Hostile mob
Skeleton
Skeleton is a hostile mob with 20 health and 2 attack damage.
20 (10 hearts)
Health
2
Attack damage
Stats and behavior
| Type | Hostile mob |
| Size | 0.6 blocks wide, 1.99 blocks tall |
| Burns in daylight | Burns under open sky in daylight, 8 seconds at a time. Water, rain and Powder Snow stop it. An item worn on the head also stops it and wears down instead. |
| Weapon | A Skeleton holding a Bow shoots Arrows. Without a Bow it attacks in melee. |
| Bow attack | Draws its Bow for 1 second before each shot and must see its target. Between shots it waits 2 seconds, or 1 second on Hard. |
| Avoids Wolves | Keeps away from Wolves within 6 blocks. |
| Stray conversion | A Skeleton that stays in Powder Snow for 7 seconds starts shaking and turns into a Stray 15 seconds later. Leaving the Powder Snow cancels it. |
| Targets | Attacks players, Iron Golems and baby Turtles. |
| Usual spawn | Groups of 4, 19.4% of hostile spawns in 34 of its 57 biomes |
| Usual spawn biomes | Badlands, Beach, Birch Forest, Cherry Grove, Dappled Forest, Dark Forest, Eroded Badlands, Flower Forest, Forest, Frozen Peaks, Frozen River, Grove, Jagged Peaks, Lush Caves, Meadow, Old Growth Birch Forest, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Pale Garden, Plains, Savanna, Savanna Plateau, Snowy Beach, Snowy Slopes, Snowy Taiga, Sparse Jungle, Stony Peaks, Stony Shore, Sunflower Plains, Taiga, Windswept Forest, Windswept Gravelly Hills, Windswept Hills, Windswept Savanna, Wooded Badlands |
Drops
0-2 - Up to 1 more per level of Looting
0-2 - Up to 1 more per level of Looting
1 - Killed by a charged Creeper's explosion
Spawns in
Groups of 4, 19.3% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 9.71% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 16.4% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 3.88% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.3% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 13.6% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 18.5% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 16.3% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 3.88% of hostile spawns
Groups of 5, 28.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 2, 16.1% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 13.6% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Spawns inside it in place of the biome's mobs
From its trial spawners
ID and command
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