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The Pokémon Dream World (Japanese: ポケモンドリームワールド Pokémon Dream World) is a special feature of Pokémon Black and White. Operated via the Pokémon Global Link website, the Dream World allows players to send a Pokémon to the Internet to obtain items and meet other Pokémon, making the website like a Generation V analog to the Pokéwalker.

Access

Fans may access the Dream World by creating an account at Pokémon.com for international players, at the Pokémon Daisuki Club website for Japanese players, or at the Pokémon Korean site for Korean players. To have full access to one's account, players must first send a Pokémon to the Dream World by using their C-Gear's only Online feature, Game Sync. After doing so, players will have full access to the Global Link site. An account may only have one Pokémon Black and one Pokémon White game with access to it.

When doing certain actions for the first time, players are given a tutorial by Fennel. They may then explore the rest of the Dream World on their own. With the reopening of the Global Link site after the release of international versions of Black and White, players who had Japanese accounts prior to the reopening will be given tutorials once again. Players are also given the tutorial again when using a computer that they have not used for visiting the Dream World before.

On the player's first visit to the Dream World, they will receive five of one of the damage-reducing berries from Fennel; this is the only way, besides Share Shelves, to obtain these Berries. Repeating the tutorial does not re-award these Berries.

Due to the amount of people accessing the site at one time, players are given only one hour to access the Dream World every 24 hours. However, the website is occasionally under maintenance, prohibiting access.

Continuing

If a player accesses the Dream World after 24 hours without having previously woken up their Pokémon on the Global Link website, the player is put into a position left over from the last time he or she accessed the Dream World. If a Pokémon was picked from the Tree of Dreams, the player is not allowed to access any of the island's areas, as they have a Pokémon still ready to be sent to the Entree Forest. Whatever water that wasn't used in the watering can for Berries is preserved and is not renewed until a Pokémon is woken up.

Any point accumulation during these continued games counts toward the total of Dream Points that would lead to a Pokémon's level-up once awoken via the C-Gear, including the points gained by logging into the Global Link once a day.

Features

Home

Outside the home

Players are given a home they can customize in the Dream World. With the use of certain Berries, they may purchase Décor to decorate the rooms available in the house. The house itself may be remodeled for a certain amount of Berries. Each day, players may also unlock one of up to five special pieces of Décor by talking to Loblolly in Nacrene City.

The house itself contains the Treasure Chest, where players may see the items they have in the Dream World. The Treasure Chest also allows items to be sent to Pokémon Black or White via the Entralink. The Friend Board is available for players to see which Pokémon they are going to send back to Pokémon Black or White, as well as showing the ones they have sent before.

At the doorstep is the Footprint Mat, which shows the Pokémon that have visited the player's home. Also, when there is a pending Dream Pal request for the player, the Footprint Mat will glow.

Garden

Diglett digging another row

Unlike most games since Ruby and Sapphire, when the mechanic was introduced, Black and White do not allow players to plant Berries due to the lack of loamy soil in Unova. Instead, players may plant Berries in the Dream World in the garden found in the area to the left of their home. Berries will take 50% longer to grow in the Dream World compared to their growth rates in Generation IV.

The Berry patches require watering, or they will dry out. A player can water others' Berries up to 20 times per trip, as of the April 2011 update. Prior to this update, there was no limit. There is no limit on watering the player's own Berries.

Two rows are available from the beginning for players to plant their Berries in, with each row containing spaces for three Berries. Diglett will dig additional rows when the player obtains a certain number of Dream Points. Currently, players can have up to five rows.

Share Shelf

To the right of the player's home is the Share Shelf, a stand where items may be placed. Other players can swap their own items for items placed on a Share Shelf. A player will not be able to trade for an item that they already have or that they traded to the shelf, as of the April 2011 update.

Island of Dreams

The Tree of Dreams

While players may access the other features of the Dream World, even when they do not have a Pokémon in the Dream World, they cannot access the Island of Dreams unless they have a Pokémon in the Dream World. The island has several areas players may explore, find items and befriend Pokémon. More areas are unlocked as players obtain Dream Points. If the player has access to more than one area, they are sent to a random area every time they go to the island. If players obtain the necessary amount of points to unlock an area, they can access the area even without logging out of Dream World or Global Link.

After exploring an area, players will go to the Tree of Dreams, where they may choose to leave a Berry in the tree and make a wish to choose one of their befriended Pokémon to send to the Entralink. If they do, they may not revisit the Island of Dreams until the next trip. However, if they do not choose to make a wish and befriend a Pokémon, they have the choice of visiting the island again to look for more Pokémon and items. Upon entering the Island of Dreams five to seven times, players will start to find nothing on the island. Similar to Reshiram, Victini and Zekrom, all Pokémon found in the Dream World have a "check" on that disallows them to be shiny. If there are fifty Pokémon ready to be taken back to the game, the Island cannot be visited. In the Japanese version there originally was a maximum limit of 50 Pokémon to be transferred at all; however, this was removed in 2010.

Berries and other items are found throughout the Dream Island. They may either be sent to the player's games, be traded to other players or be used to buy Décor.

Areas

Mini-games

Main article: List of Pokémon Dream World mini-games

After finding a Pokémon, players are given an option to participate in mini-games in order to befriend them. The games to be played depends on the encountered Pokémon.

Abilities

A female Yanma with Frisk, its Hidden Ability

For a list of Pokémon and their Hidden Abilities, please see List of Pokémon by ability

Many Pokémon that are found in the Island of Dreams are not found in the Unova region, and would otherwise have to be migrated from a Generation IV game to be used. Almost all Pokémon are given Hidden Abilities that their species cannot have by normal means. Some Pokémon do not have Hidden Abilities because they are defined by their ability, such as Slaking, Shedinja, Castform, Plusle, Minun, Arceus, and many Pokémon with Levitate; however, some of these Pokémon may still be encountered here.

Breeding mechanics

When female Pokémon with Hidden Abilities are bred with a male Pokémon from a compatible egg group, there is a 60% chance that the offspring will inherit the mother's Hidden Ability; for example, if a female Darmanitan with Zen Mode bred with a male Simisage, the offspring Darumaka may have Inner Focus instead of the usual Hustle and would evolve into a Darmanitan with Zen Mode instead of Sheer Force. Hidden Abilities cannot be passed down from male or genderless Pokémon, or when breeding with Ditto.

Dream Pals

A player can become Dream Pals with another player by visiting their house and sending a Dream Pal request. The other player's footprint mat will then glow until the request is accepted, deleted or expires. If the other player accepts, the two players become Dream Pals, and a rainbow bridge will link the two players' homes on their Dream Pal maps. Dream Pal requests last only a week before they are automatically deleted. There is a limit of 20 Dream Pals (including pending Dream Pal requests) per player.

When visiting another player's house, it is possible to view their Dream Pal map, and go directly to the houses of other Dream Pals of that player. This allows the creation of large networks of players.

In addition, on the player's Dream Pal map, a random player's house will appear in the bottom right-hand corner, as long as the privacy settings are set to "everyone". This player is randomly selected every time the player opens the Dream Pal map.

Prior to the April 2011 update, Dream Pals were only those that players had added to their Pal Pads.

Dream Points

Dream Points are earned by doing certain actions in the Dream World. Similar to earning Watts in the Pokéwalker, gaining Dream Points allows players to unlock more areas on the Island of Dreams. As of December 21, 2010, all Dream Point requirements were halved permanently.

Prior to the April 2011 update, the following mechanics were used in gaining points:

The more Dream Points that are accumulated in a single play session, the happier the dreaming Pokémon will become. This is reflected in the icons which appear above the Pokémon's head when it is moused over.

Icon	Points
	0-99 Points
	100-299 Points
	300-499 Points
	500+ Points

Waking up

Right before saving the game and finishing a session, players are given the option to make real the Pokémon friends they have met and any items they have collected. These items will become available immediately after waking a Pokémon up using the Game Sync function. Anything materialized from the Dream World into a copy of Pokémon Black or White can be found within the Entralink. Waking Pokémon also resets mechanics such as the watering can being refilled.

If the player earns 500 points between tucking the Pokémon in and waking it up, the Pokémon's level increases unless the Pokémon is already at level 100.

Waking up also initiates any Pokémon Black or White customizations made on the Global Link website.

If the player selects the choice to exit the Dream World and keep the Pokémon asleep, then does not (before the hour is over) or cannot (because the hour is over) reenter the game, the option to wake the player's Pokémon is available on the main page of the Global Link website. Whatever was ready to be ported into the player's Pokémon Black or White version (Pokémon, items, customizations) will be carried over through the Game Sync.

Gallery

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  At the garden

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  A Sitrus Berry up for trade

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  Going to the Island of Dreams

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  Finding an item

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  Encountering a Pokémon

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  Viewing the Friend Board

In other languages

Language Title Dutch Droomwereld French Pokémon Dream World German Traumwelt

External links

• Pokémon Global Link website
  • Pokémon Dream World Usage Level (updated hourly)

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