There is more than an aquatic sanctuary here. After completing the trial, you will need to solve another long little quest to find a boat rower. This is our longest walk-through yet, but we're getting closer to the actual location of the blue streamer. With a little more effort you will reach a great amusement park. Let's go, Mario!
Pt. 1: Find the seed of the soul | Whispering Woods | Pt. 2: Reach Peach Castle | Toad Toad | Pt. 3: Save Luigi | Graffiti Underground | Pt. 4: tons of hidden toads | Picnic route | Pt. 5: All 4 Shell Stone Locations | Overlook Mountain | Pt. 6: Fight the first boss | Vellumental Temple of the Earth | Pt. 7: Cut the red streamer | Overlook Tower | Pt. 8: Reach the Water Sanctuary | Autumn mountain | Pt. 9: Save Bobby and unlock the shrine | Chestnut Valley | Pt. 10: Defeat the Guardian | Vellumental water sanctuary | Pt. 11: Save the staff and get the bone | Shogun Studios | Pt. 12: Save Luigi and get the master key | Ninja attraction
Step-by-step procedure of the vellumental water sanctuary
We've got another shrine to explore - that means another boss fight and another unlockable power. Before exploring the shrine, be sure to pick up some new Iron Boots and a Shiny Hammer / Boots from the Toad Town Weapons Shop. You will need new ones for the monsters in this dungeon.
To start, go left and enter the second room.
- Hidden toad: On the left side of the entrance room, look for a hole in the front left corner. Fill it with confetti, then hammer the bug on the wall.
Free article: Shiny Iron Boots - In the second room, touch the bonus blocks for free payment of Shiny Iron Boots. You will need it!
- How to beat the Sidesteppers: Sidestepper crabs have sharp claws, so be sure to use the hammer or iron boots.
The second room is full of Sidestepper crabs. If you need confetti, fight them - and fill the hole at the end of the path. Passing through the bottomless hole, a blue Sidestepper will come out for an ambush! For this fight, use your shiny weapons and get a perfect alignment to win a Vellumental Earth Magic Circle! If you get it, you can clear the second wave without doing anything.
Tile slide puzzle: In the third room you will come across a puzzle room. Before you can complete it, go left and use your hammer where a blue Sidestepper appears. In this small area full of Sidesteppers, go to the back and hammer the wall to make a POW block appear. use the POW block when you see the blue Sidestepper carrying a strange item.
Using the POW block causes the crabs to fall onto their backs. If you attack while they are on their back, they will not be able to move. Defeat the blue Sidestepper to earn the Groovy sign. Now go back to the puzzle room - use the control panel and enter the Groovy panel.
Tile slide solution: Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up, A
When you press [[A], you go[[Insert a panel] and complete the puzzle. This completes half of the temple and unlocks the right side! Go to the right! Let's stop here and do some exploring.
- Collectible treasure: Restaurant Fridge - Fill the confetti hole on the right side of the entrance hall, then go down the steps to the lower left corner. There is a treasure chest behind the sidestepper.
- Hidden toad: Behind the row of origami bats, look in one of the small window sills on the back wall of the lower entrance. Use the hammer to knock him out!
- This toad has a MAX HP +5 Core!
- Collectible treasure: MAX UP Heart - In the lower part of the entry room, go to the left side of the windowsills and use your hammer on the empty space. Keep using your hammer to reveal hidden blocks that lead behind windows.
In the next room, use your hammer to pierce the cracked blocks. The Sidesteppers are hiding between the blocks, so watch out for surprise attacks! Leave the blocks intact on the right to be able to access the special block for a free fire flower.
- Treasure chest: POW Block - On the left side of the breakable block room, go through all the blocks to reach a hidden path leading to this treasure chest room.
Water wheel puzzle solution: Forward, you will enter the second puzzle room. To solve it, go to the left side and go up the steps. At the top you will reach the dragon-headed fountain. Hit them with a hammer to shut the dragon's mouth. This opens the door!
- Hidden toad: In the dragon fountain puzzle room, go to the right side. At the top of the steps, use your hammer on the wall to knock this toad down. Go back down to hit the hammer and fix it!
Puzze tile slide: Through the fountain door, there is a second puzzle of tiles. Like the previous puzzle, you will need to get a missing tile. Go to the left back of the room and hammer the cracked wall. In the cave, go down and hammer the cracked wall below (right) to reveal a hidden room. The next room has the Groovier Tile! Heal yourself before you pick it up, as a great Sidestepper battle awaits you.
- Secret coffee: In the Groovier Tile room, at the top of the steps, use the confetti on the missing wall to reveal a secret cafe. Spend 100 coins to fully heal.
Return to the main puzzle room and use the control panel. Use the Groovier tile and let's solve this puzzle.
Tile slide solution: Match the picture above to solve this puzzle. The [Insert Panel] slot should be in the upper left corner.
Complete the puzzle and a pipe will appear leading to the entrance hall. Go back and go through the dragon's mouth! It's time to face the Water Vellumental.
Boss: Water Vellumental
The Water Vellumental summons water jets, so be careful where you leave your signs! Anything in a line of the spout will be washed away at the end of the turn.
To damage the Water Vellumental, land on an action panel and use Jump to knock it down, then use your hammer attack on the next turn. You can do both if you line up an x2 action tile.
- How to avoid big waves: After four turns, the Water Vellumental uses a powerful wave attack. To avoid it, hover over an "ON" tile, then use a vellumental magic circle of Earth on the turn it triggers the attack.
You can damage the dragon with the Earth Vellumental attack if it doesn't fly - if it does fly, the Earth Magic Circle won't do anything to the boss! This will relieve Mario and allow him to avoid aquatic super attacks.
After a Big Wave attack, the boss will be stunned for one turn. This is when you'll want to use the 1-armed attack! Catch hearts to heal yourself before a big wave and soak up the big wave for an easy 000-arm boss attack - you'll do massive damage and end the fight faster.
The second time around, the boss uses the Mega Wave attack! So you will have to do your best to avoid this massive attack. The third time, he uses a Giga Wave! The wave attack only gets stronger with each turn, so only count on absorbing the attack in the first turn. After that, you'll want to make sure you avoid it by pressing "ON" and using the Earth Vellumental magic circle.
To damage the boss, aim for the +1 Action tile and the x2 Damage tile! Try to do a jump attack to knock out the boss, then use your hammer to deal extra damage. Keep it up, dodge the killer wave attacks, and eventually you will win.
Take the Water Vellumental power book after the boss is defeated, then return to the blue magic circle near the dry lake bed on the Fall Mountain. This fills the water, but you will need someone to paddle the boat! Try it - Mario isn't good at this.
Quest: Find the Boat Rower
After trying out the boat, you'll want to get up close to the monkey on the big pile of tuna cans. The monkey runs away! Hit the tin of tuna with your hammer before you go to pick it up.
Go to blue shrine in the tall yellow grass to find this monkey. You have the tin of tuna, but the monkey can't open it! First you will need to find a can opener. Before we do that, let's explore the area.
- Collectible treasure: Toad Seeker - Back on Fall Mountain, you will be able to access this treasure after using the Water Magic Circle. It's to the left of the circle.
- Collectible treasure: Fallen Leaves - This fall mountain treasure can be found under the stairs to the tall yellow grasses. Go just behind the stairs to access it.
- Hidden toad: Look for an origami bug that swarms under the stack of boats near the treasure chest, to the left of the blue magic circle.
- Hidden toad: Next to this toad, climb on the boats and on the crates. Hit the yellow origami sheet with your hammer.
- Hidden toad: And there's more! Three more toads will drop when you hit the tree to the left of the treasure chest and the bonus block that drops a Hurlhammer.
How to open the can of tuna: Go to the front right corner of the tall yellow grass area and talk to Sombrero Shy Guy. Their can opener guy is gone - head back into the tall grass and check the top left corner for some "Zzz's" marking where he sleeps. Bring him back to the party, then go back to the grass to find the last guy. He's in the front left corner, chased by enemies. Eliminate the bad guys and talk to the sweat drops.
Deliver your canned tuna to the full party and they'll open it for you! You can now deliver the opened tin of tuna to the Blue Sanctuary in the Yellow Grass. With the monkey busy eating, you can hit it with a hammer and reveal a hidden toad!
- Hidden toad: The Blue Sanctuary Monkey on Autumn Mountain finally becomes a hidden toad after delivering the open tin of tuna and hitting it with a hammer.
Go talk to Rower Toad on the dock by the lake, and he'll take you downstream. We're finally moving to our next location!
Quest: Cross the Rapids of the Eddy River
The Eddy River is a mini-game location - you will have to climb the whitewater rapids and keep your boat afloat. Avoid rocks and aim for hearts to avoid crashing your boat.
You can throw confetti to earn bonus coins in the holes located on the sides of the river rapids. But that's for later, you can relaunch that area later to win prizes.
Once you get to the end you will enter Studios Shogun!
