Cobblemon Better Pokedex Scanner

Overview

Better Pokédex Scanner expands Cobblemon’s Pokédex scanner in numerous ways to present useful information about entities and the environment to assist you on your Pokémon journey.

It keeps the core Cobblemon feel, but adds clearer scan presentation, richer information, better variant handling, environmental reads, non-Pokémon scans, and compatibility for scanning special block/entity cases.

What It Adds

• Improved Pokémon scans

• Proper handling for presenting forms, regional variants, aspects and shiny tags

• Type-aware labelling and colour-coded type displays

• Level threat colouring based on your current party range

• Consistent behaviour between live Pokémon scans and contained/block-based Pokémon scans

• Richer styling for many Cobblemon form/aspect labels

• Environment feature scanning

• Beehive scanning

• Non-Pokémon entity scanning

• Resource-pack driven label customisation for Cobblemon aspects/forms and custom entity accessors

Pokémon Scanner Features

Aspect display

Resolves forms, aspects, shiny state, and gender correctly. Pokemon with multiple aspects are carouselled through the same label position.

Threat level colouring

Adds level threat colouring based on your party:

◦ Higher than your party range trends warm

◦ Lower than your party range trends green

◦ Contained Pokémon use a blue high-level indicator

Occupied Pokéballs Support

Better Pokédex Scanner also supports Pokémon that are stored in pokeballs via the occupied pokeballs mod

A Pokemon's IV stats, nature and ability can be viewed whilst scanning a placed pokebal.

Pokémon you have not seen yet will be registered when scanned this way

Restoration tanks

Scan fossils to view the Pokémon inside the tank

Full aspect resolving and shininess display if using a mod like special fossils or custom restoration recipes

View restoration progress

Pokémon you have not seen yet will be registered when scanned this way

Environment Scanner

The scanner can also read the world around you, displaying helpful information such as:

• Biome

• Dimension

• Weather

• Time of day

• Moon phase

• Sky visibility

• Sky light

• Block light

• Terrain context such as:

• underwater
• on water
• surface
• underground
• cave
• high altitude

Beehive Scanner

Beehives and bee nests can be scanned for:

• Honey level

• Flower/sedation state, where applicable

• Inhabitant counts

• Combee presence

• Rare individual detection, such as shiny/female Combee, where available

Slowpoke Tail Health Scanner

Check the status of Slowpoke's tail regrowth!

Non-Pokémon Entity Scanner

The scanner can also identify and present data for non-Pokémon entities.

This includes:

• clean scanner snapshots for supported entities

• color-aware presentation for many vanilla color/material states

• persistent short-term cache behaviour, so brief focus loss does not always force a full rescan

• support for custom accessor-driven labels through resource packs

Examples of built-in presentation support include things like:

• dye/color states

• horse/llama/cat/rabbit/axolotl variants

• armour stand equipment materials

• Other explicit non-Pokémon display cases, the mod already knows how to present

Customization

The mod supports client-resource based customization for:

• Cobblemon forms and aspects

• non-Pokémon entity accessor values

This means you can add, rename, localise, or color labels without editing code.

Variant Label Files

Place JSON files at:

assets/better_pokedex_scanner/variant_labels/*.json

These are used for Cobblemon form/aspect labels.

Supported label methods:

1. Literal text

2. Translation keys

3. Styled parts

4. Styled translated templates with translationKey + args

Example:

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "headerLabel": "Flower Color",
      "species": ["cobblemon:flabebe"],
      "aspectDisplays": {
        "flower-red": {
          "parts": [
            { "text": "Red", "color": "FF0000" },
            { "text": " Flower" }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

You can also target:

• baseFormDisplay

• formDisplays

• aspectDisplays

Priority is:

1. styled display

2. translation key

3. literal label

Entity Accessor Label Files

Place JSON files at:

assets/better_pokedex_scanner/entity_accessor_labels/*.json

These are used for non-Pokémon entities with stable accessor values.

Example:

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "entities": ["examplemod:example_mob"],
      "accessor": "variant",
      "accessorHeaderLabel": "Mutation",
      "valueDisplays": {
        "red": {
          "parts": [
            { "text": "Red", "color": "FF0000" }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Supported accessor behavior:

• explicit entity declarations only (the scanner doesn't add accessors automatically)

• dot-path traversal

• accessor resolution through:

• zero-arg methods
• getters
• boolean getters
• public fields

Value priority is:

1. styled display
2. translation key
3. literal label
4. formatted raw accessor value fallback

For more information on adding support for your mod, check out the readmes here on the gitlab

Compatibility

Required

Cobblemon

Optional Supported Mods

Cobblemon Special Fossils

Cobblemon Occupied Pokeballs

Installation environment

Single player - Works completely with client-side installation

Multiplayer - Works client-side, but some information is limited unless installed on the server too. For best results, install on both

Feature requests

Want features added, aspect support, or default support for your mod? Leave a comment here or on Gitlab!