Where to Find the Stone Shop in Pokemon Brick Bronze
The Stone Shop in Pokemon Brick Bronze is located in Lumiose City. Once you reach that point in the story, head to the eastern side of the city and look for the shop on the second floor of the building right next to the Pokémon Center. You won't be able to access it until you've defeated the second Gym Leader and received the key item that unlocks Lumiose City's upper area. Most players miss this because they try to enter before getting the key, walk past the building assuming it's closed, or just don't notice the second-floor entrance because it's easy to overlook in the middle of a crowded map. Here's how the shop actually works in practice. You walk in, talk to the clerk, and you can buy Evolution Stones and certain held items. The shop stock changes depending on which badges you've collected, so if you come back early and the inventory looks thin, that's expected. The real question people have is which stones are worth buying and which ones you can just farm elsewhere. I spent about an hour last week trying to help someone track down the Leaf Stone because they needed it for Eevee. They had already left Lumiose City and were stuck because they didn't realize you can go back and revisit any shop at any time. The Stone Shop stays open for the rest of the game once you've found it. No special conditions, no NPC that leaves, nothing like that. It's just there forever after the first visit.
One thing that trips people up: the shop is on the second floor, not the ground floor. The building has two floors, and if you only check the bottom entrance, you'll walk out thinking the shop doesn't exist. There's a stairway near the front door, slightly to the left once you enter. Use it. Talk to the woman behind the counter on the upstairs level. The items you'll actually care about:
- Fire Stone — sells for 3,000 Pokédollars
- Water Stone — same price
- Thunder Stone — same price
- Leaf Stone — same price
- Sun Stone — slightly more expensive at 4,500
- Moon Stone — same as Sun Stone
- Dusk Stone — also 4,500
- Moon Feather — around 2,000
If you're trying to save money, a lot of the stones you need can be found in the wild through the Pickpocket ability or by exploring tall grass in later routes. But buying them from the shop is faster if you're just trying to evolve something quickly and you don't want to backtrack through three different areas hunting for one specific stone drop. At 3,000 each, it's not a huge drain on your funds once you're earning money from battling. The one edge case worth mentioning: if you use the Pickpocket ability on the shop clerk, you won't get an Evolution Stone. She's not a wild encounter and Pickpocket doesn't work on NPCs inside buildings. I learned that the hard way during a playthrough where I was convinced I could get the Moon Stone for free. I spent ten minutes repositioning around the shop before just walking over and buying it. Save yourself the time. Just buy it. Another thing nobody seems to mention in walkthroughs — the shop in Lumiose City is actually the only Stone Shop in the entire game. Later cities have Mart updates and new stores, but no other Evolution Stone vendor appears. If you clear out all your stock here, you're done. You won't find another one. That's worth knowing before you dump all your money on things you don't need yet.
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If you get lost trying to find the building, just follow the main path east from the Gym in Lumiose City. The map is fairly linear once you unlock that area, and the Pokémon Center is your best landmark. The shop is directly adjacent to it. Walk past the Center, keep going east, and you'll see the two-story building with a different color roof than the rest. The entrance is unmarked, which is kind of annoying, but it's unmistakable once you're standing in front of it. For anyone who's confused about whether they've unlocked the right area, check your badge count. You need at least the first two badges from the Lumiose region to enter Lumiose City itself. After that, progress through the gym there and talk to the person who gives you the item that opens the upper district. Once that trigger fires, you can walk up the stairs and find the shop. I've seen a few players try to use glitches or exploits to reach the second floor before unlocking the key item. It's possible with certain sequence break tricks, but it's not reliable and can soft-lock your save file if you trigger the wrong map flag. Don't bother. Just play through the normal progression. It takes maybe twenty minutes and you won't risk losing hours of save data.
When you leave the Stone Shop, make sure you note which stones you bought. The game doesn't auto-save when you exit a store, and if you crash or reset without saving, you'll lose both your money and whatever stones you purchased. This happened to me on my third playthrough. I came back from the shop, fought a trainer outside, and the console crashed mid-battle. Had to reload and buy them again. Annoying, but a single save before heading into town would have prevented it. The shop restocks every time you defeat a new Gym Leader, which is why it's worth checking back periodically. Sometimes new items appear that weren't available the first time you walked in. Nothing gets removed from stock, but new entries can show up, so if you return later and see something you missed, that's why.
