Hedjet

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

This page describes a secret.

Wearing it, the player can enter the City of Gold: the gold door on level 14 takes the Sceptre and opens only for him. It also keeps the Ghost away and lights up dark levels around him. It lies in a sealed chamber inside the Moai, a statue in one of the Ice Caves' levels, which only a death with the Ankh gets into. It's worn from the moment it's picked up until the game ends.

Picking it up puts it on: the message "YOU GOT THE HEDJET! IT GLOWS A BRILLIANT WHITE." shows, the Hedjet disappears, and an icon of it joins the row under the hearts ^{[2] [3]}. It stays on until a new game starts, which clears it ^{[4] [5]}.

Level 14, the Temple's second, has a gold door, on top of a block that can't be destroyed ^{[6] [7] [8]}. Carrying the Sceptre, which the Tomb Lord of level 13 drops, into it opens it if the player wears the Hedjet: the door takes the Sceptre and turns into a way through to the City of Gold, the next level. Without the Hedjet, it says "THE SCEPTRE FITS... BUT NOTHING IS HAPPENING!" and stays shut ^{[1] [9]}. In the clip, the player, wearing the Hedjet, carries the Sceptre to the door, which opens, and goes through to the City of Gold ^[10].

A player who stays on a level too long is warned "A CHILL RUNS UP YOUR SPINE..." and then sent the Ghost. Wearing the Hedjet, neither happens, however long he stays ^[11]. The other things that bring a Ghost, taking a graveyard's idol and defiling one of Kali's altars too often, still do ^{[12] [13]}.

On a dark level, the light around the player has a radius of 96 pixels minus 64 times the level's darkness ^[14]. Wearing the Hedjet, the darkness is 0, so the light reaches 96 pixels, as far as a flare's, and at full brightness, instead of about 38 pixels of dim light at the darkest ^[15]. The level's opening message changes too: "THE HEDJET SHINES BRIGHTLY." instead of "I CAN'T SEE A THING! I'D BETTER USE THESE FLARES!" ^[16].

The Moai comes once a game, on one of the Ice Caves' levels: level 9 one time in 4, level 10 one time in 3, level 11 one time in 2, and otherwise level 12 ^[18]. It's a statue in one of two rooms that hold it ^[19]. Inside it, its own exit and the Hedjet, free to take, sit in a chamber filled by a solid block that can't be destroyed ^[20], so it can't be dug or bombed into. The Ankh is the way in, though a Teleporter jump can land the player inside too ^[21]. When the player dies wearing it on a level with the Moai, while the Moai is active (near the view: things far outside it are switched off ^[22]), it revives him inside the Moai, removing the block, and he falls onto the Hedjet ^{[21] [23]}. The Moai's exit takes him on to the next level. In the clip, the player, wearing the Ankh, drops a Bomb at his feet; the blast takes his last hearts, the Ankh revives him inside the Moai, and he picks up the Hedjet ^[24].

The Ankh is sold only in the Black Market, levels 6 to 8, so the player has to carry it to the Moai's level without dying on the way. Nothing else makes a Hedjet, and the level editor has no tile for it.

• The Hedjet doesn't light the whole of a dark level: it widens the light around the player only, and flares and lamps light their own circles as before ^[25].
• With the Sceptre, it's the City of Gold's key; either alone does nothing at the gold door ^[1].

• Wearing the Hedjet, there's no need to hurry: the Ghost that the level's clock sends never comes.

• Its object is oCrown, its type "Crown", and its HUD icon sCrownIcon; only the pickup message and the dark level's message call it the Hedjet ^{[26] [3] [27] [28]}.
• Its price is $999,999 and its shop message "I SHOULDN'T BE SELLING THIS!"; no shop stocks it ^[29].