Primordial Thicket

Primordial Thicket
Rescues	8
Treasures	89
Onions	3
Caves	3
Dandori Challenges	3
Dandori Battles	1
Suggested Pikmin
Wild Pikmin
Requirements	× 13,000 and rescue Yorke and Don Bergman
Music	Primordial Thicket

The Primordial Thicket is the sixth and final area in Pikmin 4. It is set in a large autumnal and muddy forest. It contains 15 surface treasures, 74 cave treasures, 8 rescues (5 castaways and 3 leaflings), and 3 Onions. There are 7 caves in total, with one being a Dandori Battle cave and three being Dandori Challenge caves. This area has  × 7,750 worth of treasure, of which  × 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 player character 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 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

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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 molds
• The Maple Bridge: guarded by a large egg containing 5 raw materials and an egg containing Mitites

Caves

Image	Name	Sublevels	Castaways	Treasures	Onions	Suggested Pikmin	Wild Pikmin
	Cavern for a King	20	1	48	0		None
	The Mud Pit	3	1	11	1
	Subterranean Swarm	5	2	13	0		None

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 mushrooms. His jump is then needed to cross the mushrooms and access the ledge with Louie, Moss, and Nelle.

Objects

Treasures

•  Bathing Pool × 1
•  Beckoning Mannequin × 1
•  Crunchy Deluge × 1
•  Delectable Bouquet × 1
•  Dusk Pustules × 1
•  Fastening Item × 2
•  Faux Fishy × 1
•  Gold Nugget × 10
•  Golden Vaulting Table × 1
•  Heroic Shield × 1
•  Heroine's Tear × 1
•  Mock Bottom × 1
•  Portable Sunset × 1
•  Scaly Custard × 1
•  Searing Acidshock × 1
•  Tremendous Sniffer × 1

Onions

•  Flarlic × 1
•  Winged Onion × 1

Enemies

•  Baldy Long Legs × 1
•  Bogswallow × 4
•  Doodlebug × 2
•  Flighty Joustmite × 4
•  Grubchucker × 2
•  Honeywisp × 4
•  Iridescent Glint Beetle × 1
•  Mitite × 40 (20 inside eggs, 10 under mold, 10 inside Doodlebug)
•  Moldy Dwarf Bulborb × 8
•  Moldy Slooch × 8
•  Muckerskate × 5
•  Puffstool × 1
•  Red Spectralids × 3
•  Shearflea × 13
•  Startle Spore × 3

Obstacles

•  Cardboard box × 1
•  Dirt wall × 1
•  Iron fence × 1
•  Mud pool × 6
•  Narrow tunnel × 2
•  Poison emitter × 3
•  Poison Spotcap × 48
•  Spotcap × 119
•  Sticky mold × 44

Tools

•  Bouncy Mushroom × 7
•  Clay bridge × 1
•  Clay mound × 1
•  Climbing rope × 1
•  Climbing wall × 1
•  Dirt-mound × 3 (10 raw materials each)
•  Geyser × 2
•  Potted mushroom × 2

Others

•  Burgeoning Spiderwort × 4
•  Egg × 8 (6 × small, 2 × large)
•  Pellet Posy × 12 (9 × 1 pellet, 3 × 5 pellet)
•  Pile of raw material × 6 (1 pile of 15, 4 piles of 24, 1 pile of 30)

Night expeditions

The Sylvan Gate

The Sylvan Gate
Danger level
Lumiknolls	1
Enemies	21
Starting 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

•  Bulborb Larva × infinite (2 nests)
•  Dwarf Bulbear × 9
•  Moldy Dwarf Bulborb × 3
•  Smoky Progg × 2
•  Spotty Bulbear × 4

Objects

•  Glow pellet × 420
  • Pile of 5 × 9
  • Pile of 10 × 10
  • Pile of 15 × 9 (Spotty Bulbears drop 1 pile each)
  • Pile of 20 × 3
  • Pile of 25 × 2 (Smoky Proggs drop 1 pile each)
  • Pile of 30 × 1

Autumnal Gully

Autumnal Gully
Danger level
Lumiknolls	2
Enemies	24
Starting 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

•  Baldy Long Legs × 1
•  Emperor Bulblax × 3
•  Moldy Dwarf Bulborb × 13
•  Moldy Slooch × 5
•  Smoky Progg × 2

Objects

•  Glow pellet × 375
  • Pile of 5 × 1
  • Pile of 10 × 14
  • Pile of 15 × 4
  • Pile of 20 × 1
  • Pile of 25 × 6 (Baldy Long Legs, Emperor Bulblaxes, and Smoky Proggs drop 1 pile each)

Guide

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Gallery

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  The first shot of the area's introduction cutscene.

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  The second shot of the area's introduction cutscene.

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  The third shot of the area's introduction cutscene.

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  A Burgeoning Spiderwort near the Golden Vaulting Table.

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  The entrance to the Cavern for a King.

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 Spiderworts.

Names in other languages

Primordial Thicket

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	追憶の原生林? Tsuioku no Genseirin	Primeval Forest of Recollection
Chinese (traditional)	追憶的原生林 Zhuīyì de Yuánshēnglín	Old-Growth Forest of Recollection
Chinese (simplified)	追忆的原生林 Zhuīyì de Yuánshēnglín	Old-Growth Forest of Recollection
Dutch	Vergeten woud	Forgotten forest
French	Forêt primaire	Primary forest
German	Urwalddickicht	Primeval Thicket
Italian	Bosco primordiale	Primordial forest
Korean	추억의 원시림 Chueog-ui Wonsirim	Primeval Forest of Recollection
Portuguese	Floresta inexplorada	Unexplored forest
Spanish	Territorio salvaje	Wild territory

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The Sylvan Gate

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	樹海の入口? Jyukai no Iriguchi	Entrance to the sea of trees
Chinese (traditional)	樹海入口
Dutch	Woudgebergte
French	Porte de la forêt	Forest gate
German	Waldtor	Forest gate
Italian	Entrata silvestre	Sylvan entrance
Korean	수해의 입구
Portuguese	Entrada silvestre	Sylvan entrance
Spanish	Entrada al bosque	Entrance to the forest

The Autumnal Gully

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	枯葉平原? Kareha Heigen	Plain of dead leaves
Chinese (traditional)	枯葉平原
Chinese (simplified)	枯叶平原
Dutch	Herfstgroeve
French	Ravin automnal	Autumnal ravine
German	Herbstebene	Autumnal level
Italian	Valle autunnale	Autumnal valley
Korean	낙엽 평원
Portuguese	Vale outonal	Autumnal valley
Spanish	Llanura otoñal	Autumnal plain

The Maple Bridge

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	紅葉橋のたもと? Kōyō Bashi no Tamoto	Vicinity of the Autumnal Leaf Bridge	紅葉 could also be read as Momiji, which is Japanese Maple. Kōyō refers to the reddening of leaves in autumn
Chinese (traditional)	紅葉橋底下
Chinese (simplified)	红叶桥底下
Dutch	Brug der esdoorns
French	Pont de l'érable	Maple bridge
German	Ahornbrücke	Maple bridge
Italian	Ponte degli aceri	Maple bridge
Korean	단풍잎 다리 근처
Portuguese	Ponte de bordo	Maple bridge
Spanish	Mesa de gigante

See also

• Wistful Wild
• Louie
• Nelle
• Oatchi