Ultimate Guide: How to Find Every Banandium Gem in Donkey Kong Bananza’s Resort Layer
Where to Find All Banandium Gems in Donkey Kong Bananza’s Resort Layer
If you’re diving into the Resort Layer of Donkey Kong Bananza, you’re in for a treat. This eighth layer is loaded with giant fruit cubes and plenty of Banandium Gems to collect. These gems, while smaller and not cube-shaped like in other layers, are essential for boosting your skill points and progressing smoothly through the game.
- Overview of the Resort Layer’s Banandium Gem locations
- Detailed guide to finding 41 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 800
- Tips on completing challenges and battles to earn gems
- Information on special and hidden Banandium Gems
Exploring Sublayer 800: Your Banandium Gem Hotspot
The Resort Layer’s Sublayer 800 is where you’ll find a whopping 41 Banandium Gems. Here are some highlights to get you started:
– **Drove Off Void Kong!**: Right as you arrive, the first gem is waiting for you front and center. 
– **Buried in the Beach**: Dig next to a half-buried rock banana near the green circular area’s edge to uncover this gem. 
– **Strawberry and Banana**: Facing the central watermelon, look right for a giant strawberry on a floating island. Use rainbow sharks to build a bridge and punch or dive jump to reach the gem. 
– **Resort Quiz Master**: Chat with Quiztone near the Tropical Retreat tuning fork and answer their quiz correctly to claim a gem. The answers? Sunglasses, a juice bar, and coconuts. 
– **Underground Runaround**: Break the giant orange near Tropical Retreat to enter an underground area filled with Fractones. Follow their arrow transformations to locate the hidden gem. 
– **Secret Beachside Grotto**: Teleport to Tropical Retreat’s tuning fork, circle the large rock formation, and break a cracked wall section to find this secret gem. 
– **Battle Challenges**: Complete battles like Pulverizer’s Path and Bated to a Bruising to earn gems by defeating trailfinoids and molevoloids respectively. 
– **Growstone Offerings**: On a floating island above Tropical Retreat, offer a total of 4,000 gold to the Growtone to get three gems. 
– **Resort Hide-and-Seek**: Find Fractones hiding in strawberries, floating orbs, and stone bananas by talking to Seekertone and following the clues.
– **Shaved-Ice Challenges**: Complete three puzzle challenges under a giant pear by shaping pink and blue goo to guide ice cubes and earn multiple gems. 
– **Floating Islands and Seafloor Ruins**: Use liftoff ore and rainbow bridges to access floating islands and submerged paths to grab elusive gems. 
– **Shifty Smash Challenges**: Activate and complete timed smashing challenges to nab gems quickly, sometimes requiring specific Bananza forms like Zebra or Ostritch. 
– **Cranky’s Resort Rant**: Swim into a hidden hole behind Tropical Retreat’s cliffside to find Cranky Kong and receive a gem after listening to him. 
– **Chip Exchange**: Don’t forget you can trade your Bananadium Chips for bananas at the Resort Chip Exchange. The cost varies based on how many you’ve already exchanged. 
Keep an Eye Out for Special Banandium Gems
One gem (#41) isn’t available on your first visit to the Resort Layer. It likely requires progressing further or completing the main story. So, make sure to return later for this hidden gem.
More Help for Donkey Kong Bananza Collectors
If you’re enjoying the Resort Layer and want to find Banandium Gems in other parts of the game, check out our guides for the Freezer Layer, Forest Layer, and The Junction Layer. We also cover how to unlock music discs and explain the Ancient Bananza Powers and skill tree.
Happy banana hunting!
