In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Landfill Layer is the tenth layer and it’s filled with, nicely, trash. However scattered amid the garbage is a bunch of Banandium Gems. Inside this heap of rubbish, you’ll want to look behind metallic scrap, dust, and a great deal of particles to to gather all the golden bananas.
Beneath, we record the place to search out all the Banandium Gems within the Landfill Layer we’ve discovered to this point in Donkey Kong Bananza. We’re nonetheless updating this information with extra golden bananas as we discover them.
Sublayer 1000 Banandium Gems
We’ve discovered 26 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 1000 within the Landfill Layer.

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Earlier than you begin to dig down from the beginning space of the Landfill Layer, climb up the partitions to discover a banana on high of one of many protruding metallic bananas. As you’re climbing, cease on high of a banana and look across the perimeter to see when you can spot the banana. If not, climb slightly bit larger and scout once more till you notice it. Shimmy alongside the partitions till you attain it.
#2: Freed the Blusterwing!

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After defeating the Blusterwing within the Tempest Layer, drop down into the entire to search out this bunch of bananas forward of you.
This Banandium Gem isn’t obtainable in your first go to to the Landfill Layer. We consider that you just’ll must return after you’ve progressed additional or after you’ve overwhelmed the principle story of Donkey Kong Bananza.


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To seek out the Mazy Cave: Pop Occasion Problem Course, you’ll need to begin on the Higher Pit tuning fork after which dig down, as you probably did for the story. When you dig previous the crystal and gold, ending up within the small room, you’ll need to observe the marked cave above, punching by any lifeless ends to search out this maze puzzle.
You’ll want to search out and pop the 5 banana balloons within the maze, which you could find shortly by utilizing both Kong or Elephant Bananza and simply sucking up all of the terrain you possibly can till you hit the few lifeless ends within the maze.
#5: Mazy-Cave Hidden Room

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From the start of the maze, you’ll want to achieve the alternative wall to discover a concrete wall. Break it open utilizing Kong Bananza to search out this banana simply hanging out behind it.
#6: Mazy-Cave Buried Banana

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After you enter the maze and see the second balloon behind a wall, instantly flip proper and head straight till you hit a metallic wall. Climb over the wall and drop all the way down to discover a banana.

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Observe the common path down from the Center Pit tuning fork, however cease digging if you see bombs within the distance. As you dig nearer to the bombs, you’ll see the banana. Dig in the direction of the bombs, set one off, after which again off, in order that all of them detonate one another. Seize your banana from the newly made crater.
#8: Up and Down, Underground

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From the Center Pit tuning fork, observe the search markers and dig down like regular. You’ll spot a Banandium Gem shifting up and down in a separate tunnel. Dig your approach over and break the banana to gather it.
#9: Shift Smash: Dig Deep

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Beside Banandium Gem #8, you’ll discover a hallway that has a fossil on the wall together with a problem course. Due to how the digital camera works underground in Donkey Kong Bananza, you possibly can see a shifty triangle behind the fossil. Smash your approach by the wall and hit it to start out the problem.
To finish the problem, you’ll must dig down whereas avoiding the lava, and break the shifty block on the backside.
#10: Sniffing out a Secret


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The doorway to the Elephant Bananza: Metropolis Smash problem course might be present in the identical tunnel as Banandium Gem #8 and #9.
End the problem to make sure that you’ve sucked up a increase rock chunk and have one saved. Chunk soar above the doorway to the Elephant Bananza: Metropolis Smash problem, and chunk soar once more to the following platform to see a concrete barrier. That is the place you’ll want the increase rock chunk, so you possibly can break the concrete block and collect the banana beneath.
#11-12: Wrecked by Elephant Bananza and Rapidly with Elephant Bananza

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Full the problem course to obtain one banana, however when you full the problem with 20 or extra second left, you’ll obtain one other.
#13: Battle: Search and Destroy

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From the Decrease Pit tuning fork, climb up the wall and dig upwards to enter a small round room. Rotate your digital camera till you possibly can spot a room with a fossil in it, and dig in the direction of it to search out this fight problem.
Inside, you’ll must defeat three crockoids utilizing varied Bananza powers. Use the Elephant Bananza to take out the lava crockoid, Kong Bananza to defeat the concrete one, after which any (or common DK) to beat the final one. Bear in mind you can freely change Bananzas by utilizing the D-pad when the Bananzas are activated.
#14: Caged by a Hungry Guard

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From the Decrease Pit tuning fork, look to the correct of the sleeping fish to discover a signal with a banana. Go behind the signal and begin digging in the direction of the massive metallic pipes to discover a banana inside a cage. Dig across the metallic construction and take out the serpent-like enemy by sucking up its lava physique with Elephant Bananza. After it’s gone, you’ll be free to assert your candy banana.
#15: Landfill Fragmentone Restoration

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From the Decrease Pit tuning fork, look to the correct of the sleeping fish to discover a signal with a banana. Go behind it and dig previous the fossil to discover a Fragmentone and its fragments. You’ll be able to dig straight by the only fragment in the direction of the Fragmentone to get this primary banana.
#16: Landfill Fragmentone Restoration

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The opposite two fragments are surrounded by lava. We dug upwards to create a path on the identical stage because the lava after which used Elephant Bananza to suck up the lava, making a protected passage for the fragments to leap down straight to their dad or mum. You’ll get a banana for reuniting these closing fragments with the Fragmentone.
#17: Nestled throughout the Particles

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You’ll discover this banana naturally as you progress by the story.
#18: Cranky’s Landfill Rant

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After you make it to Trashtopia, flip till you notice the barrel launch pad on the ground. Behind it, you’ll spot a gold sparks popping out of the bottom. Climb up the wall above the gold and enter this small cavern to search out Cranky Kong. Hearken to his traditional rant to get your banana.
#19: Landfill Smashin’ Stats

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Speak to our beloved buddy Smashintone above the retailers after you smash 70,000 cubic meters of dust within the Landfill Layer for this banana.

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Beside the Warp Gong, you’ll spot a small sliver within the wall with a Fractone. Observe the Fractone by the dust partitions till you attain a treasure room. Break the wall holding the fossil to discover a banana hidden behind it.
#21: Battle: Hundred-Harasser Horde

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Observe the arrow-shaped Fractone within the city to search out this battle problem. Take out the 100 peekaboopoids to get your banana. You’ll be able to suck up the peekaboopoids extraordinarily shortly utilizing Elephant Bananza.
#22-23: Supply Full and Speedy Supply


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This Historic Ruins is close to the hub city of the Landfill Layer. Simply pay the Constructone 1,000 gold to open it up. Inside, you’ll must punch by terrain to clear a path for ice cubes to fall by. You’ll get this banana for clearing the problem throughout the time restrict.
In case you clear the problem with 30 seconds or extra left on the clock, you’ll obtain one other banana.

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After you refill the bowl with shaved ice, don’t instantly enter the barrel. Go to the wall reverse of the barrel and begin punching straight forward till you discover a patch of snow on the bottom. Begin to dig downwards till you hit the metallic ground. Flip round and dig straight to search out the banana.
In case you get disoriented, you possibly can rotate the digital camera round and you need to be capable of see the banana itself.
#25: Battle: Explosive Excavation

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On the wall behind the stake, you’ll discover a patch of particles with a Constructone behind it. Break by the particles and pay the Constructone 600 gold to unblock the problem. Head in and use the increase rocks to filter the three crockoids in your banana.
In case you’d like to hurry up the method, we suggest utilizing Kong Bananza to smash your approach by the concrete and crockoids alike.
#26: Observe the Crystal Vein

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You’ll be able to see this banana beneath the clothes store if you use DK’s Hand Slap sonar. Dig beneath the Type Store to search out the banana.
#27: Landfill Chip Trade

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Commerce Banandium Chips and gold for a banana. The extra you’ve traded on earlier layers, the costliest this one shall be. As traditional with these, you possibly can commerce extra however you solely want one to finish this layer.
Monkeying round in Donkey Kong Bananaza? We’ve got guides that can assist you plow by this collectathon, together with the place to search out Banandium Gems on The Junction Layer, Resort Layer, and Tempest Layer. We even have guides on how one can use amiibos and explainers on the assorted Historic Bananza Powers and the ability tree.