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From Spelunky Classic 1.1, © 2008, 2009 Derek Yu and Mossmouth, LLC. # Vine From the spelunky.ai wiki: . *For the Mines' and the Temple's, see [Ladder](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ladder).* A Vine is terrain in Spelunky Classic, a climbing plant hanging in the Jungle's rooms that the player climbs as he would a ladder, and where Monkeys wait. ![A green leafy vine, its stem curling up between broad leaves](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/sprites/sVine/frames/0%404x.png) | Vine | | | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Effect | Climbed up and down, as a ladder[^1] | | Destroyed by | Nothing: bombs pass it by | | Objects | `oVine`, `oVineTop` | | Found in | [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle), [Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market), [Sun Room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sun-room) | Vines hang in [the Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle)'s rooms, whose room script makes a vine from each tile that would be a [Ladder](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ladder) in the Mines', and in [the Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market). To the code a vine is a kind of ladder, so everything about climbing one is the same, but its top: a ladder's top is a rung to stand on, and a vine's isn't. [Monkeys](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/monkey) start out on them. ## How it works **Clip: Climbing a vine.** In the Jungle's green rock, the player walks to a vine hanging past a ledge and climbs it, as he would a ladder; at its top he jumps off toward the ledge, catches its edge and pulls himself up. ([video](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/media/clips/vine/climb/clip.mp4)) The player climbs a vine exactly as he does a [ladder](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ladder#how-it-works): up in front of it, standing or in the air, takes hold, up and down climb it at 1 pixel a step, and the jump key throws him off[^1][^2]. A fall doesn't count while he climbs[^3]. The clip shows it in the Jungle's green rock: the player climbs a vine hanging past a ledge, jumps off toward the ledge at its top, catches its edge and pulls himself up. A vine's top is a kind of ladder, not of ladder top, so it's climbed like the rest of the vine and isn't a platform: nothing stands on it[^4]. How a vine looks is set when the level is built: its top block is drawn as the vine's source and its bottom block as its end[^5]. ## Locations | Where | How | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | | [The Jungle](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/jungle) | Every ladder tile of its room templates is a vine | [^4] | | [The Black Market](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/black-market) | Its ordinary ladder tiles; it has ladders of its own too | [^6] | The [Sun Room](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/sun-room) has vines the room editor placed[^7]. In custom levels they're the [level editor](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/level-editor)'s tiles `v` (a vine) and `t` (a vine top)[^8]. ## Interactions - **[Monkeys](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/monkey).** Level generation puts a Monkey on each block of vine with a 1 in 15 chance[^9]. It climbs up and down its vine, turning where the vine ends, and leaps off at a player below it[^10]. - **[Bombs](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/bomb)** don't destroy vines, which aren't solid, as they don't destroy ladders[^11]. ## Tips - A vine is safe to climb down however long it is, as a ladder is: a fall doesn't count while the player climbs. - With no top to stand on, a vine that ends below a ledge is left by jumping off toward the ledge, as the clip does. ## FAQ ### How do you climb vines in Spelunky Classic? As a ladder: by pressing up in front of one, standing or in the air, near its middle. Up and down then climb it, and the jump key jumps off. ### Why are there Monkeys on vines in Spelunky Classic? Level generation puts a [Monkey](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/monkey) on a block of vine with a 1 in 15 chance. It climbs up and down the vine until the player comes near below it, then leaps at him. ### Can you stand on top of a vine in Spelunky Classic? No. A ladder's top is a rung to stand on, but a vine's top is only more vine: the player climbs it, or falls past it. ## See also - **Related:** [Ladder](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/ladder), [Monkey](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/monkey), [Tree](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/tree) ## References [^1]: [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:185-236`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent#L185-L236) [^2]: [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml:606-633`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent#L606-L633) [^3]: [`objects/oPlayer1/step.gml:254-267`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oPlayer1/step#L254-L267) [^4]: [`scripts/scrRoomGen2.gml:349-350`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen2#L349-L350) [^5]: [`scripts/scrSetupWalls.gml:437-455`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrSetupWalls#L437-L455) [^6]: [`scripts/scrRoomGenMarket.gml:262-265`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGenMarket#L262-L265) [^7]: Room [`rSun`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/rooms/rSun), as the room editor placed it [^8]: [`scripts/scrCreateTileObj.gml:81-88`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrCreateTileObj#L81-L88) [^9]: [`scripts/scrEntityGen.gml:321-324`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrEntityGen#L321-L324) [^10]: [`objects/oMonkey/step.gml:146-185`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oMonkey/step#L146-L185) [^11]: [`objects/oExplosion/collision_oSolid.gml:1-31`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/objects/oExplosion/collision_oSolid#L1-L31) ### Source code - [`scripts/characterStepEvent.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/characterStepEvent) - [`scripts/scrRoomGen2.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGen2) - [`scripts/scrRoomGenMarket.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrRoomGenMarket) - [`scripts/scrSetupWalls.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrSetupWalls) - [`scripts/scrEntityGen.gml`](https://spelunky.ai/wiki/source/scripts/scrEntityGen)