Necromancer

Necromancer
Mod	Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
Type	Hostile
Health	25 ♥×12.5
Attack damage	3
Speed	0.25
Follow range	25
Size	0.6 × 1.8 blocks
XP dropped	15
Spawns in	279 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	irons_spellbooks:necromancer

Necromancer is a hostile spellcasting mob added by Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks. It has 25 health (12.5 hearts), fights mainly with spells rather than melee, and can raise a group of undead once per encounter. It spawns in 279 overworld biomes, including caves, oceans and rivers, and it is a source of Scrolls.

Spawning

A Necromancer is a natural MONSTER-category spawn in all overworld biomes. Each spawn group contains exactly one Necromancer, and its spawn weight is 18. Its placement rule requires it to spawn on the ground. The full list of biomes and weights is in the table below.

Necromancers also appear in the Catacombs structure. The pack places catacombs about 30% closer together than in the unmodified mod, so the structure, and with it the Necromancer, is more common in the Fear Nightfall world. A Necromancer does not despawn in the Peaceful difficulty, and it is removed when that difficulty is set.

Behavior

The Necromancer uses the mod's spellcasting AI, which combines an attack goal and a recovery goal. It targets the nearest player and also attacks iron golems and baby turtles on land within 10 blocks. It retaliates against any mob that hurts it. When it has no target, it wanders, avoids water, and looks at players within 8 blocks.

Its base stats are an attack damage of 3 (1.5 hearts), a movement speed of 0.25, a follow range of 25 blocks, and no armor. It has a spell power attribute of 0.75. The mod adds it to the vanilla undead entity tag. On spawn it also receives the mod's undead resistance defaults, a holy resistance of 0.5 and a blood resistance of 1.5.

Spellcasting

Between casts the Necromancer waits between 35 and 80 ticks (1.75 to 4 seconds), then picks a spell from the pools it was given:

• Attack spells: Fang Strike, Icicle and Magic Missile.
• Defense spells: Fang Ward.
• Support spells: Blight and Root.

It also drinks potions when it needs them. Spells are described in the Spellcasting article.

Raise Dead

The Necromancer has one use of Raise Dead. The spell level is chosen between 4 and 5 when the mob is created, and the cast happens after a delay that is also rolled at creation, between 80 and 350 ticks. A cast at level L summons L + 2 undead around the Necromancer, which is 6 or 7 creatures. Each summon is a zombie with a 70% chance or a skeleton with a 30% chance. The summons are allied with the Necromancer and last 10 minutes. They are described in Summoned Creatures. Because the summons are the main threat in a fight with a Necromancer, it is usually best to kill the caster before the cast, or to fight the summons in a narrow space.

Equipment

A Necromancer wears a Tarnished Crown on its head. The crown is dropped with a 15% chance when the Necromancer dies. It does not wear any other armor.

Drops

The Necromancer's loot depends on how it dies:

• Arcane Essence: 0 to 4, increased by the Looting enchantment.
• Scroll: 25% chance, but only when the Necromancer is killed by a player. Scrolls hold a single spell and can be upgraded with ink in the Scroll Forge and Inks.
• Tarnished Crown: 15% chance, from the equipped helmet described above.

Item	Amount	Conditions
Arcane Essence	x0.0-4.0 +looting bonus
Scroll		25% chance, killed_by_player

Tips

• Keep your distance and use ranged attacks or a spell that reaches the Necromancer before it can close in. It is a caster, so it is most dangerous at range, and its melee is weak.
• Watch for the Raise Dead cast. Once the undead appear, they last 10 minutes, so it is better to kill the summons quickly or to lure them away from the Necromancer than to wait them out.
• The Scroll drop only happens when a player makes the kill, so a Necromancer killed by a trap or another mob gives no Scroll.
• Carry a light source and a way to retreat at night, since the Necromancer can spawn in any of its 279 overworld biomes, including caves.