Every Shopkeeper angered by one bomb

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.12 on 28 October 2026.

A lit Bomb in a shop, near its Shopkeeper, angers him ("TERRORIST!"), and anger marks the player a thief: a Shopkeeper waits at the next level's exit. But the bomb angers every Shopkeeper the game is running, not only the shop's, and those off the screen are never marked as angered, so they're angered again on every step it burns. In the Black Market, with seven Shopkeepers close together, one bomb makes the player a thief for the rest of the game.

In the Black Market, the player walks up to the Shopkeeper of Wang's Supply Shop and drops a lit bomb in the shop. "TERRORIST!": the Shopkeeper shoots him dead on the next step, and the market's other Shopkeepers are angered too. The thief count, which nothing on the screen shows, goes from 0 to 14 at once and 482 by the clip's end ^[1].

On every step a lit bomb burns in a shop's room, or the Dice House's, within 96 pixels of a Shopkeeper, it runs the anger script on every Shopkeeper:

if (armed and instance_exists(oShopkeeper))
{
    if ((global.roomPath[scrGetRoomX(x), scrGetRoomY(y)] == 4 or
        global.roomPath[scrGetRoomX(x), scrGetRoomY(y)] == 5) and
        distance_to_object(oShopkeeper) < 96)
    {
        with oShopkeeper
        {
            scrShopkeeperAnger(2);
        }
    }
}

A Fire Frog's bomb has the same lines ^[2]. Run by each Shopkeeper, the script angers the one nearest him, himself, unless he's dead or already angered, and adds 2 to the player's thief count, or 3 if it's above 0 ^[3]. Only a Shopkeeper's own step marks him angered, the first time it runs his attack ^[4], and that step runs only while he's on the screen ^[5]. So each one on the screen adds to the count once, but each one the game is running off the screen adds 3 again on every step the bomb burns. Each level's exit takes 1 off the count ^[6], and each level that starts with it above 0 puts an angry Shopkeeper at its exit ^{[7] [8]}.

Light a bomb in one of the Black Market's shops, near its Shopkeeper, and survive his attack. In the replay of the clip, five Shopkeepers are running when the bomb goes down in Wang's Supply Shop (frame 1187), so the count goes from 0 to 14. Two of them are on the screen and are marked angered; the Bomb, Rare and Craps shops' are off it, and add 9 on every step: 23 on 1188, 482 on 1239. The Supply shop's Shopkeeper shoots the player dead on 1188 ^[9]. A die carried out of the Dice House can do the same when the Shopkeeper it angers is off the screen (Dice angering the next shop).

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[8], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins the count, step by step. No option turns it off.