You'll burn through Sturdy Sticks and Stones faster than you'd expect in Pokemon Pokopia. Building habitats and crafting furniture drains your stockpile fast. Campfires, storage boxes, workbenches, building kits. They all eat resources. And Lumber is the worst bottleneck because Scyther or another Chop-specialty Pokemon has to process every Small Log for you.
42 materials
Sturdy Stick
Fallen branch for tools and toys
Stone
Common building material
Vine Rope
Cut from vines and plants
Glowing Mushrooms
Bioluminescent cave fungi
Twine
From textile scraps and cobwebs
Sea Glass Fragments
Smoothed glass from the shore
Seashell
Collected along the shoreline
Squishy Clay
A material used to create bricks and buildings
Wastepaper
Can be recycled into paper
Iron Ore
Smelt into iron ingots
Pokemetal Fragment
Rare metallic shard
Lumber
Processed from small logs
Brick
A processed material used for crafting buildings and roads
Copper Ingot
Smelted copper for crafting
Iron Ingot
Smelted iron for crafting
Gold Ingot
Smelted gold for crafting
Pokemetal
Rare processed metal
Glass
From broken windows
Stardust
A material found on Dream Island
Red Paint
Colors items red
Concrete
A processed building material
Tinkagear
A special gear used in advanced construction
Strange Strings
Mysterious musical strings
White Paint
Paint used to color items white
Yellow Paint
Paint used to color items yellow
Green Paint
Paint used to color items green
Pink Paint
Paint used to color items pink
Blue Paint
Paint used to color items blue
Black Paint
Paint used to color items black
Cyan Paint
Paint used to color items cyan
Leaf
A lush, vivid green leaf that you can obtain by cutting trees and grass.
Rare Pokemetal
Made with smelted rare Pokemetal fragments, these can be used to make various items.
Press Y near loose items on the ground to pick them up one at a time. Hold Y to inhale everything nearby at once, which is way faster. That handles Sturdy Sticks, Stones, and Leaves. For Small Logs, use the Cut move on trees. Rock Smash breaks boulders into Stone. Pokemon with matching specialties can also gather specific materials if you bring them to the right spot.
Lumber is processed wood. You can't just pick it up off the ground. Scyther or any Pokemon with the Chop specialty takes Small Logs and converts them into Lumber for you. Since Small Logs come from cutting trees with the Cut move, getting Lumber is a two-step chain: Cut trees first, then Chop the logs. It's the only material that requires processing before use.
Materials feed into both crafting and building. At a Workbench, you combine them into furniture (Straw Beds, Log Chairs), outdoor structures (Campfires), and utility items (Storage Boxes). Building Pokemon homes also requires materials, and furnishing those homes raises each Pokemon's comfort level. Higher comfort means happier Pokemon and more features unlocked as you play.
Yes, and you should use them. Befriended Pokemon with the right specialties speed things up a lot. Scyther handles Chop, converting Small Logs into Lumber. Pidgey's Search specialty finds hidden items using Dowsing Machines. Bellsprout and Weepinbell boost crop growth if you need food-based resources. Lead these Pokemon to matching resource areas for the fastest results.
Sturdy Sticks. They go into Campfires (which you need for cooking and lighting) and most early building kits. Stone is a close second since Workbenches cost two of them. Don't worry about Lumber right away. You won't have access to Scyther's Chop specialty until you've befriended one and progressed a bit.
Pokopia starts you with a small set of base materials: Sturdy Stick, Leaf, Stone, Small Log, and Lumber. As you unlock new areas and progress through environment levels, you gain access to advanced materials like Iron Ore, Crystal, and Pokemetal. Each area introduces its own material tier that feeds into higher-level crafting recipes.