll fight mobs that attack you. My chimchar incinerates anything that looks at me wrong XD

I love how a Minecraft mod feels more enjoyable than a mainline game LOL

you know one of the things that people push cobblemon for is that regular minecraft mobs are there, but Pixelmon has a toggle to allow regular mobs to spawn

bro this is exactly what ive wanted from something like pixelmon it makes it feel more like palworld in the sense were your pokemon are part of your adventure not just the only thing that exists

this is so well timed, I started playing this mod last week.

Honestly, outside of NPC trainers to battle, one of the biggest things I am anticipating for the mod is how they implement legendaries. Whilst the dungeon approach is cool and fits Pokemon, part of me would like it if you could occasionally just happen upon them. Something like, "you're boating around and suddenly Kyogre appears".

Cobblemon streams are always nice streams, looking forward to more in the future

if cobblemon had the same development time as pixelmon it would probably one of the best mods out there

Been following cobblemon for so long and i love how much love its getting ❤

you have gotten me to want to play this game. mission accomplished. now to get my friends to play it

Ah yes, another video by my favorite Gurren Laggan super fan RU-vidr, ScottFalco

I was surprised when I heard that there was another Pokemon mod for Minecraft, but I might like this way more. Pixelmon feels like "Pokemon in Minecraft", but this feels like "Pokemon Minecraft" if that makes sense.

Always gotta love how fan projects have more passion and love for the series than the mainline games have had in years

I hope this vid was fun for you to make! From what it sounds like in your posts you've been having a rough time lately so it was really nice to hear how positive and happy you sounded.

Finally, an open world Pokemon game with crafting elements and other aspects of different games! I'm so glad this *original* *well made* game came out and wasn't overshadowed at all!

That robotic baddie can still receive it (rare candies)

Man I hope scott does one of these for palworld

The question becomes... when do the ninjas come. We know they're watching... they are in every corner...

Further proof that Pokemon as a franchise should have moved to a Low Poly 3D aesthetic. It'd fuck so crazy hard....

Cobblemon is technically complete. A lot of the features you mentioned that aren't there like the Pokedex have mods

I love that he says, the entirety of survival, while vein mining coal

it looks really dope, thx for the great video😄

You don't need to craft armor and go toe to toe with mons? yeah, not everyone can be ash ketchum...

Recommendation: The Quark mod. It has a feature that allows random shiny minecraft mobs to spawn at the same 1/4096 odds (I found a shiny green pig when trying out my new modpack and I loved him very much)

I began playing the mod around a year ago I think, and I have to say I think it's absolutely amazing. It fits into the actual Minecraft world so well.

The beggining has the best rap ive ever heard

Enjoyed your streams man Hope to see more soon when all the stuff gets fixed it was a lot of fun to see the cob mon streams

Speaking of full odds shinies, the first time I played Cobblemon, I found a full odds shiny Pidgey before I knew how to craft Pokéballs ;-;

Atleast it has all the Pokemon in it without having to remove the entire series just to cut costs or some other kind of bullshit excuse

When I evolved a Tandemaus I caught in cobblemon it evolved into the 1/100 3 family form and I couldnt have been happier

This looks rlly cool

This mod looks fun

I didn't play cobblemon before but I feel like sharing this story anyhow because it is pokemon related: I used to play a fair amount on a Pixelmon server, and one thing I would like doing is picking a very large pokemon (Like a Mega-Evolved Steelix or a Xurkitree), riding it, and going to spawn to mess with other players.

I was not expecting a video on a minecraft mod, it was good

Scott’s back at it again… glad you’re back man

i'm genuinly surprised most minecraft mods aren't open source to begin with, it's not like you're able to monotise them anyway and mod packs are extremely common so allowing people to edit mods to better stitch them to others seems like a no brainer.

This is a great vid ngl

R.I.P. Pokecube my favorite Pokemon Minecraft mod that no one ever talks about

Your talking animations are rad so clean

Big but small note, Pixelmon once was apparently sued by Nintendo, and would also blacklist servers. Cobblemon on the other hand allows for anyone to create Fakemon or add Pokemon using Datapacks

You are a good person, Scott Falco

I don't personally care for Minecraft, gave it a try in its early days and found it boring, but this actually looks fun.

This video is a moment where you would rub your eyes and yell “HUH?!”

I remember your Cobblemon streams and how happy and content you were when playing it Which is saying a lot considering your circumstances at the time…

This was a very good video! Thank you for making it.😁

1.5 is out, and it has Battle Animations!

What ive gathered from this video is that I'm MASSIVELY jealous of the shiny Crobat. Alaverde my bestie...

And then there's Palworld where you can just huck balls at stuff and catch them to a similar degree.

bruh wtf i just got a cobblemon server like 40 mins ago and this pops up in my recommended ive been playing it for a few hours now, so fun ngl

I've only played Pixelmon, but feel a problem with mixing Pokémon and Minecraft together is that the Pokémon rarely mixes with the Minecraft part. It always feels like I'm playing 2 separate games. Half the time I'm just catching mons and leveling with no objective, the other I'm accumulating resources to build a bigger and better base and maybe defeat the ender dragon. I think the best mods usually combine with the normal Minecraft experience, take most automation mods (mekanism).In vanilla Minecraft, you will usually build a home base so you have a safe place to smelt your ores, craft, and so on. But with automation mods, they add on to base building by giving you more stuff to build in your base that makes you better at the normal Minecraft stuff. In Minecraft, I want ores. With Mekanism, I can make a digital miner to mine ores in a certain radius. But to use a digital miner, I have to build it and make a strong enough power source. And while I make the digital miner, I should make electric furnaces and other machines to make my ingot production more efficient while I'm at it. All of this mixes with parts of the core gameplay of Minecraft (gathering resources) and makes me want to use the mod. With Pixelmon, what do Pokémon help me in Minecraft. They mostly just drop items that Pokémon can hold. They don't help you craft anything. You mostly just use them for Pokémon battles which don't affect the Minecraft side of the game. A cool thing that Pixelmon allows you to do is ride the Pokémon you catch which allows you to fly around, or travel much faster than on foot. These aspects of Pixelmon I enjoy because there is a Minecraft centered reason for why I would want Pokémon. But other then that, there is no reason someone playing Minecraft would want to catch Pokémon. And even if you want to ignore the Minecraft aspect of the game and just go on a Pokémon adventure, Minecraft's survival open world worsens that adventure. You catch a few Pokémon and level them up, wander around a forest battling random Pokémon, rather find a gym on accident or run around the world searching for one, then fight the gym. Maybe the gyms have gotten cooler since the last time I played it, but even so, this doesn't feel like an adventure. I feel like a potential way to fix this is have the gyms in special biomes that you need a specific type of Pokémon for. Maybe have a volcano biome with a dungeon inside that leads to the fire gym. Maybe have fire shoot out of rocks in the volcano, but if you have a water or ice Pokémon with you, they can extinguish the fire before it hits you. Or just create obstacles that incentivize the player to have certain Pokémon. There are probably many ways to make a Pokémon survival game, but I don't think Pixelmon is it. I'm not saying Pokémon should be anything like this, but from what I've watched, Palworld does a decent job of combining Pokémon with survival gameplay. the Pals are needed to get farther in the survival aspects of the game, and the survival aspects of the game builds onto the battle aspect of the game. Though Palworld does feel like one big shitpost, so I'm not saying that Pokémon should be this. But for there to be a good Pokémon Survival experience, The Pokémon aspect has to feed into the survival aspect, and vise versa. I'm done rambling. This post will probably be ignored anyways, but I just wanted to scream into the void.