Talk:Spider

spawning
The article says that spiders spawn in a 3x3x2 blocks space. I don't believe this is true. I think they spawn in a 2x2x1 block space. --50.137.156.180 17:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

They can spawn in 2x2x2 or 2x2x1 if the block above is glass or other transparant block.

Climbing
It says that spiders were given the ability to climb in Beta 1.2, but that's wrong. I know that it was after the Nether was added but before leaf decay was re-introduced, so it must have been Alpha 1.2.1 or Alpha 1.2.2. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.68.58.151 (talk) at 21:37, October 27, 2016‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * Try using the launcher to open some of those old versions, view some spiders and see what they do in some Alpha versions and some Beta versions, and see if it's right? – Sealbudsman talk/contr 01:52, 28 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Looking through page history, it looks like this edit was made the day Beta 1.2 was released, and it's the first time spider-climbing is mentioned.
 * Also it made a big splash on the Spider talk page that day, starting with this entry.
 * Also Leaves indicates they re-removed leaf decay in Alpha 1.2.3_01 (it was the same day it was re-introduced), and re-re-introduced leaf decay in Beta 1.0. Perhaps you're remembering it being around the same time they reintroduced leaf decay, except that the reintroduction you remember was maybe actually the one in Beta 1.0? – Sealbudsman talk/contr 04:26, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Spider eyes and wolves
It has been mentioned in several articles that spiders drop their eyes when killed by a tamed wolf. But I just had my wolves kill a dozen spiders in Creative, and no eyes dropped. (The exp orbs did, however.) I think that with the introduction of loot tables the eye drop now follows the generic condition "only when killed by player", so wolves no longer work. Can someone confirm this? 176.193.153.61 10:25, 12 December 2017 (UTC)