🧩 Configuration

The whole ruleset is decided when you create the world, on a dedicated NUZLOCKE tab that sits next to GAME / WORLD / MORE on the create-world screen.

This tab ships inside Routes today

Until this mod is released separately, the NUZLOCKE tab is added by Routes. Routes' own generation options live on its ROUTES tab.

NUZLOCKE tab

Turn Nuzlocke on and the full ruleset comes with it — permadeath, spectator on Game Over and forced Hard difficulty are all part of Nuzlocke, no separate toggles. The tab holds the rest:

Option	Default	Notes
Nuzlocke	on	master switch — off = a normal Cobblemon world
First-encounter lock	on	only the first wild per zone is catchable
Mandatory nicknames	on	require_nicknames — turn off the naming prompt
Healing sources	ALL	ALL / MACHINES_ONLY / ITEMS_ONLY / NONE
Above level cap → PC	on	over-cap catches boxed to the PC (follows RCT's cap)
Starter level	5	1–25
Shared EXP	on	whole team gains EXP
EXP during battle (per KO)	on
EXP boost	x1	x1 / x5 / x10 / x15 / x20 / x30 / x40 / x50 — applies to the whole-team share too
PC only at the PC block	on	blocks remote PC access in Nuzlocke worlds

The level cap itself is owned by Radical Cobblemon Trainers — this mod does not define its own.

Starter subsection

Option	Default	Notes
Starter selection	Mix	Normal / Random / Mix (Mix = one canonical starter per type, distinct gens)
No Legendaries	on	exclude Legendary / Mythical from the random / mix roll
No Paradox	on	exclude Paradox Pokémon
No Ultra Beasts	on	exclude Ultra Beasts
No typical starters	off	exclude the pack's usual starters from the RANDOM roll (Mix ignores it)
Shiny starter	Yes	No / Yes (normal odds) / Always (guaranteed)

Soul Link has its own toggles too — see Soul Link.

Saved per world

Choices made in the tab are stored per world and only applied to a brand-new world — loading an existing world never gets its rules clobbered. Picking Hardcore at world creation auto-enables the full Nuzlocke rule set.

Changing the rules later

Every option above can also be changed live with /nuzlocke set <option> <value>, which tab-completes the option names — and the whole ruleset can be switched off for the world with /nuzlocke disable.