Spelunky 2: No Gold Run Tips!

If you wanna kind of cheat the first 4 levels you can use the level 5 shortcut cause it doesant say that you cant use short cuts

Another tip, don't use Hired Hands at all, they can interact with the gold (and sometimes they even chase it).

Tips from another who's suffered this challenge:
Try to acquire the Udjat eye (or glasses, but udjat is a more consistent method) in order to know where gems are so you can safely bomb when necessary
Don't use a shotgun until killing Tiamat, it can make gold fly unpredictably.
In tidepool pay attention to the small foreground pillars, they frequently hide gold on the ground behind them.

Even though it’s rare if you manage to find a push crate to push inside the store you can trap him in his corner and rob everything make sure that you move the items on the other side of the crate

I think it's actually better to go to temple for no gold runs

For me i had to get a jetpack and a pickaxe, and then an Udjat Eye. These three are crucial and DEFINITELY help you.
First, Jetpack let's you fly above the gold, in quilback, when i have an jetpack, i try to get the extra life and bombs by getting it not touching the ground so i can't pick up the gold, but it's just an example.
The pickaxe helps you so much, let's you go through the level without having to see if there is hidden gold or whatever, just mine down.
The Udjat Eye, combined with the pickaxe, makes it more secure. When mining down, IF you have the Udjat Eye, try to mine down the stage by not mining the blocks with gems. If you don't have the Udjat Eye, you have to be careful with it. Try mining a block and see if it dropped a gem or anything. Blocks with mini gold if destroyed can definitely mess up your run. This will be very hard to get, but i got it yesterday, the day you published this video. I learned those things myself and it's great people who want to face the challenge know it before going in.
The Jetpack is optional. if you have the pickaxe and the udjat eye, it's already great! You can win by just having those things and be a little more careful.

In my professional opinion the best way to complete this run




Is to not pick up gold

Very cool powerpoint presentation.

Get Turkey's and bring them out of the Dwellings for easy double jump and whip. If you get a shotgun from a shopkeeper and a Turkey you can both have a whip if you crouch (the Turkey's head) that you can knock gold over with and a shotgun.

This one really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
I hated the Millionaire one much more, the runs took forever because of the grind, and failing them was much more painful.
I feel most of the stuff mentioned here was rather obvious, besides some tips in certain situations maybe.
So let me add a few more things.

To anyone doing this, I would definitely ALWAYS rob the shopkeeper in 1-2 or 1-3, even if it's not a shit ton of bombs, just make sure not to kill them.
Like it was said with the Kali Altar, you're not going to be getting items any other way unless you're lucky or do sacrifices, so anything is good.
Especially if it's movement related or a compass,
Furthermore, always get the Udjat Eye if you can, alternatively the Spectacles, so if you use bombs or maybe even a pickaxe, you know where gems will be hidden, so you can avoid them or be prepared for them.
Also, Volcana was mentioned, but I think it should be elaborated on that it's generally the superior choice.
The Jungle loves hiding gold behind textures, more than the Tide Pool, should be obvious, but going to mention it regardless.
Last but not least, the shotgun is weird.
If you want gold or gems to go away, always use your whip.
A shotgun blast might sometimes shoot the gold towards you, rather than away from you.
Had one or two runs end to that.

Also... while I have done these runs normally and had many nearly successful attempts end in 6--3, I did end up having my successful run with a teleporter.
I would definitely recommend that item too.
Although a lot of things I did were risky, so I would say it's best if you can use it in combination with a jetpack or hoverpack, which I didn't have.

Remember you are your biggest enemy if your new to this you might go “oh some gold!” And then remember

Great video!

Thumbnail shows the speedlunky achievement and not the low scorer achievement... 😅

Don’t carry torches. jetpack and teleporter or jetpack, mattock, and specs are the best 2 combos, and be extra careful in tide pools. Also shortcuts don’t work for the achievement, I’ve tried

There is many times where it just seems unfair

That's a weird way to say "it's utter bullshit"

On ps4 it doesn’t say if u can use shortcuts.
Is that true?

Another thing, you can take a land mine from ice caves to kill the bodyguard on 6-3 for free as he won't move off of it or get aggro'd from it unlike shopkeepers

I managed to do this on spelunky HD for the first time yesterday. Same hardships the worst were the pieces of gold hidden in the leaves of the jungle.

Learn how to English dude

I personally found Spelunky 2 to be much easier to perform a no gold run compared to the first one, it was easier to spot the gold and in the first one I was forced to deal with jungle tree gold and couldn’t steal from a shop keeper unless I wanted to get hunted the whole game

Should HAVE not should OF

I hate this challenge so much.

keep up the great work!

i like your editing and character

Hoverpack is extra useful on a no gold run as well!

good use of LISE

My zero gold runs never make it passed the City of Gold.

tip: DONT PICK UP THE SHOPKEEPER'S GOLD AFTER KILLING HIM

My tip is use hover pack and only touch the ground to exit the level doesnt really work in neo bab tho

Tip, never get a parachute. They have the chance of giving the player gold when used. Same can be said for aliens.

Why doesnt anyone do a video for under 10mins achieve

The metal shield is really good for no gold, the trick I used before giving up because Derek yu hates me is:
1. get a shield from 1-2/1-3
2. get past Olmec by skipping him with bombs
3. steal a shotgun, yes the free one
4. beat Tiamat

note: don't get spelunked
edit: get the udjat eye too if you can

Another tip: remember that the lion traps in tide pool have a bigger hitbox than the totem traps in the dwelling. This means that totem traps won’t launch the tiny $100 nuggets at you, but the lion traps will.

I’ve been using the strategy of roping the shopkeeper on 1-2/3. He drops the shotgun so you can pick it up and have just enough time to leave with all the items. If there’s a jetpack, make sure to pick it up first so it auto equips.

Can you use shortcuts, cus in the description for the trophie, it doesn’t say anything about shortcuts

“of”

Weird little interaction to keep in mind in case you get a camera. While the camera will kill most flying creatures like bats, don't use it against the golden scarabs. Taking their picture will actually collect them instead of killing them.

Maybe they aren't viewed much cuz you type rather than talk. Just a thought

today I finally got the achievement after 2 months

well lemme pass the game normally first

Hi! I have a question,
Is it considered an achievement if you collect gold during the game, but during the killing of Tiamat, its amount will be 0?

I've been attempting this challenge for three weeks now. And I noticed myself getting better and better at survival.

My strategy for this run is getting the udjat eye to see more dangers in the walls and giving yang his turkeys. Grab the key, bring it to volcano for Van Horsing. Then go into vlads castle, which unfortunately removes the udjat eye. But gains me vlads cape and the crown. The cape makes traveling much safer and the crown allows taking Excalibur, which I intend to use to kill Tiamat with. But tide pool-3 was the furthest I got yet. One of the inky bois was guarding the lever to get down further, so I bombed, which somehow sent an aimbot gem at me

Watching these runs gives me pain

Gold can be behind dead bodies. That was ruined my run at 5-1. This challenge is freaking hard!

let me see the game?

another tip: dont grab any gold

bro make the subtitles a bit less in your face

Its Impossible

Just finished this, being my last achievement, giving me 100% on my file

some more tips, make sure to do the other strat for olmec where you walk completely under him onto the other side and it takes 2 stomps to break a layer. this way if there's gold in the corner you can just not walk into the corner and keep going. also be suuuper careful in tide pool, make sure to really look at your path before you go, take your time. for volcana almost never jump on a robot unless needed, they mess u up a ton. you can also kill the beetles in dark levels or back layers without picking them up. i'd also always go for the pet if you can, until like ice caves or maybe even tide pool, where it's way better to just keep your shotgun on you and not risk it. yeah getting a shotgun is super super good too, so try and get one before tide pool. also just try and get to the exit really, ur not gonna be getting too many items so just try and leave. no hired hands too!