Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi inside the Shroob Mother Ship.

The Shroob Mother Ship.

TheShroob Mother Ship is a large spacecraft primarily used byPrincess Shroob for combat and transportation inMario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The ship resembles a large, pinkShroob saucer; subsequent to their invasion of theMushroom Kingdom, theShroobs' mother ship usually appears to hamper the bros.' efforts to halt the Shroob invasion. The Shroob Mother Ship is the only full-length area in the game thatcan no longer be accessed once the four heroes leave.

AfterMario,Luigi,Baby Mario, andBaby Luigi defeatBowser andBaby Bowser inThwomp Caverns and have seemingly rescuedPrincess Peach, the Shroob Mother Ship sucks the brothers and "Peach" (a disguised Princess Shroob) into the ship. While searching for Peach inside the mother ship, the Mario Bros. find Princess Shroob, who reveals her disguise and promptly tries to destroy Mario and company. Before she succeeds, however,Kylie Koopa is revealed to be disguised as a Shroob, and she uses a ray gun to save the bros. The heroes then travel to the mother ship's highest floor, and while trying to use akey on that floor, a trapdoor opens beneath them and they fall from the mother ship. The bros. get dropped into the now-wreckedToad Town, while Kylie gets dropped intoYoshi's Island.

The mother ship itself is largely linear and pseudo-2D, with long, straight sections which wrap around the perimeter of the ship and overlook a vast pool of unknown green liquid (possiblyvim fromToads) in which many Shroobs seem to be bathing. Some of the Shroobs in the background also appear to have suction tubes above them with their heads being partially sucked in. TwoGuardian Shroobs patrol the area, and they are the only enemies that can be battled forExperience Points andcoins.

While inShroob Castle, the bros. find a large Shroob saucer resembling a smaller version of the Shroob Mother Ship, which they then use to shoot down many normal-sized Shroob saucers. Later, when the bros. finally find the real Peach at the top of the castle, Princess Shroob takes the opportunity to use the mother ship to open fire on her own castle in an attempt to finish off the bros., forcing them to engage the mother ship in battle by using another large saucer, which functions identically to the saucer that the Mario Bros. had used earlier. After its defeat, the Shroob Mother Ship crashes into Shroob Castle, taking out a barrier which had imprisoned Peach before the mother ship's destruction.

Items[edit]

Beanholes[edit]

Every Beanhole contains oneBean.

Location	Image
First area: In the first room, this beanhole is seen right away on the right.
First area: In the same room, another beanhole is in the southwest corner of the room.
First area: In the same room, the last beanhole of this room is in the northeast corner.
First area: In the second room, the player should simply head south and 2 beanholes will be seen right away.
First area: In the third room, the player should head east until the Bros. come across a gap which is only accessible by using the Baby Cakes. The player should use this move and go into this gap which leads to the stairs with the beanhole at their end.
First area: In the fourth room, the beanhole is seen right above the Bros., so the player should head north to get it.
Second area: In the first room, the player should simply head south and the beanhole will show itself.
Second area: In the same room, from the last bean, the player should head east to find another beanhole near the southeast corner of the room.
Second area: In the third room, there are 2 beanholes near the Save Album, one to the south of it and one to the west of it.

Blocks[edit]

Item	Location	Image
Max Mushroom	First area: Above the northwest high platform in the entrance scene.
2x 2 Ultra Drops	First area: In the north high platform in the east part of the south scene.
2x Coin and2 Super Mushrooms	First area: In the east of the third scene.
20 Coin	First area: Same scene, above the first metal path in the east.
5x 5 10-Coins	First area: Same scene, behind a gate after the first metal path.
2x 2 Copy Flowers	First area: Same scene, in the middle of the first pink path.
10-Coin andSuper Drop	First area: Same scene, at the end of the second metal path.
Drain Badge A	First area: Same scene, under the second metal path.
5x 5 10-Coins	Second area: In the northeastern corner of the first scene.
1-Up Super	Second area: In the northwestern corner of the fourth scene.

Area maps[edit]

Gallery[edit]

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  Save screen on the Shroob Mother Ship

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  TheShroobs in the background bathing in what appears to bevim

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  Credits scene of the Shroob Mother Ship leaving theShroob planet

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  Credits scene ofPrincess Shroob revealing her disguise on the mother ship

Names in other languages[edit]

• Spacecraft
• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time locations

• Articles with unsourced foreign names