Field guide

Building kits: structures, timers and Tinkaton

Habitats attract Pokémon. Building kits shape the towns they live in. Houses push Comfy Level higher than a habitat alone ever will, and community buildings fill out an area in ways that raw habitat counts never can.

This guide covers what kits actually build and how construction timers work, plus how to track materials across multiple kits at once without losing the thread mid-session.

In the game

Kits build your towns, not your habitats

A building kit is a blueprint. You gather its materials, hand it to a Pokémon with the Build specialty, and they construct the finished structure at the spot you pick. The result is a permanent building in your area: a house for Pokémon to live in, a community space, a landmark, a generator.

Kits are not the same as habitat recipes. Habitats attract Pokémon by creating the right conditions. Kits build things on top of that, and they are what actually push a town's Environment Level from the middle tiers up to the top.

HousesLeaf, sand, stone and city themes, each in den, hut, cottage and house sizes. Each size holds more residents.
Community buildingsCafés, parks, offices, concert stages, fountain plazas. They add to an area's character without housing residents directly.
GeneratorsWindmill, waterwheel, furnace, charging station. Produce passive resources for the area.
LandmarksPikachu fountain, shrines, altars. One-per-area centrepieces, often late-game recipes.
Pokémon Center variantsDifferent styles of the center to match your area's theme.

Each area has a building points budget. Smaller structures cost one point, larger ones cost two. That budget is the practical limit on how dense an area can get, so it is worth deciding what you want to prioritise before you build.

In the game

Construction takes time. Tinkaton does not.

Unlike placing a habitat, which activates as soon as the items are in position, kit construction runs on a timer. You start the build and come back later.

15 minutesSmaller structures: dens, decorative pieces.
1 hourMid-size builds: huts, generators, communal facilities.
Next dayLarge structures: cottages, full houses. Ready at 5 AM.

Tinkaton has the Engineer specialty, the only Pokémon in the game with it. Assign Tinkaton as the lead on a construction project and any timer collapses to one hour, including the overnight builds. If you are working through a backlog of large houses, getting Tinkaton into a settled area early is the single biggest lever you have on construction speed.

Kits are repeatable

Unlike habitats, kits are not one-and-done. The same recipe can be built as many times as your area budget allows. If you want three leaf house kits in one town, you gather the materials three times and build three times.

In the app

Browse 40+ kits, track materials per kit

The Build Kits page lists every kit with its build time, resident capacity, and material recipe. Search by name or scroll the full list. Tap a kit to open its detail, which shows every material with a − / count / + stepper.

Each tap of the plus adds one to your gathered count. The row turns green and struck-through when you have enough. The header shows how many materials you have fully gathered out of the total, so you know at a glance how close a kit is to ready. If you need to start over, Clear all resets every counter in that kit to zero.

Gather counts per kit, not shared

Kit gather counts are stored per kit, not shared with the habitat build queue. If you are tracking lumber for both a kit and a habitat, you track the numbers separately in each place. The Shopping List shows the combined gap when you want a single view.

In the app

Pin the kits you are actively working on

The 📌 button on each kit row pins it to the top of the list. Pin a few kits and they stay visible above everything else, so you are not scrolling past 35 kits you are not currently building to find the three you are.

Pinning is also the signal that the Shopping List uses. Only pinned kits contribute materials to the For your build kits section of the Shopping List. Pin the ones you are working on this session, leave the rest unpinned, and the Shopping List focuses on what actually needs gathering right now.

Pins sync to your account, the same as gather counts and habitat progress. Start pinning on desktop and the same set is pinned when you open the app on your phone.

Pin what you are building. Track the rest later.

Open Build Kits, pin your current projects, and use the Shopping List to see exactly what materials you still need across all of them.

Open Build Kits