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Beady Long Legs
Appears in	Pikmin, Pikmin 2
Scientific name	Pseudoarachnia armoralis
Family	Arachnorb
Areas	The Forest Navel, Perplexing Pool
Caves	Citadel of Spiders, Hole of Heroes
Challenge Mode stages	The Final Trial, Twilight Garden
2-Player Battle stages	None
Attacks	Crush Pikmin with feet

The Beady Long Legs (ダマグモ^?, lit.: "Orb Spider") is a boss in the first two Pikmin games. The only attack it has is stomping around – which it does more quickly when damaged – and its multiple feet crush any Pikmin they land on. Its weak spot is its orbicular torso; given its height, Yellow Pikmin are normally needed. When defeated, it crumbles into dust that disintegrates after its belongings drop from its orbicular torso. The creature is in both the main game and Challenge Mode of both games it appears on.

In Pikmin 2, the Beady Long Legs has a more brownish tone to its body, while in the first one it is just yellow. It also has slightly different shaped feet. Appearances in the second game are more common, and have much less health, slower movements, different cries, and their feet don't stick on the ground. When at low health, the Beady Long Legs will acquire a reddish tint and start smoking at the joints in Pikmin. In Pikmin 2, the creature's body will start to flake away at low health.

It first appears as a boss in Pikmin, where it is found in The Forest Navel, holding the Guard Satellite, and again in The Final Trial in Challenge Mode. In Pikmin 2, one appears on sublevel 5 of the Citadel of Spiders, where it drops a key which unlocks Challenge Mode, one on sublevel 14 of the Hole of Heroes, which holds the Fond Gyro Block, and one in the Twilight Garden in Challenge Mode (again holding The Key). Additionally, one more can be found in front of the landing site in the Perplexing Pool after day 30; killing this one yields 20 small 1-pellets. It appears every day if it is not killed and always spawns on the first day of each 10 day period starting from day 31. Despite rumors,^{[source needed]} it is not exclusive to palindrome days (33, 44, etc).

The Beady Long Legs does not appear in Pikmin 3, but there are two new Arachnorb bosses similar to it, the Shaggy Long Legs and Baldy Long Legs.

Stats

Game	Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health	Regen.
	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5000	Unknown
	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1300	0.39 HP/s

Notes

Olimar's voyage log

Reel notes

Olimar's notes

Louie's notes

Pikmin Nintendo Player's Guide

Pikmin Nintendo Power Booklet description

“Eerily missing anything that resembles a head, this spiderlike creature is capable of stomping large numbers of Pikmin into oblivion with its four pile-driving legs. Its only vulnerable spot is its round body.”

Pikmin 2 Nintendo Player's Guide

Strategy

The Beady Long Legs petrified by ultra-bitter spray in Perplexing Pool.

With Pikmin

Be careful when entering the boss's arena in Pikmin, since it can crush Pikmin when it falls down from the ceiling. This can catch unprepared players with large armies by surprise, but was changed for Pikmin 2: the Beady Long Legs will not be able to harm Pikmin until its introduction animation is over.

You should have no more than 30 Pikmin, as a large group can be hard to control and may cause a few deaths. Aim at its core and launch your Pikmin freely, being careful to neither miss nor let the grounded Pikmin get stomped on. Swarming will prove helpful here. When it shivers, it is about to shake Pikmin off. Call the Pikmin quickly, or else they might fall off for a few seconds and lose their bud or flower status. In Pikmin 2, all Pikmin will be shaken off, but in Pikmin, a few may still remain latched. Attacking one of its feet in Pikmin will not cause any damage, but the creature will have difficulties landing it.

If you have a viable amount of Yellow Pikmin, attack at will, but if not, bring twenty to thirty of some other types, preferably Red Pikmin, and wait until it has done eight stomps (two with each leg); it will lean down afterwards to rest. It will do this twice, so you should ignore it the first time, and then as soon as it begins to lean again, quickly throw Pikmin at its body. This will allow you to attack for a longer period of time.

The Beady Long Legs can also be harmed by Pikmin attacking its feet; this is far more challenging and time-consuming, however. In Pikmin 2, only Purple Pikmin can damage the creature's feet with the stomp they cause, but in the Japanese version of the game, any Pikmin type can also attack its feet with regular attacks. As such, an easy way to defeat the Beady Long Legs in the Japanese version of Pikmin 2 is to place around 25 flowered Red Pikmin on the location where each foot is going to be, and when the creature lands from above, its health will be dropped so fast that it will not have time to stomp even once, ensuring a clean and quick victory.^[1] It may be difficult to determine exactly where the feet will end up at, though. This trick does not work in overseas versions of the game, nor the Wii releases,^[2] and it may only work with some of the Pikmin in the party.^[3]

In Pikmin, it is recommended to bring twenty Red Pikmin to the entrance of the arena, so they may bring the Guard Satellite through the fire geysers.

With leaders

Even when petrified, its body is suspended too high for leaders to reach.

Speedrunning

In Pikmin, the fastest way to defeat the creature is to have around 20 Red Pikmin and around 6 Yellow Pikmin with you. Before the boss lands, use  / to organize your party so that Red Pikmin are the closest to you. Walk into the arena, and begin throwing Red Pikmin so that they attach to the creature when it lands; when the Beady Long Legs falls down, its core reaches low enough for non-Yellow Pikmin to be thrown at it. Throw as many Pikmin as you can, using the swarm trick. When it shakes the Pikmin off, a few of them will remain attached. Carefully whistle the ones that got knocked down and throw them at the core again. The creature should be dead just as it's shaking the second time.^[4]

Presumed glitch

At one point, a glitch about this boss was documented on Pikipedia.^[5] It was said to be a rare and dangerous glitch that would cause the Beady Long Legs in Pikmin to leave its arena. Once outside its boundaries, it would continue to pursue the player, and if coaxed into falling into the pit, the game would crash. It also claimed that the game could crash if left outside of its arena for too long, and that it could also happen with other bosses fought in arenas.

Despite the glitch's popularity, there was never any proof of it happening, though there were attempts.^[6] In fact, without editing the game's files to force the boss's territory radius to be larger than normal, there is no known way for the Beady Long Legs to walk far from its starting point, as it will attempt to return to the center of the arena if it exits a certain radius. In addition to the Beady Long Legs being unable to escape its arena in normal play, the crashing element is a hoax: should the player move the Beady Long Legs to the pits at the edge of the Forest Navel and coax it inside, its model distorts to try to "step" in the pit, before merely despawning.^[7][8] Since the editor that documented the glitch did so anonymously, and a bit haphazardly, it is impossible to figure out any details about the origin of the glitch.

Technical information

Other information

• Technical name in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide: Arachnorb
• Size: Leg span: 240mm, as per the e-card
• Japanese name: アシナガモクメツユハライ^?, lit.: "Long-legged wood grain tsuyuharai"
• Pikmin 2 Piklopedia number: #72
• Musical theme:
  • Pikmin: Impending Doom
  • Pikmin 2: Common boss battle

Naming

See more: Arachnorb family#Naming.

The word "Beady" in its name highlights its small and circular body. Its Japanese name, ダマグモ^?, literally translates to "Orb Spider", once again reflecting the creature's spidery look and the spherical body. In the scientific name, Pseudoarachnia armoralis, armoralis comes from the Latin armum, which translates to "armor" and refers to its strong resistance. The creature's internal name in Pikmin 2 is the same as its Japanese name, damagumo, but in Pikmin, only the "spider" part of the word remains, making it kumo.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ダマグモ? Dama Gumo	Orb Spider
French	Baba Longues jambes	From Papa-longues-jambes (literally "Daddy longlegs")
German	Perliges Langbein	Beady Long Leg
Italian	Longopede	From "lungo" (long) and "piede" (foot)
Korean	박거미 Bak gu mi	Gourd Spider
Spanish (NoA)	Pelota patas largas	Ball long legs

Gallery

Pikmin

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  Artwork of the Beady Long Legs.

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  The Beady Long Legs in the enemy reel.

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  A drawing of a Beady Long Legs from the Pikmin Official Player's Guide.

Pikmin 2

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  The Beady Long Legs in the Piklopedia.

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  A close-up of the Beady Long Legs in sublevel 5 of Citadel of Spiders.

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  The Beady Long Legs begins to crumble and emit smoke as it becomes weaker.

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  The Beady Long Legs explodes when it dies.

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  The Beady Long Legs defeated, crumbling into dust.

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  The Beady Long Legs as it first lands in sublevel 14 of Hole of Heros.

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  The Beady Long Legs after it lands in the same cave.

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  The Beady Long Legs in the unused cave Last_4, meant for enemy testing.

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  Artwork.

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  The creature's e-card, #30 (10^th yellow card).

Trivia

An earlier Beady Long Legs.

• The Beady Long Legs is shown during the last few seconds of a pre-release trailer of Pikmin. Here, the creature appears to be taller and have a reddish tint to its skin, as well as being in an outside area similar to The Forest of Hope.
• In the Citadel of Spiders cave in Pikmin 2, a shadow of a spider web is displayed on the arena floor. This also applies to one of its appearances in Challenge Mode in Pikmin 2 and to the arena of the Raging Long Legs in the the Hole of Heroes.
• It is unknown how Louie knows how to cook it, because in Pikmin 2, the Beady Long Legs falls apart very shortly after defeat.
• There is an unused object in Super Mario Galaxy that looks like an organic ball, which opens up much like the Beady Long Legs' core. In addition, the item's internal name is SpiderItemShell, further connecting it to the pseudo-arachnid.
• This enemy was meant to appear in Pikmin 3, but with its head changed to resemble one of its feet, as evidenced from some unused content in the game.
• In Super Mario 64 there is a quadrupedal spider-like enemy called a Scuttlebug that has a similar body pattern to the Beady Long Legs.
• Bizarrely, in Pikmin, if there are any sprouts in the area the moment the player triggers the creature's fall, it will take a few seconds to actually fall down, whereas if there are no sprouts, it will show up right away. This applies to all game modes and all versions of the game.
• In Pikmin 2, the Beady Long Legs is fully programmed to drop 25 Unmarked Spectralids upon death if it has no treasure. However, due to a mistake from the programmers, this does not occur, and it simply drops nothing.^[9]
• In the Pikmin 3 Deluxe Side Story Olimar's Comeback, the final stage has a Baldy Long Legs with a similar coloration to the Beady Long Legs. It is accompanied by a boss theme that combines the main Pikmin theme and the Beady Long Legs's battle theme.

See also

• Baldy Long Legs
• Raging Long Legs
• Shaggy Long Legs

References

This article was a featured article from May 6th to June 18th, 2009.

Bosses
Pikmin	Burrowing Snagret •  Armored Cannon Beetle •  Puffstool •  Beady Long Legs •  Goolix •  Mamuta •  Smoky Progg •  Emperor Bulblax
Pikmin 2	Empress Bulblax •  Burrowing Snagret •  Beady Long Legs •  Emperor Bulblax •  Giant Breadbug •  Pileated Snagret •  Man-at-Legs •  Ranging Bloyster •  Waterwraith •  Segmented Crawbster •  Raging Long Legs •  Titan Dweevil
Pikmin 3	Armored Mawdad •  Vehemoth Phosbat •  Sandbelching Meerslug •  Scornet Maestro •  Quaggled Mireclops •  Plasm Wraith  Baldy Long Legs •  Bug-Eyed Crawmad •  Burrowing Snagret •  Shaggy Long Legs
Pikmin 4	Foolix •  Empress Bulblax •  Emperor Bulblax •  Groovy Long Legs •  Waterwraith •  Gildemander •  Snowfake Fluttertail •  Giant Breadbug •  Man-at-Legs •  Sovereign Bulblax •  Smoky Progg •  Ancient Sirehound  Porquillion •  Burrowing Snagret •  Crusted Rumpup •  Hermit Crawmad • Bug-Eyed Crawmad •  Baldy Long Legs •  Toxstool  Tusked Blowhog •  Puffy Blowhog •  Masterhop •  Arctic Cannon Beetle •  Mammoth Snootwhacker •  Dwarf Bulborb •  Bulborb •  Jumbo Bulborb •  Titan Blowhog •  Blizzarding Blowhog •  Horned Cannon Beetle
Hey! Pikmin	Bulborb •  Long Water Dumple •  Armurk •  Electric Cottonade •  Queen Shearwig •  Fiery Blowhog •  Luring Slurker •  Emperor Bulblax •  Berserk Leech Hydroe

Pikmin enemies

Armored Cannon Beetle •  Beady Long Legs •  Breadbug •  Burrowing Snagret •  Dwarf Bulbear •  Dwarf Bulborb •  Emperor Bulblax •  Fiery Blowhog •  Goolix •  Honeywisp •  Iridescent Flint Beetle •  Mamuta •  Pearly Clamclamp •  Puffstool •  Puffy Blowhog •  Female Sheargrub •  Male Sheargrub •  Shearwig •  Smoky Progg •  Spotty Bulbear •  Spotty Bulborb •  Swooping Snitchbug •  Water Dumple •  Wolpole •  Wollyhop •  Yellow Wollyhop

Pikmin 2 enemies

Red Bulborb •  Hairy Bulborb •  Orange Bulborb •  Dwarf Red Bulborb •  Snow Bulborb •  Dwarf Orange Bulborb •  Spotty Bulbear •  Dwarf Bulbear •  Bulborb Larva •  Fiery Bulblax •  Water Dumple •  Bulbmin •  Fiery Blowhog •  Watery Blowhog •  Armored Cannon Beetle Larva •  Decorated Cannon Beetle •  Puffy Blowhog •  Withering Blowhog •  Gatling Groink •  Iridescent Flint Beetle •  Iridescent Glint Beetle •  Doodlebug •  Female Sheargrub •  Male Sheargrub •  Shearwig •  Cloaking Burrow-nit •  Ravenous Whiskerpillar •  Anode Beetle •  Mitite •  Hermit Crawmad •  Swooping Snitchbug •  Bumbling Snitchbug •  Careening Dirigibug •  Antenna Beetle •  Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat •  Greater Spotted Jellyfloat •  Fiery Dweevil •  Anode Dweevil •  Hydro Dweevil •  Munge Dweevil •  Volatile Dweevil •  Toady Bloyster •  Yellow Wollyhop •  Wollyhop •  Wolpole •  Creeping Chrysanthemum •  Skitter Leaf •  Unmarked Spectralids •  Honeywisp •  Mamuta •  Breadbug •  Empress Bulblax •  Burrowing Snagret •  Beady Long Legs •  Emperor Bulblax •  Giant Breadbug •  Pileated Snagret •  Man-at-Legs •  Ranging Bloyster •  Waterwraith •  Segmented Crawbster •  Raging Long Legs •  Titan Dweevil