When taking part in by way of Pikmin 4, I usually didn’t wish to cease. The enjoyment of treasure searching, discovering new areas, and taking breaks to hang around on the dwelling base (or go on Citadel Protection-esque night time missions) was too engaging: and now its existence has spawned a real-life treasure hunter.

A self-described “clay artist with a love of Pikmin,” Twitter consumer ZatchMehr is attempting to finally find and purchase each in-game Pikmin 4 treasure in actual life. They’ve famous that they began their quest roughly three days after the sport got here out, and it’s taken them a couple of month to get this far.

Should you’re curious, they’ve even been chronicling their journey with tweets of particular person collections, in a close to 1:1 recreation of the in-game assortment screenshots:

As a reminder Pikmin 4 has 239 treasures (which are uniquely designed): so there’s nonetheless a methods to go.

Pikmin 4 treasures pic.twitter.com/XTAorm9vWH

— 3D-Böy (@ZatchMehr) August 22, 2023

What number of treasures do you may have?

By way of the digital stuff, I personal that actual Wavebird, the small Sport and Watch transportable, the GameCube Wave Race disc, the SNES mouse, the purple/blue Swap Pleasure-Con set, and that blue GBA SP. It was a blast going by way of Pikmin 4 and pointing on the display screen like that Leo meme: the concept of accumulating Earthly “treasures” throughout your journey is genius.

The eye to element is spectacular, as a few of these gadgets are actual replicas, and lots of come as shut as humanly attainable with out resorting to creating a Pikmin-specific Etsy retailer. As for the meals gadgets, ZatchMehr explains that “faux fruit is available in clutch,” so don’t fear about it spoiling!

[Thanks Jeff]