Cave of Pain

Cave of Pain
Sublevels	1	Ultra-bitter sprays	1
Red Pikmin	50	Ultra-spicy sprays	1
Yellow Pikmin	0
Blue Pikmin	0
White Pikmin	0
Purple Pikmin	0
Bulbmin	0

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

The Cave of Pain is the twenty-seventh level in Pikmin 2's Challenge Mode. There are many large and mean beasts that often fall out of the sky, along with boulders and bomb-rocks.

Sublevel 1

• Theme: Snow
• Music: Emergence Cave 1
• Time: 160 (320 seconds)
• Starting Pikmin:
  •  Red Pikmin × 50 (flower)
• Treasures:
  •  Arboreal Frippery × 2 (inside Anode Dweevils)
  •  Combustion Berry × 1 (inside Hairy Bulborb)
  •  Crystallized Clairvoyance × 1
  •  Crystallized Telepathy × 1
  •  Gyroid Bust × 1
  •  Omniscient Sphere × 1 (inside Dwarf Red Bulborb)
  •  Seed of Greed × 1 (inside Fiery Bulblax)
  •  The Key × 1
• Enemies:
  •  Anode Dweevil × 2
  •  Dwarf Red Bulborb × 1
  •  Fiery Bulblax × 1
  •  Hairy Bulborb × 1
  •  Volatile Dweevil × 6
• Obstacles:
  •  Bomb-rock × 3
  •  Boulder × 8
• Vegetation:
  • None
• Others:
  • None

You should start off by taking your leader and trigger all the falling boulders, enemies and bomb-rocks. Anode Dweevils should be killed with the leaders or with Pikmin if you are very careful. Use an ultra-bitter spray with the Fiery Bulblax and kill the Hairy Bulborb by luring it near a bomb-rock when it explodes. When you think you have the key however, more will fall from the sky in the form of Anode Dweevils that scoop up the key. Without Yellow Pikmin, it is recommended to grab the key and move it away than trying to defeat them.

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Technical sublevel information
Internal cave name			ch_MAT_flier
"Main" object maximum (?)			22
"Treasure" object maximum (?)			4
"Gate" object maximum (?)			0
Dead end unit probability (?)			0
Number of rooms (?)			3
Corridor-to-room ratio (?)			0
Escape geyser (?)			No (despite having one, in reality)
Clogged hole (?)			No
Cave units file (?)			2_MAT_sak1_sak2_snow.txt
Lighting file (?)			normal_light_cha.ini
Background (?)			None
Cave units (?)
Dead end with item	Three-way crossing	Four-way crossing	Turning corridor	Corridor	Long corridor
Room with trunk in center	Room with large trunk

Detailed object list
The game spawns these "main" objects:
ID	Object	Amount	Fall method	Spawn location
1	Hairy Bulborb	1	Falls from the sky	Cave unit seams
-	Combustion Berry	Carried inside entry with ID 1
2	Dwarf Red Bulborb	1	Falls from the sky	"Special" enemy spots
-	Omniscient Sphere	Carried inside entry with ID 2
3	Fiery Bulblax	1	Falls from the sky	"Special" enemy spots
-	Seed of Greed	Carried inside entry with ID 3
4	Anode Dweevil	1	Falls when Pikmin are carrying nearby	"Hard" enemy spots
-	Arboreal Frippery	Carried inside entry with ID 4
5	Anode Dweevil	1	Falls when Pikmin are carrying nearby	Cave unit seams
-	Arboreal Frippery	Carried inside entry with ID 5
6	Volatile Dweevil	3	Falls from the sky	"Hard" enemy spots
7	Volatile Dweevil	3	Falls when Pikmin are carrying nearby	"Hard" enemy spots
8	Bomb-rock	3	Falls from the sky	"Hard" enemy spots
9	Boulder	4	None	"Easy" enemy spots
10	Boulder	4	None	"Easy" enemy spots
Then it spawns these "treasure" objects:
ID	Object	Amount	Fall method	Spawn location
11	The Key	1	None	Treasure spots
12	Crystallized Telepathy	1	None	Treasure spots
13	Crystallized Clairvoyance	1	None	Treasure spots
14	Gyroid Bust	1	None	Treasure spots

For details on how objects are spawned, and how some may fail to spawn, see here.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	天罰の穴?	Divine Punishment Den
French (NoA)	Grotte du martyre	Martyrdom cave
French (NoE)	Grotte du Martyre	Martyrdom Cave
German	Höhle des Schmerzes	Cave of Pain
Italian	Covo del dolore	Den of pain
Spanish (NoA)	Cueva del Dolor	Cave of Pain