Holiday Cave

Holiday Cave, very commonly known as HC, is a type of limited event dungeon that opens to commemorate an occasion — mainly holidays, given its name.

Modern Holiday Caves last two weeks, reset your level and prevent items from being taken in. Many of them have an associated currency which can be used to buy items until the next Holiday Cave. New Pokémon are often first obtainable in Holiday Caves.

Holiday Caves were "discontinued" in 2014. Staff announced that there would be a final HC and no more afterwards, as they wanted to refocus their time into making more permanent dungeons, and the time spent to make an HC event was deemed too long for the short amount of time that they would exist. Holiday Caves would still be continue to be made in the future despite this.

Past Holiday Caves
Listed below is a recorded history of past Holiday Caves.

Tunnel of Love
March 1st - March 21st Tunnel of Love was the dungeon in Doki Town, the Valentines Holiday Cave in 2018. Its currency was the. It introduced the, letting players obtain Jangmo'o.

Floors: 50 Boss: Shaymin

Easter
A Holiday Cave centered around hatching eggs.

Starting from 2019, it generally has the following attributes:

60 floors with no boss. Pokémon obtainable from the eggs change every 10 floors.

It has midpoints after Floors 20 and 40 that allow the player to heal. They also hatch eggs three times faster. These midpoints also contained a shop. In 2019 it was was a Buneary named Easter Bunny Merchant, who had no items to sell as its purpose for selling unwanted items. Later on, the merchant was changed to Croagunk who did sell items.

On floors 25, 35, 45 and 55 the player enters a room full of Kecleon who accuse the player of being an thief and attack. Upon defeating them, Green Kecleon drops 1 currency. Purple Kecleon (for 2019, exclusive to Floor 25) drops 25 currency or a rare.

End room contains some of the currency, 4 s, and an egg containing base evolution of the Pokémon that entered the room. If the player enters the room in a party, the number of players in the party are the total egg spawn. The Partner egg at the end could have a chance at being a dud and not hatching a partner Pokémon.

The dungeon also has a Secret Room with Easter Treats. If the player found Honey, they could summon Shaymin and have a chance at getting its Heart Slate.

The currency for Eastern Highlands was during 2019 and has been  since 2020.

2011
April 22nd - May 8th

To get event Pokémon from it, you had to hatch an egg that was found in the dungeon. You were able to trade your eggs for Rare Berries. To trade them, go to the entrance of HC and talk to Togekiss. She will ask if you want to trade your eggs for items. The berries were held in Nifty Boxes. This Holiday Cave dungeon was made mostly by Kirk. To hatch eggs, players had to run around in a safe zone. So for most of the event people, ran around in circles in town. While this event was going on, Quick Seeds were banned from the town. Sprinko announced that he would make a 99-floor dungeon if 99 people were on. (closest was 94)

Floors: 41

2012
April 12th - April 15th

This dungeon had no recruitable Pokémon. However, this event had eggs in it. The higher floors (41F+) enabled you to randomly get you or your partner's base evolution through an egg. In a way, this dungeon had the most Pokémon available because of that factor.

Floors: 50

Only event items are listed, but there are several other items (Poké, Apples, Berries, and other common items). This is the same for Pokémon in these events.

2019
April 24th - May 8th

This iteration of Eastern Highlands introduced Pikipek, its evolutions, Rockruff, and the.

Eccentric Ascent
September 1st - September 29th

Eccentric Ascent was the Holiday Cave dungeon for PMU's anniversary in 2019, located in Anniversary Hills once more. This is the Holiday Cave that first introduced shinies, the and the  mechanic. Its currency was the.

Shiny Pokémon were not revealed until later in the event, where players would get a free shiny Bidoof and the Sparkle Token would be revealed as a new item added to its shop.

2011
July 5th - July 19th

This event was made to celebrate Summer time! There were 49 floors and the last being a floor of Deluxe Boxes. Inside the boxes, the items below were what could be contained inside. For this event, your level was reduced to level 25 and you couldn't level up. Also, you weren't allowed to bring items and you could only bring half of your team (or only two Pokémon along).

Floors: 50

Resort Island
August 13th - September 21st (2018), August 22nd - September 5th (2021), August 17th - September 1st (2022)

Each dungeon has bosses at the end that drop a pendant. These pendants together made a, giving access to a room that gave something special which changed each run of the Holiday Cave:
 * 2020 - Shiny Eevee named Gelato
 * 2021 - Generation 8 starter egg
 * 2022 - Generation 8 Fossil

Floral Jungle Tidewater Beach Kindle Mountain
 * Boss: Vileplume, Lilligant, Sunflora
 * Boss: Alomomola, Wailord, Octillery
 * Boss: Arcanine, Camerupt, Magcargo

2011
October 26th - November 13th

Released to celebrate the upcoming Halloween for everyone. As for all Holiday Caves, it was a set level dungeon with no items. The amount of Pokémon you could bring was unrestricted. After Phantom Forest, there was a break that you could see everyone on a map called "Pokehallow Square". It included a Cubone that healed your Pokémon and a choice of which dungeon you wanted.

There was a fourth dungeon that was added called Hallowed Well. It was a 99-floor dungeon with no Pokémon that were able to be recruited, but rare items were in it. The prize of the dungeon was a Max Revive. During the floors 60-85, the darkness was pitch black, meaning that Pokémon and items were unable to be seen. Also, during that time, Darkrai was released in town as an illusion for a couple of days.

Phantom Forest Abandoned Basement Abandoned Mansion Abandoned Attic
 * Floors: 7
 * Floors: 35
 * Boss: Rotom
 * Floors: 35
 * Floors: 15
 * Boss: Chandelure, three Lampent, six Litwick

Oblivion Forest
October 31st - November 16th (2017), October 28th - November 15th (2018)

2017 run forum post

There were two dungeons. The main dungeon was Oblivion Forest which had a second part named Deep Oblivion Forest. The second dungeon was the Storage Unit.

The end room in Oblivion Forest contained es. An item could be gotten from the boss of Storage Unit to access a map with a guaranteed recruit Mimikyu. Its currency was. It also included the 99-floor dungeon Hallowed Well from previous Halloween Holiday Caves which had a at the end of it.

Oblivion Forest
 * Floors: 66 (33 twice)
 * Boss: Yveltal (Yvette)
 * Pokémon:
 * Pumpkaboo
 * Espurr

Storage Unit
 * Floors: 30
 * Boss: ?

Everdread Hollow
December 5th - December 19th

Everdread Hollow was a Halloween Holiday Cave in 2020. It had two dungeons: Gravewhisper Woods and Abandoned Arcade. The ending of these dungeons gave the Rusty Key Fragment and Rusty Key Piece which formed a, letting the player recruit a Dreepy.

The currency was. There was a vending machine that would give the player a plushie for 5 tickets.

Abandoned Arcade had a Secret Room which the player could spawn a Hoopa in Unbound form and get a.

Abandoned Arcade
 * Floors: 60
 * Boss: Hoopa

Gravewhisper Woods
 * Floors: 35

2010
November 21st - November 30th

This event was made to commemorate Thanksgiving, due to the lack of a Halloween event that year.

Floors: 15

2010
December 24th - January 7th

Floors: 51

2011
December 28th - Janurary 11th

This dungeon had three parts to it. The first part had easy Pokémon while the second part had harder Pokémon. The third part had the hardest Pokémon in it. During the third part of the dungeon, when you got to floors 45+, there was a chance of fighting Vanilluxe that had a 100% chance of dropping a Castelia Cone. When you met the Vanilluxe, his catchphrase was "I scream! You scream! We all scream for Ice Cream!"

Floors: 50

Mt. Winter
December 25th - Janurary 8th (2020), Janurary 16th - Janurary 30th (2023)

Mt. Winter is a Holiday Cave run during Winter. It contains the dungeons Icicle Cave and Mt. Winter itself. The currency was.

Trivia

 * Seedot erroneously had a Nidoran portrait in 2010's Thanksgiving Holiday Cave.
 * During Easter 2012, mission escorts could be brought into the dungeon. That caused the mission board to be disabled for most of the dungeon.
 * The Togekiss NPC from the 2011 Easter Holiday Cave became a permanent addition at some point.