Spider

Spawning

Spiders spawn in dark Overworld spaces and use the standard hostile cave profile. In the local biome data their monster entry is a group of four with weight 100; the same family can also appear in trial-chamber melee encounters.

• StoneBlock
• CobwebBlock
• Dark ForestBiome
• Spider Spawn EggItem

Drops

The entity loot table rolls string independently from a player-kill spider-eye pool. String ranges from 0–2 before Looting, while the eye pool can produce 0–1 only when the spider is killed by a player.

• StringItem
• Spider EyeItem

Combat and interactions

A spider targets players and iron golems in dark conditions, can carry a skeleton as a jockey with a one-percent spawn chance, and ignores Poison effects. Its cave navigation uses wall-climber pathfinding rather than a flying or swimming movement model.

• Iron GolemMob
• SkeletonMob
• Spider EyeItem

Sounds

Spiders have separate ambient, hurt, death, and step sounds. Their sound profile stays tied to the mob entity even while it is climbing a wall or carrying a rider.

Behavior

Spiders climb walls and navigate caves as hostile mobs. The climbing behavior changes pathing rather than the loot rules, so the same two loot pools apply whether the spider reaches the player on the floor or on a wall. They avoid non-scared armadillos, leap at targets, and stop their attack goal when bright light breaks the hostile condition.

• StringItem
• Spider EyeItem
• Spider Spawn EggItem
• CobwebBlock

Data values

The mob uses the `minecraft:spider` identifier and its drop source is the namespaced entity loot table. The spawn egg is a separate creative-facing item and does not replace natural spawning.

Data: Data values

Identifier	minecraft:spider
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Entity ID	minecraft:spider
Loot table	minecraft:entities/spider
Spawn egg	Spider Spawn Eggspider_spawn_egg

• Spider Spawn EggItem

History

The spider remains a compact hostile cave mob with wall climbing, a melee leap, and conditional drops. The current entity definition also makes its health, speed, sound set, poison immunity, and rare skeleton jockey behavior explicit.

Trivia

On Hard difficulty, a newly spawned spider can receive one of four effects: Speed, Strength, Regeneration, or Invisibility. The effect is a spawn-time property and is not guaranteed for every spider.

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See also

• Mob catalogue
• Minecraft Wiki overview
• Cave spiderMob
• Spider eyeItem
• StringItem
• Spider Spawn EggItem
• CobwebBlock
• StoneBlock
• Dark ForestBiome

References

Data: References

Local source	Spiderspider

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