Skeleton Demoman

Skeleton Demoman
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	25 ♥×12.5
Attack damage	3
Armor	2
Speed	0.22
Follow range	16
Size	0.6 × 1.9 blocks
XP dropped	10
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:skeleton_demoman

The Skeleton Demoman is a hostile melee mob added by Born in Chaos. It has no ranged attack and is not especially strong in a fight, but it carries a delayed explosion: when it is hit while at 15 health or less, it starts a fuse and detonates about three seconds later. It drops the Damned Demoman's Hat, a cursed helmet that does the same thing to whoever wears it. Players care about the Skeleton Demoman for its fuse, the hat it drops and the Good Demoman advancement that its death grants.

Spawning

Skeleton Demoman spawns naturally in Overworld biomes, one mob per spawn event. Its spawn check depends on light level, not on time of day: on open sky the light level at the spawn position must be 4 or lower, and under cover it must be 0. In practice this means it appears on the surface at night and in dark areas underground. Natural spawning also requires the skeletonBombSpawn game rule to be enabled, which it is by default. The spawn check rejects positions in Deep Dark and Mushroom Fields. Biomes and weights are listed in the table below.

The pack changes its spawning in two ways. Born in Chaos spawn weights were halved to reduce crowding out of vanilla monsters, and Born in Chaos spawns are limited to the Overworld.

Behavior

The Skeleton Demoman has 25 health (12.5 hearts), 2 armor, a movement speed of 0.22 and a follow range of 16 blocks. Its attack deals 3 damage, and it is 0.6 blocks wide and 1.9 blocks tall. It is a melee-only mob. It attacks players within reach and with line of sight, and it hunts the nearest player. It also fights back against anything that hurts it.

It avoids Wolves and Dread Hounds. When one of them is within 6 blocks, the Skeleton Demoman runs away from it at normal speed. While it is raining, its sunlight restriction is active. Otherwise it wanders at 0.8 speed and looks around at random. Killing it gives 10 experience.

Detonation

Every time the Skeleton Demoman takes damage, its health is checked before the damage is applied. If its health is 15 or less and it does not already have the Detonation effect, it receives two effects for 80 ticks (4 seconds):

• Detonation, which runs its fuse.
• Slowness VI (movement slowdown at amplifier 5), which slows it heavily while the fuse burns.

The fuse runs while the Skeleton Demoman is alive. Once 20 ticks of Detonation remain, which is about three seconds after it starts, the mob explodes at its position with an explosion power of 3.0. The explosion has no owner, so it harms nearby players and mobs alike. Terrain is damaged only if the mobGriefing game rule is enabled. When the explosion happens, Detonation is removed and the mob receives the Block Break effect for 60 ticks.

Two details follow from this:

• The explosion only happens if the mob is still alive when the fuse runs out. Killing it before then prevents the blast.
• Any damage triggers the fuse, including ranged attacks and drowning damage. Drowning damage is still ignored, but the fuse starts before that check.

Death

When the Skeleton Demoman dies, the player credited with the kill receives the Good Demoman advancement, if they do not already have it.

Drops

The Skeleton Demoman's loot table has two pools, and each kill rolls both. The bone pool always drops 1 to 2 bone. The gunpowder pool rolls once and picks between gunpowder (weight 100, 1 to 2 items) and the Damned Demoman's Hat (weight 5, 1 item). The hat therefore drops on about 4.8% of kills. The loot table has no Looting modifier, so Looting does not change these chances. The table below shows the full loot.

Item	Amount	Conditions
Bone	x1.0-2.0
Gunpowder	x1.0-2.0
Damned Demoman's Hat	x1.0-1.0

Related items

• Damned Demoman's Hat (Damned Demoman's Hat) is a helmet with 330 durability. It is cursed with Binding Curse, so once worn it cannot be taken off. While worn, the hat tracks its wearer's health. When the wearer's health is 5 or less, Detonation is applied for 80 ticks, unless the wearer already has Detonation or Block Break. The explosion then follows the same rules as the Skeleton Demoman's. Wearing the hat grants the Explosive Temper advancement. The hat is also listed in Born in Chaos Armor and Hats.
• Skeleton Demoman Spawn Egg (Skeleton Demoman Spawn Egg) spawns the mob and stacks to 64.
• Good Demoman Icon (Good Demoman Icon) is the icon of the Good Demoman advancement. It does not stack.

Tips

• Any damage taken at 15 health or less starts the fuse, including arrows and other ranged attacks. Move away from the mob before the fuse ends, since the blast reaches nearby entities. Slowness VI on the mob makes it easier to keep your distance.
• To avoid the blast entirely, land the killing blow while the mob is above 15 health, or kill it during the roughly three seconds of the fuse.
• The Skeleton Demoman avoids Dread Hounds within 6 blocks, so a Dread Hound nearby can keep it away from you.
• Do not put on the Damned Demoman's Hat for a fight unless you are ready for a blast at 5 health. The hat cannot be taken off once worn.