Weapon Shop

Verified against the spelunky.ai port v0.1.10 on 28 October 2026.

Its Shopkeeper welcomes the player with "WELCOME TO ANDY'S ARMORY!", his name one of 32 drawn at random ^{[6] [7]}. It's the one shop that sells weapons: the Pistol, Shotgun, Machete, Bow and Web Cannon, with Bomb Bags and Bomb Boxes among them. Like every shop it's a side room off the way through a level, with four wares on its floor and the Shopkeeper beside them.

The shop has four wares, and each is rolled on its own ^{[8] [9]}. The rolls go down the table until one hits. A hit on a weapon the level already has rolls again from the top, and after twenty such tries the ware is a Bomb Bag ^[10]:

So a Weapon Shop sells each weapon once at most, and bombs as often as its rolls give. The last four rows share one roll, made at the start of each try ^[18].

A ware costs its base price on level 2, and 10% of that more for each level after it ^[19]. Each ware's own page has its price on every level:

A Black Market's Weapon Shop prices its wares by the level the market is on ^[20].

The Shopkeeper sells as in every shop (the General Store has the details): he names the price of a ware the player holds, and the pay key buys it ^{[21] [22]}. A weapon bought stays in the player's hands, his own ^[23]; a Bomb Bag or Box is used up, adding its bombs. In the clip, the player walks into the shop, picks up the Pistol, which the Shopkeeper prices at $5,000, and pays ^[24].

A weapon held unpaid can be used inside the shop: only leaving the shop's room with it is theft ^[25]. Using it on the Shopkeeper is another matter. A bullet or a pellet takes 4 of his hit points and stuns him, and he gets up angry; the Whip, the Machete's slash or a thrown item makes him attack at once ^{[26] [27] [28]}. None of these marks the player a thief, though the wares he gives away can then be carried out (the General Store has the rules) ^[29]. Angered, he gives the wares away and attacks with his own Shotgun ^[30].

In the second clip, the player fires the shop's unpaid Shotgun, first away from the Shopkeeper and then into him: the six pellets take more than his hit points, and he drops his own Shotgun and dies, which leaves the wares free ^{[31] [32]}. A dead Shopkeeper marks the player a murderer for the rest of the game, whatever killed him ^{[33] [29]}.

Carrying a ware out of the shop's room unpaid angers the Shopkeeper ("COME BACK HERE, THIEF!") and gives it to the player as if bought ^{[25] [34]}. A theft marks the player a thief into the next level, whose exit has a Shopkeeper waiting by it and whose shops' wares are free (the General Store has the rules) ^[35].

A level from 2 to 15 that rolls a shop builds one of seven kinds, each as likely, so a shop is a Weapon Shop one time in seven (one in six on a Temple sacrifice pit level, which never has a Kissing Parlor) ^{[36] [1] [37] [4]}. The Mines has how levels roll shops. A Black Market has five shops that sell items, as a rule one of each kind, a Weapon Shop among them (the General Store has the exception) ^{[5] [29]}.

• The source calls it the "Weapon" shop, and its Shopkeeper an "ARMORY" ^{[38] [6]}. Its sign shows a pistol.
• Every Shopkeeper carries a Shotgun, and drops it, free, when he's stunned or killed, so any shop's Shopkeeper can be made to give one up ^[39].