Halo 3 Skulls
Unlike in Halo 2, where skulls were a last-minute addition, skulls are a fully integrated feature of Halo 3. After you've found one, you can activate it in the Campaign Settings screen of your pre-game lobby. Gold skulls offer achievements and campaign scoring multipliers, while changing the dynamics of the game, usually in favor of your enemies.
Silver skulls just do cool things.
Skull | Submitter | Level | Summary | Date Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Eye | narcogen |
The Black Eye skull is a gold skull. It is the first skull on the second level, Crow's Nest, and is in the same room you start in after the cinematic, high above your head atop a large pipe. Getting to it is relatively easy. Walk to the end of the room, up a short staircase, and turn around and look for a green shelf. Jump up on that, up onto a girder, and from there up onto the large pipe. Walk back the length of the room to the end of the pipe nearest the video screens and claim this skull. Black Eye offers an achievement and 150% bonus on campaign scoring. In return, your shields will not recharge as usual; you need to melee attack enemies to recharge your shields. | 09 Oct 2007 | |
| Blind Skull | narcogen |
Like its Halo 2 counterpart, when activated the Blind skull removes all interface elements from the screen. It is a silver skull, and provides no achievements or campaign scoring multipliers. It is the first skull encountered in the game. It is out in the open, at the end of a rock outcropping overlooking the river to the far right of the pool where the Phantom drops off the first Grunt and Brute reinforcements during the first encounter of the first level, Sierra 117. | 08 Oct 2007 | |
| Catch Skull: Pull pin. Count to three. Throw. | NThro_Sraom |
The Catch skull is on the level The Storm. The effect is it makes EVERYTHING get more grenades. When I mean everything, I mean everything. One day while I was playing I had a flood throw a sticky at me. A STICKY+FLOOD=ldjfhglisudgbslbv ADMIN NOTE: I've never seen Flood throw grenades, even on Cortana on legendary with the Catch skull on, so I'm not actually sure this is possible. Click here for the complete text. | 13 Oct 2007 | |
| Cowbell Skull | spartanNO117 |
The Cowbell skull makes all explosions bigger. It's the third silver skull. | 21 Oct 2007 | |
| Famine Skull: Trust Us, Bring A Magazine | NThro_Sraom |
This skull is found on The Ark. The effect of this skull is it makes weapons that enemies drop, have half ammo. So for instance, say you pick up a beam rifle that you got from killing a jackal. It usually has close to 88 charge right? Well now if you're lucky it'll have 41 charge. Makes the search for weapons longer however it gives you a 2x multiplier on campaign scoring. Anyways, onto finding the skull. | 13 Oct 2007 | |
| Fog: You'll wish you had those eyes in the back of your head. | NThro_Sraom | This is a pretty tricky skull to explain but I'll try my best. Okay the fog skull is on the level Floodgate. It takes away the whole radar so you don't know what's behind you. To me I think this is okay considering you can go on one path most of the game and not have anything pop up behind you. Anyways, onto finding the skull. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Remember to not shoot it too early or else the skull will stay up on the roof! Now you have another skull and 10g. If you need any help send a friend request to J Manizzy. | 14 Nov 2007 | |
| Grunt Birthday Party | narcogen |
Grunt Birthday Party is a silver skull. It is the second skull on Crow's Bridge. After clearing the Barracks, you'll be sent out to meet the Arbiter. You'll drop down a short, narrow shaft at the end of a corridor and find yourself in a large tunnel with several pipes interconnecting from the left and right sides from which Drones will emerge-- they'll fly across from one pipe to the other in front of you. Click here for the complete text. | 12 Oct 2007 | |
| Iron | narcogen |
Iron is Halo 3's second skull and the second skull on the first level, Sierra 117. It is the game's first gold skull. As a gold skull, it gives you and your cooperative play teammates the Iron achievement if any player picks it up during the game. After picking it up, it can be activated in the campaign settings page of the pre-game lobby. When activated, this skull will force all cooperative players to reload the previous checkpoint if any of the players die, and will force a solo player to repeat the entire level if he or she dies. In return for this, it triples your score in campaign scoring. | 08 Oct 2007 | |
| Tough Luck | narcogen |
Tough Luck is a gold skull. It is the first skull on the third level, Tsavo Highway. As a gold skull, it offers an achievement and 150% bonus on campaign scoring. In return, enemies will have much better luck dodging your grenades, needles, vehicles and plasma bolts. After emerging from the end of the first shielded tunnel and onto the Tsavo Highway, walk along the edge of the gorge to your left. Jumping carefully down onto the bridge support, walk around the edge of the supports to your left until you reach a stone ledge with this skull. Enemies' improved ability to dodge seems to work best for them against long range fire from slow projectiles, like those from a needler. If you're used to delivering stickydooms at very close range, you shouldn't see an impact here. However, Brutes especially will dive quite a distance out of the way from needler rounds, making it difficult to get kills with the weapon unless you're up close and personal. This is another skull that it seems you can use almost for free on Flood levels, as dodging doesn't seem to be very important to them, although assimilated human and elite combat forms will do it. | 16 Jan 2008 |
