Sour Root Cave (PMU 7)

Sour Root Cave, otherwise called Sour Root or SRC, is the lowest-level dungeon to provide an HM to players. It's found in Exbel, just north of Grassroot Town. It contains HM Cut, which allows the player to cut down small trees, giving access to various areas across the map. Cut is required to travel into certain areas.

The dungeon is home to Grass, Bug, and Poison Pokémon. This dungeon introduces status problems, the most notable of which is poison. You can also obtain HM Cut at the midpoint.

The Pokémon in this dungeon are mainly in the level range of 3-10.

The dungeon was introduced in PMU 6.

Scenery
The scenery in this dungeon is the same for all floors, with dirt, grassy cliffs and growing roots. There is an occasional vine coming out of the ground.

Pokémon
The Pokémon here are Grass, Bug, and Poison types. They are as follows:
 * Budew
 * Bellsprout
 * Nincada (Dawn, Dusk)
 * Caterpie
 * Metapod
 * Oddish
 * Kricketot
 * Weepinbell (Mini-Boss)
 * Vileplume (Boss)

Items
The items that are in this dungeon are some of the most basic ones available. They are as follows: The two Bosses here also drop items. They are as follows:
 * Oran Berry
 * Pecha Berry
 * Leppa Berry
 * Apple
 * Poké (B6F+)
 * Leaf Stone (Weepinbell)
 * HM Cut (Weepinbell)
 * TM Payback (Weepinbell)
 * Tiny Mushroom (Vileplume)
 * Poké (Vileplume)

Dungeon Objective
The dungeon, like all others, requires you to climb the dungeon floors and beat the boss for completion. However, after defeating the Weepinbell, you will reach a plant blocking the way. After you teach HM Cut to a Pokémon, you may progress and face off with the Vileplume at the end of the dungeon.



PMU 6

 * Sour Root Cave was taken directly from PMU 6. After a few touch-ups, it was added into PMU 7 as one of the 3 original dungeons.

Trivia

 * The boss of Sour Root used to be an Ivysaur.
 * Sour Root was in PMU 6.
 * Sour Root was one of the original dungeons in PMU 7.
 * Sour Root was a set dungeon before they updated it to be random.Top_of_sour_root.png
 * There was a glitch in PMU 6 where players could walk on top of the overworld entrance to Sour Root. This was eventually fixed.
 * There was a glitch where you could rebattle the mini-boss without exiting the dungeon, which made it easier to farm HM Cut. They eventually removed that problem due to abuse.
 * Weepinbell is Level 14, while Vileplume is Level 17.