Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide: everything you need to know!

In this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide, we start with the topic about the old man. The whole purpose of the game is to go from city to city to find all the gym leaders, fight them and get to elite 4 and champion that way, right? True, but possibly the most fun element in the whole game is the grand underground! The very first step to get here is to talk to the old man in Eterna city. His house can be found next to the Pokemon center right after you enter Eterna city.

In Eterna city you have a lot of things to do like defeating team galactic and saving the owner of the bike store and defeating the gym leader, but apart from that you can spend hours here exploring what the grand underground is all about. Once you enter the house you can talk to the "Underground Man" who will give you the explorer kit. He tells you that he was the very first man to start digging the grand underground. So he is the creator of the grand underground.

Now that you got the explorer kit you can start! With this you can go to the grand underground. You can find the explorer kit in the bag's key items. The icon looks like the one in the picture. Get ready for an adventure full of quests, Pokemon, treasures and mysteries! The old man will ask you to complete some tasks, but you may ignore them if you would like. Among other things, he asks you to bring up treasures, make a secret base, put statues in your secret base and visit someone else's secret base.

So to get started, choose the explorer kit in the key items section of your bag. Here you will find all the key items that are important during your adventure in sinnoh, including your bike, fishing pole and more. You can "register" the explorer kit so you don't have to open your bag every time to select it. Once you have done this you use the explorer kit and leave for the grand underground. The first time you do this you will meet gym leader Roark. Talk to him and then you can start exploring! On to the next topic of this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide!

The next topic in this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide is about the map. Possibly the first thing you will notice in the grand underground is the minimap that consists of a maze of corridors. This can be a bit overwhelming at first, but you will quickly get used to this. At some point you may even find yourself looking at your minimap more than your screen to move around the grand underground. As you can see, the grand underground consists of many corridors, as well as square-shaped areas in two types of sizes. Large and small areas.

• Largest middle area: Accessible from Eterna city and surrounding areas.
• Smallest middle area: Accessible from Celestic town.
• Area on lower left: Accessible from Twinleaf town and surrounding areas.
• Area at lower right: Accessible from Sunyshore city.
• Area top left: Accessible from Snowpoint city and surrounding areas.
• Area at top right: Accessible from the fight area.
  (Get here by taking the boat from Snowpoint city after defeating elite 4 and champion).

Next, we also talk a bit about the stuff you can dig up in this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide. After you take a closer look at the map in the grand underground, you may have noticed that on the map there are a lot of yellow asterisks in the area where you are currently. Those are the treasures you can dig up!

The idea is to walk up to these starlets and then scan the area with the "ZL" button on your controller. If you do this while standing by an asterisk on the map you will notice that it starts to glisten against a wall. Go sign the wall and click "A" and you will automatically start digging at this spot!

Many of these objects, especially the spheres, can be exchanged with traders scattered throughout the grand underground. These traders trade your found objects for cool stuff like "pedestals" that you can proudly display your statues on in your secret base (more about that later). But you can also trade for TMs, digger drills, and so on! On to the next topic of this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide!

And now for a chapter on Pokemon in this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide. As mentioned earlier, you can find multiple square-shaped areas all over the grand underground. These come in small and large sizes.

The small formats are fairly easy to find and just about every corridor in the grand underground is connected to a small area, the large areas on the other hand you only encounter 6 times, namely 1 for each underground area of the grand underground.

Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide regarding Diglett and Dugtrio: A new feature added in this game that was not found in the old diamond and pearl games are the Diglett and Dugtrio that pop out of the ground at random moments when you are running around in the grand underground.

At first it may be unclear why that you can collect the sparkles that Diglett and Dugtrio leave behind, but once you play for a while this will become clearer. Still, I'll explain it for you: On the top left of your screen near the minimap you will see a bar with a counter. Keep an eye on this counter!

In fact, this counter will increase each time you pick up the sparkles left by Diglett and Dugtrio. Diglett leaves 1 sparkle and Dugtrio leaves 3. So Diglett will also be more prevalent than Dugtrio.

It is recommended to play in online mode if you want to take advantage of this feature, since this counter counts up not only for you picked up sparkles, but also for those of all other players who are in the same grand underground server with you. Once the counter reaches 40 sparkles the text "Something good may happen in the Grand Underground" will appear and you will hear a sound like someone blowing a whistle.

Next, we also talk about boxes briefly in this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide. While digging for treasure, you can come across many different items. But something you will almost always come across is the stone box. It contains a statue of a Pokemon that you can then place in secret base. This picture shows the icon of a normal stone box. It contains a statue of a Pokemon with normal colors as you see them in battles.

Unlike the normal stone box, you also have the rare version, the "gorgeous" stone box. This one looks the same but has sparkles and can only be found when the diglett counter is at 40. This rare stone box always contains a shiny Pokemon, but beware: it does not have the same color as shinies you see in battles. The shiny statues will always be made of a special green stone. On to the next topic of this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide!

The next topic in the Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide is the secret base. In the grand underground, you can pick a spot against a wall that you can see. This means that you can't put a secret base against a lower wall, but you can put one to the left, right or above. Choose a spot you like as a nice location and use the digger drill you got from the old man on the upper ground. You can also change your secret base by buying a new digger drill from one of the traders.

Once you have created your secret base you can go inside and find an empty room. This room can be covered with statues you dug up using the glass ball that is in the room.

Which statues you place can be important because it affects the type of Pokemon you can find in the square-shaped areas. For example, if you place an Infernape statue then you are more likely to find fire-type Pokemon, if you place an Empoleon then you are more likely to find water-type Pokemon, and so on.

You can also expand your secret base to fit more statues and thus also increase your chances of finding Pokemon of a certain type you want. You can do this expansion by talking to the right traders you can find in the grand underground corridors. Talk to the right trader and ask to expand your secret base. For this you are going to have to trade a lot of spheres though.

Just a little creepy in this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide with the topic about Spiritomb! During the story, you will find an NPC on route 208 right next to Hearthome city. This man will be standing next to a honey tree and hiding among the trees. He will give you the odd keystone, a crucial item you need to raise the Pokemon Spiritomb with! You're probably wondering what this has to do with the grand underground? Well, after all, you need the grand underground to raise Spiritomb!

First, you will have to go with the odd keystone to a suspicious looking pile of rocks that can be found in route 209. Place the odd keystone in this and from then on a task will start to raise Spiritomb bit by bit. How to do this is by talking to the NPCs in the grand underground.

In the original Diamond and Pearl games you had to interact with real players for this via wireless play, you could then talk to other players in the grand underground. In Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl this is no longer possible, so they have created an alternative solution for this.

In each area between the virekant-shaped areas there will be 1 NPC that you must talk to. Each NPC has its own name and you must have talked to all 32 NPCs before you can catch Spiritomb at the pile of rocks.

The last topic we will talk about in this Pokemon BDSP grand underground guide are the discovery slates you can dig up in the grand underground. You can only do this after you beat the Pokemon league and complete the Sinnoh pokedex.

You don't need to have caught all the Pokemon for this, but you do need to have seen them all! Once you've done that, Ramanas park is open, you can get here by walking down into Sandgem town and using surf on the sea.