Minecraft has numerous tools and items to aid you throughout your adventure. You get to choose from a range of weapons for attacking your enemies as well as numerous potions to boost up your health status or to heal you if you are injured or hurt. One such item which you can use on your enemies are cobwebs. These cobwebs are items that slow down your enemies much like the potion of slowness. However, unlike the potion you can only collect and obtain cobwebs rather than craft or make them in the Minecraft gameplay. In this article we will discuss how and from where you can obtain cobwebs but first let’s look at what cobwebs are and how you can use them to your advantage.

Cobwebs in Minecraft and their uses

Much like in the real world, in Minecraft you will find cobwebs in mineshafts, basements, abandoned villages, and places where spiders usually spawn. You can use cobwebs to create clever traps for enemy mobs as they do not try to find their path around cobwebs. This can come very handy if you’re engaged in a PvP where you can quickly create a barrier of cobwebs that can trap players. Moreover, cobwebs can also be used as a delaying mechanism. They can be used to cancel momentum of an item thrown from either a dispenser or a dropper by placing the cobweb directly on their faces. 

How to make a cobweb in Minecraft? 

However, it is interesting to note that all mobs in Minecraft except for spiders experience a delay in movement when faced with a cobweb. For example, if a mob falls through a cobweb then it experiences a 13 seconds delay to move through one block. A cobweb can also stop a blast damage if the player is lucky enough to be caught in it. Also, the slowing effect of cobwebs increases if it is placed on ice. 

If a player is caught in a cobweb then their movement abilities are affected as well. If a player is caught in it then they can move at only 15 percent of speed from their normal speed. On the bright side, much like how you beat critical damage if you fall into water similarly you beat critical damage if you fall and come across a cobweb in the process. Thus, cobwebs can be placed before a fall to mitigate fall damage. Now let’s discuss how to acquire cobwebs. 

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How to get cobwebs in Minecraft

You can get cobwebs in Minecraft like you obtain normal items. For cobwebs you are going to need a shear or a silk touched enchanted sword. It is important to note that a cobweb drops one string if touched by a sword or if pushed by a piston or if touched by water. Although, if lava or anything else touches it then nothing happens to it. 

Here’s a simple process of obtaining cobwebs: 

• First you find a cobweb in an abandoned village or libraries or mineshafts. 
• Once you find the cobweb then you have to equip yourself with shears. 
• Use the shear on the cobweb. On doing that the cobweb will break and smaller cobwebs will appear on the ground. 
• Make sure you pick up the cobweb before it disappears. 

Conclusion

Minecraft is a fun game with a lot of different add-ons that make the experience of playing it better and more memorable. Don’t forget to use cobwebs the next time you want to slow down your enemies or decrease your falling impact.