Pikmin 4

How to Solve All Obstacle Types

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Pikmin 4 - How to Solve All Obstacle Types
Obstacles are scattered all around the areas in Pikmin 4 as mini-puzzles to hinder your exploration. Check out this guide to learn what obstacles await you and how to solve all their types.

How to Solve All Obstacles

Use Your Pikmin and Oatchi

Obstacles will always require you to strategically use your Pikmin and Oatchi. For fast and easy solutions, utilize the right Pikmin Types for specific obstacles.

No. Obstacle How to Solve
1 Box Use Pikmin to push it out of the way.
2 Buried Treasure, Onions, Cave Entrances, etc. Command Oatchi or Pikmin to dig. Yellow Pikmin are especially good at digging.
3 Conveyor Belt Command Oatchi to Rush to cross to the other side. Alternatively, change the direction by pushing on the other button.
4 Cracked Pottery Command Oatchi to Rush and break them.
5 Crystal Wall Use Rock Pikmin to destory it.
6 Dirt Wall Throw your Pikmin to demolish the wall or use Charge. You can also command Oatchi to Rush to speed up the demolition.
7 Electric Gate Use your Yellow Pikmin to demolish the gates.
8 Geysers Use Pikmin that are immune to the geyser element (ex. Red for Fire, Blue for Water, Yellow for Electric, White for Poison).
9 High Ledges Throw Yellow Pikmin to reach treasure, castaways, or items placed here.
10 Hydro Jelly Throw your Ice Pikmin at it. Once frozen, you can use other Pikmin types to help destroy the Hydro Jelly.
11 Ice Wall Use your Ice Pikmin to destory the gate.
12 Incomplete Bridges Use your Pikmin to process Raw Materials into Clay at the S.S. Beagle and complete the bridge.
13 Metal Bridge Jump down and cross to the opposite hill. Throw Pikmin at the bar to drag the bridge down.
14 Metal Fence For shiny metal fences, these can be lowered by pressing a nearby switch. Brown, rusty fences cannot be moved and can only be passed by you and your Pikmin.
15 Mud Freeze deep mud with Ice Pikmin or bypass entirely with Winged Pikmin. Equip the Gunk Busters to avoid slowdowns in light mud.
16 Paper Bags Paper bags can either be pushed down a ledge or flattened by your Pikmin.
17 Poison Mushroom Attack with White Pikmin or Oatchi with a Sniff Saver.
18 Potted Plant Drag the plant using Oatchi or Pikmin. The more Pikmin you throw, the faster they pull.
19 Reinforced Wall Throw Bomb Rocks at the wall to destroy it
20 Rope Throw Pikmin at the rope to pull it.
21 Rough Wall Complete the wall using Raw Materials and climb with your Pikmin. Oatchi cannot climb so you will have to Switch and set a rendezvous point.
22 Sizzling Floor Throw Red Pikmin to extinguish the sizzling floor.
23 Sprinklers Deactivate by completing a nearby clay valve, then use Pikmin on the valve to turn the sprinklers off.
24 Sticky Mold Destroy the nearby mushrooms with any Pikmin. Equip the Gunk Busters to cross without being slowed down.
25 Straw Wall Burn the straw by having Red Pikmin carry fire starters from bonfire altars.
26 Tunnel Dig the entrance on one side with Pikmin. Go inside the dug out tunnel to emerge on the other side.
27 Water Use Ice Pikmin to freeze the water, Blue Pikmin or Oatchi to swim through, or Winged Pikmin to fly above the water.
28 Webbing Throw your Pikmin to lower hanging treasure or items.

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