Pokémon Pokopia: cómo conseguir oro, cobre y hierro para hacer lingotes

Why Copper, Iron and Gold Matter (and When They Become a Problem)

After my first dozen hours in Pokémon Pokopia I thought I was doing fine with resources. Then I hit the mid-game habitats that ask for 20+ metal bars at once to attract rarer and even legendary Pokémon, and my casual mining routes collapsed instantly. I kept bouncing between biomes, breaking random rocks, and still came up short.

The breakthrough came when I treated metals like a proper farm instead of a side activity. Once I built a repeatable loop through Riscos Rocosos, Bahía Borrasca, Islas Aisladas and the dream islands that Drifloon takes you to, I could restock copper, iron and gold in under an hour of focused play.

This guide walks through the exact setups and routes I use now: where to go, which Pokémon to bring, when to eat hamburgers for boosted Rock Smash, and how to turn everything into bars efficiently so you’re never blocked on crafting again.

Core Preparation: Moves, Food and Pokémon You Should Have Ready

Before you worry about specific spots, set yourself up properly. I wasted a lot of time mining without the right buffs or specialists and it makes a huge difference.

1. A solid Rock Smash user
You need a Pokémon with the Rock Smash-type field move (the game may call it Golpe Roca or similar depending on your language) to break mineral blocks. Early on almost any user works, but for mining sessions pick something:

• With decent stamina so it doesn’t need constant rests
• Whose specialty is related to Mining or Breaking if possible
• You don’t rely on constantly in your battle team (so you can “park” it in mines if needed)

Later, complete the cooking quest in Riscos Rocosos that has you craft a pan from copper and cook burgers; this quest permanently boosts the power of Rock Smash when you’ve eaten a hamburger recently. Don’t skip this step-it’s effectively your gate to harder ore like deep iron and gold.

2. Hamburger buff for mining
Any time I go into the deeper mines, I do this in order:

• Return to base or a campfire
• Use the cooking station to make a hamburger
• Eat it right before entering lower mine levels

With the buff active, Rock Smash can break the tougher copper, iron and especially gold nodes in deeper layers. Without it, you’ll just see “too hard” messages and waste time.

3. Dowsing Machine and a Pokémon with Track
For dream islands, especially the copper dream island, you’ll want:

• The Zahorí / Dowsing Machine unlocked
• A Pokémon with the Track type of overworld skill (Rastrear)

These two together let you quickly locate glowing mineral blocks instead of combing every corner manually.

4. Recycling and Burning specialists
Two more specialties make metal farming much smoother:

• Recycle (e.g. Trubbish): turns beach trash into iron.
• Burn (e.g. Magmar, Charizard, other Fire-types with the right icon): speeds up smelting in furnaces or high furnaces.

Once I had a dedicated Trubbish for recycling and a Fire-type assigned to my furnace, my iron bar production basically doubled without more manual work.

Farming Copper: Rocky Cliffs and the Clefairy Dream Island

Copper only really opens up once you’ve cleared Estepa Estéril and gain access to Riscos Rocosos. Don’t make my early mistake of wandering around earlier biomes hoping it would magically appear-it won’t.

Route 1 – Rocky Cliffs walls and upper mines

In Riscos Rocosos you’ll find copper in two main places:

• In the mountain walls on the surface – look for slightly shiny, brown-orange patches.
• In the upper levels of the mines – before the areas with lava and heavy iron/gold.

My efficient loop is:

• Start at the main mine entrance in Riscos Rocosos.
• Do a clockwise lap around the outer cliffs, smashing any visible copper nodes.
• Enter the mine, clear the first and second levels completely of copper blocks.
• Exit back to the surface and fast travel away for a while (or sleep) to reset nodes.

Node respawns aren’t instant, so I usually alternate this with a trip to Bahía Borrasca or a dream island (see below) instead of just waiting around.

Route 2 – Dream island via Clefairy plush

The second copper source is the dream island Drifloon takes you to when you show it a Clefairy plush. Here, copper appears inside glowing blocks.

What finally made this worth it for me was using both the Dowsing Machine and Track instead of roaming blindly:

• Talk to Drifloon with the Clefairy plush to travel to the island.
• Activate the Dowsing Machine as soon as you land.
• Have your Pokémon with Track out; follow its pings in combination with the dowsing beeps.
• Break every glowing block you find with Rock Smash.

This route is more concentrated than the surface cliffs. I usually do one full sweep here whenever I’m running low on copper and combine it with iron farming on the Arcanine dream island (see later).

Farming Iron: Three Reliable Sources (Plus a Dream Island Bonus)

Iron is technically more common than copper, but recipes eat it even faster. The first time I tried to build a large metal-heavy habitat I burned through 40+ bars in a blink. These are the routes that actually kept me stocked.

Rocky Cliffs deep mines (hamburger required)

In Riscos Rocosos, iron appears mostly in the lower mine levels. Here’s how I handle it:

• Cook and eat a hamburger so your Rock Smash can handle tougher ore.
• Enter the mines and head down past the copper-heavy layers.
• On the darker, deeper floors, look for darker gray rock nodes with metallic flecks.
• Clear a full circuit of the lower level before going back up.

I pair this with gold farming, since gold tends to appear close to the lava areas on these same floors.

Bahía Borrasca: Recycling trash into iron

For big quantities of iron with minimal effort, nothing beats Bahía Borrasca. The trick I completely ignored at first is that the “trash” on the beach is basically iron waiting to be processed.

• Catch or recruit a Pokémon with the Recycle specialty (Trubbish is the classic choice).
• Run along the beach in Bahía Borrasca, picking up every piece of recyclable trash.
• Interact with your Recycle Pokémon and give it the trash items.
• Each piece is converted into iron (often more than one unit per trash depending on the item).

This method is low risk, works even without the hamburger buff, and scales incredibly well. When I need a big batch of iron bars for a project, I do one long recycling run here first.

Islas Aisladas: Metal bar piles

On Islas Aisladas, you’ll find piles of metal bars lying around. Despite looking like finished products, breaking these piles actually gives you iron as a raw resource.

• Fast travel to one of the Islas Aisladas landing points.
• Do a tight loop around the coastline and any ruined structures.
• Use Rock Smash on every stack of bars you see.

I treat Islas Aisladas as a “top up” route when I’m already visiting for other materials or quests, but if you chain multiple islands it adds up fast.

Dream island via Arcanine plush

The dream island Drifloon takes you to when you show it an Arcanine plush can drop both iron and gold. It’s not as dense for pure iron as Bahía Borrasca trash farming, but it’s very efficient if you want both metals at once.

My usual pattern is to alternate between the Clefairy (copper) and Arcanine (iron/gold) islands in longer farming sessions, so the nodes on each have time to reset.

Farming Gold: Deep Mines and Arcanine’s Dream Island

Gold is the rarest of the three and easy to miss if you’re rushing. I spent hours in Riscos Rocosos before realizing that the shiny yellow nodes near lava weren’t just “decorative”.

Rocky Cliffs lower levels near lava

In Riscos Rocosos, gold appears:

• On the lowest mine floors
• Usually close to lava pools or rivers
• As bright yellow-orange ore nodes that stand out from normal stone

You absolutely need the hamburger buff active; otherwise your Rock Smash won’t be strong enough and you’ll just get the “too hard to break” message.

What works best for me:

• Eat a hamburger outside the mine.
• Rush straight down to the lowest floors, ignoring lesser rocks on the way.
• Do a careful sweep around every lava area, prioritizing gold nodes first.
• Then clear iron and any leftover copper on the way back up.

This way, if the buff runs out mid-run, you’ve already grabbed the hardest-to-break ore.

Arcanine dream island: safer gold farming

The Arcanine plush dream island is less dangerous than wandering around lava corridors, and its ore clusters often include gold mixed with iron.

I like to do a “gold run” that looks like this:

• Eat a hamburger to buff Rock Smash.
• Visit the Arcanine island and clear every ore node you can find.
• Return, then immediately dive into the lowest floors of Riscos Rocosos to sweep lava zones.

Combining both usually gives me enough gold for several high-end recipes without needing a separate dedicated session.

Turning Ore into Bars: Using Furnaces and Burn Specialists

Raw ore doesn’t help with habitats or complex machines until you turn it into bars. I initially kept stacks of ore sitting in storage, then panicked when a recipe wanted bars I hadn’t smelted yet.

1. Getting your first furnace
You’ll find working furnaces inside the Riscos Rocosos mines. Interact with them to smelt on-site. As you progress through quests in this biome, you’ll eventually unlock the crafting recipe for your own furnace, which you can build at a workbench.

2. Smelting basics
Once you have a furnace placed at your base:

• Interact with it and choose the ore type (copper, iron, gold).
• The interface shows how many ore pieces are required per bar.
• Confirm the batch and wait for the timer to finish.

The process is identical across all three metals; only the recipes and smelt times vary slightly.

3. Assign a Burn specialist
If you have a Fire-type Pokémon with the Burn specialty, assign it to work at the furnace (using the same system you use to assign Pokémon to other facilities).

With a Burn specialist, smelting becomes noticeably faster and more efficient. I usually:

• Dump all my ores into storage after a farming run.
• Queue large batches of a single metal (e.g., iron) in the furnace.
• Leave the furnace running while I do story quests or farming in another biome.

This “set it and forget it” approach means that by the time I’m back at base, I often have a full box of bars ready for whatever big project comes next.

Advanced: Semi-Automated Metal Farms in Rocky Cliffs

Later on, once you’re comfortable with the basics, you can set up something close to an automated mine in Riscos Rocosos to keep metals flowing.

What worked for me was combining:

• Glimmet or Glimmora with a mining-friendly specialty, assigned to a corridor in the mines where ore respawns frequently.
• A Machoke or similar Pokémon with an organizing/carry specialty to move mined ore into nearby storage boxes.
• Community chests placed both near the mine and back at base so materials are easy to transfer and access.
• Occasional visits from me just to clear storage and feed them the right plated food so they stay efficient in that habitat.

Setting this up takes some time and specific skills, but once it’s running, manual farming becomes more about topping up gold or grabbing specific metals for short-term needs rather than grinding from zero every time.

Efficient 30–40 Minute Metal Route Example

To tie everything together, here’s the loop I use when I know I’ll need a lot of metal soon:

• Cook and eat a hamburger at base.
• Fast travel to Riscos Rocosos, clear copper on surface cliffs and upper mine levels.
• Head to the lower mine floors, sweep for iron and gold around lava.
• Fast travel to Bahía Borrasca, do one pass along the beach collecting trash and converting it to iron with Trubbish.
• Visit the Clefairy dream island via Drifloon, clear glowing blocks for extra copper.
• Immediately visit the Arcanine dream island for mixed iron and gold nodes.
• Return to base, dump everything into storage and queue big smelting batches in the furnace with a Burn specialist.

Run this loop once and you should have enough copper, iron and gold to handle most mid- to late-game crafting recipes without feeling like you’re stuck farming forever.