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. It has a 1/6 chance to inflict the Broken Armor debuff for 2 minutes / 4 minutes on contact.

Notes

• Approximately slightly above lava level, a larger and more powerful version of Armored Skeletons can spawn. It is called "Heavy Skeleton" internally.
• Armored Skeletons are the only source of Armor Polish before having defeated 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 reduced from 340 to 260, damage reduced from 60 to 40, and defense reduced from 36 to 28.
  • 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.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.