Vanilla Dome 3

Level
Vanilla Dome 3
Screenshot from Super Mario World
Level code	3-3
World	Vanilla Dome
Game	Super Mario World
Time limit	400 seconds
Music track	Underground BGM
Music sample
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Vanilla Dome 3 is the third level of the Vanilla Dome in Super Mario World. It can be accessed through the completion of Vanilla Ghost House. By completing this level, the player gains access to Vanilla Dome 4. This is the only level in the game that has a larger dot without a secret exit.

Layout

Screenshot from Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2

The level takes place on a lava river in the Vanilla Dome world. At the start of the level, there are two Flying ? Blocks and a stationary one. The first Flying ? Block and the stationary one are coin blocks, and the top Flying ? Block contains a 1-Up Mushroom.

The player must continue on the lava river while standing on Skull Rafts and avoiding Blarggs. On the next platform, the player needs to hit an invisible Coin Block to get over the pipes. There is also a power-up ? Block containing a Cape Feather. Afterwards, there is a yellow pipe leading to a cave coated in ice; past that, there is a blue unshelled Koopa kicking a red shell up and down the adjacent pipe, right underneath the Midway Gate. Yoshi is available in the ? Block above the Midway Gate, which can be hit by throwing the red shell upwards directly under the ? Block. After that, there are more Skull Rafts, and they continue until the end of the level.

With a cape, the Mario Bros. can fly up to the ceiling near where the orange pipes and invisible blocks are to find two secret areas. To the left, there is a platform with a 3-Up Moon, and to the right, there is a pipe to a bonus game.

Enemies

Image	Name	Count
	Blargg	10
	Jumping Piranha Plant	2
	Buzzy Beetle	15
	Piranha Plant	8
	Cheep Cheep	2
	Koopa Paratroopa (red)	1
	Koopa Shell (red)	1
	Unshelled Koopa (blue)	1
	Spike Top	6
	Muncher	5

Items

Dragon Coins

This is one of the few levels in the game to contain more than five Dragon Coins.

1. At the bottom of the steep downward slope before the second Skull Raft ride.
2. Between two rows of three coins on the main path at the end of the third Skull Raft ride.
3. Above a Red Koopa Paratroopa at the end of an icy sub-area accessible via a yellow Warp Pipe at the end of the fourth Skull Raft ride.
4. After the Midway Gate, to the right of a floating platform near the end of the fifth Skull Raft ride.
5. On a lower platform in the short segment after the series of pipes and Spike Tops.
6. On a hidden platform above the sixth and final Skull Raft ride, guarded by Munchers. Reachable via Cape Feather or Blue Yoshi.

3-Up Moon

• In a hidden passageway leading to the left at the top of the level just after the end of the second Skull Raft ride, reachable via Cape Feather or Blue Yoshi.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	バニラドーム　コース３[?] Banira Dōmu Kōsu 3	Vanilla Dome Course 3
French	Dome Vanille 3[?]	Vanilla Dome 3
German	Vanille-Dom 3[?]	Vanilla Dome 3
Italian	Cupola Vaniglia 3[?]	Vanilla Dome 3
Spanish	Colina Vainilla 3[?]	Vanilla Hill 3