Boggly Woods

Boggly Woods
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Greater location	Rogueport's surrounding areas
Inhabitants	Flurrie, Punies, Clefts, Pale Piranhas, Piders, Dark Puffs, Jabbies

“These are the Boggly Woods… They sure look…boggling. Ooh! I’ve got butterflies!”

—Goombella, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Boggly Woods are a location in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. They are the woods that Mario, Goombella, and Koops explore in Chapter 2. The woods seem tranquil, yet they create an eerie and lonely atmosphere accentuated by large gusts of wind and shifting rainbow-colored earth. The floor has a tree-branch-like texture with a prismatic glow, and the trees seem to have leaves made out of crystals. The Boggly Woods are inhabited by many pale black-and-white enemies and the Punies, small gray creatures with colored pompoms on their heads. Because of their remote location, the woods also attract a few Rogueportians who desire peace and solitude. Five notable outlanders who have at one time been to the woods are Madame Flurrie, one of Mario's partners; Dupree; the businessman; Charlieton; and Doe T., one of the subjects Mario must help from the Trouble Center.

Mario and his teammates discover that the X-Nauts are behind Princess Peach's kidnapping and offer Punio their help in driving the X-Nauts out of the Punies' home, the Great Tree. As the group members near the woods, the members happen to hear the Three Shadows in the midst of conversation as they try to recover a lost sketch of Mario they believe will lead to his capture. During this, Vivian shows Beldam Flurrie's necklace. Marilyn notices Mario as he enters the woods and tries to alert her sisters, but Beldam and Vivian ignore her.

Before Mario reaches the Great Tree, he encounters the aforementioned Madame Flurrie and learns that she lives in the Boggly Woods not only for peace and solitude but also to be near the Punies, whom she adores. She requests help in retrieving her necklace, which Mario and his companions find in the woods, and once it is in her possession, Flurrie joins their quest and uses her abilities to help the group gain access to the Great Tree.

The in-game map description reads, "A strange and beautiful forest filled with strange and beautiful creatures."

Inhabitants

• Doe T. (during his Trouble)
• Dupree (during Chapter 2)
• Flurrie (during Chapter 2)
• Traveling Sisters Three (during Chapter 2)
• Charlieton (Switch only)

Enemies

For enemy formations in Boggly Woods, see here.

• Cleft
• Dark Puff
• Pale Piranha
• Three Shadows (Bosses)

Items

In the Nintendo Switch remake, additional items can be purchased from Charlieton.

Item	Location
Honey Syrup	In the second screen, to the left of the third tree from right.
Inn Coupon	In the third screen, in the bush to the right of the pipe.
Necklace	In the second screen, dropped by the Three Shadows.
P-Down, D-Up P	In the fourth screen, in an invisible red block above the tree stumps in the north.
Quake Hammer	In the fourth screen, in the red question block on top of the right platform.
Shine Sprite	In the fourth screen, to the left of the high plane panel.
Sleepy Sheep	In the second screen, in the leftmost tree.
Star Piece	In the fourth screen, on the left of the tree stumps to the north of the airplane area.
	In the fifth screen, in the third tree.
	In the fifth screen, to the left of the pipe leading to Flurrie's house.
	In Flurrie's house, under a panel in the southeast of the bedroom.
Super Appeal P	In Flurrie's house, in the chest box in the bedroom. Flurrie might have used it when she was an actress.
Volt Mushroom	In the fifth screen, in the right of the area behind the fence.

Hidden ? Block

Main article: List of hidden blocks in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Item	Description	Image	Image (block revealed)
P-Down, D-Up P	In the area with the tall stump that allows him to go into Airplane Mode, he should go to the tree stumps in the back and jump at the tenth one from the left to reveal the hidden ? Block. The location of this block is mentioned in Wonky's Tales, "Secret of Boggly Woods".

Profiles

• Tattles
  • "These are the Boggly Woods. Pretty surreal, huh? Looks like it's out of a picture book. It's pretty...but in an eerie sort of way, y'know?"
  • "These are the Boggly Woods. Kind of a dreamily pretty place, isn't it? It'd be nicer if it weren't crawling with enemies...But, whatcha gonna do?"
  • "You see that big tree over there? It's REALLY big...It's kind of otherworldly, actually. Wild..."
  • "If we wanna get over to that ledge on the right, I think we gonna fly in Plane Mode. Oh, hey, and Mario...Can you see that tunnel-like opening in the ledge wall?" (GCN)
    • "Boggly Woods is a great name for this place. The trees, the flowers...even the GROUND boggles the mind! It's a pretty kind of boggling though. And from a high-up spot? Ooh, baby! I'm talkin' PEAK prettiness!" (Switch)
  • "This is the outer part of the Boggly Woods. The flowers are almost like a carpet! Hey, and isn't it totally rare to find a white-leaved tree? What kind of tree is that?"

Gallery

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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  Out of the Warp Pipe

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  Flurrie using field move on a Dark Puff

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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Names in other languages

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Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ふしぎの森もり[?] Fushigi no Mori	Mysterious Forest
Chinese	神秘森林[?] Shénmì Sēnlín	Mysterious Forest
Dutch	Warwoud[?]	Confusion woods
French	Bois Insolite[?]	Strange Wood
German	Wunderwald[?]	Wonder Wood
Italian	Bosco Misterioso[?]	Mysterious Forest
Korean	신비한 숲[?] Sinbihan Sup	Mysterious Forest
Spanish	Bosque Maravilloso[?]	Wonderful Forest

Trivia

• Nintendo Magazine 2024 summer misspelled Boggly Woods as Boggle Woods.