Inclement Emerald 1.7.1

This is a small bug fix release with following changes:

• Fix recoil moves showing recoil damage when zero damage was dealt
• Fix the stat change animation showing the wrong colour when a damaging move changed a stat stage
• Update Ivy's text to reflect recent changes to the IV system

From the Battle Engine:

• Fix the safari zone
• Implement Gulp Missile (no, you still can't get Cramorant, but it's now fully functional if you get one by cheating)

Inclement Emerald 1.7

This release revamps the IV system, adds a new area, updates a few trainers and Pokémon, and fixes some bugs:

New Features:

• IV Overhaul

  • IVs and EVs can now be viewed on the summary screen. Press A on the stats screen to cycle through them, like so:
    
  • All Pokémon (gifts, wild mons, static encounters) obtained from this version onwards will have at least three perfect IVs. These are chosen randomly. Does not apply to eggs that you've bred, as they inherit IVs like usual, but does apply to gift eggs.
  • Vitamins no longer increase EVs by 10. Instead, they increase an IV by 8 (this is also mentioned in their item description)
  • Ivy now offers every Hidden Power Type, and charges 3 caps instead of 5 for this service. Note that Hidden Power Dark sets all IVs to 31.

• Altering Cave has been replaced with a new (but probably familiar) map that is home to Mewtwo. There's also another postgame boss fight in there, along with two more Master Balls, and 100% Blissey encounters when using Honey (note that honey does not work on the entrance tile in caves, as those can't spawn wild encounters)

• Lunatone and Solrock have received some extra stat buffs, and Solrock now learns Solar Blade

• Wallace, Winona and Flannery have updated teams

• More Pokémon can learn Fly (Garchomp, Butterfree etc.)

• Gift Pokémon that can evolve are now three levels lower than your party's highest level

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Vikavolt's stat total (was 601 instead of 600)
• Fixed Chatot not getting Air Cutter from the tutor
• Fixed map error in Jirachi's room
• Fixed badge requirements for HMs
• Fixed possible underflow in trainer levels
• Fixed Keen Edge not boosting some moves
• Fixed last digit of price not being shown when selling items
• Fixed possible freeze in Pokemarts when the player has no badges
• Removed Sky Drop (this whole move is basically a bug, even in the official games)
• Fixed Coba Berry
• Fixed tag sprites for certain berries
• Fixed Repels not working on rock/cut tree/berry encounters
• Fixed various typos

Battle Engine Updates:

• Dark types are now immune to Prankster moves
• Black Sludge now damages non-poison types
• More gen 8 effects have been implemented - you can't see any of them in action yet, but progress is being made!

Inclement Emerald 1.6

This release implements some missing moves and abilities and fixes some bugs:

New Features:

• Implemented Parental Bond (this is why this update took so long)
• Updated or added the following move effects: Beat Up, Surging Strikes, Triple Axel, Triple Kick, Water Shuriken, Rapid Spin
• Increased money cap to 9,999,999 (credit to Dizzy Egg!)
• Updated some more learnsets to gen 8 standards
• Changed Mega Kingler's ability to Tough Claws
• Gave Krabby Ice Hammer as an Egg Move

Added Honey Encounters, a hybrid of gen 5's rustling grass and gen 6's horde battles. While standing in grass, you can use Honey (an item you can buy in Pokémon Centers after earning the Stone Badge) to start a wild battle with the Pokémon listed in the Honey section of the encounter tables. These usually have a high chance to be an Audino, which gives out a lot of experience and commonly holds an Oran Berry.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Pokedex not showing abilities past # 255
• Fixed Chloroplast/Synthesis interaction
• Fixed Big Root
• Fixed various map errors (Petalburg Woods, Mossdeep City, Route 119, Route 115)
• Fixed various contact effects (Poison Touch, Rocky Helmet, Long Reach/Protective Pads)
• Fixed text box in starter move tutor house
• Made Wally's Ralts less likely to be KO'ed by Zigzagoon. Hopefully it doesn't KO Zigzagoon instead!
• Corrected data for the following Pokémon lines: Vanillite, Seel, Tympole, Lileep, Anorith, Dewott, Slakoth, Kricketot, Pyukumuku, Scrafty, Magnemite, Fomantis
• Fixed berry tree and sand mound encounters sometimes failing to spawn a Pokémon
• Fixed mons knowing Dive being able to Fly in the overworld
• Fixed the Download ability
• Fixed Foul Play
• Fixed Brick Break not shattering Aurora Veil
• Fixed AI not handling Pledge moves
• Fixed several move descriptions

Battle Engine Fixes

• Red Card and Eject Button now behave correctly
• Electric and Misty Terrain now prevent certain status effects
• Mental Herb updated to modern standards
• Fix Shell Bell interaction with multi hit and spread moves
• Add effects for several gen 8 held items

Inclement Emerald 1.5

This release adds a few requested features and fixes some bugs:

New features:

• Toggleable auto run: press R while not moving to toggle auto run on or off. Hold B to Run while it's off, or to walk while it's on.
• Nature-coloured stats: the boosted stat will be coloured red, while the weakened stat will be coloured blue.
• Increased shiny chance to 1/1024. If you're updating, existing shiny Pokémon will stay shiny, and some non-shiny Pokémon may become shiny.
• Meltan can now evolve when levelled up holding a Metal Coat

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Galvanize Explosion/absorb ability interaction
• Fixed Power Herb and resist berry activation strings
• Echoed Voice now builds power each turn
• Obtaining Alolan Sandshrew/Sandslash no longer has a chance to corrupt box Pokémon
• Super Potion now does what it says in the text
• Fixed Parabolic Charge's description
• Fixed Jerome's Beartic
• Fixed move tutor names

Balance changes

I don't really like nerfing things, so I will only ever nerf things that I've changed, and only if they're genuinely ridiculous. As such, the following changes have been made:

• Big Root's healing boost has been reduced from 100% to 50%. Still much better than the 30% it has in vanilla!
• Sand Song no longer increases the damage of sound moves. Mega Flygon's stats were tuned to make this move about as strong as Mega Salamence's Double-Edge, but as Boomburst is a spread move with no drawbacks, this was a bit silly. Mega Flygon is still very strong after this change, and will not get any further nerfs.
• The Chimchar line's Hidden ability is now Moxie, and its second ability is now Iron Fist. These were swapped to better fit with the other starters, which mostly have their stronger ability as their Hidden Ability. If you're updating to this version and have a Chimchar/Monferno/Infernape with one of these abilities, it WILL be changed. You'll need an Ability Patch to switch back to the ability you used to have.
• The Petilil and Cyndaquil lines have had their level up moves changed to be closer to the vanilla games. This means:
  • Lilligant gets Quiver Dance at level 28, which is much more reasonable than on evolution (which is likely about level 16).
  • The Cyndaquil line gets Eruption at a higher level (but still lower than in vanilla).
• Reverted changes to Horn Leech; I think this was actually better in vanilla (less damage, more healing)

Inclement Emerald 1.4.1

This is a bug fix release with the following changes:

• Fixed Disguise. The following effects no longer break Disguise:
  • Life Orb and other damaging items
  • Healing items and moves
  • Recoil moves
• Fixed Hammer Arm, Ice Hammer, Sparkling Aria, Wake-Up Slap
• Fixed Luck Incense and Amulet Coin not doubling prize money
• Fixed field moves (Dig, Teleport etc.)
• Corrected move tutor compatibility for Slurpuff, Gallade, and the Charmander line
• Alolan forms can now be found in the Safari Zone, as per the docs

Other changes:

• The battle engine was updated, which means Pickpocket and the Sticky Barb now work.
• Added two new documents: Training Guide and Important NPC Guide

Inclement Emerald 1.4

This release makes some significant changes to the early game, adds some QoL and farming/grinding options for those who want them, and fixes some bugs.

New features:
Easy money

• The Pickup table has been adjusted and is now found in the Item Locations document
• Certain wild Pokémon will now commonly hold valuable items like Star Pieces and Pearls. See the Item Locations document for details

EV training rework

• Power items are much cheaper
• Power items give 16 EVs instead of 8
• Power items prevent the holder from gaining EVs from Pokémon - the holder will only get the EVs from the item itself. E.g. KO a Zubat while holding a Power Bracer, gain 16 Attack EVs, 0 speed EVs
• EV berries now have ridiculous yields: 24 - 48 berries per tree
• The girl in the flower shop will give you one of each EV reducing berry at the start of the game. Obviously you should plant these to get more!

More Bottle Caps

• All hidden Heart Scales in the game have been replaced with Bottle Caps
• All Battle Tents now award three Bottle Caps whenever you beat them
• Pokémon found while diving have a high chance of holding coloured Shards, which can be traded for caps
• Caps can now be found when smashing rocks (rarely)

General Changes

• Apricorn Balls can be bought in the Lilycove Department Store
• Going to Slateport before battling Brawly is now required:
  • The flash radius in Granite Cave has been increased to make navigating it without Flash easy
  • Beating Brawly will cause the Team Aqua Grunts blocking the Museum to disappear
  • Brawly's team has been revamped based on this, and is now more appropriate for his level 25 cap
  • Existing saves will notice Brawly standing around in Slateport. Talking to him will make him go away and allow access to the Dewford Gym
• Courtney 1, Tabitha 1, Maxie 1 and Flannery now have properly EV trained teams, as EV training is now much easier
• The Exp Share now gives the holder 100% of the exp earned by other Pokémon in battle
• The gift Audino now holds a Lucky Egg. Resetting events will now also reset this event

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes meant to be in 1.3.1 are now in this version (Eevee, Ember Path)
• Seviper has the correct stats
• Fixed Bronzor's evolution level
• The debug menu is disabled

Inclement Emerald 1.3.1

This is a bug fix release with the following changes:

• Fixed the collision errors in Ember Path
• Fixed the money item stacking glitch (sorry! overflow is bad)
• Fixed Spiritomb event checking party for Wobbuffet instead of Slugma
• Fixed Protect move effects (King's Shield etc.) activating at the wrong time
• Fixed Sucker Punch not failing against Protect moves
• Fixed Sparkling Aria and Liquidation
• Fixed AI using Sucker Punch against targets that can't move
• Fixed AI spamming Protect for no reason
• Fixed U-turn/Choice item interaction (thanks to Lunos for this!)
• Swampert now gets Liquidation from the move tutor
• Toucannon now gets Rock Blast from the move tutor
• Eevee now evolves into Espeon and Umbreon using Sun and Moon Stones, allowing a happy Eevee to become a Sylveon
• Feraligatr now gets useful water moves by level up

Inclement Emerald 1.3

This release includes some small QoL changes and many bug fixes:
New features:

• Fly no longer requires a badge
• All starters now evolve no later than level 16
• Added level caps until the Heat Badge is obtained
• The PC move tutor can now reset buggy events from old versions
• Nature changer shows affected stats
• Dream Balls are obtainable after the Knuckle Badge

Bug Fixes:

• Fix experience gain (was 75% of intended value)
• Enable BW-style exp. scaling (should've been on the entire time)
• Possible fix for the berry encounter freeze
• Ivy and Evie show the selected mon's stats again
• Woobat can be found in Seaspray Cave
• Scanner trade for Caps now works
• Lucy will no longer disappear if the player loses to her or leaves the Center
• The house in Mossdeep will no longer freeze the game
• Pidgeot learns Focus Blast
• Spiritomb event now works
• Togepi Egg event now works
• Fix Mawile's growth rates
• Fix Luvdisc, Avalugg, Marill and Decidueye's stats
• Fix Wooper and Pyukumuku's learnsets
• Fix Graveller's and Slowpoke's evolution methods
• Fix AI spamming high crit moves
• Fix starter move tutor
• Various mapping fixes
• And more!

Inclement Emerald 1.2.1

This is a bug fix only release that includes the following changes:

• Moves with 16 character names (e.g. First Impression) no longer freeze the game
• The Inverse battle setting is properly cleared after a certain battle
• Fixed missing level up moves for many Pokémon
• Buying 500 coins now costs the listed amount
• The Bottle Cap reward in the Weather Institute is now a one-time gift
• Soundproof no longer blocks the user's Howl
• The Odd Keystone and Spiritomb event should work properly now
• Trees can be cut before receiving the Poké Nav
• Venoshock now deals double damage if the target is poisoned
• The nurse on Route 111 should now disappear properly
• The Ball Changer no longer bugs out if you press B to exit one of his menus
• Electivire is compatible with the Ice Punch tutor
• Removed the tile error in Ember Path
• Kricketot can now be found on Route 103
• Temporarily reverted changes to Rare Candy, so it will trigger held item evolutions again
• Disabled Bug Bite and Pluck's berry stealing effect, as it's buggy
• Fixed Spiritomb's stats

Inclement Emerald

Adds:

• Longer move names in battle (credit to Z-nogyroP for the idea and system)

Includes the following bug fixes:

• Physical moves now do physical damage
• The mart clerk in Lavaridge is now working properly
• The Moomoo Milk vendor sells 12 at a time instead of 999
• The AI will no longer use moves with the placeholder effect
• Wanda should now give out Gardevoirite to anyone that doesn't already have it
• The generic move tutor no longer requires a minimum happiness level
• Removed a collision error in Mauville
• The mega stone item in Mossdeep is now a Miloticite, as intended. Miloticite can also be bought in the Mossdeep mart, in case you missed it due to the bug.
• The empty house in Mossdeep should no longer lock the player in place
• Crabrawler can now be evolved with an Ice Stone