Mechanical Skull

Mechanical Skull

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Statistics

Type	Boss summonCrafting material
Consumable	✔️
Use time	45 (Very slow)
Tooltip	Summons Skeletron Prime
Rarity	03*
Research	3 required

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 557

Not to be confused with Robotic Skull, the Master Mode pet for Skeletron Prime.

The Mechanical Skull is a boss-summoning item used to summon Skeletron Prime, a Hardmode version of Skeletron. It can only be used at night, which means consuming this item during day will not spawn Skeletron Prime. It is also unusable when the boss is already present. It can be used in any world, but usually only becomes accessible in a Hardmode World. If Skeletron Prime has not been defeated yet in a Hardmode world, all enemies have a 0.04*1/2500 (0.04%) chance of dropping this item, with the exception of statue-spawned enemies, Meteor Heads, and Old One's Army enemies.

Crafting

Recipes

Result Ingredients Crafting station Mechanical Skull Bone (30) Any Iron Bar (5) Soul of Light (3) Soul of Night (3) Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil total: 1 row(s)

Used in

Result Ingredients Crafting station Suspicious Looking Skull () Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar (10) Soul of Night (5) Soul of Light (5) Mythril Anvil or Orichalcum Anvil Suspicious Looking Skull () Mechanical Skull Mechanical Eye (2) Adamantite Bar or Titanium Bar (10) Soul of Night (5) Soul of Light (5) total: 2 row(s)

Notes

• The Mechanical Skull's texture is based on the Skull Lantern furniture item.

Achievement

Like a Boss • “Obtain a boss-summoning item.”

Obtain any boss-summoning item.

Trivia

• The Skull Lantern and Mechanical Skull are very similar in appearance to the skull in the original sprite for Skeletons: .
• Like the Mechanical Worm, it looks like a wind-up toy.

See also

• Mechanical Worm and Mechanical Eye, the other mechanical boss-summoning items.
• Suspicious Looking Skull, Ocram's summon item of similar appearance to the Mechanical Skull.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated. Old sprite was:

• Desktop 1.2.1: Drop chance reduced from 0.1*1/1000 (0.1%) to 0.04*1/2500 (0.04%).

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Now a Hardmode drop.
  • No longer need Copper Bars to be crafted.
  • Souls of Night and Light needed reduced from 5 to 3.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.1. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Sprite updated to match Desktop 1.3.1. ()

• Console 1.02: Now a Hardmode drop with the droprate of Desktop 1.2.1. Recipe changed to match Desktop 1.2.

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Now a Hardmode drop with the droprate of Desktop 1.2.1. Recipe changed to match Desktop 1.2.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced with mechanics from Desktop 1.2.1^Verify.