Let’s be real—nothing halts a good island-building session quite like hitting a sudden material wall. If you’re deep into Pokémon Pokopia, that wall is quite literally made of bricks. Whether you are trying to piece together a Pokémon Center, knock out the Team Initiation Challenge, or just build a cozy fireplace, the game doesn’t exactly hold your hand on how to get past the early-game foliage and start masonry work.
The good news? The core loop is actually incredibly simple once you know what to look for. To get Bricks, you don’t mine them directly; you need to harvest Squishy Clay and hand it over to a Pokémon with the Burn Specialty to fire it for you.
Here is the quick-reference breakdown of the entire brick-making pipeline so you can get right back to your island.
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The Pokémon Pokopia Brick-Making Pipeline
| Requirement | Details |
| Raw Material | Squishy Clay |
| Required Worker | Any Pokémon with the Burn Specialty (e.g., Charmander, Torchic) |
| Conversion Rate | 1 Squishy Clay = 2 Bricks |
| Crafting Limit | Hand over up to 10 Clay at a time; no daily limit |
| Best Gathering Spots | Withered Wasteland (Onix Cave), Bleak Beach |
| Passive Farming | Paldean Wooper, Clodsire, or Trapinch (Litter Specialty) |
Step 1: Farming Squishy Clay
Bricks don’t just spawn in the wild. Your first step is getting your hands dirty and farming Squishy Clay.
If you’re playing through the main requests, you’ll unlock your first major clay deposit after completing the “Yawn up a Storm” request. Once the rain falls and softens the earth keeping Onix trapped in the Withered Wasteland, you can use Rock Smash to bust open the leftover blocks. This cave system alone will net you a solid starter stash. If you’ve already exhausted that, head over to the Bleak Beach region and start smashing blocks there.
Nobody wants to mash rocks manually forever. If you want to optimize your time, build a habitat for Paldean Wooper, Clodsire, or Trapinch. These ground-dwellers have the Litter Specialty. Just like Combee passively drops honey, these Pokémon will periodically drop clumps of Squishy Clay around their habitats. Set up their zones, and you’ve got yourself an automated clay farm while you focus on other quests.
Step 2: Recruit a Burn Specialty Pokémon
Now that your pockets are full of mud, you need heat. You have to befriend a Pokémon with the Burn Specialty. Naturally, Fire-types are your go-to here.
Depending on your progress, you have plenty of early-game options:
- Charmander (Found in the first area)
- Torchic (Found in Bleak Beach)
- Litwick, Growlithe, Vulpix, Scorbunny, or Charcadet
If you are just hitting Bleak Beach, setting up the Chirp-chirp Meal habitat (requires a Wooden Birdhouse, a small table, and a plate of food) is the fastest way to get Torchic to move in and start working for you.
Step 3: Firing the Bricks
With your Squishy Clay in hand and a Fire-type buddy roaming your base, it’s time to craft:
- Walk up to your Burn Specialty Pokémon and speak to them.
- Select the “Look at this!” dialogue option.
- Show them the Squishy Clay.
- Confirm the prompt to have them fire it into bricks.
You can hand over up to 10 lumps of Squishy Clay in a single batch. Because the exchange rate is incredibly generous—one clay yields two bricks—a max stack of 10 will net you 20 Bricks.
It takes a few minutes of real-time waiting for the Pokémon to finish the job. You’ll know they are done when they actively run towards you to hand over the goods. The best part? There is absolutely zero daily limit on this. As long as you have the clay, they will keep the kiln burning.
What Are Bricks Used For?
You’re going to need a hefty supply of Bricks as you push into the mid-game. Aside from major story blueprints like the Huge Building and the Pokémon Center, you’ll need them for aesthetic base-building.
Early on, expect to use them for planters (like the one needed for Meowth’s house), fireplaces, and structural building blocks for custom flooring and walls. Note: You can also dye brick blocks later on to customize your island’s aesthetic, so hoard them early!
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FAQs
Q: Is there any way to skip the waiting timer when a Pokémon is crafting bricks?
Not natively, no. The timer is locked to a few minutes. The most optimal way to play is to hand your Burn Pokémon the clay, go do your daily habitat checks or harvest crops, and then grab your bricks on the way back. Treat it as a background task.
Q: Does the level or evolution stage of the Burn Pokémon make the crafting faster?
In my experience, no. A Charizard isn’t going to smelt your clay any faster than a Torchic. Pick whichever Burn Specialty Pokémon fits your island’s vibe best.
Q: I completely depleted the Onix cave. Do the Withered Wasteland clay blocks respawn?
Certain resource nodes have respawn timers based on the game’s daily reset, but if you find yourself constantly starved for nodes, you must pivot to the Paldean Wooper passive farming method. It completely trivializes the resource grind.
