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.

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This project ships no ROM data. All game content is decoded on the player's machine from their own verified Pokemon Red ROM; mods ship recipes and original assets, never extracted content.