Editing Blueprint

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:Blueprint.png|200px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1999|1999]])
}}
{{quote|This isn't a game, [[Kong]]! Those blueprints are vital to us both, so please go and find some.|Snide|Donkey Kong 64}}
'''Blueprints''' are the design plans for the [[Blast-o-Matic]] in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. They are collectible items that the [[Kong]]s must recover for [[Snide]]. There are 40 blueprints in total.

Aside from [[Hideout Helm]], every area in the game, including [[DK Isles]], has five blueprints, one for each Kong to collect. Every blueprint is guarded by a [[Kasplat]], whose hair color and blueprint color corresponds to a specific Kong (yellow for [[Donkey Kong]], red for [[Diddy Kong]], purple for [[Tiny Kong]], blue for [[Lanky Kong]], and green for [[Chunky Kong]]). If an incorrect Kong is active, the blueprint appears in the form of a hologram, and the Kong cannot collect it. Each Kong can individually visit [[Snide's H.Q.]] with their recovered blueprints, where Snide rewards them with a [[Golden Banana]] for every one they return.

Blueprints play a somewhat critical role in the final level, Hideout Helm, because Snide uses the blueprints to delay the Blast-o-Matic's countdown timer by a minute per blueprint. By default, the timer starts at ten minutes and can count down from 50 minutes at highest, if all 40 blueprints were collected beforehand.

Blueprints are required for a 101% completion, albeit indirectly via the Golden Bananas that Snide awards for turning them in. The blueprints themselves do not add to the completion percentage. Additionally, after the Kongs recover every blueprint, Snide allows the Kongs to replay most of the [[Bonus Area|Bonus Stage]]s from a sub-menu at his headquarters. 

==Gallery==
<gallery>
BlueprintPurp.png|Alternate artwork
DK64 Blue Blueprint.gif|Sprite of a blue blueprint
DK64 Yellow Blueprint.gif|Sprite of a yellow blueprint
DK64 Red Blueprint.gif|Sprite of a red blueprint
DK64 Purple Blueprint.gif|Sprite of a purple blueprint
DK64 Green Blueprint.gif|Sprite of a green blueprint
Blueprint (incomplete).png|The blueprint diagram when the player presses {{button|n64|a}} in Snide's H.Q.
DK64 Blueprint Full.png|The blueprint diagram after all 40 blueprints have been returned to Snide
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=せっけいず<ref>『任天堂公式ガイドブック ドンキーコング64』 Page 10.</ref>
|JapR=sekkeizu
|JapM=Plan
|Spa=Plano
|SpaM=Blueprint
|Ger=Pläne
|GerM=Blueprint
|Fre=Plan
|FreM=Plan
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Collectibles]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong 64 items]]
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