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. # Jetpack 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 Jetpack is an equipment item in Spelunky Classic that lets the player fly up by holding jump in mid-air; shops sell it from $20,000. ![A blue jetpack with two rounded tanks](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/sprites/sJetpackRight/frames/0%404x.png) | Jetpack | | | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Kind | Equipment | | Effect | Hold jump in the air to fly up[^1] | | Price | $20,000[^2] | | Object | `oJetpack` | | Sold in | Rare Shop, Dice House | | Found in | The Mines, The Jungle, The Ice Caves, The Temple, Olmec's Lair, Mothership | | Dropped by | [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) | Wearing it, the player can fly: holding jump in mid-air lifts him for as long as its fuel lasts, and landing fills it again. Rare Shops and the Dice House offer it; it's rare in [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) and blocks, and one waits in the mothership. It's worn from the moment it's picked up or paid for until the game ends, unless a [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) takes its place. ## Effect **Clip: Jetpack flight.** The player runs out of a shop with a jetpack he hasn't paid for, which puts it on. Holding jump in the air, he flies across a gap and up a shaft until the jetpack's fuel runs out at the ceiling, then falls onto a ledge. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/clips/jetpack/fly/clip.mp4)) Picking up a free jetpack, paying for one or carrying one out of a shop puts it on: the message "YOU GOT A JETPACK!" shows, the jetpack disappears, and an icon of it joins the row under the hearts[^3][^4]. From then on it's drawn on the player's back[^5]. It stays on until a new game starts, which clears it[^6][^7]. Whenever the player stands on the ground, its fuel is set to 50 steps[^8]. In the air, as long as the player didn't leave the ground with the key still held (walking off a ledge counts as letting go; after a jump, it has to be let go of once), holding jump with fuel left fires it: each step it sets him moving up at 1 pixel a step, adds a jump's push, takes away gravity and burns one step of fuel[^9][^10][^1]. Every 3 steps of thrust it throws out a spark and plays its sound[^11]. In play, that's a climb of 3 pixels a step (90 per second) while jump is held, and a full tank lasts 1.67 seconds: in the clip, the player leaves a shop with it, lands once (refuelling), jumps, lets go of jump and holds it again, and the jetpack carries him over a gap and up a shaft at 3 pixels a step to the ceiling, where its fuel runs out 50 steps later; he falls onto a ledge, and landing fills it again[^12]. Letting go of jump stops the thrust, and pressing it again in the air restarts it while fuel is left. ## Obtaining | Source | Chance | | | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | | Rare Shop | Each of its wares is one of its eleven items or a Bomb Box | [^13] | | The Dice House's prize | 1 in 40, the set's first roll | [^14] | | A [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) | 1 in 500, a Crate's first roll | [^15] | | Buried in a block | 1 in 19 of the items buried in blocks | [^16] | | The mothership | One in its last room, inside a block beside the [Alien Boss](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/alien-boss) | [^17] | | Kali's first gift | Only once the player has all eight pieces of equipment it picks from, and no Jetpack | [^18] | A shop stocks one only if the level hasn't got one already[^19], even for a player who wears one[^20], and it adds 10% of the base price for each level past the second[^21]. Shops are made from level 2 on[^22], and level 16, Olmec's Lair, has none: | Area | 1st level | 2nd level | 3rd level | 4th level | | ------------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | | The Mines | — | $20,000 | $22,000 | $24,000 | | The Jungle | $26,000 | $28,000 | $30,000 | $32,000 | | The Ice Caves | $34,000 | $36,000 | $38,000 | $40,000 | | The Temple | $42,000 | $44,000 | $46,000 | — | 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[^23][^24]. 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[^25][^16]. The mothership's last room, the Alien Boss's, has a free jetpack set inside one of its blocks[^26]. 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 he hasn't got, the [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) among them; when he has them all, it's a Jetpack, or a Bomb Box if he wears one already[^27]. In custom levels, it's the level editor's tile `J`[^28]. 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 jetpack leaves the shop first[^20]. In the clip, the player jumps out of the shop at 6 pixels a step, ahead of the jetpack he holds out in front of him, and it goes on at once[^29]. ## Interactions - The Jetpack and the [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) are never worn together. Putting on the Jetpack while wearing the Cape drops the Cape at the player's feet, free to pick up again; putting on a Cape drops the Jetpack the same way[^30][^31]. - The fuel only refills standing, running, crouching or looking up on the ground: hanging from a ledge or climbing a [rope](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/rope) or ladder doesn't refill it, and the jetpack can't fire from either[^8][^32]. ## Tips - At 3 pixels a step for 50 steps, a full tank lifts the player about 150 pixels, nine blocks; a taller shaft needs somewhere to land and refuel on the way. ## Trivia - On level 2, a shop calls it "JETPACK FOR $20000." Past level 2, the message is rebuilt with the new price, and as the Jetpack has no shop name of its own it reads "A JETPACK FOR $22000."[^33][^34][^20] - A jetpack lying in the level destroys itself while the player is invisible, which he is once he's been crushed, once his hearts have fallen below -99, or once a [Mantrap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mantrap) or the [Ghost](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ghost) has taken him[^35][^36][^20]. It's the same check as the worn Cape's, which removes the Cape drawn on the player's back[^37]. So when he dies that way, any jetpack nearby vanishes behind the game-over screen[^38]. With the [Ankh](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ankh) it never happens: the revival makes him visible again before any jetpack checks[^20]. ## FAQ ### How do you use the Jetpack in Spelunky Classic? By holding jump in mid-air, once the key has been let go of since leaving the ground: after a jump, let go and press it again, or press it after walking off a ledge. The player rises 3 pixels a step for as long as it's held and the fuel lasts. ### How long does the Jetpack's fuel last in Spelunky Classic? 50 steps, a step of thrust each: 1.67 seconds of flight. It fills up again whenever the player stands on the ground. ### Can you have the Jetpack and the Cape at the same time in Spelunky Classic? No. Both go on the back, so putting on the Jetpack drops a worn [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) at the player's feet, and putting on a Cape drops the Jetpack. ### Where do you find the Jetpack in Spelunky Classic? In Rare Shops and as the Dice House's prize. Free ones come out of [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) (a 1 in 500 roll, the first of a Crate's) and out of blocks that hide them; one sits in a block beside the [Alien Boss](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/alien-boss) in the mothership, and Kali gives one as her first gift when the player has everything else she could. ## See also - **Related:** [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) ## References [^1]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:325-337` [^2]: `objects/oJetpack/create.gml:7` [^3]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:223-232` [^4]: `scripts/scrDrawHUD.gml:155-159` [^5]: `scripts/characterDrawEvent.gml:11-19` [^6]: `scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml:97` [^7]: `objects/oTransition/create.gml:20-24` [^8]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:215-218` [^9]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:257-264` [^10]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:284-292` [^11]: `objects/oPlayer1/alarm_10.gml:1-4` [^12]: Clip jetpack/fly [^13]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:102-155` [^14]: `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml:47-49` [^15]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:617` [^16]: `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml:63-89` [^17]: `scripts/scrRoomGen3.gml:472-478` [^18]: `scripts/scrGetFavorMsg.gml:85-104` [^19]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:125-128` [^20]: Quirk 1 (docs/quirks.md) [^21]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:179-191` [^22]: `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:240` [^23]: `scripts/scrRoomGen.gml:392-397` [^24]: `objects/oShopkeeper/step.gml:173-200` [^25]: `objects/oBrick/create.gml:7-16` [^26]: `scripts/scrRoomGen3.gml:175-180` [^27]: `scripts/scrGetFavorMsg.gml:85-108` [^28]: `scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:411-416` [^29]: Replay `fidelity/replays/item-seed-35-jetpack.txt` [^30]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:214-221` [^31]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:233-241` [^32]: `scripts/platformCharacterIs.gml:15-20` [^33]: `objects/oJetpack/create.gml:7-8` [^34]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:187-188` [^35]: `objects/oJetpack/step.gml:3-4` [^36]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1484-1511` [^37]: `objects/oCape/step.gml:49-50` [^38]: Replay `fidelity/replays/item-jetpack-player-invisible.txt` ### Source code - `objects/oJetpack/create.gml` - `objects/oJetpack/step.gml` - `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml` - `objects/oPlayer1/alarm_10.gml` - `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml` - `scripts/characterDrawEvent.gml` - `scripts/scrStealItem.gml` - `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml` - `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml`