Electricity

As you have a task to rebuild the cities and areas within the game, it soon becomes clear that a lot of the items throughout the game require electricity to run. This includes items needed for habitats and the habitats need the electricity for them. This is intrudced in Bleak Beach when you need to use the elctricity to lighten the town.

There are multiple items that can be used to generate electrictiy; one can be crafted by you and placed anywhere, the others require kits to build with various Pokémon. Some will perpetually generate electricity, while others such as the Furnace will require you to periodically put items in to burn to generate.

Every item that requires electricity will require 1 unit of electricity except for a couple which require it but use 0 units such as String Lights and Surface Lights. However, if you overload and have too many items requiring electricity and not enough being generated, it will cause a short and all items will lose power in the circuit until another additional electricity generator is added.

There is a limit to the amount of generation you can have in any location. You can have no more than 64 in any combination of Mini Generators, Windmills, Waterwheels or Furnaces. Once you reach that many, you'll be unable to place any more. This means you can generate anywhere from 320 to 1920 units of energy depending on the combination of items you make, but you cannot have more than 512 electric items at any one time.

Once the electricity is generated, you then need to be able to bring it to items. There are two ways to do this. First is the Utility Pole, introduced in Bleak Beach. This is a large pole that is used to transmit electricity, but takes up a lot of vertical and visual space.

After befriending Porygon in Sparkling Skylands and accepting its request, you will be able to craft Wireless power transmitters. This is a 1x1x1 block which allows for electricity to be transmitted over long distance, and unlike Utility Poles can have the transmission of electricity go through objects. Alongside this, you can craft a Switch which can be activated/deactivated to stop and start electricity transmission to any items directly connected to it.

Each Utility pole or Wireless transmitter can connect to up to 20 things at once, and can only connect to one generator at a time directly, but power strength from multiple generators can be carried along a utility pole if it meets others from another source.

Distance is determined based on horizontal and vertical distance with diagonal counting using manhattan geometry where it counts going one way and then the other, so going precisely diagonally with two wireless transmitters would run 8 blocks. This means that the distance travelled for the electricity would always be the same amount of blocks in a three-dimensional setup. However, the power generated cannot go more than 5 vertical blocks up or down at any one time

There is also a limit to the amount of transmitters that will work. When you have placed over 256 transmitters in an area, any subsequently placed transmitter, whether it be a utility pole or wireless transmitter, then the subsequently placed transmitters will no longer work and you'll get a notice saying there's no point placing any more of them.

Charging Stations are another element in the electricity element. This item that can be built which shows how many units of electricity are connected to it. It can display up to 40 units of electricity with each light showing it has 8 units of electricity stored.