Sunbaked Desert

Sunbaked Desert
Game	Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Level(s)	21
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The Sunbaked Desert is the fourth world in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. It is an arid desert with white sands and a large palace which houses many levels. Some levels are mirages the player must walk close to in order to reveal, and others are covered in sand that the player must run into to remove, revealing the level. The world map contains a puzzle where the player must stand on three buttons with ? Block symbols to open a door leading to an optional level.

The entrance to this world is initially locked by a Wonder Packun, requiring 10 Wonder Seeds from Petal Isles to unlock. Upon first visit, the Sunbaked Desert is near-completely devoid of water save for a small oasis near the southwest corner of the world, owed to Bowser Jr. hoarding the palace's water supply for a pool party. After clearing Sunbaked Desert Palace for the first time, the castle's wells start flowing again, returning the water to the desert.

This world contains yellow Wonder Flowers and Wonder Seeds, with a total of 36 Wonder Seeds and one Royal Seed to collect, the most Wonder Seeds out of any other world in the game.

Levels

The Sunbaked Desert contains 21 levels, a Poplin house, and two Poplin Shops, one of which is hidden.

Level	Difficulty	Primary power-up	Wonder Effect	Reward(s)
Armads on the Roll	★★★		Speeds up time	x2
The Desert Mystery	★★		Causes an ancient temple to rise from the ground	x2
Rolling-Ball Hall	★★		Causes the entire level to tilt, and Giant Spiked Balls to roll towards the player	x2
Ninji Jump Party	★		Causes "Ninji Disco" to play and Ninjis to dance	x2
Bloomps of the Desert Skies	★★★		Turns the player character into their Balloon form	x2
Valley Fulla Snootles	★★		Slows down time	x2
Color-Switch Dungeon	★★		Summons Rift Mario to chase the players	x2
Secrets of Shova Mansion	★★		Causes a wonder-powered Shova to push a Bowser Statue towards the player	x3
Flight of the Bloomps	★★★★	N/A	Causes giant Bloomps to appear, via a Bloomp Pump	x2
Sunbaked Desert House	N/A			x1
Badge Challenge Parachute Cap II	★★★		N/A	x1
Badge Challenge Crouching High Jump II	★★★★		N/A	x1
Expert Badge Challenge Invisibility I	★★★		N/A	x1
Sunbaked Desert Palace	★★★★		Causes time to speed up and slow down	x1
KO Arena Sunbaked Skirmish	N/A			x1
Search Party Pipe Park	N/A			x1
Break Time! Treasure Vault	N/A		N/A	x1
Break Time! Raise the Stage	N/A			x1
Break Time! Revver Run	N/A			x1
Break Time! Floating Wonder Tokens	N/A			x1
Break Time! Bouncy Tunes	N/A			x1
Break Time! Lights Out	N/A			x1

Gallery

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  View of the oasis.

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  World icon

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ヒデリー砂漠[?] Hiderī Sabaku	Elongation of「旱」(hideri, drought) +「砂漠」(sabaku, desert)
Chinese	日光沙漠[?] Rìguāng Shāmò	Sunlight Desert
Dutch	Gloeiwoestein[?]	Glow Desert
French	Désert cuisant[?]	Burning desert
German	Wolkenlose Wüste[?]	Cloudless Desert
Italian	Deserto Solleone[?]	Blazing sun desert; shared with Glare Desert
Korean	해뜨거 사막[?] Haetteugeo Samak	"Haetteugeo" Desert; "해뜨거" is a portmanteau of "해" (hae, sun) and "앗 뜨거" (at tteugeo, an exclamation of touching hot)
Portuguese	Deserto Tórrido[?]	Torrid Desert
Russian	Опаленная пустыня[?] Opalennaya pustynya	Scorched Desert
Spanish	Desierto Tostisol[?]	Toast-Sun Desert

Trivia

• The theming of this world appears to be inspired by gypsum sand dunes (which in real life are most prominent in White Sands National Park in the US state of New Mexico) due to the white color of the sand.