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Cave Spider
Health points 12HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 6
Behavior Neutral
Mob type πŸ‘ Image
Monster

πŸ‘ Image
Arthropod
Attack
strength
Melee:

Easy: 2HPπŸ‘ ❀️

Normal: 2HPπŸ‘ ❀️

Hard: 3HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ πŸ’”


πŸ‘ Image
Venom:

1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
per 1.25 seconds
Normal: πŸ‘ Image
Poison
for 7 seconds (HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
)
Hard: πŸ‘ Image
Poison
for 15 seconds (HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 6
)

Hitbox size Height: 0.5 blocks
Width: 0.7 blocks
Speed 0.3
Spawn
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A cave spider is a smaller spider variant that spawns in sulfur caves. It behaves similarly to the normal spider, but has less health and inflicts Poison with its attacks.

Spawning

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πŸ‘ Image
Size of a cave spider (left) compared to a regular spider (right).

Natural spawning

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Cave spiders replace all spider spawns in sulfur caves.

Cave Spider spawns in:
Category: MonsterJava EditionBedrock Edition
Spawn areaSpawn weightSpawn chanceGroup sizeSpawn weightGroup size
πŸ‘ Image
Sulfur Caves
20⁄3156.35%1201

Monster spawners

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Cave spiders spawn from monster spawners in mineshafts at a light level of 0. These monster spawners are surrounded by cobwebs in corridors.

Trial spawners

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Cave spiders have a 25% chance to be selected as the "small melee" mob for trial spawners in trial chambers.

Spider jockeys

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Main article: Spider Jockey
This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.
 

There is a 1% chance for a cave spider to spawn with a skeleton riding it, forming a cave spider jockey. The skeleton has an 80% chance to be replaced by a stray, bogged, parched, or wither skeleton in the biomes where they spawn. Similar to regular spiders, the skeleton controls how both mobs move. Cave spider jockeys can fit through smaller gaps than spider jockeys.

Drops

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On death

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Java Edition:

ItemQuantity / Chance / Average
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String0–266.67%1.000–383.33%1.500–491.67%2.000–594.44%2.50
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]0–133.33%0.330–266.67%0.830–383.33%1.330–488.89%1.83
ItemQuantity / Chance / Average
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String0–22⁄310–35⁄63⁄20–411⁄1220–517⁄185⁄2
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]0–11⁄31⁄30–22⁄35⁄60–35⁄64⁄30–48⁄911⁄6
ItemAmountProbability
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String01⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄6 (16.67%)1⁄12 (8.33%)1⁄18 (5.56%)
11⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄4 (25.00%)1⁄6 (16.67%)
21⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)5⁄18 (27.78%)
301⁄6 (16.67%)1⁄4 (25.00%)5⁄18 (27.78%)
4001⁄12 (8.33%)1⁄6 (16.67%)
50001⁄18 (5.56%)
Average1 (1.00)3⁄2 (1.50)2 (2.00)5⁄2 (2.50)
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]02⁄3 (66.67%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄6 (16.67%)1⁄9 (11.11%)
11⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄2 (50.00%)5⁄12 (41.67%)5⁄18 (27.78%)
201⁄6 (16.67%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)
3001⁄12 (8.33%)2⁄9 (22.22%)
40001⁄18 (5.56%)
Average1⁄3 (0.33)5⁄6 (0.83)4⁄3 (1.33)11⁄6 (1.83)
Killed1
ItemExpected Drops
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String1.001.502.002.50
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]0.330.831.331.83
  1. ↑ Only when killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

Bedrock Edition:

ItemQuantity / Chance / Average
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String0–266.67%1.000–366.67%1.330–466.67%1.670–566.67%2.00
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]0–150.00%0.500–250.00%0.750–350.00%1.000–450.00%1.25
ItemQuantity / Chance / Average
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String0–22⁄310–32⁄34⁄30–42⁄35⁄30–52⁄32
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]0–11⁄21⁄20–21⁄23⁄40–31⁄210–41⁄25⁄4
ItemAmountProbability
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String01⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)
11⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄6 (16.67%)1⁄12 (8.33%)1⁄18 (5.56%)
21⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄3 (33.33%)1⁄4 (25.00%)1⁄6 (16.67%)
301⁄6 (16.67%)1⁄4 (25.00%)2⁄9 (22.22%)
4001⁄12 (8.33%)1⁄6 (16.67%)
50001⁄18 (5.56%)
Average1 (1.00)4⁄3 (1.33)5⁄3 (1.67)2 (2.00)
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]01⁄2 (50.00%)1⁄2 (50.00%)1⁄2 (50.00%)1⁄2 (50.00%)
11⁄2 (50.00%)1⁄4 (25.00%)1⁄8 (12.50%)1⁄12 (8.33%)
201⁄4 (25.00%)1⁄4 (25.00%)1⁄6 (16.67%)
3001⁄8 (12.50%)1⁄6 (16.67%)
40001⁄12 (8.33%)
Average1⁄2 (0.50)3⁄4 (0.75)1 (1.00)5⁄4 (1.25)
Killed1
ItemExpected Drops
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
πŸ‘ Image
String1.001.331.672.00
πŸ‘ Image
Spider Eye[A]0.500.751.001.25
  1. ↑ Only when killed by a player.

Behavior

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Cave spiders inherit their behavior from spiders:

  • They are neutral if under daylight or in light levels of 12 or above, otherwise hostile toward players and iron golems. Once they become hostile, light does not affect them.
  • They attack by leaping and biting.
  • They are unaffected by cobwebs and Poison.
  • They are scared of armadillos.

They have some distinctions from regular spiders:

  • They can fit through a space that is one block wide and 1⁄2 block tall.
  • They can go through the spaces between two different types of (unconnected) fences.
  • They cannot spawn with status effects in Hard difficulty.β€Œ[Java Edition only]
  • They flip 90Β° upon death.β€Œ[Bedrock Edition only][1]

Being arthropods, they are weak against weapons with the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Unlike other neutral mobs, cave spiders don't count towards the AngryAt tag.[2][3][4]

The red eyes of cave spiders are emissive with Vibrant Visuals, making them easily distinguishable in the dark caves where they spawn.

Poison

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On Normal or Hard difficulty, cave spiders inflict πŸ‘ Image
Poison
upon attacking.[5] On Normal difficulty, the Poison lasts for 7 seconds and causes 6HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
damage. On Hard difficulty, it lasts for 15 seconds and causes 12HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 6
. Poison damage is not taken when the player's health is at 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
.

Jockey

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This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.
 
πŸ‘ Image
A cave spider ridden by a baby zombie

15% of nearby baby zombies, husks, or drowned may ride a cave spider that was not spawned as a spider jockey, to form a jockey.

Sounds

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Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Spider hisses [sound 1]Hostile MobsRandomlyentity.spider.ambient​[sound 1]​subtitles.entity.spider.ambient​​[sound 1]​1.00.8–1.216
​Spider dies [sound 1]Hostile MobsWhen a cave spider diesentity.spider.death​[sound 1]​subtitles.entity.spider.death​​[sound 1]​1.00.8–1.216
​Spider hurts [sound 1]Hostile MobsWhen a cave spider is damagedentity.spider.hurt​[sound 1]​subtitles.entity.spider.hurt​​[sound 1]​1.00.8–1.216
​FootstepsHostile MobsWhile a cave spider is walkingentity.spider.step​[sound 1]​subtitles.generic.block.footsteps​0.151.016
  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j The cave spider reuses all of the spider's sound events instead of having its own, resulting in these somewhat unintuitive subtitles - see MC-98316

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​ ?Hostile MobsRandomlymob.spider.say​ ?1.00.8–1.2
​ ?Hostile MobsWhen a cave spider diesmob.spider.death​ ?1.00.8–1.2
​ ?Hostile MobsWhen a cave spider is damagedmob.spider.say​ ?1.00.8–1.2
​ ?Hostile MobsWhile a cave spider is walkingmob.spider.step​ ?0.350.9–1.1

Data values

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Java Edition:

NameIdentifierEntity tags Translation key
πŸ‘ EntitySprite cave-spider.png: Sprite image for cave-spider in Minecraft
Cave Spider
cave_spiderarthropod
no_anger_from_wind_charge
sensitive_to_bane_of_arthropods
entity.minecraft.cave_spider

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FamilyTranslation key
πŸ‘ EntitySprite cave-spider.png: Sprite image for cave-spider in Minecraft
Cave Spider
cave_spider40 arthropod
cavespider
mob
monster
entity.cave_spider.name

Entity data

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Cave spiders have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

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IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
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Monster HunterAttack and destroy a monster. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.15Bronze
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It SpreadsKill a mob next to a catalystKill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.10Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements

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IconAdvancementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)
πŸ‘ Image
πŸ‘ Image
Monster HunterKill any hostile monster Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
πŸ‘ Image
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It SpreadsKill a mob near a Sculk CatalystKill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
πŸ‘ Image
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Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

History

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Java Edition

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The specific instructions are: replace the image in the announcement with a recreated render
Java Edition Beta
1.8Pre-releaseπŸ‘ Image
Added cave spiders.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2Cave 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 20HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 10
to 12HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 6
.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4Cave spiders are now immune to the Poison status effect.
Cave spiders are now considered arthropods.
1.2.112w06aCave 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.
1.7.21.7Cave spiders no longer attack after being provoked by players in Creative mode.
1.814w06aCave spiders no longer draw a line of sight through opaque blocks.
Cave spiders have been given the new AI that regular spiders have received.
14w11aCave 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.
1.8.1pre1Cave spiders no longer run away from creepers that are about to explode.
1.1116w32aThe cave spider's entity ID has been changed from CaveSpider to cave_spider.
October 16, 2017πŸ‘ Image
Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of an updated cave spider texture.
1.1418w43aπŸ‘ Image
The texture of cave spiders has been changed.
1.1620w10aFirework damage now provokes cave spiders.[6]
1.1922w11aπŸ‘ Image
Fixed texture mapping of cave spiders.[7]
1.20.3
Experiment
Update 1.21
23w45aCave spiders now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.20.524w03aCave spiders are now scared of armadillos when not in a rolled up state.
1.20.5
Experiment
Update 1.21
24w04aCave spiders no longer retaliate against attacks from the breeze.
26.2snap1Added the sulfur caves, which can naturally spawn cave spiders.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0build 1πŸ‘ Image
Added cave spiders with their jockey variant.
v0.12.1build 1Cave spiders now have a walking sound.
Cave spiders can now spawn with wither skeletons riding them when spawning as a spider jockey in the Nether.
Cave spiders now drop spider eyes.
v0.14.0build 1Cave spiders can now be ridden by baby zombies and baby zombie villagers.
v0.15.0build 1Cave spiders can now spawn with strays riding them when spawning as a spider jockey in snowy biomes with a view of the sky.
Cave spiders can now be ridden by baby husks.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0The cave spider's Poison time from attack has been changed to be based on difficulty.
The cave spider's entity ID has been changed from cavespider to cave_spider.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3πŸ‘ Image
The texture of cave spiders has been changed.
1.19.0Preview 1.19.0.21πŸ‘ Image
Fixed texture mapping of cave spiders.[8]
1.20.60
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.20.60.20Cave spiders now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.70
Experiment
Armadillo and Wolf Armor
Preview 1.20.70.20Cave spiders now flee from armadillos that are not rolled up.
1.20.70
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.20.70.21Cave spiders no longer retaliate against attacks from breezes.
1.21.130Preview 1.21.130.26Baby zombie villagers can no longer mount cave spiders.
26.0Preview 26.0.27Baby drowned can now search for cave spiders to mount.
Due to a bug, baby husks can no longer mount cave spiders.[9]
26.10Preview 26.10.24Baby husks can once again mount cave spiders.
26.30Preview 26.30.29Cave spiders can now spawn in sulfur caves.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU5CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1πŸ‘ Image
Added cave spiders. They are as large as regular spiders.
TU9The size of cave spiders has been corrected.
TU12Cave 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 πŸ‘ Image
The texture of cave spiders has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0πŸ‘ Image
Added cave spiders.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Cave Spider" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

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  • 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

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Screenshots

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Textures

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In other media

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References

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  1. ↑ MCPE-41417 β€“ resolved as "Won't Fix".
  2. ↑ MC-256289 β€“ AngryAt tag is not used by certain neutral mobs, causing them to forget their target upon reloading game
  3. ↑ MC-195278 β€“ If the "universalAnger" is set to true, certain neutral mobs don't fight back when you attack them
  4. ↑ MC-187857 β€“ New neutral mob behavior improvements were not implemented for llamas, dolphins, and spiders in the daylight
  5. ↑ "Your health hearts turn yellowish" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), September 2, 2011
  6. ↑ MC-111498 β€“ Fireworks and water bottles damage don't make neutral mobs angry or hostile β€“ resolved as "Fixed".
  7. ↑ MC-127885 β€“ resolved as "Fixed".
  8. ↑ MCPE-152927 β€“ resolved as "Fixed".
  9. ↑ MCPE-234690

External links

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