Guides:Sun Challenge

The Sun Challenge is a difficult hurdle to cross, especially for new players. However, there are multiple strategies devised to survive it.

A player surviving the Sun Challenge by hiding at the upper portion of the area, after having bombed the adjacent spawner.

• A common strategy used to survive the Sun Challenge is to immediately run up to either the top left or top right corner of the area, destroy the spawner in the corner with a bomb, then stand in a position where Regenerating Blocks, enemies, or Frog Traps cannot harm the player.
  • Without Paste, placing two bombs underneath the Spawner will destroy it with a cascading explosion, removing the need for the player to cook their bomb.
  • This can also be done by repeatedly backwhipping just next to the top spawner, as the enemies will have little chance of retaliation.
• Another strategy used to survive is to have Waddler carry Excalibur for the player into the Sunken City from the Ice Caves after exiting Tide Pool with it. After retrieving the blade from him, they can use it to instantly gib enemies in a single swing, not only taking enemies down instantly, but permanently as well, as Necromancers cannot resurrect entities without a corpse.
  • Note that if the Sun Challenge spawns on 7-2 or 7-3, they cannot do this method without the help of an additional pair of hands or abandoning the invaluable Hou Yi's Bow in 7-1.
• If the player is willing to miss out on the corpse bag containing 24 bombs and 24 rope, as well as willing to anger Tun, they can kill her and bomb their way to the Arrow of Light in order to obtain it. Note that this does not work for obtaining the elixir/clone gun from the stars challenge, as those items only spawn after the challenge is successfully completed.
• The player can use Waddler's help to bring the Clone Gun into the Sun Challenge, allowing them to clone the corpse bag rewarded for completing the challenge to obtain 96 bombs and 96 rope.
• If the player managed to retain the Ankh before making it to the Sunken City by performing an Ankh or Qilin Skip, dying in the Sun Challenge then resurrecting with the Ankh will cause the entrance forcefields to re-enable, and the player will have to anger Tun to obtain the Arrow of Light after being resurrected.
• If the Sun Challenge did not spawn in 7-1 and the player visits the Eggplant World, the building will always spawn on 7-3.