Create Lucky Egg farm Mode in FR/LG Safari

[ThibaultLassiaz]

Lucky Egg Farming in Safari Zone (FireRed/LeafGreen)

Farming for Lucky Eggs in the Safari Zone can be a challenging process, as it involves capturing Chansey and checking if they hold the item. This issue aims to automate the farming process by incorporating encounters, captures, item checks, and soft resets if no Lucky Egg is obtained during the current iteration.

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Goal

We recently introduced a Safari Zone auto-catching strategy for FireRed/LeafGreen to optimize Pokémon captures based on the remaining Safari Ball count.

The goal of this issue is to develop a Lucky Egg farming mode for the Safari Zone. This mode will automate the process of encountering and capturing Chansey, checking their held items, and performing soft resets if a Lucky Egg is not found.

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Implementation Plan

1. Pre-Mode Initialization:

   • Ensure the player starts at the tile before the Safari Zone entrance dialog.
   • Ensure the player has saved the game before starting the mode.
   • Raise an error if no recent save is detected on this tile (already implemented in other modes).
   • Verify that at least x party slots (e.g., 3) are open. During my tests, capturing 1-4 Chansey per 30 Safari Balls was the norm.
   • Confirm the player has sufficient funds to enter the Safari Zone.

2. Chansey Encounter and Capture:

   • Navigate to a specific tile where Chansey encounters are optimized (e.g., the grass at the entrance of the top map in the first Safari Zone area). The bot may:
     • Use Surf to reach the tile quickly.
     • Walk through the maps: entrance → right map → top map.
   • Use judge_encounter to assess each encounter:
     • Shiny Pokémon: If a shiny is encountered, stop the bot immediately or try to catch. If catched → stop. It can be annoying for soft resets and will potentially take slots in our party. So let the player decide what he wants to do.
     • Chansey: Capture only Chansey using the auto-catch Safari strategy.

3. Check for Lucky Egg:

   • After each Chansey capture, inspect its held item (Open party menu, to mimic the player behavior):
     • Lucky Egg Found: Stop the bot and notify the player.
     • No Lucky Egg: Resume hunting and encountering.

4. Soft Reset Logic:

   • Conditions for Reset:
     • If Safari Balls are depleted and no Lucky Egg is obtained.
     • If the player's party is full, no Lucky Egg is found, and Safari Balls remain.
   • Perform a soft reset and restart the Lucky Egg farming process.

5. Repeat Until Success:

   • Continue the above process until a Chansey holding a Lucky Egg is captured.

Create a Wiki Page to help players understand the mode's objective, the necessary requirements, and the optimizations needed to make it more efficient.

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Optional Features

1. Optimizing Chansey Encounters:

   • Use the Repel Trick:
     • A level 26 lead Pokémon increases Chansey encounter rates from 4% to ~5%.
     • A level 26 Pokémon that knows Surf can streamline the bot’s movement to the optimal tile.
   • Consider making Surf mandatory if pathing to the target tile is too complex.

2. Infinite Lucky Egg Farming:

   • Implement a loop for continuous Lucky Egg farming:
     • After obtaining a Lucky Egg:
       • Exit the Safari Zone.
       • Save the game.
       • Retrieve the Lucky Egg from the Pokémon.
       • Release captured Chansey at the town PC.
       • Re-enter the Safari Zone.
     • Ensure the player has:
       • Sufficient funds for repeated Safari entries or raise a BotModeError.
       • Enough Repels for multiple runs if running a lvl 26 Pokémon.

[hanzi]

I went through all rare held items and there are two more items that can only be acquired by catching Safari Zone Pokémon:

• Light Ball (held by wild Pikachu, which in RSE are only available in the SZ)
• Silver Powder (held by wild Venomoth, which in FR/LG is available in the SZ. It's also available on Three Island, but that can only be reached at a later stage in the game.)

[StonedModder]

It seems like all the framework needed to do this, is already impimented into the bot so it would just be a matter of tieing functionality together

Is there a complete documentation or some more example as to how Python plugins work? If I can learn basic movement, I think I can get us something going with this

It already has an example of checking the wild pokemon and what it is holding. So if I can just get the plugin to walk to the chansey location, and spin. That would be most of the work

[hautist]

I did this in my save, no added functionality in the bot is needed, can just put the following in your profiles/customcatchfilters.py file and turn on spin mode in the right area of the safari zone.

# Chansey holding a Lucky Egg
if pokemon.species.name == "Chansey" and pokemon.held_item and pokemon.held_item.name == "Lucky Egg":
    return "Chansey holding a Lucky Egg"

[ThibaultLassiaz]

I did this in my save, no added functionality in the bot is needed, can just put the following in your profiles/customcatchfilters.py file and turn on spin mode in the right area of the safari zone.

# Chansey holding a Lucky Egg
if pokemon.species.name == "Chansey" and pokemon.held_item and pokemon.held_item.name == "Lucky Egg":
    return "Chansey holding a Lucky Egg"

It would indeed work, but I don't think that's how the bot mode will be implemented. As players, we don’t have the ability to know whether the Chansey we encounter in the Safari Zone is holding an item — we’d have to catch it first and then check afterward.

Still, this solution could work as a local workaround!

[ThibaultLassiaz]

It seems like all the framework needed to do this, is already impimented into the bot so it would just be a matter of tieing functionality together

Is there a complete documentation or some more example as to how Python plugins work? If I can learn basic movement, I think I can get us something going with this

It already has an example of checking the wild pokemon and what it is holding. So if I can just get the plugin to walk to the chansey location, and spin. That would be most of the work

I originally created this issue back when most of the Safari functionality hadn’t been implemented yet. But now, I think we have about 99% of the features needed to make this work.

Rather than creating a separate plugin, I think we can implement the entire bot mode directly — in the end, it would achieve the exact same result.

So, if the goal is : I want to make the basic use case scenario aka hunt for one Lucky Egg and stop once one is found.

The bot would need to handle:

• Checking for at least one free spot in the party
• Entering and re-entering the Safari Zone
• Navigating to the desired spinning spot
• Spinning
• Catching
• Checking the Pokémon's item
• Resetting (e.g. if out of money or after a defined number of runs)

And as far as I know, all of these functionalities are already in place. So the task now is mostly about tying everything together.

Feel free to ping us on Discord in the #development-chat channel if you want to work on this or need any help — we’d be happy to offer tips