Cave Spider
Cave Spider — mob.
Natural spawning
Cave spiders are most strongly associated with abandoned mineshaft monster spawners. Trial chambers use the small-melee profile, and sulfur caves can select a single cave spider in their monster spawn list.
| Main source | Abandoned mineshaft spawner |
|---|---|
| Trial profile | Small melee |
| Trial normal cap | 3 mobs + 0.5 per player |
| Trial ominous cap | 4 mobs + 0.5 per player |
| Trial interval | 20 ticks |
| Trial ominous total | 12 mobs |
| Ominous total | 12 mobs |
| Sulfur caves | Weight 20, group 1–1 |
Drops
The cave spider's entity loot table rolls string independently from spider eyes. The eye pool is checked only when a player makes the kill; Looting adds to both ranges.
| String | 0–2 plus Looting bonus |
|---|---|
| Spider eye | -1–1 base roll on player kill plus Looting bonus |
| Spider eye condition | Killed by a player |
| Loot table | minecraft:entities/cave_spider |
| Experience | Hostile-mob experience on player kill |
Gameplay
The wall-climbing navigation lets cave spiders follow players through vertical mineshaft passages. They target players and iron golems, avoid bright areas, and treat poison as an ineffective effect against themselves.
Sounds
Cave spiders inherit the regular spider sound set for ambient, damage, death and footsteps.
| Ambient | entity.spider.ambient |
|---|---|
| Hurt | entity.spider.hurt |
| Death | entity.spider.death |
| Step | entity.spider.step |
Behavior
The cave spider is a hostile arthropod descended from the spider family. It is smaller than a regular spider, climbs solid walls, and can poison a target after a successful attack on normal or hard difficulty.
| Category | hostile |
|---|---|
| Max health | 12 |
| Width | 0.7 |
| Height | 0.5 |
| Summonable | Yes |
| Fire immune | No |
| Family | Arthropod |
| Health | 12 |
| Movement speed | 0.3 |
| Size | 0.7 × 0.5 blocks |
| Eye height | 0.45 blocks |
| Wall climbing | Yes |
| Peaceful difficulty | Does not spawn |
| Poison on normal | 7 seconds |
| Poison on hard | 15 seconds |
| Poison immunity | Yes |
| Cobweb slowdown | Ignored by the spider family |
Data values
The entity is registered as `minecraft:cave_spider` in the monster category and uses the spider renderer family.
| Identifier | minecraft:cave_spider |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Entity ID | minecraft:cave_spider |
| Category | Monster |
| Tracking range | 8 blocks |
| Related class | CaveSpider.java |
| Related entity | Spider |
Gallery
See also
References
| Local source | Cave Spidercave_spider |
|---|---|
| Entity implementation | `net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/spider/CaveSpider.java` |
| Spider family behavior | `net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/spider/Spider.java` |
| Entity registration | `net/minecraft/world/entity/EntityTypes.java` |
| Attributes | `net/minecraft/world/entity/ai/attributes/DefaultAttributes.java` |
| Entity loot | `data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/cave_spider.json` |
| Trial normal profile | `data/minecraft/trial_spawner/trial_chamber/small_melee/cave_spider/normal.json` |
| Trial ominous profile | `data/minecraft/trial_spawner/trial_chamber/small_melee/cave_spider/ominous.json` |
Navigation
Data and provenance
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Facts
| Category | hostile |
|---|---|
| Max health | 12 |
| Width | 0.7 |
| Height | 0.5 |
| Summonable | Yes |
| Fire immune | No |
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