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A spear is a tiered melee Minecraft:weapon that can be used to perform slow {{#vardefine: control | left click on mouse or right trigger on gamepad }}jab attacks or held forward to do {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}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.
Variants
There are seven spear variants:
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Obtaining
Crafting
Smithing
Mob loot
Minecraft:Zombies, Minecraft:husks, zombie villagersTemplate:Only, zombie horsemen, and camel husk jockey riders can spawn wielding iron spears, while Minecraft: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 Minecraft:crossbow or Minecraft:sword nearby, which the piglin will swap its spear for. It then requires precise timing to pick it up before the piglin does.
Generated loot
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Usage
Attacking
Spears have a longer attack range than other weapons, at 4.5 blocks rather than 3 blocks. However, they also have a minimum attack range value that prevents attacking entities that are within 2 blocks of the user.<ref group="note">The minimum attack range for non-player entities inside of a charge attack is 1 block, whilst the maximum is 2.25 blocks.</ref> Unlike all other weapons, including a bare hand, spears cannot do critical hits or sprint-knockback attacks.<ref>Template:Citation Resolved as "Works As Intended".</ref>
Spears can damage multiple entities with a single attack. Spears inflate the hitboxes of targets by 0.125 when calculating hit registration, giving them more effective area. Spears also have a unique ability to attack through non-solid blocks like Minecraft:cobwebs and tall grass. in Template:Editions, spear attacks (both jab and charge attacks) are also uniquely capable of causing horizontal knockback to primed TNT. Spears have two methods of attacking:
Jab attack
A spear can be used with the Template:Ctrl button to perform a jab attack, dealing damage at an amount dependent on the tier of the spear. Jab attacks have a unique type of cooldown that cannot be bypassed:
- in Template:Editions, they use a variant of the attack cooldown where attacking is not possible until 100% charge, unlike other weapons.
- in Template:Editions, they instead have a Minecraft:use cooldown like that of an ender pearl, creating a similar forced-cooldown effect. The use cooldown triggers for all spear tiers in the inventory, not only the tier that was jabbed with.
A spear can still perform a charge attack while the jab attack is on cooldown, and thus by alternating between jab attacks and charge attacks the rate of attacks can be effectively doubled. Jab attacks do one additional damage in Bedrock Edition compared to Java Edition.<ref>Template:Citation Resolved as "Works As Intended".</ref> The jab attack of copper spears is strictly worse than stone spears, due to having a lower attack speedTemplate:Only / longer use cooldownTemplate:Only with identical attack damage.<ref>Template:Citation Resolved as "Works As Intended".</ref> Switching to a spear in Bedrock Edition does not cause the use cooldown to need to charge, unlike the attack cooldown in Java Edition.
Charge attack
Template:Hatnote The spear can alternatively be lowered into an attack position by holding the Template:Ctrl button, where colliding with a target deals damage depending on the velocity of the user and the velocity of the target. Charged attacks require a movement speed difference of 5.1 blocks per second between the attacker and the target in order to deal damage. Because of this, mobs like skeletons that strafe backwards will often only take knockback from charge attacks. Charge attacks can hit multiple entities, and in Bedrock Edition there is a 0.5 second (10 tick) delay between charge attack connections. A charge attack can be dealt even when the jab attack is on cooldown. Charge attacks go through three stages when held out:
- Engaged
- The first state of a charge attack, indicated by the spear being held out steadily.
- The attack deals damage, inflicts knockback, and dismounts attacked targets from their mounts.
- Tired
- The second state of a charge attack, indicated by the spear rotating sideways and shaking.
- The attack deals damage and inflicts knockback.
- Disengaged
- The final state of a charge attack, indicated by the spear being lowered down to the bottom of the screen.
- The attack only deals damage.
Charge attacks can still deal damage while the user is standing still, if the target is moving towards the user. The damage done by the charge attack is its damage multiplier multiplied by the velocity of the attacker relative to the target in blocks per second. Charge attacks are not influenced by the Strength or Weakness effects.<ref>Template:Citation Resolved as "Fixed".</ref><ref>Template:Citation Resolved as "Unresolved".</ref> in Template:Editions, spear charge attacks produce critical hit particles when striking targets, but they aren't actually critical hits. A charge attack can be canceled at any time, regardless of the stage it's in. When doing a charge attack directly after a jab attack, the spear will perform the jab animation and then flourish into the charge attack position in two rotations.Template:Only<ref>Template:Citation Resolved as "Works As Intended".</ref>
Tier
The tier of a given spear slightly alters the behavior of jab and charge attacks:
- Positive effects of higher tiers
- Higher attack damage and attack multipliers than lower tiered spears.
- Charge attacks start up faster than lower tiered spears.
- Negative effects of higher tiers
- Jab attacks have longer attack cooldowns in Java Edition, and longer use cooldowns in Bedrock Edition.
- Charge attacks progress through their charge attack states faster, losing their dismounting effect and ability to do knockback earlier than lower tiered spears.
- Charge attacks have a longer recovery time after progressing through all three stages.
Breaking
The spear is the only weapon in the game aside from loaded Minecraft:crossbowsTemplate:Only that can not be used to break blocks, because a jab attack is performed even if the player is looking at a block.
Statistics
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Spears cannot perform critical hits or sprint-knockback attacks.
Java Edition
in Template:Editions, spears have differing attack speeds, and have the following statistics:
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| Type | Attack damage | Attack speed | DPS | Attack range | Hitbox margin | Durability | Lifetime damage inflicted<ref group="note">The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit.</ref> | Enchantability |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.54 (0.65 seconds) | 1.54 | Minimum: 2 (2 blocks) Maximum: 4.5 (4.5 blocks) |
0.125 | 59 | Template:Hp | 15 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.05 (0.95 seconds) | 1.05 | 32 | Template:Hp | 22 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.33 (0.75 seconds) | 2.67 | 131 | Template:Hp | 5 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.18 (0.85 seconds) | 2.35 | 190 | Template:Hp | 13 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.05 (0.95 seconds) | 3.16 | 250 | Template:Hp | 14 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 (1.05 seconds) | 3.81 | 1561 | Template:Hp | 10 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.87 (1.15 seconds) | 4.35 | 2031 | Template:Hp | 15 | ||
| Enchanted jab attack | ||||||
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| Type | Base attack damage | Sharpness I | Sharpness II | Sharpness III | Sharpness IV | Sharpness V |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Type | Base attack damage | Smite / BoA I | Smite / BoA II | Smite / BoA III | Smite / BoA IV | Smite / BoA V |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Charge attack | |||||||||
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| Type | Damage multiplier | Activation delay | Duration | Speed requirement | |||||
| Full | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Dismount<ref group="note" name=note1>The speed requirements for non-player entities are scaled by 0.2</ref> | Knockback<ref group="note" name=note1/> | Damage<ref group="note" name=note1/> | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 0.7x | 0.75 seconds | 15 seconds | 5 seconds | 5 seconds | 5 seconds | <14 blocks per second | 5.1 blocks per second<ref group="note">This speed requirement makes it possible to do knockback if sprinting straight forward, but not if sprinting while strafing left or right.</ref> | 4.6 blocks per second |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 0.7x | 0.7 seconds | 13.75 seconds | 3.5 seconds | 5 seconds | 5.25 seconds | <13 blocks per second | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 0.82x | 0.7 seconds | 13.75 seconds | 4.5 seconds | 4.5 seconds | 4.75 seconds | <13 blocks per second | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 0.82x | 0.65 seconds | 12.5 seconds | 4 seconds | 4.25 seconds | 4.25 seconds | <12 blocks per second | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 0.95x | 0.6 seconds | 11.25 seconds | 2.5 seconds | 4.25 seconds | 4.5 seconds | <11 blocks per second | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 1.075x | 0.5 seconds | 10 seconds | 3 seconds | 3.5 seconds | 3.5 seconds | <10 blocks per second | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 1.2x | 0.4 seconds | 8.75 seconds | 2.5 seconds | 3 seconds | 3.25 seconds | <9 blocks per second | ||
| Jab attack / charge attack alternating<ref group="note">The formula used to calculate combined DPS is <math>\mathsf{DPS} = \frac{\mathsf{jabDamage} + \mathsf{chargeDamage}}{\max\!\left(\mathsf{jabCooldown},\ \mathsf{activationDelay}\right)}</math></ref> | ||||||||
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| Type | Jab attack | Charge attack | Combined DPS | |||||
| Damage | Attack cooldown | Damage | Activation delay | |||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.65 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.75 seconds | 6.67 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.7 seconds | 5.26 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.75 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.7 seconds | 9.33 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.85 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.65 seconds | 8.24 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.6 seconds | 9.47 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.05 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.5 seconds | 9.52 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.15 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.4 seconds | 10.43 | |||
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| Type | Jab attack | Charge attack | Combined DPS | |||||
| Damage | Attack cooldown | Damage | Activation delay | |||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.65 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.75 seconds | 8 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.7 seconds | 6.32 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.75 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.7 seconds | 10.67 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.85 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.65 seconds | 9.41 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.6 seconds | 10.53 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.05 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.5 seconds | 11.43 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.15 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.4 seconds | 12.17 | |||
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| Type | Jab attack | Charge attack | Combined DPS | |||||
| Damage | Attack cooldown | Damage | Activation delay | |||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.65 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.75 seconds | 9.33 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.7 seconds | 7.37 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.75 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.7 seconds | 12 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.85 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.65 seconds | 10.59 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 0.95 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.6 seconds | 11.58 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.05 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.5 seconds | 12.38 | |||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | 1.15 seconds | Template:Hp | 0.4 seconds | 13.04 | |||
Bedrock Edition
in Template:Editions, spears have differing Minecraft:use cooldowns, and have the following statistics:
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| Type | Attack damage | Use cooldown | DPS | Attack range | Hitbox margin | Durability | Lifetime damage inflicted<ref group="note">The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit.</ref> | Enchantability |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 3.08 | Minimum: 2 (2 blocks) Maximum: 4 (4 blocks) |
0.125 | 60 | Template:Hp | 15 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 2.1 | 33 | Template:Hp | 22 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 3.99 | 132 | Template:Hp | 5 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 3.54 | 191 | Template:Hp | 13 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 4.2 | 251 | Template:Hp | 14 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 4.75 | 1562 | Template:Hp | 10 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Script error: No such module "convert". | 5.22 | 2032 | Template:Hp | 15 | ||
| Enchanted jab attack | ||||||
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| Type | Base attack damage | Sharpness I | Sharpness II | Sharpness III | Sharpness IV | Sharpness V |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Type | Base attack damage | Smite / BoA I | Smite / BoA II | Smite / BoA III | Smite / BoA IV | Smite / BoA V |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile".Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp | Template:Hp |
Usage by mobs
Minecraft:Zombies, Minecraft:husks, zombie villagers, zombified piglins, and Minecraft:piglins wielding spears have unique attacking behavior. When attacking, they use the spear's charge attack while moving towards their target. They hold the charge through its full duration, using all 3 stages. Once the charge attack has ended or they get too close to their target, they walk away to increase the distance between them and their target before turning around to begin another charge.
When wielded by any other mob, such as skeletons, they instead use the spear's jab attack when in melee range. Like players, the 2-4.5 blocks attacking range applies to these mobs as well. The Lunge enchantment will also take effect for these mobs.
Repairing
Combining
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Anvil repair
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A spear can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the spear's maximum durability, rounded down. Two spears of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil with an extra 12% durability, in Template:Editions the extra durability is approximately 6% for this item.<ref group="note" name="molang /> Both methods preserve the spear's enchantments.
Enchantments
A spear can receive the following enchantments:
| Name | Description | Max Level | Method | Weight |
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| Sharpness<ref group=note name=note2>Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.</ref> | Increases the damage dealt. | V |
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10 |
| Smite<ref group=note name=note2/> | Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:undead. | V |
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5 |
| Bane of Arthropods<ref group="note" name=note2/> | Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:arthropods. | V |
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5 |
| Looting | Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the spear. | III |
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2 |
| Knockback | Increases the knockback dealt. | II |
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5 |
| Fire Aspect | Ignites any targets hit by the spear. in Template:Editions, it also ignites unlit Minecraft:candles, Minecraft:campfires, and Minecraft:TNT when used. | II |
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2 |
| Lunge | Launches the player horizontally when using a jab attack. Consumes saturation and hunger at amount depending on the level of the enchantment, as well as 1 durability. | III |
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5 |
| Unbreaking | Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. | III |
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5 |
| Mending | Repairs the spear when obtaining experience. | I |
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2 |
| Curse of Vanishing | The spear vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. | I |
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Lunge
{{#vardefine:params|0 }}Template:Hatnote Spears enchanted with Lunge propel the player forward when a jab attack is performed, at the cost of consuming saturation and hunger points at an amount dependent on the enchantment level, as well as consuming 1 durability. Saturation points are consumed first, and then hunger points are consumed after. Lunge does not trigger when the player has less than 6 hunger points, is riding a mount, is gliding with an elytra, or if the user is in water. Level I consumes 1 saturation/hunger points, level II takes 2 saturation/hunger points, and level III takes 3 saturation/hunger points.
By initiating a charge attack directly after a jab attack, the charge attack can be connected using the velocity gained with Lunge. There must be significant distance between the user and the target to give time for the charge attack's activation delay to fully finish after jabbing.
Sounds
Wooden spear
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Other spears
Data values
ID
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Achievements
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Advancements
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Videos
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History
Development
Java Edition
Bedrock Edition
Issues
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Trivia
- Prior to the spear's addition to the base game, similar spears appeared in Minecraft Dungeons, A Minecraft Movie, and the add-on for A Minecraft Movie. The latter depicted it being thrown like a Minecraft:trident, which was a common suggestion for their implementation.
- Knockback from the spear can be dealt to some non-living entities that other weapons can't normally deal to, such as primed TNT, Minecraft:boats, and Minecraft:minecarts.Template:Check the code
Gallery
Mojang images
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An image of the iron spear item on a Minecraft:lodestone
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An iron spear being used as a marshmallow on a stick
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Ari using a diamond spear for a charge attack
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A side profile of the charge attack
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Sunny doing a jab attack with a diamond spear
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Alex, Sunny, and Zuri wielding spears
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Noor on horseback with a golden spear, fighting a zoglin
Videos
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What the charge attack for the spear looks like
In other media
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A spear in Minecraft:SoulSteel
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A spear in Minecraft Dungeons
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An iron spear from Minecraft:A Minecraft Movie: Add-on
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A piglin wielding a spear in
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See also
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Notes
References
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