Weekly challenges allow up to 5 total people per attempt and the more active participants you have, the easier the challenge becomes. Mushroom invites were added 10/10/2023.

Please add your friend code for others to find, or look among the ones already listed.

Recommended pattern:

• In Game Name
• Friend Code in 123456781234 format (no spaces)
• Avg steps per week
• Avg flowers per week
• Interest in second challenges in a week (and which one(s))
• Mushroom invite information

Example:

• AlexDaGreat
• 123478905678
• 40k steps/week
• 40k flowers/week
• Interested in second challenge for steps, if first is complete by Wednesday
• I'd invite for large or special mushrooms OR interesting postcards. I live in Macedonia. Interested in getting similar invites.

The Discord also has a large friend thread which I've used successfully in the past.

As this community is built out, various references will be added. This will work as a springboard to those references - on lemmy and elsewhere.

Pikmin Bloom News
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#New to the Game

• Player - Leveling
• Friends for Challenges

#General Strategies

• Pikmin - Leveling
• Pikmin Wiki

#Decor Collection

• Kinds, listed - has OSM search string at the right
• Finding Decor - Based on Open Street Map (OSM, for short)
  • Conversion Chart for use with OSM

...and now on Halloween itself I got three of 'em. All the seedlings coming up red today!

It is really nice to have another set of decor where all of them are worth keeping around or even favoriting.

PS. Spooky season 4 evaaaaa!!!

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I’ve personally experienced this a few hours ago and wanted to share.

Is it the first time they do this or annual thing?

I'm usually very relieved when I complete a decor set.

Now there's more and there's even levels that you climb by... Releasing them? You get them to send the away permanently.

Or that's how I understand it.

What do y'all think of the changes? Will you be chasing the rares? Do you plan to release them?

Will you get them, raise them and release after you have x number of that kind and color?

My normal step counter is incrementing, but the 3k step is frozen solid. Restarts and all.

Do y'all have this issue too?

Edit :full phone restart was required. Not ideal, but at least I'm not waiting on bug fix.

Nope! Had to quick charge my radar, but o e last day of snow got it for me!

After guessing last month and getting it wrong, I have no idea what to expect for April's pikmin.

Last year it was Easter, but I dunno that they'd do that twice in a row.

What do y'all think it could be?

We have 3 starting today and continuing until March 10th.

Sorry about the earlier speculation.

This is the link to the event that starts 3/1. It looks like red, blue & yellow pikmin will be earned by collecting poetry slips, while the others will be from spins after mushrooms and such.

More details in the link. Mii clothes as reward for poetry slip milestones, like usual.

Sounds like the map will see an update of:

• More mushrooms
• More blooms
• Postcard images

I'm hoping this is additive and not an overhaul of where mushrooms exist. Although if well-known landmarks could be mushrooms, I'd love that.

Fingers crossed and it sounds like it happens soon.

I got the notification for this feature and almost immediately dove in. I love it.

In conversation, it seems like not everyone caught on to what's happening here.

If you go to your Pikmin, select decor and then filter by whatever category you want, you now see which types you have AND the full set of pikmin you own who are part of that category.

That's handy after a challenge month when we may want to figure out what can be "released." Or just when we're trying to stay under some number of pikmin.

Thought I'd share, hope y'all are having fun, staying active, and thank you to friends you bullhorn me into specials and larges. :-)

I don't remember getting a notification about these, so I'm posting here. There's some new Ramen Noodle Keychain Pikmin.

Best link 8 can find at the moment.

It's just the standard Niantic Community Day thing, but I know my wife and I usually plan something more walk-centric on weekends like this. Reminders help.

This almost escaped my attention and it seems important for gameplay and planning.

And that continues until 12/24.

It's not a long blog post, but there's a lot to what they have to say. Recommend the click.

A new "Fairy light" kind of pikmin (found at appliance stores), a new Electric Special Mushroom (for yellow pickmin), and an emphasized roll out period.

Take all of that, and give everyone three bullhorns per day (for the duration), and I see a lot of activity kicking off. And I see mushroom recharges being bought across the world...

I had been plateauing with my squad - this is a fun and unexpected addition. I'm jazzed.

Note: the cute mittens and the old Winter Stickers are concurrent to much of this. I think I see extra steps in my future.

What do y'all think? Like, dislike, wish was different??