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.

A Walker!

Risen Dead Subtypes

Act I

• Bloated Corpse
  • Voracious Torso
• Deathspitter
  • Decayer
• Hungry Corpse
  • Hungry Torso
• Inferno Zombie
• Retching Cadaver
  • Ravenous Dead
• Risen
• Voracious Zombie
• Walking Corpse
  • Crawling Torso

Act II

• Dust Eater
  • Dust Biter
• Dust Shambler
• Rancid Stumbler
  • Dust Biter

In Alphabetical Order

Bloated Corpse

Bloated Corpse	Voracious Torso

• 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.

Deathspitter

Deathspitter	Decayer

• 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 Decayers. No more than 5 of those can be alive at the same time.

Wretched Mothers are the same type of monsters as Deathspitters but they are specific to The Fallen Star quest where you need to hunt down three and eventually the Wretched Queen.

The wretched mothers were once normal women, but in death they serve a dark purpose. These horrors feast upon the remains of cadavers, then use foul magic to regurgitate the bodies as newly formed risen dead. One must slay the mother quickly or her nightmarish spawn will continue to grow in number. -- Deckard Cain

Dust Eater

Dust Eater	Dust Biter

• Found in Act II - Desolate Sands
• Physical melee attack
• When the Dust Eater is killed his top half will continue fighting as a Dust Biter, still with a melee attack.

Dust Shambler

Dust Shambler

• Appears in Act II - Desolate Sands
• Physical melee attack

Hungry Corpse

Hungry Corpse	Hungry Torso

• 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.

Hungry Torso can also crawl out from bushes without first coming from a Hungry Corpse. They usually appear in the Weeping Hollow.

Inferno Zombie

Inferno Zombie

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

Rancid Stumbler

Dust Biter

• Found in Act II - 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.

Retching Cadaver

Retching Cadaver	Ravenous Dead

• 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.

Risen

Risen

• Appears in Act I - The Cave Under the Well, Dank Cellar, Damp Cellar, Dark Cellar, The Hidden Cellar, Musty Cellar, New Tristram, The Old Ruins and Overlook Road
• Physical melee attack

Voracious Zombie

Voracious Zombie

• Found in Act I - Halls of Agony
• Physical melee attack

Walking Corpse

Walking Corpse	Crawling Torso

• Appears in Act I - Damp Cellar, Dank Cellar, Dark Cellar Decaying Crypt, Cathedral, The Cave Under the Well, The Hidden Cellar, Mass Grave, Musty Cellar, The Old Ruins, Old Tristram Road and The Weeping Hollow
• As well as a physical melee attack the Walking Corpse can also spit at you from afar which inflict physical damage. They can also puke up pools of vomit from which emerge Crawling Torso. She can produce up to 10 at the same time.

Named

Superunique versions of Risen Dead have a chance of spawning in the following areas:

Act I

• Captain Clegg - Royal Crypts. Target of the bounty Kill Captain Clegg.
• Captain Daltyn - The Hidden Cellar under Adria's Hut. He forms part of the The Legacy of Cain quest.
• Ebenezer Samuel - Old Tristram Road wandering. Part of Never Seen that Before achievement.
• Farnham - Damp Cellar, Old Tristram Road. Part of The Cursed Cellar Cursed event.
• Father Rathe - Decaying Crypt in Fields of Misery. Part of The Family of Rathe event.
• Garrach the Afflicted - Halls of Agony, level 3.
• Larson the Strange - Old Tristram Road.
• Little Jebby Rathe - Decaying Crypt in Fields of Misery. Part of The Family of Rathe event.
• Mira Eamon - Wife of Haedrig Eamon the Blacksmith. Found in the Cellar of the Damned infected and to be killed in the Shattered Crown quest.
• Mother Rathe - Decaying Crypt in Fields of Misery. Part of The Family of Rathe event.
• Wretched Queen - The Old Ruins. One of the objectives of the quest The Fallen Star quest.

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

Trivia

The Ebenezer Samuel superunique was named after Ebenezer Samuel, the video game critic at the NY Daily News.

Media

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  Captain Clegg

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  Farnham returns

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  Garrach the Afflicted

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  Larson the Strange

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  Ebenezer Samuel

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  Wretched Queen

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  Rare Retching Cadaver