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[[Image:Bones Different Appearance.gif|thumb|128px|Bones can appear two ways. "Fake" bones are those that may pop up as a skeleton]] |
[[Image:Bones Different Appearance.gif|thumb|128px|Bones can appear two ways. "Fake" bones are those that may pop up as a skeleton]] |
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| − | Skeletons can only spawn from skulls on the ground. These skulls will damage you if you run over them or attempt to pick them up. You can tell which skulls will pop up by whipping them - skulls that are part of a skeleton will be destroyed, regular ones will not. They will then proceed to walk toward you. However, a safer way to discern a skeleton from a pile of bones is their "resting" sprite; skeletons always have an extra "bone" just to the right of the skull one pixel longer (and noticeably brighter) |
+ | Skeletons can only spawn from skulls on the ground. These skulls will damage you if you run over them or attempt to pick them up. You can tell which skulls will pop up by whipping them - skulls that are part of a skeleton will be destroyed, regular ones will not. They will then proceed to walk toward you. However, a safer way to discern a skeleton from a pile of bones is their "resting" sprite; skeletons always have an extra "bone" just to the right of the skull one pixel longer (and noticeably brighter). |
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| + | Bone piles which can't be destroyed, when shot at, for example with the shot gun, always reveal a skeleton. |
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| + | They are easily dispatched with the whip, or by jumping on them. When destroyed, they drop a skull, but it will usually shatter on the ground. |
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== Trivia == |
== Trivia == |
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Revision as of 08:00, 13 May 2009
Skeletons are a somewhat uncommon enemy in Spelunky.
Statistics
Health: 1
Damage: 1
Size: Small (1x1)
Corpse?: No
Stunnable?: No
Special: Can pop out from skulls on the ground.
Strategy
Bones can appear two ways. "Fake" bones are those that may pop up as a skeleton
Skeletons can only spawn from skulls on the ground. These skulls will damage you if you run over them or attempt to pick them up. You can tell which skulls will pop up by whipping them - skulls that are part of a skeleton will be destroyed, regular ones will not. They will then proceed to walk toward you. However, a safer way to discern a skeleton from a pile of bones is their "resting" sprite; skeletons always have an extra "bone" just to the right of the skull one pixel longer (and noticeably brighter).
Bone piles which can't be destroyed, when shot at, for example with the shot gun, always reveal a skeleton.
They are easily dispatched with the whip, or by jumping on them. When destroyed, they drop a skull, but it will usually shatter on the ground.
Trivia
Oddly, a skeleton that falls onto spikes will stain the spikes red with its blood. What the skeleton is doing with blood is anyone's guess.