Signal → what to do
- You open a drawer, chest, or locker, and something jumps onto the screen—that’s him. The damage is low.
- The quiet hiss during the attack is his sound.
- The jumpscare is loud, but Giggle makes a similar sound, just quieter.
- The spider hangs in the air next to a drawer—sometimes Timothy appears outside a container.
- You spot the spider and turn away, then get jumpscared from behind—that can happen too.
What to do if he jumps out
Nothing special. A normal attack deals 5 damage, and if you have 5 health or less, Timothy leaves you with 1 to 4. He can only kill you because of a bug or with a Modifier.
The real danger is the timing. During his attack, Timothy stops you from hiding in a closet or locker for a few seconds. That’s the real cost: a couple of seconds when something scarier could be nearby. So here’s what I do: 1. If the lights flicker or another Entity makes a sound, I leave the drawers alone and find cover first. 2. I search when things are quiet nearby. 3. If the spider jumps out, I wait a couple of seconds, then keep going. I can heal up later.
Timothy rarely sits in drawers, but he can appear in any room with interactable Containers.
Where he hides and how often he shows up
Timothy lives in the Hotel’s and the Mines’ Containers. The chance of finding him in a drawer or chest is 1 in 200, or 0.5%. He can show up twice in the same container.
You can also encounter him in these modes: Alpha Release, SUPER HARD MODE, Rush Mode (in a different form), Endless Mode, Daily Runs, and Chaos Mode. He also appears in the Trick or Treat and Cringle's Workshop events. He doesn’t appear in The Backdoor. And sometimes a whole run through the Hotel and the Mines goes by without a single spider.
Timothy is in the Lobby too: he sits in a web in the leaderboard hallway.
Using a Crucifix against the spider
Hold a Crucifix while you search drawers. If Timothy jumps out, the Crucifix slaps him to the floor and stays with you. This is the only time a Crucifix isn’t used up. It doesn’t count as a banishment—the spider is just knocked away.
You get the Bug Zapper badge for that smack. I carry a Crucifix while searching drawers, without even hunting for Timothy—and I don’t lose anything either way.
Modifiers: when the spider’s bite hurts more
With the Itchy Modifier, Timothy becomes lethal. The chance of finding him rises to 1/100, and his damage goes up to 10. He doesn’t appear at all with Bug Spray.
The Silky Smooth Candy also summons Timothy and makes him deal 10 damage, but that damage can’t kill you. A Crucifix won’t save you here: if the Candy summons the spider, he still hurts you even if you’re holding a Crucifix.
Where Timothy can still catch you out
- Searching drawers when another Entity is nearby. You can’t get into a closet while the spider is on your screen.
- Taking Itchy without accounting for it. With this Modifier, the spider can kill you.
- Expecting the Crucifix to be used up. It isn’t used on Timothy.
- Thinking you’re guaranteed to meet him. The chance is only 0.5%, so you might not get Meet Timothy in a single run.
A spider—or something more?
Timothy is a black spider with eight thin, moldy legs, light green eyes, and two fangs. In The Journal, he jumps at your face and seems to bite you. After the bite, you somehow learn his name. It’s unknown whether he’s supernatural or just an ordinary spider—the developer said, “Who knows?”.
Badges and achievements
You can earn two badges from the spider.
- Meet Timothy — encounter Timothy while searching Containers. There’s no need to do anything special; it’s just luck.
- Bug Zapper — slap Timothy with a Crucifix. Hold a Crucifix while searching drawers on the main Floors and wait for the 1-in-200 chance; the Itchy Modifier increases the odds. The badge is rare, hidden, and secret. The description says: “Is it.. is it dead?”.
If you don’t get Bug Zapper, check that you were holding the Crucifix, not just carrying it in your inventory.
Harmless, but not quite: Timothy, Snare, and Sally
Timothy is on the short list of Entities that deal damage but usually don’t kill you. Snare and Sally are on it too. Without Modifiers, none of the three can kill you. With some Modifiers, Snare and Timothy can deal lethal damage.
Here’s what that means for Hard Mode. If Itchy is on your Modifier list, take the spider seriously: with low health, one extra drawer could be your last. On runs like that, I heal up before searching chests.
And about playing with friends: Timothy is a client-side Entity, like Screech or Halt, so each player encounters him separately. If your friend yells “Spider!” but you hear nothing, it’s all good—that’s their spider, not yours.
Timothy and El Goblino
The spider has a fan. El Goblino says his friend Bob wants to be friends with Timothy. Timothy is one of the animal-like Entities, along with Louie, Caw, and Fih.
His name is unusual for DOORS, too. Players came up with the names for many Entities, but Timothy is an exception. The developers confirmed that his name doesn’t refer to anything and was made up as a joke.
Fun facts
- Timothy has been in the game since August 10, 2022.
- He was created by RediblesQW and TMtIMe.
- Before the game came out, Timothy had red eyes in older versions.
- In the game files, he’s simply called Spider. Before the Update that added Modifiers, the Death Screen said: Died to Spider in older versions.
- There’s a 5% chance the spider will jumpscare you as soon as you open his page in The Journal.
- Timothy was the first Entity to look like a real animal.
- He has two UGC items, Timothy and Timothy Jr., and was the first to get more than one.
Where it appears
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Where is Timothy in the Lobby?
Why did the spider jump at my friend but not me?
How does Timothy know his own name?
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