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. # Tree From the spelunky.ai wiki: . A Tree is terrain in Spelunky Classic, a trunk with branches and leaves in the Jungle and the Temple, which the player can hang from without Climbing Gloves. ![The leafy green crown of a tree, its leaves hanging in clusters](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/sprites/sTreeTop/frames/0%404x.png) | Tree | | | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Effect | Hung from and climbed; its branches stood on[^1] | | Destroyed by | Breaking the block under it | | Objects | `oTree`, `oLeaves`, `oTreeBranch`, `oTreeTile`, `oLeavesTile`, `oTreeBranchTile` | | Found in | [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle), [The Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple), [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market) | Trees grow from the floor of [the Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle)'s rooms, [the Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market)'s and [the Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple)'s: a trunk a few blocks tall, branches off its sides and two leaves beside its top. The trunk is solid; the branches and leaves are platforms. A tree stands only as long as what's under it does. ## How it works **Clip: Climbing a tree.** The player walks to a tree and jumps at its trunk, catching hold of its side without Climbing Gloves; each jump from there takes him a block higher up the trunk, until he hangs just under its leaves. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/tree/climb/clip.mp4)) ### The trunk A trunk block is solid, as rock is[^2]. A player jumping or falling past its side, pressing toward it, catches hold of it and hangs there, at any height and without [Climbing Gloves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/climbing-gloves): unlike a ledge, the trunk doesn't need open space above the spot he catches[^1][^3]. Each jump from the hang takes him up the trunk by a block, and he catches hold again. The clip shows it: the player jumps at a trunk, catches it, and climbs it a block at a jump, to just under its leaves[^4]. ### Branches and leaves Branches and leaves are platforms: the player stands on them, jumps up through them from below, and drops through them by pressing down[^5]. A branch with leaves right above it is removed as the level is set up[^6]. ### Falling Each step a tree is in the view, a trunk block with nothing solid under it is destroyed, so breaking the block a tree stands on, or its lowest trunk block, brings the trunk down, a block or more a step: in the second clip four trunk blocks go in two steps. A branch with no trunk beside it goes, and so do leaves with nothing to hold them[^7][^8][^9]. The second clip shows a [Bomb](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bomb) at a tree's foot taking the whole tree[^10]. **Clip: Felling a tree.** On a graveyard level of the Jungle, the player throws a bomb up to the foot of a dead tree and walks away. The blast breaks the earth and the trunk's lowest block, and the rest of the tree, its branches and its dead leaves go with it. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/tree/felled/clip.mp4)) A trunk block breaks into rubble, and living leaves and branches into falling leaves[^11][^12][^13]. ## Locations A room template's tree tile grows a tree: a trunk block on the tile and up to five more above it, the first three always, the fourth unless a 1 in 4 roll stops it and the fifth unless a 2 in 5 one does, growth stopping under anything solid. The second to the fifth trunk blocks have a 3 in 5 chance of a branch on each side, never on the same side as the block below's, and the top block gets leaves on both sides[^14]. | Where | | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | ----- | | [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle) | Its tree tiles | [^14] | | [The Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market) | As the Jungle | [^15] | | [The Temple](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/temple) | As the Jungle | [^16] | On a [graveyard level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/restless-dead), the leaves and branches are dead, and the top of the trunk with them[^17][^18][^19]. In custom levels a tree is built by hand from the [level editor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/level-editor)'s tiles: `|` a trunk block, `x` its top, `)` leaves and `q` a branch[^20]. ## Interactions - **No traps in trees.** As a Jungle level is made, the roll that turns a block into a [Spear Trap](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/spear-trap), or stands a [Tiki Torch](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tiki-torch) on it, skips trunk blocks[^21]. - **[Climbing Gloves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/climbing-gloves)** add nothing here: with them, a falling player catches any wall, a trunk among them, and rising he still catches a trunk by its own rule[^22]. ## Tips - A trunk is a way up without a rope: catch its side and jump, a block at a time. - A Bomb at a tree's foot clears the whole tree, branches, leaves and all. ## Trivia - A trunk block is set up with a `burning` flag that nothing reads[^23]. - The level editor draws its trees with objects of their own, which do nothing but look like a tree; the code that would have let them fall is commented out[^24][^25]. ## FAQ ### Can you climb trees in Spelunky Classic? Yes. The player can catch hold of a tree's trunk from the side at any height, without [Climbing Gloves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/climbing-gloves), and each jump from there takes him a block higher. Its branches and leaves are platforms to stand on. ### How do you cut down a tree in Spelunky Classic? By breaking the block it stands on, or its lowest trunk block: a trunk block with nothing solid under it is destroyed, so the whole tree goes within a step or two, its branches and leaves with it. ### Why are the trees dead in some Jungle levels? On a [graveyard level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/restless-dead), the trees' leaves and branches are drawn dead. Nothing else about them changes. ## See also - **Related:** [Climbing Gloves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/climbing-gloves), [Vine](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/vine), [Graveyard level](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/restless-dead) ## References [^1]: [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:423-440`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent#L423-L440) [^2]: [`objects/oTree/create.gml:1-3`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTree/create#L1-L3) [^3]: [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:441-460`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent#L441-L460) [^4]: Clip [tree/climb](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tree#clip-tree-climb) [^5]: [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:546-575`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent#L546-L575) [^6]: [`scripts/scrSetupWalls.gml:493-508`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrSetupWalls#L493-L508) [^7]: [`objects/oTree/step.gml:1-8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTree/step#L1-L8) [^8]: [`objects/oTreeBranch/step.gml:1-8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreeBranch/step#L1-L8) [^9]: [`objects/oLeaves/step.gml:10-35`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLeaves/step#L10-L35) [^10]: Clip [tree/felled](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tree#clip-tree-felled) [^11]: [`objects/oTree/destroy.gml:3-8`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTree/destroy#L3-L8) [^12]: [`objects/oLeaves/destroy.gml:1-5`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLeaves/destroy#L1-L5) [^13]: [`objects/oTreeBranch/destroy.gml:1-4`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreeBranch/destroy#L1-L4) [^14]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen2.gml:495-541`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen2#L495-L541) [^15]: [`scripts/scrRoomGenMarket.gml:378-424`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGenMarket#L378-L424) [^16]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen4.gml:513-557`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen4#L513-L557) [^17]: [`objects/oLeaves/create.gml:1-7`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLeaves/create#L1-L7) [^18]: [`objects/oTreeBranch/create.gml:3`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreeBranch/create#L3) [^19]: [`scripts/scrSetupWalls.gml:485-490`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrSetupWalls#L485-L490) [^20]: [`scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:89-105`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrCreateTileObj#L89-L105) [^21]: [`scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:226-252`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrEntityGen#L226-L252) [^22]: [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:400-440`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent#L400-L440) [^23]: [`objects/oTree/create.gml:4`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTree/create#L4) [^24]: [`objects/oLeavesTile/step.gml:1-10`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLeavesTile/step#L1-L10) [^25]: [`objects/oTreeBranchTile/step.gml:1-10`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreeBranchTile/step#L1-L10) ### Source code - [`objects/oTree/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTree/create) - [`objects/oTree/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTree/step) - [`objects/oLeaves/create.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLeaves/create) - [`objects/oLeaves/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oLeaves/step) - [`objects/oTreeBranch/step.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oTreeBranch/step) - [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent) - [`scripts/scrRoomGen2.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen2) - [`scripts/scrSetupWalls.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrSetupWalls)