Grassdigger | Going to Sunset for 5000 Years May Softlock Your File! @grassdigger8695 | Uploaded August 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I advise watching this video first: youtube.com/watch?v=yZmwfjCdLW8
In that video, I show the consequences of playing on day 1 for a second time. A lot of day 1 mechanics return. Most importantly for this video, there is infinite daylight, I can't go to sunset, and I can't access Onions.
Since I can't access Onions, if all of my Pikmin are inside Onions or the ship, then I will be stuck with 0 Pikmin for the entire day, so ending the day by paying off the debt, collecting all treasures, or collecting the first aboveground treasure in Valley of Repose is off the table. Also, getting an extinction would be impossible. Thus, the only way we can get the day to end is by having both captains be down, since sunsets don't occur on day 1.
There are a few ways that we can make it impossible for both captains to die. One way would be killing all of the enemies in all maps so that they don't spawn on day 1, but I'm not sure if this would work. While I previously showed that objects in day 1 are copied from the last time you've visited that map, we don't really understand how object spawning behavior works, so it's hard to be certain if this idea would work in practice.
However, there's an easier way to make sure that there's no way for both captains to die.
First, I do day 1 extinction (which was found by HSS0136: youtube.com/watch?v=IieBje4CqMo)
Now, on day 2, I pluck the red sprout so that it enters the Onion. Now, I (theoretically) end the day for 5000 years so that I land in Valley of Repose on day 1 again. Since I have not crushed the paper bag yet, both leaders are invulnerable, and there's no way to crush a paper bag with 0 Pikmin. Therefore, even if we could have an enemy attack a leader, he wouldn't take damage. Since there's no way for the day to end, this file is stuck on day 1 forever.
I also show a couple more interesting things that can happen if you land in Valley of Repose on day 1 again before you crush any paper bags. Namely, the leaders cannot whistle one another, and Olimar cannot whistle any Pikmin (though Pikmin can follow him for a short time if Olimar plucks them). These results are very similar to some results found by Espyo when he used hacks to see what would happen if we could enter Emergence Cave on day 1: youtube.com/watch?v=n7R0wSesM_U&t=3m45s
Also, when the first red Pikmin is plucked on day 1, the special day 1 Valley of Repose music begins to play.
I advise watching this video first: youtube.com/watch?v=yZmwfjCdLW8
In that video, I show the consequences of playing on day 1 for a second time. A lot of day 1 mechanics return. Most importantly for this video, there is infinite daylight, I can't go to sunset, and I can't access Onions.
Since I can't access Onions, if all of my Pikmin are inside Onions or the ship, then I will be stuck with 0 Pikmin for the entire day, so ending the day by paying off the debt, collecting all treasures, or collecting the first aboveground treasure in Valley of Repose is off the table. Also, getting an extinction would be impossible. Thus, the only way we can get the day to end is by having both captains be down, since sunsets don't occur on day 1.
There are a few ways that we can make it impossible for both captains to die. One way would be killing all of the enemies in all maps so that they don't spawn on day 1, but I'm not sure if this would work. While I previously showed that objects in day 1 are copied from the last time you've visited that map, we don't really understand how object spawning behavior works, so it's hard to be certain if this idea would work in practice.
However, there's an easier way to make sure that there's no way for both captains to die.
First, I do day 1 extinction (which was found by HSS0136: youtube.com/watch?v=IieBje4CqMo)
Now, on day 2, I pluck the red sprout so that it enters the Onion. Now, I (theoretically) end the day for 5000 years so that I land in Valley of Repose on day 1 again. Since I have not crushed the paper bag yet, both leaders are invulnerable, and there's no way to crush a paper bag with 0 Pikmin. Therefore, even if we could have an enemy attack a leader, he wouldn't take damage. Since there's no way for the day to end, this file is stuck on day 1 forever.
I also show a couple more interesting things that can happen if you land in Valley of Repose on day 1 again before you crush any paper bags. Namely, the leaders cannot whistle one another, and Olimar cannot whistle any Pikmin (though Pikmin can follow him for a short time if Olimar plucks them). These results are very similar to some results found by Espyo when he used hacks to see what would happen if we could enter Emergence Cave on day 1: youtube.com/watch?v=n7R0wSesM_U&t=3m45s
Also, when the first red Pikmin is plucked on day 1, the special day 1 Valley of Repose music begins to play.
