Cookbook

Cookbook

Task-sized recipes: one goal, one registry or hook, one code block, one checkpoint. The fast path for people who already know the tutorial ladder and just need one thing. Each recipe links the concept page that explains its mechanism.

#	Recipe	Primary API	Page
R01	Recolor a battle sprite	asset transform	Tweaks
R02	Rewrite one dialogue line	text:override	Tweaks
R03	Buff a move's power	moves:patch	Tweaks
R04	Rebalance a species' stats	pokemon:patch(baseStats)	Tweaks
R05	Change a wild encounter table	encounters:patch	Tweaks
R18	Change a trainer's party	trainers:patch(parties)	Tweaks
R08	Add a Mart item	items:register + text_pointers	Items and Balls
R09	Define an item use effect	item_effects:register	Items and Balls
R10	Add a new Poke Ball	balls:register	Items and Balls
R11	Add a new move (existing effect)	moves:register	Species and Moves
R12	Add a custom move effect	move_effects:register	Species and Moves
R13	Add a new species	pokemon:register	Species and Moves
R14	Give a species a party icon	icons:register	Species and Moves
R15	Give a species a cry	cries:register	Species and Moves
R16	Add a growth curve	growth_rates:register	Species and Moves
R17	Add an evolution method	evolution_methods:register	Species and Moves
R06	Retarget a map's music	map_songs:override	Audio
R07	Replace one SFX with a file	sfx:override({file=})	Audio
R26	Author a chiptune (ChipAsm)	ChipAsm + music:register	Audio
R20	Add a script command	mod.commands:register	World and Scripting
R21	Add a text token	tokens:register	World and Scripting
R22	Add a talk script to an NPC	map_scripts:register(talk)	World and Scripting
R23	Spawn a new NPC on a map	mod.world:spawnNpc	World and Scripting
R24	Add an onStep trigger	map_scripts compose	World and Scripting
R25	Add a new map + connection	maps:register	World and Scripting
R19	Add a custom AI brain	trainers:patch(brain)	Battle and Mechanics
R27	React to a battle event	events:on("battle.move_used")	Battle and Mechanics
R28	Wrap the damage hook	hooks:wrap("battle.damage")	Battle and Mechanics
R29	Add a status condition	statuses:register	Battle and Mechanics
R30	Add a type + chart row	type_chart:register	Battle and Mechanics
R31	Add a Start-menu entry	hooks:wrap("ui.start_menu.items")	UI and Infrastructure
R32	Register a custom screen	screens:register + push_screen	UI and Infrastructure
R33	Persist mod state	mod.save:get/set	UI and Infrastructure
R34	Define a mod option	mod.options:define	UI and Infrastructure
R35	Export an inter-mod API	mod.exports + mod.find	UI and Infrastructure
R36	Scale a battle sprite	battle_sprite_scales:register / pokemon:patch	Battle and Mechanics
R37	Reshape Oak's intro speech	hooks:wrap("intro.oak_speech.build")	UI and Infrastructure
R38	Gen-2-like ruleset toggles	rulesets + hyperBeamSkipRechargeOnKO	Battle and Mechanics
R39	Shiny indicator overlay	battle.overlay + Stats.isShiny	Battle and Mechanics
R49	Pick Pokémon sprites on the fly	pokemon.sprite / pokemon.icon	Battle and Mechanics
R50	Swap the player's trainer art	field.playerPics / player.sprite	Battle and Mechanics
R40	Running shoes	movement.speed	World and Scripting
R41	Day / night palette	world.tod + map.palette	World and Scripting
R42	Slower / faster warp fades	transitions:patch("warp_fade")	World and Scripting
R43	CD-quality map soundtrack	music:override({file=})	Audio
R44	Distance / indoor music volume	music.volume	Audio
R45	Bag wrap / page-jump / hold-scroll	ui.list_menu	UI and Infrastructure
R46	Digits on the naming screen	ui.naming.grid	UI and Infrastructure
R47	Wider survey zoom	zoom.range	UI and Infrastructure
R48	Super Game Boy border	render.letterbox	UI and Infrastructure

No recipe reaches the total-conversion tier — that is a guided rung (Tutorial 12), not a copy-paste snippet, because it coordinates every subsystem at once.