Does Spiritual Weapon Float?

The answer to the question Does spiritual weapon float? is yes, as the spell creates a floating, spectral weapon within range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again, allowing it to levitate up and down or move across chasms without hindrance. The spiritual weapon can be moved to any reachable field, but it cannot be used to fly or pass through walls, and its movement is limited to a 20-foot range as a bonus action on your turn.

Frequently Asked Questions

Spiritual Weapon Movement and Interaction

1. Can a spiritual weapon fly?: No, a spiritual weapon should float, but it can only be moved to any reachable field, and it does not have the ability to fly.
2. Can spiritual weapon pass through walls?: No, spiritual weapon does not go through physical things like walls, according to Crawford.
3. Is a spiritual weapon physical?: A spiritual weapon cannot be attacked or harmed by physical attacks, but dispel magic, disintegrate, a sphere of annihilation, or a rod of cancellation affects it.
4. Does spiritual weapon stay up when unconscious?: Yes, it is not a concentration spell, so getting hit, falling unconscious, even dying do not end the duration of the spell.
5. How does spiritual weapon work?: You create a floating, spectral weapon within range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again, and you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of the weapon.

Spiritual Weapon Attacks and Durability

6. Does spiritual weapon hit twice?: No, spiritual weapon does not continue attacking automatically, it attacks again when sustained as a bonus action on your turn.
7. Can an enemy walk through a spiritual weapon?: Yes, spiritual weapon does not create difficult terrain or an obstacle, so it does not hamper movement.
8. Can a spiritual weapon get flanking?: No, spiritual weapon does not count in any way with regard to setting up the flanking as it is not a creature nor ally.
9. Can you destroy a spiritual weapon?: No, its spectral, any attacks against it simply pass straight through the thing.

Spiritual Weapon Control and Limitations

10. How does spiritual weapon move?: As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it.
11. Can you cast spiritual weapon and another spell?: On the turn that you actually cast the spiritual weapon spell, making that initial melee spell attack is part of the casting, and you still have your action to do something else on that turn.
12. Can you use touch of death with spiritual weapon?: Yes, touch of death applies to spiritual weapon, and on a hit, the target takes force damage equal to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier.

Additional Information and Edge Cases

13. Can spiritual weapon get hit?: A spiritual weapon cannot be attacked or harmed by physical attacks, but its AC against touch attacks is 12 (10 + size bonus for Tiny object).
14. How far can spiritual weapon go?: Spiritual weapon tells you that its range is 60 feet, and you should take that seriously, and the weapon can be moved up to 20 feet as a bonus action on your turn.
15. Can you cast two spiritual weapons at once?: Yes, you are also able to cast a second spiritual weapon spell if you feel the desire, and you can control both weapons independently as bonus actions on your turn.