Editing Explorer's Friend Series

{{Infobox treasure series
|series_name=Explorer's Friend Series
|image=Explorer's Friend Series.jpg
|theme=[[Exploration Kit]]
|numbers=184 - 196
|treasures=13
|locations=[[Emergence Cave]], [[Subterranean Complex]], [[Frontier Cavern]],  [[Awakening Wood]], [[Hole of Beasts]], [[White Flower Garden]], [[Bulblax Kingdom]], [[Snagret Hole]], [[Citadel of Spiders]], [[Glutton's Kitchen]], [[Shower Room]], [[Submerged Castle]]
}}
The '''Explorer's Friend Series''' ({{j|探検家の友シリーズ|Tanken-ka no Tomo Shirīzu|Explorer's Friend Series}}) is the twenty-fourth (twenty-third in the European and Japanese [[Region|version]]s) [[series]] of the [[Treasure Hoard]] in {{p2}}, consisting of all the treasures that give [[gear|upgrades]] when collected. Most of these treasures in the series are collected by defeating [[boss]]es, and so, have a [[Treasure#Dynamic weights|dynamic weight]].

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==List==
<gallery>
Spherical Atlas P2S icon.png|link=Spherical Atlas|[[Spherical Atlas]]
Geographic Projection P2S icon.png|link=Geographic Projection|[[Geographic Projection]]
Prototype Detector P2S icon.png|link=Prototype Detector|[[Prototype Detector]]
Five-man Napsack P2S icon.png|link=Five-man Napsack|[[Five-man Napsack]]
Brute Knuckles P2S icon.png|link=Brute Knuckles|[[Brute Knuckles]]
Repugnant Appendage P2S icon.png|link=Repugnant Appendage|[[Repugnant Appendage]]
Stellar Orb P2S icon.png|link=Stellar Orb|[[Stellar Orb]]
Forged Courage P2S icon.png|link=Forged Courage|[[Forged Courage]]
Dream Material P2S icon.png|link=Dream Material|[[Dream Material]]
Justice Alloy P2S icon.png|link=Justice Alloy|[[Justice Alloy]]
Amplified Amplifier P2S icon.png|link=Amplified Amplifier|[[Amplified Amplifier]]
Professional Noisemaker P2S icon.png|link=Professional Noisemaker|[[Professional Noisemaker]]
The Key P2S icon.png|link=The Key|[[The Key]]
</gallery>

==Exploration Kit==
[[File:Exploration Kit menu.jpg|thumb|The Exploration Kit on the pause menu.]]
{{Main|Gear}}
Every time an item in this series is retrieved (except for [[The Key]]), an upgrade is given to the player. The collection of these upgrades is called '''Exploration Kit''' by the game.

The list of owned upgrades can be seen on the [[pause menu]], where uncollected upgrades are shown in gray-scale and are titled "Incomplete", and collected ones appear in color and with the upgrade's name.

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==Trivia==
*To make the game a bit more fair, each treasure in this series that is obtained by a boss will lower its weight to a minimum of one to the amount of Pikmin left in the sublevel after defeating the boss (sans the [[Spherical Atlas]], the [[Geographic Projection]], and [[The Key]], since the former two are obtained outside of a boss battle and the latter already having one weight).

==Names in other languages==

{{Foreignname
|Jap=探検家の友シリーズ
|JapR=Tanken-ka no Tomo Shirīzu
|JapM=Explorer's Friend Series
|Ger=Forscher-Serie
|GerM=Researcher Series
|FraE=Série des Amis
|FraEM=Friends' Series
|Spa=Serie El amigo del explorador
|SpaM=Explorer's friend Series
|Ita=Serie amici dell'esploratore
|ItaM=Explorer's friend series
|FraA=Série des amis
|FraAM=Friends' series}}

'''Exploration Kit'''

{{Foreignname
|Jap=探険キット / 探検キット
|JapR=Tanken Kitto
|JapM=Exploration Kit
|Ger=Forscher-Ausrüstung
|GerM=Researcher Gear
|FraE=Kit d'Exploration
|FraEM=Exploration Kit
|FraA=Kit d'exploration
|FraAM=Exploration kit
|SpaA=Kit de exploración
|SpaAM=Exploration kit
}}

==See also==
*[[Blast from the Past Series]]
*[[Titan Dweevil Series]]

{{Treasures}}