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. # Parachute From the spelunky.ai wiki: . Verified against the spelunky.ai port [v0.1.10](https://github.com/851-labs/spelunky/releases/tag/v0.1.10) on 27 October 2026. The Parachute is an equipment item in Spelunky Classic that opens by itself during a long fall and lowers the player gently; shops sell it from $2,000. ![A brown pack tied with a white cross of straps](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/sprites/sParaPickup/frames/0%404x.png) | Parachute | | | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | Kind | Equipment | | Effect | Opens in a long fall; one use[^1] | | Price | $2,000[^2] | | Objects | `oParaPickup`, `oParachute`, `oParaUsed` | | Sold in | General Store | | Found in | The Mines, The Jungle, The Ice Caves, The Temple, Olmec's Lair | | Dropped by | [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) | Wearing one, the player doesn't have to do anything: on a fall long enough to hurt, it opens over him, and he floats down slowly enough to land unhurt. It works once, and then it's gone. General Stores sell it, and [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) and buried blocks give it away. It isn't worn for good: the player carries it from the moment it's picked up or paid for until it opens. ## Effect **Clip: Parachute opening.** Wearing a parachute, the player runs off a ledge into a deep drop. After half a second of falling it opens over him, and he floats down a pixel a step and lands unhurt; it falls away behind him. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/a05103153f8d82b4/clips/parachute/open/clip.mp4)) Picking up a free parachute, paying for one or carrying one out of a shop takes it: the message "YOU GOT A PARACHUTE! IT WILL DEPLOY AUTOMATICALLY." shows, the pack disappears, and an icon of it joins the row under the hearts[^3][^4]. A new game takes it away if it's still unopened[^5][^6]. It opens when the player has been falling for 15 steps (half a second), isn't stunned, and has nothing solid 32 pixels below him. Opening uses it up: the icon goes, and a new fall needs a new parachute[^7]. A fall that long would otherwise end badly: landing after more than 16 steps of falling stuns the player and costs him 1 heart, after more than 32 steps 2, and after more than 48 steps 10[^8]. While it's open, it hangs over the player and follows him[^9], his falling speed is halved each step[^10], and the count of steps he's been falling starts again from 0 on every step, so the landing never hurts[^11]. With gravity adding 1 pixel a step and the parachute halving the total, he settles at 1 pixel a step (30 per second), against up to 10 in a free fall[^12]. The clip shows him running off a ledge at the top of a deep drop: after 15 steps the parachute opens, he slows from 10 pixels a step to 1, and he lands without losing a heart[^13]. The parachute comes off when the fall ends: when the player lands, grabs a ledge or a [rope](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/rope), or climbs, and when he's stunned or killed[^14][^15]. It drops away as a limp canopy, which falls until it lands[^16]. ## Obtaining | Source | Chance | | | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | | General Store | 1 in 3 for each ware, once the rolls for a [Mattock](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/mattock) (1 in 20), [Climbing Gloves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/climbing-gloves) and a [Compass](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/compass) (1 in 10 each) fail | [^17] | | A [Crate](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) | 1 in 10, once the rolls before it, from a [Jetpack](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jetpack)'s 1 in 500 to a Compass's 1 in 20, fail | [^18] | | Buried in a block | 1 in 19 of the items buried in blocks | [^19] | A General Store stocks as many as its rolls give: unlike the rarer wares, the parachute has no check for one already on the level[^20]. Shops add 10% of the base price for each level past the second[^21]. Shops are made from level 2 on[^22], and level 16, Olmec's Lair, has none: | Area | 1st level | 2nd level | 3rd level | 4th level | | ------------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | | The Mines | — | $2,000 | $2,200 | $2,400 | | The Jungle | $2,600 | $2,800 | $3,000 | $3,200 | | The Ice Caves | $3,400 | $3,600 | $3,800 | $4,000 | | The Temple | $4,200 | $4,400 | $4,600 | — | Every block of rock away from the level's edges that isn't gold and holds no gem has a 1 in 1200 chance of hiding an item, one of nineteen at random[^23][^19]. Kali never gives one, and the Dice House never offers one. In custom levels, it's the level editor's tile `` ` ``[^24]. Carrying one out of a shop without paying takes it and angers the Shopkeeper, as with any ware; whether it's taken at once depends on whether the player or the parachute leaves the shop first[^25][^26]. ## Interactions - A second parachute adds nothing: the player has one or none, and picking up another while he has one only sets it again, though shops go on selling them to him[^27][^25]. - An item touching the open parachute while it moves right or down tears it away, and the player falls freely again; one moving neither, left or straight up or not at all, passes through it[^28][^25]. So anything falling onto the canopy tears it, while an item flying up through it does only if it's moving right: a rock bounced back left off a wall crosses it harmlessly, and one bounced back right tears it at once[^29]. - The [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) slows a fall the same way, halving it each step, but it lasts and is opened by hand[^30]. ## Tips - A parachute only opens with 32 pixels of open air below the player, so it saves him on a deep drop, not on a short one onto a ledge. - Its one use goes on the first long fall, wanted or not: dropping down a shaft spends it. ## Trivia - Its `type` is "Parachute", and its shop message the plain "A PARACHUTE FOR $2000."[^31]. - The parachute shown open over the player and the spent one that falls away are objects of their own: `oParachute`, and `oParaUsed`, which falls a fifth of a pixel a step faster each step[^32]. ## FAQ ### How do you open the Parachute in Spelunky Classic? It opens by itself. Once the player has fallen for 15 steps (half a second) with nothing solid 32 pixels below him, it opens over him; there's no key for it. ### Can the Parachute be used more than once in Spelunky Classic? No. It's used up the moment it opens: landing cuts it away, and the player needs another one for the next fall. ### Does the Parachute stop fall damage in Spelunky Classic? Yes, for the fall it opens in. It slows the player to 1 pixel a step, and while it's open the fall counts as starting afresh every step, so the landing never costs a heart. ### Where do you find the Parachute in Spelunky Classic? In General Stores, for $2,000 on level 2 and more on each level after it. Free ones come out of [Crates](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/crate) (a 1 in 10 roll, once the rolls before it fail) and out of blocks that hide them. ## See also - **Related:** [Cape](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/cape) ## References [^1]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:258-266` [^2]: `objects/oParaPickup/create.gml:7` [^3]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:115-125` [^4]: `scripts/scrDrawHUD.gml:165-169` [^5]: `scripts/scrClearGlobals.gml:91` [^6]: `objects/oTransition/create.gml:20-24` [^7]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:254-267` [^8]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:268-289` [^9]: `objects/oParachute/step.gml:1-5` [^10]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:867-871` [^11]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:252` [^12]: `scripts/characterCreateEvent.gml:59-62` [^13]: Clip parachute/open [^14]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:290-298` [^15]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:1738-1744` [^16]: `objects/oParaUsed/step.gml:1-10` [^17]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:156-177` [^18]: `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:617-634` [^19]: `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml:63-89` [^20]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:173-175` [^21]: `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml:179-191` [^22]: `scripts/scrLevelGen.gml:240` [^23]: `objects/oBrick/create.gml:7-16` [^24]: `scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:321-326` [^25]: Quirk 1 (docs/quirks.md) [^26]: Replay `fidelity/replays/item-seed-26-parachute.txt` [^27]: `scripts/scrStealItem.gml:115-117` [^28]: `objects/oParachute/collision_oItem.gml:1-5` [^29]: Replay `fidelity/replays/item-parachute-torn-moving-right.txt` [^30]: `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:867-875` [^31]: `objects/oParaPickup/create.gml:3-8` [^32]: `objects/oParaUsed/create.gml:3-4` ### Source code - `objects/oParaPickup/create.gml` - `objects/oParachute/step.gml` - `objects/oParachute/collision_oItem.gml` - `objects/oParaUsed/step.gml` - `objects/oPlayer1/step.gml` - `scripts/characterStepEvent.gml` - `scripts/scrStealItem.gml` - `scripts/scrShopItemsGen.gml` - `scripts/scrGenerateItem.gml`