Tarantula Broodfather

Tarantula Broodfather is the boss of the Spider Slayer. It unlocks once you beat a tier II Revenant Horror.¹ Quests are started with Maddox the Slayer (or a Maddox Batphone or Abiphone), and the spiders of the Spider's Den fill the quest's Combat XP bar.¹²

The fight

The Broodfather is fast, climbs walls, jumps far and often switches targets to other players nearby. It regenerates when it hasn't hit you for a while, slams you for true damage if either of you stands still too long, and despawns after 3 minutes, failing the quest.³ Each tier keeps the abilities of the tiers below:³

• I: leaps behind you now and then; hits from behind deal extra damage.
• II: while it lives, your Vitality and Speed are cut.
• III: at two-thirds and one-third health it webs the ground, which blocks teleport abilities until you break the Egg Sacs above it. Egg Sacs that hatch release its minions.
• IV: swarms of bats hurt you for a share of your max health each second while they live, and it becomes immune to magic damage.
• V: it regenerates, is immune to ability damage, and also shuts off Absorption. When it dies it fuses with the Primordial Broodmother into the Conjoined Brood, with twice the health and damage but only its passive abilities.

Slayer XP and the RNG meter

Slayer XP is only earned from bosses you spawned yourself. Levels unlock recipes and permanent stats, and level 8 unlocks a Spider-only perk.¹ Level 6 in Zombie, Spider and Wolf Slayer turns on Auto-Slayer, and level 7 in all three makes every slayer quest 4% cheaper.¹

Tier III and higher bosses also fill the Spider RNG meter. The drop you set as its target gets up to three times likelier as the meter fills and is certain once it's full; getting it takes its cost off the meter.⁴

Sources

1. Slayer · Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki Community wiki read 2026-09-26
2. Spider Slayer · Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki Community wiki read 2026-09-26
3. Tarantula Broodfather · Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki Community wiki read 2026-09-26
4. Pity and RNG Meters · Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki Community wiki read 2026-09-26