Bone Helm

  

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Bone Helm

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Statistics

Type	Accessory
Tooltip	Summons shadow hands to attack your foes 'I've got a headache just looking at it.'
Rarity	12*
Sell	2 GC
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Shadow Hand (friendly)
  

• Internal Item ID: 5100 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Projectile ID: 964

 Obtained from

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Treasure Bag(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) (Deerclops)Treasure Bag (Deerclops)(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	100%

The Bone Helm attacking Skeletons.

The Bone Helm is a pre-Hardmode accessory that summons Shadow Hand projectiles to damage enemies. These Shadow Hands spawn a distance from enemies before flying at them, piercing anything in their path including through blocks. Their flight behavior mirrors the Shadow Hands found in the Deerclops fight, either flying straight or swerving harshly in flight. The Bone Helm is always dropped from Deerclops' Treasure Bag in Expert Mode.

Notes

• The Shadow Hand projectile deals 18 base damage and no knockback. It can pierce up to two enemies, dissipating upon hitting a third one, and applies a 15% damage penalty to the next hit for each enemy the projectile pierces.
  • The damage is classless, i.e. it is not affected by specific bonuses to melee/ranged/magic/summon damage.
  • The projectile also has 20 armor penetration.
• After summoning a Shadow Hand, the Bone Helm has a cooldown of between 0.33 seconds and 1.67 seconds until it spawns the next Shadow Hand.
• The accessory targets any random enemy that is within 31.25 tiles from the player.

Tips

• The Bone Helm is very useful in tier 1 of the Old One's Army, since the Shadow Hands can pierce many enemies and will also target the Etherian Wyverns.
• Like other passively attacking accessories, it can be useful during menial tasks such as fishing or automated farming.

Trivia

• The Bone Helm is the third passively attacking accessory, following the Volatile Gelatin and the Spore Sac. All of these items are exclusive to Expert Mode, but only the Bone Helm can be obtained pre-Hardmode.
• Despite being an accessory, the Bone Helm's sprite will override any cosmetic in the player's helmet slot.
• The tooltip is a reference to Willow's examination quote for the Bone Helm in Don't Starve Together.
• When wearing Yoraiz0r's Spell and the Bone Helm, the eye glow will be moved up to match the Bone Helm's eye socket, resembling the Ancient Fuelweaver from Don't Starve Together.

See also

• Bone Helm at the Don't Starve Wiki

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.4.8.1: Corrected the Bone Helm's offset on the minimap in reverse gravity.

• Desktop 1.4.3: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.4.3.2.0: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.4.3.2.0: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.3.2.0: Introduced.