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In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Canyon Layer is the third layer that you’ll crash land onto. It’s full of your crystalline friends, but now some of them are shaped like giraffes!

The Canyon Layer is home to warehouses full of Banandium Gems and smokestacks towering into the sky. The bananas in this layer are particularly difficult to find as you’ll need to weave your way up and down through the layers to collect them all.

Below, we list where to find all of the Banandium Gems in the Canyon Layer we’ve found so far in Donkey Kong Bananza. We’re still updating this guide and will add more golden bananas as we find them.

Sublayer 300 Banandium Gems

There are 60 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 300 of the Canyon Layer.

#1: Tumbled into the Canyon Layer!

Complete the main story quest in Hilltop Layer. When you jump down the hole into Canyon Layer, the gem will be waiting at the bottom.

#2: Behind Tallfall Cliffs

After you land in the Canyon Layer, dig straight down until you land in a cave below you. Before you head into the larger cavern with Banandium Gem #3, turn around to find a breakable wall. Smash your way through to find the second banana.

#3: Hanging in the Cliffs

From the starting area after you drop into the Canyon Layer, dig straight down. You’ll wind up in another section of the starting cave. There’s a gem hanging on the ceiling that you can climb up to and collect.

#4: Scenic Smokestack View

After you land in the Canyon Layer, look up to see a ladder leading to the top of the tower. Climb up the wall onto the ladder to find a Banandium Gem waiting for you at the top.

#5: Shifty Smash: Cliff Valley

Interact with the glowing triangle and then smash the white blocks. Note that the map shows where you pick up the banana, but the actual triangle is slightly above that (from our provided map perspective).

#6: Growing from the Stone Wall

Climb up Tallfall Cliff from the hole where the minecart it situated to find this banana sticking out of the cliffside.

#7: Buried in the Tallfall Cliffs

Enter the hole in the minecart room in Tallfall Cliffs and dig down the left side of the “giraffe neck” (if you’re facing the barrel that shoots you back up).

After riding the first minecart in the Canyon Layer, you’ll find a stone home on your right. In its basement, you’ll find a Banandium Gem.

After you ride the first minecart, follow the path along the right edge until you run into a small rock blocking your way forward. Hop over the rock to find a small cave on your left. Head inside to find a Banandium Gem embedded into the wall.

#10: Pay Dirt Under the Plateau

After you ride the first minecart, climb the wall beside the Getaway and head towards the crystal shaped like a giraffe. Continue past the crystal giraffe while hugging the left edge until you hit a wall. Look over the left edge to spot a concrete barrier on the floor. Either throw a chunk of the bomb rock nearby or transform into Kong Bananza and dive punch your way through to find a Banandium Gem.

#11: Battle: Exploding Pork Platoon

Before you climb up the ladder to head into the Longneck Plateau Village, look to the right to see a breakable wall. Destroy it to find the entrance to the Exploding Pork Platoon battle challenge. Defeat the 10 squeeloids to receive the gem.

#12: Spinning in the Stone Pillar

To the side of the Style Shop in the Longneck Plateau Village, you’ll find a spinning stone pillar. Smash your way in to find a Banandium Gem.

#13: Moseyed into the Village

As you enter the Longneck Plateau Village, you’ll find a Banandium Gem embedded in a pile of gold beside the tuning fork.

#14: High Shelf Down Below

Speak with the NPC beside the gong in the Longneck Plateau Village to reveal this banana on the map. It’s located on a high shelf in the warehouse underneath the village. If you don’t land on the shelf, you can chunk jump to reach it.

Beside the Longneck Crystal at the Longneck Plateau Village tuning fork, you’ll find a wooden platform on the ground. Break it and drop down, where you’ll land on a flat Fractone friend. In the small pond beside the pipe, you’ll spot a sunken Banandium Gem. Dive punch the gem a few times to grab it.

Banandium Gems 16-18 can be found inside the Thorny Blast Cave Ancient Ruin. To get to the Thorny Blast Cave, you’ll need to blow up the concrete wall in the warehouse underneath the Longneck Plateau Village. Hit the mine embedded in the wall to destroy it and follow the path to find the Thorny Blast Cave.

In the Thorny Blast Cave, this Banandium Gem is found halfway through the course.

#17: Kaboom the Hidden Room

After you drop down through the metal grate in the Thorny Blast Cave, turn around to find a thorny wall full of mines. Blow up the mines to reveal the Banandium Gem behind it make your way over to collect the gem.

This Banandium Gem is found at the end of the Thorny Blast Cave just before the barrel.

#19: An Underground Guide

Head to the area beneath the Longneck Plateau Village to find a small blue fish sleeping on top of a pipe. As you approach the fish, it’ll get scared and start to eat its way through the terrain. Follow it until it reaches a dead end, and break the area directly behind it to find a Banandium Gem.

#20: Canyon Fragmentone Recovery

In the underground warehouse below the Longneck Plateau Village, you’ll find a Fractone shaped like a puzzle piece. Head into the tunnel behind them to find a little Fractone and slowly lead them back to the puzzle piece to unlock this gem.

#21: Canyon Fragmentone Restoration

In the Underground Warehouse below the Longneck Plateau Village, you’ll find a crystal shaped like a puzzle piece. In a little divot in the wall, you’ll spot two circular crystals. These crystals cannot touch the water or else they’ll return to their starting point, so you’ll need to punch a pathway through the wall to safely lead them back. Once complete, you’ll unlock the gem.

#22: Traversing the Cliff

Before you get on the minecart in the Longneck Plateau Village. Turn to the left and head to the edge of the cliff. If you look down, you’ll spot a Fractone. Follow them down the cliffside to find a cave opening. Enter it and destroy the wall inside to find the gem.

Starting from the Longneck Plateau Village tuning fork, walk to the Ancient Ruin in the back. Then, turn right and drop down off the cliff. Enter the house below and pull the giant turnip out of the ground to find a gem in a cavern below.

#24-25: Wrecked by Kong Bananza and Quickly with Kong Bananza

In the Longneck Plateau Village, talk to the Constructone beside the blocked off ruins to clear away the rubble. Head inside and clear the challenge to receive Banandium Gem #24, Wrecked by Kong Bananza. If you finish the challenge with 20 or more seconds remaining on the clock, you’ll receive Banandium Gem #25, Quickly with Kong Bananza.

#26: Beneath the Central Pillar

After you’ve completed the challenge in the Ancient Ruin. Head to the center of the platform to find a dirt patch. Dig down at that location to find the gem.

#27: Sparkling in the Secret Storeroom

Go behind the Getaway in the Longneck Plateau Village and descend the cliffside. Make your way to the bottom to find a Banandium Gem hidden behind a wooden wall.

#28: Banandium Gem in the House

Follow the path through the village up to the minecart at the top of the hill. Just before you reach it, turn right and you’ll see a dirt wall you can punch through to get a hidden gem.

#29: Unstuck the Mine Cart

After you free the minecart in the Longneck Plateau Village from the purple void, you’ll find a banana beside it.

After you ride the minecart from the Longneck Plateau Village, you’ll find the Big-Wheel Balloon Hunt Ancient Ruin on your left. Enter and pop all five balloons to get this gem.

At the bottom of the dirt wheel, dig down to find a hole leading to a lower level containing a gem.

Break a hole into the dirt wheel and ride it until the rightmost point. Exit your hole to the other side of the wheel and climb along the black wall towards the opening. Head inside to find the last banana in this challenge course.

#33: Shifty Smash: Cliff’s Edge

After entering Big-Stretch Peak via minecart, walk straight ahead to the area with the transparent crystal. There’s a wall you can break into next to it, which well take you to a challenge node. Activate it and you’ll have 20 seconds to break three floating walls, which you can do by diving straight through them. Your reward is a gem.

#34: Sleeping by the Smokestack

After you ride the minecart into Big-Stretch Peak, you’ll be told by a giraffe Fractone to climb the ladder to the refinery entrance, but right before you get onto the ladder, dig downwards to find a banana.

#35: Canyon Smashin’ Stats

Before you climb the tall ladder to the Banandium Refinery entrance, turn to the right of the ladder to find a Fractone with a few rocks stacked on top of their head. They’ll give you a Banandium Gem if you’ve smashed 30,000 cubic meters of stone.

On the side of the cliff of the Banandium Refinery, you’ll find the face of Poppy Kong carved into the wall. On Poppy Kong’s right ear, you’ll find a Banandium Gem.

On the side of the cliff of the Banandium Refinery, you’ll find the face of Grumpy Kong carved into the wall. Inside Grumpy Kong’s right nostril, you’ll find a Banandium Gem.

#38: Hidden Beneath Scoundrels

This gem is in a cave blocked by concrete under the stone carving of Void Kong. Use Kong Bananza to break it open, take out the baddies inside, and break another concrete wall to get to this banana.

#39: Circling the Concrete Pillar

Climb to the top of the Grumpy Kong statue to find a spinning concrete pillar. Smash your way through with Kong Bananza to find a banana.

#40: Battle: Sturdy Pork Platoon

At the top of the cliff featuring the carved faces of Void Kong, Poppy Kong, and Grumpy Kong, you’ll find a battle challenge. Head inside and defeat the five concrete squeeloids to receive a gem.

#41: Finally Within Reach

This gem is found on the “horn” of the giraffe pipe structure by the Neckreach Smokestack Exit teeleport point.

#42: Battle: Explosive Laps

After you defeat the Mad Mixer and exit the Neckreach Smokestack, you’ll end up on another island with Cranky Kong. On the path to the village, look to the right to find a battle challenge. Defeat the five stompoids in this minecart battle challenge to get the Banandium Gem.

#43-45: The Canyon Growtone, The Hungry Canyon Growtone, and The Sated Canyon Growtone

Feed the growtone tree a total of 2,000 gold to receive all three Banandium Gems.

#46: The Lift’s Secret Stop

In the Stompy Ascent challenge course (next to the Mechaneck Isle Getaway), one of the walls behind the stompoids will be made of stone. Break it open for a banana.

This banana is on the path for the Stompy Ascent challenge course. You can’t miss it.

This is the final banana reward for the Stompy Ascent challenge course.

#49: Cranky’s Canyon Rant

Talk to Cranky Kong next to the Mechaneck Isle Getaway to hear his rant and get a Banandium Gem.

#50: Canyon Hide-and Seek

Enter this cave to the side of the Mechaneck Isle Getaway to find an NPC asking for you to find its four friends. One is behind the explosive rock, another is in the concrete, one is in the whole, one is in a stone wall, and another is towards the edge near a metal platform. We took a screen to give you an idea of where to smash.

Enter this cave to the side of the Mechaneck Isle Getaway and punch the dirt pile on the ground to drop down onto a platform. Punch the blue punching bag a ton to bring the Banandium Gem over to you.

#52: Bust Through the Giraffe’s Spot

Fall down the Click-Clack Smokestack and punch through this inconspicuous dirt hole to get a banana.

#53: Behind the Moving Walls

Smash through the moving walls to find a Banandium Gem hiding in a small room behind them.

#54: Above the Moving Walls

Climb up the side of the last moving wall and punch past the dirt to get to this banana.

#55: Slip into the Secret Room

Climb up the nearby plus-shaped rotating walls and allow DK to slip into this opening from the bottom of one.

#56: Hanging from the Crane

The banana is behind the Smokestack Getaway that you make as you climb up the Click-Clack Smokestack.

#57: The Crane’s Precious Cargo

Break open the concrete block the crane is lifting near the Click-Clack Smokestack Roof using Kong Bananza to get this banana.

#58: Battle: Knotted-Thorn Knockout

Around the corner from the Click-Clack Smokestack Roof, there’s an NPC you have to pay 600 gold to open this battle challenge. Take out the two stompoids to get your banana.

#59: Foreman’s Secret Stash

To reach this gem, you’ll first need to grab Banandium Gem #78, Under Twin-Horn Smokestacks. Continue down the metal grate hallway and climb into the barrel. You’ll get sent to a small island back on Sublayer 300 where you’ll see a dirt wall you can break through. Smash it to find a gem.

#60: Canyon Chip Exchange

In the Longneck Plateau Village, speak the the hexagonal Fractone in front of the Chip Exchange to trade chips and gold for gems.

Sublayer 301 Banandium Gems

There are 18 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 301 of the Canyon Layer.

Beat Grumpy Kong at the end of Sublayer 300 and jump into the hole to get this gem in Sublayer 301.

#62: Battle Laser-Wall Brawl

Drop into this window and enter the battle challenge. Beat the three crockoids for a banana.

#63: The Refinery’s Hidden Hallway

After taking the first minecart ride, walk towards the steps to the next minecart up the hill. Before you get there, smash through the wall to the left of the sloped steps and then blow up the concrete wall within to find a gem.

#64: Peak’s Peek at the Refinery

To get this Banandium Gem, you’ll need to enter a pipe located on Sublayer 300. The pipe is found in a cave on the side of the mountain with the Void Company’s faces on it (specifically, this is the side with Poppy Kong). Use your Kong Bananza skill to break the concrete blocking the pipe and you’ll land right on the banana in Sublayer 301.

#65: Asleep in a Dormitory

This gem is first spotted when you’re throwing boom rocks in the mine cart, but you’ll have to wait to claim it until you reach the Banandium Refinery Staff Dorms tuning fork. From the tuning fork, enter the building on your left and walk to the edge to find a metal contraption connecting your building to the one below. Drop down onto the building and break into the adjacent room to find the gem.

#66: Surveying the Staff Dorms

This is another gem that you’ll need to fall to from Sublayer 300. Smash the concrete at the top of this tower in Longneck Plateau Village using Kong Bananza to fall on to this banana.

#67: Tucked Away in a Dormitory

This banana can be found in a building to the right of the Spinning Laser Zone challenge. Inside the building closest to the edge, you’ll find a back entrance that leads to the banana.

#68: Battle: Leaps over the Laser

This battle challenge can be found in the area immediately after the Banandium Refinery Terrace Getaway. From the Getaway, proceed straight and take the first left. Enter the building on the right to find the entrance to the challenge.

Inside, you’ll need to defeat two stompoids to receive the gem.

The Spinning Laser Zone challenge can be found in the area immediately after the Banandium Refinery Terrace Getaway. From the Getaway, proceed straight and take the second left to find the challenge course.

The first banana can be spotted as soon as you enter the challenge. Continue through the challenge to find this gem.

#70: Laying Low in the Laser Zone

Immediately after you find the first banana, you’ll enter an area full of spinning lasers. After you slam the ground to bring up the first concrete wall, you’ll spot a Banandium Gem hidden under the patch of gravel. Dig down to collect the gem.

#71: Laser-Zone End Point

This gem is found at the end of the Spinning Laser Zone challenge.

#72: De-Voiding the Dorms

After you de-void the minecart on the way to Mad Mixer, a Banandium Gem will also get de-voided in the process.

This Banandium Gem is a reward for beating the Mad Mixer boss, and you’ll get it as you progress through the story.

#74: Mad Mixer’s Parting Gift

After you defeat Mad Mixer, teeleport back to the Banandium Refinery Gravel Storage waypoint. Continue straight to find a container full of colorful gravel. Before jumping in, spot the pile of gravel that is the furthest away from you. Underneath this pile, you’ll find a Banandium Gem.

#75: Dropped into the Refinery Depths!

You get this banana as part of the story progression, after you jump into the hole at the top of the Click-Clack Smokestack.

#76: Shifty Smash: Moving Targets

In the area behind the Spinning Laser Zone Ancient Ruin, you’ll find a shifty triangle beside a boom rock. Complete the challenge by destroying the two floating triangles to get a gem.

#77: Treasure by the Triceratops

Behind the Spinning Laser Zone Ancient Ruin, you’ll find an area full of colorful gravel. Dig into the biggest pile to find a banana.

#78: Under Twin-Horn Smokestacks

Go to the village in Sublayer 300 via the Longneck Plateau Village tuning fork. Take a right and drop down off the cliff behind the gong. You’ll see a minecart with a Fractone miner near it. Talk to him and pay 1,000 gold to create the track. Take it to the island and smash your way through the concrete wall blocking the left smockstack. Climb up the ladder inside, climb the ceiling bridge to the right smokestack, and climb to the top of that. Break the concrete panel blocking it and you’ll land in Sublayer 301, where you’ll get a gem.

#79: Hanging Hallway Over the Refinery

After you enter the Longneck Plateau Village in the Canyon Layer. Head up to the rotating stone pillar behind the clothing store. If you walk up to the edge and look down to the left, you’ll notice a suspicious black pillar below you. Drop down and make your way over to the pillar to find a stake embedded into the ground. Break the stake.