The cave spider is a neutral mob that can inflict poisoning.
Spawning
Monster spawners
Cave spiders spawn from monster spawners in abandoned mine shafts.
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). Likewise, subjecting them to darkness will render them hostile.
- They can climb walls when needed.
- They attack by leaping at the player.
- They are not affected by cobwebs or poison.
However, cave spiders will not spawn with beneficial status effects and cannot spawn as spider jockeys.
Venom
When bitten by a cave spider on difficulties higher than easy, the bitten entity is inflicted with Poison I[1] for 7 seconds on normal difficulty and 15 seconds on hard.
History
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| 1.8 | 1.8-pre1 | Added cave spiders. | |||
| r | |||||
| 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. | |||
| pu | |||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Added cave spiders. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | 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 1×0.5×1 block.
Cave spider and its spawner.
See also
References
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