Gravestone Habitat Location Guide: How to Unlock Cubone Early in Pokémon Pokopia

What to know

• A gravestone is required to create the Grave with Flowers habitat that attracts Cubone.
• An early gravestone can be found in the wasteland past a large field of flowers.
• You need four wildflowers placed around the gravestone to complete the habitat.
• Later in the game you can craft or purchase gravestones instead of finding them in the wild.

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Pokémon Pokopia revolves around building habitats that attract specific Pokémon to your island. Cubone is one of the rare Pokémon that only appears when a specific environment called the “Grave with Flowers” habitat is created. To build this habitat, you must first locate a gravestone, which can be picked up and moved to your island. Fortunately, an early gravestone can be found in the game world, making it possible to unlock Cubone relatively early if you know where to look.

Pokopia Gravestones and Cubone habitat details

Feature	Details
Pokémon attracted	Cubone
Habitat requirement	Gravestone with four wildflowers around it
Early gravestone location	Wasteland area past the flower field
Nearby landmark	Near a Pokémon Center in the wasteland region
Crafting availability	Gravestone recipe unlocks later in the game
Alternative method	Gravestones can eventually be purchased

Location of Gravestone in Pokopia

The earliest gravestone you can obtain in Pokémon Pokopia appears in the wasteland biome, which becomes accessible early in the adventure. When exploring this region, you will encounter a large field filled with wildflowers, which serves as a natural landmark indicating you are near the correct location.

Beyond this flower field lies a desolate stretch of terrain where the gravestone is placed on the ground. The area is relatively easy to recognize because of the stark contrast between the colorful flowers and the surrounding wasteland environment. The gravestone is positioned not far from a Pokémon Center, making it a convenient pickup for early players.

When you reach the gravestone, you can interact with it and pick it up as a placeable object, allowing you to carry it back to your island. This is the quickest way to obtain the item before unlocking crafting recipes later in the game.

How to pick up and move the gravestone

Once you reach the gravestone in the wasteland, obtaining it is straightforward. The object behaves like other placeable world decorations in Pokopia, meaning it can be collected and relocated.

Step 1

Approach the gravestone located past the field of flowers in the wasteland area. The gravestone sits alone on the ground and can be interacted with directly.

Step 2

Use the interaction command to pick up the gravestone. This adds the item to your buildable decorations so it can be placed anywhere on your island.

Step 3

Return to your island and enter placement mode, where decorative objects and habitat items can be placed in the environment.

Step 4

Select the gravestone from your placeable items and position it where you want to build the Cubone habitat.

How to build the Grave with Flowers habitat for Cubone

Cubone will only appear if a specific decorative habitat is created. This setup is called the “Grave with Flowers” habitat, and it requires a gravestone combined with flowers.

Step 1

Place the gravestone on your island in an open space where Pokémon habitats can form.

Step 2

Collect four wildflowers, which can easily be gathered from the flower field located just before the gravestone in the wasteland area.

Step 3

Enter build mode and place the four wildflowers around the gravestone, ensuring they surround it closely.

Step 4

Once the flowers are placed, the environment forms the Grave with Flowers habitat, which is the condition needed to attract Cubone.

Step 5

After the habitat is active, Cubone may eventually appear and visit the location, allowing you to interact with it and potentially recruit it to your island.

How to obtain more Gravestones later in the game

While the wasteland gravestone is the earliest one players can collect, it is not the only way to obtain gravestones in Pokémon Pokopia. As you progress through the game, additional options become available.

Later progression unlocks a crafting recipe for gravestones, allowing you to produce them whenever you have the required materials. This is particularly useful if you want to create multiple grave habitats or experiment with decorative builds.

In addition to crafting, some vendors eventually sell gravestones, making it possible to purchase them instead of crafting or exploring for them. This greatly expands the ability to design themed habitats across your island.

Why the Grave with Flowers habitat attracts Cubone

Cubone’s design and lore revolve around themes of loneliness, remembrance, and burial symbolism, which is why the game associates it with the grave-themed environment.

The combination of a gravestone and surrounding flowers visually represents a memorial site, which fits Cubone’s narrative theme perfectly. Because of this, the game uses the Grave with Flowers habitat as the trigger that allows Cubone to spawn.

Creating this environment does not just attract Cubone. It can also draw other rare Pokémon that prefer eerie or memorial-style habitats, depending on the current habitat mechanics and spawn conditions in Pokopia.

Bringing Cubone to your island with the gravestone habitat

Finding the early gravestone in the wasteland and surrounding it with flowers is one of the simplest ways to unlock Cubone in Pokémon Pokopia. The process requires only a short exploration trip and a few wildflowers, making it achievable early in the game.

Once the Grave with Flowers habitat is established, Cubone can begin visiting your island, allowing you to interact with it and add it to your growing Pokémon community. As the game progresses, crafting or purchasing additional gravestones lets you create more themed habitats and experiment with different Pokémon attractions.