Tarantula Broodfather

Tarantula Broodfather
Type	Mob
Mob Level	40
Stats
❤ HP	750
❁ Dmg	35 per second
Drops
XP	+50  Combat XP
Type	Mob
Mob Level	90
Stats
❤ HP	30,000
❁ Dmg	45 per second
Drops
XP	+100  Combat XP
Type	Mob
Mob Level	180
Stats
❤ HP	900k
❁ Dmg	210 per second
Drops
XP	+200  Combat XP
Type	Mob
Mob Level	360
Stats
❤ HP	2.4M
❁ Dmg	530 per second
Drops
XP	+500  Combat XP

Monstrous Spider who poisons and devours its victims.

— Maddox the Slayer

The Tarantula Broodfather is a Slayer 6BOSS in the Spider Slayer branch. It is an agile Spider.

Spawning

Tier	Cost	Combat XP Required	Requirement
I	2,000 coins	+250  Combat XP	Revenant Horror Tier II
II	7,500 coins	+600  Combat XP	Tarantula Broodfather Tier I
III	20,000 coins	+1,000  Combat XP	Tarantula Broodfather Tier II
IV	50,000 coins	+2,000  Combat XP	Tarantula Broodfather Tier III

Drops

Icon	Drop	LVL Req	Amount					Drop Chance
			Tier I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV	Odds	Tier I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
	Tarantula Web	1	1-3	9-18	28-48	52-64	1Guaranteed(100%)	100%
	Toxic Arrow Poison	1		16	24-30	60-64	3Occasional(20%)		15.25%	14.81%	14.97%
	Bite Rune I	1		1			5Rare(5%)		0.7%	2.67%	6.48%
	Spider Catalyst	2			1		7Extraordinary(1%)			2.06%	0.62%
	Enchanted Book (Bane of Arthropods VI)	4			1		7Extraordinary(1%)			0.41%	0.83%
	Fly Swatter	5			1		9Pray RNGesus(<1%)			0.08%	0.17%
	Tarantula Talisman	6			1		9Pray RNGesus(<1%)			0.08%	0.17%
	Digested Mosquito	7				1	9Pray RNGesus(<1%)				0.06%
	Brick Red Dye		1				9Pray RNGesus(<1%)	0.0000067%	0.00002%	0.00004%	0.0001%

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 ✷ True Damage. 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.

Tier	Level	❤ Health	❁ Damage	Ability		Slayer XP Reward
I	40	750	35	Combat Jump	The Spider will often attempt to jump behind you	5 XP
II	90	30k	45	Noxious	Deals AOE damage every second, halves your Vitality.	25 XP
III	180	900k	210			100 XP
IV	260	2.4M	530			500 XP

Minibosses

The following Minibosses have a chance to spawn when killing a Spider while a Tarantula Broodfather slayer quest of Tier III or more is ongoing. These Minibosses provide more  Combat XP, therefore speeding up the process to spawning a Tarantula Broodfather.

It is also possible that after killing one of these Minibosses, another one could spawn immediately.

Minibosses

Image	Name	❤ Health	❁ Damage	Experience	Tier	Drops
	Tarantula Vermin	54,000 ❤ Health	260 ❁ Damage	150	Tier III	1x Tarantula Web
	Tarantula Beast	144,000 ❤ Health	1,000 ❁ Damage	300	Tier IV	2x Tarantula Web
	Mutant Tarantula	576,000 ❤ Health	2,000 ❁ Damage	500	Tier IV	5x Tarantula Web

Tips

• It is recommended to use  Tarantula Armor to kill a Tarantula Broodfather Tier IV with at least 10,000 kills on the armor, as its piece bonus grants higher ❈ Defense against spiders, the more spiders have been killed with the set equipped.
  • 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, due to it focusing on ❁ Damage rather than ❈ Defense.
• A  Radiant Power Orb or higher, paired with a  Spider Hat is recommended for fighting Tarantula Broodfather Tier III and above, as an alternative to  Tarantula Armor.
• It is highly recommended to use Healing Enchantments like Life Steal and Vampirism on weapons. If the player's ❤ Health gets too low while fighting a Tarantula Broodfather, killing a couple of nearby spiders can activate Vampirism and keep the player alive.
• While fighting the Tarantula Broodfather, backing up into a corner reduces the effect of its leaps and makes it much easier to land hits on the boss.
• If the player has a high amount of ✎ Intelligence, a  Voodoo Doll can be used to drain the Tarantula Broodfather's ❤ Health quickly.
• It used to be possible to sword-swap between a  Giant's Sword and a  Scorpion Foil to one-shot a Tarantula Broodfather Tier IV. This method is no longer available, however, as since sword-swapping has since been patched.
• Using a Hyperion or other weapon with Wither Impact, along with Auto Slayer, you can kill Tier IV Tarantula Broodfather bosses extremely quickly, as they are not immune to Magic Damage.

History

Alpha Hypixel Network
July 31, 2024		Added  Brick Red Dye to the Tarantula Broodfather loot pool.
SkyBlock Prototype
Oct 11, 2019	0.7.2	Added Tarantula Broodfather.
Oct 14, 2019		Buffed XP from Tier IV boss by +100 (from 400 to 500).
		Reduced kills required for Tier IV by -25%.
		Added a +40% delay before regeneration kicks in when out of combat.
Mar 30, 2021	0.11.3	Reduced DPS by 65 for Tier II (from 110 to 45).
		Reduced DPS by 370 for Tier III (from 525 to 155).
		Reduced DPS by 925 for Tier IV (from 1325 to 400).
Unknown Date		Added +55 DPS for Tier III (from 155 to 210).
		Added +130 DPS for Tier IV (from 400 to 530).
July 12, 2023	0.19.1	Fixed Hoppers being able to pick up Cobwebs dropped from the Tarantula Broodfather jump effect.
Aug 6, 2024	0.20.5	Added  Brick Red Dye to the Tarantula Broodfather loot pool.