Jungle Creeper

Jungle CreeperHardmode exclusive

On wall

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	Underground Jungle
AI Type	Fighter AI (ground) Spider AI (on wall)
Damage	100/200/300 / 50 36 (web spit) 36 (web spit)
Max Life	400/800/1200 / 120
Defense	28 / 14
KB Resist	75%/78%/80%
Banner	Jungle Creeper Banner
Immune to

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuffs

Inflicts debuffs

Debuff	Acid Venom
Debuff tooltip	Losing life
Chance	10%
Duration	4810 seconds

Debuff	Webbed
Debuff tooltip	You are stuck
Chance	100% (web spit)
Duration	0.5–2.5 seconds

Drops

Coins	1025

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 236 (ground), 237 (on wall)

The Jungle Creeper is a Hardmode enemy found in the Underground Jungle. It resembles a Black Recluse colored brown with a bit of green. They climb on background walls similar to Wall Creepers.

It can inflict the Acid Venom debuff and, in Expert Mode, gains a special spit attack that applies the Webbed debuff to players.

Notes

• Like all spiders, Jungle Creepers cannot travel through a vertical 2-tile wide shaft.
• Due to their AI when not crawling on a wall being the Fighter AI type, all spiders including Jungle Creepers can open doors.
• Jungle Creepers seem to be weaker than most enemies at the time making them more of a hassle than a real danger.
• The cooldown between web spit attacks lasts 3 seconds. It is paused if the Jungle Creeper loses focus on the player or has no direct line of fire, and it is increased by between 0.33 and 1 second when the Jungle Creeper takes damage.

Trivia

• The Jungle Creeper is the strongest spider enemy in the game, being stronger than the Black Recluse, the Blood Crawler, and the Wall Creeper.

The Bestiary entry for the Jungle Creeper: "The itsy bitsy spider climbed up a jungle vine, down came a hapless explorer and the spider got to dine. The End."

• This is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Itsy Bitsy Spider".

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Defense reduced from 40 to 28

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Sprites updated.
  • Significantly increased stats: damage from 50 to 100, defense from 14 to 40, maximum health from 120 to 400, moves faster, inflicts the Acid Venom debuff, and spits web in Expert/Master.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.