Oregano Desert

**Oregano Desert** is the fifth level in Pizza Tower, and the first level of the Western District.

It's a scorching desert with massive pizzas in the sky and an underground cave system. A UFO piloted by U.F.Olives is found parked at its end, which flies off during Pizza Time.

The level's titlecard shows Peppino frantically running from a U.F.O. piloted by a cow, which is beaming up a Tribe Cheese totem and a Kentucky Kenny on a toilet.

## Enemies

* **Kentucky Kenny**
* **Tribe Cheese**
* **U.F.Olive**
* **Clerk**
* Cheeseslime

## Mechanics

### Gimmicks

* **Destructible Rock Block**
* **Rock Block**
* **TNT Block**
* **Cow**
* **Totem Cloud**
* **Dash Pad**

## Collectables

All of the Toppins in the level are located in Pizzamarts, each simply being on the path. The player must complete each Pizzamart's small challenge to collect the Toppin at the end. The Pizzamarts are not necessary to progress through the level.

* Mushroom Toppin
* Cheese Toppin
* Tomato Toppin
* Sausage Toppin
* Pineapple Toppin
* Tower Secret Treasure
* Pumpkin

The first Toppin is rewarded for clearing Pizzamart 1.

The second Toppin is rewarded for clearing Pizzamart 2.

The third Toppin is rewarded for clearing Pizzamart 3.

The fourth Toppin is rewarded for clearing Pizzamart 4.

The fifth Toppin is rewarded for clearing Pizzamart 5.

Gerome is located in the upper left corner of the second underground Firemouth room. To get to him, the player needs to dash through Breakable Blocks, accessible from the left of the platform where a Tribe Cheese is walking. The door to the  is located in the room right after Pillar John. Above the fourth Pizzamart (the one with the Sausage Toppin), the player must run up the wall, which is lined with toppings.

Pumpkin is located during Pizza Time, at the cliff where the cows kick you off.

## Secrets

* First Secret
* Second Secret
* Third Secret

In the room that introduces the crumbling orange blocks, right after the checkpoint, the player needs to run across the wall ahead at Mach 2 to reach the secret.

In this secret, the player must break and outrun orange block chains to reap the rewards.

In the room that introduces the cow obstacles, the player must leap over the cows with the Firemouth transformation to break a TNT block behind the first cow.

This secret requires the player to jump and air dash with Firemouth.

In the fifth Pizzamart, the player must complete the Firemouth platforming challenge to defeat the rat and be cured of the status by the Priest, then run and jump into the indented right wall with a Mach 2 dash to break the wall and reveal the secret.

In this room, the player must retain momentum while leaping over sequences of cows.

## Trivia

* In previous builds, there was a Camembert Squire in one of Pizzamarts.
* Before the rooms were redesigned, all of the rooms looked similiar/were the exact same as the Christmas Race Build.
* It was first called **Desert** in the January Monthly Build and despite having final name in Desert Playtest, it was temporarily called **Badland** in PT\_Eggplantv15 build.
* The Noise originally had a Gimmick in older demos of Oregano Desert, where he would have Boulder Traps set up, or would attempt to push a rock onto Peppino's head to mess him up.
* In earlier builds, mainly "PT time challenge 1", some of the rooms look more like Ancient from Demo 2.
* The maximum combo that the player can reach in Oregano Desert is **90**.
* Upon entering this stage, the game's window will rename itself to "The weird Pizza Tower west".
* This is one of two levels in which their escape time limit does not end on 0 or 5, the other one being The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.
* The background was used for the GOLF demo.

## Gallery

### Regular sprites

Background #1. A desert with giant pizzas in the background.Background Decoration #1. Dark clouds appearing at ceiling levelDecoration #1. Giant RockPizzamart.Pizzamart background, showing various cans of chicken and pizza on the shelves.Background #2. A dark yellow sky with clouds and giant spotlight.Background Decoration #2. Light moving cloudsBackground Decoration #3. Large mountain rockBackground #3. A dark rocky cavernThe entrance to the UFO.Background #3. The slightly dark interior of the crashed UFO.Breakable block sprites.
### Hub assets

Oregano Desert's level gate, a rocky archway with cacti and sand.Level gate background. Yellow sky.Level gate background decoration #1. Desert with pizzas.Level gate background decoration #2. Rocks.Level's icon on Pizza Granny sign.Level's title card.Level's name in Chef Tasks room.
### Scrapped sprites

Original version of Background #1.Background. A version of the desert background at night.Escape version of Background #1. A version of the desert with a dark sky, pizzas with eyes and mouths in the background with a meteor falling.Background decoration. A large rock.Background #2. A desert ravine with cacti growing on the walls. A version with a different color palette is used in the Western district secret room.Original version of Background #2, slightly brighter.Background #4. The top of the crashed UFO, showing the desert out of the glass dome.Oregano Desert on the HUD.