Dungeons:Cacti Canyon

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 "footer": "<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.5em\">'''Lost in a Sea of Sand'''</p>Those who wish to reach the desert have to traverse the winding paths and trails of Cacti Canyon. A complex network of tunnels, chasms, and caves have led even the most level-headed adventurers astray. Those who wish to survive this sandy labyrinth must rely on their wits.\n</div>"
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Cacti Canyon is the seventh mainland mission in Minecraft Dungeons. It is unlocked after the completion of Creeper Woods, and completing Cacti Canyon unlocks Desert Temple. It contains the captured luxury merchant.

Cacti Canyon is an expansive, dusty landscape made up of a jagged canyon and a desert. The canyon portion features uneven terrain and a mix of grass and coarse dirt, while the desert portion is composed of flatter terrain and a mix of sand and coarse dirt. Despite the steep terrain and dry conditions, cows and sheep can still be found roaming here. In the desert portion of this mission, husks wander around and fossils made of quartz are encountered as the hero approaches the temple in the distance. Halfway through the mission, a blue locked gateway must be unlocked using a diamond key golem guarded by an ambush found to the south-west. Near the diamond key golem, a hidden button can be activated to reveal the entrance door of Cacti Canyon Rune Room.^{[note 1]} Upon unlocking the gateway to the north-east using the diamond key golem, a gold key golem can be found that must be brought back to the yellow locked gateway at the center of the area. Near the end of the mission, an ambush must be defeated to reach the distant temple. The mission ends upon opening the entrance of the temple.

The Distant Temple

1. Power the Beacon
2. Find the Temple
3. Power the Beacons X/5
4. Find the Temple
5. Survive the Ambush!
6. Find the Golden Key
7. Find the Golden Key

Road Go Even On...

1. Open the Gold Gate

The Distant Temple

1. Find the Temple
2. Survive the Ambush!
3. Enter the Temple

• According to a line of unused text in the game files, the desert portion of Cacti Canyon is called the Blazelands.
• Vultures can be heard in Cacti Canyon's opening cinematic music, The Maze.
• During development, Cacti Canyon went through several iterations, as the developers knew they wanted it to contain large vistas and deep canyons that looked like they formed naturally.^[1]

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• 👁 Cacti Canyon Luxury Merchant
  
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• 👁 A zoomed out image of one of the randomly generated maps.
  
  A zoomed out image of one of the randomly generated maps.
• 👁 The captured luxury merchant.
  
  The captured luxury merchant.
• 👁 Cacti Canyon as seen from the map.
  
  Cacti Canyon as seen from the map.