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Donkey Kong Bananza’s Canyon Layer is vast and packed with secrets to find, making it pretty daunting for anyone hoping to 100% the game (and anyone trying to list every Banandium Gem, for that matter). This guide will focus on showing how to hunt down every last Banandium Gem available in Canyon Layer SL300.
SinceDonkey Kong Bananzaheavily emphasizes vertical movement in its level design, some of these Banandium Gems will require players to traverse SL301 before blasting back up into SL300 before they can be reached.
01 - Tumbled into the Canyon Layer!
This one’s a freebie, lying on the ground right in front of you when you enter the Canyon Layer.
02 - Behind Tallfall Cliffs
To reach this one, you’ll needto climb up and out of the tunnels where you first enter the Canyon Layer, and head for the spot shown on the map above.
03 - Hanging in the Cliffs
This one can be found near a ladder, hanging from a ceiling that DK can hang from, in a cave near the level entrance.
04 - Scenic Smokestack View
This one can be found by climbing the smokestack on the island where you first entered the Canyon Layer. It’s on a platform jutting out of the Smokestack, as shown above.
05 - Shifty Smash Cliff Valley
To get this Banandium Gem, you’ll need to complete a challenge up above where you entered the Canyon Layer.Hit the switch (see the map above) to cause some blocks to appear, which you’ll need to break within the time limit to get the Banandium Gem. The time limit isn’t too harsh, and the blocks break quite quickly, so as long as you move quickly, it’ll be fine.
06 - Growing from the Stone Wall
This one is sticking out of the stone above the Minecart room and can be reached pretty easily by climbing up from the minecart room, or climbing down from above.
07 - Buried in Tallfall Cliffs
To reach this gem, you’ll need to dig down from the Minecart Room mentioned in the last section, revealing a secret room beneath it where the gem can be found.
08 - Unpilfered Potassium
You can find this Banandium Gem inside a house near the minecart rail, after you arrive at Longneck Plateau Village. Look to the right after arriving on the minecart to spot the house.
09 - Stuck in a Side Cave
You can find this one stuck in a wall inside a small cave near Longneck Plateau Village.
10 - Pay Dirt under the Plateau
You’ll need to dig under the section of the Plateau shown above to find this one.
11 - Battle: Exploding Pork Platoon
To claim this next Banandium Gem, you’ll need to clear out a battle challenge found at the spot shown above. This is a fairly straightforward brawl with some Squeeloids, which shouldn’t pose much of a threat. If you’re having trouble with their charging attacks, try hitting them with terrain or throwing it at them instead.
12 - Spinning in the Stone Pillar
You’ll need to break open a stone pillar near Longneck Plateau Village to find this Banandium Gem.
13 - Moseyed into the Village!
Another Freebie, you’ll find this one once you reach the village.
14 - High Shelf Down Below
To get to this Banandium Gem you’ll need to head into the large cave beneath the checkpoint, in the village. You can see the Banandium Gem on a ledge attached to the Smokestack, and you’ll want to grab a chunk of one of the Fractones hanging around down here to throw and create a platform so that you can climb up more easily. (See the images above.)
15 - Sunken and Soaking
This one is submerged in the same cave as 14, near a flattened fractone. Check the pool of water nearby to find it.
16 - Mine Your Step
This is the first of three Banandium Gems found within the Thorny Blast Cave Challenge. you’re able to reach the gem by tearing up some terrain and using it to smash through the thorns.
17 - Kaboom the Hidden Room
After dropping through a hole in the floor to continue through the Thorny Blast Cave Challenge, you should look behind you to find a wall of thorns with explosives dotted throughout. If you throw a chunk of terrain to detonate the explosives, they’ll clear a path for you to climb along, leading to a hidden room with a Banandium Gem.
18 - Mine the Gaps
This is the final Banandium Gem in the Thorny Blast Cave Challenge. Use some thrown terrain to trigger the explosives and blast away the thorns blocking the path forward, and continue through the challenge to find this one.
19 - An Underground Guide
This is another Banandium Gem you can find by heading to the cavern beneath the village (See the map shown for Gem 15 for the location). Inside this cave, near the flattened Fractone and the water pool, you can find a baby eel on the big pipe. When you approach it, it’ll wake up and run away, digging a tunnel to do so. Follow it all the way to the end, then dig a little further to snag this Banandium Gem.
20 & 21 - Canyon Fragmentone Recovery/Canyon Fragmentone Restoration
Once again in the cave beneath the village,these Banandium Gems can be obtained as a reward for helping the Fragmentone nearby to retrieve their lost fragments.Bringing one fragment will grant one Banandium Gem, and returning all three will get you the other. You can find one by heading through the nearby tunnel and wrapping around to the metal grate, which has a fragment behind it. Another two are trapped in a small nook near the water, so dig a path into the wall to let them follow you back.
22 - Traversing the Cliff
You’ll need to climb down the cliffs behind the Plateau Village Gateway to reach this Banandium Gem. It’s roughly halfway down, roughly beneath the Minecart point that leads toward the Refinery.
23 - Unplundered Produce
Yet another Banandium Gem hidden away in an empty house, you just need to head for the house shown on the map above and crack open the floor to reach it.
24 - Wrecked by Kong Bananza
This is the first of three Banandium Gemsacquired in the Kong Bananza: City Smash Challenge, which can be found at the spot shown on the map above. You just need to bring the building down within the time limit. The trick here is to run clockwise around each floor, prioritizing the concrete pillars and smashing as many walls as you’re able to along the way without slowing down. When you reach the top floor you can shatter the central concrete pillar and smash your way back down to the ground.
25 - Quickly with Kong Bananza
To earn this one, you’ll need to clear the City Smash Challenge with 20 seconds left on the clock. The timing is tight and small mistakes may force you to start over, but stick to the strategy mentioned before and you’ll clear it in a few tries.
26 - Beneath the Central Pillar
The final Banandium Gem in the City Smash Challenge, you’re able to find this one by digging down beneath the central concrete pillar.
27 - Sparkling in the Secret Storeroom
This Banandium Gem is hidden in a secret storeroom below the village and near the edge of the island, as shown on the map above. You’ll need to smash your way in.
28 - Banandium Gem in the House
After destroying the Void Device causing trouble for the village, head down to the floor below it to find this Banandium Gem.
29 - Unstuck the Mine Cart
This one is a freebie you’ll find by the minecart, after destroying the Void Device that was stopping you from using the minecart.
30 - Big-Wheel Balloons
This is the first of three Banandium Gems you’ll be able to find in the Big-Wheel Balloon Hunt Challenge, which can be accessed after riding the minecart from the village over to the refinery island. You’ll need to collect five balloons scattered around a large spinning wheel. By breaking parts of the wheel you may create ledges to let you ride it higher up, and by throwing chunks of terrain you can build ledges to hop up to enter the cage on the left where one of the balloons is found.
31 - Big-Wheel Basement
To reach this one, you’ll want to break a hole in the wheel down at the bottom so you may find a hidden patch of breakable terrain. Smash through it to get into a hidden basement beneath the wheel where you’ll find this Banandium Gem.
32 - Big-Wheel Back Room
The final gem for the Big-Wheel Balloon Hunt challenge can be obtained by breaking a hole in the right side of the wheel, allowing you to reach a section of climbable wall that leads behind the wheel and into a hidden room.
33 - Shifty Smash Cliff’s Edge
You’ll need to hit the switch at the spot shown on the map above to activate this Shifty Smash Challenge. Once it’s active, use a Dive Punch to break down through all the blocks and make the Banandium Gem appear.
34 - Sleeping by the Smokestack
This one is in a hidden room beneath the big smokestack, so just break through the wall to snag it.
35 - Canyon Smashin' Stats
To earn this one, you’ll just need to speak to the Smashintone who tracks your smashing stats after breaking 30,000m3 of Stone in the Canyon Layer.
36 - An Edible Earring
Climb up to the stone face of Poppy Kong to find this Banandium Gem near her right ear.
37 - Banana up the Nose
Climb up to Grumpy Kong’s stone face to find this Banandium Gem stuck in the statue’s nose.
38 - Hidden beneath the Scoundrels
This one is hidden in a sealed room beneath the stone head of Void Kong. Crack open the wall to claim your prize.
39 - Circling in the Concrete Pillar
As you climb up toward the Smokestack so you can enter the Refinery, you’ll be able to find this concrete pillar.Crack it open using Kong Bananza to find a Banandium Gem inside.
40 - Battle: Sturdy Pork Platoon
This battle challenge has you facing off with five Squeeloids, but they shouldn’t be much of a threat if you use Kong Bananza to blow them away.
41 - Finally within Reach
After heading down to SL301 and defeating the Mad Mixer, you’ll return to SL300 via the Longneck Smokestack. Turn around after exiting it and climb up to the top to find this Banandium Gem.
42 - Battle: Explosive Laps
Another battle challenge, found near the Longneck Smokestack, Battle: Explosive Laps has you riding a minecart and hurling explosives to take out five stompoids. With a good aim and a bit of luck, taking them out won’t be particularly tricky.
43,44, & 45 - The Canyon Growtone, The Hungry Canyon Growtone, and The Sated Canyon Growtone
These Three Banandium Gems are earned by feeding gold to the Growtone.You’ll need 250 for the first, 750 for the second, and 1,000 for the third.
46 - The Lift’s Secret Stop
The first of three Banandium Gems found inside the Stompy Ascent Challenge Course, you get this one by jumping off the first elevator early and smashing into a side room halfway up.
47 - Going Up!
Taking the barrel up to the top after snagging the previous gem, or just riding the elevator all the way, will guide you to this gem.
48 - Going Way, Way Up!
If you can fend off the Stompoids and ride the remaining elevators all the way to the end, you’ll reach this Banandium Gem.
49 - Cranky’s Canyon Rant
Chat with Cranky Kong at the spot shown on the map above and listen to his whole rant to receive this Banandium Gem.
50 - Canyon Hide-and-Seek
In the caves beneath where you found Cranky,there’s a Seekertone who invites you to play hide and seek.You’re looking for four similar Seekertones who are disguised as parts of the terrain, though they retain their shape. If you move clockwise through the tunnels and keep an eye out, you’ll find most of them pretty easily. The one disguised as explosive terrain is particularly devious.
51 - Proximity Punching
If you make your way down below Mechaneck Isle (in roughly the spot shown on the map above) you can reach a hidden area with a punching bag switch. Hitting it will move the platform a Banandium Gem is hanging from closer toward you, so you’ll need to punch until you can reach it, then quickly jump up and smash it before it returns to its original position.
52 - Bust Through the Giraffe’s Spot
This one is hidden away below the large metal structure that serves as the final main section of the Canyon Layer. You’ll want to drop down to the lower section (shown on the map) and then smash into a hidden room to find this Gem.
53 - Behind the Moving Walls
As you climb the metal structure to find a way out of the Canyon Layer, you’ll have to pass some moving dirt walls. Smash through these walls and you’ll find a Banandium Gem hidden behind them.
54 - Above the Moving Walls
After reaching the end of the moving wall section, turn around and climb the last moving wall while it’s out to get up to a hidden area with terrain you may smash through. There’s a Banandium Gem inside.
55 - Slip into the Secret Room
As you climb along the rotating paths that serve as your next obstacle after the moving walls, climb down to the bottom of the third rotating section and onto the slippery wall below it, allowing you to slide down and into a hidden room with a Banandium Gem inside.
56 - Hanging from the Crane
This Banandium Gem is inside a block hanging from a crane, close to the Smokestack Getaway. Climb up there and break in from above to grab it.
57 - The Crane’s Precious Cargo
Further up, you’ll find another crane holding a concrete cube. Crack it open using Kong Bananza to recover the Banandium Gem inside.
58 - Battle: Knotted-Thorn Knockout
After unlocking this challenge battle up at the top, near the exit leading to the next layer, you’ll need to take out two enemies covered in thorns to earn the Banandium Gem. Rip up the terrain and either hit them with it or throw it at them to take them out quickly.
59 - Foreman’s Secret Stash
The Foreman’s Secret Stash is hidden away on a seemingly unreachable Island.You’ll need to head for the sinkhole marked in image 1 above to drop down into SL301, and then head along the hall you land in to find a Barrel Cannon. This cannon will shoot you back up, so you end up on the isolated island. From there, just crack open the hidden cave containing the Banandium Gem.
60 - Canyon Chip Exchange
To mark this one off on the completion checklist, trade in chips for a Banandium Gem at the Canyon Chip Exchange, in the village.
