Spider

Spider

Health points	16HP × 8
Behavior	Neutral (If light level 12 or more) Hostile (if light level 11 or less)
Mob type	Arthropod, Monster
Attack strength	Easy: 2HP Normal: 2HP Hard: 3HP
Hitbox size	Height: 0.9 blocks Width: 1.4 blocks
Speed	0.3
Spawn	Light level of 0, 3×1×3 space centered on a solid block (spawns only on top of the central block). Monster Room: from monster spawners. Woodland Mansion: from monster spawners. Trial Chambers: from trial spawners.

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A spider is a neutral mob that attacks the player in dark areas or in retaliation. Spiders attack by lunging at their target and biting them, and can also climb walls.

Spawning

Up to four spiders may spawn in a 3×1×3 space centered on an opaque block in the Overworld at a light level of 0, except in mushroom fields and deep dark biomes. In Java Edition, the block above the spawning space cannot be a full solid block, including transparent ones such as leaves or glass, but non-full blocks, such as soul sand or slabs, are allowed. In Bedrock Edition, spiders do not spawn in groups.

Monster spawners

Spiders spawn from monster spawners found in monster rooms (25% chance) as well as in secret rooms surrounded by cobwebs in woodland mansions.

Trial spawners

Spiders have a ¹⁄₃ chance to be selected as the "melee" mob for trial spawners in trial chambers.

Status effects

Spiders occasionally spawn with status effects in Hard difficulty. For each pack spawn, there is a (10×clamped regional difficulty)% chance of the game applying a status effect. This does not apply to cave spiders. These spiders can spawn with following effects:

• Speed (40% chance)
• Strength (20% chance)
• Regeneration (20% chance)
• Invisibility (20% chance)

The effect is then applied to all entities within the pack, lasting forever. If the Invisibility status effect is applied to a spider, its eyes remain visible.

Spider jockeys

There is a 1% chance for a spider to spawn with a skeleton riding it, forming a spider jockey. In Java Edition, a spider jockey can also be spawned by the command /summon spider ~ ~ ~ {Passengers: [{id:skeleton}]}.

The skeleton controls how both mobs move. The spider can still climb walls, but the skeleton suffocates if the spider runs into a ceiling. The skeleton and the spider cannot damage each other.

Drops

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	String	100%	0–2	0–3	0–4	0–5
	Spider Eye	33.33%–66.67%	1 (33.33%)	1–2 (50%)	1–3 (60%)	1–4 (66.67%)

5XP experience orbs are dropped by a spider when it is killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

A spider stays hostile toward the player or an iron golem as long as the light level immediately around the spider is 11 or less; otherwise, it does not attack unless attacked first. If a spider chases its target into an area where the light level immediately around the spider is above 11, it returns to a neutral state. However, spiders pursue targets regardless of the light level in retaliation to an attack. Spiders don't instantly become hostile to the player in low-light levels, if the player stays in their range for too long, they become hostile to the player. ‌

Hostile spiders see up to 16 blocks, and pounce at close range.

Spiders can climb up over solid blocks that are not magma blocks‌, but do not climb on underside surfaces. A spider pursuing a player can detect a player through blocks. If a spider cannot find an ideal path to the player due to a wall barring the way, it approaches as close as possible to the player's position and proceeds to climb the wall vertically until it gets to the top, even if it loses its aggression toward the player. When a spider loses its aggression, it continues moving forward blindly for 2 seconds; this behavior causes the spider to climb up any walls in its path.

When climbing a wall, a spider may sometimes reach a corner and become stuck in a climbing status, thus losing and becoming unable to be aggravated.

Spiders gravitate towards cobwebs.

Spiders flee from armadillos that are not in a rolled-up state.

If a spider tries to go through the world border, it starts climbing the world border instead.‌

Spider can also climb on full boats, full boats with chests and shulkers.

Even though normal spiders do not inflict the Poison status effect, they are immune to it. They are also immune to the slowing applied to most mobs when walking through cobwebs.

Spiders flip onto their backs when they die, unlike most other mobs, which fall to one side.

The Bane of Arthropods enchantment inflicts Slowness IV and deals more damage to spiders.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Spiders use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Spider hisses	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.spider.ambient	subtitles.entity.spider.ambient​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Spider dies	Hostile Creatures	When a spider dies	entity.spider.death	subtitles.entity.spider.death​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Spider hurts	Hostile Creatures	When a spider is damaged	entity.spider.hurt	subtitles.entity.spider.hurt​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Footsteps	Hostile Creatures	While a spider is walking	entity.spider.step	subtitles.generic.block.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	mob.spider.say	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a spider dies	mob.spider.death	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a spider is damaged	mob.spider.say	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	While a spider is walking	mob.spider.step	0.35	0.9-1.1

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Spider	spider	arthropod dismounts_underwater no_anger_from_wind_charge sensitive_to_bane_of_arthropods	entity.minecraft.spider

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Spider	spider	35	entity.spider.name

Entity data

Spiders have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	—	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.

History

October 23, 2009							Spiders were proposed in a blog post, where they would produce "web tiles".
[hide]Java Edition Classic
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST/Development							Tested spiders.
							They had different texture, which is brown instead of black.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST							Added spiders.
							The texture of spiders was changed from brown on October 23, 2009, at 23:45 UTC, roughly 28 minutes before the release of this version, because of a suggestion from a user on the TIGSource forums.
							Spiders are the fifth mob added in Survival Test.
							Spiders currently cannot jump far.
							Killing spiders gives the player 10 points.
							The eyes of spiders currently do not glow.
0.27 SURVIVAL TEST							Spiders now give 105 points when killed.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Spiders and other mobs no longer spawn naturally.
			20100202				Spiders and other mobs now spawn naturally again. However, they are currently passive.
			20100204-2027				Spiders are now hostile again.
20100213							The eyes on spiders now glow in the dark.
							Spiders now don't attack the player in daylight unless provoked.
20100219							Spiders now drop 0–2 string upon death.
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.3							Added unique idle and hurt sounds for spiders. Previously, they had no idle sounds and used the hurt sound for players.
v1.0.17							Added spider jockeys, which are skeletons spawned riding spiders.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2							Spiders have been given the ability to climb vertical walls made of any block and could "see" the player through solid blocks to track them down.
1.4							Spiders no longer trample crops.
							Spiders now make quieter step sounds.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Spiders now drop 0-1 spider eye when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
							The health points of spiders have been reduced from 20HP × 10 to 16HP × 8.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Spiders are now immune to the poison status effect.
							Spiders are now considered arthropods.
1.3.1			?				Spiders now become aggressive toward the last mob or player that hit them.
1.4.2			12w39a				Spiders have been given a new walking sound.
1.6.1			13w24a				Spiders now have a chance of spawning with the Speed, Strength, Regeneration, or Invisibility status effects on Hard difficulty.
1.7.2			1.7				Spiders are no longer provoked when attacked by the player in creative mode.
1.8			14w06a				Spiders can no longer see the player through blocks.
							Spiders have been updated to the new AI system, including AI specially made for spiders, allowing them to better take control of their climbing ability.
			14w11a				Spiders now run away from creepers that are about to explode.
1.8.1			pre1				Spiders no longer run away from creepers that are about to explode.
1.9			15w36a				Spiders can now draw lines of sight through blocks again.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of spiders has been changed.
							As a result of the spider texture change, the spiders that spawn with the Speed, Strength, or Regeneration status effects on Hard difficulty now have a different look.
1.16			20w10a				Firework damage now provokes spiders.
1.19			22w11a				Fixed texture mapping of spiders.
1.19.4			Pre-release 4				Natural potion effects on spiders now last infinitely long instead of about 3.3 years.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Spiders now spawn in trial chambers.
1.20.5			24w03a				Spiders are now scared of armadillos when not in a rolled up state.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w04a				No longer retaliates against attacks from the breeze.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.3							Added spiders.
							On Android mobile devices, the abdomen on spiders is sometimes missing.
v0.7.3							The eyes on spiders now glow in the dark.
v0.8.0			build 1				Spiders now have abdomens on Android mobile devices.
			build 3				Spiders are a little faster.
v0.9.0			build 1				Leaves now have a chance of spawning spiders, creating a higher amount of spiders in tree-rich biomes at night.
							The spider's AI has been updated.
			build 4				The animation for spiders is now twice as fast.
v0.9.2							Spiders no longer draw a line of sight through solid blocks.
v0.11.0			build 1				Added spider jockeys, which are skeletons spawned riding spiders.
v0.12.1			build 1				Spiders now drop spider eyes.
							Spiders that spawn in the Nether now have a chance to spawn as wither skeleton jockeys.
v0.14.0			build 1				Baby zombie jockeys now check for nearby spiders to mount prior to attacking the player, villagers, snow golems, and iron golems.
v0.15.0			build 1				Baby husks can now mount spiders.
							Spiders that spawn in snowy biomes in view of sky can now spawn as stray jockeys.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
?							Spiders can now draw lines of sight through blocks again.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of spiders has been changed.
?							Wither skeletons and strays no longer spawn as riders in spider jockeys.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.20.28				Spiders now deal 2HP damage on Normal difficulty instead of 3HP, matching Java Edition.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Fixed texture mapping of spiders.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Spiders now spawn in trial chambers behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.70 Experiment Armadillo and Wolf Armor			Preview 1.20.70.20				Spiders now flee from armadillos that are not rolled up.
1.20.70 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.70.21				Spiders no longer retaliate against attacks from breezes.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added spiders.
TU14		1.04					Spiders now become aggressive toward the last mob or player that hit them.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Spiders now have a chance of spawning with the Speed, Strength, Regeneration, or Invisibility status effects on Hard difficulty.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Spiders can no longer see the player through blocks.
							Spiders have been updated to the new AI system, including AI specially made for spiders, allowing them to better take control of their climbing ability.
			1.90				The texture of spiders has been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added spiders.

• 

  The original spider in 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST development; Markus Persson made it black with red eyes before releasing that version.

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  A recreation of the original brown spider texture.

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  A spider during late alpha.

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  Image of a giant spider shared by Jeb.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID has been changed from Spider to spider.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​

Issues

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

Trivia

• Spiders are able to climb walls because they are programmed by Jens Bergensten to treat the sides of blocks as ladders.
• In normal conditions, spiders actually float above the ground, but this is often not noticeable due to the difference between the player's height and a spider's height.
• When a spider wanders inside an enclosed space, it often climbs up a wall until reaching the ceiling, after which it become stuck, unable to exit the climbing state even if it is attacked or becomes hostile to the player.
• Spider sounds were created by distorting garden hose sounds.

Gallery

Renders

• 

  A spider with the Speed effect.

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  A spider with the Strength effect.

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  A spider with the Regeneration effect.

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  A spider with the Invisibility effect.

Screenshots

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  A spider.

• 

  A spider spawning on a single block.

• 

  With the same amount of space given, these spiders can spawn under the bottom slabs, but not under the glass blocks, because glass is a full block, even though it is transparent, but slabs are not full blocks.

• 

  A spider jockey.

• 

  Spiders are one of the most visible mobs at night due to their glowing red eyes.

• 

  Spiders climbing.

• 

  A view of a spider from below.

• 

  Spider shot by a skeleton.

• 

  A spider and its monster spawner in a monster room.

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  A spider in a 1.5×1.5 space.

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  A spider's vision when spectating it.

• 

  The bottom of a canyon through a spider's eyes.

• 

  Spiders can even climb soul sand.

• 

  A spider climbing a wall.

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  A spider jockey spawning with skeleton's head in the glass.

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  A spider with Invisibility during the night.

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  Another spider with Invisibility during the night.

Textures

• 

  Spider texture file.

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  Spider eyes texture file.

In other media

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  Artwork of a spider.

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  Spiders in promotional artwork for the second Caves & Cliffs update.

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  A spider artwork.

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  A spider artwork.

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  A spider artwork.

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  A spider artwork.

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  Kai fighting a spider, from the Tricky Trials Update Official Trailer.

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  LEGO Minecraft Spider.

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  The spider plush made by JINX.

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  The potato spider from 24w14potato.

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  A Spider, as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

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  A Spider, as it appears in Minecraft Story Mode.

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  A spider on fire, from How We Make Minecraft.

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  Spider concept art for A Minecraft Movie.