REBIRTH OPENS 25 SEPTEMBER

Rebirth opens on Friday 25 September 2026. That is the date. Put it somewhere you will see it.

We have been quiet for a couple of weeks because we were building. Cobblemon 1.8 came out today and it is already running on every world we have. So this post is two things at once: the date, and the full list of what landed since the last one.

COBBLEMON 1.8, TODAY

The stable 1.8 release is live on all eight servers, on launch day for the mod itself. Two things you will notice immediately:

• >Alpha Pokemon. Oversized, tougher, and worth the fight.
• >Herds. Some species now spawn as a group instead of one at a time.

Both are out there right now, on every world, and both are untuned on purpose. We would rather watch them in the wild for three weeks and tune from what actually happens than guess.

SIX SKILLS, A HUNDRED LEVELS EACH

Catching, Cooking, Breeding, Mining, Lumbering and Riding. Press L in game and each one has its own tab with the whole tree drawn out, locked rungs and all.

They level from things you were going to do anyway. Catching pays out for throwing balls. Mining pays out for breaking ore. Nothing about it is a chore list.

What they unlock is real, and none of it is for sale. Flying mounts are Riding 30. A third breeding pen is Breeding 60. Tier 3 recipes are Cooking 40. No rank skips a rung. Every unlock is listed here.

A FIELD NOTEBOOK FOR EVERY SPECIES

Every Pokemon in the dex has a research page. Catch it, battle it, watch it use its moves, and the page fills. Finish one and you get pebbles, Catching experience and a line through it.

There are over a thousand pages. Nobody is finishing this in a week.

BREEDING

Place a pen on land you own. Pair two Pokemon and eggs arrive in real time. Stats pass down, hidden abilities pass down, and at Breeding 90 you pick an egg move yourself.

Your daily egg allowance grows with the skill and with the hours you have actually played, which is a deliberate wall against anyone thinking of running six accounts.

AN ECONOMY, AND THREE WAYS INTO IT

Pebbles is the earned currency. Captures, battle wins and wild knockouts pay it. There is no way to buy it and there never will be.

• >The shop. Five shops, four hundred listings, weekly caps so one player cannot drain the stock before you log in.
• >Player stalls. Turn your own chest into a shop. Set a price, walk away, get paid while you sleep. Five percent of every trade leaves the economy for good, which is what keeps prices from going silly.
• >Global trade. One board for the whole network, for Pokemon and items. Buy now, post what you are hunting for, or run a timed auction.

And Wonder Trade, which is none of those: drop a Pokemon into the pool, get a stranger's back. Held items travel with it. Trade evolutions fire.

DUNGEONS GOT SERIOUS

Delves now scale properly by tier. Harder tiers mean tougher rooms, better loot pools and bosses that are actually built rather than reskinned, with a roster of a hundred and forty eight of them across the tiers.

Loot chests are per player. You open your chest, your party opens theirs. Nobody has ever had to race a friend for a drop and nobody is going to.

WEAPONS YOU UPGRADE

Rift weapons each carry their own resource meter now, and there is a proper upgrade screen: hover the weapon in your inventory, hold shift, and spend essence on the abilities you actually use. Every weapon has its own look for that screen.

EVERYTHING ELSE

• >Onslaught keeps lifetime stats, has a network board, and three leaderboards on the wall by the arena. It is on the site too.
• >Claims are drawn on your Xaero map. The land you have walked stays revealed.
• >Particle trails are live network wide, alongside hats, wings, backpacks, furniture and nicknames.
• >WildCraft puts your Pokemon to work at jobs while you do something else.
• >Crates and boosters are in, with timed boosts that lift shiny odds, pebbles and rift rates.
• >The Resource world wipes on the first of every month, so there is always fresh stone.

BETWEEN NOW AND THE 25TH

The written guide goes up before the doors open, on the site and inside the game at the same time. You can see the running order here.

The modpack is the one thing we cannot hand you yet. We are still settling on where it gets published, and we will announce that here and in Discord in good time before the 25th. Until then there is nothing to download, and anything claiming to be our pack is not ours.

See you on the 25th.