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Cave Spider

Venom:1HP per 1.25 secondsNormal: Poison for 7 seconds (HP)Hard: Poison for 15 seconds (HP × 6)

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.

Cave spiders replace all spider spawns in sulfur caves.

Source: Minecraft Wiki cacheUpdated: 2026-06-25 Open Original

Local game data

Cave Spider

Java 1.21.4
Typemob
Stack-
Height0.5
Sections6
Canonical IDmob:cave_spider
Minecraft IDminecraft:cave_spider
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Local Data Properties

displayNameCave Spider
namecave_spider
id21
categoryHostile mobs
typehostile
width0.7
height0.5