Acorn Plains

Complete walkthrough for Acorn Plains in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, including Acorn Plains-1, Acorn Plains-2, Acorn Plains-3, and Acorn Plains-Fortress with all Star Coins and secrets.

This guide covers the Acorn Plains levels in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, detailing how to find all Star Coins and secret exits.

1. Acorn Plains-1: Acorn Plains Way

   Collect coins and defeat Goombas. Obtain the Flying Squirrel Suit from a Waddlewings to get Star Coin #1. Use the next pipe to enter a secret tunnel for Star Coin #2. After a moving platform, go right. Let the ground lower, jump on the platform, enter a hidden passage for coins, then go on top. Ground pound bricks with coins to find another hidden passage with more coins, leading to the checkpoint flag.

   Slide down a slope, avoiding Piranha Plants and a Waddlewings. Collect all red coins before the red ring to get a Super Acorn (or a 1-up mushroom if small/big Mario). A wave of coins teaches the glide jump (press ZR or shake Wiimote). Enter the upward pipe and glide through coins to get Star Coin #3, avoiding Waddlewings. Exit the area and proceed to the exit pole.

2. Acorn Plains-2: Tilted Tunnel

   Grab a power-up; if Super Mario, you get a Fire Flower. Enter the pipe to an underground section with slanted pipes and Piranha Plants. Use fireballs to defeat them. Take the lower road for coins, then the high road. Crystal platforms shift when stepped on. A moving platform leads to an upper path. Slide down a slope to defeat Goombas. Collect falling coins. Jump along coins at the end of the slope for Star Coin #1. Ground stomping lower path coins makes upper path coins appear. Collect the checkpoint flag.

   Reach twin straight pipes; the left leads to a bonus area with a POW block and three fireproof Buzzy Beetles. A ? block has a Fire Flower if Super Mario. Don't kill the Red Koopa Troopa; use its shell to hit a brick below, making a vine rise to a secret sky area. Jump into the pipe, which tilts to fire you along coins for Star Coin #2. Step on a pink crystal platform to tilt it right. Slide down a slope. At a blue crystal with a 'down' arrow, it sinks, allowing access to a pipe on the left. Slide to coins, exit the pipe, and pass more pipes to reach the level exit.

   Secret Exit: Near the red ring, use the peak of a crystal platform to get over a wall, collect coins, and jump to reach the secret exit leading to Blooper's Secret Lair.

3. Acorn Plains-Fortress: Crushing Cogs Tower

   Use a cog for a boost to a higher platform. Wait for a rising block to get Star Coin #1 via wall jumps. Go left, get the Ice Flower, and freeze Dry Bones. Lift and throw frozen Dry Bones. Work upwards past spinning cogs and Dry Bones. Star Coin #2 is in the upper left. Use a cog and touch the red ring to collect red coins as it spins. Reach the top, get the checkpoint flag. Carefully navigate cogs. Jump through a wall on the right of a cog to find Star Coin #3 and a pipe below, leading near Dry Bones. Avoid or freeze them and enter the door at the top.

   Boss: Boom Boom Freeze Boom Boom briefly to slow him. He recovers after being stomped three times.

4. Acorn Plains-3: Yoshi Hill

   Slide down rolling hills, avoiding Monty Moles popping from walls. Before Star Coin #1, hit a middle brick to meet Yoshi. Use Yoshi to eat Monty Moles and Berries; filling the Berry Meter gives a power-up or 1-up. Ground pound two bricks embedded in the ground to enter a hidden area with a red pipe and Piranha Plants.