Skeleton has 40 health and spawns in the Meadows, the swamps, the mountains, Black Forest and the plains.
It takes extra damage from blunt and fire; it resists pierce and frost; poison does nothing to it at all. Slash lands at full damage, so that is what to bring.
Its hardest hit is sword at 25 slash, out of 2 attacks.
Of everything craftable, 
Thunderblood Sledge, 
Frostfire Sledge and 
Staff of Embers put the most damage through what it resists.
It always drops 
Bone Fragments.
Skeleton is an undead guard that spawns at night across the Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp, Mountain and Plains and stands watch in Burial Chambers and ruined towers, with 40 health on the standard version and biome variants running from 30 in the Meadows to 100 in the Deep North. Eight in ten carry a sword for 25 slash on a 3 second cooldown; the rest carry a bow for 20 pierce out to 20 meters. A quarter of the melee ones show a wooden shield and another quarter a bronze buckler, both cosmetic and neither of which drops. Blunt and fire are weaknesses, pierce and frost are resisted and poison does nothing, so a club beats a bow against them. Each kill gives one Bone Fragments and the 
Skeleton Trophy at 10 percent.
Bring a mace or club into every crypt; pierce is the one thing they resist. The archers outrange your early bows on open ground, so close the gap behind a shield.
| Where | Roll | Group | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows, Swamp, Mountain, Black Forest, Plains | 25% every 300 s, max 3 near you | 1 to 3 | night only · after killing bonemass |
Each 64 m zone keeps its own timer per entry and rolls the chance once per interval while loaded; a zone never loaded before rolls the moment you arrive. The spawn lands 40 to 80 m from a player, never inside a base unless noted, and "max near you" counts the loaded area around that zone. Dungeon and camp spawners are separate and not counted here.
With devcommands enabled, this spawns Skeleton in front of you. The third number is the level: 3 spawns a 2-star.
Creature ID: Skeleton · all console commands and IDs