The Cram-o-matic is located inside the Dojo on the Isle of Armor. Once you have progressed far enough in the story to unlock access to the machine, you can "feed" it items from your bag to generate items such as the rare Apricorn, Safari, and Sport Balls or Ribbon and Star sweets for Alcremie. Rare items will be the main focus of this guide as most other rewards are nonrandom. See these recipes on Serebii for everything else.
The following recipes are the minimum required ingredients to be eligible for each reward. You may add the items in any order.
Item | Required Recipe |
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Heavy Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a Black Apricorn. Adding more Black Apricorns increases the rate of Heavy Balls. |
Lure Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a Blue Apricorn. Adding more Blue Apricorns increases the rate of Lure Balls. |
Friend Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a Green Apricorn. Adding more Green Apricorns increases the rate of Friend Balls. |
Love Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a Pink Apricorn. Adding more Pink Apricorns increases the rate of Love Balls. |
Level Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a Red Apricorn. Adding more Red Apricorns increases the rate of Level Balls. |
Fast Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a White Apricorn. Adding more White Apricorns increases the rate of Fast Balls. |
Moon Ball | 4 Apricorns, where at least 1 is a Yellow Apricorn. Adding more Yellow Apricorns increases the rate of Moon Balls. |
Safari Ball | 4 of the same color of Apricorn. Any color works. |
Sport Ball | 4 Apricorns in at least 2 different colors. |
Ribbon & Star Sweet |
Recipe 1 - 4 common Alcremie sweets (Strawberry, Love, Berry, Clover, Flower). Recipe 2 - 3 common Alcremie sweets and 1 Whipped Dream. Recipe 3 - 2 common Alcremie sweets and 2 Whipped Dream. Recipe 4 - 1 Whipped Dream and 3 Weakness Policy (BP Items). |
Information - Apricorns can be found randomly in berry trees scattered around the Isle of Armor.
The sweet items can be obtained through the nonrandom Cram-o-matic recipes on Serebii or the Battle Cafés as daily rewards.
Figure 1 - Game Setup
When calibrating NPC count inside buildings, set the current weather condition to Normal Weather
. NPC count will remain the same between attempts unless you progress the IoA story quest. You should see 21-22 NPCs with completed story; this variation depends on if you have collected the Porygon gift.
Figure 2 - RNG Tool Setup
Connect
. This will automatically read your current seed and save file details.Cram-o-matic
to open the Cram-o-matic generator in a subwindow.+
field. Usually, you will find any desired result in under 200,000 advances.Target
from the drop-down menu, and click the Bonus Only?
checkbox if you are aiming for results that produce multiple rare Poké Balls.Consider Menu Close?
checkbox, then enter the NPC count that you calibrated earlier. You can now begin searching for targets.If you are not seeing any results, you may not have the correct ingredients selected. For example, if you are looking for Heavy Balls but did not add any Black Apricorns, the Cram-o-matic will never produce a Heavy Ball.
If you have verified the ingredients and still do not find any results, you will need to increase your search range, change your search filters to be less restrictive, or reset the game for a better seed.
Note that you can change the order of items you add to alter the results. For example, if the first hit generates based on the 3rd item, you can make sure to add a specific Apricorn in the 3rd slot to take advantage of the result.
Figure 3 - Target Found!
In this example, a Safari Ball with the 5x bonus will be produced in a cluster
from advances 40,329-40,331. We will aim to close the X Menu
on these advances, then quickly interact with the Cram-o-matic to lock in our desired result.
It is important to interact with the Cram-o-matic on the frame that produces the expected result. Once the dialogue box is open, the reward will be locked in unless the player backs out of the dialogue to the overworld.
X Menu
to pause the game.Update Seeds
on the main window of owoow to send your current seed into the active subwindow.Consider Menu Close?
checkbox is checked in the Cram-o-matic subwindow, and confirm that your NPC count has been calibrated and entered correctly. Search for your target again.Holding Direction?
checkbox on owoow. This increases the difficulty of hitting your target frame as we are already standing next to the Cram-o-matic.X Menu
.B
. Do not touch the joystick when unpausing as we are already positioned next to the Cram-o-matic.Figure 4 - Target Frame Hit!
In Figure 4, we closed the X Menu
on the desired target frame and quickly interacted with the Cram-o-matic. Now we need to feed it the correct combination of items, which should produce the expected reward.
Figure 5 - Result Found!
That's all there is to RNG manipulating the Cram-o-matic (CFW)!
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