Health points |
12 |
---|---|
Behavior |
Hostile (in light levels 7 or less) |
Classification | |
Attack strength |
Easy: 2 |
Hitbox size |
Height: 0.5 Blocks |
Spawn |
A cave spider is a small venomous variant of the spider. They spawn and live in mineshafts.
Contents
Spawning[]

Size of a cave spider (left) compared to a regular spider (right).
Cave spiders spawn from spawners in mineshafts at a light level of 0. They are surrounded by cobwebs in corridors.
Drops[]
When killed, a cave spider drops
- 0–2 String. The maximum is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 string with Looting III.
- 5 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
- They also have a 1⁄3 chance of dropping a Spider Eye when killed by a player or tamed wolf. The maximum amount of spider eyes is increased by 1 per level of Looting. The chance of a cave spider not dropping any spider eyes can be found using the formula
2 / (Looting Level + 3)
. For example, Looting III gives a 1⁄3 chance of not dropping any spider eyes. All other amounts have an equal chance of occurring.
Behavior[]
Cave spiders inherit their behavior from spiders:
- Neutral if under daylight or in light levels of 9 or above before seeing player, otherwise they are hostile. Once they become hostile, light does not affect them.
- Climb walls when needed.
- Attack by leaping.
- Are unaffected by cobwebs and poison.
- Can spawn spider jockeys.[BE only]
They have some distinctions from regular spiders:
- Can fit through a space that is one block wide and 1⁄2 block tall.
- Can go through the spaces between two different types of (unconnected) fences.
- Cannot spawn with status effects.
Being arthropods, they are weak against weapons with the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.
Poison[]
On normal or hard, cave spiders inflict Poison upon attacking.[1] On normal difficulty, the poison lasts for 7 seconds and causes 6 damage. On hard difficulty, it lasts for 15 seconds and causes 12
× 6. Poison damage is not taken when the player's health is at 1
.
Sounds[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spider hisses[sound 1] | Hostile Creatures | Randomly | entity.spider.ambient[sound 1] | subtitles.entity.spider.ambient[sound 1] | 1.0 | 0.8 - 1.2 | 16 | |
Spider dies[sound 1] | Hostile Creatures | When a cave spider dies | entity.spider.death[sound 1] | subtitles.entity.spider.death[sound 1] | 1.0 | 0.8 - 1.2 | 16 | |
Spider hurts[sound 1] | Hostile Creatures | When a cave spider takes damage | entity.spider.hurt[sound 1] | subtitles.entity.spider.hurt[sound 1] | 1.0 | 0.8 - 1.2 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Hostile Creatures | When a cave spider walks | entity.spider.step[sound 1] | subtitles.generic.block.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Translation key |
---|---|---|
Cave Spider | cave_spider | entity.minecraft.cave_spider |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Cave Spider | cave_spider | 40 | entity.cave_spider.name |
Entity data[]
Cave spiders have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
Achievements[]
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PS4 | Other platforms | |||||
Monster Hunter | Attack and kill a monster. | Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider. | 15G | Bronze |
Advancements[]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adventure | Adventure, exploration, and combat | — | Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity. | adventure/root
|
![]() | Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Adventure | Kill one of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_a_mob
|
![]() | Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Monster Hunter | Kill each of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_all_mobs
|
History[]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.8 | Pre-release | ![]() | |||
Java Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Cave spiders now drop 0-1 spider eye when killed by a player or tamed wolf. | |||
The cave spider's health points have been reduced from 20![]() ![]() | |||||
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Cave spiders are now immune to the poison status effect. | ||||
Cave spiders are now considered arthropods. | |||||
1.2.1 | 12w06a | Cave spiders now swim extremely fast with the water stream toward the player, but seem to be almost not moving against the water stream. | |||
Cave spiders can now climb ice blocks. | |||||
1.8 | 14w06a | Cave spiders no longer draw a line of sight through opaque blocks. | |||
Cave spiders have been given the new AI that regular spiders have received. | |||||
14w11a | Cave spiders now run away from creepers that are about to explode. | ||||
? | The cave spider's venom is no longer neutralized by splash potions of weakness, which may or may not be a bug. | ||||
1.8.1 | pre1 | Cave spiders no longer run away from creepers that are about to explode. | |||
1.11 | 16w32a | The cave spider's entity ID has been changed from CaveSpider to cave_spider . | |||
October 16, 2017 | ![]() | ||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.11.0 | build 1 | ![]() | |||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Cave spiders now have a walking sound. | |||
Cave spiders can now spawn with wither skeletons riding them when spawning as spider jockey in the Nether. | |||||
Cave spiders now drop spider eyes. | |||||
v0.14.0 | build 1 | Cave spiders can be ridden by baby zombies and baby zombie villagers. | |||
v0.15.0 | ? | Cave spiders can now spawn with strays riding them when spawning as spider jockey in snowy biome with a view of the sky. | |||
Cave spiders can be ridden by baby husks. | |||||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | The cave spider's entity ID has been changed from cavespider to cave_spider .
| |||
The cave spider's poison time from attack has been changed to be based on difficulty. | |||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
TU12 | Cave spiders now swim extremely fast with the water stream toward the player, but seem to be almost motionless against the water stream. | ||||
Cave spiders can now climb ice blocks. | |||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Cave Spider" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- While a cave spider's hitbox is only 13.9% the volume of a normal spider's, its model's volume is 34.3% as large. The shadow is even larger: compared to the normal spider's shadow it has an area of 49%.
- This is the only mob that can be instantly killed by a direct hit from a tier 2 Splash potion of harming (Instant Damage II) due to its health being the same as the damage dealt.
Gallery[]
Screenshots[]
A cave spider and its spawner.
The health bar turns yellow-green when bitten by a cave spider.
Size comparison between a cave spider and a regular spider in a dungeon.
Picture of cave spider going through a 1×1×0.5 block.
Another cave spider farm generated in a mineshaft.
A group of cave spiders trying to swim after the player in a mineshaft.
In other media[]
Lego Minecraft Cave Spider.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ "Your health hearts turn yellowish" – @jeb_ on Twitter, September 2, 2011
External links[]