Accidental glitch - plucking infinite pikmin

[@angelaran]

I don't know how it happened, I just toss 5 rock pikmin to the violet candypop bud and proceed to pluck them and then the glitch started, I tried to recreate the glitch but I couldn't.

[@PatatFrituurder]

I think maybe its something with like the player and oatchi plucking 1 sprout at the same time

[@NunnyNugget]

At least now we know it's a glitch that exists, someone will find out how it works some day

[@someweirdo428]

We gotta show this video to some glitch hunters

[@metalmaple-fluffyhoney54]

One important detail, how many pikmin, and of which kinds, did you have when you started plucking?

[@Leekodot15]

​@@someweirdo428Agreed! And if they can replicate the glitch, mayhaps it can be done on the surface?

[@willowthesumner]

purple pikmin forever cursed to be the most broken type

[@buildermonkey2229]

Broken in the intended and unintended way

[@RandomInternetGuyy]

nice pfp

[@louisde1850]

Introducing dark purple pikmin with a carrying capacity of 100

[@Davi-zo4lu]

Kid named pikmin 3: 🌚

[@clovxrr]

this time, in a literal sense

[@iamnotapotato.5]

The fact we know it can happen means its only a matter of time before people find reproducible setups. It could be mildly useful in speedruns to a degree

[@princeofhyrule2205]

Well, yeah. Especially for 100% runs where getting 100 purples early on without needing to do the sage trials could speed up areas.

[@jayrry]

​@@princeofhyrule2205you still need to do aage trials for 100% tho

[@jpting_]

Looks to me like it has something to do with both the player character and oatchi bumping into each other, both trying to occupy the same space. It's possible that it's screwing with the way the game handles plucking and so they keep plucking the same spot?

[@johnathan2023]

There was another way to do it by using purple pimmin to ground slam the bud before it closed and it would let you reuse it this is an awesome glitch

[@Sparrowo51]

​@@princeofhyrule2205 You don't need to do sage trials to consistently get Purple Pikmins. Go to the Serene Shores map. Finish the Engulfed Castle cave.There are 2 purple blooms right near the exit. From there on, re-enter the cave with max blue Pikmins. Select sublevel 5. Convert 10 pikmins, use the jelly nearby to give them flowers if you want and leave the cave. Rinse and repeat.

[@RevolutionaryOven]

Can we all give oatchi a round of applause and appreciate his efforts. Purple pikmin canonically weigh 10 pikmin worth per purple. So with 100 purple pikmin on his back, I'd say he's fairly strong... Still being able to run and jump. Oh also, I'm surprised this isn't forming a singularity with how dense the matter must be in this area. After all, it's also canon that a single purple pikmin is enough to collapse dimensions.

[@melvacaoyona-ollosa278]

Oatchi has been working out alot.

[@BlouePickdMan]

and with the glitch carrying 1000 purple pikmin.. it means he can carry 100k pikmin on his back.. DAMN oatchi is powerful

[@newcheese9882]

@@BlouePickdManthat'd be cool but the game doesn't let you have over 120 pikmins (with glitches of course) so he can't (this was why the pikmins didn't all follow him)

[@peeface2963]

​@@BlouePickdMan yes because 1000*10 is 100,000 excellent math

[@ArnLPs]

That however makes me a bit angry. He can carry that much Pikmin, but then plays weak when it comes to collecting treasure. What a liar, dude!

[@Banana_Slama_Mana5949]

"LOOK AROUND YA CRABS!" "you planted grass?" "GRASS!?" *the ground rumbles as all the purple pikmin sumo stomp* "oh no..."

[@Mystery_Glasss]

THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT

[@ChrisHinners008]

ah sh!t. Here we go again.

[@et4038]

Waterwriath is having a panic attack right now

[@dededeleted4793]

Bro gained more Purple Pikmin in one floor than I have gained Pikmin in general throughout my entire 100% deathless playthrough. Waow, thas alotta purpl.

[@thomazplays9305]

This comment is a flex.

[@newcheese9882]

@@thomazplays9305what do you mean ? deathless playthroughs aren't that hard you can go back in time

[@thomazplays9305]

@@newcheese9882 oh yeah I foegor

[@abraham3673]

@@newcheese9882you can go back in time in every pikmin game, it’s called “resetting.” that doesn’t make them easier or harder.

[@Ag3nt-MC]

@@newcheese9882I refuse to go back in time, it’s my first Pikmin game but It feels like such a cheap move.

[@orang63]

just for anyone who doesn't know, you can command up to 120 pikmin before they stop working and just stand around

[@kirbcake]

Odd. Makes me think that maybe in development they intended to up the max pikmin number to 120 with Flarlic but ended up scrapping it, but the pikmin ai ID numbers still go up to 120.

[@Leekodot15]

​@@kirbcakeCould also be a buffer since you can get wild pikmin, too?

[@Coolmar15]

​@@Leekodot15the moment you reach 100 Pikmin in your party in a cave you can't get anymore wild Pikmin. Nearly all wild Pikmin who were supposed to be in the sublevel are replaced by candypop buds.

[@Leekodot15]

@@Coolmar15 whaaaaaat!

[@xavtop]

@@kirbcake maybe it's because of glow pikmin? i never tested but you might be able to spawn some and then whisle wild pikmin to reach over 100

[@squiddler7731]

I'm amazed that the animations for leaving the cave floor actually worked properly with that many pikmin. Was very funny seeing them still jumping down even as the ship flew down and it faded to black

[@suzuuwu1]

Gathering pikmin… that is the foundation of good Dandori.

[@gahhck_9170]

This has positively affected the Purple Pikmin population.

[@TheSynonamous1]

i feel bad for the Bulborbs, i can imagine one just hearing the boss music then looking behind and just wittnessing a whole stampede of Purple Pikmin coming his way

[@Lordbowser666]

Lul

[@Coolmar15]

The number of new Pikmin not being shown isn't a bug, it's because when you use a Candypop Bud, the Pikmin obtained aren't considered new, wich is normal because they are simply reconverted Pikmin.

[@BowlOSoup6661]

Dang, I was gonna say this

[@thomazplays9305]

Props for oatchi for plucking tons of pickmins tirelessy and then letting them jump on his back

[@RF-Ataraxia]

Man, Oatchi's back's gonna need a chiropractor after all that

[@nefariosgliscor]

They stopped piling on after a certain point. I was worried one more might disintegrate his spine.

[@amari5886]

Oatchi's back is gonna hurt 😅

[@--46200]

He'll only carry up to 120 at a time if you manage to get that many

[@thenightmarefox]

Yeah imagine all the fat bois breakin ya back.

[@Luke-ke7sh]

Purple pikmin went from endangered to invasive species in a minute. 😂

[@nefariosgliscor]

"And then Purple Pikmin rained down from the ceiling of the next sublevel like Prince's iconic song foretold."

[@329link]

The explanation for why the game didn't count them in the results screen is just because the game doesn't account for pikmin lost/gained via candypop buds. It's a bit annoying tbh because it's easy to lose track of numbers in caves where candypops regularly appear.

[@londondeer]

The reason you didnt see them when you went down is because all ~2,000 or so were on Oatchi's back. You could rush into an enemy and launch an entire civilization of Purple pikmin onto it if you wanted to

[@oblongLogin]

Only 120 can be on oatchi at a time

[@londondeer]

@@oblongLogin Unless you come in through a cave, in which case it plops them all onto him!! (Even if they're invisible)

[@TheElectrifiedBrony]

No, there's no invisible bs. 120 is the hard cap. Any pikmin past that number will idle and not do anything, including jumping on oatchi

[@londondeer]

@@TheElectrifiedBrony dude I'm not sure what to tell you 😭 when you enter another cave sublevel with that quantity of pikmin, they're already on his back. I have video evidence if you need me to post it

[@curiouscreator8806]

imagine being a creature enjoying your day and then you're just bombarded by heavy little purple dudes sent in by a yellow dog and a weird creature thing sitting on said dog for a moment... what would you do in that situation

[@newcheese9882]

shepherd : hey you know the tablets history and stats ? you : not the time im stuck in a forest of pikmins

[@TheXppp1]

The reason it slows down when you get closer to the herd is level of detail (LOD), the game dynamically lowers geometric and animation detail when the camera gets further away from the models to save resources

[@kenziemac130]

Overdraw is also a main issue on switch. Large portions of the screen being filled by tris that draw over others dozens of times is the likely culprit here if I would have to guess. (you often see this kind of slowdown on switch games with lots of particles or where a transparent or dithered surface blocks most of the screen). Even with a depth prepass the fragment shader would have to be executed on the pikmin leaves (and probably the whole model) to use a fragment discard operation. Not to mention the transparent glow effect when pikmin are inactive. This is a nightmare scenario for switch.

[@TheXppp1]

@@kenziemac130 I wonder just how much less the lag would be with just overclocked memory

[@alfiehicks1]

​@@kenziemac130Overdraw isn't exclusively a Switch problem.

[@kenziemac130]

@@alfiehicks1 yes, but the switch is heavily bottlenecked by a relatively low fillrate.

[@jamracoon55]

We need more people to know about this. I wonder if it’s ok to tell a Pikmin streamer about this?

[@Vallite_God]

Water Wraith: *SCREAMING FOR LIFE*

[@Ray_Cathode]

that's honestly hilarious, i hope it doesn't get patched

[@Its_bloon.yt2011]

It will

[@Ray_Cathode]

@@Its_bloon.yt2011 i know and i wish it wasnt 💔

[@onlookerofthings6029]

It's interesting seeing the counter in the bottom right loop back after 1000 but the number under the Purple Pikmin icon keeping track of the real number

[@kirby-impostor5594]

"Okay Oatchi, that's enough. ..Oatchi? Oachti, that enough. I SAID IT'S ENOUGH. OATCHI STOP WHERE ARE YOU GETTING ALL THESE PIKMIN??"

[@themailman2120]

me when somebody says anything i disagree with:

[@gen6bagel]

I can smell my switch burning just by watching this

[@腰原誠]

The way the purple pikmin went on oatchi's back is like you were mowing a lawn 😂

[@fuzzydude64]

Water Wraith: I fear no man, but that thing scares me.

[@foolbait1139]

And I thought the glitch where you have to throw as the bud reopens was crazy! This is amazing

[@lukaslukas8083]

I love how the Geiger counter continues to go up

[@ashleycd6487]

Bro got so many purple pikmin he changed fps from "frames per second" to "frame per second"

[@mayto420]

more like seconds per frame

[@Tin60]

The point at the end looks so funny, it just looks like the pod is leaking purple goo out of its cavity.

[@beatziegraham6928]

Enough purps to strike fear in the heart of even the Waterwraith.

[@xzackattackx7266]

Why is it that every time an infinite pikmin glitch is found, it's found with purple pikmin being replicated?

[@galfinsp7216]

It’s the most lucrative pikmin to get with them, given that 2 of the items in the series require the strength of 1000 regular

[@magnatcleo2043]

@@galfinsp7216 It also may have something to do with candypop buds, since that's how this video started and it was the only method of getting purple pikmin up until this game.

[@et4038]

Because purples are funny broken lol

[@valiruko]

that makes 2 infinite purple glitches. purples will always be broken unintended or not, plus, how strong is oatchi for carrying these things on his back which combined in a group of 100 ALONE weigh 10x his strength, not to mention purples literally can break dimensions

[@mushroom4466]

the waterwraith when it sees this squad strolling into the engulfed castle:

[@LuteMeat-uq8xr]

You beat my record of 1,001 with the old method. Good job!

[@Mr.Ten_plus]

Hey boss, the doors are broken and all the Pikmin are getting out. boss: it’s fine

[@TinkaPon]

What might have happened is that you and oatchi plucked the same pikmin and the game didn't know what to do and just spawned another one

[@kamekmechanic80]

Imagine if all of them properly followed you down to the final boss

[@JC_JN4]

Waterwraith shaking in his boots rn

[@Chad_Wick]

bout to speak to the ceo of the submerged castle

[@xerobeat9142]

Congrats, bro. You can just about beat Pikmin 2 with these numbers

[@ryaquaza3offical]

Water Wraith: “I fear no man, I am fear itself,. But that,. thing?” *army of over a thousand purple pikmin marching forward at 2 fps* “It scares me,.”

[@itryen7632]

When pikmin is not enough, so you decide to go play pikmax

[@phantomscrapper6608]

Imagine your just a normal enemy chilling and you suddenly see like 600 purples fall and cause a earthquake

[@Powdown]

3:15 "I long for the great release that death will bring."

[@ThePikminCaptain]

Waterwraith’s Worst Nightmare

[@reallyrll]

And we thought the Subterranean Swarm was the enemies

[@oOTheMastaOo240]

Wish this glitch was in pikmin 2 for purples smh

[@NeoPeewee]

"This is very good dandori"

[@octoguygmod]

4:30 Bro doesn't even need the purple onion at this point (if it exists)

[@idioticlight]

Dandori issues are no longer a problem, unless Bro wants the white onion

[@immortalkoopah3138]

It does exist but good lord he has all the purples

[@smashmaster4wiiu]

all onions are able to be collected in pikmin 4

[@minecrafter3448]

The water wraith is trembling

[@Oswerb]

The fact that your Nintendo Switch didn't explode amazes me.

[@teedeegremlin]

water wraith isn't gonna see this one coming at all.

[@maxthompson7107]

Congratulations: you now have a lifetime supply of purple Pikmin.

[@kyubeyz_7062]

It’s kinda funny that this was recommended right after I finished this cave

[@zoniken]

You've made a boss killer army.

[@nitro3401]

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have found it. The Water Wraiths deepest fear

[@AlexAwesome26]

I love purple pikmin, so this vid makes me insanely happy😊😊😊

[@erikg5458]

4:18 is so pleasant

[@TheSpeaker-cj1mo]

Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

[@mattinahalf]

Just goes to show we could absolutely have more pikmin than 100, nintendo just needs to make a beefier system, I would love to see a gigantic group of thousands of pikmin swarming a human sized monster, the dandori battles would look like war.

[@ecstaticwooper368]

2:25 the last thing you see before you die

[@micahfurlow2624]

What every enemy sees in Pikmin 2:

[@FloroSapiens]

It's Fiddlebert giving you more pikmins from the next sublevel, you unlock him by having over 100 pikmin

[@TruVarVa]

3:17 Sometimes I just feel like a purple pikmin

[@finsterhund]

200000 purples are ready, with a million more well on the way

[@jokuma5798]

The water wraith's worst nightime

[@constantspider]

Vegans: i love plants, i hate killing animals! The plants that vegans order 3x as much of:

[@benschiemer]

Looks like you’ve still got a few sprouts to pluck.

[@petergaley314]

Meanwhile Shepherd be like "yes yes but what about your tablet's history and stats tho"

[@thegoldenarchers8564]

2:22 POV: Pikmin 2 bosses

[@stan_1999]

Now bring on the 10K weight treasure

[@heliomancer6840]

If I recall correctly, Candypop conversions don't count as new since, normally, your pikmin just change in type, not overall number. In this case, while you were still making pikmin, the created pikmin are technically not new in the game's eyes.

[@wayv7973]

alternate title: how to make your nintendo switch into an atomic bomb

[@adamnakamura8003]

This man found the ultimate form of Dandori!

[@toshio1334]

They don't count as new Pikmin but they do count how many die if you let them. At most you can usually get about 120-140 max to actually follow you. The rest will sorta just stand there.

[@Aresmynam]

Water wraith pissing itself rn

[@LittleHelperFan]

game: haha in this level there is 20 doomsday apparatuses my purple Pikmin: 4:29

[@LuisDGamer]

Se dice que si todos esos pikmin saltaran a la vez, provocarían un terremoto inimaginable para la escala de Richter.

[@m.a.ddragon939]

I’m so surprised you managed to get away with that much and leave the cave with all of those purples without the game crashing

[@sasukuto]

Of all the pikmin in the game for you to get this on, you got it on the most over powered pikmin in the game. Nice! Congrats!

[@vampragon4386]

"You planted grass?"

[@makaioenriza7698]

"How many purple pikmin do you have?" " *_-Y E S-_* "

[@burgerdiverbanandodansparc9154]

What Waterwraith sees in his nightmares

[@Thefry399]

Yo the water wraith is going to be fucking terrified

[@UNSCMarine117]

"UNLIMITED POWERRRRRRERR!"

[@Protofall]

This is a good problem to have. I noticed Pikmin 4 doesn't count candy pop conversions in the stats, so that explains why it said you didn't get any

[@Sansfromundertale59]

buddy really said “domain expansion, pikmin 2 infinite purple pikmin”

[@karpsushi8623]

The last thing a Bulborb sees before meeting Jesus Christ:

[@_pitako]

"Why can't we have more than 100 pikmin?" Pikmin 4 when you have more than 100 pikmin:

[@Nawidi]

Bro is the purple pikmin professor

[@kevinodonnell6932]

Blud does not need the purple onions

[@DoggoTheMan]

imagine this with rocks lol 1 charge into a full ass human and that man is DEAD (its like a shotgun how it shoots all of them and launches them all at once)

[@eduardude9184]

Next on the list is see how many you can get before the game crashes

[@ShadowHeartValentine]

Its like i can feel the switch overheating in my hands....

[@goldfish0116]

Nah forget the purple pikmin how the hell did Oatchi even hold that much pikmin-

[@ich8871]

"Bro how do you have over 1 million purple Pikmin?" "Sorry bro, I accidentaly started plucking infinite purple Pikmin out of nowhere."