Turn your Pokémon into true survival companions.
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Minecraft 1.21.1 • NeoForge • Cobblemon 1.8.1 • Java 21
Cobblemon Field Survival expands Cobblemon beyond battles by making your Pokémon part of exploration, gathering, crafting, combat and environmental survival.
Typing opens the door to different kinds of field work, but the individual Pokémon still matters. Species, level, evolution, aptitude, nature, personality, friendship, condition and experience all influence how useful a companion becomes.
Water Pokémon can keep you alive underwater and improve swimming.
Fire Pokémon can cook, dry you off and protect you from the cold.
Fighting Pokémon help restore your lost combat effectiveness.
Rock & Ground Pokémon can mine and carve tunnels through the world.
Fairy Pokémon can heal and restore the stamina of your team.
Dragon Pokémon can act as Commanders, strengthening the work of their companions.
The goal is simple:
Every Pokémon you catch should feel useful.
CFS deliberately shifts part of the player's normal survival capability onto the team. On your own, you begin 50% less efficient at supported field activities, take 33% more damage, and deal 33% less damage. Fielded Pokémon help you recover — and eventually exceed — those capabilities through active actions and passive support.
🌿 Field Actions • ⚔ Combat • ⛏ Mining • 🌱 Foraging • 💧 Water Work • 🔥 Cooking • ⛺ Shelter
🧬 Type Roles • ⭐ Field Skills • 🧭 Pokémon Progression • 📚 Mastery • 🏅 Professions • 🧪 Care Items • ⚡ Stamina
🛡 Passive Support • 🚨 Emergency Buffs • ✨ Synergies • 🏕 Survival Progression • 🔧 Integrations
Scroll through the sections below for screenshots, GIFs, mechanics and progression details.
Press V to open the Field Command Wheel. Choose one of your six party Pokémon to access its Combat, Movement, Care, Synergy and Pokémon-specific actions, or use General Command to work with the abilities of your currently fielded team.
The Field Command Wheel keeps commands fast while preserving all six party positions.
Available actions are determined by Pokémon typing, physical capabilities and developing Field Skills.
For deeper information, open the FielDex to inspect a Pokémon's Field Skills, aptitude, personality, favorite food, profession, care state, bonuses and available actions.
Open it from
M→ Others → Field Survival
or use the configurable FielDex keybind (default:.).
Everything relevant to that Pokémon's life as a field companion, in one place.
That value has two purposes:
For example, if your base Mining proficiency is 50% and your fielded Pokémon provides +40%, your effective Mining proficiency becomes 90% — almost restoring vanilla efficiency.
Multiple Pokémon can contribute, but additional contributors use diminishing returns: the strongest contribution counts fully, while later contributions are progressively reduced.
The player proficiency cap is 170%. Reaching the cap means performing that activity up to 70% faster than vanilla.
Your Pokémon can defend you outside of traditional Cobblemon battles.
Use field commands to order companions to attack creatures and hostile mobs, with Pokémon choosing appropriate ranged and melee techniques.
Press G to ping creatures, players or locations from a distance, making Pokémon feel like companions you can actually direct in the world.
Pikachu murdering a pinged chicken.
Rock and Ground Pokémon can become powerful mining companions.
Rather than simply generating resources, they physically interact with the world:
Different Pokémon sizes and capabilities influence how they work, while their Field Skills determine how efficiently they perform the job.
Geodude digging a 2×2 tunnel.
Your Pokémon can search the environment for useful materials.
Field abilities turn exploration into another form of progression, rewarding you for bringing the right companion into the right environment.
Bulbasaur returns with a carrot it found while foraging.
Water Pokémon provide an entire set of survival utilities:
Their Water Work skill determines how capable and efficient they become.
Squirtle throwing up in a 1×1 hole.
Fishing becomes a proper field activity where your Pokémon can assist you rather than simply standing nearby.
Squirtle brings us a cod while fishing.
Fire Pokémon can cook food directly in the field.
They can also interact with supported survival mechanics such as frozen food, allowing a Fire companion to warm preserved food and return it to normal use — including compatibility with Food Spoilage.
Charmander using Flamethrower on raw chicken to cook it.
Certain combinations of Pokémon unlock powerful cooperative survival techniques.
Need somewhere to sleep? Your companions may be able to construct an Improvised Bed in the field.
Caterpie and Bulbasaur use Razor Leaf and String Shot on a pinged position to create a sleeping bag.
These abilities are intended to feel like meaningful emergency tools rather than replacements for every normal Minecraft mechanic.
Typing gives a Pokémon its natural field identity. It determines the jobs, active abilities, passive support and emergency buffs that species can potentially access. Field Skills then determine how good that individual Pokémon becomes at those jobs.
Dual-types can combine multiple identities, so unusual combinations can become especially flexible companions.
Type determines opportunity; Field Skill determines performance. A Fighting type may have access to Protection, for example, but its actual contribution still depends on that individual Pokémon's progression, personality, friendship, condition and other Field Skill factors.
Each Field Skill represents a different kind of practical expertise. Higher skill can improve work speed, stamina efficiency, effect strength, range, duration or cooldown, depending on the action.
A Pokémon's Field Skills are influenced by its progression and individual characteristics, so two Pokémon of the same species can develop very different strengths and professions.
Field Skills aren't based on species alone. Each Pokémon develops its strengths through a combination of natural aptitude, progression, care and experience.
Field Skill and Mastery are different things.
Field Skill = how naturally capable the Pokémon is.
Mastery = how experienced it has become at doing the job.
For example, a Water Pokémon may naturally have excellent Water Work, while repeated practice develops its Waterwork Mastery, improving its learned performance at specific water jobs. The same idea applies to Fishing and other mastered field actions.
Catching a powerful Pokémon is only part of progression. Feeding it, bonding with it, keeping it healthy and actually working alongside it all help turn it into a capable field companion.
A Pokémon's Profession is not a class you manually choose. It is a readable summary of what that individual Pokémon is currently best at.
Possible professions include Miner, Fisher, Cook, Blacksmith, Alchemist, Guardian, Sentinel, Phantom, Commander and more.
Two members of the same species may become completely different companions: one might develop into a Miner, while another becomes a Guardian, Fisher, Cook or Blacksmith.
That's the core idea behind Field Skills: the Pokémon itself matters, not just the species you caught.
Cobblemon Field Survival adds several items that let you care for a Pokémon in an emergency, manage its long-term development, or automate basic feeding.
Medicine is not free power. Some items have meaningful costs or limitations, and relying too heavily on them can have consequences.
All medicine items are added to Foraging, Mining and Fishing loot tables.
An emergency stimulant for a Pokémon that still has some fight left in it.
Overdose is serious: the Pokémon faints and becomes exhausted. It must first be revived and then complete a sheltered camp rest before it can fully recover. An Exhaustion Pill cannot bypass an overdose.
A stronger emergency medicine intended for an already exhausted Pokémon.
A Pokémon's Field Personality influences which kinds of work it naturally favors. These items let you alter that personality when you want to reshape a companion's role.
Rerolls the Pokémon's individual Favorite Food.
This makes Taste Candy useful when a Pokémon develops an awkward or expensive Favorite Food, while still respecting what that Pokémon can naturally eat.
Temper affects how easily a Pokémon trusts its trainer and whether it may resist field commands before enough Trust has been earned.
A Temper Pill lowers Temper by exactly one level:
Distrustful → Stubborn → Docile
It cannot be used on a Pokémon that is already Docile.
A recovery tool for a Pokémon whose relationship with its trainer has fallen very low.
It is intended as a way to recover from a badly damaged relationship — not as a shortcut to maximum Friendship.
If you use Traveler's Backpack or Sophisticated Backpacks, CFS adds a dedicated Pokémon Auto-Feeder Upgrade for each backpack system.
Travelers Backpack auto feeder:
Sophisticated Backpacks auto feeder:
Install the appropriate upgrade and keep Auto-Feeding Paste inside the backpack. The feeder periodically checks your active / summoned Pokémon and automatically consumes Paste when their Field Hunger becomes too low.
The Auto-Feeder is deliberately a maintenance system, not a replacement for personally feeding your Pokémon their Favorite Foods.
Your Pokémon will eat Basic Paste, but they are not particularly happy about living on it.
(Uses any Gen 3 berry in the centre)
Basic Paste is cheap emergency maintenance.
Enriched Paste is proper automated care.
Paste is designed specifically for the Auto-Feeder and cannot simply be right-clicked onto a Pokémon as normal food.
Field work isn't free.
Pokémon use Stamina while performing demanding actions and supporting their trainer. Exhausted Pokémon need proper recovery rather than being treated as unlimited automation.
When a Pokémon becomes exhausted, it falls asleep and cannot perform field actions or participate in Pokémon battles until it has properly rested in shelter near a campfire.
Not every ability requires constant commands.
As long as an eligible Pokémon remains fielded in the same dimension, it can provide trainer-facing support even when it isn't standing directly beside you.
Physical jobs such as mining, workstation assistance and world interaction still require the Pokémon to actually be present where the work is happening.
Pokémon can provide temporary type-based Buffs when things go wrong.
These are deliberately designed as emergency abilities, not permanent potion replacements: powerful, short-lived, and limited by substantial cooldowns.
The radial menu tells you what the current Pokémon will provide, including:
Different typings provide different emergency effects: Fighting and Dragon lean toward Strength, Electric toward Speed, Rock and Steel toward Resistance, Ghost toward Invisibility, Fairy toward Luck, Ground toward Haste, and Flying/Psychic toward Slow Falling, among others.
So you can decide whether spending that emergency ability is worth it.
Some of the strongest abilities require Pokémon working together.
These special field techniques combine different elemental strengths to produce effects far beyond ordinary actions.
Bring compatible elemental Pokémon together to manipulate the environment itself.
Charmander, Squirtle and Pikachu using their elements to create a micro-climate.
Synergies are intentionally powerful and limited, giving a well-developed team abilities that feel like major milestones.
Cobblemon Field Survival is designed for players who want Cobblemon deeply integrated into a survival-focused Minecraft experience.
The mod is especially suited to:
Instead of Pokémon existing beside Minecraft progression, they become part of that progression.
Cobblemon Field Survival includes compatibility for temperature, thirst, food preservation, backpacks and other survival systems while keeping those integrations optional.
Required: Cobblemon 1.8
CFS works without these mods, but it is designed to shine alongside temperature, thirst and food-spoilage systems.
The mod is highly configurable, with multiple configuration files available in your Minecraft config folder.
Cobblemon Field Survival 0.19.0-beta
Minecraft 1.21.1 • NeoForge • Cobblemon 1.8.0 • Java 21
This is currently a beta release.
0.18 introduces FielDex and the rebuilt Field Command Wheel. Expect continued balance adjustments, compatibility work and improvements based on player feedback.
If you encounter a bug, please include:
Cobblemon Field Survival is a personal project built around the idea of making Pokémon feel like genuine companions rather than creatures that only come out for battle.
If you enjoy the mod and would like to support continued development, you can support me on Ko-fi:
Support is completely optional — the best way to help is simply to play, report bugs and tell me what feels fun or frustrating.
