Siamese Skeletons

Siamese Skeletons
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	20 ♥×10
Attack damage	3
Armor	2
Speed	0.3
Follow range	16
Size	0.6 × 1.3 blocks
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:siamese_skeletons

The Siamese Skeletons is a hostile undead mob added by Born in Chaos. It is a fused skeleton with 20 health that splits into two smaller skeletons, the Siamese Skeleton (left) and Siamese Skeleton (right), when it is badly damaged. Each half has 10 health and is a separate hostile mob, so a fight that starts against one Siamese Skeletons can end against two. It is a common hostile across the overworld and burns in daylight.

Spawning

The full-bodied Siamese Skeletons spawns naturally as a hostile monster. It uses the same spawn-placement rule as the Baby Skeleton: on solid ground with a light level of 4 or lower when the block above is open to the sky, or 0 or lower when it is not. The biomes it spawns in are listed in the table below.

The two halves do not spawn naturally. They appear only when the full-bodied form splits, or when an undead summon effect from Born in Chaos rolls a Siamese Skeletons. A summon places the mob 2.5 blocks from the caster and copies the caster's facing.

Behavior

The full-bodied Siamese Skeletons is a melee mob. It moves toward the nearest player and attacks with a melee goal at 1.2 times its movement speed. It retaliates against anything that hurts it. It is immune to drowning damage.

It avoids three hound mobs from the same pack: the Dread Hound, its non-despawning variant, and the Dire Hound Leader. When it has no target it strolls at 0.8 times its movement speed and looks around at random. The two halves use the same melee and retaliation behaviour.

Daylight

All three forms catch fire in daylight. When a Siamese Skeletons or a half is under open sky during the day, and it is not raining or thundering, not in water, and not already on fire, it ignites for 5 seconds. Standing in rain or water puts the fire out.

Splitting

The full-bodied form checks its health every tick. When its health is 10 or lower, which is half of its 20 maximum health, it splits:

1. A Siamese Skeleton (right) and a Siamese Skeleton (left) are spawned at its position, with the same facing and head and body rotation.
2. The full-bodied mob is removed.
3. A burst of poof particles and a skeleton hurt sound play at the split point.

The split is not a death. Any damage that leaves the full-bodied form at 10 or less health triggers it. The only way to avoid the split is to remove all of its remaining health in a single hit while it is still above 10 health.

Drops

The full-bodied form gives no experience. Each half gives 6 experience on death. Their item drops are listed in the table below.

Siamese Skeletons

No item drops.

Variants

There are three mobs. The full-bodied Siamese Skeletons has 20 health, 3 attack damage and 2 armor. The two halves have 10 health, 2 attack damage and 1 armor each. All three have a movement speed of 0.3, a follow range of 16 and a size of 0.6 by 1.3 blocks. The full stats are in the table below.

Fear Nightfall changes

The pack adds the Siamese Skeletons to the vanilla minecraft:entity_type/undead tag. Anything that targets that tag, such as the Smite enchantment, therefore applies to all three forms.

Tips

Damage that takes the full-bodied form from above 10 health to zero in one hit prevents the split, so a heavy hit is better than several small ones. The halves are weaker than the full form, so a second fight is easier to finish. Armor reduces the damage the mob deals. Because all three forms burn in daylight under open sky, fights are easier to finish in shade, and water or rain will put out a mob that has caught fire.