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No one knows. Mayahem and Witchy were also designed for the first game. It's entirely possible they designed these levels but since the levels were never built, they never actually reached the point where they decided WHERE they would go or what the level order was gonna be.

That thing about the lava room in Grunty's Lair being originally for the cut lava world isn't actually true btw. I know we all want it to be true, but Gregg said it was unrelated. But DESU I have a feeling they probably never reached the phase where they decided where lava world would go, and if they never cut the level I think they WOULD have put it/the painting for it there retroactively. Would be fucking weird if they didn't.

IF Gobi's dialogue in Click Clock is there because they forgot to change it, rather than as a cheeky nod to the cut level, then that would mean lava was somewhere after Click Clock. I always thought Mine could have something to do with this room in Grunty's Lair, but it's a BIG stretch I'm just pulling out of my ass. But it has a little bit of a crystal aesthetic and looks fairly similar to Waterfall Cavern in Mine