An interesting mechanic that made its way into the Diamond and Pearl remakes is the use of honey in some interactive trees. This allowed certain Pokémon to be drawn in, allowing the trainer to climb up the tree and battle them. It's very complementary to the berry system in that you watch the spots you're dabbing honey on and revisit them hours later. Here's everything you need to know about honey trees in Pokemon Sparkling Diamond and Sparkling Pearl.
How Honey Trees Work in Pokemon Sparkle Diamond and Sparkle Pearl
Honey trees are something you will see as soon as you arrive in Valley Windworks. They will appear yellow in color and can be interacted with. If you interact with it, a text prompt will appear about brush it with honey.
What you will need is honey, an item that can be obtained cheaply in the game. You put it on the tree, turning it into bait for certain Pokémon to enter. It's like fishing, but it takes six hours for a Pokémon to take this bait. It is the best is to put honey on several trees in the Sinnoh region.
Beside monitor the condition of your trees, open your map. You will see a few options at the bottom of this screen. Click the plus (+) button to open the Location Info menu. There you can check where the berry plots are, as well as the honey trees. You can locate vacant honey trees as well as those that currently attract Pokémon and those that have a coiled Pokémon.
The Honey Tree Pokémon Appears in Sparkling Diamond and Sparkling Pearl
Here are all the known Pokémon you can encounter using this method:
- Wurmple
- Silcoon (Shining Diamond)
- Cascoon (Shiny Pearls)
- Combee
- Burma
- Cheribu
- aipom
- Heracross
- Munchlax (rare)
Honey tree locations
If you want to increase your chances of catching the aforementioned Pokemon, you might want to increase the number of trees you want to coat with honey. Here are all the honey tree locations in the Sinnoh region:
- Route 205
- Route 206
- Route 207
- Route 208
- Route 209
- Route 210
- Route 211
- Route 212
- Route 213
- Route 214
- Route 215
- Route 218
- Route 221
- Route 222
- Valley Wind Turbines
- Fire Ironwork
- Eterna Forest
- Prairie Floaroma
How to get more honey
There are a man at Floaroma Meadow who sells jars of honey for 100 Pokemon dollars. It will also sell a 10 for 1000 lot. It's cheap, so why not buy it in bulk? You only need one pot per tree, which gives more than enough.
Pokemon Shiny Diamond and Shiny Pearl are now available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
