Breeding on PBG happens in pastures. A pair produces eggs on a timer, you hatch them in an incubator, and the baby's stats are worked out from its parents rather than rolled at random — so every generation can be better than the last.
Getting started
Visit the Dusty Daycare NPC in Zenith — open /warps → Zenith → Daycare. Talk to them once and you'll get a free Copper Incubator. They also sell incubator upgrades and run through the basics any time you need a refresher.
Setting up a pasture
- Place a pasture and tether exactly two Pokémon to it.
- They must share an Egg Group and be opposite genders — or one of them can be a Ditto.
- Eggs collect inside the pasture. Grab them by hand, or put a hopper underneath.
You can run 6 pastures at once. Egg attempts roll every 10 minutes with a 50% chance each, so a pair averages one egg every 20 minutes. The timer runs whether or not you're online — eggs accrue while you're away and appear when you come back.
Fertility
Every Pokémon has a Fertility score: how many eggs it has left in it. This is the main limit on breeding, so it's worth understanding properly.
| Starting fertility | 8 |
| Cost per egg | 1 from each parent |
| Eggs from a fresh pair | 8, then both parents retire |
| At 0 fertility | That Pokémon can't breed again until it's fed a candy |
A Fertility Candy restores 1 point to one Pokémon:
| Where | Price |
|---|---|
/shop → Breeding | ₽1,000 each |
/vpshop → QoL & Crate Keys | 25 VP for ×5 |
What the baby inherits
| Trait | How it's decided |
|---|---|
| IVs | Without any held items, the egg inherits a handful of its IVs at random from its two parents — the rest roll fresh |
| IVs (Destiny Knot) | A parent holding a Destiny Knot raises how many IVs get inherited at once |
| Nature | Copied from a parent holding an Everstone — which also blocks that parent from evolving |
| Ability | One parent's ability usually carries over, including a Hidden Ability. Otherwise the baby rolls a normal ability for its species |
| Egg moves | Can come from either parent, not just the father |
| Size | Can hatch slightly larger or smaller than standard |
Because inherited IVs come straight from a parent's own stats rather than a fresh roll, breeding is a ladder, not a lottery: pair up your two best, keep the best baby, breed it back into the line, and repeat. A Destiny Knot on either parent speeds up the climb by locking in more inherited IVs per egg.
Hatching
Put the egg in an incubator and keep the incubator in your bag. It warms up on its own while you're online — no walking required.
A better incubator warms more eggs at the same time, which is what actually speeds up a batch. Hatch time itself depends on the species:
| Pokémon | Time per egg |
|---|---|
| Quick hatchers (Magikarp and similar) | Quickest in the game |
| Most Pokémon | A few minutes |
| Rare and pseudo-legendary lines | Noticeably longer |
Only one incubator ticks at a time, so there's no benefit to carrying several.
Incubators
Buy upgrades from the Dusty Daycare NPC.
| Tier | Eggs warmed at once | Holds | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copper | 1 | 8 | Free from the NPC |
| Iron | 2 | 64 | ₽5,000 |
| Gold | 3 | 32 | ₽20,000 |
| Diamond | 4 | 96 | ₽60,000 |
| Netherite | 8 | 128 | ₽150,000 |
Note the trade at Gold: it warms one more egg at a time than Iron but only holds half as many. Gold is the faster hatcher, Iron is the bigger basket. Everything above Gold is both faster and roomier.
Shiny breeding
| Method | Effect |
|---|---|
| Parents with different original trainers | 2× shiny chance |
This one's easy to miss: it triggers whenever the two parents were originally obtained by different players, so a traded or GTS-bought partner counts just as well as one you caught together in person.
Other things worth knowing
- No marks. Hatched Pokémon don't get marks.
- Egg tooltips. Hover an egg to see the species and a peek at its IVs.
- Held items aren't guaranteed to survive. An Everstone or Destiny Knot on a parent can be consumed when the egg is produced — keep spares on hand.
See also
- Catching Basics — high-IV wild catches make the best founding parents.
- PokéBuilder — polish the last few points once breeding gets you close.
- Zenith — region overview, including the Daycare.