Armored Skeleton

Armored Skeleton

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Underground – Cavern
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	40 / 80
Max Life	260 / 520
Defense	28
KB Resist	60% / 64%
Inflicts debuff	Broken Armor 16.67% chance
Debuff duration	120 seconds / 240 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Defense is cut in half
Immune to
Banner	Armored Skeleton Banner

Drops

Coins	4

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Armor Polish
  1% / 2%
• Beam Sword
  0.67%

• Internal NPC ID: 77

Armored SkeletonHeavy Skeleton

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Underground – Cavern
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	50 / 101
Max Life	400
Defense	32
KB Resist	66% / 69%
Inflicts debuff	Broken Armor 16.67% chance
Debuff duration	120 seconds / 240 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Defense is cut in half
Immune to
Banner	Armored Skeleton Banner

Drops

Coins	4  59

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Armor Polish
  1% / 2%
• Beam Sword
  0.67%

• Internal NPC ID: -15

The Armored Skeleton is a Hardmode enemy which can be found in the Caverns during Hardmode along with Skeleton Archers. They have a 1/6 chance to inflict the Broken Armor debuff for 2 minutes / 4 minutes on contact. They are immune to the Poisoned and Venom debuffs.

Notes

• Approximately a little above lava level, a slightly larger, more powerful version of Armored Skeletons can spawn. They have 400 health and 32 defense. These Armored Skeletons are the only source of Armor Polish before you have killed Plantera

Trivia

• Armored Skeletons appear to be wearing a bluer variation of the Ancient Cobalt Breastplate with spiked shoulder guards.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Now has a chance to drop its respective banner.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Health, damage and defense reduced from 340, 60 and 36 to 260, 40 and 28 respectively.
  • Now has a chance to drop Armor Polish and/or a Beam Sword.
  • Heavy Skeleton variant no longer has a unique name, but it retains its stats.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.