Ravenous Whiskerpillar
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Appears in | Pikmin 2 | ||
Scientific name | Lepidoptera pluckieus | ||
Family | Whiskerpillar | ||
Areas | Awakening Wood, Perplexing Pool, Wistful Wild | ||
Caves | None | ||
Challenge Mode stages | None | ||
2-Player Battle stages | None | ||
Attacks | None |
The Ravenous Whiskerpillar (ハナゲイモ?, lit.: "Nose Hair Caterpillar") is an enemy in Pikmin 2. Ravenous Whiskerpillars are not harmful to the Pikmin, but are dangerous to the Burgeoning Spiderwort plants. They will eat the berries on the plants, which are necessary to make sprays. They can be found in the Awakening Wood, the Perplexing Pool and the Wistful Wild; each time, they are near two or more Burgeoning Spiderwort plants. When confronted on a Burgeoning Spiderwort, they will drop off the plant and burrow into the ground, giving the player a chance to attack it. Strangely enough, when killed, they don't seem to be dead; carrying them will make them squirm and emit more of their hissing, and a soul does not appear. Just before they are pulled into the Onion, they struggle and hiss even more rapidly. The in-game Piklopedia states that they are a larval form of another creature, but it says that mature specimens have not been found yet.
Stats
Weight | Max. carriers |
Seeds | Value | Health | Regen. |
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1 | 1 | 2 | 1[note 1] | 200 | N/A |
- ^ This enemy cannot be delivered to the Research Pod in-game. This information is obtained from the game files.
Notes
Olimar's notes
Louie's notes
Pikmin 2 Nintendo Player's Guide
Strategy
The following article or section contains guides. |
Pikmin
If it's on a Burgeoning Spiderwort, send a couple of Pikmin up there to bring it down, then swarm it with the rest when it falls. Otherwise, just swarm it.
Leaders
If it's on a Burgeoning Spiderwort, then wait for it to eat all the berries and kill it when it hops off of the plant. If on the ground, just punch it until it's dead. If the Rocket Fist upgrade has been unlocked, the third punch can hit the Whiskerpillar only when it's on the very bottom part of the berries.
Technical information
Pikmin 2 technical information (?) | |||
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Internal name | imomushi
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Global properties (List) | |||
ID | Japanese comment | Property | Value |
s000 | friction(not used) | Friction | 0.5 |
s001 | wallReflection | Unknown (wall bounce speed multiplier?) | 0.2 |
s002 | faceDirAdjust | Unknown | 0.25 |
s003 | accel | Acceleration | 0.1 |
s004 | bounceFactor | Unknown (bounce when it hits the ground?) | 0.1 |
fp00 | ライフ | HP | 200 |
fp01 | マップとの当り | Unknown (related to slopes) | 12.5 |
fp02 | ダメージスケールXZ | Horizontal damage scale | 0.2 |
fp03 | ダメージスケールY | Vertical damage scale | 0.25 |
fp04 | ダメージフレーム | Damage scale duration | 0.35 |
fp05 | 質量 | Unknown (weight?) | 0.1 |
fp06 | 速度 | Move speed | 40 |
fp08 | 回転速度率 | Rotation acceleration | 0.1 |
fp09 | テリトリー | Territory radius | 500 |
fp10 | ホーム範囲 | "Home" radius | 30 |
fp11 | プライベート距離 | "Private" radius | 250 |
fp12 | 視界距離 | Sight radius | 500 |
fp13 | 視界角度 | FOV | 180 |
fp14 | 探索距離 | Unknown (exploration radius?) | 0 |
fp15 | 探索角度 | Unknown (exploration angle?) | 0 |
fp16 | 振り払い率 | Successful shake rate | 0 |
fp17 | 振り払い力 | Shake knockback | 0 |
fp18 | 振り払いダメージ | Shake damage | 0 |
fp19 | 振り払い範囲 | Shake range | 0 |
fp20 | 攻撃可能範囲 | Unknown (shock attack max range?) | 0 |
fp21 | 攻撃可能角度 | Unknown (shock attack max angle?) | 0 |
fp22 | 攻撃ヒット範囲 | Unknown (attack hit range?) | 0 |
fp23 | 攻撃ヒット角度 | Unknown (attack hit angle?) | 0 |
fp24 | 攻撃力 | Attack damage | 1000 |
fp25 | 視界高 | Unknown (height visibility?) | 0 |
fp26 | 探索高 | Unknown (exploration height?) | 0 |
fp27 | ライフの高さ | HP wheel height | 50 |
fp28 | 回転最大速度 | Rotation speed | 10 |
fp29 | 警戒時間 | Unknown (warning time?) | 0 |
fp30 | 警戒ライフ | Unknown | 0 |
fp31 | ライフ回復率 | Regeneration rate | 0 |
fp32 | LOD半径 | Off-camera radius | 40 |
fp33 | マップとのあたりポリゴンの選定 | Collision processing radius | 25 |
fp34 | ピクミンとのあたり | Pikmin damage radius | 10 |
fp35 | 石化時間 | Petrification duration | N/A |
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 | 0.3 (30%) |
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 | 0 |
ip02 | 振り払い張付1 | Shake mode 1 – Pikmin requirement | 0 |
ip03 | 振り払い打撃B | Shake mode 2 – hit count | 0 |
ip04 | 振り払い張付2 | Shake mode 2 – Pikmin requirement | 0 |
ip05 | 振り払い打撃C | Shake mode 3 – hit count | 0 |
ip06 | 振り払い張付3 | Shake mode 3 – Pikmin requirement | 0 |
ip07 | 振り払い打撃D | Shake mode 4 – hit count | 0 |
Specific properties | |||
ID | Japanese comment | Property | Value |
fp01 | 草登り速度 | Spiderwort climbing speed | 2 |
fp02 | 種周回速度 | Unknown (movement speed on top of the plant?) | 0.3 |
fp11 | 実食い時間 | Time spent eating a berry | 10 |
fp90 | Translate補正 | Unknown (translation correction?) | 0.75 |
fp91 | Rotate補正 | Unknown (rotation correction?) | 0.075 |
Other information
- Size: Body length: 36.5mm, as per the e-card
- Pikmin 2 Piklopedia number: #27
Naming
- See more: Whiskerpillar family#Naming.
- Common name: "Ravenous" means "starving", and "Whiskerpillar" is a combination of "whisker" and "caterpillar". Indeed, the creature is always hungry for berries, and looks like a regular real world caterpillar, but with whiskers.
- Japanese nickname: ハナゲイモ?. ハナゲ? is Japanese for "nose hair", referring to its whisker-like hairs, and イモ? is likely part of the word イモムシ?, which means "hornworm" (the caterpillar of a hawk moth).
- Japanese name: ハナゲムシ?, lit.: "Nose Hair Bug".
- Scientific name: Lepidoptera pluckieus. Lepidoptera (being used here as a genus), is the real world order of insects that include moths and butterflies, and pluckieus being similar to the English word "pluck", perhaps related to how the berries removed from the flower could be considered "plucked".
- Internal names: Internally, it is called
imomushi
, or いもむし?, which means "caterpillar". - Prerelease: In an unused early version of the game's script, this enemy is called "Fuzzy Whiskerpillar".[1]
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Japanese | ハナゲイモ? Hanage Imo |
Nose Hair Caterpillar |
French | Verbrisse Vorace | Ravenous Whiskerpillar |
German | Gefräßige Bartraupe | Voracious Beard Caterpillar |
Italian | Anellide vorace | Voracious Anellid |
Spanish (NoA) | Voraz oruga mostachona | Voracious whiskered caterpillar |
Gallery
Ravenous Whiskerpillars in the Piklopedia.
The Piklopedia icon of the Ravenous Whiskerpillar in the Nintendo Switch version of Pikmin 2.
The Ravenous Whiskerpillar's e-card, #28 (5th yellow card).
Trivia
- An enemy similar to the Ravenous Whiskerpillar was meant to appear in Pikmin 3, according to some unused files.
- Louie's recipe implies that he killed the specimen itself, as the Whiskerpillar does not die when defeated by the Pikmin.
See also
References
- ^ Pikmin 2/Early English Script on The Cutting Room Floor