Exbel Woods

Exbel Woods is a dungeon and the third section of the starting tutorial before officially entering PMU. The player awakens in a wooded area, only to be greeted by a peppy Buneary.

The player is encouraged to follow it through a pre-mapped dungeon, leading the user through a tutorial. The actual dungeon and by extension, the tutorial can be skipped using the stairs on the bottom right. Using these stairs will take the player to the dungeon clearing to face the boss.

No Pokémon are recruitable in this dungeon, save for the boss, who automatically joins you on defeat.

Attributes
There are 3 floors to Exbel Woods, having three pre-mapped floors in maze like patterns.

Boss
Joey the Rattata is the boss of the dungeon, and is fairly easy to beat. After defeating him, he will request to join your team (and does even before so). Even if you deny him, he will join you anyways. Joey will always drop TM Hidden Power when defeated.

Boss drop:

Pokémon
''Pokémon in bold are recruitable. Please visit the Recruitable Pokémon page for more information.''


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Items
All items found on the ground here are extremely common, but useful for new users, allowing them to get some supplies before adventuring further into Exbel.


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Dungeon Objective
The objective is to go through the tutorial and learn about the first steps of playing Pokémon Mystery Universe and the basic mechanics it has. The player learns a variety of things that are taught in Exbel Woods:
 * How the Stairs work
 * How battling works
 * How to use Moves
 * How to pick up items
 * How recruitment works
 * Hunger
 * Wind
 * Bosses

Tips

 * You may skip straight to the boss using the stairs towards the bottom right of the entrance to the dungeon.

Trivia

 * Exbel Woods, like the Summoner's Platform, made an appearance in early 2012, as it was highly requested.
 * This dungeon is the only place where a recruitable Pokémon already has a nickname and the only place with a recruitable boss.
 * Joey is a reference to Youngster Joey from the main series games (mainly Gold, Silver, and Crystal) (Youngster Joey would always call the player to tell him about his Rattata and how it was top percentage).
 * Despite Joey being male, the recruited Joey can be female.
 * The same Buneary from Exbel Woods returned in the Easter 2015 event, and Boss Rush along with Joey.
 * Buneary is also listed as the champion of PMU in the Hall of Fame.