Risen Dead

Risen Dead (aka zombies) are undead reanimated human corpses that hunger for the blood and flesh of the living.

One of the standard monster types in the Diablo games (and all fantasy RPGs), Zombies are one of the easier types of monsters to slay, notable for their slow foot speed and lack of armor or weaponry. There are higher level types of zombies, and many much more fearsome members of the Undead, but every adventurer must start off with some shambling bags of experience, and zombies admirably fill that role.

Risen Dead Subtypes

Act I

• Crawling Torso
• Bloated Corpse
  • Voracious Torso
• Deathspitter
  • Decayer
• Hungry Corpse
  • Hungry Torso
• Inferno Zombie
• Rancid Stumbler
  • Dust Biter
• Retching Cadaver
  • Ravenous Dead
• Risen

• Voracious Zombie
• Walking Corpse

Act II

• Dust Biter
• Dust Eater
• Dust Shambler

In Alphabetical Order

Crawling Torso

• Appears in Act I - The Cave Under the Well, Damp Cellar, Dank Cellar, Dark Cellar Decaying Crypt, Cathedral, The Hidden Cellar, Mass Grave, Musty Cellar, The Old Ruins, Old Tristram Road and The Weeping Hollow
• Physical attack.

<mob acr="218367">Crawling Torso</mob>

Bloated Corpse

• Appears in Act I - Halls of Agony
• Melee physical attack.
• There is a chance when the Bloated Corpse is killed his top half will continue fighting as a Voracious Torso, still with a melee attack.

<mob>Bloated Corpse</mob> <mob>Voracious Torso</mob>

Deathspitter

• Found in Act I - Decaying Crypt
• As well as a physical melee attack the Deathspitter can also spit at you from afar which inflict physical damage. They can also puke up pools of vomit from which emerge Decayer Zombies. No more than 5 of those can be alive at the same time.

<mob>Deathspitter</mob> <mob>Decayer</mob>

Hungry Corpse

• Found in Act I - Cemetery of the Forsaken, Defiled Crypt and The Weeping Hollow
• Melee physical attack.
• There is a chance when the Hungry Corpse is killed his top half will continue fighting as a Hungry Torso, still with a melee attack.

<mob>Hungry Corpse</mob> <mob>Hungry Torso</mob>

Inferno Zombie

• Appears in Act I - Halls of Agony
• A melee fire attack. Also he's fire resistant.

<mob>Inferno Zombie</mob>

Rancid Stumbler

• Found in Act I - Desolate Sands
• Physical melee attack
• There is a chance when the Rancid Stumbler is killed his top half will continue fighting as a Dust Biter, still with a melee attack.

<mob>Rancid Stumbler</mob> <mob>Dust Biter</mob>

Retching Cadaver

• Appears in Act I - Defiled Crypt and The Weeping Hollow
• As well as a physical melee attack the Retching Cadaver can also spit at you from afar which inflict physical damage. They can also puke up pools of vomit from which emerge Ravenous Dead. She can produce up to 10 at the same time.

<mob>Retching Cadaver</mob> <mob>Ravenous Dead</mob>

Zombies return to Diablo III in much the same form as they limped around in Diablo I and Diablo II: humanoid, slow, shambling, and just generally unpleasant. Their slow speed and negligible intelligence makes them ideal targets for new characters who are just starting to practice their skills.

Close up view.

They are easy to outrun and outsmart, and only ever pose a threat if they appear in such large numbers that you can't kill them all in time. Even that, however, is normally not a problem, since all classes have some sort of AoE damage spell to kill more of them at once.

Spells and Abilities

Regular Zombies do not boast special abilities, though there are various subtypes that have some unusual talents, such as breaking in half and fighting on, with just a Crawling Torso.

Known Zombie Types

While there are individual monsters actually called "Zombie," the term is frequently used to refer to all of the fleshy, undead, human-sized creatures in Diablo III. These include:

• Crawling Torso - A Zombie which is not dealt enough damage to continues to crawl.
• Walking Corpse - A slightly tougher Zombie.
• Wretched Mother - Other sort of zombie, that also can be female.

It's not yet known if these are different monster types, or just subtypes of the basic Zombie.

Related Monsters

• Ghoul - Seems to be a reanimated corpse (ie: a Zombie), but has none of the classical characteristics of the classical walking corpse. they are fast and nimble. We're not sure if this monster is related or not yet.

Background

Zombies can be both re-animated corpses straight out of a grave, which require very little magic energy from a Necromancer to give a basic motivation (braaaains...) of destructive power. It's motivation can also be a restless spirit of the former inhabitant of the body, awakening again after death, looking for others to inflict this pain.

Zombies are generally completely void of intelligence, and the wounds they received prior to their death often slows them down, making them dangerous primarily only in large numbers. They are the most basic sort of undead, often thought of as even less troublesome than Skeletons. The one thing they have as an advantage is usually that they can take more physical punishment before they are destroyed, and the force or spirit that drives them is removed/expelled.

Lore

I will never forget the first time I saw these horrors shambling out of the misty woods. Our loved ones, buried long ago, rose from their graves and began to attack the living. However, the risen dead were only the beginning...

Deckard Cain

Development

In previous games, Zombies have been pretty straight-forward.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery:

• Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures
• Zombie Gallery Search