Spring Shoes

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.10 on 27 October 2026.

Wearing them, the player jumps from the ground half as hard again, which takes him nearly three blocks up instead of under two: high enough to catch a ledge that's out of reach without them. Only jumps from the ground get the boost. Clothing Shops, Rare Shops and the Dice House offer them, and Crates, blocks and Kali give them away. They're worn from the moment they're picked up or paid for until the game ends.

Picking up a free pair, paying for one or carrying one out of a shop puts it on: the message "YOU GOT SPRING SHOES! YOU FEEL BOUNCY." shows, the pair disappears, and an icon of it joins the row under the hearts ^{[3] [4]}. They stay on until a new game starts, which clears them ^{[5] [6]}.

A jump from the ground starts with an upward push of 4 (twice the jump's base push of 2), and the shoes make it 1.5 times that, 6 ^{[7] [8]}, which is also the most the push can be ^[9]. Held for its full length, a jump without them rises about 26 pixels; with them, about 46, nearly three blocks. The clip shows the difference: the player jumps at a ledge three blocks up and falls well short of it, then, in the shoes, catches its edge, climbs onto it, and jumps on the spot nearly three blocks high ^[10].

The higher jump doesn't hurt when he lands. A full jump with the shoes falls for 10 steps back to the ground it left, and a fall costs hearts only after more than 16 steps ^{[11] [10]}.

A shop stocks a pair only if the level hasn't got one already, even for a player who wears a pair ^{[18] [19]}, and it adds 10% of the base price for each level past the second ^[20]. Shops are made from level 2 on ^[21], and level 16, Olmec's Lair, has none:

The Dice House puts its prize up from the same set of rare items, and a roll of seven gives it away and puts up another ^{[22] [23]}. 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 ^{[24] [16]}. Kali's first gift, when the player's favour with her reaches 8 at one of her altars, is one of eight pieces of equipment the player hasn't got, the Spring Shoes among them ^[25]. In custom levels, they're the level editor's tile ~ ^[26].

Carrying a pair out of a shop without paying puts it on and angers the Shopkeeper, as with any ware; whether it goes on at once depends on whether the player or the pair leaves the shop first ^{[19] [27]}.

• Jumps that don't start on the ground get no boost: out of a web, out of water, or up from a wall or ledge the player is hanging on ^{[28] [29]}. So Climbing Gloves climb no faster with them.

• A ledge three blocks up, out of reach of an ordinary jump, can be caught and climbed with them.
• Jumping on flat ground in them is safe: the fall back takes too few steps to hurt.

• Shops call them "SPRINGY SHOES" ^[30].
• The jump code checks first for a pair of Jordans, which would treble the push and lower the gravity, and the pickup code has their message, "YOU GOT JORDANS!" ^{[31] [32]}. Nothing in the game makes or places Jordans: no level, shop, crate or level editor tile has them ^[19].