caveinfo Dungeon

This is a sub-page of Pikmin 2/Unused Caves.

This cave contains many early versions of existing floors, and some floors that never made it into the final dungeon set.

Floor 1	Dream Den - Floor 2	The Ivory Candypop Bud was removed. The Gatling Groink doesn't drop anything in this early version. A Petrified Heart marks where the Implement of Toil will be.
Floor 2	Dream Den - Floor 2	Similar to the above floor with a slightly different room type -- the blocks around the base of the tower are more organized, and some of the other toy structures were rearranged a bit. The objects are identical between floors.
Floor 3	Glutton's Kitchen - Floor 5	Snow Bulborbs appear as placeholder enemies for the Dwarf Bulbears. While this floor has three placeholder treasures (Petrified Heart, Regal Diamond, Tear Stone) only 2 treasures appear in the final revision. This uses a different lighting file than the final version.
Floor 4	Unique Floor Layout	This is a giant floor with a room setup that doesn't appear anywhere else in the game (2_units_small2_mid2_toy). Petrified Heart, Regal Diamond, and Tear Stone appear as placeholders, along with Snow and Hairy Bulborbs.
Floor 5	Submerged Castle - Floor 2	This is a very early revision of this floor. The Waterwraith will never appear. In the early floor, there are two Crimson Candypop Buds! This would have allowed the Blue Pikmin to be transformed fairly early on in this cave. These were taken out and replaced with a Bulbmin enemy. There are no large grub-dogs in the final level. The Dwarf Bulbears were replaced with Dwarf Orange Bulborbs. There's a lone Volatile Dweevil that was replaced with two Fiery Dweevils. There's one more Careening Dirigibug in the early floor. No gates are present in the early version. The three placeholder treasures match the number in the final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 6	Shower Room - Floor 6	The Fiery Dweevils were replaced with Anode and Munge Dweevils. All other enemies are placeholder Bulborbs. The three placeholder treasures match the number in the final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 7	Shower Room - Floor 5	Enemies are placeholder Hairy & Snow Bulborbs. No gates are present. The three placeholder treasures match the number in the final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 8	Shower Room - Floor 3	Enemies are placeholder Hairy & Snow Bulborbs. No gates are present. The three placeholder treasures match the number in the final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 9	Frontier Cavern - Floor 3	Room setup file is different. Enemies are placeholder Hairy & Snow Bulborbs. The three placeholder treasures match the number in the final revision.
Floor 10	Hole of Heroes - Floor 1	Enemies are placeholder Hairy & Snow Bulborbs. Three temp treasures here, but only one treasure in final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 11	Unique Floor Layout	This setup isn't used anywhere else. It uses a test file for the snowy floors found elsewhere in the game. It's a fairly large floor. Objects are placeholders. Naturally.
Floor 12	Unique Floor Layout	Like Floor 11, this uses an otherwise unused setup, but the floor here is much smaller. What's seen in the screenshot is pretty much the whole floor.
Floor 13	Shower Room - Floor 4	This is the same floor, but with two Arboreal Fripperies instead of one. Ooh.
Floor 14	White Flower Garden - Floor 3	Different lighting file, otherwise equivalent to the final revision.
Floor 15	Snagret Hole - Floor 1	The filler Hairy Bulborb was replaced with an Orange Bulborb. There's an extra Hairy Bulborb near the exit of the floor. That Bulborb was removed in the final revision. The remaining Hairy Bulborb drops a Crystallized Clairvoyance while the Orange Bulborb drops a Crystallized Telekinesis. The Shearwigs and Cloaking Burrow-nit were taken out as well. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 16	Frontier Cavern - Floor 8	The Empress Bulblax drops Justice Alloy instead of Repugnant Appendage. Otherwise, it's the same floor.
Floor 17	Emergence Cave - Floor 2	There's one Honeywisp in the early revision. This was removed. The early floor setup has the Superstick Textile and Citrus Lump marked on this floor, but they don't seem to spawn. The Citrus Lump was moved to the first floor, and the Superstick Textile appears in the White Flower Garden, near the first Ivory Candypop Buds.
Floor 18	Unique Floor Layout	A compact floor with an Armored Cannon Beetle larva, two Fiery Blowhogs, gas traps, and filler Bulborbs. The Larva has the Petrified Heart, while the other two filler treasures appear on the ground.
Floor 19	Unique Floor Layout	Similar to the above but with a different (but still unique)layout. The only other difference is that the larva is replaced with a Gatling Groink.
Floor 20	Citadel of Spiders - Floor 5	The Beady Long Legs drops the Five-man Napsack instead of The Key. The Fiddlehead plants were replaced with Common Glowcaps.
Floor 21	White Flower Garden - Floor 5	The Burrowing Snagret drops The Key instead of the Five-man Napsack. There's an Iridescent Flint Beetle that was removed from the final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 22	Unique Floor Layout	The room layout is similar (but not identical) to Hole of Beasts Floor 3. The two treasures, Luck Wafer and Strife Monolith, are from Floors 3 & 4. There are nine Dwarf Red Bulborbs, plus three Male and two Female Sheargrubs.
Floor 23	Unique Floor Layout	Another unused floor setup, this is a small floor with an Emperor Bulblax. He drops, oddly enough, the Stellar Orb! Could this have been the first attempt at Bulblax Kingdom Floor 7?
Floor 24	Submerged Castle - Floor 1	Another very early Submerged Castle floor. The Waterwraith will never appear. There are bombs littered all around the level. They're used for a nice little puzzle here (pictured). The Red Bulborb was replaced by a Fiery Bulblax that drops the Bug Bait treasure when defeated. There are two Wollywogs that were replaced with a Fiery Blowhog. Fire traps were added around the stage (see a pattern yet?) The seven Dwarf Bulbears were removed. The lighting in this floor is a darker version of the final lighting.
Floor 25	Cavern of Chaos - Floor 10	The Segmented Crawbster does not drop a treasure.
Floor 26	Hole of Beasts - Floor 5	The two eggs on either side of Empress Bulblax aren't in the final floor. The Empress Bulblax in the Hole of Beasts does not give birth to Bulborb Larvae in the final version.
Floor 27	Hole of Heroes - Floor 5	Floor is almost identical except that the gate in the final version is stronger.
Floor 28	Bublax Kingdom - Floor 7	Contains falling rocks that were removed from the final floor.
Floor 29	Glutton's Kitchen - Floor 4	There are no enemies anywhere in the level. There are three copies of the White Goodness and Invigorator treasures. A different floor graphic is used. It's the same one used on floors 2 and 5. Lighting is considerably darker in the early version.
Floor 30	Hole of Heroes - Floor 11	While the layout is used in Hole of Heroes, the Empress Bulbax drops the Prototype Detector. This may have been intended for Hole of Beasts Floor 5.
Floor 31	Glutton's Kitchen - Floor 6	The Happiness Emblem was replaced with the Dream Material.
Floor 32	Hole of Beasts - Floor 3	Identical to final floor.
Floor 33	Bully Den	An early version of a Challenge Level? There's no The Key in the level. The Waterwraiths aren't present, and neither are the falling enemies. The Decorated Cannon Beetle Larvae were replaced with Anode Dweevils. The filler Bulborbs are back. None of the enemies drop items. There are two Lustrous Elements, Mirrored Elements, and Unknown Merits. There are only one of each in the final revision. Temporary lighting file used.
Floor 34	Emperor's Realm - Floor 2	Another early Challenge Level floor, possibly. There's no The Key in the level. The two Red Bulborbs were replaced with a Spotty Bulbear and Hairy Bulborb. Each Red Bulborb drops a Petrified Heart. None of the Dwarf Bulborbs / Bulbears are present. The Common Glowcaps were replaced with Figwort. The lighting is darker in this early revision.