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Wooden Spear
Minecraft · Equipment

Wooden Spear

Wooden-tier melee weapon with jab and velocity-based charge attacks

Introduced in Java 1.21.11

The Wooden Spear has a jab and a separate charge attack. In Java 26.3, its reach component lists 4.5 blocks maximum reach for ordinary play. Charge damage depends on velocity, and its secondary effects have separate conditions.

Applicable enchantments10EditionJavaVersion26.3
Wooden Spear GUIDE

Understand Wooden Spear

Useful when…

  • Use the jab with its Java 26.3 reach values.
  • Use the charge attack to collide with a target; its damage depends on velocity.
  • Use as furnace fuel to smelt one item when it is no longer needed.

How do the attacks work?

In Java 26.3, the reach component lists 4.5 blocks maximum reach and 2 blocks minimum reach for ordinary play. The grounded jab enters a recharge cooldown afterward. The charge is a separate action: hold use to lower the spear, then collide with a target. Charge damage depends on the user's velocity. The stab animation lasts 13 ticks; that animation duration does not by itself specify attack timing or damage.

Wooden Spear – Minecraft Wiki ↗

What does a charge add?

The component data lists separate charge conditions for damage, knockback, and dismounting. The reading explains that a charge can dismount targets, and that holding it too long changes its state: in the shaking state it no longer dismounts, and in the lowered state it no longer knocks back but still deals full damage. The supplied component values do not define the units or how charge duration is measured, so they do not establish a practical numeric threshold here.

Wooden Spear – Minecraft Wiki ↗

What are the costs and limits?

The spear has 59 maximum durability. Its components list wooden tool materials as repairable items, but the supplied reading does not describe combining spears as a repair method. It is crafted from any planks and a stick, and can smelt one item as furnace fuel. The reading gives no fixed jab damage; charge damage is velocity-dependent.

Wooden Spear – Minecraft Wiki ↗

Limitations and tradeoffs

  • Java 26.3 reach data lists a 4.5-block maximum, and a jab enters a recharge cooldown.
  • Charge damage depends on velocity; charge effects depend on their own conditions and the held-charge state.
  • The supplied reading gives no fixed jab damage or spear-combining repair method.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Treating jab and charge as the same attack mode.
  • Assuming a numeric speed or duration threshold from component values whose units and measurement semantics are unspecified.
  • Assuming a fixed jab damage or that another spear can be combined to repair it.

Effects and reference details

Detailed properties

Maximum durability59
Repair materialacacia planks, bamboo planks, birch planks, cherry planks, crimson planks, dark oak planks, jungle planks, mangrove planks, oak planks, pale oak planks, poplar planks, spruce planks, warped planks
attack damage0
attack speed-2.4615384340286255

References and version

Game data version: Java Edition 26.3

Wooden Spear — Minecraft Wiki ↗
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