Dancing Skeleton

Dancing Skeleton

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Raveyard
Damage	18 / 36 / 54
Max Life	54 / 108 / 162
Defense	7
Elemental multipliers	1.25x 1.1x 0.8x
KB Resist	90%

Drops

Coins	95

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Trumpet
  6.67%
• Carton of Milk
  0.67%
• Epidotrian Skull
  1%
  100% (If decapitated)
• Lost Soul
  14.29%

Dancing Skeletons are Pre-Hardmode enemies that spawn during the Raveyard event. They are stationary and deal no damage to the player, but have a 33% chance of becoming a normal Epidotrian Skeleton upon getting hit. Dancing Skeletons can spawn either with a Trumpet, producing a doot once in a while, or performing one of the 6 dances with varying speed.

A Dancing Skeleton has a 25% chance to spawn with Glowing Eyes, which will increase its stats. Killing a Glowing Eyes Skeleton will always spawn a Lost Soul as opposed to the usual 14.29% chance. If a Glowing Eyes Dancing Skeleton becomes an Epidotrian Skeleton after being hit, that Skeleton will retain Glowing Eyes.

Dances

Dance	Notes
	Generic cheering dance.
	Sr Pelo's "spooky dance".
	Generic disco dance.
	Squat dance or squatting, a type of dance move in Slavic dances.
	Dance performed by 5 in the animated A Charlie Brown Christmas Peanuts TV special.
	Chicken dance.

Trivia

• The Bestiary entry for the Dancing Skeleton: "Created when a corpse is bound by a soul, and the soul can still remember the last piece of music it heard. It will attempt to mimic the exact sounds it remembers. If it can't do that, then it will just dance uncontrollably. Some tunes are more deadly than others."

History

• 0.8.0.4035: Fixed dropping normal skulls when decapitated.