The Lady Xoc room in the way

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.12 on 28 October 2026.

The City of Gold lays out its rooms as the Temple does, on a path from the entrance to the exit, and then writes the Lady Xoc statue's room over one room of the third row, at random. It doesn't look at what the path needed there, and the statue's room has a solid floor, so when it takes the room the path drops through, nothing leads down to the exit until the player breaks the floor open. On a sacrifice pit's level it can take the pit's third room, and seal the pit's lava off from its shaft.

The City of Gold here is a sacrifice pit too, and the statue took the third room of the pit's shaft. The player lifts the pit's golden idol, the floor under it gives way, and he falls a room down onto the statue, stunned, and loses a heart, not three rooms down into the pit's lava ^[1].

On another City, the statue took the room the path drops through to the exit's row, so the run bombs through the floor beside it. The player drops through the hole, picks up an emerald and takes the exit ^[2].

scrLevelGen lays the path first, a room at a time from the top row to the bottom, marking each room it drops out of as a drop room. Then, in the City, one line overwrites a room of the third row:

if (global.cityOfGold) global.roomPath[rand(0,3), 2] = 6;

rand(0,3) is any of the row's four rooms, whatever the path made it. Room type 6 is the statue's, open at the top and sides with a solid bottom row:

else if (roomPath == 6) // Lady Xoc
{
    strTemp = "000000000000X0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001111111111";
}

The X is the statue, 30 blocks five wide and six tall ^[3], and the last ten 1s are the room's floor. If the path dropped through that room, the floor now stands between it and the exit's row ^[4].

A sacrifice pit is laid before the path: on 1 Temple level in 8, the City's too, scrLevelGen marks a whole column as the pit, its top, two shaft rooms and its bottom, which the path never enters ^[5]. The statue's line comes after, and one time in four picks the pit's column, writing the statue's room over the pit's second shaft room. The shaft above then ends on the statue's top, and the statue room's floor seals the pit's bottom, with its lava and its Big Ruby blocks, under it ^{[6] [4]}.

Reach the City of Gold and look at where the statue is. When it stands in the room above the exit's row, on the way down, the way to the exit has to be broken open beside or through it, with a Bomb or the Mattock; the statue's blocks, which break into gold, and six of them into gems, are as good a way down as any ^[7]. The replay, with seed 9, finds the statue on the drop room above the exit's row: the run bombs the statue's top for its gems, then bombs a hole through the floor beside it and drops to the exit ^[8].

A City that's a sacrifice pit, with the statue in the pit's column, is 1 City in 32. The replay of the first clip reaches one with seed 9, the statue in the pit's third room: lifting the idol takes away the four trap blocks under it, and the player falls a room onto the statue, stunned, losing a heart, and never lower ^[9].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[4], and the oracle's fingerprints of the replays pin the rooms' layout, the statue's place and the player's fall. No option turns it off.