.beans/nuzlocke-tracker-u4gc--remove-artificial-starter-route-use-pokedb-starter.md

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# nuzlocke-tracker-u4gc
title: Remove artificial Starter route, use PokeDB starter locations
status: completed
type: task
priority: normal
created_at: 2026-02-13T08:02:43Z
updated_at: 2026-02-13T08:06:47Z
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Remove the artificial 'Starter' route from route_order.json, update special_encounters.json to use real location names, and handle gift→starter remapping in the import tool.
Remove artificial Starter route, use real PokeDB starter locations Replace the synthetic "Starter" route with actual in-game locations (e.g. Professor Oak's Laboratory, Iki Town, Littleroot Town). Starters now appear at their real locations with method "starter" by remapping PokeDB's "gift" method during import. Split ruby-sapphire and black-2-white-2 out of special_encounters aliases since their starter locations differ from the aliased version groups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> 2026-02-13 09:08:35 +01:00			`---`
			`# nuzlocke-tracker-u4gc`
			`title: Remove artificial Starter route, use PokeDB starter locations`
			`status: completed`
			`type: task`
			`priority: normal`
			`created_at: 2026-02-13T08:02:43Z`
			`updated_at: 2026-02-13T08:06:47Z`
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			`Remove the artificial 'Starter' route from route_order.json, update special_encounters.json to use real location names, and handle gift→starter remapping in the import tool.`