‘Time to Party!’ walkthrough and quest steps in Pokémon Pokopia

After you arrive in Rocky Ridges in Pokémon Pokopia, you’ll meet a ton of new Pokémon, and eventually need to throw a party as part of the important request, “Time to Party!” To help DJ Rotom and friends throw the best banger of the year, there are quite a few things you’ll need to do.

As usual with most of these important requests, you do need to beat this part to progress story-wise in the game and unlock the fourth area. That said, you should prioritize getting this part done.

Below we walk through the “Time to Party!” important request in Pokémon Pokopia, and explain how to “raise the mood” for DJ Rotom’s party.

‘Time to Party!’ walkthrough in Pokémon Pokopia

With a chef and a DJ together, the only thing to do is obviously throw a party. DJ Rotom and Chef Dente want your help to do so. Before this request starts, you learn a ton of new mechanics, like cooking, mining, and smelting ore. You’ll need to combine all of them to successfully throw this party.

In order to complete the “Time to Party!” special request, here’s what you have to do:

1. Talk to Chef Dente (the Greedent), clean out the area of ash, and place the cooking pot in the now-open area.
2. Talk to DJ Rotom and give them a CD. If you don’t have any CDs yet, there’s a “Caves of Mt. Moon” CD close to the area you just cleared out of ash.
3. Talk to DJ Rotom again, and make the “uplifting dillweed” habitat in any nearby water by using salad-powered Leafage. After Ludicolo appears, bring them to DJ Rotom.
4. Talk to Professor Tangrowth and show them a large lost relic. You can find these from digging up glowing spots on the ground. Once you appraise a large lost relic, display whatever it is you found in the area.
5. Talk to Chef Dente to start their request. You’ll need to cook five dishes and make five party platters — which use one iron ingot each. You can mine iron ore from veins inside the mines, using hamburger-powered Rock Smash. Smelt these in the furnace to get your ingots. Set the party platters and food out on tables in the area.
6. Talk to DJ Rotom again, who will talk about adding finishing touches to increase the mood more (more on that in the section below). Once the place is decorated more, talk to DJ Rotom again.
7. Head back to Chef Dente and take them to the party pot. You’ll need 15 Leppa Berries, 15 wheat, 15 beans, and five honey to make this curry. You’ll also need to bring four other Pokémon to the pot to start cooking. If you need more wheat and beans, you can buy seeds for them from the PC (as long as your environment levels are at least level three in Rocky Ridges and Withered Wasteland, respectively). You can use grass-type Pokémon like Dartrix to speed up the growth of these crops, too.
8. With all the Pokémon and ingredients submitted to the pot, wait seven minutes for the curry to finish cooking.
9. Once it’s done, talk to Chef Dente again to enjoy the curry with your pals.
10. Talk to Professor Tangrowth, then the Pokémon at the top of the volcano, and then Professor Tangrowth again to wrap up this special request.

Note that you may do some of this in a different order, depending on which speech bubbles appear above Pokémon first. If you’re struggling to “raise the mood” for DJ Rotom, there are a few things you can do to increase that.

Once you do finish this request, you’ll either need to head to Bleak Beach to do the request there, if you haven’t yet, or head to Sparkling Skylands, which you can access by entering the gate in Rocky Ridges.

How to raise the mood in Pokémon Pokopia

After you make some food for the party, you’ll need to increase the mood to 100 points, but if you have no more requests to do as part of this quest, it’s a little unclear what you need to do. Here are some ways you can “raise the mood” for DJ Rotom’s party, based on the tasks we saw:

• Place more furniture and decorations around the area, including large lost relics.
• Cook more food and place it on more party platters.
• Bring more Pokémon with the “hype” ability to the area with music.

Personally, I didn’t want to waste my iron ingots on more plates, so I ended up just placing down a bunch of random furniture until DJ Rotom was ready to talk. There are a lot of furnishings in the original kitchen where you learn to cook with Chef Dente, so you can just haul in those extra barrels, carts, and other similar stuff.

My party area looked… interesting, but you can definitely decorate it more appropriately and take your time with this step.