John Gutter

John Gutter
World	Tower Lobby
Escape time limit	2:35
S Rank cap	16,000
Soundtrack	Unearthly Blues An Entrance Secret
Window title	A John graveyard... in the Pizza Tower
Level order
Previous	Tutorial
Next	Pizzascape
Builds
First appearance	Blue Block Land
First playable	Blue Block Land

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John Gutter is the first level in Pizza Tower, and is the first level of the Tower Lobby. This level serves as a It also serves as a testing ground for Peppino, while including many of obstacles for the player to test.

This level takes place at the entrance of the tower, featuring a jungle and a underground city, and many Pillar John-like creatures and statues scattered around the level. The titlecard shows an anxious Peppino under a small spotlight, surrounded by several copies of Pillar John.

Sub-pages

Gallery

Pre-release

Enemies

Enemy
	Cheeseslime	Forknight	Pizzaboy	Swedish Monkey	Pillar John	Mini John
Debutes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes

Collectibles

The first Toppin is located out in the open in the second room, directly where the player would naturally progress to.

The second Toppin is out in the open in the fifth room. It's accessible by climbing up the ladder or superjumping to the top.

The third Toppin is in the way in the sixth room, directly where the player must go to progress.

The fourth Toppin is on a platform in the eighth room. The platform can be accessed through various means. Right next to the Toppin is a breakable wall that opens up a path to the other end of the wall.

The fifth Toppin is located on a platform in the ninth room before Pillar John. It's on the top of the level guarded by a Forknight, though it's still out in the open.

Gerome is located in the room directly before Pillar John, covered behind a breakable wall.

Gerome's door is located in the seventh room. The easiest way to access this door is during Pizza Time, where the player has to run into a Metal Block and superjump to the top.

Secrets

In the room to the left of the area with the Cheese Toppin, part of the hanging ceiling of the level is discolored and has an eyeball scribbled on it, near where the player enters the room. The player must super jump into this block to break it, entering the secret room.

This secret room consists of small solid platforms with small and large toppings sprinkled on them, connected by strings of semisolid platforms. The player must turn very quickly on these platforms to retain a constant dash, though it is not necessary to complete the secret.

• File:John gutter first secret.png

In the room with platforms that leads to Pillar John's room, the rightmost area on the floor has a spot with a white eye marked on the floor. Ground pounding this spot breaks the ground to reveal a secret.

This secret stage is a short vertical climb where the player must use the mach dash to scale the walls, automatically grabbing the large toppings on top. The player will have to hop to change direction once, as to not run off the edge of the map.

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After Pizza Time has begun, the player will enter a room in which they must progress downwards while fighting enemies. The player needs to run into a wall with cracks on it at Mach 2, which is located on the segment directly before the player can descend down into the warp box. Mach 2 can be reached by running at the wall directly from the opposite wall.

This secret requires the player to mach dash through steel blocks while retaining momentum by wall jumping.

• File:John gutter third secret.png

Chef Tasks

This level has the following Chef Tasks: Template:Cheftask Template:Cheftask Template:Cheftask

• "Primate Rage" requires player to get a combo of 99 in this level. This means every single enemy must killed in the level, including Lap 2.

Trivia

• As the selection of playable levels expanded over the course of game's development, John Gutter became the third to be the introductory level of a demo release. The first was Oregano Desert and the second was Pizzascape.
• The long Pillar John seen in the first few rooms changes appearance during Pizza Time. It gains a more angry look and opens its eyes, revealing yellow-ring shaped pupils, like those of the regular Pillar John.
• Since the assets of the level were designed before Pillar John's current design, the Johns are noticeably rounder and have brow ridges instead of eyebrows.
• John Gutter used to be a tutorial level.
• After beating The Noise, the level was originally supposed to permanently transform into Noise Gutter, all of the Forknights replaced by by Noiseys. The level music would also be replaced with "The Noise's Jam Packed Radical Anthem".
• This level was at first titled Entrance in the December Patreon Build before getting its final name.
• In this level, Pizza Tower Guy is located in the Pillar John room, near John himself.

Gallery

Collectables

• Tower Secret Treasure location.

  Tower Secret Treasure location.

• Gerome location.

  Gerome location.

Backgrounds

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  Background #1. A purple castlesque building with long bricked pillars.

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  Background decoration #1. A bunch of deformed and damaged Johns.

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  Background #2. A purple underground jungle.

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  Background #3. A purple underground city.

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  Background decoration #12. Some purple banana pizzas, a reference that was used for the base of Swedish Monkey.

Tiles

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  John Gutter Tileset.

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  John Gutter decoration Tileset.

Props

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  Background decoration #2. A fat John eating pizza.

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  Background decoration #3. A long, damaged, and bandaged John.

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  Background decoration #4. A long squished John with a bored look.

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  Background decoration #5. A half-buried open-mouthed John.

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  Background decoration #6. A small and chubby John.

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  Background decoration #7. A fallen John.

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  Background decoration #8. A round spherical John.

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  Background decoration #9. A monotone John. It shares some similarities with one of McPig's old animations.

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  Background decoration #10. A long flexible John.

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  Background decoration #11. A large pillar-like John.

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  Background decoration #11 (Pizza Time variant). A large angry pillar-like John.

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  Breakable, dead John blocks.

Hub assets

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  John Gutter's level gate, a purple archway.

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  Level gate background. Purple wall with John face.

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  Level gate background decoration #1. Bananas.

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  Level gate background decoration #2. Floor with Johns.

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  Level's icon on Pizza Granny sign.

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  Level's title card.

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  Level's name in Chef Tasks room.

Scrapped sprites

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  Scrapped version for one of the decoration sprites, Seen in a screenshot Developer shared.

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  Unused version of background decoration #2.

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  Unused version of background decoration #4.

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  Unused version of background decoration #7.

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  Unused version of background decoration #8.

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  Unused version of background decoration #11.