Bag

Captain Olimar and Louie on a compressed bag.

This article is about the crushable obstacle. For the pushable obstacle, see paper bag. For the place items are stored, see Pack.

Bags are obstacles in Pikmin 2 and Pikmin 4. They are upside-down paper shopping bags that initially serve as a barrier between sections of an area. After weighing them down by throwing Pikmin on top, a bag will become permanently compressed and no longer be a barrier.

Mechanics

Bags resemble plain brown grocery bags that compress and expand using their bellows-like sides. They appear upside-down and slightly compressed, but can be squashed completely by throwing Pikmin on top of the bag so that it is weighed down. Different bags need different amounts of weight on top in order to be flattened, and until that weight requirement is met, the bag will not change size at all. Purple Pikmin weigh ten weight units and Pikmin of other types weigh one unit. The first bag is found on the first day of Pikmin 2, where Captain Olimar and Louie must flatten it to reunite.

The small symbol found on top of bags in Pikmin 2, the word 紙^? (lit.: "Paper") inside a stylized ellipse, is used in Japan to represent paper recycling.

According to Pikmin 2's game files, bags are in fact a seesaw block with a different appearance and nothing to push it back up.

Locations

Pikmin 2

Areas

• Valley of Repose
  • There are two bags in this area. The first bag is located slightly west of the landing site, blocking access to the rest of the area. It is the one needed to be crushed on day 1. This bag requires the weight of 20 Pikmin to be crushed. The second bag can be found adjacent to the previous bag, with it blocking access to the northern half of the area. This bag requires the weight of 35 Pikmin to be crushed.
• Awakening Wood
  • There is one bag in this area. It is located towards the northern half of the area, with it being adjacent to the Healing Cask. The bag blocks access to the White Flower Garden, as well as some seesaw blocks. This bag requires the weight of 200 Pikmin to be crushed.

Pikmin 4

Areas

• Sun-Speckled Terrace
  • There is one bag in this area. It is located towards the far west, slightly northwest of the Meandering Slope base. It is blocking access to the Yellow Onion. This bag requires the weight of 10 Pikmin to be crushed.

Caves

• Drafty Gallery
  • There is one bag on sublevel 3. It can be found on the northern part of the sublevel, accessed by the geyser. The bag is directly east of the alternate base location (guarded by a Joustmite). This bag requires the weight of 10 Pikmin to be crushed.
• Engulfed Castle
  • There is one bag on sublevel 5. It is slightly north of the base, and it blocks access to the Waterwraith's arena. It is placed in the thin pathway, with a pair of Purple Candypop Buds on either side. This bag requires the weight of 200 Pikmin to be crushed.
• Cradle of the Beast
  • There are two bags on sublevel 1. The first bag is located in the open section north of the base, which houses a Fiery Bulblax. The bag is on the northern side of this section, blocking access to a lit bonfire altar. The second bag can be found on the raised section east of the base, with it being on the eastern side of this section. It blocks access to the Citrus Lump. Both bags require the weight of 10 Pikmin each to be crushed.

Dandori Challenges

• Hefty Haulway
  • There is one bag in this challenge. It is located towards the east, with it being in the thin pathway connecting the two easternmost sections. It is slightly south of the alternate base. This bag requires the weight of 50 Pikmin to be crushed.

Trial of the Sage Leaf

• 8th Story: Crowded Kitchen
  • There is one bag found in this story. It can be found slightly northwest of the base, blocking the path that connects the two central sections together. This bag requires the weight of 50 Pikmin to be crushed.
• Final Story: The Purple Key
  • There are two bags found in this story. The first bag is located relatively close to the Purple Onion, and it opens a shortcut for the Onion to be carried back. The second bag is found slightly south of the base, and it is the last obstacle of the story. The first bag requires the weight of 50 Pikmin to be crushed, and the second bag requires 100.

Gallery

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Pikmin 2

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  The first bag, before being compressed.

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  The same bag with some Pikmin on top, showing the numbers that appear.

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  Texture used in Pikmin 2.

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  Texture for the recycling symbol in Pikmin 2.

Pikmin 4

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  A bag within the Engulfed Castle.

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  Purple Pikmin crushing a bag.

Trivia

Olimar's weight on the bag, revealed when pausing the game.

• Much like with seesaw blocks, if a leader in Pikmin 2 ends up on top of a non-compressed bag, for instance, with the use of glitches, and there are no Pikmin on top of it, pausing the game will make the fraction numbers appear, revealing the leader's weight to be 0.
  • This is also true in Pikmin 4, except for the pausing part.

Names in other languages

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Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	紙袋 (Pikmin 2) Kamibukuro (Pikmin 2) 袋 (Pikmin 4) Fukuro (Pikmin 4)?	Paper bag (Pikmin 2) Bag (Pikmin 4)
Italian	Busta di carta	Paper bag
Spanish	bolsa	bag

See also

• Cardboard box
• Wooden stake