How to get to the city of gold

[Exp]

Ive only recently finished the game, and I keep hearing about this 'city of gold'. the only lead I have is the golden door in the temple level but I not sure if im correct or how to open the door

[Baron von Dapper]

Originally posted by Sweg ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ:

Ive only recently finished the game, and I keep hearing about this 'city of gold'. the only lead I have is the golden door in the temple level but I not sure if im correct or how to open the door

You are going to need to make a full run from Mines to Temple for it, to unlock the City you need to: Find the eye of horus in the mines, Use it like a metal detector to find The Black Market in Jungle, buy the ankh or raid the market, isn't actually much harder than a regular shopkeep fight believe it or not. when you get to the Ice Caves level with the moai head kill yourself if you have the ankh, you will respawn inside the head and get the hedjet. Kill Anubis in the first Temple level and take hit staff to the second, touch the locked door while carrying it and you are into the City. However to fully beat the game it doesn't stop there: Get the book of the dead and kill Anubis again and look at a guide because I can't be bothered to type anymore.

[Exp]

wow, thanks for taking your time to write all this dow, i appriciate it

[Exp]

ok, got it

[Baron von Dapper]

Originally posted by frgovo:

Originally posted by Baron Von Dapper:

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Correction to the Ice Caves part:
Don't just run into enemies/get frozen/whatever. You have to die by falling in the bottomless pit. Otherwise you'll respawn at the entrance, and not inside the Moai Head like you need to.

Incorrect, you do not need to speciffically die from the pit, it is just a more conveniant way to off yourself rather than finding a mine.

[Baron von Dapper]

Originally posted by frgovo:

Originally posted by Baron Von Dapper:

Incorrect, you do not need to specifically die from the pit, it is just a more conveniant way to off yourself rather than finding a mine.

I remember someone in the "most BS death" topic lamenting that they died by freezing instead of falling (like, sniped by a mammoth while trying to fall). I may be wrong, though.

I can confirm safely that you can die in any way and end up in the moai head, either you remember that incorrectly or that was a hoax meant as an excuse to post.

[Baron von Dapper]

Originally posted by frgovo:

Originally posted by Baron Von Dapper:

I can confirm safely that you can die in any way and end up in the moai head, either you remember that incorrectly or that was a hoax meant as an excuse to post.

Oh.
~The more you know~, I guess...

Didn't mean to sound insulting if you took it that way.

[globefish23]

While you're at it, you could take a small side trip to the alien mothership, kill the alien queen and get the plasma cannon.
With that, you could blow the entire City of Gold to smithereens and become a filthy rich man spelunker.

Although, for that you need to have the robot spelunker as the only one locked, so it is guaranteed to spawn in the mothership.
You need a dumb lackey to carry your gun or the scepter, after all.

[vstg]

You wont have as much fun finding out like this instead of by chance.

[chaoticenigma]

You can actually do the City of Gold run starting from Jungle, but it's not recommended. It is still possible to find Black Market without Udjet Eye if you are able to notice where it's at due to what appears around the exits(which may be hard or even impossible on some seeds).

In addition to that, you also wouldn't have an item build or resources that could have been picked up in the mines, but people have managed to clear that run from Jungle. Also, no leaderboard that way.

[peeper]

You don't really *need* to pick up the Necronomicon in the center of the city of gold, but if you do, bringing it into the Olmec fight will unlock the entrance to hell (the book will also chomp very quickly when in the same place horizontally as the door, you'll want to have olmec fall into the lava beneath it to enter).

Note that Hell is a huge pain in the ass, and there's another, harder boss waiting for you at the end (paste and many bombs recommended).

[Exp]

thanks m8

[FlashSoul]

Once you've done all of that, go for a solo eggplant run :D

[Just_Oscan]

Though I have heard you can start from the Jungle, I have never tried, does anyone know for sure about this?

[globefish23]

Originally posted by Just_Oscan:

Though I have heard you can start from the Jungle, I have never tried, does anyone know for sure about this?

Yes, you can, but that requires that you (a) find the secret entrance to the Black Market without the help of the Udjat Eye (i.e. by sheer luck, or sometimes if some foilage looks different), and (b) acquire the 50k gold to buy the Ankh in the Black Market (or be brave enough to fight 7 shopkeepers there, as well as every other shopkeeper for the rest of the run).