A Tarantula has 225 hit points and gives 120 experience; the largest concentration is at Trapwood (44 creatures). It is immune to poison.
Stats
| Hit Points | 225 |
| Experience | 120 |
| Armor | 20 |
| Attack / Defense | 38 / 20 |
| Speed | 67 |
| Flees below | never |
Properties
| Immune to | Poison |
| Summon | 485 mana |
| Convince | 485 mana |
| Creature Illusion | yes |
| Pushable | no |
| Behaviour | Pushes objects |
| Strategy | 70% melee, 0% keep distance, 30% retreat |
Abilities
| Ability | Effect | Target |
| Haste | haste (+80–110 speed, 2s) | on itself |
| Field | creates a poison field | on target |
Damage ranges are the spell's base ± variation before your armor and defense; melee is separate and scales with its attack value (38).
Loot
6 entries| Item | Max amount | Chance |
 Gold Coin | 10 | 70.1% |
| Gold Coin | 30 | 30.1% |
 Brass Legs | 1 | 3.1% |
 Plate Shield | 1 | 2.1% |
 Steel Helmet | 1 | 1.1% |
 Time Ring | 1 | 0.2% |
Chances are the exact server probabilities from the monster's loot table (each entry is rolled independently; stackable items drop 1 to the maximum amount). An item listed twice has two separate rolls.
Location
101 creatures in 41 spawns| Area | Creatures | Spawn points | Floors |
| Trapwood | 44 | 18 | -3, -4, -5, ground |
| Efreet Fortress | 15 | 5 | ground |
| Chor | 13 | 6 | ground |
| Banuta | 12 | 5 | ground |
| Mists | 6 | 2 | -2 |
| Camp | 4 | 2 | +3, +2 |
| Drefia | 4 | 1 | ground |
| Port Hope | 2 | 1 | ground |
| Plains of Havoc | 1 | 1 | -2 |
Areas are the nearest named map location to each spawn; "floors" are relative to ground level.