Daycare · Cobblemon PBG

The Daycare is PBG's expanded breeding system. It uses Cobblemon pastures and layers on a shiny booster, tiered incubators, and a per-player pasture cap.

Getting started

Visit the Dusty Daycare NPC in Zenith — open /warps → Zenith → Daycare. The NPC handles the breeding intro and incubator upgrades.

Breeding flow

Place two compatible Pokémon in a pasture.
Egg attempts roll on a timer — see the rates below.
Collect eggs from the pasture (hoppers work).
Hatch by walking with the egg in your party.

Rates and limits

Setting	Value
Egg attempt interval	10 minutes (12,000 ticks)
Per-attempt success rate	50%
Max pastures per player	2
Per-pasture Pokémon capacity	128
Total Pokémon under one player's pastures	256
Marks applied to hatched Pokémon	No

Shiny breeding

Method	Shiny multiplier
Standard breeding	1.0×
Masuda Method (different-language parents)	2.0×
Shiny Booster item	+5% flat

Incubators

Five tiers. Capacity and per-tick throughput don't increase linearly — Gold has less capacity than Iron, but ticks one more egg per cycle.

Tier	Egg capacity	Eggs ticked per cycle
Copper	8	1
Iron	64	2
Gold	32	3
Diamond	96	4
Netherite	128	8

If you're picking one bench to live with, Iron is the all-rounder for capacity, Netherite is the endgame for throughput.

Mechanics worth knowing

Both parents pass moves — egg moves can come from either side, not just the father.
Hopper collection — eggs auto-pull into a hopper under the pasture.
Offline production — eggs accrue retroactively when the pasture chunk loads after you've been offline.
Size variation — offspring can hatch larger or smaller than the species default.
Egg tooltips — hover an egg to see the species and a peek at its IVs.