Beady Long Legs

Beady Long Legs
File:Beady Long Legs.png
Appears in	Pikmin, Pikmin 2
Scientific name	Pseudoarachnia armoralis
Family	Arachnorb
Areas	The Forest Navel, Perplexing Pool
Caves	Citadel of Spiders, Hole of Heroes
Challenge Mode stages	The Final Trial, Twilight Garden
2-Player Battle stages	None
Attacks	Crushes Pikmin

The Beady Long Legs (ダマグモ^?, lit.: "Ball Spider") is an enemy in the first two Pikmin games. The only attack it has is stomping around – which it does more quickly when damaged – and its multiple feet crush any Pikmin they land on. Its weak spot is its orbicular torso; given its height, Yellow Pikmin are normally needed. When defeated, it crumbles into dust that disintegrates after its belongings drop from its orbicular torso. The creature is in both the main game and Challenge Mode of both games it appears on.

In Pikmin 2, the Beady Long Legs has a more brownish tone to its body, while in the first one it is just yellow. It also has slightly different shaped feet. Appearances in the second game are more common, and have much less health, slower movements, different cries, and their feet don't stick on the ground. When at low health, the Beady Long Legs will acquire a reddish tint and start smoking at the joints in Pikmin. In Pikmin 2, the creature's body will start to flake away at low health.

It first appears as a boss in Pikmin, where it is found in The Forest Navel, holding the Guard Satellite, and again in The Final Trial in Challenge Mode. In Pikmin 2, one appears on sublevel 5 of the Citadel of Spiders, where it drops a key which unlocks Challenge Mode, one on sublevel 14 of the Hole of Heroes, which holds the Fond Gyro Block, and one in the Twilight Garden in Challenge Mode (again holding The Key). Additionally, one more can be found in front of the landing site in the Perplexing Pool after day 30; killing this one yields 20 small 1-pellets. It appears every day if it is not killed and always spawns on the first day of each 10 day period starting from day 31. Despite rumors, it is not exclusive to palindrome days (33, 44, etc).

The Beady Long Legs does not appear in Pikmin 3, but there are two new Arachnorb bosses similar to it, the Shaggy Long Legs and Baldy Long Legs.

Stats

Game	Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health	Regen.
	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5000	Unknown
	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1300	0.39 HP/s

Notes

Olimar's voyage log

“This creature is so large, it would tower over the Dolphin. All the Pikmin can do is cling to its feet and try to slow it down. Its large round torso is its sole weak point - since Yellow Pikmin fly highest, they should be most effective against it.”

Reel notes

“Waxy secretions form this creature's distinctive armored shell.”

Olimar's notes

“Although this creature is commonly associated with spiders, it is actually the result of a separate evolutionary line of insectoid creatures. Since the spherical body section supported by the creature's legs carries most of its internal organs, there appear to be no other features that would correspond to a head or abdomen.”

Louie's notes

“Poisonous. Consumption results in prolonged writhing and uncontrollable mirth.”

Prima "Field Guide" description

“Although this creature is commonly associated with spiders, the Arachnorb is actually the result of a separate evolutionary line of insectoid creatures. Since the spherical body portion supported by the creature's legs carries most of its internal organs, there appear to be no other features that would correspond to a head or abdomen. Waxy secretions form this creature's distinctive armored shell.”

Strategy

With Pikmin

To do: Check what happens if its feet are damaged in all versions and regions of all games. Care to do so?

You should have no more than 30 Pikmin, as a large group can be hard to control and may cause a few deaths. Aim at its core and launch your Pikmin freely, being careful to neither miss nor let the grounded Pikmin get stomped on. Group moving will prove helpful here. When it shivers, it is about to shake Pikmin off. Call the Pikmin quickly, or else they might fall off for a few seconds and lose their bud or flower status. In Pikmin 2, all Pikmin will be shaken off, but in Pikmin, a few may still remain latched. Attacking one of its feet in Pikmin will not cause any damage, but the creature will have difficulties landing it.

If you have a viable amount of Yellow Pikmin, attack at will, but if not, bring twenty to thirty of some other types, preferably Red Pikmin, and wait until it has done eight stomps (two with each leg); it will lean down afterwards to rest. It will do this twice, so you should ignore it the first time, and then as soon as it begins to lean again, quickly throw Pikmin at its body. This will allow you to attack for a longer period of time.

The Beady Long Legs can also be harmed by Pikmin attacking its feet; this is far more challenging and time-consuming, however. In Pikmin 2, only Purple Pikmin can damage the creature's feet with the stomp they cause, but in the Japanese version of the game, any Pikmin type can also attack its feet with regular attacks. As such, an easy way to defeat the Beady Long Legs in the Japanese version of Pikmin 2 is to place around 25 flowered Red Pikmin on the location where each foot is going to be, and when the creature lands from above, its health will be dropped so fast that it will not have time to stomp even once, ensuring a clean and quick victory. It may be difficult to determine exactly where the feet will end up at, though.

In Pikmin, it is recommended to bring twenty Red Pikmin to the entrance of the arena, so they may bring the Guard Satellite through the fire geysers.

With captains

Even when petrified, its body is suspended too high for captains to reach.

Speedrunning

In Pikmin, the fastest way to defeat the creature is to have around 20 Red Pikmin and around 6 Yellow Pikmin with you. Before the boss lands, use  / to organize your party so that Red Pikmin are the closest to you. Walk into the arena, and begin throwing Red Pikmin so that they attach to the creature when it lands; when the Beady Long Legs falls down, its core reaches low enough for non-Yellow Pikmin to be thrown at it. Throw as many Pikmin as you can, using the group move trick. When it shakes the Pikmin off, a few of them will remain attached. Carefully whistle the ones that got knocked down and throw them at the core again. The creature should be dead just as it's shaking the second time.

Glitch

Main article: Beady Long Legs escape.

In Pikmin, there is a rare and dangerous glitch that causes Beady Long Legs to leave its arena. This glitch is most likely to happen when you leave the arena without killing it. Pikmin and/or Olimar have to be left at the gate to the small arena. The creature will then try to attack these, possibly leaving the arena. Once outside of the barriers, it will continue to pursue you. If you now run to the island where the Libra is, the enemy may fall into the abyss below, causing the game to crash (the game will also crash if you do not kill it after it leaves the arena after a certain amount of time).

In Pikmin 2, this is fixed. An enemy that has fallen into the abyss dies, and anything it might have been holding reappears above the ground near the place it fell.

Technical information

Pikmin technical information (?)
Internal name	kumo
HP	5000

Pikmin 2 technical information (?)
Internal name			damagumo
Global properties (List)
ID	Japanese comment	Property	Value
s000	friction(not used)	Friction	0.5
s001	wallReflection	Unknown (wall bounce speed multiplier?)	0.5
s002	faceDirAdjust	Unknown	0.25
s003	accel	Acceleration	0.1
s004	bounceFactor	Unknown (bounce when it hits the ground?)	0.3
fp00	ライフ	HP	1300
fp01	マップとの当り	Unknown (related to slopes)	10
fp02	ダメージスケールXZ	Horizontal damage scale	0.1
fp03	ダメージスケールY	Vertical damage scale	0.1
fp04	ダメージフレーム	Damage scale duration	0.5
fp05	質量	Unknown (weight?)	0.0001
fp06	速度	Move speed	100
fp08	回転速度率	Rotation acceleration	0.2
fp09	テリトリー	Territory radius	400
fp10	ホーム範囲	"Home" radius	75
fp11	プライベート距離	"Private" radius	70
fp12	視界距離	Sight radius	400
fp13	視界角度	FOV	180
fp14	探索距離	Unknown (exploration radius?)	400
fp15	探索角度	Unknown (exploration angle?)	90
fp16	振り払い率	Successful shake rate	1
fp17	振り払い力	Shake knockback	180
fp18	振り払いダメージ	Shake damage	0
fp19	振り払い範囲	Shake range	25
fp20	攻撃可能範囲	Unknown (shock attack max range?)	75
fp21	攻撃可能角度	Unknown (shock attack max angle?)	25
fp22	攻撃ヒット範囲	Unknown (attack hit range?)	75
fp23	攻撃ヒット角度	Unknown (attack hit angle?)	25
fp24	攻撃力	Attack damage	10
fp25	視界高	Unknown (height visibility?)	50
fp26	探索高	Unknown (exploration height?)	50
fp27	ライフの高さ	HP wheel height	75
fp28	回転最大速度	Rotation speed	60
fp29	警戒時間	Unknown (warning time?)	15
fp30	警戒ライフ	Unknown	50
fp31	ライフ回復率	Regeneration rate	0.00001
fp32	LOD半径	Off-camera radius	200
fp33	マップとのあたりポリゴンの選定	Collision processing radius	200
fp34	ピクミンとのあたり	Pikmin damage radius	20
fp35	石化時間	Petrification duration	1
fp36	ヒップドロップダメージ	Purple Pikmin drop damage	50
fp37	地震気絶確立	Purple Pikmin stun chance	0 (0%)
fp38	地震気絶時間	Purple Pikmin stun time	5
ip01	振り払い打撃Ａ	Shake mode 1 – hit count	5
ip02	振り払い張付１	Shake mode 1 – Pikmin requirement	10
ip03	振り払い打撃Ｂ	Shake mode 2 – hit count	10
ip04	振り払い張付２	Shake mode 2 – Pikmin requirement	10
ip05	振り払い打撃Ｃ	Shake mode 3 – hit count	20
ip06	振り払い張付３	Shake mode 3 – Pikmin requirement	30
ip07	振り払い打撃Ｄ	Shake mode 4 – hit count	30
Specific properties
ID	Japanese comment	Property	Value
fp01	ベース係数	Unknown (base coefficient?)	3
fp02	上げ減速係数	Unknown (increase deceleration coefficient?)	-0.2
fp03	下げ加速係数	Unknown (lower acceleration factor?)	0.5
fp04	最低減加速係数	Unknown (minimum acceleration factor?)	-2
fp05	最高減加速係数	Unknown (maximum acceleration factor?)	10
fp06	足の振り上げ	Foot height when taking a step	120

Other information

• Technical name in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide: Arachnorb
• Size: Leg span: 240mm, as per the e-card
• Pikmin 2 Piklopedia number: #72
• Musical theme:
  • Pikmin: Impending Doom
  • Pikmin 2: Common boss battle

Naming

The creature's name is a pun on "daddy long legs", the name given to real world spiders on the pholcidae family and opiliones order. These spiders have long, spindly legs and a small body, much like the Beady Long Legs. Instead of "daddy" however, the word "beady" is used, to highlight its small and circular body. Its Japanese name, ダマグモ^?, literally translates to "Ball Spider", once again reflecting the creature's spidery look and the spherical body. The technical name, pseudoarachnia armoralis, likely translates to "armored pseudo-arachnid", with pseudo being Greek for "fake", and an English word in its own right, arachnia being a reference to "arachnida", the real world class for spiders, and armoralis likely meaning "armored", due to its strong resistance.

The creature's internal name in Pikmin 2 is the same as its Japanese name, damagumo, but in Pikmin, only the "spider" part of the word remains, making it kumo.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ダマグモ? Dama Gumo	Ball Spider
French	Baba Longues jambes	From Papa-longues-jambes (literally "Daddy longlegs")
German	Perliges Langbein	Beady Long Leg
Italian	Longopede	From "lungo" (long) and "piede" (foot)

Gallery

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  A Beady Long Legs on the Piklopedia.

• Beady Long Legs enemy reel.jpg

  Beady Long Legs in the enemy reel.

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  A Beady Long Legs as it first lands in a cave.

• Beady LongLegs.png

  A close-up of the Beady Long Legs in Pikmin 2.

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  The Beady Long Legs begins to crumble and emit smoke as it becomes weaker.

• 

  The Beady Longs Legs exploding when it runs out of health.

• 

  The Beady Long Legs crumbles into dust.

• 

  A Beady Long Legs in the unused cave Last_4, meant for enemy testing.

• Beady Long-legs(PikminNPC).jpg

  Artwork from New Play Control! Pikmin.

• Beadylonglegs.jpg

  Artwork from Pikmin 2 of the Beady Long Legs.

• 

  The creature's e-card, #30 (10^th yellow card).

Trivia

File:Early Long Legs.jpg

The prototype Beady Long Legs.

• The Beady Long Legs is shown during the last few seconds of a pre-release trailer of Pikmin. Here, the creature appears to be taller and have a reddish tint to its skin, as well as being in an outside area similar to The Forest of Hope.
• In the Citadel of Spiders cave in Pikmin 2, a shadow of a spider web is displayed on the arena floor. This also applies to one of its appearances in Challenge Mode in Pikmin 2 and to the arena of the Raging Long Legs in the the Hole of Heroes.
• It is unknown how Louie knows how to cook it, because in Pikmin 2, the Beady Long Legs falls apart very shortly after defeat.
• There is an unused object in Super Mario Galaxy that looks like an organic ball, which opens up much like the Beady Long Legs' core. In addition, the item's internal name is SpiderItemShell, further connecting it to the pseudo-arachnid.
• This enemy was meant to appear in Pikmin 3, but with its head changed to resemble one of its feet, as evidenced from some unused content in the game.

References

This article was a featured article from May 6th to June 18th, 2009.