Engine Room

Template:Infobox small world area The Engine Room is a huge, cavernous area inside the Rusty Bucket. With its cams, cranks, wafer-thin platforms, and deadly fans, it is possibly the most hated room in the entire Banjo-Kazooie series.

The Engine Room is entered by Beak Barging the door on the bottom of the rear smokestack. Banjo drops down the smokestack to enter the room, where he must cross a great deal of rotating platforms and gears to access twelve Notes, a Jiggy, a pair of Mumbo Tokens, an Extra Honeycomb Piece and a pair of switches that shut off the ship's main propellers (for 65 seconds), clearing the way to another Jiggy. The two switches also halt the rotating shafts in the room, making it easier to collect everything.

Should Banjo fall off the platforms, he will fall into what looks like boiling oil, causing instant death. There is no way to avoid this. If you land on the pipes, you will only slide off. This is the main reasons why this room is so hated.

Even before the Engine Room can be explored fully, Banjo must hop down into an adjacent room and hit a switch that causes the giant fans to slow down sporadically. Otherwise, they spin too quickly to jump through. Even when they spin slower, you run a great risk when jumping through, because if your angle is off and you get hit, the knockback may throw you off the platforms.

The Engine Room (as well as possibly the rest of Rusty Bucket Bay) is referenced in Banjoland, where a signpost states that its difficulty is far too hardcore for today's modern players.