Skeletron

Type	Boss
Environment	Dungeon
Damage	20 / 44 / 55 / 66 / 99
Max Life	600 / 1560 / 1404 / 1014 / 1989 / 1788 / 1290
Defense	14
DR	5%
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Slow 50% chance;
Debuff duration	1-2 seconds
Debuff tooltip	Movement speed is reduced
Immune to

Type	Boss
Environment	Dungeon
Damage	35 / 77 / 88 / 99 / 132 (Contact); 35 / 100 / 114 / 128 / 171 (Spin); 46 / 68 / 84 / 92 / 102 / 126 (Skull); 76 / 84 / 114 (Teleport Skulls)
Max Life	4400 / 8800 / 6600 / 4400 / 11,220 / 8415 / 5610
Defense	10; 0 spinning; 9999 during the day
DR	5%; 99.99% while at least 1 hand is alive
KB Resist	100%
Inflicts debuff	Bleeding 100% chance;
Debuff duration	6-10 seconds (Contact)
Debuff tooltip	Cannot regenerate life
Immune to
Cold	-
Water	Vulnerable
Sickness	Resistant
Electricity	-
Heat	-
Coins	20

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"A sorry old man, cursed by an even older cult, caught trespassing on their ancient library."

Skeletron is a Pre-Hardmode boss that is intended to be fought after the The Hive Mind or The Perforators. Defeating it is required to gain unrestricted access to the Dungeon.

Spawn

Skeletron will not spawn on its own. It is instead summoned by speaking to the Old Man at the Dungeon's entrance and selecting the "Curse" option at night.

Once Skeletron has been defeated for the first time and the Clothier has moved in, the player can summon Skeletron again by killing the Clothier using the Clothier Voodoo Doll. This must be done at night or Skeletron will not spawn.

Segments

Behavior

Boss behavior is unchanged in Normal and Expert. For more informations regarding these difficulties, check the vanilla wiki page

In Revengeance Mode

Skeletron is composed of three segments - two hands and a head - all of which can travel through blocks. The head is the only segment that must be destroyed to defeat Skeletron, though each hand alive will give the head maximum damage reduction, and while either is still alive, the head will not be targeted by summons or homing weapons. Its attack frequency will gradually increase as its health lowers.

While the hands are alive, they will attempt to hit the player by swinging towards them. While the head is spinning, the hands will raise and not swing at the player.

The head initially will only have one attack but will gain more as the fight progresses. Its only attack at the start of the fight is an attack where it will begin spinning, dealing increased contact damage and having decreased defense, while moving towards the player at an increasing speed.

Once a hand has been destroyed or the head reaches 75% health, the head will begin firing homing skulls toward the player every 1.33 seconds. Once both hands have been destroyed, the frequency becomes every 0.67 seconds. During its spin attack, it will pause shooting skulls.

Once both hands are destroyed, the head will begin to teleport, firing a spread of 3 bolts from where it teleports to.

When the head reaches 33% health, both hands will respawn. The head will fire skulls and teleport at a slower pace after the hands are respawned.

In Death Mode

Begins the fight and respawns with 4 hands instead of 2.
Head and hands have reduced health.
Head acceleration increases as health decreases.
Hand attacks have much more velocity and quicker acceleration.
Fires faster Cursed Skulls at a faster rate.
Shoots 5 magic bolts instead of 3 after teleporting.

During the Boss Rush

Max health increased to 160,000 / 320,000 / 400,000 .
Sets the time to 7:30pm.

Aftermath

The Bandit NPC becomes available.
Box Jellyfish and Mirage Jelly can now drop the Abyss Shocker.
The Aquatic Heart's effects work completely.
Ancient Treasure Chests can now be opened by the player.

Tips

For more elaborate strategies on defeating Skeletron, including weapon and arena recommendations, see Guide:Skeletron strategies.

Homing Skulls, despite their name, have poor homing abilities. They can be easily avoided by circling Skeletron, which will cause the skulls to curve to reach the player and miss.
If "stunlocked" by the head, grappling to a nearby platform or using the Slime Mount will forcibly pull the player out, which can be a lifesaver.
Avoid standing near the shadowflame circle as much as possible, as Skeletron fires bolts as soon as it teleports out, making the bolts much harder to dodge.
Watch for the hands' movements. They almost always take distance before trying to hit the player, as if Skeletron was building momentum.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

2.0.4.002:
- Buffed head and hand damage in Master Mode from 132 to 165 . Buffed skull projectile damage from 138 to 144 , and cursed bolt damage from 150 to 156 .
- No longer resets velocity to zero if the head teleports while charging.
- Now has a longer delay between charges while hands are alive.
- Hands now have a higher maximum velocity and lower acceleration while charging.
- Now starts firing skull spreads after new spin attack when below 20% / 30% health instead of 50%.
- Now only fires one skull during the idle phase while hands are alive in Master Mode.
- Fixed it despawning due to teleporting too far away in multiplayer.

2.0.4.001:
- Buffed head health from 4400 / 8800 / 6600 / 4400 / 11,220 / 8415 / 5610 to 4400 / 8800 / 11,220 .
- Can now turn the Calamity Boss Health Bar red when enraged, and gray when gaining a temporary defense boost outside of Revengeance Mode.
- Buffed head damage in Classic Mode from 35 to 42. Buffed hand damage from 20 / 44 / 55 / 66 / 99 to 32 / 44 / 77 / 110 / 132 .
- Buffed skull projectile damage from 46 / 68 / 84 / 92 / 126 to 46 / 72 / 84 / 96 / 138 .
- No longer uses a global scaling contact damage formula based on boss velocity.
- No longer enrages based on time in the Don't dig up seed in Revengeance Mode.
- Head now has a slightly faster spin velocity in Classic Mode.
- Nerfed defense boost per hand alive in Expert Mode from 25 to 10 .
- No longer deals contact damage while not doing the spin attack, and hands no longer deal contact damage while not swiping in all difficulties.
- Reduced skull projectile spread while outside of Revengeance Mode, and increased the range at which they stop homing.
- Revengeance Mode changes:
  - Head damage reduction now scales between 5% and 99.99% based on health while hands are alive, instead of always being 99.99%.
  - Hands now have a slower swipe velocity, decelerate faster after swipes, and glow white as a telegraph before swiping.
  - Can now always teleport instead of only after the hands are dead, and changed the dust on the teleport telegraph.
  - Spin attack now has a telegraph, head will now back away from the player if too close, increased the maximum spin velocity as its health lowers, spin velocity now scales based on how many hands are alive, and Death Mode no longer makes it always spin at maximum velocity.
  - Hands now gain increased drawback and swiping velocity and swipe more often as Skeletron's health lowers.
  - Skull projectiles fired on teleports now have a constant speed instead of scaling with distance, increased their speed but decreased their acceleration, skulls now have uneven speeds, skulls no longer have increased speed in Death Mode, increased how many skulls are spawned but number of skulls decreases in later phases, number of skulls and their spread now inversely scale with how many hands are alive, and changed the dust that they use.
  - Slightly increased skull fire rate during idle phase, and it now increases further when below 85% health.
  - Now always backs away from the player before the spin attack, and uses a new spin attack where he spins faster and flies past the player after getting close when below 70% health.
  - Now fires several homing skulls at the end of the spin attack when below 50% health.
  - Now respawns hands at 50% health instead of 33%. Hands will attack much more often if the head is below 30% health.
  - Now stops shooting skull projectiles during idle phase, idle phase lasts for less time, and shoots Giant Cursed Skull bolts during the spin attack when below 30% health.
  - Now constantly does spin attacks and teleports more frequently when below 10% health.
  - Increased despawn distance, and no longer teleports while despawning.
- Now has a higher speed and acceleration when floating above the player, has a higher spin velocity, shoots more skulls in a larger spread when teleporting, hands have a higher maximum drawback and swipe velocity as health lowers, hands swipe more often as health lowers, fires skulls more frequently while spinning away, has a shorter minimum backup time when below 70% health, fires more skulls in a larger spread after the spin attack when below 50% health, and fires Giant Cursed Skull bolts at a faster velocity in Death Mode.
- Now gains 15 defense per hand, always shoots skull projectiles during idle phase and at a faster rate, spends less time in the idle phase as health lowers, has a higher maximum velocity and acceleration while spinning, and hands swipe at a faster rate and velocity and decelerate faster after swiping in Master Mode.
- Now has a larger hand swipe distance and hands swipe faster, skulls on teleports are faster and no longer fires less skulls in later phases, immediately has the faster idle phase skull fire rate, starts using the new spin attack at 90% health, spends less time moving away from the player before the new spin attack, new spin attack ends at a shorter distance and accelerates back to the player faster, hands fire skull projectiles on swipes when below 50% head health, fires Giant Cursed Skull bolts during spins at 40% health, Giant Cursed Skull bolts are faster, and enters final phase at 20% health in Revengeance Master Mode.

2.0.3.007: Fixed its extra loot not appearing on the Boss Checklist mod.

2.0.3.005: Now has a short delay before firing skulls after the spin attack ends, and skulls no longer have a random spread.

2.0.2.001:
- Now fires skulls instead of shadowflame dust balls after teleporting.
- Nerfed Boss Rush health from 160,000 / 320,000 / 240,000 / 160,000 / 408,000 / 306,000 / 204,000 to 150,000 / 300,000 / 225,000 / 150,000 / 382,500 / 286,875 / 191,250 .

1.5.1.003:
- Now drops 20 .
- No longer gains 40% extra damage reduction in Malice Mode.
- Now gains 99.99% damage reduction while any of its hands are alive in Revengeance Mode or above.

1.5.1.001:
- Now vulnerable to water debuffs but resistant to sickness debuffs.
- Now drops Bone Glove regardless of world difficulty.

1.5.0.003: Decreased Reactive Damage Reduction timer from 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

1.5.0.001:
- Nerfed Boss Rush health from 1,600,000 / 3,200,000 / 4,000,000 to 160,000 / 320,000 / 400,000 .
- Now drops 75-100 Bones.

1.4.5.006: Head is now immune to all debuffs.

1.4.5.004:
- Nerfed Hand health in Death Mode from 1170 to 1014 .
- Increased Chaos Balls fired when teleporting from 2 / 4 to 3 / 5 .

1.4.5.003:
- Can now respawn all four of its hands at 33% health in Death Mode.
- Nerfed Head health in Death Mode from 11,000 to 4400 .
- Two chaos balls are now spawned in addition to its white magic projectiles after each teleport, fires skulls more often with extra velocity and Head accelerates quicker as its health decreases in Death Mode.
- Hands accelerate quicker in Death Mode.
- Revengeance Mode stat changes:
  - Nerfed Head health from 11,000 to 6600 .
  - Buffed Hand health from 1170 to 11,232 .

1.4.5.002: Hands cannot deal damage for 3 seconds after spawning.

1.4.4.001: Fixed a bug where hands didn't move after teleporting in Revengeance Mode.

1.4.3.002:
- Head and hands no longer take 85% damage from Gael's Greatsword's projectiles.
- Hands now teleport along with the head.

1.4.3.001:
- Nerfed head contact damage from 32 / 70 / 87 / 100 to 32 / 70 / 84 / 92 .
- Nerfed head spin damage from 91 / 113 / 130 to 91 / 109 / 120 .
- Nerfed hand damage from 20 / 44 / 55 / 63 to 20 / 44 / 55 / 61 .
- Nerfed skull projectile damage from 68 / 84 / 96 to 68 / 84 / 92 .
- Nerfed shadowflame damage from 76 / 87 to 76 / 84 .
- Decreased the maximum speed of hands in Revengeance Mode.
- Death Mode changes:
  - Transitions into Phase 2 and spawns extra arms immediately instead of below 33% health.
  - Moves at the highest speed immediately, instead of gradually speeding up as health lowers.
  - Decreased teleport and attack changing frequency.

1.4.2.108: Fixed a bug where its magic attacks dealt too much damage post-Moon Lord.

1.4.2.107:
- Revengeance Mode changes:
  - Can no longer fire homing skulls while either of his hands are alive.
  - Reduced charging speed, including in Boss Rush.
  - Slightly reduced the exponential speed increases Skeletron gets while spinning.
  - Can no longer fire homing skulls immediately after spinning.
  - Decreased amount of homing skulls fired overall.
  - Massively increased despawn range.

1.4.2.106:
- Buffed head's Boss Rush health from 1,300,000 to 1,600,000, and hands' Boss Rush healths from 500,000 to 600,000.
- Now has an indicator for where it is going to teleport.
- Decreased the speed of Revengeance Mode hands.

1.4.2.105:
- Reworked Revengeance Mode AI:
  - Nerfed hands' health modifier from 1.3x / 1.4x to 0.75x / 0.9x .
  - Fires far less homing skulls.
  - Hands are now more aggressive.
  - Head now charges at a higher velocity and switches between floating and charging more rapidly.
  - Head now gains 250 defense while either hand is alive.
  - Homing projectiles and minions won't home in on or attack Skeletron's head while his hands are alive.
  - Now has the ability to occasionally teleport. Teleportation occurs more frequently after its hands have been defeated.
  - At 33% health, he respawns his hands.
  - Homing Skulls now inflict Weak for 3 seconds instead of 2.

1.4.2.003: Enraged boss now shoots skulls every second in Revengeance Mode.

1.4.2.001:
- Nerfed Boss Rush health from 2,500,000 to 1,300,000.
- Nerfed hands' base Boss Rush healths from 1,000,000 to 500,000.
- Now has a minimum coin drop count of 7 .

1.4.1.001:
- Buffed Boss Rush health from 1,700,000 to 2,500,000.
- Buffed hands' Boss Rush healths from 90,000 to 1,000,000.
- Skulls now inflict Weak in Revengeance Mode.

1.4.0.001:
- Buffed health modifier from 1.15x / 1.3x to 1.25x / 1.4x .
- Buffed hand health modifier from 1.2x / 1.3x to 1.3x / 1.4x .
- Nerfed head and hand damage reduction from 10% to 5%.

1.3.4.101:
- Buffed health modifier from 1.15x to 1.15x / 1.3x .
- Nerfed Head damage reduction from 25% to 10%, but Hands now have 10% damage reduction.

1.3.4.001:
- Nerfed head health modifier from 1.1x / 2.3x to 1.15x .
- Nerfed hand health modifier from 2.2x / 4.6x to 1.2x / 1.3x .

1.2.4.101:
- Buffed Death Mode health modifier from 1.2x to 2.3x .
- Buffed hands' Death Mode health modifier from 2.5x to 4.6x .

1.2.4.002:
- Nerfed health modifier from 1.3x / 1.6x to 1.1x / 1.2x .
- Buffed Hand's health modifier from 1.2x / 1.4x to 2.2x / 2.5x .

1.2.3.005: Buffed hands' health modifier from 1.15x / 1.3x to 1.2x / 1.4x .

1.2.3.002:
- Now gains a 1.6x health modifier in Death Mode.
- Hands now gain a 1.3x health modifier in Death Mode.
- Now fires skulls more often in Death Mode.

1.2.0.002: Hands now inflict Marked for Death for 2 seconds in Revengeance Mode.

1.2.0.001:
- Head now gains a 1.3x health modifier in Revengeance Mode.
- Hands now gain a 1.15x health modifier in Revengeance Mode.
- Altered the rate at which its head cycles between idling and spinning.
- Head now inflicts Horror for 3 seconds in Revengeance Mode.
- Hands now inflict Horror for 2 seconds in Revengeance Mode.
- Now has a 2% chance to drop Laudanum or Stress Pills in Revengeance Mode.

1.1.7.801: The status message "Blighted sludge spreads throughout the world's evil..." now appears when defeated.

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During the Boss Rush

Aftermath

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Spawn

Segments

Behavior

In Revengeance Mode

In Death Mode

During the Boss Rush

Aftermath

Tips

History