Pokémon Quest: How to Farm Daily Base Camp Visitors

In Pokémon Quest, you can farm daily visitor Pokémon continuously by manually advancing your device's system clock forward by one day. Because the game relies on your local device calendar rather than server-side validation to track its 22-hour visitor timer, shifting the date triggers an immediate arrival at your Base Camp. Befriending these visitors costs no cooking ingredients or PM Tickets, providing an endless supply of training fodder.

How the Base Camp Visitor Cooldown Works

Under normal conditions, a wild Pokémon visits the perimeter of your Base Camp once every 22 hours. A visitor signals its presence with a red exclamation point bubble over its head. Tapping this Pokémon recruits it directly into your collection without requiring expeditions or Cooking Pot recipes.

Because the client software validates this spawn window through internal system time, advancing the system calendar by 24 hours tricks the game into treating the transition as a brand-new day. You can perform this reset repeatedly while keeping Pokémon Quest suspended in the background.

Step-by-Step Clock Skip Sequence

You do not need to shut down or relaunch the software between cycles. Follow this sequence from your Base Camp:

Step	Action	Menu or Location	Expected Outcome
1	Befriend current visitor	Base Camp	Clears the camp boundary for the next spawn
2	Suspend game	Device Home button	Returns to system dashboard
3	Disable network time	System Settings > Date and Time	Toggle off automatic internet time synchronization
4	Advance calendar	Date and Time settings	Move the current date forward by +1 day
5	Re-enter game	Base Camp	New visitor arrives displaying an exclamation point

Tap the new visitor to collect it, press Home to return to settings, and advance the calendar another day to repeat the cycle.

How to Use Farmed Visitor Pokémon

Farming free visitors preserves valuable cooking ingredients like Bluk Berries, Apricorns, Fossils, and Tiny Mushrooms for targeted recipe recruitment rather than routine base management. Use your influx of visitor Pokémon for three main tasks:

Level-Up Training: Feed expendable visitors into your primary expedition team members for steady experience points. Sacrificing matching types or identical species provides higher experience multipliers.
Move Learning Rerolls: Swapping attacks to secure abilities like Bulk Up, Hydro Pump, or Psychic requires sacrificing supporting Pokémon. Because reroll success rates drop with each attempt on a specific Pokémon, having a deep roster of free visitors lets you brute-force success rates without cooking.
Pokédex Entries: While visitor spawns draw predominantly from standard common pools, regular date cycling steadily checks off missing entries from the original 151 Pokédex roster.

Box Capacity and Clock Reversal Penalties

Before starting an extended farming session, clear adequate space in your roster. When your Pokémon storage reaches its cap, new visitors cannot join your camp until you free slots by releasing units, using them in Level-Up Training, or performing Move Learning. You can also expand maximum storage using PM Tickets to lengthen each farming run.

Exercise caution when resetting your system clock to real-world time. Snapping your device calendar backward after skipping into the future can freeze natural daily visitor spawns and free daily PM Ticket distributions until real time catches up to the furthest date reached. To minimize disruptions:

Farm all necessary fodder in a single, compact session rather than spreading skips across months of game time.
If you restore your clock and trigger a visitor freeze, rely on Cooking Pots and standard expedition runs to acquire new Pokémon until the lockout expires naturally.