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'''Emergence Cave''' ({{j|始まりの洞窟|Hajimari no Dōkutsu|Cave of Beginning}}) is the first [[cave]] the player comes upon in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', and is by far the easiest. It acts as the game's tutorial for caves, featuring a simple layout in each sublevel and no particularly harmful [[enemy|enemies]] or [[boss]]es. [[Purple Pikmin]] are first encountered here, which are needed to collect a [[Spherical Atlas|certain treasure]] to progress to the next area. In this cave, there are {{pokos|480}} worth of treasures.

The Emergence Cave can be reached by progressing past both [[paper bag]]s and the white bramble [[gate]] nearby base. It is hard to miss once the white gate is destroyed, and it is impossible to go beyond the cave without discovering [[Blue Pikmin]] first. You should bring all the Pikmin you have at this point (which should be around 70 [[Red Pikmin]]).

[[File:Emergencecavesub1.JPG|thumb|right|175px|Sublevel 1. The layout never changes.]]

The first sublevel of this cave has two treasures, which are guarded by four Snow Bulborbs; these are easily killed by [[Group move|swarming]] or [[throw]]ing Pikmin on their behinds. Once defeated, the [[Citrus Lump]] and [[Quenching Emblem]] can be brought to the [[Research Pod]]. Bringing defeated beasts back will trigger a cutscene the first time a corpse is picked up by the Pod.

[[File:Emergencecavesub2.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Sublevel 2. Again, the layout is always the same.]]

The globe half should be ignored, and the Snow Bulborbs along the way should be defeated instead. At the end, in a spherical room, there are two [[Violet Candypop Buds]]. Throwing five Red Pikmin into each flower will produce 10 Pikmin seeds; when [[pluck]]ed, these will be the very first [[Purple Pikmin]] in the game. The [[Spherical Atlas]] at the start of the sublevel can now be brought back to the Ship's Pod, which will unlock the [[Sphere Chart]], an item allowing the player to travel to the [[Awakening Wood]].

It is possible to obtain more Purple Pikmin on this day by leaving the cave without collecting the treasure, and then returning to it. Because the Candypop Buds disappear only after the player has obtained 20 Purples, three trips of 10, 9 and 10 make the maximum 29 from this cave. This allows the player to get [[White Pikmin]] earlier on in the Awakening Wood, without having to obtain the Purple Pikmin from [[Hole of Beasts]]; as a total Pikmin weight of 200 to squash the [[paper bag]].

Given that enemies respawn every time a cave is entered, and that their corpses are worth a few Pokos, a player can finish the debt using nothing but the Emergence Cave. This challenge usually requires that the player gets no money from sources outside of the Emergence Cave's corpses. It tends to take a while as, subtracting treasures, the player can only get {{pokos|22}} from the 11 Snowy Bulborbs each time they enter the cave.