- This article is about the in-game encyclopedia of enemies in Pikmin 2. It is not to be confused with Pikipedia, the name of this wiki.
- This article is about the Piklopedia in Pikmin 2. For other uses, see Piklopedia.
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- Document what needs to be done to open each creature's entry. Some need to be defeated, and others need to be touched, but there may be more complex mechanics.
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Screenshot of the Piklopedia, on the
Red Bulborb's entry.
The Piklopedia (生物図鑑?, lit.: "Creature Field Guide") is an in-game list of all the enemies and plants in Pikmin 2 that the player has come in contact with throughout their exploration. The player can access the Piklopedia's menu by pressing 
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when on the area selection menu.
This catalog also keeps track of how many Pikmin have been lost to each enemy, how many of said enemy the player has defeated so far, and how many Pokos the enemy is worth. For fields that cannot be counted, four dashes appear instead. On top of that, it also contains notes written down by Olimar and Louie. Selecting the slot of a creature that has not been seen yet will just produce static on the main "screen", and their grid slots will show their Piklopedia number, instead of their icon.
Pikpik carrots can be thrown at enemies to see their reaction, although the throws cannot be directly aimed – not even with the New Play Control! version's enhanced cursor – and are loosely based on the direction the camera is facing. Ultra-bitter sprays can also be used on the non-plant creatures by pressing 
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The Piklopedia is the counterpart to the Treasure Hoard, which shares the same music.
Once the debt is repaid, both the Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard's unseen entries become shown, albeit still unfilled. This was most likely added to help the player track down the last few entries they are missing.
Entries
Notes
Both Captain Olimar and Louie write some notes about every entry in the Piklopedia. These notes are merely for fun and for world-building, and rarely contain any information useful for gameplay. Only the notes of unlocked entries can be seen. The comments written by both return in the Piklopedia of Pikmin 3 Deluxe and the Piklopedia of Pikmin 4, almost verbatim.
Olimar's notes
- For a full list, see Category:Olimar's notes.
Olimar's notes focus on giving information about the creature, including its scientific name, habits, biological features, and mysteries. They can be read by picking an entry and pressing 
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. His notes are always available as long as the entry is available.
Louie's notes
- For a full list, see Category:Louie's notes.
Louie's notes provide recipes on how to cook the creature. They can be read by picking an entry and pressing 
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. His notes only become available when the player defeats the Titan Dweevil and recovers Louie as a treasure for the first time. Once this happens, a global flag is set in the game's save data, and his notes become available forever, for any Story Mode slot, even if the original slot is deleted.
Recipe oddities
Interestingly, Louie references many ingredients found on Earth. As Hocotate seemingly has a severely different climate, it is unsure whether these referenced ingredients are a Hocotatian species similar to Hocotate Onions and Pikpik Carrots, or simply a similar expression or object in their language, that are different from our world's ingredients.
In addition, the following notes conflict with the way enemies die in-game in some way:
- These enemies do not leave a corpse (in Pikmin 2 specifically):
- In Pikmin and Pikmin 2, the Burrowing Snagret's scaly torso explodes as it dies, yet Louie's notes say to slice its torso up.
- The Fiery Bulblax extinguishes itself upon death, but Louie's notes use the beast's flames as a cooking aid.
- All of the Hairy Bulborb's hair falls out upon losing more than half its health, but Louie's notes mention removing its hair before preparing the creature.
- The Waterwraith is notable for not only not leaving any corpse, but also due to its physical form possibly not even existing in the same dimension as Louie.
These same sort of oddities also exist in Pikmin 3 Deluxe's Piklopedia as listed here, many of which carry over to Pikmin 4's Piklopedia which are listed here.
Controls
- See: Controls#Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard
Areas
When using the Piklopedia and the Treasure Hoard, the scenery will change depending on what area the ship is hovering on, on the area selection screen. Each object seen will spawn in a different, pre-specified location of the area. The Valley of Repose, the Awakening Wood and the Perplexing Pool have some notable differences compared to their in-game counterparts, while the Wistful Wild is barely any different. For a list of differences in the two versions of an area, please read the corresponding area article. The following maps illustrate a top-down view of the Piklopedia and Treasure Hoard versions of the areas, excluding the Wistful Wild, which only has differences in background theme and barely any changes to the level design at all.
These slightly changed areas were also seen in prerelease material.
Entry criteria
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To unlock an entry in the Piklopedia, the player must find one of that object during gameplay and do something specific to it, which varies from entry to entry.
To note is that some entries will only be unlocked, and their kill/death stats will only be updated, if the player interacts with a specific variant of that object. For instance, having an enemy of this nature kill 3 Pikmin and then be killed will not result in any change in the Piklopedia. The following is a list of all entries with this limitation:
Enemies that can die
Some enemies can actually die whilst on the Piklopedia.
- Volatile Dweevils blow up when awakened.
- Mandiblards will lose health if they touch water, and can even drown.
- Due to a glitch, if one petrifies a Hermit Crawmad on dry land and throws several Pikpik carrots, the creature will gradually lose health, and can die.
Gallery
The Piklopedia when the sun is setting down.
The Piklopedia during daytime.
Trivia
- A dummy icon texture named
zzdummy can be found within the Piklopedia's icon texture files. It is unused in the game, and it must have been used during development to represent enemies that had no icons at the time.
- The icon textures for the Glowstem and Queen Candypop Bud have exact duplicates inside the game's files.
- The icon for the Fiery Bulblax is 80 × 80 in size. This size is only used for boss icons, whereas normal enemies have icons that are 40 × 40. This indicates that in some early stage in development, the Fiery Bulblax was meant to be a boss, as are the other two "Bulblax" grub-dogs.
- Thrown pikpik carrots will rotate to "face" the creature. Their stems will bend away from it.
- If a pikpik carrot lands near a Red Bulborb, Hairy Bulborb, or Orange Bulborb just as it is about to go to sleep, its yawning and lying down animations will be sped up.
- According to Louie's notes, the following creatures are inedible: Hydro Dweevil, Munge Dweevil, Volatile Dweevil, Crimson Candypop Bud, Golden Candypop Bud, Queen Candypop Bud, Mamuta, Glowstem, Clover, Foxtail, Shoot, Beady Long Legs, and Waterwraith.
- In addition, the Doodlebug has no cooking tips and is suggested to be inedible, but is not outright stated as such, the Ivory Candypop Bud is not suggested to be inedible, but spoils upon seconds of picking, and the Raging Long Legs, like the Doodlebug, is not outright claimed as inedible, but Louie's suggestion of feeding it to "unpleasant in-laws" implies that it probably shouldn't be eaten anyway.
- The Bulborb icon used to represent the Piklopedia within the area selection menu is unique and does not seem to be exactly derived from any particular Bulborb variant in Pikmin 2. Peculiarly, when examined very closely, the icon seems to be derived from the model of the juvenile Bulbmin (as evidenced by its completely black eyes, leg coloration and proportions, and white spot placement) with the leaf stem removed. Interestingly, the internal name for the texture is
chapy, whereas the internal name for Bulborbs is usually spelled chappy. In the Switch re release, a modified version of this icon is used as the standby icon for Bulbmin, strengthening the connection.
- The Piklopedia bears many similarities to the Pokédex from the Pokémon series, as both are an encyclopedia of creatures, and both behave very similarly.
- The entries of most of the returning enemies from Pikmin are derived from the descriptions given to the creatures in the Pikmin Nintendo Player's Guide.
- According to Olimar's notes on the Shoot in the Japanese version, the team's reports on the planet's wildlife are based on information obtained using "portable scanners", with the hope that researchers will become interested in studying it.
Names in other languages
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Piklopedia
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Name
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Meaning
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 Japanese |
生物図鑑?
Seibutsu Zukan |
Creature Field Guide
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 Chinese
(traditional) |
生物圖鑑 |
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 Chinese
(simplified) |
生物图鉴 |
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 Dutch |
Piklopedia |
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 French |
Piklopédie |
Piklopedia
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 German |
Piklopädie |
Piklopedia
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 Italian |
Piklopedia |
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 Korean |
생물 도감
Saengmul Dogam |
Creature Encyclopaedia
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 Spanish |
Piklopedia |
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Olimar's Notes
| Language
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Name
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Meaning
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| Japanese |
オリマーメモ?
Orimā Memo |
Olimar's Notes
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Chinese
(traditional) |
歐利瑪筆記 |
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Chinese
(simplified) |
欧力马笔记 |
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| Dutch |
Olimars notities |
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| French |
Notes d'Olimar |
Olimar's notes
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| German |
Olimars Notizen |
Olimar's Notes
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| Italian |
Appunti di Olimar |
Olimar's Notes
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| Korean |
올리마 메모
Ollima Memo |
Olimar's Notes
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| Spanish |
Apuntes de Olimar |
Olimar's Notes
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Louie's Notes
| Language
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Name
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Meaning
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| Japanese |
ルーイメモ?
Rūi Memo |
Louie's Notes
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Chinese
(traditional) |
路易筆記 |
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Chinese
(simplified) |
路易笔记 |
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| Dutch |
Louie's notities |
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| French |
Notes de Louie |
Louie's notes
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| German |
Louies Notizen |
Louie's Notes
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| Italian |
Appunti di Louie |
Louie's Notes
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| Korean |
루이 메모
Lui Memo |
Louie's Notes
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| Spanish |
Apuntes de Luis |
Louie's Notes
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See also
