Mutant Skeleton

The Mutant Skeleton is a hostile mob added by Mutant Creatures. It is a dangerous creature that you don't want to encounter. Standing at around 3-4 blocks tall, this Mutant is armed with a more powerful Crossbow, instead of the Bow a regular Skeleton uses. He also features a gigantic ribcage, a serious case of under-bite, and powerful, bone-chilling attacks. It has been known to snipe players away from a distance farther than any other Mutant can sense you. And like a Mutant Zombie, it can heal of its  hearts every 5 seconds at nighttime, making this monster a harder enemy to deal with at night.

Attacks/ Special Abilities
This mutant features four dreaded attacks.

Ranged Attack
One of the Mutant Skeleton's most common and feared attacks is its ranged attack. It will aim it's crossbow at you, pull back, and fire an arrow straight at you. This is no common arrow, though, because it can go through all blocks and entities to hit you. It can also inflict a random negative effect on you, such as poison, exhaustion, and slowness. But if you manage to hit the Mutant before it fires at you, you might be able to break its focus, causing it to misfire.

Melee Attack
If you try to get close to the Mutant Skeleton to whack it with a sword, then you will be in for quite the surprise. The Mutant will use his melee attack, which is just simply whacking you with his crossbow. While it doesn't give you much damage, the attack will push you quite far away from it, giving it the chance to use its ranged attack again.

Multi-shot Attack
This is an attack you will almost never be able to avoid. When the Mutant Skeleton does the multi-shot attack, he jumps high in the air, while simultaneously firing many arrows at the same time at you. Fortunately these arrows don't deal random negative potion effects like on the ranged attack...

Constrict
When you look at a Mutant Skeleton, you might wonder why he has such a huge ribcage. Let's hope you don't have to figure it out the hard way... The Mutant Skeleton is able to use its ribcage to constrict the life out of you, which will toss you high into the air. This is one of the Mutant's most damaging attacks, dealing attack and fall damage.

Healing
It heals every 5 seconds (every 100 ticks) at nighttime.

Death
When you kill this Mutant, its bones will be flung apart, which can hurt you if one hits you. If you are still alive after that is over, congratulations! Victory is yours!

Drops
The Mutant Skeleton's drops are its bones that are scattered on the ground after its death. You can click on these bones to have them drop as an item. Once you collect them, you can then use them to craft Mutant Skeleton armor. There will be exactly enough bones to craft the armor. The armor will greatly help archers in 4 ways. #1: The Mutant Skeleton skull can be worn as a helmet, and wearing it will make all critical mid-air shots deal double the damage. But if you aren't airborne when you make the shot, the arrow will only deal half damage, and you won't be able to get critical shots. And your arrow resources won't be depleted 50% of the time, too. #2: The Mutant Skeleton chest plate allows you to pull a bow back 4 times faster than normal. #3: The Mutant Skeleton leggings gives you Speed II, making you quite nimble. #4: And, the Mutant Skeleton boots lets you jump higher than normal, especially while you are sprinting. Overall, this is probably the most useful Mutant to kill, as it gives you an entire, powerful set of armor with just one Mutant Skeleton's drops.