Blueprint

“This isn't a game, Kong! Those blueprints are vital to us both, so please go and find some.”

—Snide , Donkey Kong 64

Blueprints in Donkey Kong 64 are the design plans for the Blast-o-Matic. They are collectible items that the Kongs must recover for Snide. There are 40 blueprints in total.

Aside from Hideout Helm, every area in the game, including DK Isles, has five blueprints, one for each Kong to collect. Every blueprint is guarded by a Kasplat, whose hair color and blueprint color corresponds to a specific Kong (yellow for Donkey Kong, red for Diddy Kong, purple for Tiny Kong, blue for Lanky Kong, and green for Chunky Kong). If an incorrect Kong is active, the blueprint appears in the form of a hologram, and the Kong cannot collect it. Each Kong can individually visit Snide's H.Q. with their recovered blueprints, where Snide rewards them with a Golden Banana for every one they return.

Blueprints play a somewhat critical role in the final level, Hideout Helm, because Snide uses the blueprints to delay the Blast-o-Matic's countdown timer by a minute per blueprint. By default, the timer starts at ten minutes and can count down from 50 minutes at highest, if all 40 blueprints were collected beforehand.

Blueprints are required for a 101% completion, albeit indirectly via the Golden Bananas that Snide awards for turning them in. The blueprints themselves do not add to the completion percentage. Additionally, after the Kongs recover every blueprint, Snide allows the Kongs to replay most of the Bonus Stages from a sub-menu at his headquarters.

Gallery[edit ]

• Alternate artwork

  Alternate artwork

• Sprite of a blue blueprint

  Sprite of a blue blueprint

• Sprite of a yellow blueprint

  Sprite of a yellow blueprint

• Sprite of a red blueprint

  Sprite of a red blueprint

• Sprite of a purple blueprint

  Sprite of a purple blueprint

• Sprite of a green blueprint

  Sprite of a green blueprint

• The blueprint diagram when the player presses in Snide's H.Q.

  The blueprint diagram when the player presses A Button in Snide's H.Q.

• The blueprint diagram after all 40 blueprints have been returned to Snide

  The blueprint diagram after all 40 blueprints have been returned to Snide

• Donkey Kong Card Game trading card

  Donkey Kong Card Game trading card

Names in other languages[edit ]

References[edit ]

• Collectibles
• Book items
• Donkey Kong 64 items

• Articles with unsourced foreign names