Aptrumi SMP

Community Guides

These are guides regarding the server's community. This includes things like events and towns.

Becoming an Official Town/City

In order to become an established town or city, you must meet the following criteria:

1. There must be three or more residents in the area.
2. The area must have a public pokemon center.
3. The area must have a waystone in a central location.
4. The area must have two or more quests for players to complete.
5. The area must have a representative, this can be in the form of a mayor or another title.
6. The representative submits information about the town to staff for the region lore.

Joining a Town/City

Most towns and cities are open for newcomers, however you must always check to see if this is the case. A quick way of checking is reading through the town listings and see what requirements they have or reaching out to the mayors of the town in question.

An example of this could be Sorrowmyst from season one, which had the following requirements for living in their city:

• Replant, Regrow, Replace, Rebuild.
• No PVP is allowed.
• Building in the theme of the town.
• Contact one of our mayors for permission.

Becoming a Gym Leader

In order to become a gym leader for a gym that is not currently taken you must have the following:

1. A build that fits with the gym leader title you wish to achieve.
2. One non-battle challenges/quests for the gym. These can be a redstone puzzle, a fetch quest, a trivia quiz, and so on.
3. A team that is consistent with the gym leader title. If the ghost type leader, all pokemon on your challenge team must be ghost type.
4. Have a badge or token that the challengers can achieve by beating the gym.
5. You must create a character for yourself that can be added to the lore.

To submit a gym leader application, fill out this form.

In the case of a type being taken that you would like to open a gym in, you have to follow these steps to take over officially.

1. Have a team that is consistent with the gym leader type.
2. A build that fits with the gym leader type you wish to battle.
3. Have a badge or token that the challengers can achieve by beating the gym.
4. Create a character for yourself that can be added to the lore.
5. Challenge the current gym leader to a battle and if they accept, beat them with a league representative or staffer present.

The current gym leader's build will not be transferred if they lose, neither will their pokemon team or badges.

Challenging Gyms

Here are the guidelines regarding challenging gyms.

• 24 hours rematch cooldown to avoid spamming battles until you win.
• Minimum level required and minimum team size are based on the challengers' progress through the Gym Challenge
• Players must defeat Gym Leaders on each difficulty bracket for a total of eight badges and then The Professor to complete the challenge.
• Challengers must enter the exact same amount of Pokémon as the Gym Leader for the battle.
• Challenges are to be issued using the /challenge command with no preview. The level parameter is optional, but if left out, all entered Pokemon must meet the level requirement.
• Only one Uber Rank/S Tier Pokémon is allowed per team for both Gym Leader and Challenger
• The Gym Leader's Ace must be part of their team, regardless of the amount of badges the challenger has. This counts towards the team size.
• A Gym Badge and a TM associated with the Gym's typing will be rewarded to the Challenger should they win.
• Additional requirements to battle and rewards are up to the Gym Leader to decide.

To begin facing gyms, you must have a team that meets the minimum level requirement for the gym. Before challenging any gym, you must have at least 1 badge from each of the stages prior to the gym being challenged. The only exception to this is the first bracket gyms, which has no badge requirement. If you wish to challenge a gym in order to overtake the gym leader, read our guide on the topic.

Starter Bracket

The first two gyms are the first hurdle for challengers before they need to check in with the professor to gauge their progress. Depending on their experience, they'll get different rewards.

If they got two badges, but haven't caught a full box of pokemon, they get a reward of pokeballs from the professor to help vary their team.

If they have plenty of pokemon, but struggled to get the two badges, the professor rewards them with some stat affecting berries to start making vitamins.

If they have plenty of pokemon and got the badges with ease, the professor will give them a humbling lesson through battle. If they win they get an ability capsule, but if they lose they get berries for making vitamins.

Standard Bracket

After these three gyms, the check in with the professor involves an activity. If they don't have a flying mount Pokemon, the activity is to find and train a flying mount. If they do have a flying mount, the activity is to help Pidgeot Post deliver flyers to every major town's postal station. Once they return with proof they delivered everything, they get a Pokemon from the professor. This gift Pokemon would be based on their starter Pokemon's type.

• Grass = Chimchar
• Fire = Grookey
• Water = Mankey*

*This pokemon will know the egg move Night Slash to make up for it being a common find.

Strong Bracket

These three gyms finish up your minimum badge requirements. At the check in with the professor, they will be challenged to a battle. If they win, they get access to the real Arakni Ruins where they'd have a chance to battle and/or catch a mythical Pokemon that resides there.

Elite Trainers

Unlike many regions where there is a set Elite Four to face boss rush style, Aptrumi has Elite Trainers scattered across the region. These are top notch trainers with thematic teams not constricted by a single type. By defeating four, you will qualify to challenge The Champion.

The Champion

In order to become a champion you must face all other qualified trainers in a tournament that happens once a month. The last one standing gets to challenge the current champion. All who participate will be rewarded with those who reach finals being awarded the Elite Trainer title.

If the challenger to face the champion loses, they can still become an Elite Trainer and will recieve an extra prize to help them will next time.

If the challenger wins, they become the new champion and are rewarded a master ball!

Creating Quests

Once a town or city is officially established, their representative will be in charge of managing quests for the area. These quests can be created using signs on a notice board, player interaction over text or voice chat, or whatever medium works for those involved.

Simple Quest Examples:

• Find a hidden treasure.
• Fetch an item.
• Deliver a Pokemon to another person.
• Buy a specific item from a specific shop or person.
• Escort a player through a long and/or dangerous journey.
• Defeat a certain number of a pokemon and show the spoils to prove it.
• Catch a specific pokemon and show it to someone.

Complex/Group Quest Examples:

• Battle Royale: Be the last one standing to win a prize.
• Legendary Bounty: Catch something exceedingly rare to earn a special prize.
• Relic Bounty: Find exceedingly rare items to earn a special prize.
• Evolution Conundrum: Complete a series of simple quests to earn a way to evolve a hard to evolve pokemon.
• Pokemon Contests: Showcase your beauty as well as your battling for a team of judges.
• Dungeon Crawl: Players explore an area filled with traps, puzzles, and a powerful pokemon guarding valuable loot at the end.
• Treasure Hunt: A series of clues and riddles to figure out to find a hidden treasure.
• Mounted Race: People race against each other using their pokemon, navigating obstacles and terrain to reach the finish line first.
• Fishing Contest: Players fish for special pokemon species in a designated fishing spot with specific restrictions.
• Safari Tour: Players embark on a guided tour through various biomes to observe and catch unique pokemon species.