Black Markets on graveyard levels

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.11 on 28 October 2026.

The Black Market is a Jungle level, and every Jungle level rolls for being a graveyard. The market's is rolled too, once its rooms are laid out, so one market in ten is a graveyard, with its graves and its dead. But the market's welcome is the level's message, and the graveyard's comes second only on a dark level, which the market never is, so the game never says so.

The player drops from the Black Market's entrance onto a grave below its shops. The market rolled the graveyard, with eight graves and three Zombies, and the game welcomes him to the Black Market. THE DEAD ARE RESTLESS! never comes ^[1].

scrInitLevel lays out the level's rooms, the market's included, and then rolls the graveyard for any Jungle level:

scrLevelGen();

global.cemetary = false;
if (global.levelType == 1 and rand(1,global.probCemetary) == 1) global.cemetary = true;

Nothing there skips the market, and scrEntityGen's Jungle branch, which the market runs, makes a graveyard of it: graves on its earth, with their treasure ^[2], Zombies and Vampires in place of the Jungle's monsters, without the market's rule that keeps Mantraps off its shops' floors ^[3], and Dead Fish in place of Piranhas ^[4].

The level's first message, from oPlayer1's alarm 0, takes the market before the graveyard ^[5]. The second, from alarm 1, shows the graveyard's only on a dark level:

else if (global.cemetary and global.darkLevel)
{
    global.message = "THE DEAD ARE RESTLESS!";
    global.message2 = "";
    global.messageTimer = 200;
    if (global.lake) alarm[4] = 210;
}

scrInitLevel clears global.darkLevel on the market, if (global.blackMarket) global.darkLevel = false; ^[6], so the graveyard's message never shows there ^[7].

Take the Black Market's hidden door on level 5, 6 or 7, until a market comes with graves on its earth; one in ten does. It welcomes the player as any market does, and says nothing more. The replay, with seed 9, reaches the market on level 6 as a graveyard, with eight graves and three Zombies: "WELCOME TO THE BLACK MARKET!" shows, and "THE DEAD ARE RESTLESS!" never does. The player drops from the entrance onto the edge of a grave, which is solid ^[8].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[7], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins the graves, the Zombies and the messages. No option turns it off.