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Spider Eye
Food

Spider Eye

A drop from spiders that restores 2 hunger points but inflicts Poison when eaten.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Food

Version Added

Beta 1.8

Item ID

spider_eye

Spider Eye at a glance

Killing spiders and cave spiders, killing witches, and looting witch huts give you Spider Eye: a food item under Food, one page for Spider Eye. A slot of Spider Eye holds 64, nine slots of Spider Eye hold 576, and 1728 Spider Eye fill a chest of Spider Eye. Spider Eye is worth 2 hunger and 3.2 saturation, which reads as 1 drumstick of Spider Eye.

Restoring 2 hunger and 3.2 saturation, Spider Eye keeps your hunger bar topped up so natural health regeneration can continue, and the 3.2 is the part that decides how long it takes before you reach for Spider Eye again. Spider Eye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Fermented Spider Eye. Generated chests only ever hold Spider Eye in one place: desert pyramid chests (about 27%, 1 to 3 at a time). Spider Eye sits between Rotten Flesh and Suspicious Stew in Food, number 34 of 37 there.

What Spider Eye is used to craft

Fermented Spider Eye is the one recipe that asks for Spider Eye, and the link below opens that grid. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Spider Eye in it.

How to obtain Spider Eye

  • Killing spiders and cave spiders
  • Killing witches
  • Looting witch huts

Food value of Spider Eye

Hunger Restored

2 (1 drumsticks)

Saturation

3.2

Time to Eat

1.6 seconds

Eat On A Full Bar

No

Mobs That Drop Spider Eye

3 different mobs drop Spider Eye, Witch, Cave Spider, and Spider, and Witch leaves 0 to 2 a kill. Looting III turns Witch into 5 Spider Eye instead of 2, 1 per level.

Eating Spider Eye

10 helpings clear an empty hunger bar, at 1.6 seconds each, which is 16 seconds before Spider Eye has done the job. The saturation behind each point is 1.6, so Spider Eye holds the bar steady that much longer after the meal. That is 18 of 37 on saturation, between Carrot at 3.6 and Cake at 2.8. Eating Spider Eye also hands you Poison for 5 seconds.

Notes on Spider Eye

Eating applies Poison IV for 4 seconds. Used to brew Potions of Poison and to craft fermented spider eyes.

Frequently asked questions about Spider Eye

  1. Killing spiders and cave spiders leading to Spider Eye, the way this answer says Spider Eye arrives

    How do you get Spider Eye in Minecraft?

    Spider Eye is obtained through killing spiders and cave spiders, Spider Eye from killing witches, and Spider Eye from looting witch huts. You never craft Spider Eye; 1 recipe spends it.

  2. Spider Eye turning into Fermented Spider Eye, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Spider Eye used for?

    Spider Eye is a crafting ingredient, and Spider Eye goes into Fermented Spider Eye.

  3. 64 Spider Eye drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Spider Eye can you stack?

    64 Spider Eye fit one slot, and 64 Spider Eye eaten is 6.4 bars of hunger. A shulker box of Spider Eye is 1,728 Spider Eye, over 27 slots of Spider Eye.

  4. A chest beside Spider Eye, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Spider Eye in chests?

    Spider Eye is chest loot in one place and one only: desert pyramid chests (about 27%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists Spider Eye, so for Spider Eye that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

  5. Spider Eye beside the 2 hunger points one helping restores

    How long does it take to eat Spider Eye?

    1.6 seconds for one Spider Eye, 10 Spider Eye for an empty bar, 16 seconds for the two multiplied out. Among the 37 foods on this site that puts Spider Eye at 18 for saturation and 31 for hunger.

  6. Spider Eye with the glow of the effect it hands you

    What effects does Spider Eye give you?

    Every time: Poison for 5 seconds.

  7. Several Spider Eye at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Spider Eye?

    3 different mobs drop Spider Eye, Witch, Cave Spider, and Spider, and Witch leaves 0 to 2 a kill. Looting III turns Witch into 5 Spider Eye instead of 2, 1 per level.

  8. Spider Eye coming forward out of the past, in the game since Beta 1.8

    When was Spider Eye added to Minecraft?

    Spider Eye was added in version Beta 1.8.

Building with Spider Eye

A spider eye gives two hunger and poison, so nobody eats them by choice. Brewing is the point: fermented spider eye is the ingredient that turns a positive potion into its opposite, and that path starts with one of these.