Editing Dandori Challenge

'''Dandori Challenges''' ({{j|ダンドリチャレンジ|Dandori Charenji|Dandori Challenge}}) are special [[cave]]s in ''[[Pikmin 4]]''. While accessed from the [[area]]s in [[Story Mode]], they function more like an alternative game mode, similar to the [[Challenge Mode (Pikmin 2)|Challenge Mode]] from {{p2}} and [[Mission Mode]] from {{p3}}. These challenges are directed by [[leafling]]s, and completing a Dandori Challenge allows the player to rescue that very same leafling [[castaway]]. Pikmin from outside the challenge cannot be taken inside, and the player will instead receive some Pikmin from the leafling directing the challenge. Once completed, a challenge cave is closed so that the leafling does not enter again, but the challenge can be replayed from the [[Rescue Command Post]] once [[Jin]] is saved.

Unlike [[Dandori Battle]]s, completing Dandori Challenges is not required to progress the game's main story.

 

As described by the challenge-giver, the treasures are fake, and anything collected is not kept after the challenge. The same applies to piles of [[raw material]], which can only be used to build structures within the challenge. Likewise, the Pikmin given to the player inside the challenge belong to that person and cannot be taken out. Throughout the challenge, the leafling in charge will stand in one spot in the sublevel and watch the player as they work. While they are reachable, they cannot be interacted with. If the challenge is passed, the leafling will be overwhelmed by the player's dandori skill, get dizzy from all the work, and faint shortly after awarding the player 30 pieces of raw material, allowing it to be rescued. If the player fails the challenge, the leafling will give them 10 pieces of material as a reward for participating the first 5 times, and 1 piece of material thereafter.

!Available [[Pikmin]]

|[[File:P4 Save File Dandori Day Care.png|100px]]

 

 

While Dandori Challenge caves are found in specific locations in [[area]]s, each of the 12 challenges is not assigned to a specific location – instead, the stages are encountered in a specific order, so that the first challenge the player enters will always be Dandori Day Care, the second will be Hotshock Canyon, etc. The stage assigned to a specific challenge cave is set when the cave is entered, so the player can walk up to and open multiple challenge caves and they will all be the same stage as long as one is not entered. Once a challenge cave is entered, that challenge will be set, even if the player exits the cave without completing the challenge. The [[Trial of the Sage Leaf]] does not follow these rules and is always found in a specific location in the [[Rescue Command Post]].

 

** After building the [[Raw material|climbing wall]] near the 3rd base, Misshapen Pond, the cave can be found in the raised area.

** A bridge near the 2nd base, Sunwashed Plateau, must be built to reach an area with a [[reinforced wall]] that must be destroyed with 3 [[bomb rocks]], and the cave is located on the other side.

** After clearing [[Engulfed Castle]], the player will emerge from a different entrance located in an elevated area of the level only accessible in this manner until a nearby [[paper bag]] is pushed. The entrance to the Dandori Challenge is in a nearby alcove.

** At the top of a stepladder which requires manipulating the nearby fans around the kitchen island to reach. Oatchi and the leader must split up to press the buttons accordingly, though no Pikmin are required.

 

If the player fails to earn a bronze medal on a challenge, [[Dingo]] will offer to complete the challenge for them if he has already been talked to beforehand. If the player selects "Get Help" from the following menu, he will proceed to do so (shown with a blank screen, text boxes, and random sound effects), and the victory cutscene will play like normal as if the player had completed it themselves.

When replaying a stage through the [[Rescue Command Post]], the player can choose to work overtime to complete the challenge past the time limit if they failed to earn a platinum medal by collecting everything. The cost of doing so is that these results do not get reflected in the game's records. This is similar to the [[Mission Mode#After hours|after hours]] feature in {{p3d}}.

 

 

|Jap = ダンドリチャレンジ

|JapR = Dandori Charenji

|JapM = Dandori Challenge

|ChiTrad = 當多慮挑戰

|ChiTradR =  

|ChiTradM =  

|ChiSimp = 当多虑挑战

|ChiSimpR =  

|ChiSimpM =  

|Dut = Dandori-test

|DutM =  

|FraA = Défi Dandori

|FraAM = Dandori challenge

|Ger = Dandori-Herausforderung

|GerM = Dandori challenge

|Ita = Sfida Dandori

|ItaM = Dandori Challenge

|ItaN =  

|Kor = 계획력 챌린지

|KorR =  

|KorM =  

|Por = Desafio Dandori

|PorM = Dandori challenge

|Spa  = Desafío Dandori

|SpaM = Dandori challenge