Bag

Captain Olimar and Louie on a compressed bag.

This article is about the crushable obstacle. For the pushable obstacle, see paper bag.

Bags are obstacles in Pikmin 2 and Pikmin 4. They are upside-down paper shopping bags that initially serve as a barrier between sections of an area. After weighing them down by throwing Pikmin on top, a bag will become permanently compressed and no longer be a barrier.

Mechanics

Bags resemble plain brown grocery bags that compress and expand using their bellows-like sides. They appear upside-down and slightly compressed, but can be squashed completely by throwing Pikmin on top of the bag so that it is weighed down. Different bags need different amounts of weight on top in order to be flattened, and until that weight requirement is met, the bag will not change size at all. Purple Pikmin weigh ten weight units and Pikmin of other types weigh one unit. The first bag is found on the first day of Pikmin 2, where Captain Olimar and Louie must flatten it to reunite.

The small symbol found on top of bags in Pikmin 2, the word 紙^? (lit.: "Paper") inside a stylized ellipse, is used in Japan to represent paper recycling.

According to Pikmin 2's game files, bags are in fact a seesaw block with a different appearance and nothing to push it back up.

Locations

Pikmin 2

• Valley of Repose × 2, one separating Olimar and Louie at the start of the game
• Awakening Wood × 1, on the way to the White Flower Garden

Pikmin 4

• Sun-Speckled Terrace × 1
• Blossoming Arcadia (does not appear above ground)
  • Drafty Gallery
    • Sublevel 3 × 1
• Serene Shores (does not appear above ground)
  • Engulfed Castle
    • Sublevel 5 × 1
• Giant's Hearth (does not appear above ground)
  • Cradle of the Beast
    • Sublevel 1 × 2
• Dandori Challenges
  • Hefty Haulway × 1
  • Trial of the Sage Leaf 8th Story: Crowded Kitchen × 1
  • Trial of the Sage Leaf Final Story: The Purple Key × 2

Gallery

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Pikmin 2

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  The first bag, before being compressed.

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  The same bag with some Pikmin on top, showing the numbers that appear.

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  Texture used in Pikmin 2.

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  Texture for the recycling symbol in Pikmin 2.

Pikmin 4

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  A bag within the Engulfed Castle.

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  Purple Pikmin crushing a bag.

Trivia

Olimar's weight on the bag, revealed when pausing the game.

• Much like with seesaw blocks, if a leader in Pikmin 2 ends up on top of a non-compressed bag, for instance, with the use of glitches, and there are no Pikmin on top of it, pausing the game will make the fraction numbers appear, revealing the leader's weight to be 0.

Names in other languages

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Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	紙袋 (Pikmin 2) Kamibukuro (Pikmin 2) 袋 (Pikmin 4) Fukuro (Pikmin 4)?	Paper bag (Pikmin 2) Bag (Pikmin 4)