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Bone Serpent - Not full size
Stats
Type	Monster	­
HP	Head: 70 Body: 150 Tail: 200
Rarity	Common
Attack	Head - 40 Body - 30 Tail - 20
Defense	Head - 5 Body - 6 Tail - 9
Variety	Devourer Eater of Worlds Giant Worm
Spawn Area	The Underworld
Drops
12  ?		100%

The Bone Serpent is one of the burrowing monsters, (which are capable of moving through blocks) and it can be found in The Underworld. It is the strongest of the non-boss enemies before defeating the Wall of Flesh. The only burrowing enemies stronger than the Bone Serpent are the Eater of Worlds, and The Destroyer, which are bosses. It is also equal in health with the digger. In order to kill a Bone Serpent, you need to destroy at least one section. The tail can be "killed" without killing the rest of the Bone Serpent.

The Bone Serpent is, like all burrowing enemies, immune to lava. Each section of a Bone Serpent will drop loot, but as they are usually defeated by destroying one segment of their bodies they seem to drop only one item. Applying large damage to multiple body sections at once with Dynamite will result in loot from every body section. This can drastically increase the loot gained from Bone Serpents.

Contents 1 Notes 2 Trivia 3 Bugs 4 Update 5 Gallery 6 Comments

NotesEdit

• When digging to the bottom of a map in the Underworld, there is a chance that, while standing near the bottom, the Bone Serpent will tunnel off the map and disappear.
• The Bone Serpent is visible when inside pitch-black areas, as if it is a cave or an unlit area.
• If you're having trouble surviving a fight with a Bone Serpent, you can use a Grappling Hook on a high ceiling and it will not be able to reach you, where you can leisurely shoot at it with ranged weapons.
• Bone Serpents CAN spawn if you are not directly in the Underworld, but very close to it.
• Bone Serpents CAN dig straight up through a Hellevator, if they so wish to do so, and invade your house.
• It is possible to lure a Bone Serpent out of the Underworld and all the way to the Surface.
• A quick and easy method of dispatching a Bone Serpent is using the Demon Scythe spell. Simply wait for it to attack, dodge and quickly deploy multiple spells. It should deal a large amount of damage and even kill it.
• Bone Serpents no longer drop the Sunfury weapon.
• One good way to attack the Bone Serpents is to use a Spear weapon such as the Dark Lance which has a long reach. Two stabs from a Dark Lance is enough if used correctly.
• A useful weapon against the bone serpent is the Vilethorn. As similar noted earlier flail and spear-like weapons are advised against these worm creatures. The vilethorn can deal significant damage even when it is below you. Another way is to use the vilethorn with a Hunter Potion so you can see it at all times.
• For an easy kill use the Harpoon get up next to a wall and fire at the wall. The Bone Serpent will take a massive amount of damage when it goes to hit you and will die within 1 or 2 passes.

TriviaEdit

• Bone serpents only drop coins.
• Bone serpents do not drop bones.
• It has been found that instead of disappearing, the Bone Serpent will frequently die off-screen without any player interference.
• Bone Serpents spawn curled up in a ball.

BugsEdit

• It is possible for the Bone Serpent to stay alive with only it's head left, this is also common for other Burrowing Mosters. (Mostly in Multiplayer)
• It is possible for the Bone Serpent to use another monster head. (Mostly in Multiplayer)
• It's possible for a Bone Serpent to spawn in mid-air while on-screen. (Mostly in Multiplayer)

UpdateEdit

v1.0.6

• Now has a new death sound, and its hit-box has been fixed.

v1.0.0

• Introduced.

GalleryEdit

Monsters
Slime Monsters	Baby Slime · Black Slime · Blue Slime · Corrupt Slime · Dungeon Slime · Green Slime · Illuminant Slime · Jungle Slime · Lava Slime · Mother Slime · Pinky · Purple Slime · Red Slime · Slimeling · Slimer · Toxic Sludge · Yellow Slime
Goblins	Goblin Archer · Goblin Peon · Goblin Scout · Goblin Sorcerer · Goblin Thief · Goblin Warrior
Undead Monsters	Angry Bones · Armored Skeleton · Big Boned · Dark Caster · Doctor Bones · Heavy Skeleton · Short Bones · Skeleton · Skeleton Archer · The Groom · Tim · Undead Miner · Zombie
Humanoids	Chaos Elemental · Clown · Dark Mummy · Light Mummy · Mummy · Possessed Armor · Werewolf
Mages	Dark Caster · Fire Imp · Goblin Sorcerer · Tim
Plant Monsters	Clinger · Man Eater · Snatcher
Burrowing Monsters	Bone Serpent · Devourer · Digger · Giant Worm · World Feeder
Flying Monsters	Big Eater · Big Stinger · Bird · Cave Bat · Corruptor · Cursed Hammer · Cursed Skull · Demon · Demon Eye · Eater of Souls · Enchanted Sword · Gastropod · Giant Bat · Harpy · Hellbat · Hornet · Illuminant Bat · Jungle Bat · Little Eater · Little Stinger · Meteor Head · Pixie · Voodoo Demon · Vulture · Wandering Eye · Wraith
Swimming Monsters	Angler Fish · Blue Jellyfish · Corrupt Goldfish · Goldfish · Green Jellyfish · Pink Jellyfish · Piranha · Shark
Hopping Monsters	Bunny · Corrupt Bunny · Mimic · Slimes
Boss Monsters	Eater of Worlds · Eye of Cthulhu · King Slime · Skeletron · Skeletron Prime · The Destroyer · The Twins · Wall of Flesh · Wyvern
Boss-Related Monsters	Dungeon Guardian · Leech · Probe · Servant of Cthulhu · The Hungry
Immortal	Blazing Wheel · Spike Ball
Projectile	Chaos Ball · Burning Sphere
Other	Antlion · Crab · Snowman Gangsta · Mr. Stabby · Snow Balla · Unicorn

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