Pokemon Everlasting Orchard

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[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 8/3/26

August is already looking pretty busy for me, but I'll try my best.

At this point I might only need to connect the maps, but I think I'm going to make some minor changes first.

Coding:

-Finished the trading syntax for Alderic and Alan. Finally.

-Redid some of Kalani's syntax for her first request.

-Finished replacing Kalani's trade syntax.

The weird thing is that I didn't have the request available after you start dating her? Like, she wouldn't take the shards. I did that every time and I might have done that after marriage too so it makes me think that it was deliberate, but I don't remember why I'd do that deliberately. So I added them in after you start dating her. (Not after you marry her. At least not yet. If they're not there then there's not a problem.)

-I found a plugin that I can actually edit for HM items and tested it. I specifically tested "Surf," which is a good thing because I realized that I completely forgot to copy all of the safety copies of the player's actions (like surfing) onto the main Character folder! And that I forgot to replace the trainer sprites for the player.

What's nice about this one is that it was working off of the one that I was using before, just changed to work for version 19.1. All I had to do was change what badges the items will work at!

Speaking of which, I also realized that I don't remember where you get the Strength item. I said third badge but I can't actually remember. Apparently the old script didn't have a feature where you're required to have a badge before you can use the HM item. (Which is why I'd make you get the item after getting the badge I would make you require.)

Story(?):

-I had an idea and started on something for Alderic and his future spouse (if it's not you) while it was still fresh in my mind... Except plans sort of changed.

My original plan was to just do one spouse and then leave it for another date. But I lost access to the internet for most of the day yesterday, meaning that I couldn't access my progress report. So I just did the rest of them anyway.

...Well, I might have, anyway. If I can figure out a way to sneak in a very specific one for Umeko and Jayce I will make one for both of them as well, but it'd probably be complicated, if not impossible.

Misc:

-I decided to just have Eevee evolve into Leafeon and Glaceon using the Leaf and Ice stones respectively, instead of fooling around with specific route evolutions. (Apparently I could do both, but whatever.) I should have done this a while ago since the stone method is a lot less tedious for the player.

The shrine will still have some importance, but the rock inside of that mountain will just be a rock. (I did change the dialogue to reflect these changes.)

Graphics:

-Renamed and placed the missing(ish) player action, player trainer, and transition graphics.

-Y'know the trainer card where I decided to color the Pokeball part red? Well I decided to repaint it to Masterball purple instead because the red stood out too much and it was kind of annoying me. I'll add the original to the "replaceable" folder.

-Added "Outfit" replacements in the replaceable folder. (Not segmented- you can't mix and match with them.)

Misc:

-Adjusted Alderic's age from 19 to 21, since I forgot that I decided to make the drinking age of this region 21 after forgetting that I initially decided to make it 18.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 7/16/26

I'm honestly a bit burnt out. I mean, I definitely do want to keep working on this game, but the fact that I have to go backwards on so many things before I can go forwards is keeping me from wanting to do anything.

I want to work on your children and add the idea for Pokemon that I have. I want to expand on everybody's stories. I can't do any of that without changing what I already implemented though and I hate that!

There's also just a lot of shit that's going on anyway, but what else is new? At least none of it is anything like "we're helping a friend get away from her abusive ex." (She's been doing much better, by the way!)

Coding:

-Finished the trade syntax for Meowth, Ollie, Kai, Jayce, Cerise, Esmaralda, and MAYBE Kalani. (I dunno for sure because I kept getting distracted while working on her.)

I have two more candidates that I still have to replace the trading syntax for. After that I'll have to decide on how much more is needed before I can upload this 19.1 version of the game.

-Rewrote the descriptions for some of the food items that were experimental on my part to say that it will only heal yourself.

-Added eternal Flabebe and Florges' forms to the game. I think.

Art:

-Redid Eternal Florges' front sprite so it looks better.

It's centered a lot better and the head actually looks like it's a part of the body and not just floating there. I also properly outlined the "legs." I like this a lot more. Plus the black parts are shaded better. I might make the black part of the flower more pointy looking later, though.

Doing this made me realize that I never added (or made) Eternal Flabebe and Florges' icon sprites. (I just copied the first forms as a placeholder for now.)

I'm not going to make a Mega Florges. The BST for this form is already 590. I'm not even sure I can make megas for specific forms.

Misc:

-I'm scrapping the "partner Tauros" idea since I made Kaf. At least for now.

Originally my idea was to have it be implemented as an evolution to Tauros so you could breed your partner Tauros, get more Tauros and sell those Tauros without accidentally selling your partner Tauros, since it wouldn't be the same Pokemon internally. (This is why it'd have it's own Pokedex spot.)

But since I made Kaf I don't have to worry about that anymore. If I can find the syntax that will isolate the sex when giving away a Pokemon I can just have you sell male Kaf instead.

I might make it a proper form in the future though.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Hi! I am in love with your game! When will the next update be out?

Okay, so I was going to explain within the next update, but since I don't know when that will be I'll just use this as an excuse to explain everything here.

The answer is basically: I don't know. Everything that my husband and I got involved in has been resolved, so I'm hoping the answer is "soon."

I did mention before that I was very distracted by Pokopia for a while, but I didn't mention that my husband decided to get the game because his uncle died and he wanted something to distract him. I'd play the game a lot whenever he couldn't though.

My mom and brother moved in with us for a couple weeks in June while they looked for a place in a different state. They did find a place and they're thriving now, but they needed our help with moving everything. That took half of the month.

The main thing that kept me away from working on the game will be under a "read more." From this point on I'm going to mention DARVO and attempted SA. (I'm basically just going to vent.)

The TL;DR of it is that we helped a friend get away from her dangerous ex but that took a month. (Middle of May- middle of June)

What made me stop playing the game was a friend asking us to help her move out of her ex's place. He made it impossible for her to leave on her own and used DARVO tactics on her (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender) as an attempt to make her stay.

This piece of shit promised her stability so she wouldn't have to work. Once she quit her job he would block any attempt at her getting one and he wouldn't let her get her own car.

Her parents are dead so she only has friends to help her out. She's staying with a couple of them now. She started to slowly move everything over a month with our help but at some point the ex found out, which placed her in danger. He has a gun, so she got a gun. Thankfully neither was used.

He tried to rape her on several occasions. She would take a shower and afterwards he'd ask her why she locked the door. Thankfully they were only attempts.

This piece of human excrement was there when we helped her get most of her furniture over and I'm not gonna lie- I was scared for my life. I'm physically disabled so I barely moved anything, but I still wanted to be there to show this guy that my husband isn't """stealing his woman.""" (Thankfully he never found out what polyamory is, nor did anything like it came across to him as a concept. Not that we're in a poly relationship with her, but it was still convenient.)

I made it very loud and clear that my husband is my husband in front of this guy and I honestly thing that helped a little. I mean, he still tried to flex on us (/threaten us? Weirdo claimed that he drags 150 pounds in the woods every day at his job. He does not do this) but he stopped accusing our friend of "cheating" on him with my husband at least.

To be honest I mostly just watched CaseOh on the grass. I was too afraid to help physically but too determined to help emotionally so I refused to leave.

And I'm so, so glad that I was there! The ex tried to pretend to be really nice but he was so fake about it and she was apparently scared that we'd try to convince her to stay or some shit.

I told her that it wasn't the first time I've dealt with somebody like this and I think that's what made her realize that she's not the crazy one here, and that it's not her fault that he's like this. And she's doing much, much better now.

We started at 5 PM and didn't get home until 1:30 AM the next day.

We helped my mom and brother move out a week after all of this happened. Some bullshit happened with that, too. Though I won't say what happened here. They're doing better now.

And then we visited my dad a week later, and then spent time with my husband's family the day after. (For Father's day.)

Then my POS brother-in-law told us that he didn't pay for anything because he got laid off. This happened after we went home. This hasn't effected us personally yet though.

And this weekend we need to take care of my mother-in-law's cat while she's away.

I've barely been able to fit in any game development between all of this. 🥲

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

I know that Pride Month is half way over but I've been very busy helping people move and helping somebody with something else. I don't want to get into what that is here but I do want to talk about it at some point if only to get my stupid, sentimental thoughts out.

Anyway, I watched this video about a canonically trans protagonist (FTM) in an official Pokemon manga from 1999.

Watching that video made me find out about a nineteen year old trans woman who was killed at school recently. She was a big Pokemon fan and chose the name "Juniper" after the Pokemon professor. I can't get through my thoughts on here without bursting into tears so I'm going to keep them to myself for now.

Cecilily (the Youtuber) started a charity with Lambert House LGBTQ+ Youth Center and she will be matching any donation it gets. (That's what the "Tiltify" link above is for. It doesn't exactly show what exactly the donation is for until you click it.)

I would also suggest donating to The Trevor Project if you can, but since Cecilily is matching whatever donation that her charity gets I figured that I'll make that one the main charity that I highlight.

The Trevor Project is a safe way to talk to professionals about any trouble you might be having at home dealing with your identity. It's a great program that anybody who has access to the internet can use, which is also why I wanted to link it.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Hi, sorry to bother, maybe you already written abt not solving this prob or you did and I didn't find it, but As I enter the town, Pokèmon of lvl 58/60 spawn while walking and as I try to go in the city, as I have a tauros of lvl 7 and chikorita (Happa) of level 5, lemme know and thx for any kind of response in anticipation!

I guess I forgot to add this to the FAQs. Basically the game got fucked in a way that's out of my control and I have to convert everything to a different type of Essentials now, which is a huge pain in the ass and is taking forever. The "smaller" version shouldn't have this problem. (At least not in the first town it shouldn't.)

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

How do you play the zip file? I not sure what to run file through got it compressed to zip tried ds emulator on pc and no dice

The game isn't a ROM hack. It's a fan game made with RPG Maker XP and Pokemon Essentials. You just have to unzip the .RAR file with something like WinRAR and click on "Game.exe" to play.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Hi, I hope you're having a good day. I just found this game today and downloaded it but whenever I try to play it, I get this error message (as shown below). I've used the data replacement file, but it still did nothing to fix this issue. Do you have any idea about why it could be potentially not working?. I'm using a windows 11 laptop if that helps.

This is the first time I've seen this message before, so I looked it up and the problem seems to be that your computer is too good. :I That, or it's not good enough, but I doubt that.

There are apparently ways to fix this, but I don't feel comfortable in testing those things out myself since I'm not having this problem on my end. I found this website that goes into detail on what the error is and how to potentially fix it.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 3/10/26

I got "busy" and development slowed down because of it. And by "it" I mean Pokopia.

Coding:

-Finished the trade syntax for Umeko, Souma, Rebecca, grouped together spouses.

I got so bored that I considered just locking out the trading requests for now, but I got enough done that it feels like the sunken cost fallacy to do so at this point.

-Fixed one of the rival events with Souma and Cerise to work for all seasons. Also I actually turned it on for all seasons.

-Of course this means that I rewrote every candidate who has a "complicated trade" trading syntax in the meantime. I just haven't gotten to replacing them all yet.

-Added all of the custom Mega Pokemon in the game. And by that I mean Raichu. I forgot that the only Mega Pokemon I actually inserted into the game myself was Raichu. (I did it first, Game Freak!)

Graphics:

-Made a Fakemon that I've been thinking about making ever since the concept was brought to my attention through a MandJTV video while playing... Certain livestreams in the background, so I can pay attention to what was going on with... Something. I tried working on the game instead but I couldn't focus on either thing that way.

I wasn't even sure I really wanted a baby Miltank/Tauros in the game, especially since I decided on having a "Partner Tauros," but uh... I made them anyway.

I'm going to call them something like "Kaf." A simple and boring name, but one that works for both Miltank and Tauros. (Since both baby cows and baby bulls are called "calf.") Every other idea I had would've leaned towards one or the other, which I don't want.

I gave it all of Miltank's Egg Moves. (Even Dizzy Punch.) And also Endeavor- the one Egg Move that Tauros can learn that Miltank can't. (The only other Egg Move that Tauros can learn is Curse, but so can Miltank.)

I actually put in some effort into the little details. I looked up the personalities most people noticed in their calves and I even looked up the average height and weight of a calf for this! Also the Pokedex color for Kaf is "black" for the hood thing since the main color changes with the gender.

At some point I think I want to make it so you can sell male Kafs since Tauros isn't a Pokemon that you can get in the region.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

I want to clarify something about something that was implied in one of Ollie's events that I wasn't able to add in naturally, but since it involves her secret I'm going to shove it under a "read more."

In one of the events before you start going out but after she tells you that she's a trans woman you will meet her transphobic mother. Juro comes out of his bar to yell at her.

He says something like "everybody in this town accepts Ollie as who she is," heavily implying that everybody in Pomona knows, but they don't. Juro just said that they do to scare Ollie's mom off.

Nobody would actually care, obviously, since that would be absolute hell to include if you choose the they/them option and it wouldn't make sense for them to care about Ollie but not about a non-binary player, but that doesn't mean that everybody in town knows.

She only tells friends, so Kalani and Souma knows for sure.

Juro only knows because she blathered it out once while drunk. (He told her this as a heads up.)

Kenichi knows, since he's the doctor in town.

I also want to say that Kiana knows, but I'm not sure how yet. Maybe she'd have an ID with her biological sex on it and Kiana would be like "let's fix this."

Alderic knows, but she doesn't know that he knows. If I can I will try to add a throwaway line about how Ollie was surprised that Alderic knew way before they started being friends, and that Alderic knows a lot because people will say a lot of things around "the quiet guy." This would only happen if they get married to each other though, so it wouldn't exactly be the easiest line to get naturally.

Alderic knows a lot of things because of that. He just keeps them to himself because he doesn't care. He could get close to any of the candidates enough for them to tell him their secret and he'd be like "Yeah, I know."

Everybody else doesn't know unless stated otherwise.

I'd like to imagine that she'd start opening up more if you choose the "they/them" since she'd see people accepting you as who you are, but again I don't want to such a little detail for something so specific. Not for this game, at least.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Hi! I was wondering if theres a way to add controller support at all?

Nope. There was one script but it was only partially done with half of the buttons mapped, and it hasn't been updated in nearly ten years. There's no way in hell it would work today.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 2/27/26

I got a lot done by the time it was Pokemon day anyway!

Also yesterday it was apparently Stardew Valley day!

Good:

-Farming seems to be working... After I fixed the typos. (Basically I called the "Apicot" berry "Apricot" and I entirely blame the localizers of the Gen 3 games for that.)

-Naming things (like your baby) still works.

-Buying things (not the mart) seems to still work.

-Non-complicated trading still works.

Neutral:

-Got rid of the message that tells you if you're planting a seed out of season for at least most of the plots since there's no actual way to make it only say that if you try planting a seed out of season, apparently. (There probably is a way, but I'm not going to try to maneuver that.) I might have forgotten to get rid of that message for some of the plots.

-Added a new portrait to Cerise's kitchen. Now there are ten portraits. :)

-I'm calling the Pokemon Fan Club just "Fan Club."

Bad:

-FL changed their syntax for skipping to a certain time, apparently. I had to search for the new one.

-Of course the old syntax for complicated trades doesn't work anymore. And it no longer ignores the "complicated" stuff like it did before. Except of COURSE they broke it so not even their own damn example works anymore.

So I had to figure it out myself. And I did, somehow. Huh. HOW?! I am honestly really impressed with myself!

I'm just going to shove all of the Cenae Island traders in the corner for now since they're all complicated.

-Of course complicated gift Pokemon has also changed. I think there was only one of them though so I was able to get that one at least. (And it works, so whatever.)

-OF COURSE the syntax to check what the first Pokemon in your party is changed! So I have to go through EVERY example of when I used it! I don't even remember what all of them are!

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 2/26/26

I would've waited until tomorrow to post this since it's Pokemon Day tomorrow, but I might get too distracted for the rest of the week and forget.

I'm probably going to be slowing down a little bit for personal reasons. (Reasons involving my husband again, so I'm not going to go into any details.)

Good:

-Finished Cerise's, Esmaralda's, Kai's, Rebecca's, and Umeko's friendship syntax, meaning that every "present" candidate's syntax has been finished.

-Gave Cerise different "after talk" dialogue if she's cleaning up after your Mareep. (As a spouse.)

-Went through the v.19.1 version for any syntax changes and replaced some of the ones that I barely used that were changed. Like the bug contest. I dunno if it was necessary, but again I barely used them so replacing them was really fast. (Unlike the days that it took me to finish the syntax for farming and gifting to candidates.)

-I've been phasing out the ability to give a candidate who you chose to just stay friends with the ability to give them a Valentines day gift. (Only if you're at the max friendship level before a relationship though.)

-Made it so you can buy pride flags... Or posters. They're more like posters.

-Changed my profile picture after having the same one for years, as you can see! I think it'd make more sense for the professor of the region to be the PFP for the development blog, but also I just like the edit I did for her.

Here's the full body .png:

This is what you'll be seeing when you start a new game from now on.

Neutral (bad?):

-Got a bunch of things set up for testing. (Trading, farming, etc.) I haven't actually tested anything yet though.

-Instead of just being really windy, the "bad winds" storm in the winter time will act more like a blizzard. Though the icon and the TV will still state that it's windy to indicate a different scenario that can happen with really bad weather.

I will not subject you to the torture of having to wait until spring on a day that it's raining and on a Monday just for ONE event! UNLIKE A CERTAIN COMPANY!

So for some context: In Harvest Moon: DS Cute (one of my favorites. Maybe in my top five) Skye has some very specific conditions that has to be met for his second heart event. Basically, it has to be raining on a Monday. In that game snow doesn't count as rain, so if you don't see the event before winter time you have to wait until Spring. I never got rain on a Monday before winter time.🙃

-I decided to not try to add in some of the food item's battle functions. Mostly because they were sort of broken anyway.

When you used one a pop-up would happen claiming that your game has crashed, but the game will function again the second that pop-up goes away and the intended effects happens anyway, for the most part.

I was trying to make items that were like full restores, but they didn't fully restore your Pokemon's health and they only cured one status effect. They were also supposed to disappear after use, but they didn't. It was purely a "let's see if I can do this" kind of thing that sort of worked.

My main intent with those items was to have a way for you to gain your own HP back anyway, and they still function that way, so I'm going to just leave the battle functions out.

I dunno if anybody will be broken up over this or not.

Bad:

-Got rid of the Roulette mini game. (At least for now.) I'll look for a new script for that later. It's definitely not a priority right now.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 2/22/26 (Now with more blabbing!)

Have I ever talked about how much I regret naming the main town "Pomona" before? It's because to quickly get to a map you can just type in the first letter and it will take you to a map with that letter on it. There are so many buildings that start with the word "Pokemon." Thank god there's no homeowner with a name or surname that starts with "P."

With that said,

Good:

-I renamed the "Pokemon Institute" to "Nemorensis' Institute" and "Tellus' Institute, and the two "Pokemon Daycare" maps to "Daycare Center." Most Pokemon Center maps are filed underneath their town or a route, so I was able to "close" those maps.

-Finished Souma's gift syntax.

-Probably also finished Pierce's and Alderic's. The problem with these two was that I stopped working on Pierce's half way through and then came back without making a note on what I needed to do next, and I just kept getting distracting while doing Alderic's. (I thought I could do his while watching One Piece at the same time.)

Also Alderic's schedule for most of the day as a spouse is... Different. So I probably missed some spots.

-Fixed the requests for Souma as a spouse.

-Gave context to why Pierce doesn't have any neutral or disliked gifts in his bio, since there's barely any implication to why that is in the game.

-......I finally found where I was going to place Pierce during the daytime.

-I added a proper intro. And by that I mean I made an edit of Professor Juniper to look like Kiana and decided to use her in the intro. The sprite surprisingly didn't take me very long to make. (Or it feels like that at least.)

-Gave Kiana branching dialogue when you first meet her, giving you the opportunity to gain (or lose) points with her.

-Started making a "Partner Tauros," since you'll likely have to start over from the beginning anyway. (I'm starting now so I don't forget later.)

I'm only giving it a slight BST boost, (490 is already pretty impressive, so it'll barely be a boost. Certainly not 100+ like Partner Pikachu and Eevee,) more moves that it can learn by level up, and if I can ever find where the TMs are I'll let it have the ability to learn every HM.

It will have it's own number in the Pokedex (maybe?) instead of just being a new form for reasons that I will explain if it actually has it's own Pokedex number. (I am honestly not sure where that number went in this new PBS file structure.)

Bad:

-I forgot to delete Jayce's trade request from Cerise until now! (When she's married.) Aaaaaaaaaah!

I should probably give some context. So when I made the spouses I structured them a little differently from when they're not your spouse, so I would sort of "borrow" from the first spouse and replace whatever needs to be replaced while also having a consistent structure.

There's a moment in their schedules where they'll branch off away from what the others would do. When I was making them I must have made the three in this order: Jayce, Cerise, Souma. I tend to use the rivals for the spouses to make them so any switches that I want to use if you marry both of them will be right there. Otherwise I usually just use the one I made last.

When I was making Cerise based on Jayce I forgot to delete his trading request. When I was making Souma based on Cerise I forgot to replace Cerise's gifts and trading request on top of deleting Jayce's. I got so focused on the dialogue that I didn't think about checking everything else underneath it, basically.

Neutral:

-Added a silly cutscene if you loiter around the lab until 1AM before choosing your starter Pokemon.

-I deleted the description of the "movie" that was playing on TV in your bedroom in the intro house of the game.

It said "a group of kids found a body." It was reference to "Stand By Me," since the Kanto games also referenced that. (Asides from maybe Let's Go.) Which is a wild reference to make in a kids game, but on there it just said something like "a group of boys walks along side the train tracks."

It is an excellent movie (and book, I assume. Called "The Body,") about growing up and supporting each other during tough times. Ironically the body is the most uninteresting part of the movie, but that's the point. The journey is purposely and literally more interesting than the destination.

I thought I was being funny by referencing the part where they find the body, but reading it again I realize just how insane it would look without context.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update

Good:

-Finished Alan's friendship gift syntax.

-Redid the Halloween event. (Doing that made me remember why I started making this game in the first place!)

-I gave Alderic more dialogue during that event depending on how much he likes you. (Up to 65+ FP)

-I wrote the guide for the new Halloween event. (Even though it's pretty straightforward in the game, but the guide includes tips.)

Bad (but also kind of hilarious and embarrassing.):

-I completely forgot to switch Cerise's gifts and trading request out of Souma as a spouse somehow. So basically if you married Souma and gave him a gift you'd not only get Cerise's dialogue, but you'd be gaining FP for her, too.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 2/18/26

I am so irritated with this game that I will never make such a large scale game using Essentials ever again. (I do want to make a game that's sort of in the same genre, but it'd be original. Meaning that absolutely no Pokemon will be in it. Meaning that absolutely zero syntax from the Essentials devs will be used.)

Good:

-(Maybe) finished the syntax replacement for (present) Ollie's, Jayce's, and Kalani's gifts. (With a few exceptions, but it'd make more sense to wait for those exceptions.)

Again, I shouldn't have to do this.

-Made it so Ollie will work in your Daycare Center if you have one and if you marry her regardless of if you reject her previous offer or not.

-Tested the old syntax that looks for a certain item in your bag. (Mostly for quests.) It still works, thank god!

Bad:

-I got rid of everybody who's not a candidate's birthday trigger for now. It will still show up on the calendar, but you can't give them anything.

-The "Secret Delibird" person assigned to you will also only choose a candidate for now. (Though some people might actually prefer that.)

I'm planning on reworking the "Halloween" event so you don't have to give a gift the same way you'd usually would. I think I'm going to have it so you are given one free Rare Candy and you have to battle to get more Rare Candies, but if you lose then you need to give up your candy, and the main event ends when you either get every candy or lose all of yours.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 2/15/26

Good:

-Finished rewriting the syntax for the berries. I did it in a way that should make them more consistent with the seasons within all of the plots, but if they're not... Oh well. I am not going to care for a long, long time.

Fun fact: We got the DLC for Pokemon Legends ZA because my husband wanted it and I knew that I'd play it too. That didn't stop me from looking at the berries with disgust.

I was like "I am so tired of looking at berries. Fuck them." And my husband was like "???? What have they ever done to you?" I inhaled deeply and loudly and he jokingly said "oh no."

-I started on the gift syntax rewrite. This one will be even more hell since I'll have to look for every single instance of every single character who lives in Pomona.

-Added pride flags! (Except I forgot to add them to the furniture store.) I wanted to do this for a while but I forgot how to add items to the Secret Base code. Now that that doesn't matter anymore I figured that I can just, y'know, add them. I decided to do that to prevent myself from going too crazy with the syntax BS.

There are 15 of them so far. I added just about whatever I could find labeled (I have a hard time remembering them sometimes) as long as they could fit in a 16x16 box. So nothing too detailed. They're also only flat colors so far- I haven't put any effort into making them look like flags yet.

Some of them are smaller than the others so I can give them all the accurate amount of colors while still fitting in the box. I found several different polyamory flags but I chose the simplest one (the blue, red black one with the solid yellow heart) because the updated ones has a heart that I can't replicate in such a small area.

I haven't added any to anybody's rooms yet. (Again I haven't even added them to the shop yet.) Every candidate is canonically bisexual, but not everybody will have a bi flag for one reason or another. (Like to save money, or because they don't have any room.)

I don't know why I had so much to say about pride flags in my game.

Neutral:

-Might have moved the Ganlon berry to be a spring berry. (It might have already been one and it just got mixed up for some of the plots. This is what fucking happens when there's no script for this.)

-I found out that I did some really unnecessary extra coding for gift giving for some reason. This is under "good" because getting rid of the unnecessary stuff will make rewriting all of it faster. (Y'know, the thing that I shouldn't have to rewrite in the first place.)

...The gifts might not have been disappearing from your bag when you give them to people. That would 100% be on me.

[pokemoneverlastingorchard]

Update 2/12/26

Good:

-Finish the shops for furniture items. (For now.)

-Tested and replaced all of the partner trainer/follower codes. I don't think I tested all of the "followers" who doesn't battle with you, but that one didn't change at all, so I would hope that I wouldn't need to go through every single one of them.

-I redid the eating system to something that I should've just done in the first place. I didn't even need a script. It shouldn't look any different for you.

Bad:

-You know how you can just pick a berry or give somebody a gift from your bag? Well, the old syntax for that, which was this

(pbGet(5))==getID(PBItems,:x)

Won't work anymore. I can't just ask an LLM to change every instance of that into

GameData::Item.get(:x).name

You can't farm without me doing this! You can't give gifts without me doing this! "It will change automatically when you switch versions" MY ASS.

No, seriously. Why would they do this? Both of them function the exact same way, so WHY change it?!

There are apparently ways where I could sort of replace all instances of a specific code, but those ways (like using a program called "RubyMine") but the time it would take for me to figure out how to use it would probably equal to about the same amount of time it'd take for me to manually change every instance of a syntax change myself.

I hate this.

-I'm sick again. It's mostly just a migraine right now, but still.

Again, I hate this.