Sleep Style Discovery Week event, commences in Pokémon next Monday September 23rd — Old Gold Power Plant area to be added October 2nd

2024 continues to bring regular in-game events to Pokémon Sleep. With the two week long Suicune Research event only just behind us, fans can now look forward to the new Sleep Style Discovery Week event, commencing next Monday, September 23rd at 4:00am local time, running through until Monday September 30th at 3:59am local time. Less than a week after that, Pokémon Sleep's snoozy studies will expand to the first new area since January, with the addition of Old Gold Power Plant.

Sleep Style Discovery Week
The Sleep Style Discovery Week event is designed to help Researchers fill out their Sleep Style Dex, giving them the extra boost needed to unlock new areas such as the upcoming Old Gold Power Plant. This event will allow Researchers to participate and gain bonuses regardless of where they conduct their sleep research, with the following bonuses active throughout the event period:

• Researchers are more likely to encounter Pokémon in sleep styles that they haven’t discovered yet.
• Researchers can encounter a few Pokémon of different sleep types regardless of their own sleep type for the day.
• Strength gains from dishes will be multiplied by ×1.25.
• Players should also note the following for this event:

Players should also note the following for this event:

• The daily rollover for the Sleep Style Discovery Week event is at 4:00am local time.
• Event bonuses for this event apply regardless of which site players conduct their sleep research in.
• Event bonuses apply only for sleep tracking that begins within the event period, and do not apply to sleep tracking during the tutorial, or to sleep data tracked before the event, even if the researcher waits to review their sleep research after the event has started.
• Sleep data tracked during the event will receive event bonuses, regardless of if the researcher waits to review their sleep research until after the event has concluded.

Old Gold Power Plant
Old Gold Power Plant will be added to the game from Wednesday October 2nd, at 3:00pm local time. This is the first new area to be added to the game since Lapis Lakeside in late January.

As of writing, few details have been formally released about this new zone apart from the fact that Researchers will need to have registered 340 total sleep styles to unlock it. While this is a full 100 types more than Lapis Lakeside required, it's likely most long term players will have no issues unlocking the zone on Day 1, though more recent players may be waiting a long time to get access.

At this point, it's not clear what Team RP target the zone will have, and we can only make supposition based on the area name for what are likely to be the preferred Berry types. Grepa and Belue Berries, found by Electric and Steel types respectively, seem a obvious bet, which would allow players who captured Raikou earlier this year to get some real use out of it. If we had to guess, Chesto Berries, found by Poison types, seem the best match to a more industrial style location. We would presume Pokémon of all three types would also be commonly found in this area.