Editing DK's Tree House

|image=[[File:DK's Treehouse art.jpg|300px]]<br>Donkey Kong and [[Diddy Kong]] relaxing outside their treehouse, in artwork for ''Donkey Kong Country''

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'''DK's Tree House''',<ref>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong 64'' instruction booklet|page=33|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=1999}}</ref> or '''Donkey Kong’s Treehouse''',<ref>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Country'' Player's Guide|page=1|author=Tilden, Gail, et al.|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=1994|language=en-us|quote=We’ll take you all the way from Donkey Kong’s Treehouse to King K. Rool’s ship.}}</ref> is a home located in the jungle portion of [[Donkey Kong Island]]. The house is built above the [[banana hoard|banana cave]], where the [[Kong]]s keep their stash of [[banana]]s. DK's Tree House is where [[Donkey Kong]] lives. It was originally portrayed as a wooden cabin perched on top of a tree trunk, but more recent stances picture it as a {{wp|rondavel}} hut raised on stilts high above the ground. The house is generally furnished with a television, a bed or hammock, a rug, and various pictures on walls. The treehouse is also commonly associated with [[tire (object)|tire]]s, appearing both in and around it as simple furniture, as a swing or as a means of bouncing up to the house. Incidentally, Donkey Kong was shown to live in a treehouse in ''[[Captain N: The Game Master]]'', a show created a few years before ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' was released.

===''Donkey Kong Country'' series===

[[File:DK's Treehouse DKC original.png|thumb|The treehouse's first appearance in ''Donkey Kong Country'']]

Donkey Kong's Treehouse first appears in ''Donkey Kong Country''. It looks like a simple-looking wooden shack from the outside, and it can be seen on both the Donkey Kong Island map and the [[Kongo Jungle]] map. Donkey Kong's Treehouse also appears within [[Jungle Hijinxs (Donkey Kong Country)|Jungle Hijinxs]], which always begins with Donkey Kong launching out of the treehouse. It is directly above the banana cave, and there are a few steps for going up to the treehouse itself. The [[Cranky's Cabin]] theme plays in the background while inside of Donkey Kong's Treehouse. The interior layout of Donkey Kong's Treehouse includes a bed, a picture of two sailboats above it, a portrait of [[Candy Kong]] next to the door, a table with a blue vase containing flowers, discarded banana peels, and a half tire stuck into the ground that can be bounced on to collect the [[Red Balloon]] floating above in place. Donkey Kong's Treehouse can be entered only once during each playthrough of Jungle Hijinxs.

In the [[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance)|second remake]], the [[Bonus Room Blitz]] theme plays instead. There is a [[photograph]] is hidden behind the bunch of bananas, and it depicts a group picture of Donkey Kong and [[Diddy Kong|Diddy]] swinging from a rope on the eleventh page of the [[Scrapbook (Donkey Kong Country series)|scrapbook]]. After defeating [[Really Gnawty]], if Donkey Kong and Diddy enter the treehouse, they encounter [[Very Gnawty]] inside. In doing so, Very Gnawty turns around and hops out of the treehouse, an event that occurs only once per save file. The treehouse interior was redesigned to show more discarded items lying on the floor, and the portrait of Candy, a table with a vase, and the bed now all appear against a wall straight across from the entrance.

The interior of the treehouse is used as the background of the ending credits in the remake of ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3 (Game Boy Advance)|Donkey Kong Country 3]]''. A tire swing can be seen in the treehouse, though the portrait of Candy was not retained, and random objects are not lying all over the ground.

[[File:DKTH2.png|thumb|left|250px|Donkey Kong playing a {{iw|nwiki|Nintendo DS Lite}} inside the tree house in ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'']]

DK's Tree House is a location in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and its [[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D|3DS]] and [[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD|Switch]] ports. It first appears in the opening. Diddy jumps out of the window to check on the [[banana]]s from the [[banana hoard]], only to realize that they are stolen. When Donkey Kong goes out on the deck to hear what Diddy is complaining about, he gets approached by [[Krazy Kalimba]], causing him to step back into the tree house. Kalimba tries to hypnotize Donkey Kong, but it is unsuccessful. The first level, [[Jungle Hijinxs (Donkey Kong Country Returns)|Jungle Hijinxs]], starts right after the opening sequence, and every time the Kongs start the level, they must repeatedly punch Kalimba. After Kalimba is hit enough times, Donkey Kong kicks down the wooden front door and kicks the Tiki into the bushes. If the Kongs enter DK's Tree House, they can obtain a [[Red Balloon]] inside.

Later in [[Homecoming Hijinxs]], the first level of Donkey Kong Island, DK's Tree House appears in the background at the start of the level. Its roof and a side of its deck are covered in snow. DK's Tree House also appears in the epilogue, where, after Donkey Kong uses the horn to return Donkey Kong Island to its usual state (and thus melt the snow present on the tree house), the Kongs form a band on the porch to perform the credits theme.

In ''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong]]'', DK's Tree House makes a brief appearance in the prologue, where Donkey Kong is channel-surfing on his TV, until he stumbles upon a commercial with [[Mini Mario (toy)|Mini-Mario]]s. Visually, the only distinctive features of the house are a television and a couch, while the rest of the room is mostly dark. In the [[Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch)|remake]], when Donkey Kong storms out after watching the television report, the outdoors show a simple grass field with trees on the ground, so it could possibly be a different location from the treehouse.<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|author=Nintendo of America|date=January 17, 2024|url=youtu.be/TcM4DUo3hkA|title=''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'' — A Heist of Mini Proportions — Nintendo Switch|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=January 18, 2024}}</ref>

DK's Tree House makes a few background appearances in the [[Mario Party (series)|''Mario Party'' series]]. In ''[[Mario Party 7]]'', the porch in front of DK's Tree House represents the finish point in the [[Jump, Man]] and [[Vine Country]] [[minigame]]s, as well as in their ''[[Mario Party: The Top 100]]'' iterations. The [[Donkey Kong Board]] from ''[[Mario Party 10]]'' contains a miniatural version of DK's Tree House, used for decoration. It resembles its appearance from ''Donkey Kong Country Returns''.

DK's Tree House makes a minor appearance in the introduction of ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'', when the [[Toadies]] capture [[Baby DK]].

 

A treehouse, though not explicitly associated with Donkey Kong, appears briefly in the opening cutscene of {{a|DKRDS|l}}. Diddy is sitting on the porch of his tree house, and [[Squawks]] gives a letter to him written by [[Timber]]. In the letter, Timber asks for Diddy's help to kick out [[Wizpig]] from [[Timber's Island]]. The tree house appears to have an entirely empty interior, and unlike other games, a wooden ladder is connected to the tree house.

===Unused appearances===

====''Diddy Kong Pilot''====

In the 2003 iteration of ''[[Diddy Kong Pilot (2003)|Diddy Kong Pilot]]'', DK's Tree House appears in the background of jungle-themed races. As expected, it was not retained in ''[[jiggywikki:Banjo-Pilot|Banjo-Pilot]]''.

Donkey's Tree House.png|''[[Mario Party 7]]''

DKCR Treehouse.png|''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]''

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