Tree

Trees grow from the floor of the Jungle's rooms, the Black Market's and the Temple's: a trunk a few blocks tall, branches off its sides and two leaves beside its top. The trunk is solid; the branches and leaves are platforms. A tree stands only as long as what's under it does.

A trunk block is solid, as rock is ^[2]. A player jumping or falling past its side, pressing toward it, catches hold of it and hangs there, at any height and without Climbing Gloves: unlike a ledge, the trunk doesn't need open space above the spot he catches ^{[1] [3]}. Each jump from the hang takes him up the trunk by a block, and he catches hold again. The clip shows it: the player jumps at a trunk, catches it, and climbs it a block at a jump, to just under its leaves ^[4].

Branches and leaves are platforms: the player stands on them, jumps up through them from below, and drops through them by pressing down ^[5]. A branch with leaves right above it is removed as the level is set up ^[6].

Each step a tree is in the view, a trunk block with nothing solid under it is destroyed, so breaking the block a tree stands on, or its lowest trunk block, brings the trunk down, a block or more a step: in the second clip four trunk blocks go in two steps. A branch with no trunk beside it goes, and so do leaves with nothing to hold them ^{[7] [8] [9]}. The second clip shows a Bomb at a tree's foot taking the whole tree ^[10].

A trunk block breaks into rubble, and living leaves and branches into falling leaves ^{[11] [12] [13]}.

A room template's tree tile grows a tree: a trunk block on the tile and up to five more above it, the first three always, the fourth unless a 1 in 4 roll stops it and the fifth unless a 2 in 5 one does, growth stopping under anything solid. The second to the fifth trunk blocks have a 3 in 5 chance of a branch on each side, never on the same side as the block below's, and the top block gets leaves on both sides ^[14].

On a graveyard level, the leaves and branches are dead, and the top of the trunk with them ^{[17] [18] [19]}. In custom levels a tree is built by hand from the level editor's tiles: | a trunk block, x its top, ) leaves and q a branch ^[20].

• No traps in trees. As a Jungle level is made, the roll that turns a block into a Spear Trap, or stands a Tiki Torch on it, skips trunk blocks ^[21].
• Climbing Gloves add nothing here: with them, a falling player catches any wall, a trunk among them, and rising he still catches a trunk by its own rule ^[22].

• A trunk is a way up without a rope: catch its side and jump, a block at a time.
• A Bomb at a tree's foot clears the whole tree, branches, leaves and all.

• A trunk block is set up with a burning flag that nothing reads ^[23].
• The level editor draws its trees with objects of their own, which do nothing but look like a tree; the code that would have let them fall is commented out ^{[24] [25]}.