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The Entire Gang

The Entire Gang

Rescued all 8 hidden characters.

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How to unlock the The Entire Gang achievement in Spelunky - Definitive Guide

ALL EIGHT CHARACTERS HAVE BEEN FOUND.

There's one on each main stage which includes Mines, Jungle, Ice Caves, and Temple. These characters will randomly show up in coffins as you play through each stage, one per stage and the color unlocked seems to be random.
Going by color since they don't have a name, you can unlock LIME, YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE, and PURPLE characters in this fashion.

Furthermore, the jungle warrior (BROWN) character is unlocked by beating the game the first time.

Super Meat-Boy (RED) is unlocked via the worm level, which one may reach by attaching a damsel/dude/pug to one of the sticky orange blobs (worm-tongues) found in jungle and ice cave levels, and then waiting (still yourself stuck to the blob) until the screen rumbles and a giant worm appears, swallowing anything still stuck whole - taking you to the worm's insides. SMB will be found near the very bottom. You know you're getting close when you pass the Crysknife, a permanent (for that run) whip upgrade located at about the halfway point in an extra large acid pool.

CREDIT TO MOKMOOF:
The BLACK character is found on the Haunted Castle level, which is accessed via the Jungle during the "The dead are restless!" event. Locate the tombstone with the crown on it, there is a skull with a crown atop it visible below the tombstone. Place a bomb where you found the skull to reveal the entrance, located two blocks beneath! Once inside, the easiest method to obtain the character would be climbing the top of the castle to the far left and bombing your way inside to the coffin. Otherwise, prepare to face the Black Knight and his mighty Shield!

CREDIT TO SNAPDRAGON:
The final character, Yang (from the tutorial) is unlocked by rescuing him from the Hell area. Getting there will be no easy feat, requiring you first to complete the steps to get to the City of Gold, and from there grabbing the Necronomicon, defeating the book's evil guardian, destroying Olmec, and then locating the door to hell itself somewhere above the lake of lava the final boss fight takes place above. Best of luck!
(it's been pointed out that the book will flash similar to the eye when above the door, and you MUST stand on dying Olmec's head to be able to enter said door!)
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06 Jul 2012 12:56

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Slam Shot Sam, I realize it's been 5 year but in case you're still wondering the Crysknife is permanent in the since that it can't been dropped during that run the way you might drop a shot gun.

Anybody know if the random characters you find in each zone will show up if you're using shortcuts?
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By Rad Wizrrd on 11 Nov 2018 09:34
I couldn't get Super Meat-Boy in Coop. It was releasing one of the Hired Hand characters instead. Had to do it in Single Player, using shortcut to Ice Caves.
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By pata70 on 20 Mar 2020 18:58
Thanks for the tip!
will update accordingly; I'd been wondering how to get into the castle!
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By Stiqe on 06 Jul 2012 21:59
Another good method of getting Black, if you're low on bombs, is getting a shotgun from the same level as you find the entrance to the castle. The "restless dead" event always has a grave marked "Ash," which has a shotgun below it. The Black Knight is very easily killed with it.

Also worth pointing out is that the Crysknife is not located next to SMB inside the Worm. The knife is at the halfway point through the level while SMB is at the very bottom. Just so nobody gets confused and looks for it in the wrong place.
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By DROGTURIST on 07 Jul 2012 09:05
you're incorrect about 'easily killed' with a shotgun, as far as the black knight. If you hit him in the back, yes.
otherwise, be aware his shield will ricochet bullets at you! (it was off screen, so I can't be SURE it was him, but what else would it have been in that situation?)

I'll go ahead and make that distinction for SMB's unlock, though, good point.
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By Stiqe on 07 Jul 2012 10:31
I can confirm that the final character (Yang, the tutorial guy) unlocks after you beat Hell.
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By SnapDragon on 07 Jul 2012 14:25
updated and completed, thanks Snap! good luck everybody!

will consider rewriting into a more easily accessible list if I get even a single complaint.
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By Stiqe on 07 Jul 2012 21:28
You should do a list of the characters because I can't tell which character im missing. Are the characters you find in the 4 stages randomly always the same according to which level you find them in? (Ex. I found the odd character with the light blue hood with animal ears in ice caves. Is that the only place you find him? Or can he spawn in mines, jungle or temple as well? Im missing Yang and one more character. Both characters on either side of Meat Boy are locked for me.
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By BUM COMMANDO on 23 Jan 2013 00:39
^ The character with the animal hood can spawn in other levels too. I found him in the Mines or Jungle, forget which place. In the Ice Caves, I found the either the Pirate girl or the girl with the Miner helmet, again I don't remember which one.
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By SummitViking on 26 Jan 2013 01:37
Also, just wanted to point out, you can only get the Light Blue, Yellow, Purple, and Lime characters in Single Player. I never saw any of these characters in Co-op until I started playing Single Player. You can get the four other characters in Co-op, though, but only the main profile will get the characters, but they can still be used by Co-op partners as long as the main profile is signed in.
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By SummitViking on 26 Jan 2013 01:42
Not related to the characters, but when you say the Crysknife is a permanent whip upgrade, what exactly do you mean? I got it and after I died it had gone, should I have kept it?
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By Slam Shot Sam on 14 Feb 2013 02:41
The character that some folks are calling Black (sort of an older version of the Blue guy in the pith helmet) is in a coffin at the top of the Haunted Castle.

To get to the castle, you need to be in the jungle when the zombies and vampires and such are walking around. (The event text is "The dead are restless," but sometimes you'll get the undead even during another event, such as the "running water" one). Somewhere on the map, there will be a skeleton with a crown on it. One square below that is the entrance to the castle. If you work efficiently, you can almost always get to the door with two bombs.

Once you're in the secret level, the easiest way to get to the coffin is to climb to the roof using rope, then work your way left and bomb through the ceiling. This will (usually) keep you from having to fight the black knight.
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By Magginesu on 06 Jul 2012 19:07
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I made videos to find Black and super meat boy.
Black is in haunted castle : you need the udjat Eye to find his entrance in the jungle.
Super meat boy is in the worm : place a damsel on an orange blobs and let the worm eat you.
4 are random in each stage : mines, jungle, ice cave and temple.
Beat the game to unlock brown.
Rescue Yang from hell.
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16 Sep 2012 18:03

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thumbs up cuz even though I knew there was a character in this section I still couldn't locate him.
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By NINja277 on 08 Dec 2012 06:08

For this achievement you will need to rescue all of the 8 hidden characters in the game, which can be found in coffins in various locations. This achievement will require multiple playthroughs of stages to find certain coffins because they are randomly generated and sometimes will not appear. You will also have to complete the difficult task of reaching Hell to find one of the characters.

For a guide on character locations, click here.

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