diff --git a/dat/baalz.lua b/dat/baalz.lua
index d75e6e3a2..11606357d 100644
--- a/dat/baalz.lua
+++ b/dat/baalz.lua
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 --	Copyright (c) 1992 by M. Stephenson and Izchak Miller
 -- NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.
 --
-des.level_init({ style = "solidfill", fg = " " });
+des.level_init({ style = "solidfill", fg = " ", lit = 0 });
 
 -- TODO FIXME: see baalz_fixup - the legs get removed currently.
 
diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0
index c279fbe4b..737b1350c 100644
--- a/doc/fixes37.0
+++ b/doc/fixes37.0
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.540 $ $NHDT-Date: 1621387861 2021/05/19 01:31:01 $
+NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.553 $ $NHDT-Date: 1622320390 2021/05/29 20:33:10 $
 
 General Fixes and Modified Features
 -----------------------------------
@@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ applying a book to check readability treated novels as if they were spellbooks
 #version was leaving the 'in_lua' flag set and if subsequent 'O' issued an
 	error (example was an attempt to interactively set bouldersym to an
 	invalid value), the error reporting routine crashed via segfault
+lighting for baalz level defaulted to random and could end up being lit
 
 curses: 'msg_window' option wasn't functional for curses unless the binary
 	also included tty support