Tiki Torch

Tiki torches are only made on dark levels of the Jungle, where they stand on the ground and burn, one of the level's few lights besides the player's own. A torch can't be carried or moved, and it goes with the block it stands on.

A tiki torch flickers through its flames, half a frame a step ^[2]. On a dark level, it lights a circle of the cave 32 pixels around its middle, as a lit trap or a Fire Frog does, where a Flare or a Lamp lights 96 ^[3]. It also widens the player's own light as he nears it, counting as a light 48 pixels farther away than it is ^[4] (Dark level). The clip shows a dark Jungle level: the cave is black but for the circle around the player and the smaller ones around what glows, and at the right a tiki torch flickers in a circle of its own ^[5].

A torch isn't solid, isn't an item and can't be picked up. When the block under it is destroyed, it's destroyed too ^[6].

As a dark Jungle level is made, each block of the ground that a Spear Trap could replace (open above, open on a side, a block under it, away from shops and the entrance) gets a tiki torch standing on it with a 1 in 20 chance, unless there's water above it; only if it doesn't, it rolls for the trap ^[7]. A trunk block of a Tree never gets one. The level editor has no tile for it.

• Its light is small: a Flare thrown ahead lights three times as far.
• A Bomb at a torch's foot puts its light out for good, with the block it stands on.