Fruit
- This article is about the main collectible inPikmin 3. For other uses, seeFruit (disambiguation).
Fruits (果実?) are the main collectible item inPikmin 3. There are 66 fruits scattered around 4 of the 5areas of the game, and collecting them is necessary to complete the game. They are the reason forAlph,Brittany, andCharlie's journey toPNF-404, as the collection of seeds from fruits is necessary to solve the worldwide hunger crisis on their home planet ofKoppai.
Fruits are found in specific locations of specific areas, usually 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 as collected. On top of working towards the goal of kick-starting cultivation on Koppai, the fruits are directly useful to the explorers, as they provide bottles ofjuice, one of which is consumed everyday. If the player runs out of juice, the game is over.
In total, there are 66 fruits, belonging to 30 different types, with some of them having appeared as treasures inPikmin 2, and all fruits later reappear as treasures inPikmin 4, 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, causing a game over. In theUltra-Spicy difficulty inPikmin 3 Deluxe, there is only 49 bottles worth of juice, as the amount of juice provided from each fruit is halved. Interestingly, by highlighting day 1 on theday 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.
List[edit]
Golden fruit[edit]
In addition, special golden variants of some fruits can be found in theMission Mode,Bingo Battle, andSide Stories ofPikmin 3 orDandori Battles ofPikmin 4. They are collected forPokos or
points instead of juice, and are worth several times the amount of their non-golden counterparts.
- Pikmin 3
Golden Grenade: a golden Cupid's Grenade, often several are found in groups or dropped by enemies.
Golden Sunseed: a golden Sunseed Berry, more valuable but less common than Golden Grenades.
- Pikmin 4
Golden Sniffer: a golden Tremendous Sniffer, only spawns once per match and often in places thatOatchi andMoss cannot reach.
Juice[edit]
The collection of fruits serves more than just completing the overall goal: fruit collected is juiced at the end of theday to provide rations for the explorers. The juice is stored in bottles, and a bottle is only closed and made available if it's filled to the top. If needed, the leaders will mix juice from different fruits to fill up a bottle. After all of the fruits of the day have been juiced, the crew gets the oldest bottle and consumes it, regardless of how many people there are to feed with it. As such, the amount of juice the player has will determine the number of days left they can explore. If a day ends and there are no more bottles of juice, the player is taken to the game over screen, although they are 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. The bottles have some text in theinterstellar alphabet on them. On the glass, there is the text
("FJ"), which could mean "fruit juice". On the frame, the word
("survival") can be read.
A full bottle of juice.
A fruit being juiced.
A shelf full of juice.
The 3 bottles of juice the player starts with.
Some of the many colors of juice found inPikmin 3.
The Game Over screen that is shown when the crew runs out of juice.
Blending[edit]
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 can have some oddities; in the case where the player collects aJuicy Gaggle and aZest 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 natural; indeed, in the real world, combining raspberry and lime juice results in a grayish-brown mix.
That said, there is an exception for the first fruit of asaved game. When the player collects the first fruit, acutscene plays showing said fruit being juiced. For unknown reasons, this cutscene affects the coloring calculations. If this fruit did not fill up a bottle, then when the player collects a second fruit, the resulting juice color will be more biased towards the first fruit collected. This can be seen easily with the aforementioned Juicy Gaggle and Zest Bomb – if the player collects one of these as their first fruit, the resulting "blue" juice will end up being greener or bluer than normal.[1]
Fruit File[edit]
- Main article:KopPad.
The Fruit File is one of the options available on theKopPad. It provides information on all collected pieces of fruit, and by tapping on fruit, the player can readBrittany's Notes on it.
Piktamin U[edit]
"Piktamin U" is a vitamin that theKoppaites claim is in some fruits. Its name is a portmanteau ofPikmin and vitamin, and the "U" in the vitamin's name is a reference to theWii U. Even theGolden Sunseed andGolden Grenade are said inMission Mode tips to contain large amounts of Piktamin U, despite their composition.[2][3]
Treasures as fruits[edit]
Sometreasures inPikmin 2 are fruits, particularly those in theSucculent Series. Most of these returned inPikmin 3 with the same name:
Cupid's Grenade: same as thePikmin 3 fruit. It weighs 3 instead of 1.
Sunseed Berry: same as thePikmin 3 fruit. It weighs 5 instead of 3.
Combustion Berry: a larger strawberry.
Seed of Greed: a chestnut; botanically a fruit.
Disguised Delicacy: same as thePikmin 3 fruit. However, it is only one slice and weighs 15 instead of 5.
Insect Condo: same as thePikmin 3 fruit. It weighs 15 instead of 10.
Citrus Lump: same as thePikmin 3 fruit. It weighs 15 instead of 5.
Additionally, some treasures in other series are botanically fruits, but not considered as such for culinary purposes. None return inPikmin 3, though the Love Nugget returned inPikmin 4.
Love Nugget: a tomato.
Infernal Vegetable: a bell pepper.
Armored Nut: an acorn.
Corpulent Nut: a larger acorn.
All 30 fruits fromPikmin 3 reappear inPikmin 4 as treasures. They have the same name as inPikmin 3, though some have differentweights.
Sunseed Berry: a strawberry which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Cupid's Grenade: a cherry which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Searing Acidshock: a Japanese apricot which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Velvety Dreamdrop: a loquat which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Astringent Clump: a grapefruit which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Wayward Moon: a muskmelon which now weighs 50 instead of 20.
Lesser Mock Bottom: a Japanese plum which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Mock Bottom: a peach which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Dawn Pustules: white muscat grapes which now weigh 15 instead of 20, or 1 per part.
Dusk Pustules: purple grapes which now weigh 15 instead of 20, or 1 per part.
Crimson Banquet: a watermelon which now weighs 100 instead of 42, or 1, 5, 5, 8, 8, and 15 in individual pieces.
Juicy Gaggle: a raspberry which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Zest Bomb: a lime which now weighs 7 instead of 5.
Delectable Bouquet: a fig which now weighs 10 instead of 8.
Portable Sunset: a Japanese persimmon which now weighs 10 instead of 8.
Tremendous Sniffer: a pear which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Crunchy Deluge: an Asian pear which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Disguised Delicacy: a kiwifruit which has the same weight as inPikmin 3. (For a piece)
Blonde Impostor: a golden kiwifruit which has the same weight as inPikmin 3. (For a piece)
Citrus Lump: a mandarin orange which now weighs 7 instead of 5.
Face Wrinkler: a lemon which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Pocked Airhead: a dekopon which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Insect Condo: an apple which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Dapper Blob: a mangosteen which now weighs 5 instead of 3.
Scaly Custard: an avocado which now weighs 10 instead of 8.
Seed Hive: a papaya which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Stellar Extrusion: a starfruit which has the same weight as inPikmin 3. (For a piece)
Heroine's Tear: a mango which now weighs 12 instead of 10.
Slapstick Crescent: a banana which has the same weight as inPikmin 3.
Fire-Breathing Feast: a dragon fruit/pitaya which now weighs 20 instead of 15.
Along with the
Love Nugget, which now weighs 10 instead of 20, there are 5 new treasures in theNature's Candy Series that are botanically fruits:
Crush Nugget: a cherry tomato
Crew-Cut Gourd: a zucchini
Mysterious Carriage: a pumpkin
Snack Bean: a peanut
Foolish Fruit: an eggplant
Badges[edit]
InPikmin 3 Deluxe, there are fivebadges the player can gain from collecting fruits:
- Bearing Fruit: Collecting a fruit in Story Mode.
- Fruitful Endeavor: Collecting 20 fruits in Story Mode.
- Fruit Force: Collecting 30 fruits in Story Mode.
- Fruit Ballad: Collecting all 66 fruits in Story Mode.
- Efficiency Expert: Having 30 days' worth of juice reserve.
Bearing Fruit. The badge shows aSunseed Berry.
Fruitful Endeavor. The badge shows a Sunseed Berry and aSlapstick Crescent.
Fruit Force. The badge shows anInsect Condo, aCitrus Lump, and someDawn Pustules.
Fruit Ballad. The badge shows all six fruits seen in the previous badges.
Efficiency Expert. The badge shows three bottles of juice.
Gallery[edit]
Artwork of somePikmin and fruit.
At theend of the day, Brittany recaps and juices the collected fruits, and analyzes new ones.
Some more fruit. In this image, all pieces of fruit are of undiscovered types.
Some more fruit with 2 new types.
Every fruit from theTropical Wilds.
Trivia[edit]
- According toBrittany's notes,Alph is allergic to both theHeroine's Tear and theScaly Custard, although the latter is only stated in the European version.
- IncludingMission Mode andBingo Battle, the Cupid's Grenade is the most common normal fruit inPikmin 3, appearing 20 times. The most common golden fruit is theGolden Grenade, appearing 23 times.
- All the fruits inPikmin 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. This is likely to make them more easily recognizable.
- Next to theSunseed Berry in the Garden of Hope along the path to the Rock Onion, an unripe strawberry on a stem can be seen to the right of the ripe fruit. While this fruit never grows, it implies that more fruit can grow on PNF-404 over time.
- The Fruit Files forDawn Pustules andDusk Pustules state 20 Pikmin are needed to carry them. While there are 20 grapes to carry in each, just one Pikmin can hypothetically handle the entire task by carrying one at a time.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese | 果実? Kajitsu | Fruit |
 French | Nourriture | Food |
 German | Nahrungsquelle | Source of nourishment |
 Italian | Frutti | Fruit |
 Spanish | Fruta | Fruit |
Juice
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | Succo | Juice |
| Spanish | Zumo | Juice |
 Spanish (NoA) | Jugo/Víveres | Juice/Groceries |
Piktamin U
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ピコミンＵ? Pikomin U | Fromピクミン (Pikmin) andビタミン (vitamin) |
 Chinese(traditional) | 皮他命U Pítāmìng U | From皮克敏 (Pikmin) and維他命 (vitamin) |
 Chinese(simplified) | 皮他命U Pítāmìng U | From皮克敏 (Pikmin) and维他命 (vitamin) |
| French | Pictamine U | From "Pikmin" and "vitamine" (vitamin) |
| German | Pikamin U | From "Pikmin" and "Vitamin" (vitamin) |
| Italian | Pikamina U | From "Pikmin" and "vitamina" (vitamin) |
 Korean | 피타민 U pitamin U | From피크민 (Pikmin) and비타민 (vitamin) |
| Spanish | Piktamina U | From "Pikmin" and "vitamina" (vitamin) |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^YouTube video demonstrating the different outcomes for blue juice, published on September 21st, 2020, retrieved on September 23rd, 2020
- ^“Golden Sunseeds are packed with Piktamin U! One of these gives you
× 200!” –Loading screen tip in Mission Mode - ^“Golden Grenades are packed with Piktamin U! One of these gives you × 100!” –Loading screen tip in Mission Mode
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