Fruits are the reason for Alph, Brittany and Charlie's visit to PNF-404 – by retrieving pieces of fruit scattered around the planet, and extracting the seeds, they are able to solve the hunger problem in their home planet, Koppai.

Similarly to ship parts and treasures in the previous two games, the collection of these items is necessary in order to complete the game, and they are normally found in specific locations, commonly accompanied by some sort of challenge which must be completed to access them. Some fruits are split into parts, where all parts must be recovered before the fruit is recognized. On top of working towards the goal of kick-starting cultivation on Koppai, the fruits are directly useful to the explorers, as they need to feed on their juice every day.

In total, there are 66 fruits, belonging to 30 different types, with some of them having served as treasures in Pikmin 2, bearing the same name. There is a grand total of 98 days' worth of juice, including the three bottles the explorers keep at the start as provisions. Day 99 can be played but the Koppaites will have no juice at the end. Interestingly, by highlighting day 1 on the day selection menu, it'll show that at the start of that day, the explorers had 7 bottles of juice. Given that at the end of the day, there are only three bottles on the inventory, this means that when the Drake crash-landed, four of the provisions got lost.

Juice

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The collection of fruits serves more than just completing the overall goal: fruit collected is juiced at the end of the day to provide rations for the explorers. Juice is stored into bottles, and a bottle is only closed and made available if it's filled to the top. For this, the leaders will even mix juices of different fruits, if need be. After everything has been juiced, the crew grabs the oldest bottle and consumes it, regardless of how many people there are to feed on it. As such, the amount of juice the player has will determine the amount of days left they can explore. If a day ends and there are no more bottles of juice, the game is over, although the player is allowed to retry from a previous day.

Different fruits provide different amounts of juice, with the lowest possible being half a cup, the maximum being 3, and the average being 1.4. When two different juices are placed on the same bottle, the resulting juice's color will end up as a blend between the two. This is purely aesthetic and affects only the color seen on the bottle. To determine the final color, the game averages the hue and value components of both the existing and the new juice. This works fine for most cases, but in the case where the player collects a Juicy Gaggle and a Zest Bomb and their juices are combined, this results in the color #00FFE5, which is a vibrant blue. Although this color blend is correct, it does not look very natural; indeed, in the real world, combining raspberry and lime juice results in a grayish brown mix.

The bottles have some Koppaite text on them. On the glass, there is the text     ("FJ"), which could mean "fruit juice". On the frame, the word                 ("survival") can be read.

List

Icon Name Juice Total Locations Real life fruit
  Astringent Clump 2.0 2 Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra Grapefruit
  Blonde Impostor 1.5 1 (2 parts per fruit) Twilight River Gold kiwi
  Citrus Lump 1.5 4 Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra, Twilight River Orange
  Crimson Banquet 3.0 1 (6 parts per fruit) Tropical Wilds Watermelon
  Crunchy Deluge 2.0 1 Twilight River Asian pear
  Cupid's Grenade 0.5 3 Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra Cherry
  Dapper Blob 1.0 3 Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra, Twilight River Mangosteen
  Dawn Pustules 1.0 2 (20 parts per fruit) Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra White grapes
  Delectable Bouquet 1.5 2 Tropical Wilds, Twilight River Fig
  Disguised Delicacy 1.5 2 (2 parts per fruit) Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra Green kiwifruit
  Dusk Pustules 1.0 3 (20 parts per fruit) Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra, Twilight River Red grapes
  Face Wrinkler 1.5 3 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra Lemon
  Fire-Breathing Feast 2.5 1 Garden of Hope Dragon fruit
  Heroine's Tear 2.5 1 Distant Tundra Mango
  Insect Condo 2.0 1 Twilight River Apple
  Juicy Gaggle 0.5 4 Tropical Wilds, Twilight River Raspberry
  Lesser Mock Bottom 1.0 3 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Twilight River Plum
  Mock Bottom 2.0 1 Tropical Wilds Peach
  Pocked Airhead 2.5 2 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope Dekopon
  Portable Sunset 2.0 2 Distant Tundra, Twilight River Persimmon
  Scaly Custard 1.5 2 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope Avocado
  Searing Acidshock 1.0 4 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Twilight River Ume
  Seed Hive 2.5 1 Twilight River Papaya
  Slapstick Crescent 2.5 1 Tropical Wilds Banana
  Stellar Extrusion 2.0 3 (2 parts per fruit) Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra Star fruit
  Sunseed Berry 1.0 4 Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra Strawberry
  Tremendous Sniffer 2.0 1 Twilight River Pear
  Velvety Dreamdrop 1.0 4 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra, Loquat
  Wayward Moon 3.0 1 Garden of Hope Cantaloupe
  Zest Bomb 1.5 3 Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra Lime

In addition, the following two special types of fruits can be found in Mission Mode and Bingo Battle:

Icon Name
  Golden Sunseed
  Golden Grenade

Fruit File

 
A screenshot of the completed Fruit File.


Main article: KopPad.

The Fruit File is one of the options available on the KopPad. It provides information on all collected pieces of fruit, and by tapping on a fruit, the player can read Brittany's Notes on it.

Piktamin U

"Piktamin U" is a fictional vitamin that the Koppaites claim is in some fruits. Its name is a pun on "vitamin" with "Pik" at the start, and the "U" is the vitamin's name, in reference to the Wii U. Oddly, even the Golden Sunseed, which seems to be more of a treasure and less of a food, is said to have a lot of Piktamin U, in a Mission Mode tip.[1]

Treasures as fruits

In Pikmin 2, some treasures are actually fruits. They do not serve the same purpose as the collectibles in Pikmin 3, but are fruits nevertheless:

Gallery

Trivia

  • According to Brittany's notes, Alph is allergic to both the Heroine's Tear and the Scaly Custard.
  • Including Mission Mode and Bingo Battle, the Cupid's Grenade is the most common normal fruit in Pikmin 3, appearing 20 times. The most common golden fruit is the Golden Grenade, appearing 23 times.
  • All the fruits in Pikmin 3 appear to be fresh and undamaged, which is odd, considering some of them are buried, underwater, not growing on any plant (except a few), and even ingested by creatures.
  • The Fruit Files for Dawn Pustules and Dusk Pustules state 20 Pikmin are needed to carry them. While there are 20 grapes to carry in each, just one Pikmin can handle the entire task by carrying one at a time.

See also

References

  1. ^ Golden Sunseeds are packed with Piktamin U! One of these gives you   × 200!Loading screen tip in Mission Mode


 

This article was a featured article from October 1st, 2015 to December 1st, 2015.