Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl add a bunch of classic things to their 3D worlds, offering new and old players secrets to find. One of many hidden elements of the gameplay is Honey Trees in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. These special trees can be a source of rare encounters, so players tend to farm them. Here’s what you need to know about these golden trees.
Honey Trees work by allowing the player to slather Honey on them, then giving a random spawn in return. There are a few things to remember about this. One thing is that it takes at least six hours for the spawn to happen. You can’t skip the timer with the date change trick either. If you change the date, in-game timers are paused.
There are a group of Pokémon encounters that can only happen with Honey Trees. Each tree has a set of rare and normal encounters associated with it. Some also have a specific location that can only spawn a certain monster. Here’s the listing of how hard it is to find these rare spawns at Honey Trees.
- Heracross: Rare encounter
- Aipom: Normal and rare encounter
- Munchlax: Only the Munchlax tree
- Wurmple: Standard and rare encounters
- Silcoon: Standard encounters, only in Brilliant Diamond
- Cascoon: Standard encounters, only in Shining Pearl
- Combee: Standard and rare encounters
- Cherubi: Standard and rare encounters
- Burmy: Standard and rare encounters
Where are the Honey Trees
There are 21 Honey Trees throughout the Sinnoh region in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. And it’s very likely that most of them have been replicated in the Switch version. It’s best to use Fly to visit each of these, to speed things up. Here are all the locations you can find these golden beauties:
- Route 205 south
- Route 205 north
- Route 206
- Route 207
- Route 208
- Route 209
- Route 210 south
- Route 210 north
- Route 211 east
- Route 212 north
- Route 212 south
- Route 213
- Route 214
- Route 215
- Route 218
- Route 221
- Route 222
- Valley Windworks
- Eterna Forest
- Fuego Ironworks
- Floaroma Meadow