101 Pikmin challenge
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A 101 Pikmin run is when a player collects all treasures in Pikmin 2 using only 101 Pikmin, the minimum known amount necessary. 100 Pikmin are needed to lift the Doomsday Apparatus, plus one Red Pikmin, to avoid an extinction. Unlike the previous known minimum of 103, there is no need for one Yellow or Blue Pikmin because their Onions are never considered "discovered", although those Pikmin types are still obtained. This run can be completed in 8 days.
The following is a brief outline of what needs to be done for such a run, skipping day 1, which is the same as normal.
Outline
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General notes
- When entering a cave, try to obtain the most sprays you can, using the double sprays glitch, and if you want, restarting the game so that eggs give out sprays most of the time.
Day 2
- Valley of Repose
- Cultivate 30 Red Pikmin and 29 Purple Pikmin.
- Collect all treasures available, so the Utter Scrap and everything inside the Emergence Cave.
Pikmin count: 30 Reds, 29 Purples, 0 Whites, 0 Yellows, 0 Blues (59 in total).
Day 3
- Awakening Wood
- Collect Sunseed Berry.
- Enter the White Flower Garden and clear it.
- Enter the Bulblax Kingdom with a carrying oversight and clear it.
- Enter the Hole of Beasts and clear it.
- After these caves, end up with 35 White Pikmin, 23 Purple Pikmin, and 1 Red Pikmin, even if that requires entering the White Flower Garden twice.
- Unlock both types of sprays, using carrying oversights for ultra-bitter spray.
- Collect the Geographic Projection, Chance Totem, Pilgrim Bulb, and Air Brake.
- Collect the Healing Cask (Hypnotic Platter in Europe) exploiting the high ledge glitch.
- Get the wild Blue Pikmin discovery cutscene.
- Enter and clear the Snagret Hole.
- Enter the Snagret Hole and Bulblax Kingdom such that you end up with no Purple Pikmin, 58 White Pikmin, and 1 Red Pikmin.
Pikmin count: 1 Red, 0 Purples, 58 Whites, 0 Yellows, 0 Blues (59 in total).
Day 4
- Perplexing Pool
- Enter and clear the Citadel of Spiders.
- Using a carrying exploit, go up to where the wild Yellow Pikmin are, and push one into the nearby patch of nectar weed. Once they finish plucking the weeds, the Yellow Pikmin will be controllable.
- Collect the Impediment Scourge.
- Enter the Citadel of Spiders with your Pikmin. On sublevel 3, have a Swooping Snitchbug bury the Yellow Pikmin, and then pluck it from the ground. This will cause a glitched version of the Yellow Pikmin introduction cutscene. Finish the cave.
- Enter and clear the Glutton's Kitchen, using a carrying oversight.
- From the past two caves, end up with 95 Yellow Pikmin and 4 White Pikmin, even if it means going into the Glutton's Kitchen several times.
- Enter a cave and make sure that some Yellow Pikmin stay in the overworld. This will force them to go to the Onion, which will be forced to move into the landing site, in an activated/inactivated hybrid state.
- Use the time remaining to farm sprays inside caves.
Pikmin count: 1 Red, 0 Purples, 4 White, 95 Yellows, 0 Blues (100 in total).
Day 5
- Awakening Wood
- Open the gate to the Blue Pikmin, and drag one of them (after it is idle – petrifying a Wogpole might help a group defeat it and turn the Pikmin idle) all the way to the patch of nectar weed near the landing site, to the southwest of the Pilgrim Bulb. Once the weeds are all plucked, call the Pikmin.
- Enter the Snagret Hole, and on sublevel 3, have a Swooping Snitchbug bury the Pikmin. Pluck it out and exit the cave.
- Collect the Decorative Goo.
- Use the caves to end up with 1 Red Pikmin, 25 Yellow Pikmin, 31 Blue Pikmin, 34 White Pikmin, and 10 Purple Pikmin.
Pikmin count: 1 Red, 10 Purples, 34 Whites, 25 Yellows, 31 Blues (101 in total).
Day 6
- Valley of Repose
- Pull out all Pikmin except for the 1 Red.
- Collect the Fossilized Ursidae.
- Enter and clear the Frontier Cavern.
- Collect the Unspeakable Wonder, Pink Menace, Temporal Mechanism, and Spiny Alien Treat.
- Enter and clear the Subterranean Complex.
- Use the Subterranean Complex to end up with 17 Yellow Pikmin, 30 Blue Pikmin, 3 White Pikmin, 50 Purple Pikmin, and 1 Red Pikmin.
- Make it so that the debt is repaid after you've done everything on this day.
Pikmin count: 1 Red, 50 Purples, 3 Whites, 17 Yellows, 30 Blues (101 in total).
Day 7
- Perplexing Pool
- Collect the Onion Replica and Massage Girdle.
- Enter and clear the Submerged Castle, raising your Purple Pikmin total to 60 and decreasing your count of Blues to 20.
- Enter and clear the Shower Room, exchanging 5 of your Blues for Purples.
- Collect the Aquatic Mine, Fortified Delicacy, Gherkin Gate, and the Optical Illustration (Abstract Masterpiece in Europe).
- Enter the Shower Room and exchange 5 more Blues for Purples.
Pikmin count: 1 Red, 70 Purples, 1 White, 19 Yellows, 10 Blues (101 in total).
Day 8
- Wistful Wild
- Enter and clear the Cavern of Chaos, and change your numbers so that you have 75 Purples, 3 Blues, 21 Yellows.
- Collect the Conifer Spire, Seed of Greed, Anti-hiccup Fungus, and Armored Nut.
- Enter and clear the Hole of Heroes and Dream Den. Due to the low number of Blue Pikmin on sublevel 10 of the Dream Den, you will need to align the enemy corpses so that the dropped Talisman of Life bounces close to the landing stump.
- Use the Cavern of Chaos to convert all Whites, Yellows, and Blues into Purple Pikmin, then collect the Doomsday Apparatus.
Pikmin count: 1 Red, 100 Purples, 0 Whites, 0 Yellows, 0 Blues (101 in total).