Tarantula Broodfather

The Tarantula Broodfather is a Slayer Boss in the Spider Slayer track. It is an agile spider boss.

Spawning
The Tarantula Broodfather spawns as the end boss of a Spider Slayer Quest after the required amount of Combat XP is earned by killing Spider-type mobs. When the last required mob is killed, purple particles will appear around the location of its death, and the Tarantula Broodfather will spawn in its place after a short time.

Each tier of the Broodfather requires the previous tier to have been defeated at least once. The Broodfather requires  Revenant Horror slain to start.

Drops
Level requirement listed is for Spider Slayer.

Behavior
The Tarantula Broodfather is a Spider-type mob hostile to all players. It has the appearance of a cave spider riding a spider. It is agile, able to move quickly, climb walls and jump huge distances. It deals melee damage. Often, it will change targets to other nearby players.

All Tarantula Broodfathers are immune to the abilities of Aspect of the Dragons and Ice Spray Wand.

As with all Slayer bosses, if the Tarantula Broodfather has not dealt damage to a player for some time, it will begin rapidly regenerating health. The regeneration immediately stops when it hits a player again. Additionally, if either it or its target stays in the same block for too long, it performs a slam-dunk attack, knocking the target towards it and dealing. If 3 minutes pass without the boss being defeated, it will despawn, failing the Slayer quest. A timer is shown above its head indicating the remaining time.

Each tier has all of the abilities from the ones before it.

Minibosses
These are possible Minibosses that could spawn upon killing a Spider when a Tarantula Broodfather Slayer quest is active. It is also possible that after killing one of these minibosses, another could spawn immediately.

Tips
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 * Tarantula Armor is suggested to be used to beat a Tarantula Broodfather with at least 10,000 kills on the armor, as it's piece bonus grants higher defense against spiders the more spiders have been killed with the set equipped.
 * You can get the kill counter up by using a Tarantula grinder, in which you place down Tarantula Minions as they have a much shorter action time than Spider Minions and slay the tarantulas they spawn to increase the number of kills on the armor.
 * Alternatively, a high damaging set such as Superior Dragon Armor or Shadow Assassin Armor sets is a sizable improvement over Tarantula Armor in damage, and it can decrease the time for each slayer by a measurable amount as it's focus is damage and not defense.
 * A Radiant Power Orb or higher and a Spider Hat is recommended for fighting + Without Tarantula Armor.
 * It is highly recommended to use Healing Enchantments like and  on your weapons. If getting too low while fighting the Tarantula Broodfather, killing a couple of nearby spiders can activate  and keep you alive.
 * If killing the Mutant Tarantula is too difficult to kill using melee due to its ludicrous damage and high health, you can knock it to an edge with a Runaan's Bow or another bow with a high projectile rate and knock it off, making it take fall damage, making it much easier to finish off.
 * The Mutant Tarantula has a health amount of 576k, however it can take a large percentage of its health-bar after falling from a decent height, because the enemy mob's fall damage scales to its health.
 * While fighting the Tarantula Broodfather, backing up into a corner reduces the effect of the Tarantula Broodfather's leaps and make it much easier to land hits on the boss.
 * You can use a Voodoo Doll to drain its hp quickly, just keep in mind that these weapons are most effective if the player has high amounts of intelligence, so if using this strategy it is recommended to equip armor with high mana such as Wise Dragon Armor or the Dark Goggles and its upgraded forms.
 * Using an Aspect of the End, Grappling Hook, or Tarantula Boots will make traversal of the Spider's den significantly easier.
 * These items are extremely useful, as the Spider's Den is made up of many layers with chains of Cobwebs running through them, which these items can help avoid and are useful for scaling the vertical mountain.
 * You used to be able to sword-swap from a Giant's Sword to a Scorpion Foil to one-shot a tier IV Tarantula Broodfather. However, this method is no longer available since sword-swapping has been patched and no longer works.

Trivia

 * Bane of Arthropods VI may say it's an Extraordinary drop, but the chance is very similar to a Pray RNGesus.

History
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