Best 5-Pokémon Team Per Region (Full AFK Coverage)

TL;DR

Four five-mon AFK squads, one per main region, each covering the full Litter→Gather→Process loop plus a Hype/Comfort multiplier and a region-specific wild card. Picks are anchored on each region’s strongest S/A-tier farm from afk_farms.csv (Withered: Ore Smelter; Beach: Glassworks+Lumber Mill; Ridges: Lumberjack+Concrete+Gold Foundry; Skylands: Wool Station+Crystal Mine), and validated against the habitat-tile spawns in habitats.csv. Where the brief’s targeted Pokémon (e.g. Drifblim, Altaria) do not appear in their region’s habitat rows, the placement is inferred from sky/cliff theming and flagged in Missing Data. All quantitative throughput is left as a formula — no drop-rate column exists in the dataset.

The Build

Withered Wastelands — Ore Smelter anchor (S-tier)

Pokémon	Role	Specialty	Why
Grimer	Litter	Litter	Drops Soft Clay / Garbage for the bricks + recycling chains.
Cinccino	Gather	Gather, Recycle	Pure Gather sweep + bonus Recycle when Grimer drops Garbage instead of clay.
Charmander	Process (Burn)	Burn	Listed in Ore Smelter farm; item-matches Iron/Copper/Gold ingot + Glass + Squishy Clay.
Kricketune	Hype	Hype	Spawns in region’s Red Tall Grass tile — zero extra tile cost.
Magnemite	Wild card (Generate)	Generate	Factory Storage is an explicit region tile; powers furnaces; matches every ingot.

Bleak Beach — Glassworks + Lumber Mill

Pokémon	Role	Specialty	Why
Vileplume	Litter	Grow, Litter	Dual Grow+Litter; feeds botanical material into the glass/lumber chains.
Minccino	Gather	Gather	Pure Gather — sweeps sea glass + driftwood; covers the Glassworks farm’s missing Gather requirement.
Torkoal	Process (Burn)	Burn	Named in Glassworks farm row; item-matches Glass + ingots.
Marill	Comfort/Hype	Water, Hype	Dock is a literal Bleak Beach habitat tile; Hype + Water double duty.
Pelipper	Wild card (Fly)	Water, Fly	Beach Set tile spawns Pelipper; Fly speeds cross-island lumber delivery.

Rocky Ridges — Lumberjack + Concrete + Gold Foundry

Pokémon	Role	Specialty	Why
Haxorus	Process (Chop) + Litter	Chop, Litter	Lumberjack’s Workplace is a region tile; covers litter AND lumber in one slot.
Machop	Gather	Build, Gather	Boulder-Shaded Tall Grass is region-native; Build accelerates Concrete Factory.
Graveler	Process (Crush)	Crush	Named anchor of Concrete Factory; crushes limestone + gold deposits.
Diglett	Hype	Hype	Region’s tree-shaded red tall grass tile; pure boost multiplier.
Combusken	Wild card (Burn+Build)	Burn, Build	Furnace Spot is explicit region tile; covers Gold Foundry smelt.

Sparkling Skylands — Wool Station + Crystal Mine

Pokémon	Role	Specialty	Why
Altaria	Litter	Litter, Fly	Sky Litter source; Soft Stuff favourites align with fluff/wool comfort.
Drifblim	Gather	Fly, Gather	Rare Fly+Gather combo — collects from cliff-top tiles ground gatherers can’t reach.
Larvitar	Process (Crush)	Crush, Bulldoze	Crystal Mine S-tier farm needs Crush; Bulldoze clears expansion.
Jigglypuff	Hype	Hype	Pairs with Night Festival / Light-Up Stage region tiles; Sweet-flavour Sky alignment.
Mareep	Wild card	Generate, Litter	Knitting Station IS the Wool Station anchor tile; powers crystal cutter + drops wool.

Layout (sample island plot — same template per region)

.+----------------------------------------------------------+
.| WITHERED WASTELANDS sample plot   12 x 12 tiles          |
.|                                                          |
.|  [Kricketune Hype tile - center, radius 12 -> all]       |
.|                                                          |
.|   N: Grimer Marsh tile                                   |
.|   W: Cinccino Makeup tile   E: Magnemite Factory tile    |
.|   S: Charmander Tall Grass  [Furnace + Storage Chest]    |
.|                                                          |
.|   .  .  .  G  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .                     |
.|   .  .  .  .  .  K  .  .  .  .  .  .                     |
.|   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .                     |
.|   C  .  .  .  +F+ .  .  .  .  M  .  .                    |
.|   .  .  .  .  +S+ .  .  .  .  .  .  .                    |
.|   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .                     |
.|   .  .  .  .  Ch .  .  .  .  .  .  .                     |
.|                                                          |
.|  Legend: G=Grimer K=Kricketune C=Cinccino                |
.|          M=Magnemite Ch=Charmander                       |
.|          +F+=Furnace +S+=Storage  .=open                 |
.|  Range: Hype 12 covers plot; Burn dev within 8 of Ch     |
.+----------------------------------------------------------+

The same template applies to each region — swap centre/process device:

Wastelands: Furnace (Burn)
Beach: Furnace + Sawhorse (Burn/Chop)
Ridges: Crusher + Sawhorse + Furnace (Crush/Chop/Burn)
Skylands: Crystal Cutter + Loom (Crush/Gather)

Expected output

Not quantifiable from the dataset. Use:

output/hr ≈ litter_drops_per_hour × comfort_tier_multiplier
            capped by process_device_cycle_time

Comfort multipliers (from brief): Uneasy 1×, Settled 2×, Content 3.5×, Blissful 5×. A region team at Blissful (5 mons × 5) yields Environment Level 25.

Comfort setup

Region	Temp	Humidity	Light	Flavor
Withered Wastelands	Hot 7-9	Low 1-2	Bright	Spicy
Bleak Beach	Cool 3-5	High 4-5	Normal	Salty
Rocky Ridges	Hot 7-9	Low 1-2	Normal-Bright	Bitter/Spicy
Sparkling Skylands	Mild 4-6	Mid 3	Bright	Sweet

Furniture by region (from pokemon_item_matches.csv favourites of the 5-mon team):

Wastelands: Stone fireplace, Cooking stove, Plate, Streetlight, Metal Drum.
Beach: Beach Parasol, Side Table, Beach Chair, Walkway, Streetlight.
Ridges: Log Chair, Cart, Tree Stump, Log Table, Furnace, Metal Drum.
Skylands: Knitting Supplies, Seat, Table, Small Stage, Spotlight, Balloons.

Setup steps

Place the Process Pokémon’s habitat tile FIRST and center the Process device (Furnace / Crusher / Loom) on it — Process mon’s 8-tile indoor radius must blanket the device.
Place Litter Pokémon’s habitat ≤12 tiles from Gather Pokémon’s habitat. Gather’s 12-tile outdoor radius must overlap every Litter spawn.
Drop a Community Box between Gather and Process to bridge the loop.
Place the Comfort/Hype booster habitat at plot centre — its 12-tile radius should reach all four other Pokémon.
Place the Wild-card habitat last; orient so its specialty radius (Fly delivery / Generate / Bulldoze) reaches the device or storage it accelerates.
Tune comfort items per the table above; aim for Settled (2×) Day 1, Content (3.5×) within a week.

Alternatives

Wastelands: Trubbish for Grimer if running a Recycle-heavy loop (note: pokedex says Trubbish is Recycle, not Litter — see Missing Data).
Beach: Wingull for Pelipper if Fly delivery is not needed.
Ridges: Onix / Machamp once evolved — both crush and build harder than Graveler/Machop and are named in afk_farms.csv.
Skylands: Wooloo for Mareep if running Wool Station only (Wooloo is Gather+Shear); keep Mareep if you also need Generate.

Source data

/tmp/pokopia-data/pokedex.csv (specialty + habitat field per mon)
/tmp/pokopia-data/habitats.csv (region-tile spawn rosters)
/tmp/pokopia-data/afk_farms.csv (S/A/B-tier farm anchors and named Pokémon)
/tmp/pokopia-data/pokemon_item_matches.csv (favourites for comfort-furniture mapping)
/tmp/pokopia-intel/_brief.md (game rules, comfort tiers, AFK loop)

Missing / future research

afk_farms.csv Bleak Beach Glassworks lists required_specialties “Gather, Burn” but pokedex.csv only assigns Burn to the listed Pokémon (Magmar/Torkoal/Camerupt). Gather must come from a different mon (we picked Minccino).
habitats.csv lists Krabby, Shellder, and Wailmer for Bleak Beach Seaside Tall Grass, but none appear in the 300-row pokedex.csv — their specialties cannot be validated and they were ineligible for picks.
Brief says “Trubbish/Grimer litter Soft Clay”, but pokedex.csv tags Trubbish as Recycle (not Litter). Only Grimer is confirmed as Litter.
Grimer’s Marsh fishing spot habitat (per pokedex.csv) does not appear under Withered Wastelands in habitats.csv; cross-region inference used.
Drifblim’s Plush central and Altaria’s Birdsong garden habitat tiles do not appear in Sparkling Skylands rows of habitats.csv; placements inferred from sky/cliff theming — verify in-game before committing plot space.
No drop-rate / cycle-time column in pokedex.csv or afk_farms.csv — quantitative output/hr cannot be computed; formula only.