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The '''Map Key''' is a special golden [[key]] used in the game ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D]]''. One level in each of the eight worlds in the game contains a locked path which can be seen on the map screen as a lock with a golden chain. A map key is required to unlock the path for the level to be accessible for [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Diddy Kong]] after they have completed the previous one.  
|image=[[File:MapKey.png|MapKey.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD]]'' ([[List of games by date#2025|2025]])
|effect=Unlocks a new path on the map
}}
{{quote|What, you need a key to bust through some flimsy lock?|[[Cranky Kong]]|[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]}}
A '''Map Key''' is a special golden [[key]] used in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and its [[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD|Nintendo Switch]] ports. In each world of the game, excluding [[Cloud (world)|Cloud]], it can be purchased from [[Cranky Kong's Shop]] for 20 [[Banana Coin]]s. In New Mode of the 3DS version and Modern Mode of the Switch version, it instead costs ten Banana Coins. Once the player leaves the shop with a Map Key, it automatically unlocks the path on the Level Selection Screen in that world that is otherwise blocked by golden chains and a lock. Each such path leads to one additional level, with the path for completing that level sometimes creating a route to the world's boss level that has fewer levels total. The player cannot purchase Map Keys they already have, and they appear grayed out in the shop.


A Map Key can be purchased at [[Cranky Kong's Shop]] in each world for twenty [[Banana Coin]]s. Once bought and immediately after the Kongs exit the shop, the key unlocks the path that the [[Kong]]s are not able to access after finishing the previous level on the World's map screen. Unlocking the path can also provide a shortcut leading to another level and the world's boss without completing all the levels for each world.
==Unlocked levels==
The following levels are accessible via Map Keys:
*1-4: [[Sunset Shore]]
*2-6: [[Blowhole Bound]]
*3-4: [[Damp Dungeon]]
*4-4: [[Mole Patrol]]
*5-6: [[Springy Spores]]
*5-7: [[Wigglevine Wonders]]
*6-5: [[Precarious Plateau]]
*7-3: [[Handy Hazards]]
*8-4: [[Smokey Peak]]
 
==Names in other languages==
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|Jpn=もんキー
|JpnR=Monkī
|JpnM=Pun on "monkey" and "key"
}}


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Latest revision as of 11:14, March 2, 2025

Map Key
Map Key from Donkey Kong Country Returns.
First appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)
Effect Unlocks a new path on the map
“What, you need a key to bust through some flimsy lock?”
—Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong Country Returns

A Map Key is a special golden key used in Donkey Kong Country Returns and its Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch ports. In each world of the game, excluding Cloud, it can be purchased from Cranky Kong's Shop for 20 Banana Coins. In New Mode of the 3DS version and Modern Mode of the Switch version, it instead costs ten Banana Coins. Once the player leaves the shop with a Map Key, it automatically unlocks the path on the Level Selection Screen in that world that is otherwise blocked by golden chains and a lock. Each such path leads to one additional level, with the path for completing that level sometimes creating a route to the world's boss level that has fewer levels total. The player cannot purchase Map Keys they already have, and they appear grayed out in the shop.

Unlocked levels[edit]

The following levels are accessible via Map Keys:

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese もんキー[?]
Monkī 		Pun on "monkey" and "key"
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Donkey Kong Country Returns / Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D / Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
Characters Protagonists Donkey Kong • Diddy Kong • Cranky Kong • Rambi • Squawks • Super Kong • Tutorial Pig • Wigglevine
Bosses Mugly (Krazy Kalimba) • Scurvy Crew (The Maraca Gang) • Stu (Gong Oh) • Mole Miner Max/Mole Train (Banjo Bottom) • Mangoruby (Wacky Pipes) • Thugly (Xylobone) • Colonel Pluck (Cordian) • Tiki Tong
Enemies and obstacles Tiki Tak Tribe Fireball • Flaming Tiki Buzz • Giga Goro Ball • Screaming Pillar • Screaming Pillar (big) • Tiki Boing • Tiki Bomber • Tiki Buzz • Tiki Doom • Tiki Goon • Tiki Pilot • Tiki Pop • Tiki Seeker • Tiki Tank • Tiki Tong Tower • Tiki Torch • Tiki Tork • Tiki Zing • Tiki Zing (big) • Tiki Zing (Foggy Fumes)
Other Ack • AckStack • Ape-Eating Plant • Awk • Big Squeekly • Bonehead Jed • Bopapodamus • Bowling bird • BuckBomb • BuckBot • Buzzbite • Cageberry • Char-Char • Chomp • Chū Komorin • Electrasquid • Electroid • Fireball • Firebite • Frogoon • Giant Chomp • Giga Rangwi • Green Chomp • Hopgoon • Hothead Jed • Humzee • Jellybob • Kowalee • Leaping flame • Mimic • Mole Guard • Mole Miner • Muncher • Pinchly • Rawk • Ready-Bots (Pogobot · Pyrobot) • Rentamaguma • Robobee • Shooting Chomp • Skellirex • Skittler • Skittler Pillar • Skullyrex • Snaggles • Snippys • Squeekly • Squiddicus • Squidly • Stilts • Toothberry • Wiggle • Yellow Snaggles
Objects Items Banana • Banana Bunch • Banana Coin • Banana Juice • Crash Guardb • Green Balloonb • Hanging vine • Heart • Heart Boost • K-O-N-G Letters • Map Key • Puzzle Piece • Rare Orb • Red Balloon
Barrels Barrel Cannon • Blast Barrel • DK Barrel • Regular Barrel • Slot Machine Barrel
Miscellaneous Bag • Container • Green surface • Rambi Crate • Red and blue blocks • Tire • Mole Train • Trapdoor
Vehicles Mine Cart • Rocket Barrel
Moves Barrel Roll (Cartwheel Attack) • Blow • Charge • Cling • Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) • Ranged attack
Levels Jungle 1-1: Jungle Hijinxs • 1-2: King of Cling • 1-3: Tree Top Bop • 1-4: Sunset Shore • 1-5: Canopy Cannons • 1-6: Crazy Cart • 1-K: Platform Panic • 1-B: Mugly's Mound
Beach 2-1: Poppin' Planks • 2-2: Sloppy Sands • 2-3: Peaceful Pier • 2-4: Cannon Cluster • 2-5: Stormy Shore • 2-6: Blowhole Bound • 2-7: Tidal Terror • 2-K: Tumblin' Temple • 2-B: Pinchin' Pirates
Ruins 3-1: Wonky Waterway • 3-2: Button Bash • 3-3: Mast Blast • 3-4: Damp Dungeon • 3-5: Itty Bitty Biters • 3-6: Temple Topple • 3-K: Shifty Smashers • 3-B: Ruined Roost
Cave 4-1: Rickety Rails • 4-2: Grip 'n' Trip • 4-3: Bombs Away • 4-4: Mole Patrol • 4-5: Crowded Cavern • 4-K: Jagged Jewels • 4-B: The Mole Train
Forest 5-1: Vine Valley • 5-2: Clingy Swingy • 5-3: Flutter Flyaway • 5-4: Tippin' Totems • 5-5: Longshot Launch • 5-6: Springy Spores • 5-7: Wigglevine Wonders • 5-8: Muncher Marathon • 5-K: Blast & Bounce • 5-B: Mangoruby Run
Cliff 6-1: Sticky Situation • 6-2: Prehistoric Path • 6-3: Weighty Way • 6-4: Boulder Roller • 6-5: Precarious Plateau • 6-6: Crumble Canyon • 6-7: Tippy Shippy • 6-8: Clifftop Climb • 6-K: Perilous Passage • 6-B: Thugly's Highrise
Factory 7-1: Foggy Fumes • 7-2: Slammin' Steel • 7-3: Handy Hazards • 7-4: Gear Getaway • 7-5: Cog Jog • 7-6: Switcheroo • 7-7: Music Madness • 7-R: Lift-off Launch • 7-K: Treacherous Track • 7-B: Feather Fiend
Volcano 8-1: Furious Fire • 8-2: Hot Rocket • 8-3: Roasting Rails • 8-4: Smokey Peak • 8-5: Bobbing Basalt • 8-6: Moving Melters • 8-7: Red Red Rising • 8-K: Five Monkey Trial • 8-B: Tiki Tong Terror
Cloudb 9-1: Crushin' Columnsb • 9-2: Gushin' Geysersb • 9-3: Spiky Surpriseb • 9-4: Mischievous Molesb • 9-5: Topsy Turvyb • 9-6: Tar Ball Fallb • 9-7: Robo Factoryb • 9-8: Lavawheel Volcanob • 9-1a/9-9b: Golden Temple
Further info Donkey Kong Returns Original Sound Track • Extras (image names in other languages) • Gallery (3D · HD) • Mine Menace • Staff (3D · HD)
Related Play Nintendo activities
Can’t-miss games • Who are these jerks of the jungle? • Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?
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