Gold Bars

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.10 on 27 October 2026.

A stack of ingots, it's worth twice a single Gold Bar and is the most valuable gold the player picks up by walking over it. Level generation leaves it in the open in every area, more rarely than a single bar, and lines the Temple's treasure vaults with it.

Its base value is $1,000, and it's worth a quarter of that more for each area past the Mines ^[2]:

The code counts Olmec's Lair, the last level, as an area of its own, past the Temple ^[3].

Level generation, in every area, gives each block outside a shop with open space above it, away from the entrance, the exit and a Golden Idol, a roll for what lies on it, once its rolls for a Rock and a Jar fail ^[4]. Gold Bars come after a single Gold Bar in each chain of rolls:

On a level with the Udjat Eye's locked chest, level generation then turns one treasure lying in the open, picked at random, into the chest's key ^[10]. The Tutorial has one ^[11], and the level editor's * tile is one ^[12].

The player collects it by touching it while he isn't stunned or dead: it's collectable from the start, and he takes the treasure nearest him, one a step ^{[13] [14]}. Its value shows under his money and is counted into it after a short pause ^[15]; gold plays the coin sound ^[16], and the screen between levels shows each stack collected on the level ^[17]. The clip ends with the player picking up the Tutorial's stack, after its six single bars ^[18].

It falls and comes to rest like other treasure, moving only while it's on the screen; one that sinks into lava is destroyed ^[19].