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. # No shops after the Black Market From the spelunky.ai wiki: . Verified against the spelunky.ai port [v0.1.13](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/releases/tag/v0.1.13) on 29 October 2026. No shops after the Black Market is a quirk of Spelunky Classic in which, once the Black Market has been made, no later level has a shop. | Quirk | | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Status | GML + Oracle | | Where | [`scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:239-241`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrLevelGen#L239-L241) | | Pinned by | `fidelity/replays/jungle-seed-9-market-no-shop.txt` | | Row | [docs/quirks.md §1, Bugs and leftovers in the 1.1 source](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/blob/main/docs/quirks.md#1-bugs-and-leftovers-in-the-11-source): “No shop for the rest of the game once the Black Market is made.” | From level 2 on, each level rolls for a [Shopkeeper](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/shopkeeper)'s shop, with a chance of 2 in its level's number ([Shops](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/level-generation#shops)). The [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market), found through a hidden door in the [Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle), is a level of shops. But once it has been made, the roll never succeeds again: every level after it, to the end of the game, has no shop. ## What happens On seed 9, the player finds the Black Market on level 6. On level 8, two levels on, the shop roll passes and the level's top-left room is beside the path, where a shop could stand. The player walks left along the top row until that room fills the left of the view: it's an ordinary Jungle room, and the level has no Shopkeeper[^1]. **Clip: No shop after the Black Market.** Seed 9's level 8, two levels after the Black Market. The player walks left along the top row until the room beside the path, where a shop could stand, fills the left of the view: it's an ordinary Jungle room, and the level has no shop, though its shop roll passed. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/quirks/no-shop-after-black-market/clip.mp4)) ## Why The shop roll is one line of the level generator, run for every level: ```gml scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:239-241 // shop if (rand(1,global.currLevel) <= 2 and global.currLevel > 1 and not global.madeBlackMarket) { ``` [`scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:239-241`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrLevelGen#L239-L241), from `spelunky.gmk`, Spelunky Classic 1.1's source, © 2008, 2009 Derek Yu and Mossmouth, LLC ([Spelunky User License v1.1b](https://spelunky.ai/LICENSE.txt)). `madeBlackMarket` is set by the Black Market's own level, which then returns before it gets to this line[^2]. Only a new game clears it[^3]. So the check never applies to the market's level. Its only effect is on the levels after it, the rest of the Jungle, the Ice Caves and the Temple: their rolls are still drawn, but they never make a shop[^4]. It may be by design, a market that's the game's last shop, but nothing in the code says so. ## Reproducing it Find the Black Market (the hidden door on level 5, 6 or 7: [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market)) and play on: no later level has a shop. It happens in every game that finds the market. The clip's replay goes through seed 9's market on level 6 and into level 8, whose shop roll passes, and walks the top row to the room beside the path. No Shopkeeper is made on the level[^5]. Two longer runs show the same on other levels: level 7 of seed 9's City of Gold run, whose roll is 1 and whose top-left room is beside the path[^6], and level 8 of the run the clip's replay starts from[^7]. ## In the port The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs[^4], and the oracle's fingerprint of the clip's replay pins its run, whose story checks that level 8 makes no Shopkeeper. No option turns it off. ## FAQ ### Are there shops after the Black Market in Spelunky Classic? No. Once the Black Market has been made, no later level has a shop, in the Jungle, the Ice Caves or the Temple, until a new game. ### Why are there no more shops after the Black Market? The roll for a level's shop also checks that the game hasn't made the Black Market yet, and that mark is only cleared when a new game starts. It may be meant that way, but the check can't be for the market's own level, which skips the shop code anyway. ### Should you buy everything you need in the Black Market? Yes, whatever the rest of the run needs. The market is the game's last shop: an item it doesn't sell has to be found. ### Do the levels after the Black Market still roll for a shop? Yes. Each level still draws the roll's random number, but the check beside it fails, so the roll never makes a shop. ## See also - **Related:** [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market), [Shopkeeper](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/shopkeeper), [Level generation](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/level-generation), [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle) ## References [^1]: Clip quirks/no-shop-after-black-market [^2]: [`scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:44-69`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrLevelGen#L44-L69) [^3]: [`scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml:75`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrClearGlobals#L75) [^4]: Quirk 1 (docs/quirks.md) [^5]: Replay `fidelity/replays/jungle-seed-9-market-no-shop.txt` [^6]: Replay `fidelity/replays/city-of-gold-seed-9.txt` [^7]: Replay `fidelity/replays/jungle-seed-9-market-dark-roll.txt` ### Source code - [`scripts/scrLevelGen.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrLevelGen) - [`scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrClearGlobals)