Changelog

1.0.0 (first release)

The first version of PikminCraft, for Fabric 1.20.1.

Pikmin

• 12 kinds of Pikmin from all four games: Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple, White, Rock, Winged, Ice, Glow, Bulbmin, and Mushroom (plus the leaf, bud and flower stages).
• Each kind has its own strengths:
  • Reds are fireproof, Yellows are electricity-proof and Blues breathe underwater.
  • Purples hit like ten Pikmin, and Whites are poison-proof.
  • Rocks are crush-proof, Wingeds fly, Ices freeze what they attack, and Glows are immune to every hazard.
• Pikmin grow from seeds. Pluck a sprout to add it to your squad. Leaves grow into buds and flowers, and older Pikmin run faster and hit harder. Nectar turns a Pikmin straight into a flower.
• Pikmin take no fall damage. Others drown in water after 5 seconds, unless you whistle them out.

Controls

• V (hold) whistles, R throws, Z switches type, X dismisses your squad, C swaps captains, and P opens the Piklopedia. All of these can be changed in Controls.
• A corner display shows the selected type, the size of your squad and how many Pikmin are out in the field.

Onions

• Sleeping Onions sit out in the world, each colour in its own kind of biome. Wake one to get your first seed.
• Onions take in carried pellets and bodies and turn them into seeds. They store Pikmin, and they only take their own colour.
• Only 100 Pikmin can be out at once. New ones beyond that go straight into the Onion.
• Sneak + right-click an Onion to pack it up, along with every Pikmin inside it, so you can move camp.
• There's a craftable Glow Onion for Glow Pikmin.

Carrying

• Pellets, enemy bodies and treasures need as many Pikmin as they weigh (shown as a "3/5" counter), and more Pikmin carry them faster.
• Pellet Posies grow 1, 5 or 10 pellets whose colour keeps changing.
• Dismissed Pikmin get on with things by themselves: carrying, fighting nearby monsters, knocking pellets off posies and working on obstacles.

Day and night

• A sun meter shows how much of the day is left, with a warning near sunset.
• At sunset your Pikmin go aboard their Onions and the Onions take off. Pikmin left out alone get eaten. You can turn this off with /gamerule pikminSunsetRule false.
• At night, Glowcaps sprout and give Glow Pikmin.

Enemies and bosses

• Enemies: Bulborb, Dwarf Bulborb, Frosty Bulborb, Wollywog, Sheargrub, Fiery Blowhog, Watery Blowhog, Anode Beetle, Puffstool, Iridescent Flint Beetle and Bulborb Larva.
• Bosses: Emperor Bulblax, Beady Long Legs, Burrowing Snagret, Empress Bulblax and Titan Dweevil. Each has a health bar and drops a treasure.
• How they fight: creatures eat Pikmin, shake off the ones latched on, and some breathe fire, water, electricity or ice.
• Puffstools turn Pikmin into Mushroom Pikmin until you beat the Puffstool.
• Spawn eggs: every enemy has one.

Treasure and the ship

• The ship is crafted and placed. Carry treasures to it to earn Pokos, Sparklium, Juice, or one of the 30 ship parts.
• The ship's pod turns pellets and bodies into seeds.
• Treasures lie around the world, and White Pikmin dig up the buried ones.

Caves

• Cave entrances generate in the world. Each cave has several sublevels, with enemies that get tougher as you go down, Bulbmin dens, treasures and posies.
• The last sublevel has a boss, and a geyser back to the surface.
• Your squad, captains and Oatchi come down with you.

Captains and Oatchi

• The Captain's Badge recruits up to 2 extra captains. Send them anywhere, and swap squads between you.
• The Pup Collar summons Oatchi. Ride him, make him rush, or have him sniff out the nearest treasure.

Items and obstacles

• Ultra-Spicy Spray makes your squad faster and stronger.
• Ultra-Bitter Spray turns nearby enemies to stone.
• Bomb Rocks blow up walls and hurt enemies, but not your Pikmin.
• Obstacles:
  • Paper, stone and crystal walls.
  • Electric gates, gas pipes and fire geysers, which only the right Pikmin survive.
  • Bridge kits, which Pikmin build plank by plank.
• The Piklopedia records every Pikmin, creature and treasure you've found.

Known issues

• The Onion has its finished model. Everything else (Pikmin, enemies, the ship, captains and Oatchi) still uses placeholder models.