The Radiance Layer in Donkey Kong Bananza is home to snake people and dozens of Banandium Gems. We list where to find them in our guide.
In Donkey Kong Bananza, you’ll hit the Radiance Layer as your 12th zone. It’s another big area filled with Banandium Gems. Some of the sublayers only have a few bananas, so don’t fret too much when you see that this place has a whopping five sublayers.
The Radiance Layer is home to snake people and it’s where you’ll get your last Ancient Bananza Power: Snake Bananza. You’ll need to leap up high using your coiled body to solve a ton of the puzzles on these floors, while also utilizing some of your older Bananza abilities, too.
Below, we list where to find all of the Banandium Gems in the Radiance Layer in Donkey Kong Bananza.Sublayer 1200 Banandium Gems
There are three Banandium Gems in Sublayer 1200 in the Radiance Layer.
Right next to the Shedlight Cave teeleport spot begin digging down and you’ll find this banana. You can use DK’s Hand Slap sonar to help locate the banana.
These three bananas will be sitting in the snow when you first drop into the Radiance Layer.
Past the hole down to the next sublayer is another concrete pillar. Destroying it creates an opening for light to shine down and digging directly down in the light will lead to this banana.
Transform into Kong Bananza and destroy the concrete floor below the concrete pillar to find the banana.Sublayer 1201 Banandium Gems
There are 27 Banandium Gems in Sublayer 1201 in the Radiance Layer.
You get this banana as part of the story when you drop on to Sublayer 1201.
From the place you land on Sublayer 1201, go to your left and jump from the edge. Below, you find a cave and inside of it a Shifty Smash challenge. Complete it to earn this banana.
Once you turn the sun back on in Sublayer 1202, head to the Glowboa Grotto Getaway and follow the path behind the getaway. Punch down on the light-activated door to find this banana.
This banana is right next to the Glow Stone Vein tuning fork and can be found with DK’s Hand Slap sonar. It’s behind a wall that two snakes are trying to break, but they complain about not being able to see. Pull the material from the glowing vein nearby and then bring it to the blue coil to open the door and claim your banana.
This banana is inside the Radiance Layer Challenge Course, Dim Lights in the Darkness. To find its entrance, start from the Glow Stone Vein tuning fork and jump from the platform to your left to the lower part. The door to this challenge is under the bridge. This banana is located in plain sight after the first set of platforms.
During the challenge, when on the platform with the crockoid, grab a piece of the glowing stone and throw it at a coil to the left of the platform. It will make two platforms appear, one of them containing this banana.
Finish the Radiance Layer Challenge Course 2 to find this banana.
From the Glow Stone Vein tuning fork, walk down the hill and turn to the right. Across the glow stone lake, you’ll spot the tip of a Banandium Gem sticking out of a pile of sand.
You earn this banana after completing a battle challenge. You find this challenge by going down the hill from the Glow Stone Vein tuning fork and going to your left. There’s a wall with an opening there. Inside, you can talk to a Constructone and pay 600 gold to open the path to the challenge.
Use Snake Bananaza’s charge jump to land on top of the giant snake hallway’s head to get this banana.
This banana is found on top of the zipline platform located above the Snake Elder. To reach the banana, go on top of the hill above the Elder’s Back Getaway and transform into your snake form. Do a charge jump into the air and quickly transform into your ostrich form, gliding the rest of the way.
Head into the room to the left of the Snake Elder, which is where you found one of the four record pieces. On the very first platform inside, you’ll find a large spider-like enemy on top of a bed of lava. Transform into your elephant form and suck up the lava to reveal a hidden room that contains a banana. Defeat the enemy by destroying the concrete on top of it and collect your banana.
While ziplining to receive the piece of the ancient record behind the Snake Elder, you’ll run into a segment where you have to constantly swap ziplines to make it to said record. Near the middle of this segment, you’ll see this banana next to the far right zipline.
This is the first banana in the challenge course Snake Bananza: Charged Climb, which you can reach from the top of the snake structure. As the name implies, you’ll need to be using Snake Bananza to start this course.
As you’re making your way through the challenge be on the lookout for a patch of snow on the ground. You can dig down through it and find this banana.
In above challenge course, if you found the previous banana, this banana will be right after it as soon as you take the barrel.
This banana is the end-of-course reward for the above challenge course.
After you turn the sun back on in Sublayer 1202, use Ostritch Bananza to glide (literally requiring the Glide skill) to this opening from the top of the Constrictor Corridor. Follow the path to find this banana.
Banandium Gems #21-29 can only be obtained after you complete the main story of Donkey Kong Bananza as they’re obtained in the Snake Elder’s Rehearsal challenge.
To start the challenge, you’ll need to interact with the Snake Elder after you’ve found 600 Banandium Gems. Before you start the challenge, we recommend maxing out all of the skills in the snake tree, as you’ll be using all of them in the rehearsal.
For the first banana in the challenge, you’ll need to quickly charge jump your way through pink and blue goo, so that the munchoids aren’t able to eat through your platforms. Once you make it to the top, you’ll find the banana waiting for you.
After you’ve climbed to the top of the first challenge, turn to the left to find a barrel that’ll launch you to another platform. For this challenge, you’ll need to quickly charge jump through a snaking platform until you reach the top. Once you’ve completed the challenge, charge jump up to the ceiling grates and collect your banana.
If it’s a little too fast for you, don’t forget you can slow down time with your Glare skill, which you can activate by holding and releasing the Y button.
For this next challenge, you’ll need to utilize your Glare skill to slow down moving objects. Just before the buzzoids are about to throw their boom rock, hold and release the Y button to slow down time. Grab the boom rock out of the air and get ready to throw it at the spiky concrete wall. However, you’ll need to quickly jump through the hole to reach the next area.
