You want to make sure your new pikmin reach 4 hearts and fetch their 
before you return home or else you’ll have to wait a looooooong time before they return. I learned the hard way when my pikmin had to cross the Pacific ocean.
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@KippyPippy oh, wow! even though I knew about the consequences of traveling, I never considered using the special nectars as a way to avoid the delay! 
I would only add for new players that they might actually find it kind of fun to watch their pikmin slooooowly travel back to their origin points. I live on the Gulf Coast and liked the anticipation of waiting on my NYC pikmin to return. It made those pikmin feel extra special. 
However, I do know a few players who live near me traveled to Taiwan earlier this year, and THOSE pikmin took a whole month to come back. I don’t think I could wait a full month, lol.
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I was too stingy with my nectar and didn’t send my Pikmin out soon enough. I waited until I was at the airport to send out this last batch and they missed the flight. They’ll probably end up being dupes that I have to release 
. I have a bunch of large and regular seedlings I still need to grow and saw another recent topic reporting some issues with overseas Pikmin disappearing, so hope I don’t encounter that problem.
I am new to the game and I have never heard about different nectars having special properties. How would a person use specific nectars and how would it affect the pikmin’s travel speed? Thank you for any information on this.
Special nectar has nothing to do with travel speed. It simply allows your pikmin to reach 4-heart status faster and hence pickup their gift while still in the vicinity, saving travel time and distance. If you wait until you are back home before raising your Pikmin to 4 stars, they will have to travel back to their place of discovery to pickup their gift. And that round-trip might be across long distance such as oceans, which could take months.
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Is it possible to make special nectar more available? Is it very rare to get that now. Earlier it was available with all mushrooms but now you can get only with particular ones and they are very rare. Please.
That would be nice. You can get them from event mushrooms, I think, but you have to get 4 stars which is nearly impossible. I don’t know why they make it so impossibly hard to get max rewards on event mushrooms. You should be able to do it with 5 players at the end of the month easy. Or increase the number of free slots on mushrooms so we can score higher more easily.
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