How to Raise Mood and Increase Humidity in Pokémon Pokopia (Withered Wasteland: “Yawn Up a Storm”)

If you’re stuck in Pokémon Pokopia at the Withered Wasteland quest “Yawn Up a Storm”, the game is usually waiting on two intertwined progress gates: raising the area’s mood and increasing humidity. The fastest way forward is to treat them as a loop—actions that improve one often unlock options that improve the other.

What “Mood” and “Humidity” actually control

Mood is the zone’s “readiness” meter. Low mood tends to limit interactions, slow down outcomes, or block certain objective steps.
Humidity is an environmental threshold. You generally need to push humidity high enough to change the wasteland’s state (e.g., reduce dryness effects, enable rescues, trigger a story beat).

When the quest text feels vague, it’s because you’re meant to do support actions (comfort/cleanup/assistance loops) to raise mood and then perform humidity-boosting actions once the game recognizes the area is improving.

Step-by-step: Raise mood efficiently

Complete nearby micro-tasks first. In this quest line, small interactions—helping residents/mon, resolving minor obstacles, and finishing short requests—are often the biggest mood boosters per minute.
Repeat the highest-impact “positive outcome” actions. If an activity consistently yields a visible mood bump (even a small one), repeat it a few times before trying new routes.
Prioritize actions that restore or tidy the environment. In wasteland-style zones, the game frequently rewards cleanup/repair-type actions with mood increases because they represent progress toward recovery.
Check for newly unlocked interactions after each bump. A common stall point is raising mood once, then missing that the NPC/mon you need now has a new dialogue option or task chain.

If mood won’t increase (common stall fixes)

Rotate tasks. Some games soft-cap repeated actions; swap between two or three different helpful activities to keep progress going.
Move within the zone. The quest may track mood by sub-area. Walk to adjacent pockets of the Withered Wasteland and clear tasks there.
Re-check quest objectives. “Raise the mood” sometimes means “raise mood to the next tier,” which may require completing a specific named interaction, not just generic tasks.

Step-by-step: Increase humidity in Withered Wasteland

Once mood is up, humidity progression tends to become more straightforward because the game offers more ways to influence the environment.

Trigger humidity-focused interactions as soon as they appear. Look for options that clearly reference moisture, water flow, mist, clouds, irrigation, or restoring a natural system.
Chain the environment changes. After your first humidity increase, revisit earlier blockers—what was “too dry” or “inactive” often becomes interactable.
Revisit key quest locations. The humidity meter may be tied to one or two key set pieces (a central area, a landmark, a rescue spot). Don’t assume a global increase automatically completes the objective—sometimes you must “apply” the improvement at the focal point.
Do a final sweep for a trigger. Many players reach the correct humidity but forget to activate a cutscene/dialogue that confirms completion.

How this connects to rescuing Onix

In “Yawn Up a Storm,” rescuing Onix is typically positioned as a payoff objective: you raise mood to stabilize the area, increase humidity to change the environment, and then the Onix rescue becomes feasible (or the final steps become available). If you can’t initiate the rescue, assume one of these is true:

You haven’t hit the required humidity threshold yet.
You raised mood, but not high enough to unlock the final interaction.
You need to return to the exact rescue site after the environmental change to trigger the next step.

Fast checklist (when you just want the fix)

Do nearby requests and helpful interactions until the game clearly acknowledges a mood tier increase.
After each mood bump, re-check key NPC/mon dialogue for new options.
Prioritize newly unlocked moisture/environment actions to raise humidity.
Return to the Onix location and interact again to trigger the rescue step.