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. # Fire Frog 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. *For the ordinary frog, see [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog).* The Fire Frog is a rare monster of the Jungle in Spelunky Classic that leaps at the player like a Frog and explodes like a bomb four seconds after it dies. ![An orange and red frog wreathed in flickering flames](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/1f61a00df79ad623/sprites/sFireFrogLeft/anim%404x.png) | Fire Frog | | | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | Health | 1 hit point[^1] | | Damage | 1 heart[^2] | | Speed | 3 pixels per step[^3] | | Behaviour | Leaps at a nearby player; explodes after death[^4] | | Objects | `oFireFrog`, `oFireFrogBomb` | | Found in | The Jungle | | Drops | [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog) | | Dropped by | [Olmec](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/olmec) | Fire Frogs are rare: level generation puts one on a block in the Jungle a quarter as often as a [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog). A Fire Frog moves exactly as a Frog does, leaping at the player once he's within 64 pixels, and it dies to one hit, but whatever kills it leaves its burning body behind, which explodes 4 seconds later. On a dark level, a Fire Frog lights the ground around it. ## Behaviour A Fire Frog's step event is a Frog's line for line, with only its sprites and what happens when it dies changed[^5][^6]. It sits still until the player is within 64 pixels of it, then croaks and jumps at him, up at 2–4 pixels per step and across at 3 pixels per step (90 per second), and after each landing it rests for 10–40 steps (0.33–1.33 seconds) before it jumps again[^7]. The [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog)'s page describes the jumps in full. **Clip: Fire frog in water.** A fire frog leaps at the player as he swims in a pool, falls into the water and turns into an ordinary frog. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/1f61a00df79ad623/clips/fire-frog/water/clip.mp4)) A Fire Frog that ends up in water turns into an ordinary Frog, in the same state it was in: the code most monsters share replaces it with one as soon as its middle is in water[^8]. The clip shows a Fire Frog leaping at the player across a pool, falling in and coming out a Frog. On a dark level, the game lights a circle of 32 pixels around each Fire Frog, as it does around a lit trap or a torch[^9]. A Fire Frog only acts while it's on screen or just off it[^10]. ## Damage When the player touches a Fire Frog without stomping it, he loses 1 heart, is knocked away from it, and blinks, invincible, for 30 steps (1 second), as with most monsters[^11]. Touching it doesn't burn him. Its body is what's dangerous. Whatever kills a Fire Frog leaves a burning body where it was, which falls and bounces like a thrown item and explodes 120 steps (4 seconds) later[^4][^12][^13]. The explosion is a Bomb's: it destroys the blocks around it, hurts the monsters near it, and takes 10 of the player's hearts if he's caught in it[^14]. **Clip: Fire frog explodes.** The player whips a fire frog as it leaps at him. Its burning body falls to the ground and explodes four seconds later. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/1f61a00df79ad623/clips/fire-frog/explode/clip.mp4)) The clip shows the player whipping a Fire Frog as it leaps at him and backing away from its burning body, which explodes four seconds later and blows a hole in the floor. ## Defeating A Fire Frog has 1 hit point, so any damage kills it, and every way of killing it leaves the exploding body[^4]: | Way | Damage | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | | Whip | 1 hit point | [^15] | | Machete | 2 hit points | [^15] | | Stomp (landing on it), except while the player is swimming | 1, plus 1 for every 16 steps of falling; three times that with Spike Shoes | [^16] | | A thrown item moving faster than 2 pixels per step, such as a Rock | 1 | [^17] | | A Shotgun or Pistol bullet | 4 hit points | [^18] | | A Bomb's explosion | 30 hit points | [^19] | | A Spear Trap's spears | 2 | [^20] | | Falling onto Spikes | Kills it | [^21] | | Standing in Lava | Kills it | [^22] | | Ending up inside solid ground | Kills it | [^23] | Only two things get rid of a Fire Frog without an explosion: water, which turns it into a Frog, and lava over its head, which removes it outright[^24][^25]. Fire Frogs killed count toward the player's kills, and the screen between levels draws a Fire Frog icon for each[^26][^27]. One that Spikes, Lava or a Spear Trap killed doesn't count[^28][^29][^30]. ## Locations Level generation makes Fire Frogs only in the Jungle, on top of blocks with open space above them, outside the starting room and shops, and not on a graveyard level[^31]: - **On land**, a 1 in 120 chance for each such block, once the rolls for a [Mantrap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mantrap) and a [Caveman](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/caveman) have failed[^32]. - **Under water**, where the block has water above it, the same 1 in 120 chance[^33]. A Fire Frog made there is in water, so it turns into an ordinary Frog once it's near the screen[^8]. Fire Frogs also come from: - **[Olmec](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/olmec)'s yellow balls**, which turn into a [Bat](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bat), [Spider](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spider), [Snake](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/snake), Frog or Fire Frog when they hit the ground[^34]. - **Custom levels**, as the level editor's tile `F`[^35]. ## Tips - A Fire Frog's body explodes 4 seconds after any death, so killing one with the Whip or a stomp leaves the player beside a bomb. - Killing one from a distance, with a thrown item or a bullet, keeps the explosion away from the player. - A Fire Frog lured into water becomes a Frog, which leaves no explosion when it dies. ## Trivia - The game has a second, older fire frog's body, `oFireFrogArmed`, with the same name and sprite but no fuse, which nothing in the game ever creates[^36]. - The code most monsters share checks for a Fire Frog by its name to turn it into a Frog in water; no other monster has a check like it[^37]. ## FAQ ### How much damage does a Fire Frog do in Spelunky Classic? 1 heart per touch, like a [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog). The danger is its death: its body explodes 120 steps (4 seconds) after it dies, like a Bomb does, taking 10 of the player's hearts if he's caught in it. ### How do you kill a Fire Frog safely in Spelunky Classic? Kill it from a distance and get away from its body, which explodes 4 seconds later. A thrown item, a bullet or a Whip hit kills it; a Fire Frog that falls into water turns into an ordinary Frog, which doesn't explode. ### Where do you find Fire Frogs in Spelunky Classic? In the Jungle, where level generation puts one on a block with a 1 in 120 chance. One of [Olmec](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/olmec)'s yellow balls can also turn into a Fire Frog. ### Why did a Fire Frog turn into a normal Frog in Spelunky Classic? It went into water. The code most monsters share turns a Fire Frog that's in water into an ordinary [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog), which doesn't explode when it dies. ## See also - **Damaged by:** Whip, Machete, Spikes, Stomping[^16], Throwing[^17], Shotgun[^18], Pistol[^18], Bomb[^19], Spear Trap[^20], Lava[^38] - **Related:** [Frog](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/frog) ## References [^1]: `objects/oFireFrog/create.gml:15` [^2]: `objects/oEnemy/collision_oCharacter.gml:25` [^3]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:66` [^4]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:13-23` [^5]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:1-93` [^6]: `objects/oFrog/step.gml:1-93` [^7]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:38-78` [^8]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:34-50` [^9]: `objects/oScreen/step_begin.gml:207-210` [^10]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:3-4` [^11]: `objects/oEnemy/collision_oCharacter.gml:14-25` [^12]: `objects/oFireFrogBomb/create.gml:1-9` [^13]: `objects/oFireFrogBomb/alarm_1.gml:1-12` [^14]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1614-1616` [^15]: `objects/oEnemy/collision_oWhip.gml:1` [^16]: `objects/oEnemy/collision_oCharacter.gml:6-10` [^17]: `objects/oItem/step.gml:256-348` [^18]: `objects/oBullet/collision_oEnemy.gml:16` [^19]: `objects/oExplosion/collision_oEnemy.gml:14` [^20]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:76-106` [^21]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:108-128` [^22]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:65-74` [^23]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:11` [^24]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:44-49` [^25]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:63` [^26]: `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml:15-20` [^27]: `objects/oTransition/alarm_0.gml:179-184` [^28]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:68` [^29]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:101` [^30]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:120` [^31]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:262-296` [^32]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:285-291` [^33]: `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:294` [^34]: `objects/oYellowBall/step.gml:4-19` [^35]: `scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:160-163` [^36]: `objects/oFireFrogArmed/create.gml:3` [^37]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:44` [^38]: `objects/oEnemy/step.gml:63-74` ### Source code - `objects/oFireFrog/create.gml` - `objects/oFireFrog/step.gml` - `objects/oFireFrogBomb/create.gml` - `objects/oFireFrogBomb/alarm_1.gml` - `objects/oEnemy/step.gml` - `objects/oEnemy/collision_oCharacter.gml` - `scripts/scrEntityGen.gml` - `objects/oYellowBall/step.gml`