Soft Sand

A Soft Sand is a held item that increases the power of the holder's Ground-type moves by 20%. It can be obtained as a tier 2 special drop. It can also be obtained as a drop or held item from certain wild Pokémon, via forage, or from Max Raid Battles.

Obtaining

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Soft Sand	Desert Pyramid	Chest	1	4.3%
	Village	Mason's chest	1	5.9%
	Rare PokéStop		1	2.8%

Pokémon drops

Main article: Drops

Pokémon	Chance	Quantity
Sandslash	10%	1
Dugtrio	10%	1
Alolan Dugtrio	10%	1
Hippowdon	10%	1
Golurk	10%	1
Palossand	10%	1
Sandaconda	10%	1

Raid Drops

Soft Sand has a chance to be dropped from pokemon of the types specified below in Max Raid Battles.

Pokémon Type
Ground

Held item

Pokémon	Chance
Trapinch	5%
Stunfisk	5%
Nincada	5%
Dugtrio	5%
Diglett	5%

Forage

Main article: Forage

Item	Biome	Environment	Rarity
Soft Sand	Arid Mesas Ultra Desert	Any	25

Trivia

Before Reforged, this item had the following recipe. It was removed due to many held items being far too easy to make.

Item	Crafting recipe
Soft Sand