Pikmin Bloom requires a whole lot of walking if you want to reach Level 100 — a feat nobody has managed to reach just yet. Even “beating” the game and reaching Level 19 takes 100,000 steps. That many steps translates to between 42-45 miles of walking. The last thing most video game players want to do is work out, so naturally players have been searching for ways to game the system. First it was Pokemon GO players trying to use treadmills to walk around… which doesn’t work, because Pokemon GO uses distance-travelled to measure your progress. You actually have to move around.
Not so in Pikmin Bloom. A treadmill is a perfectly fair workaround in this game, and isn’t considered cheating in the slightest. If you want to walk in place, you absolutely can do that. But, players have discovered a much more devious cheat, allowing them to add as many steps as they want to the system. Using this trick, players are able to add as many steps as they want to Pikmin Bloom, and we can confirm it absolutely works on iOS. Don’t try this at home — you don’t want to get in hot-water with Niantic Games, but it is fascinating to learn how these things work. And this particular trick is astoundingly easy to perform.
More Pikmin Bloom guides:
How To Beat Mushrooms & Get 4-Star Rewards | How To Unlock Coins | In-Game Store Currency Guide | How To Get Daily Decor Pikmin From Anywhere | All Decor Pikmin Locations | How To Get 4-Star Friendship
How Players Are Cheating & Adding Steps Manually
Pikmin Bloom uses the Step Counter in your Health App on iOS — players are using that vulnerability to add as many steps as they want to Pikmin Bloom. We can confirm this trick works on iOS, but it may also work on Android.
- Open the Health app and tap Browse in the bottom-right corner.
- Tap Activity -> then Steps
- Tap Add Data in the upper-right corner.
- Simply add the number of steps you want.
Adding steps to the Health app causes those steps to instantly appear in Pikmin Bloom, and there’s really nothing to stop anyone from doing this. It doesn’t get around in-app purchases, and it can’t be used to plant flowers or get around Expedition timers. This really (only) solely works to raise your level, and that’s about it in our testing. Everything else basically requires you to actually visit different locations. Either way, we really don’t recommend using this trick. I just couldn’t help learning more about it! Now that we all know how it works, we can play the right way.
More Niantic mobile game guides:
All The Shadow Pokémon You Can Catch (So Far!) | Full List | How To Catch (And Purify) Shadow Pokémon | Capture Guide | How To Fight Team Rocket GO | Invasion Event Guide | How To Fight Rocket Leader Giovanni | Legendary Shadow Pokémon Guide | How The Buddy System Works | How To Earn Buddy Hearts Easily | How To Catch New Unova Pokémon | Trade Evolutions Guide | How To Trade & Evolutions List
