Editing Primordial Thicket

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{{infobox area
|screenshot   = P4 Primordial Thicket Introduction 3.jpg
|map          = Primordial Thicket map.png
|rescues      = 8
|treasures    = 89
|onions       = 3
|caves        = 3
|dandori_c    = 3
|dandori_b    = 1
|suggested    = {{icon|Ice Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Winged Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|White Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|wild         = {{icon|Red Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Yellow Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Blue Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Ice Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Winged Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Purple Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|White Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|requirements = {{sparklium|p4|13,000}} and rescue Yorke and Don Bergman
|music        = [[Music in Pikmin 4#Primordial Thicket|''Primordial Thicket'']]
}}

The '''Primordial Thicket''' ({{j|追憶の原生林|Tsuioku no Genseirin|Primeval Forest of Recollection}}) is the sixth and final [[area]] in ''[[Pikmin 4]]''. It is set in a large and muddy autumnal forest. It contains 15 surface treasures, 74 cave treasures, 8 rescues (5 castaways and 3 leaflings), and 3 [[Onion]]s. There are 7 caves in total, with one being a [[Dandori Battle]] cave and three being [[Dandori Challenge]] caves. This area has {{sparklium|p4|7,750}} worth of treasure, of which {{sparklium|p4|2,580}} is above ground.

==Plot==
After the [[Rescue Corps]] reunites [[Yorke]] and [[Don Bergman]], Don Bergman remembers seeing a dog-like creature drag their partner [[Nelle]] deeper into a forest. Yorke upgrades the [[S.S. Shepherd]] so that it can scan this area.

Right as the [[rookie Rescue Officer]] and [[Oatchi]] set foot in the Primordial Thicket, they see [[Louie]] and [[Moss]] holding an unconscious Nelle. They follow Louie into a cave where he tries to turn Nelle into a [[leafling]], as he had attempted with Yorke. The process fails again and Louie challenges them to a [[Dandori Battle]]. Upon defeat, Louie runs away, abandoning Nelle as well as Moss. The morning after Nelle is rescued, she informs the crew that to cure [[Oatchi]]'s tail, they will need cells from a non-leafling dog.

An entry in Louie's voyage log reveals that he found a large dog called the [[Ancient Sirehound]], whose den is in the [[Cavern for a King]]. When the Rescue Corps duo confonts Louie at the bottom of the cave, he climbs on top the dog which proceeds to attack. Defeating the Ancient Sirehound yields Louie and the dog's [[Gift of Friendship|collar]]. [[Yonny]] extracts some of the Ancient Sirehound's cells from the collar and makes a cure that reverts Oatchi to normal, allowing everyone to leave PNF-404 safely.

== Layout ==
{{game help|p4|Describe the layout of the area and its key sections.}}
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The following notable features can be found in this area.
* As part of the playable terrain:
** Several clumps of [[sticky mold]]
** [[Mud]] both shallow and deep 
** Dirt and grass 
** Several ledges and cliffs in portions of rock-like textures

=== Bases ===
* The Sylvan Gate: the default landing site
* The Autumnal Gully: guarded by a [[Baldy Long Legs]] and three [[sticky mold]]s
* The Maple Bridge: guarded by a large egg containing 5 [[raw material]]s and an egg containing [[Mitites]]

== Caves ==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Image
!Name
!Sublevels
![[Castaway]]s
![[Treasure]]s
![[Onion]]s
!Suggested [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]]
![[Wild Pikmin]]
|-
|[[File:P4 Voyage Log Louie 19.png|100px]]
|[[Cavern for a King]]
|20
|1
|48
|0
|{{icon|Blue Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Purple Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|White Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|{{icon|Red Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Yellow Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Blue Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Ice Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Purple Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|White Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|-
|[[File:P4 Voyage Log Louie 15.png|100px]]
|[[The Mud Pit]]
|3
|1
|11
|1
|{{icon|Ice Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Winged Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|{{icon|Winged Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|-
|[[File:P4 Voyage Log Louie 16.png|100px]]
|[[Subterranean Swarm]]
|5
|2
|13
|0
|{{icon|Rock Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|Winged Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|{{icon|Purple Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}} {{icon|White Pikmin|v=P4 HUD}}
|}

=== Dandori Challenge 1 ===
This Dandori Challenge can be accessed by building the large clay bridge near The Maple Bridge base, and jumping up to the elevated entrance with Oatchi. Building the climbing wall near the [[Puffstool]] area can help you reach the area, but Oatchi is still needed and cannot access the area through this method.

=== Dandori Challenge 2 ===
This Dandori Challenge is across a shallow [[mud]] puddle near The Autumnal Gully base. It can also be accessed through a tunnel on the other side of the map, if the map is instead traversed clockwise.

=== Dandori Challenge 3 ===
This Dandori Challenge must be accessed by pushing a [[Cardboard Box]] down in the [[Beckoning Mannequin]] area, past the dirt wall near the Autumnal Gully base. To do this, [[White Pikmin]] are needed to destroy the [[poison]] geysers. Destroying them will guide the Pikmin toward the box, and they will lock on automatically. If you do not throw enough White Pikmin (10) to push down the box, you can throw Pikmin from the other side of the wall once the poison has been eliminated. From there, Oatchi is needed to jump up the slopes to the cave's entrance across the box.

=== Dandori Battle ===
The area's Dandori Battle cave, [[Final Battle]], is located in the northeastern part of the map. It can be accessed by using [[Oatchi]]'s rush to grow [[potted mushroom]]s. His jump is then needed to cross the mushrooms and access the ledge with [[Louie]], [[Moss]], and [[Nelle]].

== Objects ==

=== Treasures ===
{{columns|2|
*{{icon|Bathing Pool|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Beckoning Mannequin|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Crunchy Deluge|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (inside sticky mold)
*{{icon|Delectable Bouquet|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (partially buried)
*{{icon|Dusk Pustules|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Fastening Item|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
*{{icon|Faux Fishy|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Gold Nugget|v=P4|y}} &times; 10 (inside sticky mold)
*{{icon|Golden Vaulting Table|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Heroic Shield|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Heroine's Tear|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (inside sticky mold)
*{{icon|Mock Bottom|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (inside sticky mold)
*{{icon|Portable Sunset|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Scaly Custard|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (inside sticky mold)
*{{icon|Searing Acidshock|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (inside Baldy Long Legs)
*{{icon|Tremendous Sniffer|v=P4|y}} &times; 1 (inside Puffstool)
}}

=== Onions ===
*{{icon|Flarlic|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Winged Onion|v=P4|y}} &times; 1

=== Enemies ===
{{columns|2|
*{{icon|Baldy Long Legs|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Bogswallow|v=P4|y}} &times; 4
*{{icon|Doodlebug|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
*{{icon|Flighty Joustmite|v=P4|y}} &times; 4
*{{icon|Grubchucker|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
*{{icon|Honeywisp|v=P4|y}} &times; 4
*{{icon|Iridescent Glint Beetle|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Mitite|v=P4|y}} &times; 40 (20 inside eggs, 10 under mold, 10 inside Doodlebug)
*{{icon|Moldy Dwarf Bulborb|v=P4|y}} &times; 8
*{{icon|Moldy Slooch|v=P4|y}} &times; 8
*{{icon|Muckerskate|v=P4|y}} &times; 5
*{{icon|Puffstool|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Red Spectralids|v=P4|y}} &times; 3
*{{icon|Shearflea|v=P4|y}} &times; 13
*{{icon|Startle Spore|v=P4|y}} &times; 3
}}

=== Obstacles ===
{{columns|2|
*{{icon|Cardboard box|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Dirt wall|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Iron fence|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Mud pool|v=P4|y}} &times; 6
*{{icon|Narrow tunnel|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
*{{icon|Poison emitter|v=P4|y}} &times; 3
*{{icon|Poison Spotcap|v=P4|y}} &times; 48
*{{icon|Spotcap|v=P4|y}} &times; 119
*{{icon|Sticky mold|v=P4|y}} &times; 44
}}

=== Tools ===
{{columns|2|
*{{icon|Bouncy Mushroom|v=P4|y}} &times; 7
*{{icon|Clay bridge incomplete|v=P4|y|l=Clay#Clay bridge|n=Clay bridge}} &times; 1 (requires 75 raw material)
*{{icon|Clay mound incomplete|v=P4|y|l=Clay#Clay mound|n=Clay mound}} &times; 1 (requires 15 raw material)
*{{icon|Climbing rope|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
*{{icon|Climbing wall incomplete|v=P4|y|l=Clay#Climbing wall|n=Climbing wall}} &times; 1 (requires 21 raw material)
*{{icon|Dirt-mound|y|v=P4}} &times; 3 (10 raw materials each)
*{{icon|Geyser|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
*{{icon|Potted mushroom|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
}}

=== Others ===
*{{icon|Burgeoning Spiderwort|v=P4|y}} &times; 4
*{{icon|Egg|v=P4|y}} &times; 8 (6 &times; small, 2 &times; large)
*{{icon|Pellet Posy|v=P4|y}} &times; 12 (9 &times; 1 pellet, 3 &times; 5 pellet)
*{{icon|Raw material pile|v=P4|n=Pile of raw material|l=Raw material|y}} &times; 6 (1 pile of 15, 4 piles of 24, 1 pile of 30)

== Night expeditions ==
=== The Sylvan Gate ===
{{infobox night expedition
|name        = The Sylvan Gate
|image       = P4 Save File Primordial Thicket The Sylvan Gate Night.png
|size        = 200px
|danger      = 4
|lumiknolls  = 1
|enemies     = 21
|glow_pikmin = 10
}}
There is one [[Lumiknoll]] located directly at the base. This location has a danger level of 4 and starts the player off with 10 [[Glow Pikmin]].

==== Enemies ====
{{columns|2|
* {{icon|Bulborb Larva|v=P4|y}} &times; infinite (2 nests)
* {{icon|Dwarf Bulbear|v=P4|y}} &times; 9
* {{icon|Moldy Dwarf Bulborb|v=P4|y}} &times; 3
* {{icon|Smoky Progg|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
* {{icon|Spotty Bulbear|v=P4|y}} &times; 4
}}

==== Objects ====
* {{icon|Glow pellet|v=P4|y}} &times; 420
** Pile of 5 &times; 9
** Pile of 10 &times; 10
** Pile of 15 &times; 9 (Spotty Bulbears drop 1 pile each)
** Pile of 20 &times; 3
** Pile of 25 &times; 2 (Smoky Proggs drop 1 pile each)
** Pile of 30 &times; 1

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=== Autumnal Gully ===
{{infobox night expedition
|name        = Autumnal Gully
|image       = P4 Save File Primordial Thicket Autumnal Gully Night.png
|size        = 200px
|danger      = 5
|lumiknolls  = 2
|enemies     = 24
|glow_pikmin = 10
}}
There are two Lumiknolls, the blue one located directly at the base and the orange one located in the southwest, on the path leading between this base and The Sylvan Gate base. This location has a danger level of 5 and starts the player off with 10 Glow Pikmin.

==== Enemies ====
{{columns|2|
* {{icon|Baldy Long Legs|v=P4|y}} &times; 1
* {{icon|Emperor Bulblax|v=P4|y}} &times; 3
* {{icon|Moldy Dwarf Bulborb|v=P4|y}} &times; 13
* {{icon|Moldy Slooch|v=P4|y}} &times; 5
* {{icon|Smoky Progg|v=P4|y}} &times; 2
}}

==== Objects ====
* {{icon|Glow pellet|v=P4|y}} &times; 375
** Pile of 5 &times; 1
** Pile of 10 &times; 14
** Pile of 15 &times; 4
** Pile of 20 &times; 1
** Pile of 25 &times; 6 (Baldy Long Legs, Emperor Bulblaxes, and Smoky Proggs drop 1 pile each)

{{clear}}

== Guide ==
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== Gallery ==
{{image}}
<gallery>
P4 Primordial Thicket Introduction 1.jpg|The first shot of the area's introduction cutscene.
P4 Primordial Thicket Introduction 2.jpg|The second shot of the area's introduction cutscene.
P4 Primordial Thicket Introduction 3.jpg|The third shot of the area's introduction cutscene.
Spiderwort PT 1 Location.jpg|A [[Burgeoning Spiderwort]] near the [[Golden Vaulting Table]].
Spiderwort PT 2 Location.jpg|The entrance to the [[Cavern for a King]].
</gallery>

==Trivia== 
*This is the only area in the game where [[Winged Pikmin]] and [[White Pikmin]] are recommended for use overground, and the only area in the game where none of the three primary Pikmin types are recommended for use.
**The three recommended Pikmin are also the only ones to have a lower attack power. 
*This is the only area in the game to have more than two [[Burgeoning Spiderwort]]s.
*The [[clay bridge]] near The Maple Bridge base is the longest bridge in the game.

== Names in other languages ==
'''Primordial Thicket'''
{{foreignname
|Jap  = 追憶の原生林
|JapR = Tsuioku no Genseirin
|JapM = Primeval Forest of Recollection
|ChiTrad  =	追憶的原生林
|ChiTradR =	Zhuīyì de Yuánshēnglín
|ChiTradM =	Old-Growth Forest of Recollection
|ChiSimp  =	追忆的原生林
|ChiSimpR =	Zhuīyì de Yuánshēnglín
|ChiSimpM =	Old-Growth Forest of Recollection
|Dut  = Vergeten woud
|DutM = Forgotten forest
|Fra  = Forêt primaire
|FraM = Primary forest
|Ger  = Urwalddickicht
|GerM = Primeval Thicket
|Ita  = Bosco primordiale
|ItaM = Primordial forest
|Kor  = 
|KorM = 
|Spa  = Territorio salvaje
|SpaM = Wild territory
|Por  = Floresta inexplorada
|PorM = Unexplored forest
}}

{{needs translation|Chinese|Dutch|Korean|Spanish}}
'''The Sylvan Gate'''
{{foreignname
|Jap  = 樹海の入口
|JapR = Jyukai no Iriguchi
|JapM = Entrance to the sea of trees
|ChiTrad  = 樹海入口
|ChiTradR = 
|ChiTradM = 
|ChiSimp  = 
|ChiSimpR = 
|ChiSimpM = 
|Dut  = Woudgebergte
|DutM = 
|Fra  = Porte de la forêt
|FraM = Forest gate
|Ger  = Waldtor
|GerM = Forest gate
|Ita  = Entrata silvestre
|ItaM = Sylvan entrance
|Kor  = 수해의 입구
|KorM = 
|Spa  = Entrada al bosque
|SpaM = Entrance to the forest
|Por  = Entrada silvestre
|PorM = Sylvan entrance
}}

'''The Autumnal Gully'''
{{foreignname
|Jap  = 枯葉平原
|JapR = Kareha Heigen
|JapM = Plain of dead leaves
|ChiTrad  = 枯葉平原
|ChiTradR = 
|ChiTradM = 
|ChiSimp  = 枯叶平原
|ChiSimpR = 
|ChiSimpM = 
|Dut  = Herfstgroeve
|DutM = 
|Fra  = Ravin automnal
|FraM = Autumnal ravine
|Ger  = Herbstebene
|GerM = Autumnal level
|Ita  = Valle autunnale
|ItaM = Autumnal valley
|Kor  = 낙엽 평원
|KorM = 
|Spa  = Llanura otoñal
|SpaM = Autumnal plain
|Por  = Vale outonal
|PorM = Autumnal valley
}}

'''The Maple Bridge'''
{{foreignname
|Jap  = 紅葉橋のたもと
|JapR = Kōyō Bashi no Tamoto
|JapM = Vicinity of the Autumnal Leaf Bridge
|JapN = {{tt|紅葉|kōyō}} could also be read as Momiji, which is Japanese Maple. Kōyō refers to the reddening of leaves in autumn
|ChiTrad  = 紅葉橋底下
|ChiTradR = 
|ChiTradM = 
|ChiSimp  = 红叶桥底下
|ChiSimpR = 
|ChiSimpM = 
|Dut  = Brug der esdoorns
|DutM = 
|Fra  = Pont de l'érable
|FraM = Maple bridge
|Ger  = Ahornbrücke
|GerM = Maple bridge
|Ita  = Ponte degli aceri
|ItaM = Maple bridge
|Kor  = 단풍잎 다리 근처
|KorM = 
|Spa  = Puente del arce
|SpaM = Maple Bridge 
|Por  = Ponte de bordo
|PorM = Maple bridge
|notes = y
}}

== See also ==
*[[Wistful Wild]]
*[[Louie]]
*[[Nelle]]
*[[Oatchi]]

{{Primordial Thicket}}
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