The cave spider is a neutral mob that can inflict poisoning.
Spawning
Monster spawners
Cave spiders spawn from monster spawners in abandoned mineshafts. Looking for Tree
Drops
They drop 0–2 string. They also have a 1⁄3 chance to drop a spider eye if killed by a player. They drop 5 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Behavior
Cave spiders inherit most of their behavior from regular spiders:
- They are pacified (made neutral) by bright light (daylight or light levels of 9 or higher) but will continue attacking regardless of light change once hostile. Subjecting them to darkness will render them hostile.
- They can climb walls when needed.
- They attack by leaping at the player.
- They are unaffected by cobwebs or poison.
- Can fit through a space that is 1 block wide and half a block tall.
- Runs much faster than spiders[Pocket Edition only].
- Poison damage does not work when the player has 1 health left.
- Can go through the spaces between Nether Brick and Normal Fences.
Unlike regular spiders, they do not spawn with status effects.
In Pocket Edition, cave spiders can spawn spider jockeys.
Venom
When attacked by a cave spider on normal or hard difficulty, the bitten entity is inflicted with Poison I[1] for 7 seconds on normal difficulty and 15 seconds on hard.
Data values
Cave spiders have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is cave_spider in the computer edition, and cavespider in Pocket Edition.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
History
| beta | |||||
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| 1.8 | 1.8-pre1 | Added cave spiders. | |||
| release | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Cave spider's health points reduced from 20 | ||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w06a | Cave spiders swim extremely fast with the water stream towards the player, but seem to be almost not moving against the water stream. They can also climb ice blocks. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w06a | Cave spiders can no longer draw line of sight through opaque blocks, and have been given the new AI that regular spiders have recieved. | |||
| 14w11a | Now run away from creepers that are about to explode. | ||||
| ? | Cave spiders' venom is no longer neutralized by splash potions of weakness, which may or may not be a bug. | ||||
| 1.8.1 | 1.8.1-pre1 | No longer runs away from creepers that are about to explode. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID is changed from CaveSpider to cave_spider. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Added cave spiders. | |||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Cave Spiders now have a walking sound. | |||
| build 1 | Cave Spiders now drop spider eyes. | ||||
| pocket upcoming | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | The entity ID is changed from cavespider to cave_spider.
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| Poison time from attack is now based on difficulty. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added cave spiders. | |
| TU12 | Cave spiders swim extremely fast with the water stream towards the player, but seem to be almost motionless against the water stream. They can also climb ice blocks. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Cave Spider" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- The cave spider's texture appears to be at a higher-resolution than its normal counterpart - this is because the textures occupy a smaller space.
- Despite being smaller, they have the same size shadow as a normal spider.
- If cave spiders are allowed to spawn naturally via hacks, they will only spawn if the light level is 7 or below (like most other hostile mobs).
Gallery
- Screen Shot 2014-01-29 at 2.57.29 AM.png
Picture of cave spider going through a 1×1×0.5 block.
A Cave spider and its spawner.
See also
References
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