Environment Level

The Environment Level is a main factor showcasing the progression of your rebuild of each area. Each area has got its own Environment Level starting with 1 and gooing up to Level 10.

With each Environment Level increase, you will get new challenges in the Poké Life PC and more items will be made available at the shop, with each area having different items made available. At Environment Level 5 and Level 10 you will also get a special gift of certain items at Level 5 and recipes at Level 10

To get your Environment Level up, you need to basically make as many Pokémon in the area happy. This is done through a variety of things to raise their Comfy Level. There are other ways, however, completing Requests will also raise it such as Restoring the Pokémon Center. If you add buildings and other kits, it will also help raise it even if a Pokémon doesn't immediately live there.

Having a Legendary or Mythical Pokémon in the area and increasing their Comfy Level will make the Environment Level increase quicker.

If you remove Pokémon from an area, it will cause the overall score to go down which can result in your Environment Level being lowered. If it does, then all unpurchased items that unlock at that level in the shop are locked again and any challenges from that level are locked once more.

Each Pokémon has got its own Comfy Level. This is determined based on how happy they are in the area. This can be increased in many ways. First, a Pokémon needs to have a habitat or home to live in. If they don't have one, then their Comfy Level is seen as 0.

When a Pokémon has a habitat, you can ask them how their comfy level is doing and they will often give a specific desire such as food, or a decoration for their habitat. If you give them what they want, this will increase their level. If you then continue giving them gifts every day and talking to them, then their comfy level will increase further.

Your Pokémon friends' habitats are also a factor in this. Each Pokémon has got its own preferred habitat such as Warm, Humid, Dark and so if you give them a habitat that meets their need, their Comfort level will increase. Their Comfort level will decrease if you put things they dislike near to their habitat.

There are 5 different Comfy Levels that a Pokémon can have
Awesome
Great
Nice
Average
Iffy

If a Pokémon is in a built house rather than just a habitat, their Comfy Level will increase quicker than if they are just in a habitat.

There is also a new feature added alongside Bubbly Basin where a PokĂ©mon with the Scrub specialty will, if following you, clean a Pokémon that you encounter which boosts its comfy level and friendship.