Donkey Kong Bananza: Ingot Isle Banandium Gems

So, you've landed in the Donkey Kong Bananza starting area and you want to make a start on 100%-ing your collection already — we like the ambition! Fortunately, you've come to the right place.

In this guide, we'll be running through the locations of all the Banandium Gems in DKB's Ingot Isle. The majority of these only crop up once you've rolled credits, but there are still a few to keep an eye out for from the very start.

If you're after a similar rundown for the later layers, be sure to check out our Banandium Gem Locations guide hub.

Ingot Isle Banandium Gem Locations

To avoid any unwanted spoilers, we've put all of the post-credit Ingot Isle Banandium Gems into their own section at the bottom of this guide. That said, there are still 3 Banandium Gems available before that in the game's tutorial, which we've listed below.

There's no map for the tutorial section, but the Banandium Gems you can pick up are as follows:

SL1

1. The First Banandium Gem

End of the mining tunnel, straight ahead.

2. Through the Banana-Mining Belt

Follow the conveyor belt through the first mining room. The banana is at the end.

3. Digging Up a Snack

In a pile of dirt, just ahead of the SL1 checkpoint.

Post-Credit Banandium Gems

The following are only available in this layer once you've rolled credits on the Donkey Kong Bananza main game. So, final warning, turn back now if you want to avoid spoilers!

There are an additional 33 Banandium Gems available in the Ingot Isle Cave-In when you return after the credits, and we've got them all for you in the following map and list.

SL10

4. Secret by the Start

With Pauline back, head back to the layer's entrance and enter the small room behind the first main banana. Use Snake Bananza to hop up to a secret room near the ceiling to find this hidden gem.

5. Gold Rush!

Right in front of you as you land in SL10.

6. Shifty Smash: Rising Tower

Use Snake Bananza to complete the Shifty Smash challenge on the entrance sign to Ingot Isle.

7. Shifty Smash: Break Up the Ring

Use Elephant Bananza to beat the Shifty Smash puzzle, near the layer's start point.

8. Thwarting the Thorns

Use Ostrich Bananza off the edge of Baboomtown Entrance, into the fan. Egg Bomb the thorny platform above to find this hidden banana.

9. Ingot Isle Fragmentone Recovery

Return one of Fragmentone's fragments.

10. Ingot Isle Fragmentone Restoration

Return the other two fragments.

11. Shifty Smash: Checkerboard Crush

Use Kong Bananza to beat the Shifty Smash challenge behind the Warp Gong.

12. The Ingot Isle Growtone

Use Ostrich Bananza to reach the Growtone. Feed it 1,000 Gold.

13. The Hungry Ingot Isle Growtone

Feed the Growtone 5,000 Gold.

14. The Sated Ingot Isle Growtone

Feed the Growtone 10,000 Gold.

15. Post-Sprint Treat

Use Zebra Bananza to cross the crumbling path out of Baboomtown Square.

16. Snack in a Sunken Slab

Hidden in the concrete slab in the water, near the Baboomtown Square checkpoint.

17. Ingot Isle Hide-and-Seek

Speak to Seekertone in Baboomtown Square and find his four hidden pals.

18. Ingot Isle Smashin' Stats

Smash 9,999m of Gold in the layer, then speak to Smashintone in the Baboomtown Square.

19. Ingot Isle Quiz Master

Find Quiztone in Baboomtown Square and correctly answer his questions.

20. Decked Out in Gold

Change into the Bananergy Tie, Banandium Gold Fur and Golden Britches, then speak to Glamtone on top of Baboomtown Square.

21. Cranky's Ingot Isle Rant

Speak to Cranky on the highest girder in Baboomtown Square.

22. Finished Four Fights!

Speak to Grumpy Kong near the Baboomtown Entrance and pay him 5,000 good to open the Battle Rush. Survive the first four battles to earn this banana.

23. Beat Eight Bouts!

Make it through eight Battle Rush fights.

24. Won Thirteen Throwdowns!

Survive all thirteen Battle Rush fights.

25. Battle Rush Cleared!

Complete Grumpy Kong's Battle Rush.

26. Kong-quered Inflammonite!

Pay Grumpy Kong 10,000 Gold to open the Boss Rush mode. Defeat the first boss to earn this banana.

27. Kong-quered Abracajabya!

Defeat the second Boss Rush boss.

28. Kong-quered Sinister Blusterwing!

Beat the third Boss Rush boss.

29. Kong-quered Muckety-Muck!

Defeat the fourth Boss Rush boss.

30. Kong-quered Stompenclomper!

Beat the final Boss Rush boss.

31. Kong-quered the Boss Rush!

Survive the entirety of Grumpy's Boss Rush mode.

32. Snack on the Outskirts of Town

Find the Fractone in the water, off the left side of Baboomtown Square. Follow it, and it will lead you to the banana.

33. Shifty Smash: Quick & Nimble

Complete the Shifty Smash challenge on the raised platform near the covered hole. Easily accessed from the Barrel Cannons leaving Baboomtown Square.

34. Claimed on the Crane

Pay Grumpy Kong 120,000 Gold for the Ingot Isle restoration project. With Ingot Isle restored, this Gem is on top of a crane, sticking out of the main structure.

35. The Best of the Bunch

Keep climbing the structure from the above Gem and you'll find this banana on top of the gold statue's head. The map will look a little different by the time you get to bananas 34 and 35, but we won't ruin that surprise here.

36. Ingot Isle Chip Exchange

Cash in your chips at the Baboomtown Square Chip Exchange.

That's everything for Ingot Isle, but there are plenty more layers still to go! Head over to our Banandium Gem Locations guide hub for a rundown of the other areas, or swing to the Donkey Kong Bananza Walkthrough for more helpful advice.