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Donut County opening guide | Balloon, snake and fireworks
All 24 explanatory story stages and 20 Steam achievements covered · Updated 2026-10-12
Use heat, water and animals inside the hole on devices in the world. Specific sequences are given for each stage.
1. Mira's House: the first hole
Finish the conversation in Mira's room, then go outside. An introduction to changing targets according to hole size.
- Advance messages with BK. For Quack Enthusiast first, send the duck emoji 100 times while replies remain available.
- Pull the blind's donut right to open the window. Outside, start dropping small letters, grass and stones.
- As the hole grows, move to larger letters and vehicles. Swallow the honking delivery rider too, then watch the next conversation.
2. Potter's Rock: raise the hot-air balloon
After clearing small objects, go beyond the gate. The final balloon needs heat, not swallowing.
- Collect small pots and ground objects, open the gate and clear objects beyond.
- Drop the sold sign and scooter near the balloon. Swallowing the kiln generates heat.
- Move the hole beneath the hot-air balloon to raise it, meeting Pup's Odyssey's condition.
- Drop remaining large objects and the house to finish. Finishing without breaking pots is not a separate Steam achievement.
3. Ranger Station: drop three chickens with the snake's tail
After the snake enters the hole, its protruding tail becomes a tool.
- Collect small objects and snakes until the hole can take the caged blue snake.
- Press the left red button with the tail for the first chicken. Hit the swinging chicken with the tail to drop it.
- Rotate the sign clockwise to release it. The large snake building collapses after the third chicken drops.
- Collect fallen chickens, the sign and building remains, then continue.
4. Riverbed: let the bird drink the water
A full-water hole cannot take solid objects as it is.
- Collect small fish and similar items until the dog and nearby objects fit.
- After filling the hole with water, move beneath the large bird to let it drink. Collect surrounding objects with the emptied hole.
- Repeat around the water, then swallow the bird last. Pushing large objects while water remains does not grow the hole.
5. Campground: attract birds with popcorn
Corn and fire in the same hole produce a new collectible.
- Drop the stall's corn and the campfire into the hole. Popcorn flies out.
- Collect arriving birds and popcorn, then swallow the stall once large enough.
- Drop tents and residents too, then check remaining grass or small objects.
6. Hopper Springs: carrots and two rabbit colors
Lure the pair with a large carrot and use rabbits multiplying inside the hole.
- Collect small carrots and paving stones until the hole can hold a large carrot.
- Bring the carrot close to the orange rabbit so it comes down to nibble. Then lure the blue rabbit out of its enclosure.
- Drop both rabbits into the hole and collect the extra rabbits that emerge. Their multiplying numbers collapse the carrot house.
- Collect the rabbits and the remains of the building to finish.
7. Joshua Tree: burn the trailer
Use the coal carried by the bird to make flames rise from the hole. Attempt Pyro at this trailer, rather than Riverbed.
- Grow the hole with pebbles and similar objects, then swallow the campfire. Catch the coal dropped by the bird to set the hole alight.
- Bring the flaming hole to Pepper's trailer and burn it. Check that Pyro unlocks before dropping the building into the hole.
- If the fire goes out, catch fresh coal. Burn and collect surrounding objects, then swallow the bird and large tree last.
8. Beach Lot C: carry fireworks beneath the birds' shadows
Lit fireworks shoot out of the hole after a short wait. Aim using the shadow on the ground rather than the bird itself.
- Drop nearby small objects into the hole, move beneath the fireworks stall to light a firework, then put the lit firework in the hole.
- Wait beneath a flying bird's shadow and hit it with the firework that shoots out. Collect the three fallen birds.
- Light more fireworks and fire toward the high picnic spot. Hit it three times to knock the birds down.
- Collect the stall, large objects and birds to finish.
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