Gnome Forest

**Gnome Forest** is the tenth level in Pizza Tower, and the second level of the Vacation Resort.

In this level, the player finds themselves in a big dark forest where a village can be found where gnomes and goblins that look like Gustavo and The Noise respectively live, as well as a much brighter, big and open cliff-side forest with giant pizza trees in the background.

The level's titlecard shows Peppino, Brick and Gustavo in the midst of the trees, with Peppino and Gustavo being dressed in gnome outfits and Brick wearing a birthday hat and carrying a party blower in his mouth.

## Enemies

* **Noise Goblin**
* **Pickle**
* **Pizzard**
* Treasure Chest Guy
* Cheeseslime
* Forknight
* Pencer
* Mini John

## Mechanics

### Gimmicks

* **Gnome Pizza**
* **Gustavo**
* **Big Mushroom**
* **Gnomes**

## Collectables

* Toppins
* Tower Secret Treasure
* Pumpkin

Each Toppin in the level is obtained after delivering a Gnome Pizza to a gnome, each being directly where the player naturally runs. The player must make it to these houses before the timer on the pizza depletes.

Gerome is located four rooms after the Tomato Toppin, near the ceiling. The player needs to get to the rightmost area near the top, bounce up the right wall, and break wooden blocks. The door to the  is located in the room directly before Peppino switches to Gustavo. Returning with Gerome during Pizza Time, run or super jump up the long sequence of wooden blocks to find the door.

Pumpkin is located after the first Gnome House, near the exit to the room.

## Secrets

* First Secret
* Second Secret
* Third Secret

In the second room that Gustavo and Brick exit to after their tutorial, the player must climb a wall where a visible secret eye is blocked only by a small wooden block.

In this secret, the player uses Gustavo's double jump to clear large distances and destroy metal blocks.

In the room directly after the player receives the Tomato Toppin, there is a semisolid platform above a seemingly inconspicuous wall with a dented floor. This wall is actually transparent and has a secret inside.

In this secret, the player gets propelled forward with great speed, needing to use Gustavo's double jump.

The final secret is actually at the start of the stage, directly in front of the exit door below the first semisolid platform, but is only accessible during Pizza Time. It is in a hidden wall, so it is not visible until the wall is entered.

In this secret, the player runs up vertical segments like in a secret from John Gutter, though bouncy mushrooms are placed to attempt to bounce the player off.

## Trivia

* Despite having final name in Beachandforestv1, it was temporarily called **Forest** in PT\_Eggplantv15 build.
* In the Gustavo & Brick tutorial, the combo meter is hidden. However, the combo can still be built in the tutorial, even if the combo timer is paused. The timer will reappear and be reset upon exiting the tutorial.
* The party blower Brick holds in the title card is not actually colored in. It is transparent, so that some of the verdant background and the trees are visible through it.
* The level's titlecard is famously known due to the recent "Lario" meme, which features a slideshow of one singular image of the 3 characters from the title card under the text "Lario", accompanied by a mashup of the songs "Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod and "Superstar" by Young Thug. This image was actually a joke from one of McPig's spriting streams.
	+ This meme went so popular that "A Secret in The Trees", the level's secret theme, was renamed to "Everybody Wants To Be A Secret", in reference to a line from "Superstar".
	+ The meme has received official recognition. When Pizza Tower received Steam Badge and Trading Card support, some Steam profile backgrounds and emoticons were added alongside them. One of these emoticons was an image of the gnome Peppino, titled *lario*.
* This level is one of only three levels (excluding bosses) in the game to feature no transformations.
	+ The other two are John Gutter and The Pig City.
* Upon entering this stage, the game's window will rename itself to "A forest in the Pizza Tower".
* Based on a recently discovered promo video, it was revealed that Peppino was originally going to play through the entirety of Gnome Forrest, as a snippet of the video shows Peppino in Gustavo and Brick's section of the level.
	+ Based on The Noise's teaser trailer, The Noise also appears to be able to play through the entirety of Gnome Forrest without a stand-in for Gustavo and Brick.

## Gallery

### Regular Sprites

Foreground during dark section.Bee.Bee taunt.Breakable Block sprites.Background #1. A dark forest with some trees.Background #2. A misty, open forest with a giant pizza tree and several cliffs.A long cloud, reused from Ancient CheeseBackground #3. A deeper part of the forest showing two gnome houses.A fairy rat, whom appears in certain parts of the level to help you achieve a P rank, giving you several points.
### Hub assets

Level gate. Archway made out of wood with leaves at the top.Level gate background. Woods.Level gate background decoration #1. Grass with mushroom.Level gate background decoration #2. Gnome hats.Level's icon on Pizza Granny sign.Level's title card.Level's name in Chef Tasks room.