Armored Nut Treasure Hoard icon.
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Number 21
Series Xenoflora Series
Value Poko × 60
Weight 4
Maximum carriers 8 Pikmin
Location Wistful Wild
Challenge Mode levels Hot House, Cave of Snarls, Rumbling Grotto
For the larger Acorn, see Corpulent Nut.

The Armored Nut (ヒラノミ?, lit.: "Low-grade Employee's Seed") is a treasure in Pikmin 2. It is a small acorn that falls under the Xenoflora Series. It is found in the Wistful Wild inside a Creeping Chrysanthemum.

As Olimar's notes on the treasure indicate, it's location lines up perfectly with where the Onions - specifically the Blue one - landed at The Impact Site in Pikmin.

Collecting the treasure

 
Location of the Armored Nut.

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The Creeping Chrysanthemum that is nearest to the Hole of Heroes has the Armored Nut. You'll want to kill the nearby Withering Blowhogs as well, along with the other two Chrysanthemums, as well as the roaming Gatling Groink

Notes

Olimar's journal

I've never tasted a nut quite like this. It's difficult to explain, but it tastes like...sorrow.

PS: I can't shake the feeling that I've been here before. Aha! This must be the exact spot where I crash-landed last time!

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This common, ordinary nut somehow reminds me of myself and fills me with sadness.

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Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
  Japanese ヒラノミ?
Hira no Mi
Low-grade Employee's Seed, hira being Japanese slang for low-grade employee.
  French Noisette Mélancolique Melancholic Nut
  French (NoA) Noisette blindée Armored nut
  German Gepanzerte Nuss Armored Nut
  Italian Noce corazzata Armored Nut
  Spanish Fruto acorazado Armored fruit