Stone blocks without gold

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.11 on 28 October 2026.

In the City of Gold, every block of stone is gold, and breaking one gives three Gold Chunks and a Gold Nugget. One in ten is a stone block rather than temple stone, drawn gold all the same, and it gives nothing: level generation marks every stone block of a Temple level to break cleanly, which leaves no rubble and no gold.

A bomb in the City of Gold breaks a stone block and the block of temple stone beside it. The temple stone gives three chunks of gold and a nugget; the stone block, the same gold to look at, gives nothing ^[1].

The Temple's room script makes about one block in ten of its 1 and 2 tiles a stone block (oBlock), and the rest temple stone (oTemple) or, for a 1 tile one time in a hundred, the Jungle's earth ^[2]. In the City, a stone block's create event gives it the gold sprite ^[3]. Then scrEntityGen's Temple branch turns some stone blocks into arrow traps, and so that those go without rubble, it sets the flag on all of them first:

    with oBlock
    {   
        cleanDeath = true;
        if (not isInShop(x, y))

Nothing sets it back on the blocks it leaves ^[4]. A stone block's destroy event makes its rubble, or in the City its gold, only without the flag:

if (not cleanDeath)
{

    if (not global.cityOfGold)

So a stone block bombed or dug on a Temple level leaves nothing, and one in the City gives no gold. The temple stone has no such flag, and gives three chunks and a nugget ^[5]. The Mines' pass over stone blocks doesn't set it, so theirs leave rubble ^{[6] [7]}.

Bomb or dig the blocks of the City of Gold: about one in ten gives no gold. On any Temple level, a stone block leaves no rubble. The replay, with seed 9, reaches the City as a sacrifice pit, and the player throws a bomb onto a stone block by the entrance. It breaks that block and the temple stone beside it, and only one nugget and three chunks fly: the temple stone's ^[8].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[7], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins the blocks and the gold. No option turns it off.