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. # Moon Room From the spelunky.ai wiki: . This page describes a secret. The Moon Room is a bonus room of Spelunky Classic, opened by a win in 10:00 or less, where the player shoots flying targets with a bow for 60 seconds. ![A round target, red with a yellow centre, in a dark ring](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/sprites/sHoopsIcon/frames/0%404x.png) | Moon Room | | | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | Part of | [High scores room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/high-scores-room)[^1] | It's the second of the three secret challenges behind the trophies of the [high scores room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/high-scores-room), the ARCHERY CHALLENGE, and the reward for a fast win ([Speedrunning basics](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/speedrunning-basics)). One room, built in the room editor: ledges on the left for the player, a [Bow](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bow) to pick up, and an open hall over a floor of [Spikes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spikes), where three bat-shaped targets fly up and down. It's the only bonus room the player can finish alive: the challenge runs on a 60-second timer. ## Generation ### Getting there A best time of 600 seconds or less, 10:00 on the game's clock, puts a gold trophy second from the top of the high scores room's column of trophies, and a door to the Moon Room under it[^1]. Only a win from level 1, without a [shortcut](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tunnel-man-shortcuts), sets a time ([Scoring](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/scoring#the-high-scores)). Climbing up beside it, the board reads MOON ROOM and the goal, SHOOT THE MOVING TARGETS WITH YOUR BOW AND ARROWS\![^2]. It shows the goal for any win, though, however slow, while the door needs the 10:00 ([The Moon Room's goal for any win](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room-goal-any-win))[^3]. In the clip, with one win at 11:40, the board shows the goal beside a silver trophy with no door[^4]. **Clip: The Moon Room's goal for a slow win.** With one win timed at 11:40, the high scores room has the time's silver trophy but no Moon Room door. The player climbs the ledges beside the trophies: the Changing Room and the Stars Room read LOCKED, but beside the trophy the Moon Room's goal shows as if it were unlocked. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/quirks/moon-room-goal-any-win/clip.mp4)) ### The room The room editor laid out the whole room, a screen wide: the entrance on the highest of the ledges at the left, the Bow beside it, Spikes along the hall's floor and a [Spring Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spring-trap)[^5]. A carved crescent moon hangs on the back wall. As in every bonus room, the bricks around its edge can't be broken[^6], the player has 8 hearts[^7], and his bombs and ropes can't be used outside a level ([Sun Room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sun-room#the-room)). The room gives him 100 arrows, and picking up its Bow adds the 6 a new Bow brings[^8][^9]. ### The challenge **Clip: The archery challenge.** In the Moon Room the player picks up the bow, and ARCHERY CHALLENGE BEGINS IN 3... counts down as three bat-shaped targets fly up and down at the right. The 60-second timer starts, and he shoots an arrow every two seconds: one hits the nearest target for a point, and a new one flies in from the top in its place; six seconds later another arrow hits it for a second point. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/moon-room/archery/clip.mp4)) ARCHERY CHALLENGE BEGINS IN 3... counts down at the bottom of the screen, and as it ends three targets fly in from the top[^10][^11]. They look like Bats, and each flies straight up and down, between 64 and 160 pixels from the top, as fast as it's worth: | Target | Points | Speed | | | ------------------ | ------ | ---------------------------------- | ---------- | | Nearest the player | 1 | 1 pixel per step (30 per second) | [^12][^13] | | Middle | 2 | 2 pixels per step (60 per second) | [^12] | | Furthest | 4 | 4 pixels per step (120 per second) | [^12] | From 100 steps in, the timer at the top counts down from 60, a second every 30 steps[^14][^15][^16]. An arrow that hits a target scores its points, beside the target icon at the top, and the target bleeds and is gone; a new one flies in from above in its place[^17][^18]. Landing on one scores it too, and bounces the player up, as a stomp does; any other touch costs him a heart and knocks him back, at most once every 30 steps[^19]. In the clip, the player picks up the Bow, and from the countdown on looses an arrow every 2 seconds from the ledge: the nearest target falls to the first that hits, for a point, and to the next, 6 seconds later[^20]. ### The last 20 seconds **Clip: The archery challenge's last 20 seconds.** With 20 seconds or less left in the Moon Room, the targets that come back are UFOs, worth 2 more points and faster, and the targets sway as they rise and fall. The player's arrows down a UFO every two seconds, each for 3 points, until the timer runs out at 35 points: FINISHED!, the entrance turns into a door, and he goes through it to the high scores room. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/moon-room/ufos/clip.mp4)) With 20 seconds or less left, each target that comes back is a UFO, worth 2 points more and flying 2 pixels a step faster, and one shot down crashes rather than bleeds[^21][^22]. Every target also sways sideways as it flies below the top of its path, up to 32 pixels to the left, toward the player's ledges[^23]. A shot target's replacement still comes in at its own place, but a stomped one's comes in where the target had swayed to: it isn't at the middle or far target's place, so it's worth what the nearest is, 3 as a UFO, and sways from there[^24][^25][^26]. When the timer runs out, the score is kept as the room's best in the high scores, up to 99; the targets vanish in puffs of smoke, and the entrance becomes a door back to the high scores room[^27]. FINISHED! comes up, then 30 steps later YOU SET A NEW RECORD! if the score beat the room's best, or BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME..., and the music stops[^28][^29]. The door leads out to the high scores room, in front of the Moon Room's door[^30][^31]. A death before then ends the challenge at once, with the same score kept[^32]. In the clip, the player downs a UFO every 2 seconds, 3 points each, until the timer runs out at 35 points; he walks off the ledge onto the new door and goes back to the high scores room[^33][^34]. ## Hazards | Hazard | | | | --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----- | | [Spikes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spikes) | Along the hall's floor, below the targets | [^5] | | [Spring Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spring-trap) | One | [^5] | | The targets | A touch costs a heart, unless the player lands on them | [^35] | ## Trivia - The room was a basketball game first. Its score is `baskets`, the icon beside it is `sHoopsIcon`, and its code still has the lines that made a basket and its rim, commented out[^36]. The basketball itself is in the game, scoring 1 for a dunk, 2 for a shot and 3 off a wall, but nothing makes it[^37][^38]. - An older target is in the code as well, a bullseye that scores 1 to 5 by how near its middle an arrow hits and sways when 30 seconds are left. Nothing makes it, though the arrow's code still keeps arrows from flying through it[^39][^40][^41]. ## FAQ ### How do you unlock the Moon Room in Spelunky Classic? Win a game in 10:00 or less on the game's clock, from level 1 without a shortcut. The [high scores room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/high-scores-room) then has a gold trophy for the time, and a door beside it into the Moon Room. ### What do you do in the Moon Room in Spelunky Classic? Shoot the targets flying up and down the room with the [Bow](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bow) for 60 seconds. Each target is worth 1, 2 or 4 points, and 2 more in the last 20 seconds, when they come back as UFOs. ### How many arrows do you get in the Moon Room in Spelunky Classic? 106: the room gives the player 100, and picking up its Bow adds the Bow's own 6. ### Why does the high scores room show the Moon Room's goal when its door is locked? That's [a quirk](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room-goal-any-win): the board tests the best time against 600,000, a number of milliseconds, while the time is kept in seconds, so any win shows the goal. The door itself needs 600 seconds or less. ## See also - **Related:** [Sun Room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sun-room), [Stars Room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/stars-room), [Scoring](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/scoring), [Bow](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bow), [The Moon Room's goal for any win](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room-goal-any-win), [Speedrunning basics](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/speedrunning-basics) - **Found here:** [Block](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/block), [Bow](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bow), [Door](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/door), [Spelunker](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spelunker), [Spikes](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spikes), [Spring Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spring-trap) ## References [^1]: [`objects/oHighscores/create.gml:50-66`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oHighscores/create#L50-L66) [^2]: [`objects/oHighscores/draw.gml:41-66`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oHighscores/draw#L41-L66) [^3]: [“The Moon Room's goal shows for any winning time.”](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room-goal-any-win), [docs/quirks.md §1](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/441458fcee127d2a4bff9d1cb9b930574f50004a/docs/quirks.md?plain=1#L78) [^4]: Clip [quirks/moon-room-goal-any-win](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room#clip-quirks-moon-room-goal-any-win) [^5]: Room [`rMoon`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/rooms/rMoon), as the room editor placed it [^6]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/create.gml:11-18`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/create#L11-L18) [^7]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/create.gml:1`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/create#L1) [^8]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/create.gml:9`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/create#L9) [^9]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1216-1220`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L1216-L1220) [^10]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/draw.gml:10-18`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/draw#L10-L18) [^11]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_3.gml:1-12`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_3#L1-L12) [^12]: [`objects/oBatTarget/create.gml:5-7`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/create#L5-L7) [^13]: [`objects/oBatTarget/step.gml:1-16`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/step#L1-L16) [^14]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/create.gml:4-6`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/create#L4-L6) [^15]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_0.gml:19`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_0#L19) [^16]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_11.gml:1-28`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_11#L1-L28) [^17]: [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow.gml:1-11`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow#L1-L11) [^18]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/draw.gml:5-6`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/draw#L5-L6) [^19]: [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter.gml:1-30`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter#L1-L30) [^20]: Clip [moon-room/archery](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room#clip-moon-room-archery) [^21]: [`objects/oBatTarget/create.gml:10-14`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/create#L10-L14) [^22]: [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow.gml:9-10`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow#L9-L10) [^23]: [`objects/oBatTarget/step.gml:18-22`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/step#L18-L22) [^24]: [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow.gml:7`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow#L7) [^25]: [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter.gml:13`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter#L13) [^26]: [`objects/oBatTarget/create.gml:5-14`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/create#L5-L14) [^27]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_11.gml:2-26`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_11#L2-L26) [^28]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_10.gml:1-9`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_10#L1-L9) [^29]: [`objects/oGame/draw.gml:76-98`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oGame/draw#L76-L98) [^30]: [`objects/oPlayer1/other_animation_end.gml:96-109`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/other_animation_end#L96-L109) [^31]: [`objects/oHighscores/create.gml:109-113`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oHighscores/create#L109-L113) [^32]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1903-1908`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L1903-L1908) [^33]: Clip [moon-room/ufos](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room#clip-moon-room-ufos) [^34]: Replay [`fidelity/replays/bonus-moon-archery.txt`](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/441458fcee127d2a4bff9d1cb9b930574f50004a/fidelity/replays/bonus-moon-archery.txt), which the clips [The archery challenge](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room#clip-moon-room-archery) and [The archery challenge's last 20 seconds](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/moon-room#clip-moon-room-ufos) play [^35]: [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter.gml:18-30`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter#L18-L30) [^36]: [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_0.gml:1-17`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_0#L1-L17) [^37]: [`objects/oBasketball/step.gml:31-55`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBasketball/step#L31-L55) [^38]: [“oJordans, oRopeBag, oBasketball and oFireFrogArmed are unreachable”](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/441458fcee127d2a4bff9d1cb9b930574f50004a/docs/quirks.md?plain=1#L76), [docs/quirks.md §1](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/441458fcee127d2a4bff9d1cb9b930574f50004a/docs/quirks.md#1-bugs-and-leftovers-in-the-11-source) [^39]: [`objects/oTarget/collision_oArrow.gml:1-22`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTarget/collision_oArrow#L1-L22) [^40]: [`objects/oTarget/step.gml:35-39`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTarget/step#L35-L39) [^41]: [`objects/oArrow/step.gml:24-37`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oArrow/step#L24-L37) ### Source code - [`objects/oMoonRoom/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/create) - [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_0.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_0) - [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_3.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_3) - [`objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_11.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/alarm_11) - [`objects/oMoonRoom/draw.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMoonRoom/draw) - [`objects/oBatTarget/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/create) - [`objects/oBatTarget/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/step) - [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oArrow) - [`objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oBatTarget/collision_oCharacter) - [`objects/oHighscores/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oHighscores/create)