Landfill Layer Banandium Gem (banana) locations in Donkey Kong Bananza

In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Landfill Layer is the tenth layer and it’s full of, well, trash. But scattered amid the rubbish is a bunch of Banandium Gems. Inside this heap of garbage, you’ll need to search behind metal scrap, dirt, and loads of debris to to collect all of the golden bananas.

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

Sublayer 1000 Banandium Gems

We’ve found 26 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 1000 in the Landfill Layer.

Before you start to dig down from the starting area of the Landfill Layer, climb up the walls to find a banana on top of one of the protruding metal bananas. As you’re climbing, stop on top of a banana and look around the perimeter to see if you can spot the banana. If not, climb a little bit higher and scout again until you spot it. Shimmy along the walls until you reach it.

#2: Freed the Blusterwing!

After defeating the Blusterwing in the Tempest Layer, drop down into the whole to find this bunch of bananas ahead of you.

This Banandium Gem isn’t available on your first visit to the Landfill Layer. We believe that you’ll need to return after you’ve progressed further or after you’ve beaten the main story of Donkey Kong Bananza.

To find the Mazy Cave: Pop Party Challenge Course, you’ll want to start at the Upper Pit tuning fork and then dig down, as you did for the story. Once you dig past the crystal and gold, ending up in the small room, you’ll want to follow the marked cave above, punching through any dead ends to find this maze puzzle.

You’ll need to find and pop the five banana balloons in the maze, which you can find quickly by using either Kong or Elephant Bananza and just sucking up all the terrain you can until you hit the few dead ends in the maze.

#5: Mazy-Cave Hidden Room

From the beginning of the maze, you’ll need to reach the opposite wall to find a concrete wall. Break it open using Kong Bananza to find this banana just hanging out behind it.

#6: Mazy-Cave Buried Banana

After you enter the maze and see the second balloon behind a wall, immediately turn right and head straight until you hit a metal wall. Climb over the wall and drop down to find a banana.

Follow the regular path down from the Middle Pit tuning fork, but stop digging when you see bombs in the distance. As you dig closer to the bombs, you’ll see the banana. Dig towards the bombs, set one off, and then back off, so that they all detonate each other. Grab your banana from the newly made crater.

#8: Up and Down, Underground

From the Middle Pit tuning fork, follow the quest markers and dig down like normal. You’ll spot a Banandium Gem moving up and down in a separate tunnel. Dig your way over and break the banana to collect it.

#9: Shift Smash: Dig Deep

Beside Banandium Gem #8, you’ll find a hallway that has a fossil on the wall along with a challenge course. Because of how the camera works underground in Donkey Kong Bananza, you can see a shifty triangle behind the fossil. Smash your way through the wall and hit it to start the challenge.

To complete the challenge, you’ll need to dig down while avoiding the lava, and break the shifty block at the bottom.

#10: Sniffing out a Secret

The entrance to the Elephant Bananza: City Smash challenge course can be found in the same tunnel as Banandium Gem #8 and #9.

Finish the challenge to ensure that you’ve sucked up a boom rock chunk and have one stored. Chunk jump above the entrance to the Elephant Bananza: City Smash challenge, and chunk jump again to the next platform to see a concrete barrier. This is where you’ll need the boom rock chunk, so you can break the concrete block and gather the banana underneath.

#11-12: Wrecked by Elephant Bananza and Quickly with Elephant Bananza

Complete the challenge course to receive one banana, but if you complete the challenge with 20 or more second left, you’ll receive another.

#13: Battle: Search and Destroy

From the Lower Pit tuning fork, climb up the wall and dig upwards to enter a small circular room. Rotate your camera until you can spot a room with a fossil in it, and dig towards it to find this combat challenge.

Inside, you’ll need to defeat three crockoids using various Bananza powers. Use the Elephant Bananza to take out the lava crockoid, Kong Bananza to defeat the concrete one, and then any (or regular DK) to beat the last one. Remember that you can freely change Bananzas by using the D-pad when the Bananzas are activated.

#14: Caged by a Hungry Guard

From the Lower Pit tuning fork, look to the right of the sleeping fish to find a sign with a banana. Go behind the sign and start digging towards the large metal pipes to find a banana inside a cage. Dig around the metal structure and take out the serpent-like enemy by sucking up its lava body with Elephant Bananza. After it’s gone, you’ll be free to claim your sweet banana.

#15: Landfill Fragmentone Recovery

From the Lower Pit tuning fork, look to the right of the sleeping fish to find a sign with a banana. Go behind it and dig past the fossil to find a Fragmentone and its fragments. You can dig straight through the single fragment towards the Fragmentone to get this first banana.

#16: Landfill Fragmentone Restoration

The other two fragments are surrounded by lava. We dug upwards to create a path on the same level as the lava and then used Elephant Bananza to suck up the lava, creating a safe passage for the fragments to jump down straight to their parent. You’ll get a banana for reuniting these final fragments with the Fragmentone.

#17: Nestled within the Debris

You’ll find this banana naturally as you progress through the story.

#18: Cranky’s Landfill Rant

After you make it to Trashtopia, turn until you spot the barrel launch pad on the floor. Behind it, you’ll spot a gold sparks coming out of the ground. Climb up the wall above the gold and enter this small cavern to find Cranky Kong. Listen to his usual rant to get your banana.

#19: Landfill Smashin’ Stats

Talk to our beloved buddy Smashintone above the shops after you smash 70,000 cubic meters of dirt in the Landfill Layer for this banana.

Beside the Warp Gong, you’ll spot a small sliver in the wall with a Fractone. Follow the Fractone through the dirt walls until you reach a treasure room. Break the wall holding the fossil to find a banana hidden behind it.

#21: Battle: Hundred-Harasser Horde

Follow the arrow-shaped Fractone in the town to find this battle challenge. Take out the 100 peekaboopoids to get your banana. You can suck up the peekaboopoids extremely quickly using Elephant Bananza.

#22-23: Delivery Complete and Speedy Delivery

This Ancient Ruins is near the hub town of the Landfill Layer. Just pay the Constructone 1,000 gold to open it up. Inside, you’ll need to punch through terrain to clear a path for ice cubes to fall through. You’ll get this banana for clearing the challenge within the time limit.

If you clear the challenge with 30 seconds or more left on the clock, you’ll receive another banana.

After you fill up the bowl with shaved ice, do not immediately enter the barrel. Go to the wall opposite of the barrel and start punching straight ahead until you find a patch of snow on the ground. Start to dig downwards until you hit the metal floor. Turn around and dig straight to find the banana.

If you get disoriented, you can rotate the camera around and you should be able to see the banana itself.

#25: Battle: Explosive Excavation

On the wall behind the stake, you’ll find a patch of debris with a Constructone behind it. Break through the debris and pay the Constructone 600 gold to unblock the challenge. Head in and use the boom rocks to clear out the three crockoids for your banana.

If you’d like to speed up the process, we recommend using Kong Bananza to smash your way through the concrete and crockoids alike.

#26: Follow the Crystal Vein

You can see this banana under the clothing shop when you use DK’s Hand Slap sonar. Dig below the Style Shop to find the banana.

#27: Landfill Chip Exchange

Trade Banandium Chips and gold for a banana. The more you’ve traded on previous layers, the most expensive this one will be. As usual with these, you can trade more but you only need one to complete this layer.

Monkeying around in Donkey Kong Bananaza? We have guides to help you plow through this collectathon, including where to find Banandium Gems on The Junction Layer, Resort Layer, and Tempest Layer. We also have guides on how to use amiibos and explainers on the various Ancient Bananza Powers and the skill tree.