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Skeleton

Skeleton in Terraria

Enemy Banner: Skeleton Banner

Skeletons need to wear very elaborate costumes during Halloween, or else people think they are dressing up as skeletons.

Bestiary entry and numbers read from Terraria 1.4.5.8 itself.

Stats

	Classic	Expert	Master
Life	115	230	345
Contact damage	23	46	69
Defense	0	0	0
Knockback resistance	35%	41.5%	48%
Coin value	1 silver 30 copper	3 silver 25 copper	3 silver 25 copper

Where and when it spawns

Biomes: Caverns
Events and invasions: Halloween

Drops

Item	Chance	Amount	Modes	Condition
Carton of Milk	0.67% (1 in 150)	1	All modes
Ancient Iron Helmet	1% (1 in 100)	1	All modes
Ancient Gold Helmet	0.5% (99 in 20,000)	1	All modes
Bone Sword	0.49% (85 in 17,258)	1	All modes
Skull	0.2% (36 in 18,365)	1	All modes
Hook	4% (1 in 25)	1	All modes

Chances are for one kill, before Luck, Rate of fire or banners change anything. The Modes column says in which difficulties the game lists the drop.

Other Skeleton versions

Skeleton (NPC 21): 60 life, 20 damage, 8 defense, Caverns
Skeleton (NPC 201): 55 life, 20 damage, 12 defense, Caverns
Skeleton (NPC 202): 65 life, 18 damage, 8 defense, Caverns
Skeleton (NPC 203): 60 life, 22 damage, 8 defense, Caverns
Skeleton (NPC 323): 65 life, 18 damage, 10 defense, Caverns
Skeleton (NPC 324): 70 life, 22 damage, 10 defense, Caverns

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