Spelunky is © 2008, 2009 Derek Yu and Mossmouth, LLC, and is used under the [Spelunky User License v1.1b](https://spelunky.ai/LICENSE.txt). spelunky.ai is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Mossmouth. The game and its assets may not be sold. Music by George Buzinkai and Jonathan Perry; sound effects made in SFXR. From Spelunky Classic 1.1, © 2008, 2009 Derek Yu and Mossmouth, LLC. # Diamond From the spelunky.ai wiki: . Verified against the spelunky.ai port [v0.1.10](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/releases/tag/v0.1.10) on 28 October 2026. The Diamond is a gem in Spelunky Classic worth $5,000 in the Mines and more deeper down, made when a Ghost touches a big gem, and found in the City of Gold. ![A faceted pale blue and white gem, cut in a diamond shape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/06c990e56f8ec86f/sprites/sDiamond/frames/0%404x.png) | Diamond | | | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Value | $5,000[^1] | | Object | `oDiamond` | | Found in | [The Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines) (From a big gem a Ghost touches)[^2], [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle) (From a big gem a Ghost touches)[^2], [The Ice Caves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ice-caves) (From a big gem a Ghost touches)[^2], [The Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple) (From a big gem a Ghost touches)[^2], [City of Gold](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/city-of-gold) (In the Lady Xoc statue)[^3] | | Dropped by | [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost) (from a big gem it touches)[^4] | It's the most valuable gem, worth more than three [Big Rubies](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-ruby), and in the Mines as much as a [Golden Idol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/golden-idol), without having to be carried out. Level generation's rolls never make one: Diamonds come from the [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost), which turns every big gem it touches into one, and from the Lady Xoc statue in the [City of Gold](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/city-of-gold). The player collects one by touching it. ## Value A Diamond's base value is $5,000, and it's worth a quarter of that more for each area past the Mines, the code counting [Olmec's Lair](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/olmecs-lair) as an area of its own[^5][^6]: | Area | Value | | ---------------------------------------------------- | ------- | | [The Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines) | $5,000 | | [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle) | $6,250 | | [The Ice Caves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ice-caves) | $7,500 | | [The Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple) | $8,750 | | [Olmec's Lair](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/olmecs-lair) | $10,000 | ## Locations A Diamond comes from three things only[^7]: - **The [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost).** A [Big Emerald](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-emerald), [Big Sapphire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-sapphire) or [Big Ruby](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-ruby) the Ghost touches is replaced, where it lies, by a Diamond[^8][^2][^4]. The Ghost comes for a player who stays too long on a level, and drifts through walls toward him, so it changes the big gems it passes on the way, those still buried in the rock too: one buried gem becomes a buried Diamond[^9]. - **The Lady Xoc statue**, which stands in the [City of Gold](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/city-of-gold): the block at its brow drops two Diamonds when it's destroyed[^10][^11]. - **The level editor**'s `8` tile[^12]. **Clip: A big sapphire becomes a diamond.** A ghost appears at the edge of the screen and drifts toward the player. As it passes over a big sapphire lying in a nook, the sapphire turns into a diamond. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/06c990e56f8ec86f/clips/diamond/ghost/clip.mp4)) In the first clip, a Ghost appears at the edge of the screen and drifts toward the player; as it passes over a Big Sapphire lying in a nook, the sapphire becomes a Diamond[^13]. **Clip: The Lady Xoc statue.** The player bombs the top of the Lady Xoc statue. Its blocks break into gold chunks and nuggets, and the one at its brow into two diamonds. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/06c990e56f8ec86f/clips/city-of-gold/xoc-statue/clip.mp4)) In the second, the player bombs the top of the Lady Xoc statue, and the block at its brow breaks into two Diamonds[^14]. ## Collecting The player collects a Diamond by touching it while he isn't stunned or dead; the one he takes is the treasure nearest him, one a step[^15]. It's made uncollectable, and its own alarm, set to 20 steps (0.67 seconds) when it's made, makes it collectable[^16][^17]: a big gem the Ghost has just turned into a Diamond can't be picked up for that long, even if the gem could have been. Its value shows under his money and is counted into it after a short pause; whatever is left is counted at once when he leaves the level[^18][^19]. A gem plays its own sound, where gold plays the coin's[^20], and the screen between levels shows each Diamond collected on the level[^21]. A loose one falls and comes to rest like other treasure, moving only while it's on the screen; a [Web](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/web) it falls into holds it, and lava it sinks into destroys it[^22][^23]. ## FAQ ### How much is a Diamond worth in Spelunky Classic? $5,000 in the Mines, $6,250 in the Jungle, $7,500 in the Ice Caves, $8,750 in the Temple and $10,000 in Olmec's Lair: more than any other gem. ### How do you get a Diamond in Spelunky Classic? A [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost) that touches a [Big Emerald](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-emerald), a [Big Sapphire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-sapphire) or a [Big Ruby](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-ruby) turns it into one. The only others are the two in the brow of the Lady Xoc statue, in the [City of Gold](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/city-of-gold), and the level editor's. ### Can you find a Diamond in rock or in a Chest in Spelunky Classic? No. Level generation's rolls never make one, nor does any Chest, Jar or monster. A Diamond can be inside rock only when the Ghost has turned a big gem buried there into one. ### Does the Ghost turn small gems into Diamonds in Spelunky Classic? No. Only the three big gems become Diamonds; the small [Emerald](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/emerald), [Sapphire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sapphire) and [Ruby](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ruby) have no code for the Ghost's touch, and stay as they are. ## See also - **Related:** [Big Emerald](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-emerald), [Big Sapphire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-sapphire), [Big Ruby](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/big-ruby) ## References [^1]: [`objects/oDiamond/create.gml:8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oDiamond/create#L8) [^2]: [`objects/oSapphireBig/collision_oGhost.gml:1-2`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oSapphireBig/collision_oGhost#L1-L2) [^3]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:385`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen4#L385) [^4]: [`objects/oRubyBig/collision_oGhost.gml:1-2`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oRubyBig/collision_oGhost#L1-L2) [^5]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1996`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L1996) [^6]: [`scripts/scrInitLevel.gml:24-29`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrInitLevel#L24-L29) [^7]: Quirk 1 (docs/quirks.md) [^8]: [`objects/oEmeraldBig/collision_oGhost.gml:1-2`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oEmeraldBig/collision_oGhost#L1-L2) [^9]: Replay `fidelity/replays/item-seed-2-diamond.txt` [^10]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:378-393`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen4#L378-L393) [^11]: [`objects/oXocBlock/destroy.gml:24`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oXocBlock/destroy#L24) [^12]: [`scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:281-284`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrCreateTileObj#L281-L284) [^13]: Clip diamond/ghost [^14]: Clip city-of-gold/xoc-statue [^15]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1990-2016`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L1990-L2016) [^16]: [`objects/oDiamond/create.gml:6-7`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oDiamond/create#L6-L7) [^17]: [`objects/oDiamond/alarm_0.gml:1`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oDiamond/alarm_0#L1) [^18]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1953-1971`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L1953-L1971) [^19]: [`objects/oPlayer1/other_animation_end.gml:46-50`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/other_animation_end#L46-L50) [^20]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:2000-2014`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L2000-L2014) [^21]: [`objects/oTransition/alarm_0.gml:83-88`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTransition/alarm_0#L83-L88) [^22]: [`objects/oTreasure/step.gml:1-79`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreasure/step#L1-L79) [^23]: [`objects/oWeb/collision_oTreasure.gml:1-2`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oWeb/collision_oTreasure#L1-L2) ### Source code - [`objects/oDiamond/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oDiamond/create) - [`objects/oDiamond/alarm_0.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oDiamond/alarm_0) - [`objects/oEmeraldBig/collision_oGhost.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oEmeraldBig/collision_oGhost) - [`objects/oSapphireBig/collision_oGhost.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oSapphireBig/collision_oGhost) - [`objects/oRubyBig/collision_oGhost.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oRubyBig/collision_oGhost) - [`objects/oXocBlock/destroy.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oXocBlock/destroy) - [`objects/oTreasure/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreasure/create) - [`objects/oTreasure/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreasure/step) - [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step)