Giant Spider

Not to be confused with: Blackwidow Spider

Giant Spider
XP Requirements
Upgrades at:	650K XP
Evolves at:	1M XP
Abilities
Passive:	Climbs hills and trees Immune to poison Has a poisonous bite
Special:	"Spin Web"
Tier info
Tier:	14
Equivalent to:	////
Previous Animals:	//////
Next Animals:	/////////
Food chain status
Can eat:	All foods except //; All animals below it between and
Can be eaten by:	All animals above it from
Terrain info
Biome it spawns in:	Land.
Can hide in:	Any size Hiding Hole and whirlpools
Release info
Released on:	September 23, 2017

"UPGRADED to Giant Spider!
Place webs around the game to catch prey!"

The Giant Spider is a tier 14 Land animal in Mope.io, and equivalent to the Elephant, Cassowary, Blue Whale, Blackwidow Spider and Mammoth. It was released on September 23, 2017.

Technical

• Upgrades to Dragon, The Kraken, Phoenix, King Crab and T-REX at 1M XP.
• Upgrades from Boa Constrictor, Hippo, Killer Whale and Sabertooth Tiger at 650K XP.
• Holding W or right click spins webs that grow in size and are more opaque (from practically invisible to fully white) the longer the button is held. The Giant Spider is significantly slowed down while creating a web. When the button is released, the web stops growing and is dropped on terrain. At maximum size, webs are larger than the Giant Spider themselves and automatically releases. Webs last for 7 minutes. How the web interacts with animals depends on animal and tier.
  • Prey animals the Giant Spider can eat (bright green outline) are slowed down to a crawl and are prevented from using their ability, although they can still boost. The web appears over them. How long the animal is "webbed" depends on how long the web was spun for, with a minimum of about 5 seconds, or until they take damage.
  • AI and animals that the Giant Spider can't eat (too low of a tier, dark green outline) are lightly poisoned while in contact with the web.
  • Most predators and equivalents (red or dark green outline) treat webs as obstructions that impede movement. They can somewhat push webs but can't use abilities while touching them.
  • Blackwidow Spiders, Giant Spiders, and Giant Scorpions can walk on webs like regular terrain. They have a white outline while on one and will cause the web to "bounce", although this does not affect its hitbox. Webs override regular terrain, allowing these animals to walk over lava, mud, and water without impediment.
  • Black Dragons and King Dragons can fly over webs with no other effects.
• The Giant Spider has a venomous bite; when prey is bitten it will be poisoned. Out of all venomous animals, the Giant Spider's bite is the most lethal and long-lasting. It is also immune to poison.
• The Giant Spider climb hills and trees. In addition, it can also climb rocks if a web is covering the rock.
• One of the only Animals that is above tier 6 that can go in small Hiding Holes (others are Cobra and Blackwidow Spider).

Appearance

The current, default "Season 2" Giant Spider is a hairy arachnid with a large central head that serves as its body, a circular abdomen as its tail, and 8 legs streaked at the joints. It possesses 2 sets of large eyes, the second being smaller than the first, on a darker streak on its body. It has two sharp chelicerae in front of its body and slightly longer pedipalps beside them.

Its web is a tangle of thick white lines. The Golden Giant Spider skin instead has a golden web.

It is very small for its tier, even at upgrading.

Purchasable Skins

The skins listed below are or have been accessible to buy in-game. Older versions or non-purchasable skins may be seen in the article's infobox and/or asset gallery.

Skin	Cost ()	Picture
Golden Giant Spider	From the Golden Skin Deal [108200]
Goliath Spider	From the Locked Skin Deal [142290]
Classic Giant Spider	From the Mope.io Classic Skin Pack [19999]
Smile Spider (2021 Halloween)	15000

Strategy

If the player is being chased by a predator, try to go to a hill or a tree, if the predator can climb, try to go to the poison lake or a spider nest, as you'll probably be safe there unless you are chased by a Giant Scorpion, but it would not be harmful since it takes freezing damage there.

An ideal strategy for Giant Spiders is to make an enormous buildup of webs. This is very time-consuming, but its efforts are well worth the time. It serves as a sufficient defence from almost all predators and prey all the way up from Fox Tier. You can make this more effective: try to find a water spot and start creating webs on top of it so that you can take over the puddle and drink peacefully. Eagles are your main helper, they will usually throw prey into webs if they detect them, take advantage of this and when they get trapped, start hurting them, keep in mind that when you hurt them the web will be released, try to push the prey into the maximum concentration of webs so that when it is released, it will be consecutively trapped and you can kill it. You can also resort to a mud spot near a water spot, at which point the prey will be even slower and when you create webs on top of the mud, the game will detect you as if you were on top of the web and the mud debuff will not affect you, but the trapped prey would be affected badly.

A thick nest

In addition to all this, you can make alliance. Apart from the eagles that will bring you prey, try doing mutualism with a Blackwidow Spider, it can climb your webs, providing it safety, since it cannot make webs itself, only traps with them. In return, the Blackwidow, while protected in your webs, will start making a trap, will throw the trap away and when an animal is trapped, it will be attracted towards the Blackwidow Spider and with that, it will also attract it directly to the concentration of webs made by you. Combined with the already mentioned collaboration of eagles and some other Giant Spiders that speed up the production of webs, you will be guaranteed an evolution within the safety of your webs.

After the new update, your best option to level up is to go to Poison Lake. Since giant spiders are immune to poison and can climb hills, it's the perfect environment to thrive. Be sure to create plenty of webs in the area where there is an opening in the surrounding hills of the lake, so that at least non-climbing animals cannot escape, although you can also cover the surrounding hills with webs to catch climbing animals and double the effectiveness of the trap on non-climbing animals. Another alternative is to do the opposite, fill the entire interior of the lake with spider webs, covering only the openings of the lake and leaving a small (not very small) empty space in the middle so that you can drink (make sure you have a water source nearby for when the lake dries out) and catch falling animals (both climbers and non-climbers), giving them even less space to roam around the lake and dive for their lives while trying to remove the webs from the lake's boundaries to escape.

Many other Giant Spiders (even Blackwidows!) are likely to be in the lake, so there will be safety in numbers and the production of webs and nest size will increase even more and faster. Keep in mind that there will also be Giant Scorpions and Pterodactyls (both have immunity to poison) that will join the group besides the aforementioned Eagles (although Pterodactyls will generally throw larger prey). But don't get too confident, there are both Pterodactyls and Scorpions that will want to kill the residents of the lake. If this happens, it is best to make your nest elsewhere. Generally, Pterodactyls will be peaceful since Spiders create the structuring to trap prey, but make sure not to completely let your guard down.

You can also create a bridge of small semi-invisible webs leading to your main nest. As soon as a distracted prey does not notice the small webs, it will be trapped and you can push the prey over the bridge of small webs to your main nest because if you hurt it, it will be consecutively trapped in that bridge of small webs. This can be an alternative to a Blackwidow Spider, although this strategy is slower and more time-consuming. Still, small webs are good for catching distracted prey and can still be put to another use, such as creating a second barricade of small webs to make the nest more effective for prey passing near the nest.

Another alternative is to build your nest on top of the lava of the volcano, as in doing so, the game detects your character as if it were on top of the webs and you won't get burned by the lava or the occasional fireball thrown by the lava and you will be able to kill prey much faster and easier as well as being able to eat watermelons to regenerate your water. However, there are Phoenixes and Land Monsters that can spit fireballs that will reach you and hurt you, as well as push the webs you make. If this is not enough, the Black Dragon and King Dragon can fly over your webs and reach you directly, so don't do this unless the residents of the volcano don't attack you.

If you are chasing prey and they go into a hiding hole, lay a web on top of the hole to prevent them from escaping.

For trolling, one fun way is to find 2 apexes in a 1v1 arena, and get some other spiders to build webs around the arena. When the 1v1 is finished, the victorious apex animal will be stuck in the webs (unless it is a Pterodactyl). Soon, it will start running out of water and you'll be able to get delicious meat.

Although all these strategies make the Giant Spider appear to be overpowered, the truth is that most strategies require a good synchronization and use of strategy (especially with other spiders), making it difficult to achieve, but effective if done well. Furthermore, there are animals with which you can evolve much faster like the Elephant.

Gallery

Assets

The "Season 2" Giant Spider skin (February 1, 2022 -)

The Classic Giant Spider skin (December 23, 2018 - January 31, 2022; in-store from February 1, 2022 -)

The Zombie Giant Spider skin (October 27, 2018 - November 23, 2018)

The Winter Giant Spider skin (December 25, 2017 - January 26, 2018)

The Golden Giant Spider skin (#GoldenAge update)

The Goliath Spider skin (#GoldenAge update)

The Giant Spider skin (2021 Halloween update)

The web asset

In-game

A colony of Giant Spiders at the poison lake in a nest.

A Pterodactyl flying over a group of Giant Spiders in the poison lake.

A Giant Spider nest being taken over by a Giant Scorpion.

A Giant Spider underneath a rainstorm.

Other

Scrapped design seen in one of Momo Gamer's videos

History

Update History
Update	Changes/Notes
May 30, 2023: Wild Mope Wave 4	Giant Spider webs take longer to dissolve in Wild Mope mode.
February 1, 2022: Season 2	Default Giant Spider skin changed from to
November 3, 2021	Bug fix: Giant Spider's skins show in-game again.
October 25, 2021	Smile Spider skin () added.
March 3, 2020	Giant Spider will now get XP for animals killed by their poison.
December 23, 2019: #GoldenAge	Golden Giant Spider () and Goliath Spider () skins added.
November 23, 2018	Zombie Infection mode removed along with all zombie skins, including the Giant Spider's zombie skin ()
October 27, 2018	Zombie Giant Spider skin () added as part of the new Zombie Infection mode.
January 26, 2018	Winter skins removed, including the Giant Spider's winter skin ()
December 25, 2017	Buff: Only prey and predators are caught in spider web. Buff: Inedible animals are poisoned by web. Buff: Giant Spider is 20% faster on land, hills, and mud. Buff: Web is spun nearly twice as fast as before. Buff: Cooldown randomly decreased by 10-20%. Nerf: Giant Spider is 20% slower in water. Misc: Winter Giant Spider skin () added.
November 15, 2017: Mopelution update	Buff: Web no longer affects tier 3 and under.
October 2, 2017	Giant Spider can now enter small hiding holes.
September 23, 2017	Giant Spider () added with ability to make webs and new poison effect

Trivia

• The old name was Tarantula.
• It is the only tier 14 animal that climbs hills other than the Blackwidow Spider, the animal with most legs, and it is the smallest tier 14 animal. It also has the most eyes.
• It and the Blackwidow Spider are the largest animals in Mope.io that can hide in small Hiding Holes.
• It is one of the invertebrates that dwells on land except for the Honey Bee, Blackwidow Spider, and Giant Scorpion(Shrimp, Crab, Squid, Jellyfish, Snail, Octopus, The Kraken, and King Crab are all Ocean animals).
• There was formerly a glitch where Giant Spider webs could affect apex animals when they were in a 1v1 arena.
• The webs originally snared predators as well as prey in a similar manner to the Blackwidow Spider's ability, keeping them webbed for shorter, but only serves as an obstruction now.
• This animal could be considered the most balanced or at least one of the most balanced animals, because since its initial release, it has had almost no updates that affect its playability or none really significant.
• The Smile Spider skin appears to be based off of the Theridion grallator, better known as the Hawaiian happy-face spider.