Editing Difficulty

Upon creating a save file on the [[Menu/Saved game selection|file selection screen]], the player will be prompted to choose a difficulty. There are 3 options: '''Normal''', '''Hard''', and '''Ultra-Spicy''', in increasing order of difficulty. The latter can only be unlocked once the player has completed the story mode in Hard difficulty, or completed the [[Pikmin 3 Deluxe#Demo|demo]].

At any point in the saved game selection screen, the player can press {{button|switch|zr}} to change a file's difficulty, but doing so makes it impossible for the player to earn any [[badge]] related to completing [[Story Mode]] in a given difficulty, in that file. If the player uses this option to change to the exact same difficulty the file is already at, nothing will happen.

The following is a list of known differences between difficulty modes. The Wii U version of ''Pikmin 3'' is included for comparison's sake.

 

! Subject || style="width:20%" | Wii U || style="width:20%" | Normal || style="width:20%" | Hard || style="width:20%" | Ultra-Spicy

| [[Day#Durations|Day duration]] || 13 minutes || 18 minutes || 13 minutes || 13 minutes

| [[Fruit#Juice|Fruit juice]] || 100% || 100% || 100% || 50%

| Enemy [[health]] || N/A || Enemies usually have lower health than on the Wii U{{cite web|https://www.reddit.com/r/Pikmin/comments/jf1lf9/enemy_hp_comparison_how_to_test_it/|Enemy HP Comparison + How to test it.|reddit|published={{date|21|October|2020}}|retrieved={{date|14|October|2020}}|rname=health_research}} || Most enemies have twice as much as health than on Normal difficulty{{cite web|rname=health_research}} ||  

| [[Nectar egg]]s || N/A || Common || More than on the Wii U, but less than on normal difficulty || Same as on the Wii U

| [[Pikmin limit]] || 100 || 100 || 100 || 60

| Pikmin [[Water|drowning]] time || ≈6 seconds || ≈11 seconds || ≈6 seconds || ≈3 seconds

| [[Ultra-spicy spray|Sprayed]] Pikmin drowning time || ≈2 seconds || ≈5 seconds || ≈2 seconds || ≈1 second

| Leader health || N/A || ≈1.5 times the usual || Same as on the Wii U || Same as on the Wii U

In addition, in normal difficulty, having the active leader collect a [[data file]] will automatically open it, whereas in the other difficulties, this is only true for some data files.

In {{p3d}}, there are three [[badges]] the player can gain from completing [[Story Mode]] on any given difficulty:

* '''Pikmin Challenger''': Obtained by beating Story Mode on Normal, Hard, or Ultra-Spicy difficulties.

* '''Pikmin Professional''': Obtained by beating Story Mode on Hard or Ultra-Spicy difficulties.

 

==In other game modes==

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*[[Menu/Options]]