13. Moleville

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Outside

• • Head directly up-left from the entrance to the item shop for SHOPPING!

    • BUY:

    • Punch Glove

    • Finger Shot

    • Cymbals

    • Work Pants x 4

  • EQUIP Mario:

    • Punch Gloves

    • Work Pants

  • EQUIP Mallow:

    • Cymbals

    • Work Pants

  • EQUIP Geno:

    • Finger Shot

    • Work Pants

• Head northeast towards the entrance to the mines to trigger the Bowser cutscene.

• After the cutscene, keep heading northeast and enter the mine entrance.

• Answer the first option to both prompts when talking to the moles, then hop on top of them to reach the entrance to the mines.

Coal Mines - First Half

First Screen

• • Run to the right, avoid the rock monsters, and get to the next screen.  Nothing to see here.

Second Screen

• • Drop down to the bottom level and proceed to the door to the upper right, underneath where the toad is standing.

Bandit Chase

Croco Second Time

• • If you freebied the Energizer on Bowyer, have Mallow use it on Geno at the start of this fight!

• Geno Attack every turn

• Mario Jump every turn

• Mallow Attack every turn.

• When Mario runs out of FP for jumping, use Attack.

• Use Pick Me Ups early in the battle when needed, before you lose access to your items in the second half.  This battle requires good blocking in the second half.  If you can’t block, keep Mallow alive to heal.

• Bad RNG is similar to the first fight, if Croco throws a lot of bombs.

Second, Third, and Fourth Screens

• • • Grab the invincibility star from the chest and kill the Bob-ombs going forward in this room.

    • Run through the next room killing the two Bob-ombs here as well.

    • In the next room with the treasure chest, make sure to kill the Bob-omb near the chest, and try to kill the fireball enemy that appears as well!

• • Empty the chest of 150 coins when you're done.

• Mario reaches level 5 - MAG

Fifth Screen

• • Jump over the four bob-ombs as they're coming towards you.

  • Run past the save point, then jump on top of the boxes above you to reach the chest with a flower in it.

  • Go back and hit the mushroom chest and save for safe strats, then proceed northeast to the final screen.

Sixth Screen

• • Run directly up-right towards Punchinello, but jump when you're in line with the bob-omb on your right to land on top of Punchinello to start the fight.

  • If you land directly in front of him or run up without jumping, he'll push you back to the previous screen!

Punchinello

• • If you freebied the Energizer again on Croco above, have Mallow use it on Geno at the start of this fight!  Sometimes lucky!

• Mario always uses Jump, Geno and Mallow always attack.

• When your FP runs out, Mario switches to Attacks. Keep this up until Punchinello falls.

• Bad RNG is if Punchinello uses Sandstorm anytime during the fight.  If he does and it hits Geno, use an Able Juice on him. Geno is critical to keep healthy and dealing full damage.

Minecart

• • Do the minecart, and try to grab as many coins as you can.  The coins in this area are important for bomb shopping later.  Getting coins is more important than getting a fast time!

  • Follow the green arrows below for the optimal route through the 1st and 3rd screens.

  • Coins in the 2nd screen are top, bottom, top (miss a smaller row on bottom).

  • Coins in the last screen are 4 sets, easy to get if you don’t boost.  You might need to boost jump for first set of coins.

  • Once you get the fourth set of coins on the last screen, just boost as much as you can to the end.

Screen 1

Screen 2

Screen 3

Screen 4

Outside

• • Running low on Pick Me Ups???  Well right now is the time to go buy some.  Make sure to have at least 5 in your inventory, as you will need them for the Bundt fight.

  • If you're good on Pick Me Ups, leave Moleville after the cutscene with the sniffits and head to Booster Pass.

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