Description
Name: Lumiknoll (Pikmin 4)
Class: Glow Pikmin Nest
Family Type: Material
Subspecies/Variants: Tricknoll
Home Planet: PNF-404
Threat Level: 10/100 (Hocotatian/Koppaite) 10/100 (Human)
Diet: Minerivore
Prey: Glow Pellets
Predators: Aerodentias, Amphibilands, Crusted Rumpup, Beebs, Breadbugs, Burrow-nits, Chrysanthemums, Electric Cottonade, Grubchucker, Crawmads, Creep-crabs, Careening Dirigibug, Goolixs, Waddlequaff, Grub-dogs, Huntinpecks, Jellyfloats, Mandiblards, Armored Mawdad, Sandbelching Meerslug, Quaggled Mireclops, Mockiwis, Molluskings, Bearded Amprat, Onionshells, Pinchipedes, Bogswallow, Widemouthed Anode Beetle, Desiccated Skitter Leaf, Pyroclasmic Slooch, Snavians, Snowfake Fluttertail, Shearflea, Sunsquish, Tusked Blowhog, Umblodas
Habitats: Forests, Tropical, Coastal
Abilities: Spawner
Weakness: Immobile
Description:
Lumiknolls are large dirt mound nests found during night expeditions on PNF-404. They are the home to Glow Pikmin, and function similarly to the Onion, although their behavior is quite different.
Lumiknolls produce Glow Pikmin when fed with glow pellets; for every three pellets they are fed with, they will produce one Glow Pikmin. Unlike Onions, when Glow Pikmin are produced, they will automatically appear at the Leader's location. Juvenile Lumiknolls, known as Tricknolls, are also found within night expeditions and serve as an extension of the Lumiknoll. All pellets transported to Tricknolls are then transferred to the main Lumiknoll and propagate Glow Pikmin.
Besides the fact that they serve as incubators and nests for Glow Pikmin, we know very little about the Lumiknoll's ecology. When nocturnal creatures die, a Lumiknoll can break them down into glow pellets through its strong dissolving enzymes. This matter, when condensed, becomes glow sap. One might assume glow sap is then an extremely dangerous substance, but it has hardly any negative effects. In fact, I've had it administered to me personally as a curative medicine to break down growing leaves. Lumiknolls will only appear in places where an Onion was located earlier in the day, and since they propagate Glow Pikmin, one could surmise that they are rhizomes from those Onions. Perhaps, using its dissolving powers, it returns the nectar that supports the ecosystem back to the soil.
Vertell Notes:
This Specimen was First Encountered during the Fourth Visit to PNF-404, Lumiknolls are confusing entities, they are treated as creatures but solely made of Dirt and Glow Sap, More Info is needed to understand how this works.
Creatures Belongs to their original Creators and credits to the people who ported them into Gmod