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Attack of the Rhynocs Walkthrough - Byrd Barracks
pic: Map of the world concept art
Play as: Spyro Sgt. Byrd
Enemies:
Periscope Rhynocs
Attacks
Throw Pick Axe (1hit)
Defense
Hide in the Snow
Defeat
They will do on of 2 things when they pop up: Throw Pick Axe or Sit There. Flame them when they just sit there
H.Q. Perimeter 100Gems, 1 Item
Walk NE and you will meet:

Private Flap - needs help crossing the water.

Use Ice Breath to freeze the walrus. Private Flap will then get on the walrus.

Jump on the frozen walrus and face SW. Use Wind Breath to move the Frozen Walrus. After 4 puffs you will be pretty close to an iceberg. Turn south and give one puff. Turn SW again and give one more puff and Private Flap will jump off. Follow him and he will give you the Super Breath Mint.

Item2 Super Breath Mint ability
Byrd Barracks, H.Q. Perimeter, Private Flap will give it to you for helping him cross the Water
Gives you Super Ice Breath

Get the 7 gems in the area behind Private Flap. Face the shallow water to the left of him. Press and hold 'B' untill Spyro flashes. Release 'B' and Spyro will produce a cloud of cold breath that freezes the water. Watch out for the recoil!

Walk across the new ice bridge before it melts. Wonder around the upper area and get 78 gems from the Baskets, Vases, Banners, and one Rhynoc.

To the west you can drop down and get 15 more gems but you will have to take an ice bridge back to the start and do the whole walrus thing again to get to the gateway in the east.

Camp Headquarters Map (from dark52)Camp Headquarters

3 Banners
Rhynoc
3 Baskets
Sheep
Walk up the fish.

Capt. Beek - sends you on a quest to find Sgt. Byrd's medals

Item3 Heart of Byrd Barracks heart
Byrd Barracks, Camp Headquarters, Capt. Beek will give you this when you find all 7 of Sgt. Byrd's Medals.
Seal the vortex

Continue SE to a walrus who pops up in 3 spots. Wait by one spot and freeze him. Once frozen jump on him and glide and hover SE. No need to use wind.

From this small island you can go NE to another small island or south to a rather large island.

On the Large island are some rhynocs, sheep and gems. you will see strips of shallow water. Don't worry about them yet. Find Lieut. Peck in the middle of the camp first.

Lieut. Peck - need you to find 5 of his men who were stranded at their outposts. Their outposts are on 5 islands around the large one. You will have to reach each one by freezing shallow water and crossing the ice bridge.

  1. Lets start by going directly NE of Lieut. Peck. Freeze the water with your Super Ice Breath and walk across. Fine the Soldier and 2 Gems. While you are here glide SE to another small island. Take note that there are paw prints here. Now go back to Lieut. Peck.
  2. Now go SE of Lieut. Peck. Again you can just walk across. In fact you don't even need to freeze the water, just glide and hover, but the soldier won't go unless the water is frozen. Along with the Soldier you will find 15 Gems.
  3. Go up to the northern part of the large island and freeze the water on the SW side find the soldier and 21 Gems.
  4. NW of the Large Island is more shallow water. You can get to the high platform by pressing A repeatedly but you don't have to. Just jump up, flame the three baskets, jump up again and Sparx will grab the gems. 17 Gems on this island.
  5. Now the hard one to the NE. This one is really long and has turns so you will have to charge. For your effort you get the last soldier, 6 Gems and an item
    Item1 Snow Lily quest
    Byrd Barracks, Camp Headquarters, The island on the other side of the long ice bridge where you rescue one of the soldiers
    Bianca's Plant Quest
After you have rescued all 5 Go back to Lieutenant Peck for your reward.
Item4 Totally Retro Uniform quest
Byrd Barracks, Camp Headquarters, Rescue 5 Soldiers and Lieut. Peck will give this to you.
Hunter's Hipness Quest

Go back north to the small island and go NE to another small island. There is a Rhynoc and another Walrus popping up off the NW side.

Take it NW. There will be 3 Baskets right there when you get off. go up a couple steps and find 2 Banners. 3 more Baskets are on steps above. 6 baskets to the west. 1 Rhynoc in the are right over the start point.

58 Gems in the area above Moneybags vault

Get all the Gems to the West then head east over to Money Bags' Vault and drop down. You will find 3 Baskets and 25 Gems on a high platform, jump to get it. Sgt Byrd's Rescue Mission is across from the vault to the east.

28 Gems in the area of Moneybags Vault and Sgt. Byrd's Rescue Mission

SE of the vault is is a red button and another walrus.

6 Loose
2 Baskets
Major Feather
1 Rhynoc
2 Baskets
Red Chest -
38 Gems

Valley

Carpet Bombing! Keep tapping B. Stay near the upper right corner so if you miss you cam move back for a second chance.

Item6 Sgt. Byrd Action Figure quest
Byrd Barracks, Camp Headquarters, Clear the Valley for Major Feather.
Elder Terry's Toy Quest

Only the shadow remains.. - Notice that when you destroy the Rhynocs their shadows hang around. What kind of bombs are these?

Moneybag's Vault move the walrus to the SE with 2 puffs while facing NW. This should put the walrus right where you can glide to land on either side. Get the button on one side, glide to the walrus, glide to land on the other side and get the other button.

8 loose Gems
4 vases 30 Gems
Item5 Eye-Spy Binding Scanner quest
Byrd Barracks, Camp Headquarters, Moneybags' Vault
Zoe's Machine Quest
Red Chest -
Red Chest -
Rescue Mission 200 Gems, 1 Item
Item7 Half of the Red Chest Key key
Byrd Barracks, Camp Headquarters, complete Sgt. Byrd's Rescue Mission
This plus the other half can open any and all Red Chests
Virtual Hideaway From one of the islands to the east that you rescued a penguin on, there is an island to the SE that you can glide to. The foot prints are there.

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