Stone spire

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Stone spire
The First Power Moon before exposed.
First appearance Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
Latest appearance Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (2018)
Effect Falls over to grant access to an item or terrain

The stone spire is a large solid object that appears in the Cascade Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey. It appears to obtain chunks of material similar to Moon Rocks. The bottom of it is encased in a stone wall. When the Power Moon for the objective "Our First Power Moon", an objective that involves breaking the stone wall, is collected, the stone spire drops down. It breaks a piece of ground on the other side of a river, creating a permanent bridge to the rest of the kingdom. As the brochure for the kingdom states, people theorize it fell from the sky.

Similar objects known as large pillars[1] appear underground in the Moon Kingdom, as part of the final segment of the final objective, "Bowser's Moon Wedding". While capturing Bowser, the player is required to break these four pillars so that they will fall on top of the structure in the middle. Once all four are broken, that structure is revealed to be a large Moon Rock–like object.

Another pillar appears earlier in that sequence, where it is used to break a wall and as a bridge to a 2D section.

The stone spire in Mine Cart Cascade Crusade. From the Nintendo Switch version
Mine Cart Cascade Crusade

The stone spire appears in the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS versions of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker in the Cascade Kingdom–based course Mine Cart Cascade Crusade. It is one of the last objects of the course's Mine Cart segment. The stone spire is held in pace by a set of Brick Blocks and Red POW Blocks. If these are destroyed, the stone spire will slowly fall over. Unlike Mario in Super Mario Odyssey, Captain Toad cannot walk across the stone spire, because Mine Cart Cascade Crusade is an on-rails course using the Mine Cart tracks. There is a Super Gem floating near the stone spire that falls down with it. The Super Gem is only within range of Captain Toad's Turnips after the stone spire falls. Breaking the blocks holding the stone spire in place directly does not allow the stone spire to fall fast enough to collect the Super Gem before the Mine Cart falls to a lower portion of the track where the Super Gem cannot be reached from. There is a set of Red POW Blocks prior to the stone spire, which can be activated to cause a chain reaction that will free the stone spire from the blocks early enough for it to fall in time for Captain Toad to collect the Super Gem.

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  1. ^ Walsh, Doug, and Epstein, Joe. Super Mario Odyssey Prima Official Guide. Page 262.