Dice angering the next shop

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

A Dice House's die mustn't leave the shop: carried out, it angers a Shopkeeper. But the die's check is only whether it's in a shop's room, any shop's, and the Shopkeeper it angers is the nearest one, any shop's. On an ordinary level the two are the Dice House's. In the Black Market, whose shops stand side by side, a die can pass through the next shop unnoticed and anger that shop's Shopkeeper when it leaves.

In the Black Market, the Dice House's die is carried left through the Clothing Shop, a shop's room, so no one minds. Carried on out of it, the die angers the nearest Shopkeeper: the Clothing Shop's runs out after the player, while the Dice House's stays where he is ^[1].

On every step a die is near the screen on a level, its step checks whether it's in a shop:

    // stealing makes shopkeeper angry
    if (isLevel())
    {
        if (not isInShop(x, y))
        {
            scrShopkeeperAnger(0);
        }
    }

isInShop is true in any room of the level that's a shop's or a Dice House's, not only the die's own ^[2]. And the anger falls on the nearest Shopkeeper to the die, whoever's he is:

shp = instance_nearest(x, y, oShopkeeper);
if (shp)
{
    if (not shp.dead and not shp.angered)
    {
        shp.status = 2;

On an ordinary level there's one shop, so the two are the Dice House's room and Shopkeeper, unless the die is nearer the Shopkeeper who waits by the exit for a thief or a murderer. The Black Market's Dice House opens on its left into an item shop, and that one onto the way down ^[3]. A die carried into the item shop is still in a shop's room, and carried on out of it, it's nearest that shop's Shopkeeper ^[4].

In any Black Market, pick up the Dice House's die and walk left through the shop beside it and out of it: the market's rooms are always laid out the same way ^[5]. The replay, with seed 9, does it in the market on level 6: the player picks up a die in Tarn's Dice House and carries it left through Wang's Clothing Shop, where nothing happens. Out in the next room, "COME BACK HERE, THIEF!": the Clothing Shop's Shopkeeper runs out after him and knocks him down, and the Dice House's is never angered ^[6].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[4], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins which Shopkeeper is angered. No option turns it off.