Spear

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A spear is a tiered melee weapon that can be used to perform slow jab attacks or held forward to do charge attacks which deal damage based on the velocity of the user and the target. Spears have especially long reach, but cannot hit targets that are too close.

There are seven spear variants:

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  Wooden Spear
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  Golden Spear
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  Stone Spear
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  Copper Spear
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  Iron Spear
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  Diamond Spear
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  Netherite Spear

Zombies, husks, zombie villagers‌^{[Java Edition only]}, zombie horsemen, and camel husk jockey riders can spawn wielding iron spears, while piglins and zombified piglins can spawn wielding golden spears. These spears have an 8.5% chance of dropping upon death, increased to a maximum of 11.5% with the Looting III enchantment.

It is also possible to get the golden spear from a piglin by dropping a crossbow or sword nearby, which the piglin will swap its spear for. It then requires precise timing to pick it up before the piglin does.

{ "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28499313621704003, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.26272689215304357, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Copper Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3061199435519687, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16666666666666674, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

{ "item": "Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

{ "item": "Damaged Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Copper Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28499313621704003, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.26272689215304357, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Copper Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3061199435519687, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16666666666666674, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }

{ "item": "Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16629350702218604, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

{ "item": "Damaged Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16629350702218604, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Copper Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

Spears have a longer attack range than other weapons, at 4.5 blocks rather than 3 blocks. However, they also have a minimum attack range value that prevents attacking entities that are within 2 blocks of the user.^{[note 1]} Unlike all other weapons, including a bare hand, spears cannot do critical hits or sprint-knockback attacks.^[1]

Spears can damage multiple entities with a single attack. Spears inflate the hitboxes of targets by 0.125 when calculating hit registration, giving them more effective area. Spears also have a unique ability to attack through non-solid blocks like cobwebs and tall grass. In Java Edition, spear attacks (both jab and charge attacks) are also uniquely capable of causing horizontal knockback to primed TNT. Spears have two methods of attacking:

A spear can be used with the attack button to perform a jab attack, dealing damage at an amount dependent on the tier of the spear. Jab attacks have a unique type of cooldown that cannot be bypassed:

• In Java Edition, they use a variant of the attack cooldown where attacking is not possible until 100% charge, unlike other weapons.
• In Bedrock Edition, they instead have a use cooldown like that of an ender pearl, creating a similar forced-cooldown effect. The use cooldown triggers for all spear tiers in the inventory, not only the tier that was jabbed with.

A spear can still perform a charge attack while the jab attack is on cooldown, and thus by alternating between jab attacks and charge attacks the rate of attacks can be effectively doubled. Jab attacks do one additional damage in Bedrock Edition compared to Java Edition.^[2] The jab attack of copper spears is strictly worse than stone spears, due to having a lower attack speed‌^{[JE only]} / longer use cooldown‌^{[BE only]} with identical attack damage.^[3] Switching to a spear in Bedrock Edition does not cause the use cooldown to need to charge, unlike the attack cooldown in Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, there is a several tick delay after doing a jab attack where a charge attack cannot be initiated.^[4]

The spear can alternatively be lowered into an attack position by holding the use button, where colliding with a target deals damage depending on the velocity of the user and the velocity of the target. Charge attacks require a movement speed difference of 5.1 blocks per second between the attacker and the target in order to deal damage. Because of this, mobs like skeletons that strafe backwards will often only take knockback from charge attacks. Charge attacks can hit multiple entities, and in Bedrock Edition there is a 0.5 second (10 tick) delay between charge attack connections. A charge attack can be dealt even when the jab attack is on cooldown. Charge attacks go through three stages when held out:

• Engaged
  • The first state of a charge attack, indicated by the spear being held out steadily.
  • The attack deals damage, inflicts knockback, and dismounts attacked targets from their mounts.
• Tired
  • The second state of a charge attack, indicated by the spear rotating sideways and shaking.
  • The attack deals damage and inflicts knockback.
• Disengaged
  • The final state of a charge attack, indicated by the spear being lowered down to the bottom of the screen.
  • The attack only deals damage.

In Java Edition, spears can do charge attacks while in the offhand, while in Bedrock Edition spears cannot be held in the offhand. Charge attacks can still deal damage while the user is standing still, if the target is moving towards the user. The damage done by the charge attack is its damage multiplier multiplied by the velocity of the attacker relative to the target in blocks per second. Charge attacks are not influenced by the Strength or Weakness effects.^[5][6] In Bedrock Edition, spear charge attacks produce critical hit particles when striking targets, but they aren't actually critical hits. A charge attack can be canceled at any time, regardless of the stage it's in. When doing a charge attack directly after a jab attack, the spear will perform the jab animation and then flourish into the charge attack position in two rotations.‌^{[JE only][7]}

The tier of a given spear alters the behavior of jab and charge attacks:

Positive effects of higher tiers

• Higher attack damage and attack multipliers than lower tiered spears.
• Charge attacks start up faster than lower tiered spears (shorter activation delay).

Negative effects of higher tiers

• Jab attacks have longer attack cooldowns in Java Edition, and longer use cooldowns in Bedrock Edition.
• Charge attacks progress through their charge attack states faster, losing their dismounting effect and ability to do knockback earlier than lower tiered spears.
• Charge attacks have a longer recovery time after progressing through all three stages.

The spear is the only weapon in the game aside from loaded crossbows‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} that can not be used to break blocks, because a jab attack is performed even if the player is looking at a block.

Spears cannot perform critical hits or sprint-knockback attacks.

In Java Edition, spears have differing attack speeds, and have the following statistics:

In Bedrock Edition, spears have differing use cooldowns, and have the following statistics:

Zombies, husks, zombie villagers, zombified piglins, and piglins wielding spears have unique attacking behavior. When attacking, they use the spear's charge attack while moving towards their target. They hold the charge through its full duration, using all 3 stages. Once the charge attack has ended or they get too close to their target, they walk away to increase the distance between them and their target before turning around to begin another charge. These are also the only mobs which can naturally pick up spears.

When wielded by any other mob, such as skeletons, they instead use the spear's jab attack when in melee range. Like players, the 2-4.5 blocks attacking range applies to these mobs as well. The Lunge enchantment will also take effect for these mobs.

A spear can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the spear's maximum durability, rounded down. Two spears of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil with an extra 12% durability, in Bedrock Edition the extra durability is approximately 6% for this item.^{[note 7]} Both methods preserve the spear's enchantments.

A spear can receive the following enchantments:

The enchantments on a spear used in the offhand‌^{[Java Edition only]} do not apply to its charge attacks.^[8][9][10]

Spears enchanted with Lunge propel the player forward when a jab attack is performed, at the cost of consuming saturation and hunger points at an amount dependent on the enchantment level, as well as consuming 1 durability. Saturation points are consumed first, and then hunger points are consumed after. Lunge does not trigger when the player has less than 6 hunger points, is riding a mount, is gliding with an elytra, or if the user is in water. Level I consumes 1 saturation/hunger points, level II takes 2 saturation/hunger points, and level III takes 3 saturation/hunger points.

By initiating a charge attack directly after a jab attack, the charge attack can be connected using the velocity gained with Lunge. There must be significant distance between the user and the target to give time for the charge attack's activation delay to fully finish after jabbing.

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