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. # Lamp From the spelunky.ai wiki: . The Lamp is a carryable item in Spelunky Classic, a hanging lamp brought down by breaking its block, that lights the dark 96 pixels around it. ![A black iron lantern, its four small panes glowing orange](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/sprites/sLampItem/anim%404x.png) | Lamp | | | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Kind | Carryable | | Effect | Lights the dark; heavy[^1] | | Damage | 1 hit point[^2][^3][^4][^5][^6][^7] | | Objects | `oLampItem`, `oLampRedItem`, `oLamp`, `oLampRed` | | Found in | [The Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines), [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle), [The Ice Caves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ice-caves), [The Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple), [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market), [Yeti lair](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/yeti-lair), [Dark level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/dark-level) | Every shop has a lamp hanging from its ceiling, and a [dark level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/dark-level) in the [Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines) hangs more of them under its blocks. Hanging, a lamp is part of the scenery; when the block it hangs from is destroyed, it falls as a Lamp, a heavy item the player can carry and throw. On a dark level, carried or not, a plain Lamp lights the cave around it, as a [Flare](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/flare) does. The [Kissing Parlor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/kissing-parlor)'s lamp is red, and falls as a red Lamp, which, unlike the plain one, lights nothing once it's down. ## Usage **Clip: A shop's lamp brought down.** In a Weapon shop whose shopkeeper is dead, the player throws a lit bomb up toward the lamp. It goes off under the ceiling and breaks the block the lamp hangs from, and the lamp falls to the floor, a Lamp he can carry. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/lamp/fall/clip.mp4)) ### Bringing it down A hanging lamp isn't an item: it can't be picked up, and it flickers where it hangs[^8]. When the block above it is destroyed, the block's last act is to replace it with a Lamp, red if the hanging lamp was, which then falls[^9]. Not when that block is a stone [block](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/block), or another block whose destroy event is its own (ice, a trap's): that doesn't run this code, so the lamp stays hanging in the air[^10][^11]. A shop's lamp hangs from the shop's ceiling, out of reach of a [Bomb](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bomb) on the floor[^12], and a lit bomb in a shop within 96 pixels of the [Shopkeeper](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/shopkeeper) angers him[^13][^14]. In the clip, in a Weapon shop whose shopkeeper is dead, the player throws a lit bomb up toward the lamp; it goes off under the ceiling, the block the lamp hangs from breaks, and the lamp drops to the floor[^15]. ### Carrying it A Lamp is picked up and thrown as any item is ([Throwing](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/throwing)), but it's heavy, like a [Golden Idol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/golden-idol): the player carries it in front of him at his own height, and throws it at 4 pixels a step plus his own speed, rising at 2, or at 4 upward[^16][^17][^18]. He sets it down when he takes an exit, so it stays on its level[^19]. Thrown faster than 2 pixels a step into a monster, it takes 1 hit point from the monster nearest it, as any thrown item does[^20]. ### Light On a lit level a Lamp gives no light: there's no darkness for it to cut. On a [dark level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/dark-level): | Lamp | Its own light | The player's light | | | ------------------------------ | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---------- | | Hanging, plain or red | Within 96 pixels of it | Widens as he nears it, within 200 pixels | [^21][^22] | | A plain Lamp, carried or lying | Within 96 pixels of it | Widens as he nears it, within 200 pixels | [^1][^23] | | A red Lamp, carried or lying | None | Unchanged | [^24][^25] | While the player is within 96 pixels of a red lamp, hanging or down, every light on the screen is tinted red[^26]. The hanging red lamp is a kind of the plain one in the game's objects, so the code that lights the hanging lamps lights it too; the red Lamp isn't a kind of the plain Lamp, and the code that lights a Lamp's circle and widens the player's light names only the plain one[^1][^23]. So a red Lamp carried through a dark level lights nothing but its tint ([The red Lamp gives no light](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/red-lamp-no-light))[^27]. ## Locations | Lamp | Where | | | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | | Plain, hanging | In every shop, from the ceiling, in [the Mines](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mines), [the Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle), [the Ice Caves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ice-caves) (and the [Yeti lair](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/yeti-lair)) and [the Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple), and in each of the [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market)'s shops | [^28][^29][^30][^31][^32][^33] | | Red, hanging | In the [Kissing Parlor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/kissing-parlor), in place of the plain one: the Temple's has its own red lamp tile, and the other areas' room scripts hang the red lamp on a level whose shop is the Kissing Parlor | [^34][^35][^36][^37][^38][^39][^40] | | Plain, hanging | On a [dark level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/dark-level) in the Mines: 1 in 60 under a block with two open tiles below, once the [Giant Spider](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/giant-spider)'s roll fails | [^41][^42] | The Lamp itself, the item, only ever comes from a hanging lamp's block: [level generation](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/level-generation) makes none, and the [level editor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/level-editor) has no tile for either. In the second clip, the player throws a lit bomb up under the Kissing Parlor's ceiling, and its red lamp falls into the crater below, a red Lamp[^43][^44]. **Clip: The red lamp brought down.** In a Kissing Parlor, its shopkeeper dead, the player jumps and throws a lit bomb up under the ceiling. The blast breaks the block the shop's red lamp hangs from, and the lamp falls into the crater below, a red Lamp he can carry. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/lamp/red/clip.mp4)) ## Interactions - **[Bombs](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bomb).** An explosion breaks the block a lamp hangs from, which brings it down, and throws a Lamp away from it without breaking it[^45][^46]. - **[Lava](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lava).** A Lamp that touches lava stops and sinks, and is destroyed once it's under the surface[^47]. - **Water** does nothing to a Lamp: the check that puts a Flare out is in the Flare's own code, and the Lamp has none[^48]. ## Tips - A plain Lamp is a light that water can't put out and that never runs out, but it can't leave its level: on a dark level, it's for lighting the way to the exit. - A red Lamp is no use as a light: down, it lights nothing. ## Trivia - The Lamp's create event is the [Golden Idol](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/golden-idol)'s, its name and value changed: it's heavy, carried at the player's height as the idol is, and keeps a value, $1,000, and the idol's trigger, which only the idol's code reads, so picking a Lamp up sets off no trap, and an exit takes it from his hands rather than paying for it[^16][^49][^50][^51]. - The red Lamp's create event is the same as the plain one's, name and all: both are "Lamp"[^52]. ## FAQ ### How do you get a Lamp in Spelunky Classic? By breaking the block a lamp hangs from. Every shop has a lamp hanging from its ceiling, and a [dark level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/dark-level) in the Mines hangs more under its blocks; the block's destruction brings the lamp down as a Lamp the player can carry. ### What does a Lamp do in Spelunky Classic? It lights the dark. On a dark level, a plain Lamp lights 96 pixels around it, carried or lying on the ground, and widens the player's own light as he nears it. On a lit level it does nothing but be carried and thrown. ### Does the red Lamp light the dark in Spelunky Classic? No. Hanging in the [Kissing Parlor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/kissing-parlor), the red lamp lights its circle as any lamp does, but once it's down, the code lights circles for the plain Lamp only: the red one only tints the light near it red. ### Can you take a Lamp to the next level in Spelunky Classic? No. A Lamp is heavy, and the player sets a heavy item down when he takes an exit, so it stays on its level. ## See also - **Related:** [Dark level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/dark-level), [Flare](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/flare), [Kissing Parlor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/kissing-parlor), [General Store](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/general-store), [Throwing](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/throwing), [The red Lamp gives no light](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/red-lamp-no-light), [Tiki Torch](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tiki-torch) - **Damages:** [Damsel](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/damsel) ## References [^1]: [`objects/oScreen/step_begin.gml:191-194`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oScreen/step_begin#L191-L194) [^2]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:282`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L282) [^3]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:294`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L294) [^4]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:305`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L305) [^5]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:315`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L315) [^6]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:325`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L325) [^7]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:344`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L344) [^8]: [`objects/oLamp/create.gml:1`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLamp/create#L1) [^9]: [`objects/oSolid/destroy.gml:24-33`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oSolid/destroy#L24-L33) [^10]: [“Most blocks but an area's plain rock skip what breaking a block does.”](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/docs/quirks.md?plain=1#L86), [docs/quirks.md §1](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/docs/quirks.md#1-bugs-and-leftovers-in-the-11-source) [^11]: Replay [`fidelity/replays/terrain-stone-block-lamp.txt`](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/fidelity/replays/terrain-stone-block-lamp.txt) [^12]: [“A lamp item comes only from the block a hanging lamp hangs from.”](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/docs/quirks.md?plain=1#L81), [docs/quirks.md §1](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/docs/quirks.md#1-bugs-and-leftovers-in-the-11-source) [^13]: [`objects/oBomb/step.gml:6-17`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBomb/step#L6-L17) [^14]: [“A lit bomb in a shop angers every active Shopkeeper”](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bomb-angers-every-shopkeeper), [docs/quirks.md §1](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/docs/quirks.md?plain=1#L202) [^15]: Clip [lamp/fall](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lamp#clip-lamp-fall) [^16]: [`objects/oLampItem/create.gml:3-8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLampItem/create#L3-L8) [^17]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:44-50`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L44-L50) [^18]: [`scripts/scrUseItem.gml:609-635`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrUseItem#L609-L635) [^19]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:815-820`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L815-L820) [^20]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:256-350`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L256-L350) [^21]: [`objects/oScreen/step_begin.gml:187-190`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oScreen/step_begin#L187-L190) [^22]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:89-94`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L89-L94) [^23]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:95-100`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L95-L100) [^24]: [`objects/oScreen/step_begin.gml:167-194`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oScreen/step_begin#L167-L194) [^25]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:73-136`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L73-L136) [^26]: [`objects/oScreen/step_begin.gml:156-177`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oScreen/step_begin#L156-L177) [^27]: [“A fallen red lamp lights nothing on a dark level.”](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/red-lamp-no-light), [docs/quirks.md §1](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/docs/quirks.md?plain=1#L82) [^28]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen.gml:427-431`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen#L427-L431) [^29]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen2.gml:442-446`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen2#L442-L446) [^30]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen3.gml:369-373`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen3#L369-L373) [^31]: [`scripts/scrRoomGenYeti.gml:388-392`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGenYeti#L388-L392) [^32]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:468-471`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen4#L468-L471) [^33]: [`scripts/scrRoomGenMarket.gml:338-341`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGenMarket#L338-L341) [^34]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen.gml:186`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen#L186) [^35]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen.gml:429`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen#L429) [^36]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen2.gml:444`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen2#L444) [^37]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen3.gml:371`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen3#L371) [^38]: [`scripts/scrRoomGenYeti.gml:390`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGenYeti#L390) [^39]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:169`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen4#L169) [^40]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:472-475`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen4#L472-L475) [^41]: [`scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:52-61`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrEntityGen#L52-L61) [^42]: Replay [`fidelity/replays/item-seed-2-lamp-dark.txt`](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/fidelity/replays/item-seed-2-lamp-dark.txt) [^43]: Clip [lamp/red](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lamp#clip-lamp-red) [^44]: Replay [`fidelity/replays/item-seed-22-red-lamp.txt`](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/208933dd4d491fb2cf366575137b625a61e6e378/fidelity/replays/item-seed-22-red-lamp.txt), which the clip [The red lamp brought down](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/lamp#clip-lamp-red) plays [^45]: [`objects/oExplosion/collision_oSolid.gml:1-14`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oExplosion/collision_oSolid#L1-L14) [^46]: [`objects/oExplosion/collision_oItem.gml:30-36`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oExplosion/collision_oItem#L30-L36) [^47]: [`objects/oItem/step.gml:160-185`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step#L160-L185) [^48]: [`objects/oFlare/step.gml:6-20`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oFlare/step#L6-L20) [^49]: [`objects/oGoldIdol/create.gml:3-8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oGoldIdol/create#L3-L8) [^50]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:771-781`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L771-L781) [^51]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1222`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L1222) [^52]: [`objects/oLampRedItem/create.gml:3-8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLampRedItem/create#L3-L8) ### Source code - [`objects/oLamp/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLamp/create) - [`objects/oLampItem/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLampItem/create) - [`objects/oLampRedItem/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLampRedItem/create) - [`objects/oSolid/destroy.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oSolid/destroy) - [`objects/oScreen/step_begin.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oScreen/step_begin) - [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step) - [`objects/oItem/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oItem/step) - [`scripts/scrRoomGen.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen) - [`scripts/scrEntityGen.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrEntityGen)