Dusty Dunes Desert

Dusty Dunes Desert
Appears in	EarthBound
Country	Eagleland
Point(s) of interest	Desert Gold Mine Drugstore Slot Machine Brothers Monkey Caves
Inhabitants	Miners Slot Machine Brothers Arms Dealer Black Sesame Seed White Sesame Seed

Dusty Dunes Desert is an area in EarthBound. It is located between Threed and Fourside.

Ness and his friends first arrive in a bus, which is stuck behind traffic. There is a Drugstore and a cavern full of monkeys to the west, and east is a shack where two miners live. The mine can be explored a while after.  When straying from the road, Ness and co. may get sunstroke, which can be healed with PSI Healing or a Wet Towel. A sidequest can also be attempted here, where the player can talk to a black sesame seed up north and try to find a white sesame seed. By the road are the Slot Machine Brothers.  A sign describing a lost pair of contacts can also be found.  Nearby it are the Contact Lens, which appear as a sparkle in the sand.  They can be returned to the man on the second floor of the Fourside Bakery for a Pair of Dirty Socks, which solidifies an enemy with nausea in battle.

Shops

Drugstore counter	Drugstore assistant	Black market	Desert food stand
Mr. Baseball bat ($498) Thick fry pan ($198) Deluxe fry pan ($598) Silver bracelet ($599) Coin of slumber ($1500)	Wet Towel ($24) Refreshing Herb ($80) Calorie Stick ($18) Skip sandwich ($38) Lucky sandwich ($128) Can of fruit juice ($4) Picnic Lunch ($24)	Zip gun ($425) Bomb ($149) Bottle rocket ($29) Rust Promoter ($89)	Can of fruit juice ($4) Cup of coffee ($6) Hamburger ($14) Picnic Lunch ($24) Skip sandwich ($38) Wet Towel ($24) Popsicle ($7)

Enemies

• Bad Buffalo
• Crested Booka
• Criminal Caterpillar
• Cute Li'l UFO
• Desert Wolf
• Dread Skelpion
• Guardian Digger
• Gigantic Ant
• Mole Playing Rough
• Smilin' Sphere
• Thirsty Coil Snake
• Skelpion

Maps

Map of the Desert.

Trivia

• The music played on this area is a remix of the music played in Yucca Desert in EarthBound Beginnings.
• Despite the localizers trying to remove any references to drugs in the English version, they failed to cover up a large billboard in the desert with the words "DRUGS."
• There is a small black sesame seed on the west/left side of the desert. If you talk to it, the Photo Man will take a photo of you, so you can remember this very special time when you talked to a sesame seed in the middle of the desert.
  • This black sesame seed will ask you to seek out a white sesame seed whom he loves on the other end of the desert and wishes to apologize for hurting. You can seek out the white seed to get a few lines of dialogue in which she reveals she still loves the black seed and returning to the black seed with this knowledge will cause him to weep. Aside from a nice moment, there is no practical reward for this.