Door

Every level has two doors: the entrance, where the player starts it, and the exit, his way on to the next level. A few levels have a third, the way to a special level: the hidden door to the Black Market and the gold door to the City of Gold. Doors are part of the background, not blocks: nothing destroys one.

When a level is built, the player is put in its entrance's doorway ^[2]. The entrance does nothing more: it's not a way back. The Ankh brings a player back to life at it, but inside the Moai or at the left end of Olmec's Lair ^[3].

Pressing up in front of the exit while standing on the ground, not dead, stunned or whipping, takes it ^[4]. The player walks in through the door, out of reach of anything ^[5], and when he's through, the screen between levels comes, then the next level ^[6]. The clip shows it: the player walks to the exit, presses up, and walks in ^[7]. As he goes:

• What he holds goes with him in his hands to the next level, but a heavy item, which he puts down; a Bomb or Rope, which goes back into his count (a lit bomb is dropped); the Golden Idol, which is cashed in; and a Damsel, who walks in with him and is rescued ^[8].
• The money he picked up on the level is added to his total ^[9].
• A thief has one level fewer to fear the Shopkeepers ^[10].
• Monkeys holding on to him are thrown off ^[11].

Carrying the idol or a Damsel into the exit's doorway is enough, even without pressing up: the idol is cashed in and the Damsel walks in ^[12].

• The Black Market's door is an exit hidden inside a block on one of the Jungle's levels. Taken, it leads to the Black Market as the next level ^{[13] [14]}.
• The gold door, which level generation stands on a block that can't be destroyed on one Temple level ^{[15] [16]}, opens when the player carries the Sceptre into it wearing the Hedjet: the Sceptre is used up, and the door becomes an exit to the City of Gold. Without the Hedjet, it only says "THE SCEPTRE FITS... BUT NOTHING IS HAPPENING!" ^{[17] [18]}. Where it can end up is The City of Gold's door anywhere.

The room templates have one tile for both doors, with a block under it: in the room the level starts in, it makes the entrance, and in any other, the room the level's path ends in, the exit, whose block can't be destroyed ^[19]. The Moai has an exit of its own, in its chamber ^[20]. The Tutorial, Olmec's Lair, the screens between levels and the bonus rooms, the Sun, Moon and Stars Rooms, have doors the room editor placed ^{[21] [22] [23]}. In custom levels they're the level editor's tiles @ (the entrance) and X (an exit) ^[24], and an exit can lead to another custom level ^[25].

• Bombs pass doors by: a door isn't solid, and the blast only breaks what is ^[26].
• Damsels running free leave by an exit by themselves, and count as rescued ^[27].

• The entrance is set up with the type "Exit", the same as the exit's ^{[28] [29]}.
• Both doors keep a name of the custom level they lead to, which only the level editor draws, over the door ^{[30] [31]}.