Captain Yarma

**Captain Yarma** is an Iron Golem who is the leader of the Skeleton Army and the boss of Mission 3 of Assassin of Steve.

## Biography

Yarma was manufactured in the Iron Golem Factory alongside many other Iron Golems. Like all the other Iron Golems, he was sent out to a village that needed an Iron Golem to protect it, so he was sent to Emere. Once arriving, the villagers christened him with the name 'Yarma'. However, due to the high amounts of monsters that were constantly attacking Emere, Yarma eventually went rogue from being overworked.

Vowing revenge, he renamed himself Captain Yarma and united all the skeletons in the Emere Mountain Ranges under his command and formed the Skeleton Army. They began occupying much of the mountain ranges, setting up garrisons and building the Skeleton Army Barracks. Inside the barracks he began building smaller, more crude versions of himself - the Iron Robots - to use as part of his army and to guard the barracks. He also came across four zombie pigmen who had been exiled from the Tribal Snouts to the Frozen Wasteland and had made it out into the neighbouring mountain ranges. Being impressed by how powerful they were in combat, he offered them a spot in his army as his four generals.

Captain Yarma's first attempts at invading Emere were successful, often killing multiple villagers, however eventually Steve would arrive and defend it, making it impossible for him to attack anymore. It is unknown if Steve ever attempted to destroy the Skeleton Army as the player eventually would, although in the Garrison Report it is stated that 'when Steve was alive, occasionally I'd at least get to shoot my bow,' alluding that perhaps he did attempt to but never got past the garrisons.

When Steve was assassinated, however, Captain Yarma saw this as the perfect opportunity to invade and destroy Emere once and for all with all his forces, amassing most of his skeleton forces, all four of his Pigman Generals, and one of his cannons in a large-scale attack. However, he did this at the same time the player arrived to investigate Steve's death, resulting in the player defeating all four Pigman Generals, disabling the cannon, and then fighting their way through each garrison and eventually all the way back to the barracks, where they destroyed all three Power Cores in the barracks and then slayed Captain Yarma by knocking him into a deep pit.

Because Iron Golems cannot drown, Captain Yarma was not killed, however he has been trapped ever since.

## Characterisation

Captain Yarma is merciless, his time defending Emere from monsters having twisted his mind. He is also insanely powerful and strong, being one of the few bosses that the player cannot defeat by hand and requiring a plan in order to incapacitate him.

## Abilities

### Power Leap

Captain Yarma can jump several blocks into the air - much higher than a regular Iron Golem. It is unknown how he developed his jumping skills, but a possible explanation could be due to the rugged terrain of the Emere Mountain Ranges demanding this.

### Impenetrable Plating

Due to extensive iron mining in the Emere Mountain Ranges, Captain Yarma has plated himself with armor that is impossible to get through, making him very hard to kill.

## Boss Fight

*Main article: Mission 3: Moonstar*

In the Captain Yarma boss fight, he will drop down to fight the player after the player has fought enough Iron Robots to obtain seven Iron Blocks and place them all in the groove. He is invincible, but can still be knocked back by attacks (unlike Iron Golems in vanilla).

Once the player has taken damage from Captain Yarma, shortly after Stuart will take control of his cannon and blast out a hole in the floor, revealing a deep pit. The player then has to knock Captain Yarma into the hole in order to defeat him.

## Trivia

* The name 'Yarma' is an anagram of the word 'army' if you add an extra letter 'a'.
* Iron Golems did not have 100% Knockback Resistance until Minecraft 1.9, explaining why the boss fight was originally built with the ability to knock him back in mind.
* His jumping ability was given to him in the 1.9 version of the map due to a Minecraft bug (MC-93886) where Iron Golems could no longer jump, resulting in Captain Yarma sometimes getting stuck in the holes in the floor created by the cannon in the first phase of the boss fight.
	+ This bug was fixed in 1.10, but the ability was kept.