Zombie

This page is about the monster. For the player skill, see Raise Zombie.

It's dusk on the moors. The air is still and hot. Quiet, but for the soft hum of the cicadas in the treetops. The rhythmic sound nearly lulls you to sleep, but suddenly something catches your attention. A shape is moving slowly towards you through the gloom, rustling the leaves. Growling.

Do not underestimate the bloated, rotted corpses that wander the swamps and bogs of Wraeclast's shoreline. They may lack agility, but the dark corruption animating them imbues them with tremendous strength and ferocity. The island's Zombies are always hungry, and they will pursue the scent of blood relentlessly. Wraeclast's yawning graveyards have spawned a legion of these shambling undead, and they are a blight on the population. Many who fall before them are soon found alongside their putrid ranks, the undead army forever growing.

The Zombie's primary strength is its toughness. All that dried sinew, meat and bone is tough to hack through. They can take a lot of punishment. The easiest way to defeat a Zombie is to exploit its lack of speed, but woe be unto him who finds himself cornered. Zombies hit hard with their desiccated, gnarled hands, but their bite is the most dangerous thing of all. Once bitten, a victim will find their very skin rotting away, and they will surely perish without prompt healing attention.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Abilities

• Resists Cold
• Undead

Variations

Name	Location	Special Attributes
Hungry Corpse	The Twilight Strand	N/A
Drowned	The Twilight Strand	N/A
Withered Husk	The Coast, The Climb, The Cavern of Wrath	N/A
Dripping Dead	The Mud Flats, The Fetid Pool, The Submerged Passage, The Flooded Depths	Can burrow (Mud Flats only)
Bloated Corpse	unknown	N/A
Rotting Damned	The Lower Prison	N/A
Fetid Scrambler	unknown	Spreads tar
Disturbed Corpse	The Fellshrine Ruins	N/A
Shambling Cadaver	The Fellshrine Ruins	Can burrow
Sutured Aberration	Chamber of Sins Level 1, Fellshrine Ruins	Releases Poison on Death
Alira's Dearest	The Western Forest	Resists Elemental, Resists Chaos
Wrapped Nobleman	Entombed Chamber, Forbidden Chamber	Releases Poison on Death
Unstable Aberration	Spawned by Hillock	Releases Poison on Death
Pale Husk	Ancient Catacomb	N/A
Pale Blackguard	The Aqueduct	Berzerking
Rotten Gladiator	Daresso's Dream	Can burrow

Uniques

None

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	Plague Retch (unique zombie) has moved out of Chamber of Sins Level 1 and has been replaced by Black Death. We wish Plagueretch all the best on wherever his new journey takes him.
0.7.1	Replaced raise zombie animation with a new faster one. Reduced number of raised zombies per level.
0.6.10	Added alternate zombie death animation.
0.5.14	Added some more zombie attack animations.
0.5.11	Added passive zombie moaning as they walk around.
0.5.5	Increased effectiveness of zombies in the mud flats. Added new types of zombies.