Owned equipment for sale

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.13 on 28 October 2026.

Equipment in Spelunky Classic is worn for the rest of the game, so having one of each is all there is. But a shop doesn't know what the player has: the General Store, the Clothing Shop and the Rare Shop can all sell him a second Compass, pair of Spectacles or Gloves, and paying for it spends the money on nothing.

The player got a Compass from Kali on level 9, and wears it. Level 10's General Store sells another, and when he picks it up, the Shopkeeper prices it: "A COMPASS FOR $5400." ^[1].

Each shop picks its wares at random, and for a piece of equipment it only checks that the level has no instance of it yet:

        else if (rand(1,10) == 1)
        {
            if (not instance_exists(oCompass)) { obj = instance_create(xpos+8, ypos+10, oCompass); break; }
        }

That keeps a level to one of each, but it never looks at global.hasCompass, or any of the other flags that say what the player wears ^[2]. The Clothing Shop's and the Rare Shop's equipment are checked the same way ^[3]. Paying for a ware takes the money and runs the same code as carrying it out ^[4], and for equipment, that only sets its flag, which is already set ^[5]. Kali's gift does it right: it skips the equipment the player has ^[6].

Get a piece of equipment, then find a shop on a later level that stocks the same one. It happens in normal play, on any level after the one the equipment came from. The replay of the clip gets a Compass from Kali on level 9 (frame 1111), and level 10's General Store stocks another (1961). The player picks it up, and the Shopkeeper offers it for $5,400, though he wears one (2028); he hasn't the money to buy it ^[7].

The spelunky.ai port reproduces it exactly: it's in docs/quirks.md's list of the 1.1 source's bugs ^[2], and the oracle's fingerprint of the replay pins the second Compass. No option turns it off.