Yold Desert

Level
Yold Desert
Level code	1-3
Game	Super Paper Mario
Boss	O'Chunks
Music track	"Mount Lineland"
Music sample
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Yold Desert is an area in the outskirts of Lineland from Super Paper Mario. Throughout the desert, there are clues that the Ancients left on signposts on how to advance and reach Yold Ruins.

Chapter 1-3: The Sands of Yold

Storyline text

With a bold quiver of his magnificent mustache, Mario let loose a hearty sneeze.

A single grain of sand had flown along the warm wind and tickled the hero's nose.

It wasn't long before Mario and Tippi found the source of the sand: the Yold Desert.

Along the endless, sunbaked expanse, Mario and Tippi continued their search...

Mario comes to this area after exiting Yold Town. The first area has a rock, four Squiglets, and one Squig. A Squig Catch Card can be found in 3D behind a rock. There are four ? Blocks in this area, but in 3-D, there are twelve, as well as a Squiglet on them. Most of the ? Blocks contain Coins, but some of them also contain Pal Pills, a Happy Flower, and a Speed Flower. The next area has three Squiglets and two ? Blocks (four in 3-D). One contains a Mushroom, and the other contains a Zombie Shroom. Nearby is a red palm tree. Next to the red palm is a rock, a 3-D Bald Cleft, and some Quicksand. Near the quicksand are three Bald Clefts, two 3-D Squiglets, six Brick Blocks, and two ? Blocks, one of them containing a Mushroom. Next is a rock next to a pile of quicksand. Six Brick Blocks appear above the Quicksand, with a Boomboxer on one of the blocks.

A Jawbus and a 3-D Bald Cleft are at the end of this area. There is also a door at the end of this area.The second area starts off with a rock and a Bald Cleft. some Quicksand appears afterwards, along with a Cherbil and two 3-D Bald Clefts. There is one big rock, which in 3D is an arrow pointing right to a hidden path. The path leads to a large area, empty except for a pillar called a "Yold Signpost." The inscription on it reads "Find ye the tall red palm tree of fortune, and leapeth under its branches ten times," indicating the palm tree in the first area. If the player decides to continue on, however, two Goombas with the ability to flip will appear next to the rock. A large wall made of Hard Blocks forces the player to flip to continue on. Three Goombas are on the other side of the wall, along with three Quicksand pits with four Bald Clefts (two 2D and two 3D) and a Boomboxer at the end of the area. Going back to the first area and following the signpost's instructions causes a door to appear.

Mario confronting O'Chunks

The next area has a Squig and some blocks in the air that can only be reached by the use of a Springboard with spinning devices that can ferry Mario across a pit of quicksand and over a wall. Beyond the wall is a Squig, a Squiglet and some blocks, one of which holds a Zombie Shroom. There is a large pit of quicksand that is crossed by a bridge in 3D. Here, there are two Spiked Goombas some more spinning devices, but they are frozen. There is a switch boxed up by blocks, except for one opening, which can be used to get Thoreau in and hit the switch to activate the rectangles. This next area has six Squiglets on the wall when in 3-D, one Squiglet on the ground and one Squig, one 3-D Spiked Goomba, a door, a Save Block, and several blocks in the air leading to a Warp Pipe. The pipe leads to an underground room full of blocks, most containing coins, but one holds a Super Shroom.

The entrance to Yold Ruins.

Through the door, Mario and the Pixls find O'Chunks, who challenges Mario to a fight. Tippi recommends Tattling him with her ability and discovers that being thrown makes him dizzy, providing an easy method of defeating O'Chunks. After dispatching him, Mario is able to continue through the desert.

In the next area, there are four Goombas with flip abilities, one 3-D Goomba, two Ice Cherbils (one 2D and one 3D), and two sets of moving platforms in the air, each leading to a door. There is also a Ghost Shroom behind a rock. The left door leads to another Yold Signpost. This one tells of a blue platform that Mario must stand on and press the and buttons. Doing so opens the entrance to Yold Ruins, revealing the Star Block.

Enemies

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  Bald Cleft

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  Boomboxer

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  Cherbil

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  Goomba

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  Ice Cherbil

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  Jawbus

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  Megabite (red palm tree)

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  O'Chunks (boss)

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  Spiked Goomba

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  Squig

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  Squiglet

Items

Item	Icon	Location	Image
Caught Card		Squig, behind a rock after flipping to 3D near the Boomboxer on brick blocks with a Jawbus nearby, same general area where the red palm tree is located.
Coin		In the third scene (accessed by a door right of the red palm tree), left of the first flipping rectangles. In the sixth scene (the one with the signpost with the instructions how to access the end of the area), left of the signpost. Mario must flip into 3-D to see the blocks.
13 Coins Happy Flower Pal Pill Speed Flower		In the first scene, between the first and second rocks. Mario must flip to see all 16 blocks.
Coin Mushroom		In the first scene, after the first quicksand pit, above the group of brick blocks.
12 Coins Super Shroom		In the third scene, after entering the pipe near the end and then flipping to 3-D.
2 Coins Mushroom Zombie Shroom		In the first scene, right of the previous ones, near the red palm tree. Mario must flip to see all 4 blocks.
Coin Zombie Shroom		In the third scene, left after being dropped from the first flipping rectangles.
Courage Shell		Behind a rock after flipping to 3D near the Bald Clefts in an area with four narrow quicksand rivers in 2D, same general area where the first Yold Signpost is located.
Ghost Shroom		Behind the second rock from the west near two 3-D Goombas, in an area right after the first O’Chunks boss fight.
Gold Bar x3		(Map 9), use Fleep on the big rock near a Cherbil, which in 3D is an arrow pointing right to a hidden path. Available after Chapter 5.
Mushroom		In the third scene, right after being dropped from the second flipping rectangles.
Super Card		Fracktail (Map 10), use Fleep above the second Yold Signpost, which contains information about and buttons. Available after Chapter 5.

Hidden Blocks

Item	Icon	Location	Image	Image (block/s revealed)
Coin (both)		In the third scene, after being dropped from the first flipping rectangles, these two blocks can be found as 2nd and 4th blocks in the 4 block row directly behind Mario.
12 Coins		Same scene, near the end of the scene is a pipe on the block platform. In the room after the pipe is a row of 7 ? Blocks. This hidden block can be found above the fourth one.

Menu description

• "A dry wind rolls across this hot, sandpit-riddled desert. Count Bleck's henchman, O'Chunks, attacked you here. Somewhere in the desert is an entrance to the Yold Ruins."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	コダーイさばく[?] Kodāi Sabaku	From elongated version of「古代」(kodai, ancient) and「さばく」(sabaku, desert)
French	Désert d'Antan[?]	Yesteryear's Desert
German	Uraltwüste[?]	Ancient Desert
Italian	L'Antico Deserto[?]	Old Desert
Korean	고대사막[?] Godae Samak	Ancient Desert
Spanish (NOE)	Desierto Antico	Yold Desert ("Antico" is derived from antiguo [ancient])

The Sands of Yold

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	しゃくねつのさばくをとっぱせよ！[?] Shakunetsu no Sabaku o Toppase yo!	Break Through the Scorching-Hot Desert!
French	Les sables d'antan[?]	The sands of yesteryear
German	Die uralten Sande[?]	The ancient sands
Italian	Le sabbie antiche[?]	The ancient sands
Korean	이글거리는 사막을 건너라![?] Igeulgeorineun samag-eul geonneora!	Crossing the scorching desert!
Spanish (NOE)	Las arenas de Antica	Yold's Sands

Notes

• The name "Yold" is a combination of "ye" (old way of saying "the") and "old", and the language used in the Yold Signposts is Early Modern English.
• The opening of the gate is similar to that of the Mask Gates from Super Mario Bros. 2.