Udjat Eye

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

This page describes a secret.

Wearing it, the player sees the gems and gold buried in blocks, and on the right Jungle level it tells him he's near the Black Market's entrance, hidden in a block, by beeping faster as he closes in. It comes from a locked chest on one of the Mines' levels 2 to 4, opened with a key the same level hides. It's worn from the moment it's picked up until the game ends.

Picking it up puts it on: the message "YOU GOT THE UDJAT EYE! YOU FEEL AWAKENED." shows, the Eye disappears, and an icon of it joins the row under the hearts ^{[3] [4]}. It stays on until a new game starts, which clears it ^{[5] [6]}.

Every treasure on the screen is drawn at depth 0 rather than 101 while the player wears it, which puts it in front of the blocks, so gems and gold buried inside blocks show through them ^[7]. Items stay hidden: unlike the Spectacles, the Eye doesn't change how they're drawn ^[8]. In the clip, on the step the player picks the Eye up, a big sapphire and a big ruby buried in the rock to his right appear ^[9].

One of the Jungle's levels 5 to 7 hides the entrance to the Black Market: level 5 one time in 3, level 6 one time in 2, and otherwise level 7, once a game ^[10]. It's a door set inside a block, which has to be dug or bombed out to reach it ^{[11] [12]}. On that level, the Eye blinks and beeps. Its next blink comes after as many steps as the player is pixels from the entrance, and no fewer than 4, and sooner if he gets closer in the meantime; each blink switches its icon and plays one of two sounds in turn ^{[1] [13]}. The timer runs whether or not the player wears the Eye: in a replay of a level 5 with the entrance, a blink with the player about 116 pixels away sets the next for 115 steps later, which comes after 107 as he walks closer, and beside the entrance it blinks every 4 steps ^[14]. It's only set again while the entrance is active, which, like most of a level, it isn't once it's far outside the view, so far from it the Eye falls silent after its next blink ^[15]. On a level without the entrance, the Eye is silent. Walking into the entrance takes the player to the Black Market as the next level ^[16].

On the level that makes it, the chest goes in a nook in the rock, rolled for each nook as the level fills them, or, failing that, beside the exit ^{[17] [18]}. One of the level's treasures not inside a block becomes its key, picked at random ^[19]. Once the key is made, no later level makes another chest, opened or not ^[20]. The chest opens only to the key held by the player and touching it: the key is used up, and the Eye pops out with a puff of smoke ^[21]. Picking it up then puts it on. The first clip shows a key carried down to its chest ^[9].

The key can be anywhere in the level, and sometimes in a pocket of rock that nothing leads into, the chest too, which only bombs open ^[22]. In the second clip, two bombs have opened such a pocket; an arrow trap fires as the player drops in, and he crawls the key under low rock to the chest ^[23].

No shop sells the Eye, no Crate or block holds one, and the level editor has no tile for it.

• The Spectacles put treasure in front of the blocks the same way, and buried items too ^[24].
• The Black Market sells the Ankh, so the Eye is the first step toward it ^[25].

• The beeping only starts on the level with the entrance, so a beep on a Jungle level is the sign that the Black Market is on it; the faster it comes, the nearer the hidden door.
• The chest's key is always one of the level's loose treasures, so a level with a chest is worth searching for a key lying where a gem or gold would be.

• Its type is "Udjat Eye", its price $0, and its shop message "I SHOULDN'T BE SELLING THIS!"; no shop stocks it ^[26].
• The blinking runs on every level with the Black Market's entrance, worn Eye or not; without the Eye there's just no icon to switch and no sound ^{[13] [4]}.