The Resort Layer is the eighth layer in Donkey Kong Bananza and it’s packed full of gigantic fruit cubes.
As you explore the fruit-covered beaches of the Resort Layer, you’ll find your normal sized Banandium Gems. Although they’re not as big nor cube-shaped, these bananas are plentiful and will provide you with additional skill points to help you on your journey.
Below, we list where to find all of the Banandium Gems in the Resort Layer we’ve found so far. We’re still updating this guide with more golden bananas as we find them.
Sublayer 800 Banandium Gems
We’ve found 41 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 800 in the Resort Layer.
#1: Drove Off Void Kong!
This Banandium Gem will be right in front of you when arriving at the Resort layer.
#2: Buried in the Beach
To find this Banandium Gem, you need to dig a hole next to a half-buried rock banana that is close to the edge of the circular green area.
#3: Strawberry and Banana
When facing the central watermelon on the initial island, turn to the right to find a giant strawberry on a floating island. To reach the island, head to the area below the island and punch one of the rainbow sharks toward it to create a rainbow bridge. Either punch your way into the strawberry or dive jump the button on top to find the banana.
#4: Checking into the Tropical Retreat
This Banandium Gem is next to the tuning fork in Tropical Retreat.
#5: Resort Quiz Master
Talk to Quiztone, a Fractone wearing a top hat next to the tuning fork in Tropical Retreat, and participate in their quiz. By answering three questions correctly, you earn the Banandium Gem.
The answers are as follows:
- Sunglasses
- A juice bar
- Coconuts
#6: Underground Runaround
First, destroy the giant orange that is close to the Tropical Retreat tuning fork to access an underground area. Inside, there are a lot of Fractones, and some will change into an arrow pointing to the location of the hidden Banandium Gem. Follow the arrows and break your way through the rocks to find the banana.
#7: Up Means Down
In the same area where you found the Banandium Gem #6, you’ll find this banana beneath a Fractone that is pointing up. From where you land when entering this area, turn to the right and head towards the Fractone closest to the wall in the first row. You’ll know if you found the right Fractone because they’ll turn into an arrow pointing upwards. Dig a hole underneath them to access a hidden cave where this Banandium Gem is waiting for you.
#8: Secret Beachside Grotto
Teeleport to the Tropical Retreat tuning fork, and go around the right side of the large rock formation. Along the wall, you’ll find a portion of the wall that is cracked. Break it to access the secret grotto and grab another banana.
#9: A Daring Drop
Look above the Style Shop by the Tropical Retreat tuning fork to spot the Mine-Cart Country challenge course. Talk to the Constructone and pay them 1,000 gold to remove the rubble and open the door.
Once inside, you’ll want to fall into the third broken trail track segment, which has three large gold spheres lined up vertically. The banana will be waiting for you on the path ahead.
#10: Rail-Ride Rest Stop
In the Mine-Cart Country challenge course, survive the first half and you will inevitably find this banana.
#11: End of the Line
At the end of Mine-Cart Country, you’ll find this banana waiting for you.
#12: Battle: Pulverizer’s Path
You get this Banandium Gem after completing the Resort Layer Battle Challenge 1. The entrance is located just above the Architectone and Tropical Retreat Getaway. Climb the wall up to the next level to find the entrance.
To get the banana, you’ll need to defeat the three trailfinoids inside. A trailfinoid can be found on top of each black pillar, so hit the sharks towards each pillar to easily traverse between them.
#13-15: The Resort Growstone, The Hungry Resort Growstone, The Sated Resort Growstone
On a floating island above Tropical Retreat, there is a Growtone. To reach it, you want to grab a portion of the rainbow material on the ground, pass through the silver square to turn it into a rainbow square, and grab another portion to keep flying up. When you find the stone, stand on the blue circle in front of it and offer gold to it to receive a banana.
To receive all three bananas, you’ll need to offer 4,000 gold in total.
#16-17: Resort Fragmentone Recovery and Resort Fragmentone Restoration
Above the Chip Exchange, you’ll find a Fragmentone. To earn the first banana, you’ll need to reunite one of the fragments with the Fragmentone. To earn the second, you’ll need to bring back the other two fragments.
* The first fragment can be found under the a slanted strawberry that is mostly buried in the ground. Dive punch the button on top of the strawberry to find the fragment and continue along the path to find a platform that can be raised with a handslap.
* The second fragment is inside the tallest strawberry.
* The third fragment is on the floating island in the distance. Hit the shark towards the island to create a rainbow bridge and slowly bring the fragment back to the Fragmentone.
#18: Resort Smashin’ Stats
Talk to our good buddy Smashintone, who is near the shops in the Tropical Retreat, after breaking through 30,000 cubic units of sand on the Resort Layer to get your banana.
#19: Shifty Smash: Liftoff to the Sky
Dig up the vegetables on the side of the triangle, and then activate the Shifty Smash challenge. Use the liftoff ore to float all the way up to land on the top third shifty block. Smash downward repeatedly to complete this challenge quickly and nab your banana.
#20: Cranky’s Resort Rant
Swim into this small hole at the back of the Tropical Retreat cliffside to find Cranky Kong. Listen to him yap to get your banana.
#21: At the Cannon Crossroads
Destroy the large orange behind this layer’s Smashintone, and fire DK out of the barrel cannon inside it. You’ll land on a floating island, with the banana right in front of you.
#22: Battle: Bated to a Bruising
On a small island below the huge watermelon in the center of the map, you’ll find a Constructone beside a blocked battle challenge. Pay 600 gold to remove the rubble and head inside to find three molevoloids.
The molevoloids’ material will change depending on which material they resurface on, so try to get the molevoloids to resurface on any breakable material. Avoid the black metal at all costs and defeat all three to get a banana.
#23: Shifty Smash: Seaside Smashing
Smash the strawberry on the shore next to the Fruitbowl Archipelago Getaway to reveal the shifty trial switch. Activate it, and transform into Zebra Bananza so you can run across the water (you can do this just by running normally — no charge dash required). Smash the three shifty blocks to clear the challenge and get your banana.
#24: Bloomed in the Resort Layer
Teeleport to the Juicy Beach tuning fork, which is located on the very first island of the Resort Layer. Turn to the left and continue until you reach the edge of the beach. If you look into the distance, you’ll spot an island across the ocean. Either swim, turf surf, or Zebra Dash over the water to get to the island. Transform into Kong Bananza and destroy the concrete bananas to open a window for some sunlight. After the plant sprouts a flower, interact with them to get a banana.
#25: Resort Hide-and-Seek
Speak with Seekertone on the isle under the floating stone bananas to start the hide-and-seek challenge.
* The first Fractone can be found inside a giant strawberry beside the Seekertone.
* The second Fractone is inside one of the floating orbs on the island.
* The third Fractone is found in an alcove on the back side of the island.
* The fourth Fractone is found on the floating stone bananas above the island. To get there, break the giant strawberry above the third Fractone to find a patch of liftoff ore. Grab a chunk to fly up to the stone bananas where you’ll find the last hiding Fractone.
#26: Shaved-Ice Trainee
This Ancient Ruins challenge course is under a huge pear that you’ll need to smash open. You’ll need to punch away the pink goo at the bottom so it creates a slope with the blue goo at the top to create a pathway for the ice cubes to go into the bowl. You can see what shape we made above.
#27: Shaved-Ice Artisan
Again, you’ll need to dig away at the pink goo to make a ramp for the ice cubes to go down. You can see our solution above.
#28: Shaved-Ice Master
Before you enter the barrel to leave, smash through the stone wall on the right side instead to reveal a third puzzle where a big and greedy Fractone wants yet another serving of shaved ice. Orient the goo similarly to our image above to create a pathway for the ice and get the third banana.
#29: Rising Seafloor Ruins
Below the floating island with Banandium Gem #35, you’ll see a submerged rainbow road that leads to a giant strawberry. Head over to the giant strawberry and destroy it to find a blue balloon inside. Repeatedly punch the balloon until the rainbow road completely surfaces. Quickly follow the path until you reach the black pillar, and grab a chunk of the rainbow material to float into the air. Drop down into the pillar to find a banana.
#30: Changing the Lanes
This banana is rewarded as part of the Switch-Lane Skyway Ancient Ruins, which is located in the stone pillar underneath the giant watermelon.
Inside, you’ll need to navigate between two moving paths to avoid obstacles throughout the level. This banana will be on the path towards the beginning. We also recommend grabbing some balloons before this level if you’re not great at dealing with time-based pressure.
#31: Clearing the Lanes
This banana is rewarded at the end of the above Ancient Ruins, right before the barrel shoots you out of the level.
#32: Pause for the Underpass
As the boom rock and rubber paths reach the final platform, don’t get off of them yet. They will snake down the gap, keep following the boom rock path closely, allowing you to drop down safely as it snakes around. After dropping twice, the paths will reach a hidden banana.
#33: Adrift at Sea
This banana is floating on a hexagon-shaped tiny island around the edge of the water. It floats a circle around the full Resort Layer, so you may need to look at your map to find the tiny hexagon. Use your Zebra Bananza power to easily run across the water and catch up to the moving island.
#34: Floating Freebie
This Banandium Gem is located on a floating island between Tropical Retreat Outskirts and Tropical Retreat. To reach it, you want to create a bridge by punching a rainbow shark and picking up a piece of it to propel upwards. After you land on the island, you’ll find the banana sitting there waiting for you.
#35: Quick Snack on Skydive Isle
You’ll find this banana organically as you do the story here. It’s on top of Skydive Isle, after you float up past several shifty platforms using liftoff ore.
#36: Skydive Isle’s Side Pocket
This banana is just chilling in a small alcove on the side of the island. If you build the Skydive Isle Getaway, you can see it from the other side of the getaway.
#37: Shifty Smash: Floating Rotation
Smash the shifty triangle to start the challenge. We fluttered using Ostritch Bananza to reach the platforms with the shifty cubes faster, allowing us to smash them within the time limit.
#38: Battle: Aerial Aiming
This combat challenge is next to the Skydive Isle Getaway, below the Blast-Off Boardwalk tuning fork. Defeat the three buzzoids using the liftoff ore inside to get the banana.
#39: Down from Skydive Isle
From the large island under the Blast-Off Boardwalk tuning fork turn to the edge and hit the green rope box. Follow the rope down to see a partially buried banana on this floating island.
#40: Above the Big Watermelon
You will likely run into this banana as part of the main story. After arriving to the Blast-Off Boardwalk tuning fork, you’ll walk across a rainbow pathway and rise up using the liftoff ore. The banana will be on the small floating island before you dive into the watermelon.
#41: ???
This Banandium Gem isn’t available on your first visit to the Resort 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.
#42: Resort Chip Exchange
Trade in your Bananadium Chips for a banana at the Chip Exchange in the resort. The price in gold and Banandium Chips varies depending on how many chips you’ve already turned into bananas.
Monkeying around in Donkey Kong Bananaza? We have guides to help you plow through this collectathon, including where to find Banandium Gems on Freezer Layer, Forest Layer, and The Junction Layer. We also have guides on how to unlock music discs and explainers on the various Ancient Bananza Powers and the skill tree.
