Spelunky is © 2008, 2009 Derek Yu and Mossmouth, LLC, and is used under the [Spelunky User License v1.1b](https://spelunky.ai/LICENSE.txt). spelunky.ai is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Mossmouth. The game and its assets may not be sold. Music by George Buzinkai and Jonathan Perry; sound effects made in SFXR. From Spelunky Classic 1.1, © 2008, 2009 Derek Yu and Mossmouth, LLC. # Cape From the spelunky.ai wiki: . Verified against the spelunky.ai port [v0.1.10](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/releases/tag/v0.1.10) on 27 October 2026. The Cape is an equipment item in Spelunky Classic that the player opens in mid-air to glide down slowly and land unhurt; shops sell it from $12,000. ![A folded golden-yellow cape with a clasp at the neck](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/sprites/sCape/frames/0%404x.png) | Cape | | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Kind | Equipment | | Effect | Glide down slowly; opened with jump in the air[^1] | | Price | $12,000[^2] | | Objects | `oCapePickup`, `oCape` | | Sold in | Clothing Shop, Rare Shop, Dice House | | Found in | The Mines, The Jungle, The Ice Caves, The Temple, Olmec's Lair | | Dropped by | [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate), [Vampire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/vampire) | Wearing it, the player can turn a fall into a slow glide: pressing jump in mid-air opens it, and he sinks a pixel a step and lands without harm, however far he's dropped. Clothing Shops, Rare Shops and the Dice House offer it; [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate), blocks, [Vampires](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/vampire) and Kali give it away. It's worn from the moment it's picked up or paid for until the game ends, unless a [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack) takes its place. ## Effect **Clip: Cape glide.** The player runs out of a shop with a cape he hasn't paid for, which puts it on, and the shopkeeper fires after him. He runs into a gap in the floor and, pressing jump in mid-air, opens the cape and glides down to the ledge below, unhurt. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/clips/cape/glide/clip.mp4)) Picking up a free cape, paying for one or carrying one out of a shop puts it on: the message "YOU GOT A CAPE!" shows, the cape disappears, and an icon of it joins the row under the hearts[^3][^4]. From then on the player wears it on his back[^5][^6]. It stays on until a new game starts, which clears it[^7][^8]. It opens and closes with the jump key. In the air, a press of jump opens it if it's closed and closes it if it's open[^1], as long as the player didn't leave the ground with that press still held: walking off a ledge readies it at once, and after a jump it's ready once the jump key is let go of[^9][^10]. Open, it halves the player's falling speed each step[^11], and the count of steps he's been falling starts again from 0 on every step, so the landing never hurts[^12]. With gravity adding 1 pixel a step, he settles at 1 pixel a step (30 per second), against up to 10 in a free fall[^13]. It closes again when he lands[^14], climbs[^15], hangs from a ledge[^16] or goes into water[^17]. The clip shows the player running out of a shop with the cape, which puts it on, and off the edge of a gap in the floor: one press of jump in mid-air opens it, and he sinks 1 pixel a step to the ledge below and lands with all his hearts[^18]. ## Obtaining | Source | Chance | | | --------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | | Clothing Shop | Each of its wares is one of its six items or a Rope Pile | [^19] | | Rare Shop | Each of its wares is one of its eleven items or a Bomb Box | [^20] | | The Dice House's prize | 1 in 25, once the roll for a [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack) (1 in 40) fails | [^21] | | A [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) | 1 in 200, once the roll for a Jetpack (1 in 500) fails | [^22] | | Buried in a block | 1 in 19 of the items buried in blocks | [^23] | | A [Vampire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/vampire) | Every one killed leaves one | [^24] | | Kali's first gift | 1 in 8, or the next of the eight the player hasn't got; never while he wears the Cape or a Jetpack | [^25] | A shop stocks one only if the level hasn't got one already[^26][^27], even for a player who wears one[^28], and it adds 10% of the base price for each level past the second[^29]. Shops are made from level 2 on[^30], and level 16, Olmec's Lair, has none: | Area | 1st level | 2nd level | 3rd level | 4th level | | ------------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | | The Mines | — | $12,000 | $13,200 | $14,400 | | The Jungle | $15,600 | $16,800 | $18,000 | $19,200 | | The Ice Caves | $20,400 | $21,600 | $22,800 | $24,000 | | The Temple | $25,200 | $26,400 | $27,600 | — | The Dice House puts its prize up from a set of rare items, and a roll of seven gives it away and puts up another[^31][^32]. Every block of rock away from the level's edges that isn't gold and holds no gem has a 1 in 1200 chance of hiding an item, one of nineteen at random[^33][^23]. A Vampire that dies leaves a cape, free to take, where it falls[^34]. Kali's first gift, when the player's favour with her reaches 8 at one of her altars, is one of eight pieces of equipment the player hasn't got; the Cape counts as had while he wears a Jetpack[^35]. In custom levels, it's the level editor's tile `\`[^36]. Carrying one out of a shop without paying puts it on and angers the Shopkeeper, as with any ware; whether it goes on at once depends on whether the player or the cape leaves the shop first[^28]. In the clip, stealing it puts it on at once: the player runs out at 6 pixels a step, ahead of the cape he holds out in front of him[^37]. ## Interactions - The Cape and the [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack) are never worn together. Putting on the Cape while wearing a Jetpack drops the Jetpack at the player's feet, free to pick up again; putting on a Jetpack drops the Cape the same way[^38][^39]. - The [Parachute](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/parachute) slows a fall the same way, but opens by itself and only once[^40]. - It does nothing closed: a long fall with the Cape closed hurts as it would without it[^41]. ## Tips - On any drop too deep to land from safely, a press of jump in the air opens the Cape and makes the landing safe; after a jump, the key has to be let go of first. - Pressing jump again closes it, which drops the player at full speed: a way down faster when the ground is close. ## Trivia - Its `type` is "Cape", and its shop message the plain "A CAPE FOR $12000."[^42]. - The worn cape is drawn behind the player, hanging down while he stands, streaming behind him while he moves and spread above him while it's open; on the level's end screen, as he walks out, it's drawn from behind[^43][^44]. ## FAQ ### How do you use the Cape in Spelunky Classic? By pressing jump in mid-air: after walking off a ledge, or after a jump once the jump key has been let go of. That opens the Cape, and the player glides down at 1 pixel a step; pressing jump again closes it, and landing closes it too. ### Can you have the Cape and the Jetpack at the same time in Spelunky Classic? No. Both go on the back, so putting on the Cape drops a worn [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack) at the player's feet, and putting on a Jetpack drops the Cape. ### Does the Cape stop fall damage in Spelunky Classic? Yes, while it's open: every step it's open counts the fall as starting afresh, so landing with it open costs nothing. A fall with it closed hurts as usual. ### Where do you find the Cape in Spelunky Classic? In Clothing Shops and Rare Shops, and as the Dice House's prize. Free ones come out of [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) (a 1 in 200 roll, once the Jetpack's 1 in 500 fails), out of blocks that hide them, from every [Vampire](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/vampire) killed, and as Kali's first gift. ## Gallery **Clip: Vampire killed.** The player throws a bomb and whips a charging vampire onto it. The explosion flings the stunned vampire away, and when it comes to rest it dies, leaving three bones, a skull and a cape. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/clips/vampire/cape/clip.mp4)) ## See also - **Related:** [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack), [Parachute](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/parachute) ## References [^1]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:320-324` [^2]: `objects/oCapePickup/create.gml:7` [^3]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:204-213` [^4]: `scripts/scrDrawHUD.gml:150-154` [^5]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:13` [^6]: `objects/oCape/step.gml:23-47` [^7]: `scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml:96` [^8]: `objects/oTransition/create.gml:20-24` [^9]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:257-264` [^10]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:284-292` [^11]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:872-875` [^12]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:15-18` [^13]: `scripts/characterCreateEvent.gml:59-62` [^14]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:288-292` [^15]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:185-190` [^16]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:494-496` [^17]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:750-752` [^18]: Clip cape/glide [^19]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:68-101` [^20]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:102-155` [^21]: `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml:47-50` [^22]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:617-618` [^23]: `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml:63-89` [^24]: `objects/oVampire/step.gml:257-259` [^25]: `scripts/scrGetFavorMsg.gml:85-98` [^26]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:91-94` [^27]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:141-144` [^28]: Quirk 1 (docs/quirks.md) [^29]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:179-191` [^30]: `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:240` [^31]: `scripts/scrRoomGen.gml:392-397` [^32]: `objects/oShopkeeper/step.gml:173-200` [^33]: `objects/oBrick/create.gml:7-16` [^34]: Clip vampire/cape [^35]: `scripts/scrGetFavorMsg.gml:67-108` [^36]: `scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:405-410` [^37]: Replay `fidelity/replays/item-seed-35-cape.txt` [^38]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:214-221` [^39]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:233-241` [^40]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:867-875` [^41]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:268-289` [^42]: `objects/oCapePickup/create.gml:3-8` [^43]: `objects/oCape/step.gml:1-47` [^44]: `objects/oTransition/create.gml:15-18` ### Source code - `objects/oCapePickup/create.gml` - `objects/oCape/step.gml` - `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml` - `scripts/scrStealItem.gml` - `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml` - `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml`