Talk:Gear

Unlock order

I've never gotten the ice equipment, but i've gotten the electric stuff around the begining. seems like oatchi's skills, there may be multiple triggers/flags for things to be unlocked. seems like everybody's playthrough is diffrent with these things. P.S. i've gotten all the treasures in the demo and i swear the only armor that ever showed is fire and electric Pikmin Theories (talk) 02:13, July 6, 2023 (EDT)

Treasure Gauge+ Cost

I remember the Treasure Gauge+ costing 100 raw material, could someone please confirm? I Am Error (talk) 12:28, August 5, 2023 (EDT)

Oatchi flare guard translations

I'm trying to edit the flare guard for oatchi and give it the translations, but it just says "Something went wrong. Please try again at a later date." and gives me the error codes "Spaghetti" and "Olimar". What should I do?

Splitting by game

I think this page is long enough where organizing gear alphabetically makes it harder to find gear per game. Since most gear is exclusive to one game, it would be more benefitial to split them as "Gear debuting in _" and alphabetically within each section. Would this be a good idea? — Lady Sophie ^(T|C) 09:15, November 15, 2025 (EST)

I think keeping it as-is would be better, given how you'd only need to know the name of something to be able to find it and not also what game it first appears in. While I do agree with the seeming sentiment that the article's a bit hard to navigate, I don't think splitting this on a by-game basis would a real improvement, especially for those who aren't as familiar with the series. -Gulliblepikmin 13:45, November 17, 2025 (EST)

Splitting the article

Currently, this article documents the upgrade systems of all Pikmin games in the same article. I think doing this results in suboptimal documentation for each system, and that it would be better if this article was split, with each game's upgrade system being documented separately in a way that best suits that system. However, splitting the article would be difficult to do, due to how some upgrades appear in multiple games.

For Pikmin 2, I think the best way to document upgrades would be to document them all on an "Exploration Kit" article, as the Exploration Kit is the set of all the upgrades in the game. This is what the wiki did before 2015 (though back then these upgrades were additionally documented on the articles about the treasures that are collected to obtain them; I think documenting them in a single location is a better idea). For Pikmin 3, there's no set of all the upgrades and they function as standalone collectible items, so I think they should be documented in separate articles. These articles could be similar to fruit articles, with collection guides. For Pikmin 4, one option for documenting gear could be to document all gear items on the same article, but another option could be to take inspiration from the Italian wiki and document gear items on separate articles, with similar gear items (such as the Headlamp and Headlamp+) documented on the same article (most of the gear articles on the Italian wiki haven't been created yet, but I'm assuming that this is the intention from the navbox). For Pikmin and Hey! Pikmin, which have simpler upgrade systems, I think that they should be documented on this article, which would remain as a hub article for documenting general details of upgrade systems in each game; I think the article should be renamed back to "Upgrade", as this is a more broad term, with the term "Gear" only being used for Pikmin 4.

The difficulty with splitting this article is that some upgrades appear in multiple games. For example, if this article was split, there would be 3 places documenting an upgrade called the Scorch Guard, so how would the disambiguations between these places work? There are also some upgrades which function similarly to upgrades in other games but have different names, and there should also be disambiguations between these. There's also the Parts Detector in Pikmin 4, which functions identically to the Treasure Gauge but has a different name. Before this article could be split, it would need to be decided how to handle these situations. — Soprano_(talk) 04:25, November 23, 2025 (EST)

I agree with the idea of splitting this article up, as right now it is way too scrambled. My first thought was to have each articled named something like Pikmin 2 gear, Pikmin 3 gear etc. However, with multiple gears being present in multiple games (like the Metal Suit Z), this would be awkward. This could be fixed with the use of disambiguation pages but this may not be ideal.

I do think that this idea is better than each piece of gear having its own article, as looking at the Power Whistle article on the Italian wiki, it is very short. Too short to warrant an article in my opinion. This also goes for other pieces of gear, not just ones from Pikmin 4. – Chazmatron, signing off! (TALK) 20:19, 23 November, 2025 (GMT)

Articles about each gear item in Pikmin 4 would be quite short. Considering that Pikmin 2 Exploration Kit items would be documented in a single article, it would make sense for Pikmin 4 gear items to be documented similarly. However, there's more to say about Pikmin 3 upgrades, as they're collectible items found in specific locations, so I think they should have their own articles, which would have a similar structure to fruit articles. — Soprano_(talk) 05:45, November 27, 2025 (EST)

I agree something definitly needs to be done with the articleas it's overly long and as more games come out it's just going to get longer. One thing about it that bugs me that definitly needs to be addressed is the list saying what is in what game, problem with that is that some upgrades while not in some games where unlocked by default in others ie. swarm, charge, etc. only thing I can think of is what others have said make an article per game, perhaps keep upgrades that have only appeared in that game on the page and for ones that have been in multiple just having a link to one singular page of that particular upgrade/mechanic. like for example a Pikmin 2 one would go into detail on the Solar System (though now i'm pondering whether that could include the headlamp, so maybe just go into detail on the globe pieces?) and then when it gets to list Scorch Guard, just provide a link to a Scorch Guard page going into detail on each game it's been in. only issue I see other then multiple new articles needing to be made would be what to call each page due to different names for the same ability.Pikmin Theories (talk) 02:27, November 24, 2025 (EST)

That would work, but the issue of what to name the articles is a difficult one. For example, is the Power Whistle the same thing as the Mega Tweeter but renamed, or is it a separate item with the same function? — Soprano_(talk) 05:45, November 27, 2025 (EST)

If this article was split in the way I've proposed, and if all Pikmin 4 gear items were documented on the same article instead of on separate articles, there would need to be articles about the following topics (the text in brackets is clarifying what games the article would cover):

• Upgrade (covering the whole series)
• Exploration Kit (Pikmin 2)
• Data Glutton (Pikmin 3)
• Folded Data Glutton (Pikmin 3)
• Scorch Guard (Pikmin 3)
• Anti-Electrifier (Pikmin 3)
• Metal Suit Z (Pikmin 3)
• Dodge Whistle (Pikmin 3)
• Gear (Pikmin 4)

The following things would need to be decided to split the article this way:

• How should disambiguations for the Scorch Guard and Anti-Electrifier work? (Would the article about the Pikmin 3 upgrade have "(Pikmin 3)" in the title? Would there be a separate disambiguation page, or would there be a disambiguation note at the top of the article about the Pikmin 3 upgrade?)
• How should the disambiguation for the Metal Suit Z work? (This could work differently to the Scorch Guard and Anti-Electrifier as this upgrade isn't in Pikmin 4.)
• How should disambiguations for the Rush Boots and Treasure Gauge work? (I think disambiguation pages would make the most sense here, as the alternative is having the name of the upgrade redirect to one section with that section having a disambiguation note linking to the other section, and this would be prioritizing one game over the other.)
• How should disambiguation links to sections about upgrades that function similarly to upgrades in other games but have different names be formatted?

There's also the question of whether the Parts Detector should be documented in the same section as the Treasure Gauge in Pikmin 4 or a separate section, but this isn't related to splitting this article this way. — Soprano_(talk) 05:45, November 27, 2025 (EST)