Talk:Skeletron/@comment-188.81.224.88-20110526193213

My progress until I killed this boss, and maybe some tips for the noobs :

1 - Craft a decent armor (iron at least) and create a house (apartment style) for all the NPC, build the bottom 1 block higher then the ground, so you have to jump to enter the house, this will also prevent the mobs to open your door when is blood moon (the mobs cannot open doors if the door is higher than them). 2 - Fight skeletons to have an hook so you can explore cave systems easier 3 - Collect glowing mushrooms until one of them gives you seeds 4 - Use the seeds to create a glowing mushrooms farm near the surface of your spawning point 5 - Now that you have unlimited supply of glowing mushrooms, use them to heal yourself and to craft Healing potions (200 HP) 6 - Find 10+ crystal hearts and find 100+ fallen stars (it's better to hunt them down when the night is almost over) 7 - The Eye of Cthulhu should be almost awake by now because you have 200+ health, so prepare yourself, create a platform and buy 200+ Shuriken, use the Demonite ore from him to create the War Axe of the Night  (good damage and no need to be constantly clicking). 8 - Buy Purification Powder from Dryad and use it to access and then break shadow orbs. 9 - Break a 3rd one so that the Eater of Worlds spawn and fight him even in the tight space were it was the shadow orb, by now I had a full set of silver armor and 30x2 Health Potions, using the War Axe of the Night I didn't needed nothing more to kill him (I used 8 Health Potions). 10 - Awake another one breaking more shadow orbs or to use the worm food, so you can have a full set of shadow armor a Nightmare Pickaxe AND The Breaker (since it's a tool you don't need to keep clicking for it to swing), kill more if needed. 11 - (optional) Go deep and find a place were is a lake near lava, conduct the water into the lava and mine obsidian, with this craft 5 obsidian skulls for more protection. 12 - With The Breaker, full set of shadow armor (The Breaker swings faster), full pack of obsidian skulls and 60 Healing Potions I managed to kill Skeletron (and both arms). I also waited for the start of the night for him to spawn, but since I fight him in the entry of the dungeon I didn't have space to dodge the head attacks so I ended up using almost 30 healing potions.

Now is time for me to explore the dungeon, find floating Islands, mine Hellstone and go to the jungle...