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. # The Temple 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 Temple is the fourth area of Spelunky Classic, levels 13–15: halls of stone and lava guarded by Tomb Lords, Hawkmen and traps, the way to Olmec's Lair. ![A square of grey-brown temple stone laid in blocks](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/197bfc59562320b5/sprites/sTemple/frames/0%404x.png) | The Temple | | | ---------- | --------- | | Levels | 13–15[^1] | The Temple's levels are halls of stone blocks, with pools of [Lava](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lava). Level generation sets arrow, spear and smash traps here, and an idol room whose ceiling comes down. [Cavemen](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/caveman) and [Hawkmen](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/hawkman) walk its floors, level generation tries for a [Tomb Lord](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tomb-lord) on level 13 and, one time in four, on the levels after it, and level 14 hides the way into the City of Gold. Past the Temple lies Olmec's Lair. ## Generation The Temple is levels 13 to 15[^1], with its own background[^2]. Taking level 12's exit leads to the screen between levels, where the Tunnel Man may wait, and on to level 13; once all three shortcuts are paid for, the title screen's Shortcut House has a door to level 13[^3][^4]. In the first clip, the player takes that door, and in the first Temple level a Tomb Lord walks off a ledge into lava and dies[^5]. **Clip: The level 13 shortcut.** The player climbs from the title screen to the Shortcut House and enters its level 13 door. In the first Temple level, a Tomb Lord walks off a ledge into a pool of lava and dies. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/197bfc59562320b5/clips/temple/shortcut/clip.mp4)) The level is laid out as [the Mines'](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines#generation) are, four rooms by four on a path from the top row to the bottom, from the Temple's own layouts[^6]. Its blocks are temple stone, with one in ten a stone block and one in a hundred a block of the Jungle's earth; layouts add [Lava](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lava) (the tiles at a pool's edges as likely stone), ladders and push blocks[^7][^8]. Three side rooms in four get a side room's layout, and one of those may be[^9]: | Room | Chance | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | | Kali's altar | 1 in 12, once a level | [^10] | | [Golden Idol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/golden-idol) room: the idol under a row of [Ceiling Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ceiling-trap), between two doors | 1 in 12, once the altar's roll fails, once a level; never on a sacrifice pit level, which has an idol of its own | [^11][^12][^13] | | A garden: trees on a floor of the Jungle's earth | 1 in 12, once the altar's roll fails (1 in 11 once the idol room is made) | [^14][^15] | The City of Gold's side rooms never get an altar or an idol room, and draw from three more layouts: treasure vaults of [Gold Bars](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/gold-bars) and big gems, with [Chests](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/chest) and [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate)[^16][^17]. A level may be a special level instead: | Level | Chance | | | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | | Sacrifice pit | 1 in 8 | [^18][^19] | | City of Gold | Level 15, reached through a door on level 14 | [^20][^21] | | Dark level | 1 in 12, at most once in the area, and never the first level after the title screen, nor one after a level finished 20 seconds or less past a whole minute on its clock | [^22][^23][^24] | Taking level 15's exit leads to level 16, Olmec's Lair, a room of its own[^25]. The second clip shows it: the player crosses level 15 and takes its exit, and Olmec's Lair loads[^26]. **Clip: From the Temple to Olmec's Lair.** The player crosses level 15, past Cavemen and lava, and takes its exit. After the screen between levels, level 16 loads: Olmec's Lair, where Olmec waits with his Cavemen. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/197bfc59562320b5/clips/temple/to-olmec/clip.mp4)) ## Inhabitants Level generation goes over every block outside the shops[^27]: | Monster | Where | Chance | | | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | | [Scarab](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/scarab) | Hanging under a block, on a dark level only | 1 in 40 | [^28] | | [Tomb Lord](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tomb-lord) | On a block, with two rows of open space above it, three blocks wide | 1 in 40 for each block, on level 13 and one level in four after it, once a level | [^29][^30] | | [Caveman](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/caveman) | On a block | 1 in 40, once the Tomb Lord's roll fails | [^31] | | [Hawkman](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/hawkman) | On a block | 1 in 40, once the Caveman's fails | [^32] | The monsters on top of blocks keep out of the entrance's room. [Magma Men](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/magma-man) rise out of the lava, and the [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost) comes to a level the player stays on too long, as in every area. In the City of Gold, two of the path's layouts hold a Tomb Lord each[^33][^34]. ## Hazards - **[Arrow Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/arrow-trap).** One stone block in three becomes an Arrow Trap (one in four in the Mines), on the same terms: outside a shop, away from the entrance, with a block behind it and open ground in front[^35]. - **[Spear Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spear-trap).** One block in twelve on the surface of the ground, more than 64 pixels from the entrance, becomes a Spear Trap, but not where it would block a passage over the lava[^36]. - **[Smash Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/smash-trap).** One block in sixty, once the monsters' rolls fail, gets a Smash Trap on top[^37]. - **[Lava](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lava)** pools. - **The idol room's traps.** Lifting the [Golden Idol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/golden-idol) brings every [Ceiling Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ceiling-trap) on the level down and drops two doors[^38]. ## Items and shops Shops come as in [the Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines#shops): a level's chance is 2 in its number (2 in 13 on level 13 down to 2 in 15 on level 15), in a side room beside the path, of the same kinds, and none once the Black Market has been made[^39][^24]. A Temple shop is never a Kissing Parlor on a sacrifice pit level, which has a Damsel of its own[^13][^40]. Treasure is scattered as in [the Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines#treasure). One block of stone in 60 that isn't a gold vein holds a big sapphire, and rarer ones a big emerald, a big ruby or an item[^41]. ## Secrets - **The City of Gold**, behind a door on level 14. - **Kali's altars**, and the sacrifice pit. - **The [Sceptre](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sceptre)**, which a Tomb Lord on level 13 leaves when it dies. ## Trivia - The room script makes [Spikes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spikes) for a `7` tile, one time in three, but none of the Temple's layouts has one, so the Temple has none[^42][^24]. - The garden's comment calls it a "sun room", and its layout is chosen by a roll whose two outcomes are the same string[^14][^24]. - A spear trap that would plug a passage over the lava isn't made, as the code's comment explains: "to keep the spear trap from plugging up lava passage"[^43]. ## FAQ ### What levels are the Temple in Spelunky Classic? Levels 13 to 15, after [the Ice Caves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ice-caves). Taking level 15's exit leads to Olmec's Lair, level 16, the last. ### What monsters live in the Temple in Spelunky Classic? [Cavemen](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/caveman), [Hawkmen](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/hawkman) and, as a rule, a [Tomb Lord](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tomb-lord) on level 13: level generation tries for one there and on one level in four after it. [Magma Men](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/magma-man) rise from the lava, and a dark level has [Scarabs](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/scarab). ### What traps are in the Temple in Spelunky Classic? [Arrow Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/arrow-trap), [Spear Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spear-trap), [Smash Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/smash-trap), [Lava](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lava), and the [Ceiling Traps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ceiling-trap) and doors of its idol room. It has no [Spikes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spikes). ### Where is the City of Gold in Spelunky Classic? In the Temple: the City of Gold is a secret level 15, reached through a door on level 14. ## See also - **Found here:** [Arrow Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/arrow-trap), [Bow](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bow), [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape), [Caveman](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/caveman), [Ceiling Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ceiling-trap), [Chest](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/chest), [Climbing Gloves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/climbing-gloves), [Compass](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/compass), [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate), [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost), [Gold Bar](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/gold-bar), [Gold Bars](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/gold-bars), [Gold Chunk](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/gold-chunk) (In the rock's gold veins)[^44], [Gold Nugget](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/gold-nugget) (In the rock's rich gold veins)[^45], [Golden Idol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/golden-idol), [Hawkman](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/hawkman), [Jar](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jar), [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack), [Kapala](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/kapala) (Kali's gift, at her altar)[^46], [Lava](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lava), [Machete](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/machete), [Magma Man](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/magma-man)[^47], [Mattock](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mattock), [Parachute](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/parachute), [Paste](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/paste), [Pistol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/pistol), [Pitcher's Mitt](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/pitchers-mitt), [Rock](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/rock), [Scarab](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/scarab), [Sceptre](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sceptre) (Level 13, from its Tomb Lord)[^48], [Shotgun](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/shotgun), [Skeleton](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/skeleton), [Skull](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/skull), [Smash Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/smash-trap), [Spear Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spear-trap), [Spectacles](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spectacles), [Spike Shoes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spike-shoes), [Spring Shoes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spring-shoes), [Teleporter](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/teleporter), [Tomb Lord](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tomb-lord), [Trap Block](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/trap-block), [Web](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/web), [Web Cannon](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/web-cannon) ## References [^1]: `scripts/scrInitLevel.gml:28` [^2]: `scripts/scrInitLevel.gml:139-142` [^3]: `objects/oPlayer1/other_animation_end.gml:63-65` [^4]: `objects/oPlayer1/other_animation_end.gml:151-157` [^5]: Clip temple/shortcut [^6]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:48-218` [^7]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:317-341` [^8]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:497-500` [^9]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:68-118` [^10]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:75-79` [^11]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:80-88` [^12]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:111` [^13]: `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:84-86` [^14]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:103-108` [^15]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:505-559` [^16]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:70-74` [^17]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:112-115` [^18]: `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:71-87` [^19]: `scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml:60` [^20]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:387-389` [^21]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:880` [^22]: `scripts/scrInitLevel.gml:167-174` [^23]: `scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml:54` [^24]: Quirk 1 (docs/quirks.md) [^25]: `objects/oTransition/step.gml:26` [^26]: Clip temple/to-olmec [^27]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:391-480` [^28]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:445-450` [^29]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:382-385` [^30]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:457-464` [^31]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:465` [^32]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:466` [^33]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:122-140` [^34]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:426-429` [^35]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:497-524` [^36]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:410-442` [^37]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:467-471` [^38]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1252-1266` [^39]: `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:239-297` [^40]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:155-188` [^41]: `objects/oTemple/create.gml:5-16` [^42]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:340` [^43]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:422-427` [^44]: `objects/oTemple/destroy.gml:12-32` [^45]: `objects/oTemple/destroy.gml:21-32` [^46]: `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:371-377` [^47]: `objects/oLava/step.gml:6-15` [^48]: `objects/oTombLord/step.gml:23` ### Source code - `scripts/scrInitLevel.gml` - `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml` - `scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml` - `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml` - `objects/oTransition/step.gml` - `objects/oTemple/create.gml`