Pikmin Bloom celebrates Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year festivities, which are usually celebrated around February in several regions throughout Asia, are just around the corner! This year, Purple, White, Winged, and Rock Pikmin will join Red, Blue, and Yellow Pikmin in donning Lunar New Year Ornaments as they join the party for the first time in the Pikmin™Bloom app! There are two types of ornaments: Red and Gold—altogether, this makes for a total of 14 Lunar New Year Ornament Decor Pikmin.

Download the Pikmin Bloom app for free on smart devices to get in on the fun!

This event begins on February 1 at midnight (local time) and ends on February 25 at 11:59 p.m. (local time).

Once the event starts, you’ll receive missions** for collecting Red Envelopes. There are 20 missions in total. By clearing these missions, you’ll be able to obtain Lunar New Year Event exclusive Mii costumes, as well as seedlings for Lunar New Year Ornament: Gold Decor Pikmin.

For every Event Challenge’s mission that you clear, you’ll be able to obtain rewards at random. These can be Red Envelopes, seedlings that grow into Lunar New Year: Red Decor Pikmin, flower petals, or other items. Additionally, when the Big Flower at the center of the stage blooms, you’re guaranteed to receive a Gold Seedling on top of the random rewards.

During the event, you may encounter special shiny mushrooms in red and gold colors: the Lunar New Year Mushrooms. When you destroy them, you’ll receive Mystery Boxes that contain items such as Red Envelopes and flower petals, among others. Lunar New Year Ornament Decor Pikmin are the strongest against these mushrooms, so be sure to send them out to destroy them!

On weekends during the event, you may encounter Giant Lunar New Year Mushrooms that carry a rarer type of Mystery Box. Note that Lunar New Year Ornament: Gold Decor Pikmin will be even stronger than Lunar New Year Ornament: Red Decor Pikmin against Lunar New Year Mushrooms of all sizes.

Giant Mushrooms will appear on the following weekends:

February 10th & 11th

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