Honey Tree

A Honey Tree in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Honey Trees are special trees in the Sinnoh region that players can slather Honey on to attract wild Pokémon.

In the core series games

Location of Honey Trees in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

There are 21 Honey Trees located throughout the Sinnoh region in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl. If the player slathers Honey on a Honey Tree, a wild Pokémon may appear on the tree 6 real-life hours later. If a tree is left unchecked for 24 hours, both the Honey and any Pokémon will be gone. Changing the game system's clock will have no impact on the Honey Tree's timer.

Four of the 21 trees have a 1% chance to attract Munchlax; which four can do so are selected when the game begins, based on the player's Trainer ID number and secret ID number, meaning that the only way to change which trees can attract Munchlax is to start a new game. Trees which can attract Munchlax are also more likely to attract rarer wild Pokémon.

The species of Pokémon (or whether one will appear at all) is determined at the time a tree is slathered. Therefore, once a tree is slathered, saving the game and resetting will not change the Pokémon that will appear on it. However, its level, gender, Nature, IVs, and other random values are determined when it is encountered.

Locations

• Route 205 (north and south)
• Route 206
• Route 207
• Route 208
• Route 209
• Route 210 (north and south)
• Route 211 (east)
• Route 212 (north and south)
• Route 213
• Route 214
• Route 215
• Route 218
• Route 221
• Route 222
• Valley Windworks
• Eterna Forest exterior
• Fuego Ironworks
• Floaroma Meadow

Munchlax trees

Which four Honey Trees can attract Munchlax depends on the player's Trainer ID and secret ID^[1] (referred to hereinafter as tid and sid respectively). These numbers are 2-byte values, and the game splits each into single bytes. tid₁ and sid₁ will refer to the lower byte of each ID number (calculable by id % 256), while tid₂ and sid₂ will refer to the higher byte (calculable by id / 256).

The location of the four Munchlax trees is then determined as follows:

A = sid1 % 21

B = sid2 % 21

C = tid1 % 21

D = tid2 % 21

The game checks if any of these are equal. If A is equal to B, B is increased by 1. The game then checks A against C, followed by B against C, adding 1 to C if it is equal after either check. Then the game checks A against D, followed by B against D, and then C against D, and adds 1 to D if it is equal after any of the checks. If at any point any of B, C, or D would equal 21, they are set to 0 instead.

The final values of A, B, C, and D represent the locations of the Munchlax trees. The number can be treated as a 0-based index into the list of Honey Tree locations above. For example, if A = 10, that means the southern Honey Tree on Route 212 can attract Munchlax.

Pokémon groups

When the game generates a species of wild Pokémon to appear on a Honey Tree, it first chooses from one of three possible "groups" of Pokémon before choosing a Pokémon from within that group. These groups are shown in the table below. The 17 non-Munchlax trees have a 70% chance of choosing from Group A, a 20% chance of choosing from Group B, a 0% chance of choosing from Group C, and a 10% chance of choosing no encounter. The four Munchlax trees have a 20% chance of choosing from Group A, a 70% chance of choosing from Group B, a 1% chance of choosing from Group C, and a 9% chance of choosing no encounter.

When Honey is slathered on a tree, if that tree is also the last tree that was slathered, there is a 90% chance that the game will pick the same group as it did the last time. If the tree's last slathering did not produce any Pokémon, it will be treated^{[citation needed]} as if the tree had selected Group A.

Shaking

In general, the more a tree shakes, the more likely it is for a rare Pokémon to appear. The number of times a tree shakes is randomly decided depending on the group that was selected for the tree.

So, based on the number of times a tree shakes, a Pokémon from each group will have the following chance to appear.

For normal trees:

For Munchlax trees:

Pokémon

If the tree being slathered was also the last tree slathered (and the tree is empty), there is a 90% chance that the tree will attract a Pokémon from the same group that was used before, rendering the rates below inaccurate. See above for an explanation of the sets and the exact rarities of Pokémon.

Generation IV

A Honey Tree in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Non-Munchlax tree
Aipom	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	5.5%
Aipom	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	10%
Heracross	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	1%
Wurmple	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	29%
Wurmple	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	14%
Silcoon	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	14%
Cascoon	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	14%
Burmy Plant Cloak	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	11%
Burmy Plant Cloak	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	22%
Combee	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	22%
Combee	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	32%
Cherubi	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	7.5%
Cherubi	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	11%
None	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree		10%
Munchlax tree
Aipom	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	8%
Aipom	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	12.5%
Heracross	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	3.5%
Wurmple	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	11.5%
Wurmple	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	4%
Silcoon	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	4%
Cascoon	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	4%
Burmy Plant Cloak	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	16%
Burmy Plant Cloak	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	32%
Combee	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	32%
Combee	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	22%
Cherubi	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	15%
Cherubi	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	16%
Munchlax	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree	5-15	1%
None	D		P		Pt		Honey Tree		9%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation VIII

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Normal tree
Aipom	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	5.5%
Heracross	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	1%
Wurmple	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	29%
Silcoon	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	14%
Cascoon	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	14%
Burmy	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	11%
Combee	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	22%
Cherubi	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	7.5%
None	BD			SP			Honey Tree		10%
Munchlax tree
Aipom	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	8%
Heracross	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	3.5%
Wurmple	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	11.5%
Silcoon	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	4%
Cascoon	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	4%
Burmy	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	16%
Combee	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	32%
Cherubi	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	15%
Munchlax	BD			SP			Honey Tree	5-15	1%
None	BD			SP			Honey Tree		9%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

In the anime

Honey being slathered on a Honey Tree in the anime

In Some Enchanted Sweetening!, Cheryl was shown to have slathered a tree with Honey, which attracted many Grass- and Bug-type Pokémon, as well as Ash's Aipom. After catching a Burmy that had been lured in by the Honey, Cheryl explained to Ash and his friends that she had wanted to catch a male Burmy so that she could evolve it into Mothim and use its help to find the Enchanted Honey, which is Honey gathered by Combee in the Amber Castle, located deep in Eterna Forest, and is said to be hundreds of times sweeter than normal Honey. In An Angry Combeenation!, Cheryl managed to obtain some Enchanted Honey from a Vespiquen.

Some Honey was shown again in A Trainer and Child Reunion!, used by Team Rocket in an attempt to catch Aaron's Vespiquen. It instead attracted a Munchlax, much like in the games.

In Strategy Begins at Home!, Honey was planted on a tree by a young boy named Nathaniel, which attracted a Heracross.

In a flashback in Historical Mystery Tour!, it was revealed that Barry used Honey to attract a Heracross, which he then caught. He repeated this same scenario in an illusionary adventure that a Clown sent him to.

In the manga

A Honey Tree in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

Pokémon Adventures

Diamond & Pearl arc

In Honey for Combee, as Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum ventured into Floaroma Meadow, Diamond and his Pokémon smelled Honey and ran off to lick it off a tree, only to be attacked by a swarm of angry Combee, whom the Honey had been meant for. Later, the trio ventured into the Valley Windworks, where they met Mars, who filled the Windworks control room with sand in order to do away with them. Pearl and Platinum ended up outside the building and were able to uncover Diamond's location inside the building and save him thanks to a group of Combee being attracted by the scent of Honey on Diamond and his Pokémon.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

In Find Munchlax!!, a Collector used Honey in an attempt to lure out a Munchlax. However, the Honey instead ended up being eaten away by Hareta.

Trivia

• Honey may originally have been planned for Generation II, where unused text refers to an item called Sweet Honey (Japanese: あまいミツ Sweet Honey), which could be used to attract Pokémon by slathering it on a tree and waiting about a day, nearly identical to its behavior in Generation IV.

External links

• Honey Tree - Project Pokemon Wiki
• Honey Trees | The Cave of Dragonflies

References

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