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Frontier Cavern
Location	Valley of Repose
Sublevels	8
Treasures	15
Hazards	File:Flame.png File:Water.png File:Electricity.png File:Poison.png

Revision as of 19:28, March 16, 2010

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The Frontier Cavern is the last cavern found in the Valley of Repose area. To get to it, you may have to clear the area of Bulborbs, Blowhogs, Cannon Beetles, and a Cloaking Burrow-nit. Before building the bridge to the upper section, where the entrance is, you should get rid of the Withering Blowhog in the area. The Empress Bulblax is slightly different than the one in Hole of Beasts in that it gives birth to Bulborb Larva every few seconds. In this cave, there are 1395 Pokos worth of treasures.

Before starting this cave, you should probably have a good number of purple and blue pikmin. Make sure you have all the other types too. On the first sublevel there should be some doodle bugs which, getting enough pikmin thrown on, should give out some sprays. Be sure to stock up on them.

Treasures

Enemies

Walkthrough

Sublevel 1

Treasures

Essential Furnishing - buried
Essence of Rage - buried

Enemies

Candypops and eggs

2x Violet Candypop Bud

An excerpt from the level's music

This sublevel has a few snow bulborbs and hairy bulborbs. It is recommended that with a group of 20 or so purples to smash the hairy bulborbs. Sense there are likely to be snow bulborbs near, throw purple pikmin onto them when the hairy bulborb gets stunned. Using swarms of pikmin also works. Use the white pikmin after to dig up the buried treasures. Some Violet Candy buds are here in case you're low on purples. You may find doodlebugs and throw pikmin at them in order to make them all have flowers or to stalk up on a spray.

Sublevel 2

Treasures

Enemies

You are likely to fall where there is a large stump. Shelter all of your pikmin behind it. Go out of the "room" and go towards one of the cannon beetles. Then stand between a nearby enemy and the beetle. Keep your distance from both the beetle and the enemy. Once the beetle has fired its cannon ball, step out of the way. it should damage the enemy to a critical extent. Do this until most or all other enemies are gone. Go and either get a small group of purples or a swarm of pikmin to attack the left beetles. Now proceed to find and collect the treasures.

Sublevel 3

Exit available on this floor

Treasures

Danger Chime - inside the Spotty Bulbear
Fleeting Art Form
Gemstar Husband - buried

Enemies

Hazards

2x Flame geysers
2x Electrical wires
2x Poison pipes
falling bomb rocks

Candypops and eggs

1x Ivory Candypop Bud
1x Egg & 1 Egg drop

This is one of the most hardest levels, sense it has the spotty bulbear. The landing place will be towards the edge of the level, so go to the back, destroy the electrical wires if there are any. Keep one captain over with the pikmin, while the other captain and purple pikmin go out. With the captain with the purple pikmin, get either the bulbmin's or the spotty bulbear's attention, but not both at the same time. It is a good idea to be one wallspace away from the spotty bulbear when attacking. For handling this one, first stun it behind a wall with purple pikmin. Then, once stunned, run out and attack it with the purples. Be careful so that any young bulbears don't eat your pikmin. Once dead, instantly carry it back to the onion. Now after you have killed both these enemies and obtained any bulbmin, the level should be a brease, except for the few dwarf bulbears that pose hazards for small groups of pikmin. Shut off all electrical wires and poison pipes, use white pikmin to dig up the treasure, get the unburied treasure, and proceed downwards.

Sublevel 4

Treasures

Innocence Lost
Omniscient Sphere - extra Bumbling Snitchbug drops when you pick up treasure

Enemies

Hazards

2x Electrical wires

Candypops and eggs

1x Violet Candypop Bud

This is another tough level, but not as hard as the previous one. For this level you will probably want to use all yellows to kill off all the anode beetles posing electric hazards to all other pikmin. If you want to get more purple pikmin there is a candypop bud for that. Be sure to pluck any pikmin buried by the snitchbug before going to the next level.

Sublevel 5

Exit available on this floor

Treasures

Brute Knuckles - inside a Mamuta

Enemies

Candypops and eggs

This is a rest level, but a more important one. Go and kill all the Brute Knuckles until you find the one with the power upgrade treasure. Three candypop buds exist, in case you need to restock up on some of the pikmin. This might be rather unnecessary if you already have bulbmin, and there are more on the next level too.

Sublevel 6

Treasures

Enemies

Hazards

Water
5x Flame geysers

Some of the enemies might appear in rough spots. Feel free to reset the game until the layout of the sublevel and the enemies is right. You will mostly need blue pikmin on this level, but not at this moment. Go out and use the cannon beetle(s) to attack other enemies or eachother. Once you feel confident in defence against any enemies remaining, call your blue pikmin up for carring the chess pieces. After you have gotten both of them, go to the cave, and jump in. You do not need all of your pikmin just to delve deeper. They will automatically go to the next level entrance.

Sublevel 7

Exit available on this floor

Treasures

Flame Tiller - buried
Spouse Alert

Enemies

Hazards

13x Boulders drop from the ceiling

Candypops and eggs

1x Ivory Candypop Bud

This level has falling boulders from the ceiling, so when going place to place, be cautious. After they all have fallen, the level is fairly simple: use purple pikmin to kill all of the threat enemies. Sense the Orange Bulborb will wake up even if you haven't touched it, you probably should start throwing pikmin about 3 feet away from it, onto it to stun it before it gets dangerous. Get all of the treasures (there is one buried). If you are not ready to fight the boss, jump out the gyser on the level. Otherwise, jump in the hole.

Sublevel 8 (Final Floor)

Treasures

Repugnant Appendage - inside the Empress Bulblax

Enemies

Bulborb Larva
Boss: Empress Bulblax

The Bulborb Larva on this floor are probably the worst hazards for the pikmin, besides the Empress Bulblax. Use a captain to run up ahead, hitting and killing any bulborb larvas he finds. It only takes one hit to kill a bulborb larva. After you have gotten rid of most or all of them, take your reds, yellows, and blues up. It is ok if some of your pikmin die going up. Once you get up to the top, go in front of the empress's face, and start throwing pikmin at it. Once it starts making noise call your pikmin off. Repeat this until it is dead. You do not need to kill new larva that the empress producess, it will get squashed each time the boss roles.

You should probably leave one captain down with the purples and whites.

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 The '''Frontier Cavern''' is the last cavern found in the [[Valley of Repose]] area. To get to it, you may have to clear the area of [[Bulborbs]], [[Blowhogs]], Cannon Beetles, and a [[Cloaking Burrow-nit]]. Before building the bridge to the upper section, where the entrance is, you should get rid of the [[Withering Blowhog]] in the area.
 The [[Empress Bulblax]] is slightly different than the one in [[Hole of Beasts]] in that it gives birth to [[Bulborb Larva]] every few seconds. In this cave, there are 1395 [[Poko]]s worth of treasures.
+Before starting this cave, you should probably have a good number of purple and blue pikmin. Make sure you have all the other types too. On the first sublevel there should be some doodle bugs which, getting enough pikmin thrown on, should give out some sprays. Be sure to stock up on them.
 ==Treasures==
-#
 #*[[Essential Furnishing]]
 #*[[Essence of Rage]]
-#
 #*[[Joy Receptacle]]
 #*[[Icon of Progress]]
-#
 #*[[Danger Chime]]
 #*[[Fleeting Art Form]]
 #*[[Gemstar Husband]]
-#
 #*[[Innocence Lost]]
 #*[[Omniscient Sphere]]
-#
 #*[[Brute Knuckles]]
-#
 #*[[Priceless Statue]]
 #*[[Worthless Statue]]
-#
 #*[[Flame Tiller]]
 #*[[Spouse Alert]]
-#
 #*[[Repugnant Appendage]]
 ==Enemies==
-#
 #*[[Snow Bulborb]]
 #*[[Hairy Bulborb]]
 #*[[Doodlebug]]
-#
 #*[[Snow Bulborb]]
 #*[[Hairy Bulborb]]
 #*[[Decorated Cannon Beetle]]
-#
 #*[[Bulbmin]]
 #*[[Dwarf Bulbear]]
 #*[[Spotty Bulbear]]
 #*[[Mitite]]
-#
 #*[[Anode Beetle]]
 #*[[Bumbling Snitchbug]]
 #*[[Swooping Snitchbug]]
-#
 #*[[Mamuta]]
 #*[[Unmarked Spectralids]]
 #*[[Caustic Dweevil]]
 #*[[Mitite]]
-#
 #*[[Bulbmin]]
 #*[[Water Dumple]]
 #*[[Decorated Cannon Beetle]]
-#
 #*[[Dwarf Orange Bulborb]]
 #*[[Orange Bulborb]]
 #*[[Iridescent Glint Beetle]]
-#
 #*[[Bulborb Larva]]
 #*'''Boss: [[Empress Bulblax]]'''
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 {{listen|filename=Frontier Cavern Sub1.ogg|title=An excerpt from the level's music}}
+This sublevel has a few snow bulborbs and hairy bulborbs. It is recommended that with a group of 20 or so purples to smash the hairy bulborbs. Sense there are likely to be snow bulborbs near, throw purple pikmin onto them when the hairy bulborb gets stunned. Using swarms of pikmin also works. Use the white pikmin after to dig up the buried treasures. Some Violet Candy buds are here in case you're low on purples. You may find doodlebugs and throw pikmin at them in order to make them all have flowers or to stalk up on a spray.
 ===Sublevel 2===
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 *1x [[Hairy Bulborb]]
 *2x [[Decorated Cannon Beetle]]
+You are likely to fall where there is a large stump. Shelter all of your pikmin behind it. Go out of the "room" and go towards one of the cannon beetles. Then stand between a nearby enemy and the beetle. Keep your distance from both the beetle and the enemy. Once the beetle has fired its cannon ball, step out of the way. it should damage the enemy to a critical extent. Do this until most or all other enemies are gone. Go and either get a small group of purples or a swarm of pikmin to attack the left beetles. Now proceed to find and collect the treasures.
 ===Sublevel 3===
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 *1x [[Ivory Candypop Bud]]
 *1x Egg & 1 Egg drop
+This is one of the most hardest levels, sense it has the spotty bulbear. The landing place will be towards the edge of the level, so go to the back, destroy the electrical wires if there are any. Keep one captain over with the pikmin, while the other captain and purple pikmin go out. With the captain with the purple pikmin, get either the bulbmin's or the spotty bulbear's attention, but not both at the same time. It is a good idea to be one wallspace away from the spotty bulbear when attacking. For handling this one, first stun it behind a wall with purple pikmin. Then, once stunned, run out and attack it with the purples. Be careful so that any young bulbears don't eat your pikmin. Once dead, instantly carry it back to the onion. Now after you have killed both these enemies and obtained any bulbmin, the level should be a brease, except for the few dwarf bulbears that pose hazards for small groups of pikmin. Shut off all electrical wires and poison pipes, use white pikmin to dig up the treasure, get the unburied treasure, and proceed downwards.
 ===Sublevel 4===
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 {{listen|filename=Frontier Cavern Sub4.ogg|title=}}
+This is another tough level, but not as hard as the previous one. For this level you will probably want to use all yellows to kill off all the anode beetles posing electric hazards to all other pikmin. If you want to get more purple pikmin there is a candypop bud for that. Be sure to pluck any pikmin buried by the snitchbug before going to the next level.
 ===Sublevel 5===
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 *1x [[Violet Candypop Bud]]
 *1x [[Egg]]
+This is a rest level, but a more important one. Go and kill all the Brute Knuckles until you find the one with the power upgrade treasure. Three candypop buds exist, in case you need to restock up on some of the pikmin. This might be rather unnecessary if you already have bulbmin, and there are more on the next level too.
 ===Sublevel 6===
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 *Water
 *5x Flame geysers
+Some of the enemies might appear in rough spots. Feel free to reset the game until the layout of the sublevel and the enemies is right. You will mostly need blue pikmin on this level, but not at this moment. Go out and use the cannon beetle(s) to attack other enemies or eachother. Once you feel confident in defence against any enemies remaining, call your blue pikmin up for carring the chess pieces. After you have gotten both of them, go to the cave, and jump in. You do not need all of your pikmin just to delve deeper. They will automatically go to the next level entrance.
 ===Sublevel 7===
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 ''Candypops and eggs''
 *1x [[Ivory Candypop Bud]]
+This level has falling boulders from the ceiling, so when going place to place, be cautious. After they all have fallen, the level is fairly simple: use purple pikmin to kill all of the threat enemies. Sense the Orange Bulborb will wake up even if you haven't touched it, you probably should start throwing pikmin about 3 feet away from it, onto it to stun it before it gets dangerous. Get all of the treasures (there is one buried). If you are not ready to fight the boss, jump out the gyser on the level. Otherwise, jump in the hole.
 ===Sublevel 8 (Final Floor)===
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 *[[Bulborb Larva]]
 *'''Boss: [[Empress Bulblax]]'''
+The Bulborb Larva on this floor are probably the worst hazards for the pikmin, besides the Empress Bulblax. Use a captain to run up ahead, hitting and killing any bulborb larvas he finds. It only takes one hit to kill a bulborb larva. After you have gotten rid of most or all of them, take your reds, yellows, and blues up. It is ok if ''some'' of your pikmin die going up. Once you get up to the top, go in front of the empress's face, and start throwing pikmin at it. Once it starts making noise call your pikmin off. Repeat this until it is dead. You do not need to kill new larva that the empress producess, it will get squashed each time the boss roles.
+*You should probably leave one captain down with the purples and whites.
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Frontier Cavern: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:28, March 16, 2010

Contents

Treasures

Enemies