Pokémon Sleep celebrates the New Year with another week long in-game event, starting Monday January 1st - Version 1.0.16 update now live

Pokémon Sleep might be designed to help people get better sleep, but players certainly aren't going to be getting any rest from events in the near future. Hot on the heals of the Holiday 2023 — Double Dream Shard Research event that's currently running in-game, a New Year 2024 event will begin starting Monday January 1st, giving increased Sleep EXP to player's Pokémon, as well as bonus sleep points. Pokémon Sleep has also received an update this week to Version 1.0.16, which applies unspecified minor bugfixes to the game.

New Years 2024 event
This new week long event will start on Monday January 1st at 4:00am local time, and run through to Monday January 8th at 3:59am local time. The event will allow players to participate and gain bonuses regardless of where they conduct their sleep research. During this event period, the following bonuses will be active for sleep research:

• Researcher's Pokémon will receive 1.5x Sleep EXP from Sleep Research
• Researchers will receive 200 bonus Sleep Points per day, except for the first and last day of the event, where the bonus is increased to 512 Sleep Points
• Researchers can encounter many Pokémon of different sleep types, regardless of their own sleep type for the day.

Additionally, the following Pokémon will also appear more frequently during sleep research throughout the event:

• Greater Encounter Chance (area specific)
  • Greengrass Isle: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu
  • Cyan Beach: Squirtle, Pikachu
  • Taupe Hollow: Charmander
  • Snowdrop Tundra: Snover, Abomasnow

New Year 2024 Bundles
Ahead of the start of the New Year's 2024 event, a selection of special New Year 2024 Bundles will be made available from the in-game store. As with the current Holiday 2023 Bundles, these bundles are expected to remain available until the day after the end of the event, on January 8th at 1:59pm. Each player may purchase only one each of the three available bundles.

The New Year 2024 Bundle S can be purchased for 1,200 diamonds. These bundles will include:

• Poké Biscuit ×10
• Growth Incense ×7
• Handy Candy S ×7

The New Year 2024 Bundle M can be purchased for 3,000 diamonds. These bundles will include:

• Great Biscuit ×18
• Poké Biscuit ×10
• Sub Skill Seed ×1
• Handy Candy M ×3

The New Year 2024 Bundle L can be purchased for 5,000 diamonds. These bundles will include:

• Great Biscuit ×30
• Main Skill Seed ×1
• Sub Skill Seed ×1
• Handy Candy L ×1
• Bulbasaur Incense ×2
• Charmander Incense ×2
• Squirtle Incense ×2

Players should also note the following for this event:

• The daily rollover for the New Years 2024 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.

Version 1.0.16 Update
Pokémon Sleep has received an update to Version 1.0.16. The patch notes for this update were uncharacteristically thin, only stating that it includes Bug Fixes, and not specifying any specific issues that were resolved.

We here at Bulbagarden hope that the curtness of these patch notes are simply a consequence of this update dropping so close to Christmas, as opposed to the game developers suddenly deciding to be inspired by the patch notes of Nintendo Switch firmware updates.