Spear

A spear is a tiered melee weapon that can be used to perform slow jab attacks or held forward to do 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:

• Wooden Spear
• Golden Spear
• Stone Spear
• Copper Spear
• Iron Spear
• Diamond Spear
• Netherite Spear

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks or  Gold Ingot or  Any stone-tier block or  Copper Ingot or  Iron Ingot or  Diamond + Stick

Smithing

Ingredients	Smithing recipe
Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Spear + Netherite Ingot

Mob loot

Zombies, husks, zombie horsemen, and camel husk jockey riders can spawn wielding iron spears, while 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 crossbow or 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

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Stone Spear	Ocean Ruins	Small ruins chest	1	28.5% { "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28499313621704003, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }
		Big ruins chest	1	26.3% { "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.26272689215304357, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }
Copper Spear	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	30.6% { "item": "Copper Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3061199435519687, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Iron Spear	Buried Treasure	Chest	1	16.7% { "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16666666666666674, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	22.9% { "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Diamond Spear	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.2% { "item": "Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Spear[A][B]	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.2% { "item": "Damaged Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Spear[C]	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Stone Spear	Ocean Ruins	Small ruins chest	1	28.5% { "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28499313621704003, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }
		Big ruins chest	1	26.3% { "item": "Stone Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.26272689215304357, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }
Copper Spear	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	30.6% { "item": "Copper Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3061199435519687, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Iron Spear	Buried Treasure	Chest	1	16.7% { "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16666666666666674, "structure": "Buried Treasure", "container": "Chest" }
	Village	Weaponsmith's chest	1	22.9% { "item": "Iron Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Diamond Spear	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.2% { "item": "Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Spear[A][B]	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.2% { "item": "Damaged Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Spear[C]	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Spear", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }

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.^{[note 1]} Unlike all other weapons, including a bare hand, spears cannot do critical hits or sprint-knockback attacks.^[1]

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. It is not possible to break blocks while holding a spear, and instead an attack is performed. Spears have the unique ability to attack through non-solid blocks like cobwebs and tall grass. In Java Edition, 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 attack 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 Java Edition, they use a variant of the attack cooldown where attacking is not possible until 100% charge, unlike other weapons.
• In Bedrock Edition, they instead have a 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.^[2] The jab attack of copper spears is strictly worse than stone spears, due to having a lower attack speed‌^{[JE only]} / longer use cooldown‌^{[BE only]} with identical attack damage.^[3] 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

The spear can alternatively be lowered into an attack position by holding the use 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.^[4] In Bedrock Edition, 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.‌^{[JE only][5]}

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.

Statistics

Spear attacks cannot be critical hits.

Java Edition

In Java Edition, spears have differing attack speeds, and have the following statistics:

Unenchanted jab attack
Type	Attack damage	Attack speed	DPS	Attack range	Hitbox margin	Durability	Lifetime damage inflicted[note 2]	Enchantability
	1HP	1.54 (0.65 seconds)	1.54	Minimum: 2 (2 blocks) Maximum: 4.5 (4.5 blocks)	0.125	59	59HP × 29.5	15
	1HP	1.05 (0.95 seconds)	1.05			32	32HP × 16	22
	2HP	1.33 (0.75 seconds)	2.67			131	262HP × 131	5
	2HP	1.18 (0.85 seconds)	2.35			190	380HP × 190	13
	3HP	1.05 (0.95 seconds)	3.16			250	750HP × 375	14
	4HP	0.95 (1.05 seconds)	3.81			1561	6244HP × 3122	10
	5HP	0.87 (1.15 seconds)	4.35			2031	10155HP × 5077.5	15

Enchanted jab attack
Type	Base attack damage	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
	1HP	2HP	2.5HP × 1.25	3HP	3.5HP × 1.75	4HP
	2HP	3HP	3.5HP × 1.75	4HP	4.5HP × 2.25	5HP
	3HP	4HP	4.5HP × 2.25	5HP	5.5HP × 2.75	6HP
	4HP	5HP	5.5HP × 2.75	6HP	6.5HP × 3.25	7HP
	5HP	6HP	6.5HP × 3.25	7HP	7.5HP × 3.75	8HP
Type	Base attack damage	Smite / BoA I	Smite / BoA II	Smite / BoA III	Smite / BoA IV	Smite / BoA V
	1HP	3.5HP × 1.75	6HP	8.5HP × 4.25	11HP × 5.5	13.5HP × 6.75
	2HP	4.5HP × 2.25	7HP	9.5HP × 4.75	12HP × 6	14.5HP × 7.25
	3HP	5.5HP × 2.75	8HP	10.5HP × 5.25	13HP × 6.5	15.5HP × 7.75
	4HP	6.5HP × 3.25	9HP	11.5HP × 5.75	14HP × 7	16.5HP × 8.25
	5HP	7.5HP × 3.75	10HP	12.5HP × 6.25	15HP × 7.5	17.5HP × 8.75

Charge attack
Type	Damage multiplier	Activation delay	Duration				Speed requirement
			Full	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Dismount[note 3]	Knockback[note 3]	Damage[note 3]
	0.7x	0.75 seconds	15 seconds	5 seconds	5 seconds	5 seconds	<14 blocks per second	5.1 blocks per second[note 4]	4.6 blocks per second
	0.7x	0.7 seconds	13.75 seconds	3.5 seconds	5 seconds	5.25 seconds	<10 blocks per second
	0.82x	0.7 seconds	13.75 seconds	4.5 seconds	4.5 seconds	4.75 seconds	<10 blocks per second
	0.82x	0.65 seconds	12.5 seconds	4 seconds	4.25 seconds	4.25 seconds	<9 blocks per second
	0.95x	0.6 seconds	11.25 seconds	2.5 seconds	4.25 seconds	4.5 seconds	<8 blocks per second
	1.075x	0.5 seconds	10 seconds	3 seconds	3.5 seconds	3.5 seconds	<7.5 blocks per second
	1.2x	0.4 seconds	8.75 seconds	2.5 seconds	3 seconds	3.25 seconds	<7 blocks per second

Charge attack damage comparisons
Travel method	Blocks traveled per second	Charge attack damage
Player sprinting	5.612	4HP	5HP	6HP	6HP	7HP
Player sprinting (Speed I)	6.7344	5HP	6HP	7HP	8HP	9HP
Player sprinting (Speed II)	7.8568	6HP	7HP	8HP	9HP	10HP
Camel sprinting	8.203	6HP	7HP	8HP	9HP	10HP
Lunge I	9.16	7HP	8HP	9HP	10HP	11HP × 5.5
Horse (average)	9.71	7HP	8HP	9HP	10HP	11HP × 5.5
Horse (maximum)	14.57	10HP	12HP × 6	14HP × 7	16HP × 8	16HP × 8
Lunge II	18.32	13HP × 6.5	16HP × 8	18HP × 9	20HP × 10	22HP × 11
Creative sprinting flight	22	16HP × 8	18HP × 9	21HP × 10.5	23HP × 11.5	26HP × 13
Lunge III	27.48	20HP × 10	23HP × 11.5	27HP × 13.5	30HP × 15	33HP × 16.5
Elytra at firework boost speed	33.5	24HP × 12	28HP × 14	32HP × 16	36HP × 18	41HP × 20.5

Jab attack / charge attack alternating[note 5]
Player sprinting (5.612 blocks per second)
Type	Jab attack		Charge attack		Combined DPS
	Damage	Attack cooldown	Damage	Activation delay
	1HP	0.65 seconds	4HP	0.75 seconds	6.67
	1HP	0.95 seconds	4HP	0.7 seconds	5.26
	2HP	0.75 seconds	5HP	0.7 seconds	9.33
	2HP	0.85 seconds	5HP	0.65 seconds	8.24
	3HP	0.95 seconds	6HP	0.6 seconds	9.47
	4HP	1.05 seconds	6HP	0.5 seconds	9.52
	5HP	1.15 seconds	7HP	0.4 seconds	10.43
Player sprinting with Speed I (6.7344 blocks per second)
Type	Jab attack		Charge attack		Combined DPS
	Damage	Attack cooldown	Damage	Activation delay
	1HP	0.65 seconds	5HP	0.75 seconds	8
	1HP	0.95 seconds	5HP	0.7 seconds	6.32
	2HP	0.75 seconds	6HP	0.7 seconds	10.67
	2HP	0.85 seconds	6HP	0.65 seconds	9.41
	3HP	0.95 seconds	7HP	0.6 seconds	10.53
	4HP	1.05 seconds	8HP	0.5 seconds	11.43
	5HP	1.15 seconds	9HP	0.4 seconds	12.17
Player sprinting with Speed II (7.8568 blocks per second)
Type	Jab attack		Charge attack		Combined DPS
	Damage	Attack cooldown	Damage	Activation delay
	1HP	0.65 seconds	6HP	0.75 seconds	9.33
	1HP	0.95 seconds	6HP	0.7 seconds	7.37
	2HP	0.75 seconds	7HP	0.7 seconds	12
	2HP	0.85 seconds	7HP	0.65 seconds	10.59
	3HP	0.95 seconds	8HP	0.6 seconds	11.58
	4HP	1.05 seconds	9HP	0.5 seconds	12.38
	5HP	1.15 seconds	10HP	0.4 seconds	13.04

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, spears have differing use cooldowns, and have the following statistics:

Unenchanted jab attack
Type	Attack damage	Use cooldown	DPS	Attack range	Hitbox margin	Durability	Lifetime damage inflicted[note 6]	Enchantability
	2HP	13 game ticks (0.65 seconds)	3.08	Minimum: 2 (2 blocks) Maximum: 4 (4 blocks)	0.125	60	120HP × 60	15
	2HP	19 game ticks (0.95 seconds)	2.1			33	66HP × 33	22
	3HP	15 game ticks (0.75 seconds)	3.99			132	396HP × 198	5
	3HP	17 game ticks (0.85 seconds)	3.54			191	573HP × 286.5	13
	4HP	19 game ticks (0.95 seconds)	4.2			251	1004HP × 502	14
	5HP	21 game ticks (1.05 seconds)	4.75			1562	7810HP × 3905	10
	6HP	23 game ticks (1.15 seconds)	5.22			2032	12192HP × 6096	15

Enchanted jab attack
Type	Base attack damage	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
	2HP	3HP	4HP	5HP	7HP	8HP
	3HP	4HP	5HP	6HP	8HP	9HP
	4HP	5HP	6HP	7HP	9HP	10HP
	5HP	6HP	7HP	8HP	10HP	11HP × 5.5
	6HP	7HP	8HP	9HP	11HP × 5.5	12HP × 6
Type	Base attack damage	Smite / BoA I	Smite / BoA II	Smite / BoA III	Smite / BoA IV	Smite / BoA V
	2HP	4HP	7HP	9HP	12HP × 6	14HP × 7
	3HP	5HP	8HP	10HP	13HP × 6.5	15HP × 7.5
	4HP	6HP	9HP	11HP × 5.5	14HP × 7	16HP × 8
	5HP	7HP	10HP	12HP × 6	15HP × 7.5	17HP × 8.5
	6HP	8HP	11HP × 5.5	13HP × 6.5	16HP × 8	18HP × 9

Usage by mobs

Zombies, husks, zombified piglins, zombie villagers‌^{[Java Edition only]}, and 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, 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

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Damaged Spears		The durability of the two spears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability in Java Edition.[note 7]

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
Matching Damaged Spears		The durability of the two spears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability in Java Edition.[note 7]

Anvil repair

Name	Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Wooden Spear	Damaged Wooden Spear + Any Planks	Wooden Spear
Stone Spear	Damaged Stone Spear + Cobblestone or  Blackstone or  Cobbled Deepslate	Stone Spear
Copper Spear	Damaged Copper Spear + Copper Ingot	Copper Spear
Iron Spear	Damaged Iron Spear + Iron Ingot	Iron Spear
Golden Spear	Damaged Golden Spear + Gold Ingot	Golden Spear
Diamond Spear	Damaged Diamond Spear + Diamond	Diamond Spear
Netherite Spear	Damaged Netherite Spear + Netherite Ingot	Netherite Spear

A spear can be repaired in an 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 Bedrock Edition the extra durability is approximately 6% for this item.^{[note 7]} Both methods preserve the spear's enchantments.

Enchantments

A spear can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Sharpness[note 8]	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Smite[note 8]	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods[note 8]	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Looting	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the spear.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Knockback	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Fire Aspect	Ignites any targets hit by the spear. In Bedrock Edition, it also ignites unlit candles, campfires, and TNT when used.	II	Enchanting Table Anvil	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	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the spear when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The spear vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Lunge

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

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Spear jabs	Entity-Dependent	When the holder performs a jab attack	item.spear_wood.attack	subtitles.item.spear_wood.attack​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Spear hits	Entity-Dependent	When the spear hits an entity	item.spear_wood.hit	subtitles.item.spear_wood.hit​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Charges with Spear	Entity-Dependent	When the spear is lowered into an attack position	item.spear_wood.use	subtitles.item.spear_wood.use​	0.7	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Players	When a wooden spear's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions [upcoming: BE 26.0]	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key [upcoming: BE 26.0]	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Players	When the holder performs a jab attack but miss their target	item.wooden_spear.attack_miss	​ ?	0.80	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When the holder performs a jab attack and hit their target	item.wooden_spear.attack_hit	​ ?	1.0	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When the holder performs a charge attack and hit their target	item.wooden_spear.hit	​ ?	0.30	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When the spear is lowered into an attack position	item.wooden_spear.use	​ ?	0.2	0.8-1.2
	​ ?	Players	When a wooden spear's durability is exhausted	random.break	​ ?	1.0	0.9

Other spears

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Spear jabs	Entity-Dependent	When the holder performs a jab attack	item.spear.attack	subtitles.item.spear.attack​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Spear hits	Entity-Dependent	When the spear hits an entity	item.spear.hit	subtitles.item.spear.hit​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Charges with Spear	Entity-Dependent	When the spear is lowered into an attack position	item.spear.use	subtitles.item.spear.use​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Players	When a spear's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.7	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions [upcoming: BE 26.0]	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key [upcoming: BE 26.0]	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Players	When the holder performs a jab attack but miss their target	item.spear.attack_miss	​ ?	0.80	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When the holder performs a jab attack and hit their target	item.spear.attack_hit	​ ?	1.0	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When the holder performs a charge attack and hit their target	item.spear.hit	​ ?	0.30	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When the spear is lowered into an attack position	item.spear.use	​ ?	0.70	1.0
	​ ?	Players	When a spear's durability is exhausted	random.break	​ ?	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Wooden Spear	wooden_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon	item.minecraft.wooden_spear
Stone Spear	stone_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon	item.minecraft.stone_spear
Copper Spear	copper_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon	item.minecraft.copper_spear
Iron Spear	iron_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon	item.minecraft.iron_spear
Diamond Spear	diamond_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon	item.minecraft.diamond_spear
Golden Spear	golden_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon piglin_loved	item.minecraft.golden_spear
Netherite Spear	netherite_spear	Item	spears enchantable/lunge enchantable/melee_weapon enchantable/durability enchantable/fire_aspect enchantable/sharp_weapon	item.minecraft.netherite_spear

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Wooden Spear	wooden_spear	263	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:wooden_tier	item.wooden_spear.name
Stone Spear	stone_spear	262	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:stone_tier	item.stone_spear.name
Copper Spear	copper_spear	257	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:copper_tier	item.copper_spear.name
Iron Spear	iron_spear	260	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:iron_tier	item.iron_spear.name
Diamond Spear	diamond_spear	258	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:diamond_tier minecraft:transformable_items	item.diamond_spear.name
Golden Spear	golden_spear	259	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:golden_tier	item.golden_spear.name
Netherite Spear	netherite_spear	261	Item	minecraft:is_spear minecraft:netherite_tier	item.netherite_spear.name

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Development

September 27, 2025							Spears are revealed during Minecraft LIVE – September 2025.
September 29, 2025							Spears are revealed to have a longer attack range than other weapons when using their jab attack.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.11			25w41a				Added spears.
			25w42a				Charge attacks now have a delay for connecting repeatedly against a single entity, at 0.5 seconds (10 ticks).
							Spears can no longer attack through solid blocks, but can still attack through non-solid blocks like cobwebs and tall grass.
							The spear-exclusive enchantment Lunge is no longer incompatible with Mending.
							Spears enchanted with Fire Aspect can no longer ignite defending players through their shield.
			25w43a				The base damage of charge attacks has been increased from 0HP to 1HP, making it so charge attacks always deal at least 1HP damage.[note 9] This also increases the damage of all charge attacks by 1HP.
							The damage of spears held by mobs are now added on top of the mob's attack damage, rather than replacing it.
							The texture of held spears has been changed, making them longer.
							Spears now show a visual recoil after connecting a charge attack.
							The spear-exclusive Lunge enchantment no longer causes durability loss on use, and instead it now consumes hunger and saturation using the formula ${\displaystyle 8+4\times level}$ exhaustion. 4 () is consumed at level I, 5 () at level II, and 6 () at level III.
			25w44a				The hunger and saturation loss when using the spear-exclusive Lunge enchantment has been lessened, now using the formula ${\displaystyle 4\times level}$ exhaustion. 1 () is consumed at level I, 2 () at level II, and 3 () at level III. Lunge now once again causes durability damage when used, but is now only 1 durability regardless of enchantment level.
			25w45a				The hitbox margin on spear charge attacks that made attacks easier to land has been reduced from 0.25 to 0.125.
							Charge attack damage is now affected by the attack cooldown of the jab attack. This makes it so attacking with a jab attack and then following it up with a charge attack causes the charge attack to do less damage depending on the recharge percentage of the jab attack.
			25w46a				Charge attack damage is now once again not affected by the attack cooldown of the jab attack.
							The charge attack's 3rd person animation no longer causes the spear to desync out of the player's hand if performed after a jab attack.
							Spear charge attacks no longer cause item interact vibrations.
			pre1				Charge attacks no longer have a delay for connecting repeatedly against a single entity (was previously 0.5 seconds or 10 ticks). However, in practice only knockback is dealt after the first hit connects unless the target is against a wall, with no damage being dealt.[6]
							The hitbox margin on spear jab attacks that made attacks easier to land has been reduced from 0.25 to 0.125, now matching charge attacks.
							Changed the swap animation scale of all spears from 1.9 to 1.95.
							The on-hover attack indicator now accurately indicates when a spear will connect an attack, now accounting for its different reach and hitbox margin.
							Spears are now sorted before axes in the Creative inventory.
			pre3				Spear charge attack animations and sounds can now only play every 0.5 seconds (10 ticks). If a charge attack connects more than once before 0.5 seconds have passed, no animation is played and no sound is heard.
							While charging in first person, the spear head now gradually rotates to a fully vertical position over time, matching the behavior in third person.
			pre4				Spears now have their attack range increased by 2 when in Creative Mode, like other weapons, totaling to 6.5.
			pre5				Charge attacks done with spears in the offhand no longer trigger crushing blows when holding an axe in the mainhand.
			Release Candidate 1				Changed the duration of stage 2 and stage 3 charge attacks to make stage 2 (the knockback stage) last longer. 1.21.11 pre5: Wooden spear: 1 second stage 2, 9 second stage 3 Golden spear: 2 second stage 2, 8.25 second stage 3 Stone spear: 1 second stage 2, 8.25 second stage 3 Copper spear: 1 second stage 2, 7.5 second stage 3 Iron spear: 2 second stage 2, 6.75 second stage 3 Diamond spear: 1 second stage 2, 6 second stage 3 Netherite spear: 1 second stage 2, 5.25 second stage 3 1.21.11 rc1: Wooden spear: 5 second stage 2, 5 second stage 3 Golden spear: 5 second stage 2, 5.25 second stage 3 Stone spear: 4.5 second stage 2, 4.75 second stage 3 Copper spear: 4.25 second stage 2, 4.25 second stage 3 Iron spear: 4.25 second stage 2, 4.5 second stage 3 Diamond spear: 3.5 second stage 2, 3.5 second stage 3 Netherite spear: 3 second stage 2, 3.25 second stage 3
							The three distinct charge attack animations now more accurately match when each stage is active, with less lengthy animation transitions between them.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.130			Preview 1.21.130.20				Added spears.
			Preview 1.21.130.22				Zombies and piglins can now use the spear for attacking.
			Preview 1.21.130.24				The use cooldowns of golden, stone, copper, iron, diamond, and netherite spears have been adjusted to match Java Edition's attack cooldowns in ticks.
							Lunge no longer causes durability loss on use, and instead now consumes hunger and saturation using the formula ${\displaystyle 4\times level}$ exhaustion. 1 () is consumed at level I, 2 () at level II, and 3 () at level III. Lunge now only causes 1 durability damage regardless of enchantment level.
							The tag minecraft:spear has been changed to minecraft:is_spear.
							The texture of netherite spear icon has been changed, to match Java Edition.
			Preview 1.21.130.27				Spears now play hit sounds and trigger attack animations when charging at armor stands.
							Enchantment effects are now applied only when the player’s and target’s speeds are sufficient to deal damage.
							The maximum attack range of spears has been increased from 4 blocks to 4.5 blocks, matching Java Edition.
							Spears now have 7.5 blocks of reach in Creative mode.
1.21.131							Changed the duration of stage 2 and stage 3 charge attacks to make stage 2 (the knockback stage) last longer. 1.21.130: Wooden spear: 1 second stage 2, 9 second stage 3 Golden spear: 2 second stage 2, 8.25 second stage 3 Stone spear: 1 second stage 2, 8.25 second stage 3 Copper spear: 1 second stage 2, 7.5 second stage 3 Iron spear: 2 second stage 2, 6.75 second stage 3 Diamond spear: 1 second stage 2, 6 second stage 3 Netherite spear: 1 second stage 2, 5.25 second stage 3 1.21.131: Wooden spear: 5 second stage 2, 5 second stage 3 Golden spear: 5 second stage 2, 5.25 second stage 3 Stone spear: 4.5 second stage 2, 4.75 second stage 3 Copper spear: 4.25 second stage 2, 4.25 second stage 3 Iron spear: 4.25 second stage 2, 4.5 second stage 3 Diamond spear: 3.5 second stage 2, 3.5 second stage 3 Netherite spear: 3 second stage 2, 3.25 second stage 3
							The three distinct charge attack animations now more accurately match when each stage is active, with less lengthy animation transitions between them.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.0			Preview 26.0.23				Spears now rotate in the same direction when charging in first and third person view.
							Drowned, skeleton, stray, bogged and parched can no longer pick up spears.

Issues

Issues relating to "Spear" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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 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, boats, and minecarts.^{[check the code]}

Gallery

Mojang images

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  An image of the iron spear item on a 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

• What the charge attack for the spear looks like

In other media

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  A spear in SoulSteel
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  A spear in Minecraft Dungeons
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  An iron spear from A Minecraft Movie: Add-on
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  A piglin wielding a spear in A Minecraft Movie

See also

• Mace

Notes

References

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