Mine Cart Carnage

Mine Cart Carnage is the second level in the Monkey Mines and seventh overall in the game Donkey Kong Country.

Level description
It is the first minecart level, and will have Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong riding an unstoppable mine cart through a long series of mine rails, most of which are torn apart, meaning they will have to jump from rail to rail. The level is laid out for the Mine Cart to grab many bonuses at high risk of falling off the track. Also, several mine carts will be found abandoned on the rails as well, which will cause a Kong to lose a life on contact. Not to mention, the Kremling enemies Krash are found in this level; they are Kritters on mine carts heading straight for Donkey and Diddy Kong.

It's also technically the first level set in a mine, as it uses the graphics for mine levels, but not the Misty Menace music theme.

A famous shortcut involves the Kongs jumping over the starting launching barrel at the beginning of the level, jumping over on purpose, and falling to the left into a warp barrel. The Game Boy Advance version retconned this into being one of the Warp Barrel shortcuts. Also in the GBA version, DK and Diddy can find a camera near the Warp Barrel that will add a picture to their Scrapbook.

Enemies

 * Krash: 9

Items

 * Animal Token:
 * Enguarde: found after the "O" letter where the track goes up and suddenly travels down, the player must jump when going down to reach a sideways floating rail to get it.
 * Bananas: 86
 * Extra Life Balloon:
 * Red: A tricky one to get, it is gotten by jumping over the first Krash and making an early jump to the next platform to land on the below one. May take practice.
 * K-O-N-G Letters:
 * K: Found by jumping the first gap on the Mine Cart.
 * O: After an early slanted sideways gap.
 * N: Found along the way of the first few abandoned mine carts.
 * G: A short distance after the 5th Krash.
 * DK Barrels:
 * One is found right at the start of the level.
 * The second is found near the Star Barrel.
 * Star Barrel: On the floating rail-platform after the Enguarde animal token.
 * Warp Barrel: Jump over the starting auto-fire barrel, fall below it, and move a little to the left.

Trivia

 * The Krash found at the end of the level is very famous for killing unexpected players.
 * This level is considered harder than and even has greater length than Mine Cart Madness, a later level found in the game.