# Bubbly Basin DLC guide details unlock steps for Pokémon Pokopia

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/guide-how-to-start-the-bubbly-basin-dlc-in-pokemon-pokopia/
- Published: 2026-08-05T11:32:22+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-05T17:47:13+00:00
- Original publisher: Nintendo Life
- Original article: https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/pokemon-pokopia-how-to-start-bubbly-basin-dlc-requirements
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Software, Technology

## Key points

- Bubbly Basin DLC for Pokémon Pokopia now unlockable via new guide
- Requires Expansion Pass, the move Dive, and environment level 5
- Both Dive and the DLC arrived together on 5th August 2026

## Summary

Nintendo Life has published a guide detailing how to unlock Bubbly Basin, the first major downloadable content update for Pokémon Pokopia. The DLC, available to owners of the Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass, adds an explorable underwater town along with new Water-type Pokémon to befriend, but players must satisfy several conditions before they can enter it.

To access Bubbly Basin, players need the Expansion Pass, must learn the move Dive, and must complete Bleak Beach's "Raise the environment level!" request by reaching level 5. Dive is taught by the Pokémon Manaphy on a northern island, reachable after speaking to Professor Tangrowth outside the Bleak Beach Pokémon Centre; players then return to meet and befriend a new Pokémon, Popplio, before diving underwater to a gate to the west that leads into the new area. Dive was introduced via a free 2.0.0 update released on 5th August 2026, the same day Bubbly Basin itself launched, with Nintendo Life estimating the whole unlock process takes around five minutes.

## Coverage

- [Nintendo Life: Bubbly Basin DLC guide details unlock steps for Pokémon Pokopia](https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/pokemon-pokopia-how-to-start-bubbly-basin-dlc-requirements)
- [GameSpot: How To Start The Pokemon Pokopia Bubbly Basin DLC And Learn Dive](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-to-start-the-pokemon-pokopia-bubbly-basin-dlc-and-learn-dive/)
- [Destructoid: How to get to Bubbly Basin in Pokopia](https://www.destructoid.com/how-to-get-to-bubbly-basin-in-pokopia/)

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