Armored Skeleton

Not to be confused with Blue Armored Bones.

The Armored Skeleton is a Hardmode enemy that spawns in the Cavern layer. It has a 1/6 (16.67%) chance to inflict the Broken Armor debuff for 2 / 4 / 5 minutes on contact.

Variants

Classic

Expert

Master

2 values: Pre-Hardmode › Hardmode
3 values: Pre-Hardmode › Hardmode › Post-Plantera

NPC ID	Type		Health	Damage	Defense	KB Resist	Coins
77		Armored Skeleton	260/520/780	40/80/120	28	60%/64%/68%	4 SC10 SC
-15		Heavy Skeleton	400	50/101/151	32	66%/69%/73%	4 SC59 CC11 SC50 CC

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 one of two sources of Armor Polish before having defeated Plantera, the other is Shimmer transmutation with Vitamins.

Armored Skeletons appear to be wearing a bluer variation of the Ancient Cobalt Breastplate with spiked shoulder guards.
The Heavy Skeleton variant is one of the few enemies whose health does not increase in Expert(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) or Master Mode(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions). Because of this, their health is actually considerably lower than the regular armored skeleton in the latter, and comparable in the former.

The Bestiary entry for the Armored Skeleton: "Remnants of a long lost expeditionary force, these stout warriors mindlessly patrol the caves in which they died."

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.