Bone Archer

In game

The Tidewall garrison of drowned Saltreach, still at their posts after the water rose.

Life: 13 at depth 1
Damage: 2.5 Physical per hit
Attack: Ranged
Speed: 3.8 tiles/s
Armour: 0
Resistances: None
Size: 0.68 tiles across
Packs: 3 to 5
First appears: Depth 1
Experience: 9 at depth 1

A Bone Archer, a skeleton in a spiked, coral-crusted helm, drawing a longbow

Art in progress

Lore Concept

The horn for the change of watch never sounded.

The Bone Archers were the garrison of the Tidewall, the great sea-gate of Saltreach. The Hearthfolk say they were on the walls when King Orrin opened the gate, and that no one told them to stand down. So they didn't.

They serve the Drowned Court still. The water stripped them to bone and left the order intact: hold the wall, loose at any light. A fallen's ember is a light. The archers do not know the war is over, and it is not clear whose war it was.

Where it is met

Act 2, the Drowned Coast: on the walls and in the open gatehouse of the Tidewall, with the rest of Orrin's Drowned Court.
In the build: from depth 1. The build has no acts yet; every depth is the same endless cave.

Model

The Bone Archer as the game draws it, at each level of detail, under a warm light like the party's ember. Every model, with its numbers: Models, or with each level's numbers in the asset explorer.

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Model	File	Vertices	Triangles	Budget	Drawn at	Size (tiles)
Near	`archer_near.glb` 138 KB	3,014 (24 ember)	5,220	4,000 vertices	under 30 tiles	1.10 × 2.13 × 0.60
Mid	`archer_mid.glb` 67 KB	1,486 (10 ember)	2,198	1,500 vertices	30 to 38 tiles	1.10 × 2.13 × 0.59
Far	`archer_far.glb` 18 KB	393 (10 ember)	393	400 vertices	beyond 38 tiles	1.04 × 2.13 × 0.59

Attack

Shoots from up to 12 tiles away when it can see you, after a 0.6-second windup. The projectile flies at 16 tiles per second for up to 16.8 tiles and stops at the first player it touches. It fires every 2.8 seconds. Hasted monsters wind up faster and chilled ones slower. Each hit rolls 80% to 120% of its damage.

By depth

Values for a normal Bone Archer, with magic and rare life for comparison. Modifiers come on top.

Depth	Life	Magic life	Rare life	Damage	Experience
1	13	21	39	2.5	9
2	15	23	44	2.7	10
3	16	26	49	2.9	11
4	18	29	55	3.2	12
5	20	33	61	3.5	13
10	36	58	108	5.2	21
15	64	102	191	7.8	34
20	112	179	336	11.8	55
30	348	556	1,043	26.6	143

Rarity at depth 1

Before modifiers. Drops are per player within 30 tiles of the kill; see Drops.

Rarity	Life	Damage	Experience	Items dropped	Currency dropped
Normal	13	2.5	9	0.12	0.06
Magic	21	2.5	23	0.3	0.15
Rare	39	2.9	54	1.18	0.36
Guardian	59	2.9	108	2.39	0.9

How often it appears

The chance that a new pack is Bone Archers, by depth. Spawn weight 70.

Depth	Share of packs
1	33%
2	21%
3+	19%

Other monsters: Hollow Ghoul, Cavern Brute, Cinder Imp, Gloom Spider, Rime Wraith