NPC

Armored Skeleton

Armored Skeleton is a Terraria NPC. It spawns in this biome: Caverns. It drops 2 items: Armor Polish and Beam Sword.

Bestiary entry

Rarity:

Remnants of a long lost expeditionary force, these stout warriors mindlessly patrol the caves in which they died.

	Classic	Expert	Master	Legendary (For the Worthy)
Life	260	520	780	1,040
Attack	40	80	120	213
Defense	28	28	28	28
Knockback Taken	40% (Med)	36% (Low)	32% (Low)	32% (Low)
Coins	4	10	10	14

The last column is Master mode in a world made with the For the Worthy seed. Its numbers were measured in the game, not computed here.

For one player in a world before Hardmode. Expert and Master scale life, attack, knockback and coins by the game's own multipliers.

Coins: each kill rolls the coins from 80% to 175% of this value, then rarer extra rolls can add more.

The game spawns this NPC in several forms that share its name. Each form has its own numbers.

Variant	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Variant 1 Size 115%	400	50	32	34% (Low)	4 60
Variant 2 Size 100%	260	40	28	40% (Med)	4

Variant	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Variant 1 Size 115%	400	101	32	30.6% (Low)	11 50
Variant 2 Size 100%	520	80	28	36% (Low)	10

Variant	Life	Attack	Defense	Knockback Taken	Coins
Variant 1 Size 115%	400	151	32	27.2% (Low)	11 50
Variant 2 Size 100%	780	120	28	32% (Low)	10

Buff	On	Chance	Duration	Conditions
Broken Armor	Players	1/6 (16.7%)	120 s

Item	Quantity	Chance	Kills for 50%	Kills for 90%	Conditions
Armor Polish	1	1/100 (1%)	69	230
Beam Sword	1	1/150 (0.67%)	104	345

Item	Quantity	Chance	Kills for 50%	Kills for 90%	Conditions
Armor Polish	1	199/10,000 (1.99%)	35	115
Beam Sword	1	1/150 (0.67%)	104	345

Item	Quantity	Chance	Kills for 50%	Kills for 90%	Conditions
Armor Polish	1	199/10,000 (1.99%)	35	115
Beam Sword	1	1/150 (0.67%)	104	345

Chance is per kill. Kills for 50% and 90% is how many kills give that chance to see the item at least once.