There's a drugstore to sell you some basic healing goods. Wet towels heal Sunstroke status, which is what you get by walking around in the desert a lot.
Escargo Express calls to tell me they can't find me to pick up the items I want to give them. Do you have any idea what this heat does to a jar of fly honey?!
EarthBound-Dusty Dunes Desert soundtrackThere's always a single Mole Playing Rough at the entrance to the desert.
Why he's there is a mystery unsolved.
It doesn't take long for Sunstroke to set in. Healing alpha or a Wet Towel will fix it, otherwise you lose 4 HP regularly.
The enemies here are tough, and without a hospital, you gotta hoof it back to Threed if someone gets KOed.
Dusty Dunes Desert monster breakdown:
Skelpions are skull-faced scorpion monsters. They can poison you and use Thunder alpha.
Cute Li'l UFOs look like Li'l UFOs with a red ribbon on. They can use Lifeup alpha in addition to their beams.
Crested Bookas are odd ostrich-like creatures. They're not dangerous, but can decrease offense and defense.
Smilin' Spheres can use Fire beta (for rather a lot of damage) and explode when KOed, like the Territorial Oaks did before them.
Desert Wolves can bite with poisonous fangs.
And on top of all that, the Bad Buffalo is
still the most dangerous creature around. If they're lucky, they can even oneshot Snes!
Yeah, yeah.
Double Burgers heal about 90 HP, and pair well with ketchup.
Balls. Back to Threed.
For all that powerleveling I did back in Belch's Base, I sure am getting my ass handed to me.
Aww, poor guy.
DO YOU MIND
Wait there's a guy I haven't seen before.
He runs away, so you have to corner him.
But that nigh-guarantees a green swirl.
WHOA.
This is the Criminal Caterpillar. And that's pretty much all there is to the Criminal Caterpillar: they're rare but farmable if you know where to look, are easy to ambush, and give CRAZY exp.
One target, even more powerful.
Splat!
More clearly named "Counter" in Mother 3, this halves physical damage and reflects part of it back to the attacker.
I splatter these guys until I stop getting level-ups every time I do it.
Oddly, I'm made to fight the very last one. Which is bad, these guys can use PSI Fire to roast everyone alive. I still got it before it got me, though.
You're a tough seed to find.
You guys are so tragic.
A sign!
They're right there, nigh-impossible to miss.
For $1, you can spin the slot machine. And by "the slot machine" I mean "the brothers and Tomas, who are wearing sandwich-boards with icons on them".
After four or five tries...