Mechanical Skull

Mechanical Skull

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Statistics

Type	Boss summonCrafting material
Use time	45 (Very slow)
Tooltip	Summons Skeletron Prime
Rarity	3*
Research	3 required

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 557

Not to be confused with Robotic Skull, the Master Mode pet for Skeletron Prime.

The Mechanical Skull is used to summon Skeletron Prime, the hardmode version of Skeletron. It can only be used at night, which means consuming this item during day will not spawn Skeleton Prime. It is also unusable when the boss is already present. It can be used in any world, but usually only becomes accessible in a Hardmode World. If Skeletron Prime has not been defeated yet in a hardmode world, all enemies (with the exception of statue-spawned enemies and meteor heads) have a 1/2500 (0.04%) chance of dropping this item. Otherwise this item can only be obtained via crafting.

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Mechanical Skull	Bone (30) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (3) Soul of Night (3)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Suspicious Looking Skull ()	Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar (10) Soul of Night (5) Soul of Light (5)	Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil
Suspicious Looking Skull ()	Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar or Titanium Bar (10) Soul of Night (5) Soul of Light (5)

total: 2 row(s)

Notes

• The Mechanical Skull's texture is based on the Skull Lantern furniture item.
• The Mechanical Skull's texture on Mobile is the same as Old-Gen Console and 3DS's texture.

Trivia

• The Skull Lantern and Mechanical Skull are very similar in appearance to the skull in the original sprite for Skeletons: .
• Like the Mechanical Worm, it looks like a wind-up toy.

See also

• Mechanical Worm and Mechanical Eye, the other mechanical boss-summoning items.

• Suspicious Looking Skull, Ocram's summon item of similar appearance to the Mechanical Skull.

Achievement

Like a Boss • “Obtain a boss-summoning item.”

Obtain any boss-summoning item.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated. Old sprite was:

• Desktop 1.2.1: Drop chance reduced from 1 in 1000 (0.1%) to 1 in 2500 (0.04%).

• Desktop 1.2: Now a Hardmode drop. Recipe changed.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.1. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.1. ()

• Console 1.02: Now a Hardmode drop with the droprate of Desktop 1.2.1. Recipe changed to match Desktop 1.2.

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Now a Hardmode drop with the droprate of Desktop 1.2.1. Recipe changed to match Desktop 1.2.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced with mechanics from Desktop 1.2.1^Verify.