Description
Got a fear of spiders? Fear no more. This accessibility resource pack replaces models, textures and sounds of Spiders and Cave Spiders, reskinning them as Assassins and Shadow Assassins respectively.
Inspired by Muse31's Arachnophobia pack. This one is meant to be an alternative for those who want the distressing spiders gone, but prefer a darker/more grounded theme.
!In-game screenshot depicting an assassin and a shadow assassin, hooded, with covered faces and glowing red eyes, coloured to match the palette of Minecraft spiders. The shadow assassin's blade appears coated with purple poison.
Limitations
As a purely audiovisual re-skin, this pack does not alter these mobs mechanically in any way. Assassins drop the exact same items that spiders drop and can climb. They even take up the same space that a spider would with the same hitbox. That means you need to hit them in the legs, and that they can fit through holes 1 block high.
Moreover, unfortunately this resource pack only takes care of the vanilla Minecraft spiders. Mods might potentially add other spider variants, and replacing those sadly seems beyond the scope of a simple EMF-based resource pack. I might sometime develop a full-blown mod aiming to address that as well.
Requirements
This resource pack is for Java Edition and requires the Entity Model Features mod installed. For pre-1.18.2 Minecraft versions, OptiFine should work as an alternative.
If you're using multiple resource packs at the same time, make sure to position this one above anything else that might affect spiders.
