Cave spiders are neutral mobs that can inflict poison.
Spawning
Monster spawners
Cave spiders spawn from monster spawners in abandoned mineshafts.
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:
- Neutral under daylight or in light levels of 9 or above, otherwise they are hostile. However, once they become hostile, light does not affect them.
- Can climb walls when needed.
- Attack by leaping at their targeted entity.
- Are unaffected by cobwebs and poison.
- Can spawn spider jockeys in the Bedrock Edition.
However, they have some distinctions from regular spiders:
- Can fit through a space that is one block wide and ½ block tall.
- Can go through the spaces between two different types of (unconnected) fences.
- Cannot spawn with status effects.
Cave spiders, being an arthropod, are weak against weapons with the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.
Venom
On normal or hard difficulty, cave spiders inflict Poison upon attacking.[1] On normal difficulty, the poison lasts for 7 seconds and can cause up to 4![]()
damage. On hard difficulty, it lasts for 15 seconds and can cause up to 10![]()
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damage. Note that even on hard, poison damage is not taken when health is at 1
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Data values
Cave spiders have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is cave_spider.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
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
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![]() | Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Adventure | Kill one of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_a_mob
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![]() | Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Monster Hunter | Kill each of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_all_mobs
|
History
| beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | 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 | 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 Edition | |||||
| 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
- 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%.
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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