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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	65	130	195
Contact damage	18	36	54
Defense	10	10	10
Knockback resistance	50%	55%	60%
Coin value	1 silver 20 copper	3 silver	3 silver

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 322): 115 life, 23 damage, 0 defense, Caverns
Skeleton (NPC 324): 70 life, 22 damage, 10 defense, Caverns

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