Combat profile
For Minecraft 26.3 / NeoForge, wave base values and supported behavior can be changed per registry entry: see health, damage and base armor and mob abilities. Tier, size and wave scaling still apply.
Behavior
It inherits IM Spider climbing, mining, support, melee, and Nexus behavior. Adult mothers lay eggs that hatch into 3–6 random baby mobs from the configured queen-spider offspring tag, preserving the Nexus target.
Eggs & counterplay
Laid eggs are attackable mob entities. Hit and destroy them before they hatch to prevent their stored offspring from joining the attack.
Hatching occurs after the egg timer exceeds 125 ticks, about 6.3 seconds after laying at 20 TPS. Server lag increases real waiting time. Each egg contains the 3–6 offspring chosen by its mother.
Customize the exact offspring pool, merge or replace its defaults, and check baby/Nexus inheritance using the datapack tag guide.
Drops
Loot follows the vanilla Spider table. Adult IM spider logic also adds a 25% Small Remnants roll.
String • vanilla rates
Spider Eye • vanilla rates
Small Remnants • 25%Vanilla replacement
No vanilla mob maps specifically to the Mother Spider; it is selected by waves or its spawn egg.
