Hazy Maze Cave

Template:Galaxybox Hazy Maze Cave, also known as the Hazy Maze Caves, is an underground cave level and the sixth course in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. In both games, the entrance to the course is located in the basement of the Mushroom Castle behind the unmarked Star door. Inside, there is a room with a small pool in the middle, which is the entrance to the course. The course has many paths and bottomless pits, as well as a large cavern that is home to a giant sea creature named Dorrie. Several maps are also placed on the walls to help the player figure out where they are and where to go.

Layout

Map of the main cave (left) and the underground cavern (right) in Super Mario 64 DS. The map on the wall in Super Mario 64 is on the far right.

The area the player starts off in contains a Metal Box and two paths. The one to the right is a hall with several fire geysers that leads to the Hazy Maze and Red Coin area, with the left path having a hall with a large gap the player must long-jump across that leads to the area with the boulders and the underground cavern.

Through the door at the end of the left path is a large pit that boulders continuously fall into, as well as a Spinning Heart on the left side of it and a hall to the other end of the course on the right side. This area also contains a Scuttle Bug and a Swoop. Up the ramp the boulders are rolling down is a ledge that holds a Power Star in the N64 version or a 1-Up Mushroom in the DS version, as well as a door that leads to an elevator room. In the elevator room is a ring of coins under a ! Block that holds a 1-Up Mushroom, as well as a Power Star behind a chain fence that can be accessed only through the Hazy Maze. Down the elevator is a large circular cavern with Dorrie swimming in the water. There are two doors in this area, with the fenced-off one leading to a Power Star and the door on the ledge that the player has to use Dorrie to reach leading to the Cavern of the Metal Cap (N64)/Behind the Waterfall (DS).

The door at the end of the right path from the start of the level leads to an open area containing the level's Red Coins and the lifts needed to reach them, as well as several Scuttle Bugs and Mr. I's. To the right of the room are an elevator that takes the player to the end of the course and a door that leads to the Hazy Maze. The Hazy Maze is a large maze covered in a toxic cloud that damages the player if they stand in it for too long. The maze can lead to two different Power Stars or back into the other room.

Missions

Mission	Appears in	Summary
Swimming Beast in the Cavern	Super Mario 64 Super Mario 64 DS	This mission's objective is to collect the Power Star in the cavern by using Dorrie to reach it. In Super Mario 64, Dorrie is required to reach the Star, as the land that the Star is on is elevated off the ground. In Super Mario 64 DS, the ground was lowered to the point that Dorrie is not required, but only Wario can get the Star because it is trapped inside a boulder.
Elevate for 8 Red Coins	Super Mario 64 Super Mario 64 DS	The mission's objective is to collect the eight Red Coins in the elevator room.
Metal-Head Mario Can Move! (N64) / Metal-Head Wario Can Move (DS)	Super Mario 64 Super Mario 64 DS	This mission's goal is to collect the Power Star behind the gate in the underground cavern.
Navigating the Toxic Maze	Super Mario 64 Super Mario 64 DS	This mission involves collecting the Power Star at the end of the Hazy Maze.
A-Maze-Ing Emergency Exit	Super Mario 64 Super Mario 64 DS	This mission's objective is to collect a different Power Star at the end of the Hazy Maze.
Watch for Rolling Rocks	Super Mario 64 Super Mario 64 DS	This mission involves dodging the boulders in the N64 version or destroying them in the DS version.
Underground Switch Star	Super Mario 64 DS	This mission's objective is to collect the Switch Star in the main cave.

Enemies

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  Scuttle Bugs

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  Boulders

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  Goombas (DS only)

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  Keronpa Balls

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  Swoops

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  Monty Moles

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  Snufits

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  Flame throwers

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  Mr. I

Statistics from Super Mario 64

• Total Number of Coins: 139 (134 according to Nintendo Power)
• Caps Found: Metal Cap (5)
• Spinning Heart: Near the black hole on a ledge.
• Cannons: (none)
• 1-Up Mushrooms (4):
  • Box Mushroom : #1 Above the bottomless hole on a platform. #2 Next to the elevator to the underground lake.
  • Moles Mushrooms : #3,4 By continually jumping on two sets of Monty Moles in the toxic maze, the player can get the two mushrooms.
• Warps: (none)

Gallery

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  The portal leading to Hazy Maze Cave in the N64 version

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  The portal leading to Hazy Maze Cave in the DS version

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  The entrance to Behind the Waterfall in Hazy Maze Cave in the N64 version

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  The entrance to Behind the Waterfall in Hazy Maze Cave in the DS version

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	やみにとける どうくつ[?] Yami ni Tokeru Dōkutsu	The Cavern Dissolving into Darkness
Chinese	迷失洞窟 Míshī Dòngkū	Lost Cave
German	Grüne Giftgrotte[?]	Green Poison Grotto
Italian	Grotta Labirinto[?]	Labyrinth Grotto
Korean	어둠속에빠진동굴[?] Eodum sog e ppajin donggul	The Cavern Drowning in Darkness
Spanish	Cueva del laberinto[?]	Labyrinth's cave

Trivia

• When the player is inside the Hazy Maze or at the Underground Lake, there is a layer of chant added to the beat of the music. Everywhere else, the Super Mario Bros. underground melody is added to the beat instead.
  • The level Wet-Dry World (which used to have it's own theme from the beta build) uses the same music, with the main theme in the uptown area and the layer of chant in the downtown area.
  • The pyramid in Shifting Sand Land, the igloo in Snowman's Land, the Cavern of the Metal Cap, and Wiggler's Cave of Tiny-Huge Island (a personal copy once had it's own theme), as well as Goomboss Battle in the DS version, also use this music, except that both layers are heard simultaneously.
• With a properly timed dive, the player can actually dive forever on the left side of the gate underground once they have opened it.
• The minigame Dorrie Dip from Mario Party 3 takes place in an area that resembles this course. Dorrie also makes an appearance in this minigame.
• This is the only course in the Nintendo 64 version to have a secret level inside it, and one of the two in the DS version, the other being Big Boo Battle in Big Boo's Haunt.
• In Super Mario 64 DS, Wario caps are available in all stars even if he has not been rescued. In the first star, it is found on Dorrie's head, and in all the others, it is on a Goomba near the start.