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|image=[[File:Wet-Dry World 64.png|250px]]<br>The uptown<br>[[File:SM64 Wet-Dry World Downtown.png|250px]]<br>The downtown

|missions='''''Super Mario 64'''''<br>[[Shocking Arrow Lifts!]]<br>[[Top o' the Town]]<br>[[5 Secrets in the Shallows & Sky|Secrets in the Shallows & Sky]]<br>[[Express Elevator--Hurry Up!]]<br>[[Go to Town for the Red Coins|Go to Town for Red Coins]]<br>[[Quick Race Through Downtown!]]<br><br>'''''Super Mario 64 DS'''''<br>[[Shocking Arrow Lifts!]]<br>[[Top o' the Town]]<br>[[5 Secrets in the Shallows & Sky]]<br>[[Express Elevator--Hurry Up!]]<br>[[Go to Town for the Red Coins]]<br>[[Quick Race Through Downtown!]]<br>[[Soaked Silver Stars]]

'''Wet-Dry World''', also known as '''Wet-Dry Land''',<ref>''Nintendo Magazine System'' (AU) Issue #52, page 44.</ref> is the eleventh course in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', and it takes place within flooded ruins, separated into an undeveloped uptown that the player starts in and an underground downtown further into the [[level]]. The entrance to the course is the large [[painting]] with the [[Skeeter]] on it on the [[Peach's Castle|Mushroom Castle]]'s second floor. Unique to this course is the ability to raise or lower the water level based on where the painting is entered; the lower the painting is entered, the lower the water level, and the higher the painting is entered, the higher the water level.

Wet-Dry World's unique stage gimmick is being able to raise and lower the water level by touching the [[Crystal Tap]]s located throughout the stage. When one is touched, the water level rises or drains to the level of the Crystal Tap's position, which affects the position of the floating platforms as well. Using these Crystal Taps is essential to reach certain areas and complete missions. Several Skeeters slide around on the water surface with [[flame thrower (Flame Chomp)|flame thrower]]s lining the platforms. If they are underwater, the flame throwers will not be able to spit fire. There are two areas to this course: the uptown, which is split into layering platforms, and the downtown area, which has several buildings and the course's [[Red Coin]]s.

[[File:SM64DS Wet Dry World Map 2.png|frame|left|Map of the downtown area]]

The downtown area consists of several buildings along the walls, a Crystal Tap in an alley, and a central plaza in the center. There is a small church<ref>Official UK Nintendo Magazine. ''Super Mario 64'' The Essential Player's Guide. Page 21.</ref>-like building that contains the [[Star Marker]] for the course and a pole on top that the player can use to reach a Crystal Tap. In the back left corner is a mesh cage where the player has to turn [[Vanish Mario|invisible]] in order to go inside for a [[Quick Race Through Downtown!|certain mission]].

**In the outside area, there is a small white structure on the ground with large steps and a Crystal Tap at the top. It has an inset corner on the ground with a warp that leads to the cannon. The water level needs to be as low as possible for this warp to be active.

This level uses the same music as the [[Hazy Maze Cave]]. Like in the Hazy Maze Cave, the music changes depending on the area the player character is in (either outside or downtown).

|title1=Stage theme

|JapM=Flooded City

|Fra=Monde Trempé-Séché

|FraM=Soaked-Dried World

*This world was used in a [[List of Mario references in advertisements#Got Milk?|Got Milk? commercial]] in the late 1990s. Mario, who is unable to jump onto a platform in the first area, breaks through the screen, and through a series of events, he winds up in a refrigerator, drinks some milk, becomes supersized, and starts walking on the top of the level. However, the level shown in the commercial differs from the one in-game in that the sky is bright blue instead of dark.

*The skybox for this course is composited from altered photographs of {{wp|Shibam Hadramawt|Shibam}}, which is a town in {{wp|Yemen}}. The red building near the top is the [[Mosque of Mohammed Ali]] in {{wp|Cairo}}, {{wp|Egypt}}.<ref>https://twitter.com/CharlyCNintendo/status/1364370196916445190</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/CharlyCNintendo/status/1366317069017489408</ref> Before this discovery was made, it was believed to be the hillside town of {{wp|Casares, Málaga|Casares}}, {{wp|Spain}}, due to the similar building layout.<ref>DidYouKnowGaming? (August 30, 2020). [https://youtu.be/VEg-EUhT9eA?t=289 Super Mario 64 - Did You Know Gaming? Ft. Seth Everman]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved May 17, 2021.</ref><ref>(July 23, 2016). [https://gamingreinvented.com/feature/mario-trivia-time-ten-obscure-mario-facts-never-knew/ Mario Trivia Time; Ten More Obscure Mario Facts You Never Knew]. ''Gaming Reinvented''. Retrieved May 17, 2021.</ref>