Prize Pod

Yes, the untapped power that lies within you. Now, child, it's time you awakened that power and realized your full potential.
	This article needs more information! Improve it by adding what you know about the following issues.

Template:Enemy The Prize Pod is an Unversed that is found in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. Although it is a variant of the Red Hot Chili, Blue Sea Salt, and Yellow Mustard Unversed, it is passive in nature, and is similar to the Mushroom Heartless from earlier games. Prize Pods appear in most worlds, and have conditions that must be met for them to appear, ranging from defeating the enemies in an area to simple random chance. Each time a Prize Pod is damaged, it will drop one of a specific set of Ingredients, depending on which world it is found in, and if not slain in a set amount of time, it will flee. Once a world's set of Prize Pods flee or are slain, they will not reappear until the character has left the world and returned.

Design

A Prize Pod is a small Unversed that resembles a pot or jar. Its lower half is dark purple and decorated by several small, violet diamonds. Its upper half is violet. Its lid is black and sports two small wings that it uses to fly. Its red eyes are set in a happy expression.

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix, the Prize Pod receives a palette swap which gives it a dark-green body with a black base decorated with gold diamonds and gold highlights. Its top is now gold.

The Prize Pod's behavior and tendency to relinquish rare treasures are reminiscent of and likely based of the Bulky Vendor and Prize Bug.

Locations

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

World	Char	Location	Spawn Trigger	Ingredient Drop
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Underground Waterway	Spawn point on top of a waterfall near the exit to the Courtyard. If none appear, exit the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Apple Pie Gaspberry Merry Mint[KH BbS FM] Merry Dairy Nutty Nut Peach Fantasy
	File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png	The Mine	Lit area far on the right. Defeat the Monotruckers and Red Hot Chilis.
	File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Flower Glade	Area to the left of the path from the Courtyard.
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Waterside	Make sure only four Scrappers appear at the first spawn point. The Prize Pods will appear near the wall of fire. If none appear, exit the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Bijou Bean Cherryberry Forest Muffin Jumbo Almond Rose Honey Sky Blue Mousse
	File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Audience Chamber	Columned area to the left of the entrance. If Red Hot Chilis appear, leave the area and return. Repeat if needed.
	File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Waterside	After exiting the Forest Clearing, in the corner of the cliff on the left side.
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Palace Courtyard	Go over to the fountain in the center and defeat four Red Hot Chilis. If another four appear, exit the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Birthday Cake Chocolate Valentine Crystal Soda Crystal Sugar Luxury Marshmallow[KH BbS FM] Wedding Cake
	File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Mousehole	Far end of the area accessible through the hole on top of the end table with a clock in the Wardrobe Room. If the Prize Pods do not appear, leave the area and return. Repeat if needed.
	File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Foyer	Underneath the stairs on the left side. If you don't encounter a single Bruiser beforehand, reenter the area until it appears.
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Fountain Court	Defeat four Blue Sea Salts in the recess adjacent to the stairs. If Red Hot Chilis appear instead, leave the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Moogle Coffee Nebula Nectar Rocket Soda Soy Milk
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Raceway	Defeat four Blue Sea Salts in the blue walled roof across from the exit to Pete's Rec Room, only accessible via Air Sliding. If a Chrono Twister appears, leave the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Melody Grape[KH BbS FM] Prickle Pepper Toonbasco
	File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Raceway	Roof leading from the exit to Pete's Rec Room. Defeat four Blue Sea Salts. If none appear, leave the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.
	File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Raceway	After exiting the Raceway Registration, immediately to your left against the wall with the hidden Mickeys. Must defeat a few Blue Sea Salts beforehand.
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Town Near Thebes	Far left corner. If only Red Hot Chilis appear, or none appear at all, leave the area and come back until Red Hot Chilis and Prize Pots appear together. Repeat if necessary.	Cotton Cloudcandy Heroic Orange Nutty Nut Thundercracker
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Turo Prison Block	Far end of the area. If none appear, leave the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Balloon Melon Bizarro Bean Cream Fluff Galactic Caramel Fizzy Tizzy Star Syrup
	File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Durgon Transporter	In the airlock leading to the Ship Exterior. Defeat the first wave of enemies that appear in the room, after which the Prize Pods will appear. If a second wave of enemies appears instead, exit and re-enter the room and try again.
	File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Turo Prison Block	Far end of the hall.
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Skull Rock: Entrance	Small cliff accessible via Air Slide from Skull Rock: Cavern. If Jellyshades and a Triple Wrecker appear, leave the area and come back. Repeat if necessary.	Dancin' Lemon Golden Jam Honeybunch Mermaid Salt Rainbow Syrup Whipped Dream
	File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Mermaid Lagoon	On the ledge accessible from the Cliff Path. A Wild Bruiser will appear alone first, followed by the Prize Pods and four Yellow Mustards. If the Wild Bruiser and Yellow Mustards appear together, exit the area and re-enter.
	File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Indian Camp	Far end of the area. Appears alongside a Wild Bruiser.
	File:DL Sprite Terra Icon 1 KHBBS.png File:DL Sprite Ventus Icon 1 KHBBS.png File:DL Sprite Aqua Icon 1 KHBBS.png	Risky Riches	The Prize Pots appear in the second-to-last wave of Round Three; eight appear this time.	Dancin' Lemon Open Sesame[KH BbS FM]
		Treasure Tussle	Clear Round One and Round Two, and the first two waves of Round Three; the Prize Pots will appear on the bottom floor.	Open Sesame Starry Sky Delight[KH BbS FM]

Strategy

Prize Pods appear in exactly one location in nearly every world (usually a different location per character) and in certain matches in the Mirage Arena. They usually appear in groups of four, and will flee after thirty seconds without ever attacking. If they do not appear when the player character fulfills their appearance conditions, then the player can simply leave the room and try again, but once they appear in a world they will not reappear until the player leaves to the Lanes Between and then comes back. For every hit, they will drop an ingredient for making ice cream, and fighting Prize Pods is the only way to acquire these ingredients. Prize Pods drop two to three specific ingredients per character per world, so in order to get all the ingredients the player must defeat each set of Prize Pods in every world they inhabit.

To effectively and easily yield the most amount of ingredients from Prize Pods, it is recommended to have a repeating deck of a Magnet-type spell and then two Thunder-type spells, as well as a projectile-type Shotlock. Upon their appearance, use Magnega and then the following Thundagas. This will activate the Thunderbolt Command Style, nulling Magnega, so it should be recast. At this point step back and use a Shotlock to its maximum number of lock-ons. Once they have either been defeated or have fled, go in and collect the dropped ingredients. Another combo only Aqua can use would be to use a Magnet-type spell while on the ground, then following up with Raging Storm for multiple hits while the Magnet-type spell runs its course. Ventus can also use a combo of a Magnet-type spell and then follow up with either Faith or Salvation until the Magnet-Type spell finishes. Another effective tactic for Terra, Ventus, and Aqua, is to use Transcendence, although the short start up time might give the Prize Pods enough time to move out of the radius of Transcendence.