Several Ash graves

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.10 on 28 October 2026.

A graveyard level in the Jungle puts graves on its blocks, and a few of them are Ash graves, with their own sprite and a free Shotgun in the block underneath. The code keeps a flag to make one at most, but sets a different variable from the one it checks, so a level can have two or more.

A graveyard level opens with two Ash graves in view, each with a free Shotgun buried in the block under it ^[1].

The level's entity script clears global.ashGrave, then goes over the Jungle's blocks. Each block with nothing above it, away from the entrance, the exit and six columns, gets a grave 1 time in 20, and a grave is an Ash grave, with a Shotgun at no cost in the block under it, 1 time in 40 if global.ashGrave isn't set ^[2]:

            obj = instance_create(x, y-16, oGrave);
            if (not global.ashGrave and rand(1,40) == 1)
            {
                obj.sprite_index = sGraveAsh;
                obj = instance_create(x+8, y+8, oShotgun);
                obj.cost = 0;
                obj.forSale = false;
                ashGrave = true;
            }

The last line sets ashGrave without global.. The code runs inside a with over the blocks, so it makes a variable on the block, and global.ashGrave stays false: every grave rolls its 1 in 40 afresh ^[3].

It depends on the level's seed, and it's rare: of 800 Jungle seeds, 73 start on a graveyard level, 20 of those have an Ash grave, and 3 have two ^[3]. The replays pin two of them: seed 420's graveyard level, with an Ash grave and a Shotgun at two places and the flag set on the two blocks while the global stays false ^[4], and seed 244's, whose two Ash graves are in view from the entrance, as in the clip ^[5].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[3], and the oracle's fingerprints of the replays pin the graves' places. No option turns it off.