Spawning Grounds

The Spawning Grounds is the first cave in Lover's Spring and second cave in Pikmin 5: Apex Predator. Blue Pikmin are found here, but the Blue Onion is not. It is recommended to bring 70-80 Pikmin to the cave, so you have plenty of room for the wild Blue Pikmin to join your squad. When first approached, a cutscene begins. Rhea notes that to get to the cave, the all-red squad had to dodge many puddles of water. She recommends due to the difficulty of navigating the puddles, perhaps a smaller squad of 70-80 Pikmin would be better for the cave. After the cutscene ends, the character can adjust their Pikmin as needed and jump in!

Sublevel 1
Strategy: This room is very simple. It is T shaped with the player starting on the top right with the hole to the next floor at the bottom of the T. At the top left will be three eggs. On the way to the top center of the T, the six Female Sheargrubs will rise out of the ground. Kill them and advance to the top center. Be careful around these eggs. Though two have the nectar, one has the Mitites which will scatter your Pikmin! Additionally, the six Male Sheargrubs are nearby down the vertical hall, creating a risk that a poor Pikmin stranded by the panic is eaten by them. To maximize safety, ignore the eggs and swarm the Male Sheargrubs first, killing all of them. Then, your prize can be enjoyed in safety. Then, enter the hole to the next Floor!
 * Theme: Fire
 * Treasures:
 * None
 * Enemies:
 * Obstacles:
 * None
 * Vegetation:
 * None
 * None
 * Vegetation:
 * None

Sublevel 2

 * Theme: Water
 * Treasures:
 * Phony Blowhog
 * Enemies:
 * Obstacles:
 * Water Puddles, Fire Geysers
 * Vegetation:
 * Obstacles:
 * Water Puddles, Fire Geysers
 * Vegetation:

Strategy: Upon landing on this floor, Rhea will comment that she hears cries of some kind, but none resembling those of castaways. The screen moves to a corner of the room where Blue Pikmin are cowering in the clovers. They're walled in by fire geysers and one of the Puffy Blowhogs is threatening to blow the Blue Pikmin into them! Quickly head over to the corner, disable the geysers with your Red Pikmin, and take out the flying menace. Whistle in the clovers, and five Blue Pikmin have joined your team! Since there are only five of them, take them to the saftey of where you landed and use your Red Pikmin to take out the Shearwigs and Yellow Wollywogs. Only one enemy should be left, which is the other Puffy Blowhog. It hangs perilously close to a large water puddle, so throw Pikmin with caution. After killing this final enemy, the blowhog corpse and the Phony Blowhog will land in the puddle. Rhea will curse their luck again but Olimar will remind the player that Blue Pikmin can get in the water. Take the Phony Blowhog back to where you started for 50 Pokos and enter the next floor!