The Jungle

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.10 on 28 October 2026.

The Jungle's levels are built from earth rather than brick, with ruins of temple stone, pools of water, vines to climb and trees. Mantraps and Cavemen patrol the ground, and the area's traps are Spear Traps. It holds more special levels than any other area: the Black Market, flooded levels and graveyard levels.

The Jungle is levels 5 to 8 ^[1]. Taking level 4's exit leads to the screen between levels, where the Tunnel Man may wait, and from it to level 5 ^{[2] [3]}. In the first clip, the player takes level 4's exit, gives the Tunnel Man money for a shortcut, and level 5 loads ^[4].

Once the first shortcut is paid for, the title screen has a ladder up to a door that starts a game on level 5 ^{[5] [6]}. The second clip shows it: the player climbs the ladder, passes the shortcut doors, and enters the level 5 door ^[7].

A level is laid out as the Mines' are, four rooms by four on a path from the top row to the bottom, but from the Jungle's own layouts ^[8]. Its blocks are earth, with temple stone in some layouts ^[9], and generation makes no arrow traps there ^[10]. Layouts add pools of water (the tiles at their edges as likely earth), vines, Spikes and trees, a trunk several blocks tall with branches and leaves ^{[11] [12]}. Two side rooms in three get a side room's layout, and one of those may be ^[13]:

A level may be a special level instead, each with its own message as it starts:

A flooded level can also be a graveyard or a dark one: the rolls are separate.

Level generation goes over every block outside the shops ^[27]:

As in the Mines, the monsters on top of blocks keep out of the entrance's room, and the hanging ones need two open tiles below. On a graveyard level, the ground's monsters are Zombies (1 in 25) and Vampires (1 in 160) instead, and the water holds Dead Fish in place of Piranhas ^{[38] [39]}. A flooded level's lake holds the Megamouth ^[40]. The Ghost comes to a level the player stays on too long, as in every area.

• Spear Traps. One block in twelve on the surface of the ground (with two open tiles above it, open ground on at least one side and solid ground under it, more than 64 pixels from the entrance, outside a few fixed columns) becomes a Spear Trap, two blocks tall ^[41]. On a dark level, a tiki torch takes one block in twenty of those first ^[42].
• Spikes line some layouts' floors, and come with others one tile in three ^[43].
• Water, where Piranhas swim.
• The idol room's trap blocks crumble when the Golden Idol is lifted.

Shops come as in the Mines: a level's chance is 2 in its number (2 in 5 on level 5 down to 1 in 4 on level 8), in a side room beside the path, of the same seven kinds ^{[44] [45]}. But once the Black Market has been made, no level has a shop for the rest of the game: the roll for one requires that it hasn't ^{[46] [21] [22]}.

Treasure is scattered as in the Mines, with more bones on a graveyard level, whose graves hold gold and gems ^{[47] [48]}. The earth hides more gems than the Mines' bricks: 1 in 80 blocks holds a big sapphire, and rarer ones a big emerald, a big ruby or an item ^[49].

• The Black Market, behind a hidden door on one of levels 5 to 7.
• Kali's altars.
• The Crystal Skull, on a graveyard level.
• Shortcuts. In the screen after level 8, the Tunnel Man may ask for money toward the next shortcut ^[50].

• The room script's header calls the area "the Lush Jungle" ^[51].
• Two of its side room layouts are the same string, so that layout comes up twice as often as the others ^{[52] [21]}.
• A commented-out line would have hung Spiders under the Jungle's blocks too, 1 in 40 ^[53].