Headless Horseman

The Headless Horseman is a BOSS spawned by using the Horseman's Candle.

Spawning[]

The Headless Horseman is spawned when a Horseman's Candle is used under valid conditions. Horseman's Candles can be purchased from the Fear Mongerer for 32x Purple Candy.

The Candle must be used under valid conditions in order to spawn the boss:

It must be nighttime (7pm - 5am).
It must be used in the ⏣ Graveyard or ⏣ Wilderness on the Hub Island.

Stranded Mode[]

The Headless Horseman can be spawned on the ⏣ Private Island instead.

Drops[]

Upon death, the Headless Horseman turns the ground under its death point to obsidian in a 2 block radius. A message is printed in chat announcing to the server that it has been defeated, who dealt the final blow, the top 3 damagers, and the player's damage, position, and gained Runecrafting XP and Bits, similar to the message printed when an Ender Dragon dies. There is also a beacon block shooting into the sky to signal that the boss has been defeated. Around the beacon is where the drops normally spawn.

The Headless Horseman drops:

Normal Drops

0-2x Green Candy.
0-2x Purple Candy.
4x Spooky Shards to the player who spawned it.
1x Spooky Shard to the 1st place damager.
0-1x Spooky Shard to the 2nd place damager.
0-1x Midnight Dye

Other drops

5 Bits.
(Up to) 150 Runecrafting XP.

Behavior[]

The Headless Horseman constantly attacks the nearest player rapidly, dealing lots of damage. It also possesses two abilities:

Headless Zombie Swarm - Summons a horde of 4 baby Headless Zombies with 20,000 ❤ Health each. They will attack the nearest player.

Bat Swarm - Summons a horde of bats which throw Damage II and Wounded II potions at nearby players. The Damage II potions deal 10 ❁ Damage and Wounded II potions reduce Healing by 50% for 1 minute.

The Headless Horseman cannot be damaged by Arrows and Bonemerangs. Attempting to damage it with arrows will reel the player towards the boss and blind them for 3 seconds.

Trivia[]

The Headless Horseman, unlike most other bosses, can spawn as Runic. Its runic version has only 10,000,000❤ instead of the expected 12,000,000❤.
The Headless Horseman entity technically has a head; however, its head is a jack-o'-lantern like in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
It was possible to use the Headless Horseman to remove Bedrock on your ⏣ Private Island on ☀ Stranded, but this was later patched.

History[]

SkyBlock Prototype
Oct 24, 2019	0.7.3	Added Headless Horseman.
Aug 6, 2024	0.20.5	Headless Horseman can now drop Midnight Dye.