Altar

The Altar is the floor of the Mines' idol room: two blocks of carved, vine-grown stone set into its bottom row, with the Golden Idol lying on them and a giant tiki head high above. It's where the idol is, nothing more: the altar has no code of its own beyond breaking.

The idol room's layout puts the altar's two blocks in the middle of its floor and the idol on top of them ^{[1] [2] [3]}. The clip shows the room: the player walks up to the idol on its altar, under the giant tiki head, lifts it off and drops down a shaft with it ^[4]. Lifting the idol is what sets off the room's trap, a Boulder from the tiki head (Golden Idol).

The altar's blocks are solid, and break like any block, to a Bomb, a Mattock or a rolling Boulder, into rubble ^{[5] [6]}.

Only the Mines have the idol's altar: the idol room is one of the side rooms a Mines level may have, 1 time in 10 for each side room off the bottom row once the roll for Kali's altar fails ^[7]. The idols of the other areas lie on other things: a floor of trap blocks in the Jungle, a ledge of thin ice in the Ice Caves, the floor between two doors in the Temple (Golden Idol). The level editor has no tile for it.

• The Yeti lair's room script, a copy of the Mines', still has the idol room's altar, which no lair is built with ^{[8] [9]}.
• The Mines' roll for treasure on top of a block skips blocks of the type "Altar", which only Kali's altar has; to it, the idol's altar is two ordinary blocks ^[10].