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 unaffected by cobwebs or poison.
- Can fit through a space that is 1 block wide and half a block tall.
However, cave spiders will not spawn with beneficial status effects and cannot spawn as spider jockeys, except in Pocket Edition. They also jump higher and faster than regular spiders.
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.
History
| b | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| pa | |||||
| 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. | ||||
| 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
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Picture of cave spider going through a 1×1×0.5 block.
Cave spider and its spawner.
See also
References
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