Spear

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.

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.