Decor Pikmin

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When growing a Huge Seedling, it can be useful to grow it in a [[single-use slot]], as they take a lot of steps to grow compared to other types of seedlings. Huge Seedlings are rare, so don't be afraid to use single-use slots to grow them.

===Telling decors apart within a category===

[[File:Decor_Sorting_Trick_Roadside.jpg|thumb|150px|Roadside decor Pikmin with lines drawn between each different decor]]

Some Decor categories have multiple different decors available, such as Station, which has both Paper Train and Ticket decors. Because of this, it can be difficult to determine which specific decor a Pikmin or Seedling has. However, there is a way to determine this under certain conditions.

When sorting Pikmin or Seedlings by Decor Category, the sort order is determined by:

*Decor type, in order displayed on the Decor screen.

*Pikmin Type, in the order Red - Yellow - Blue - Purple - White - Pink - Grey - Huge, as displayed on the Pikmin screen.

*Plucked date, newest to oldest

[[File:Station Decor Missorted Pair.jpg|thumb|left|150px|A missorted pair of Station decor Pikmin.]]

Using this knowledge, the specific decor that a Pikmin will have can be determined ahead of time (before you get them to 4 hearts, and even before planting) if you have enough Pikmin or Seedlings of the same decor category (or a select set of them, see below). This is known as the decor sorting trick.

Pikmin and seedlings always{{tt|*|With the only exceptions being event decors, which are irrelevant here}} sort in the order Red - Yellow - Blue - Purple - White - Pink - Grey - Huge. When this ordering is not followed, it means there was a change in decor type at the point where the sort ordering was broken. For example, if you see a red restaurant Pikmin sorted after a grey restaurant Pikmin, you know for a fact that the red Pikmin will have a rare restaurant decor. A pair of Pikmin within the same decor category (ie. that have the same decor icon) for which the type ordering is opposite of the normal sort ordering is called a <b>Missorted Pair</b>.

Missorted pairs can be saved and used to determine the decor of any new seedlings before growing them or Pikmin before raising their friendship. This can be very useful when steps or nectar are limited resources.

Here are some examples:

*Saving a white, purple, pink, or grey restaurant Pikmin and/or seedling (or a huge seedling) as a "marker". Any red, yellow, or blue Pikmin/Seedling that sorts after this saved Pikmin/Seedling can be determined to be a rare before any investment is made in it

**Restaurant decor is unique in that the second decor set only has red, yellow, and blue Pikmin in it, so it only requires a single marker which can be anything other than red, yellow, or blue.

*For categories with 2 full decor types (where every Pikmin type has both decors), a missorted pair can be saved consisting of 1 non-red Pikmin from the first category and 1 Pikmin of a type that normally sorts before the first type from the second category.

**For example, if you save white from the first category and a blue from the second, then:

***Any red, yellow, blue, or purple that sorts before the saved white will be in the first category

***Any white, pink, and grey that sorts before the saved blue will be in the first category

***Any red, yellow, and blue that sorts after the saved white will be in the second category

***Any purple, white, pink, and grey that sorts after the saved blue will be in the second category

Roadside is a bit trickier since there are 4 available decor types within the category instead of just 2, but the same idea holds. By saving a missorted pair between each of the roadside decor categories, each new seedling's decor can be uniquely determined. This can be done with as few as 4 Pikmin (e.g. a grey from the first category, a purple from the second, a blue from the third, and a red from the fourth), but saving multiple separate pairs (e.g. a red and a huge from every category) makes it easier to determine the decor of a new seedling at a glance.

This same sorting trick can be used with Pikmin plucked date instead of Pikmin type (ie. for battery or rain decors, which are all 1 Pikmin type), but it's much more involved. The plucked date used here is not the same property used for sorting by "Date" (which is seedling discovery date), so it must be determined separately (ie. by nicknaming your Pikmin as they're plucked).

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