Getting Started
- The mod has an extensive configuration page located at Main Menu->Mods->Spider Queen->Config. Use it.
- The Spider Queen can see at night, and experiences weakness during the day.
- Previously hostile creatures are now friendly towards you, unless you attack them 3 times, in which case only that creature will become angry and hostile. Kill it and your reputation with those creatures may decrease.
- You can play as the Spider Queen, as your own character with a spider body, or you can be a human with the Spider Queen’s abilities. Playing as the Queen is default.
- To use your character with the spider body, visit the mod’s configuration page and set Use player skin to true.
- To opt-out of using the spider queen model, visit the mod’s configuration page and set Use spider queen model to false. Restart your game after changing this setting.
Crafting Web
- As you walk around, you will begin to produce string which can be spun into web by placing three string in any order into your crafting slots. You do not need to use a crafting table.
- You can gather more string by taking it from other spiders, or cocooning and eating creatures.
- Hint: You’ll create web after eating food as well. You can eat normal food constantly to generate infinite string!
Shooting Web
- Once you’ve crafted some web, use it! You can either web other creatures into cocoons, use the web in crafting recipes, or use it to climb walls or set traps.
- Hint: If you have difficulty cocooning a creature, try to lower its health. Weaker creatures are easier to cocoon!
Gathering Eggs
- You gather spider eggs from eating cocooned creatures. Each time you eat a creature, it will produce some string and possibly a spider egg.
- Once you’ve gotten a spider egg, congratulations! You can now lay it anywhere and it will begin to grow.
Creating Spiders
Once you lay an egg it will grow into a spider after a few minutes.
Be careful where you place your eggs. A newly hatched spider will consume the nearest cocooned creature, which may or may not give it special abilities. Below are all of the special spiders and their abilities.
Monster
Creeper
Enderman
Horse
Skeleton
Villager
Wolf
Zombie |
Spider
Boom Spider
Ender Spider
Rider Spider
Slinger Spider
Pack Spider
Nova Spider
Tank Spider |
Ability
Shoots explosive projectiles.
Throws your targets into the air.
Can be ridden up walls.
Webs up creatures that you attack.
Has an inventory, picks up objects.
Heals your injured spiders.
Has a lot of health, poisons targets. |
If the creature you’ve cocooned is not one of these creatures, the spider will become a normal-sized retextured spider with no special abilities.
If there is no cocoon nearby when an egg hatched, the spider will be extremely small and weak.
Sleeping
- While playing as the spider queen, you may notice that you can no longer sleep in beds. Since you are now a creature of the night, you can only sleep during the day in a special spider bed!
- The spider bed is a 5×5 frame of logs filled in with full webbing. What this means is that you must shoot the ground twice so that the web is one block high.
This is NOT correct! Shoot each web again.
This is correct! You will see the web’s texture change.
Reputations
You may also notice that previously hostile creatures will no longer attack you. This is because Spider Queen uses a reputation system. If you maintain a good reputation with a group of creatures, they will be friendly towards you and even aid you in fights!
However, if you kill creatures, your reputation will suffer with that group.
To increase reputation: Gift a member of a particular group of creatures an item that boosts reputation.
- For zombies, skeletons, and creepers, these are brains, skulls, and hearts, respectively. To give these items, throw them on the ground near one of these creatures.
- For bees, you must right-click a bee while holding any flower.
- For humans, killing zombies, skeletons, and creepers will increase your reputation.
To decrease reputation: Kill members of a reputation group. With each kill, you have a 20% chance of getting your reputation lowered.
Hint: To kill creatures without affecting your reputation, use an invisibility potion!
If a reputation group likes you enough, they may give you one of their own to assist you in fights. You are notified when this happens.
Creatures
Spider Queen adds several new creatures to the game. These are all detailed here:
- Ants: Can be red or black. Hostile when attacked. Spawn underground in caves and dig towards the surface.
- Bees: Come as Gatherers (pink), Warriors (red), and Queens (green). Gatherers can not attack, warriors have a deadly sting, and Queens can kill you very quickly! They spawn from beehives, which will appear within all types of trees.
- Beetles: Spawns naturally, and attacks bees.
- Flies: Spawn naturally. Right-click them for an easy snack.
- Humans: Have three “richness” levels – poor, experienced, and rich, and seven types: warrior, archer, miner, prospector, noob, nomad, and farmer. The human’s richness and type determines how strong they are and what they will drop. Humans spawn naturally in the world, and also spawn in factories that rarely appear in your world.
- Jack: A terrifying creature that emerges from pumpkin patches at night. Look for the pumpkin that doesn’t look quite right. Shoots powerful projectiles at you, and has a ton of health! This is a very difficult fight. Defeat him to take his lantern as a trophy!
- Mandragoras: The mandragora is a plant that will use her vines to attack you from a distance. When killed, she can drop seeds, which you can use to grow your own Mandragora. If you’re nearby when it’s fully grown, it will be friendly towards you, otherwise it will be hostile. Friendly mandragoras give your crops a growth boost every few minutes.
- Mini Ghast: A mini-ghast is obtained from a ghast egg. You can gather ghast eggs by trapping a Ghast in web and then hitting it. You can mount a mini-ghast and fly.
- Spider Queens: Spider queens are hostile towards you, and are very strong. They can attack with swords or bows. They spawn rarely.
- Wasps: Spawn commonly in the world. Attempt to sting you if you get too close. They drop stingers.
- Yuki: Spawns in snowy biomes while it is actively snowing. Attacks with a freeze rod, which it can drop. The freeze rod can freeze you solid, turn water to ice, and douse fires.
Factories
Factories are rare structures that spawn in plains, savannas, and deserts. They are inhabited by humans who have imprisoned random mobs from reputation groups.
You can break into factories and loot them as well as free the imprisoned mobs. To free them, simply right-click them when you see them. You’ll get a huge reputation boost by freeing them!