Mechanical Skull

Mechanical Skull

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Statistics

Type	Summoning
Use time	44 Very Slow
Tooltip	Summons Skeletron Prime
Rarity

• Internal Item ID: 557

The Mechanical Skull is used to summon Skeletron Prime, the hardmode version of Skeletron. It can only be used during night time. Using another Mechanical Skull while Skeletron Prime is alive will not consume the skull, and a second Skeletron Prime will not be summoned. It can also be used in a world without hardmode activated. If you have not defeated Skeletron Prime yet and are already in hardmode, all enemies (with the exception of statue-spawned enemies and meteor heads) have a 1 in 2500 (0.04%) chance of dropping this item.

Crafting

Recipe

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.

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-summoners.
• 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.