Spawn Events for Cave Spider in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the spawn events that you can use for a cave spider in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition.

Background

In the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition and Education Edition, the entity value for a cave spider is cave_spider. The cave_spider entity has a unique set of spawn events that can be used in Minecraft commands such as: /summon and /event. (The spawn event parameter is called spawnEvent in the Minecraft help for the /summon command and eventName in the Minecraft help for the /event command.)

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What is a Spawn Event?

Spawn events allow you to trigger certain in-game events for an entity in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition. Currently, you can only trigger one spawn event at a time when you use the /summon or /event commands.

List of Spawn Events

Here is a list of the spawn events that you can use for a cave spider in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Minecraft Education Edition:

Minecraft ID Description Bedrock Edition
(Added in)
minecraft:become_angry Cave Spider has become angry 1.12.0
minecraft:become_hostile Cave Spider is becoming hostile 1.12.0
minecraft:become_neutral Cave Spider is becoming neutral 1.12.0
minecraft:on_calm Cave Spider is calm 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_spawned Cave Spider has spawned 1.12.0

Spawn Event Example

To summon a cave spider that has become angry in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) or Education Edition:

/summon cave_spider ~ ~ ~ minecraft:become_angry

Next, learn how to use the game commands in Minecraft.

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a cave spider in Minecraft:

Command Generators

If you need help, you can use these tools to automatically generate commands for you: