Zombie

Zombie

Release date	January 4 2001 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	13, 18, 22, 24, 25, 30, 32, 40, 44, 53, 78, 85
Life points	220, 240, 300, 300, 300, 400, 500, 560, 680, 920
Experience for killing	Unknown edit
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	22, 24, 30, 30, 30, 40, 50, 53, 56, 62, 74
Assigned by	Mazchna or Achtryn
Aggressive?	See article
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	AverageInterval: 3.6 seconds
Max hit	Varies
Weakness	crumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attackscrumble undead, salve amulet (e), slash attacksCrumble Undead, Salve amulet (e), Slash attacks
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	"The walking dead." "Dead (wo)man walking." "Could his name be 'Lurchy'?" "He sure looks grave." "A walking, rotten corpse."

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For the random event reward, see zombie outfit. For the guardian that used to appear while burying bones, see Zombie (random event). For the zombies that appear while Dungeoneering, see Zombie (Daemonheim).

Zombies are very common monsters in RuneScape, appearing in several different locations. They have the largest variety of combat levels of all monsters in RuneScape, and are followed closely by skeletons. Even in Daemonheim, these zombies can have levels equal to goblins, or levels as high as those of hellhounds or even black demons.

Players may kill zombies to obtain the rare Champion scroll (zombie) in order to fight the Zombie Champion in the Champion's Challenge activity.

As zombies are undead monsters, they are vulnerable to the Crumble Undead spell and the effects of a salve amulet.

Oddly, if you look through the fence at the armoured zombies area you can see a Level-85 Zombie that is not labeled as an armoured zombie.

Zombies generally have a low defence for their combat level, and are notably weak to slash attacks.

Zombie can refer to the following:

• Any monster whose name is zombie. This article covers these monsters.
• A class of undead creatures: zombies, armoured zombies, undead ones, zogres (zombie ogres), zombie hands, zombie monkeys, zombie pirates, Zombie swabs, Dried zombies, etc. When given a Slayer assignment for zombies, any zombie-class creature may be targeted, including those such as undead chickens and cows.
• Undead human zombies, including zombies, armoured zombies, and pirate zombies but not zogres or zombie monkeys.

Locations

• Gnome Village Dungeon just outside the Tree Gnome Village
• Entrana Dungeon in north-west Entrana
• Edgeville Dungeon
• Chaos Tunnels
• Graveyard of Shadows (level 20-25 wilderness)
• Stronghold of Security (second floor)
• Varrock Sewers (level 13, level 18, and level 24)
• Mr. Mordauts classroom (unattackable)
• Wizards' Guild
• Draynor Sewers
• Lair of Tarn Razorlor (dungeon)
• Daemonheim (Abandoned, Occult and Warped floors)
• Melzar's Maze (4th stage)

Location by combat level

Note: This table may be incomplete, as zombies appear in very many places. Some locations are in members-only areas, require quests to enter, require the ability to enter a guild, etc., so consider checking the location's description before going there to hunt zombies.

Zombie level	Location
13	West Ardougne graveyard, Draynor Sewers
18	Edgeville Dungeon, Graveyard of Shadows in level 20 Wilderness, Varrock Sewers
22	Varrock Sewers
24	Draynor Manor, Draynor Sewers, Edgeville Dungeon, Graveyard of Shadows in level 20 Wilderness, Melzar's Maze in Rimmington, Varrock Sewers, West Ardougne graveyard, Wizards' Guild basement
25	Entrana Dungeon
31,30	Stronghold of Security level 2
40	Chaos Tunnels, Lair of Tarn Razorlor (dungeon)
41, 42	Lair of Tarn Razorlor (dungeon)
44	Stronghold of Security level 2
47, 50	Lair of Tarn Razorlor (dungeon)
53	Stronghold of Security level 2
85	Chaos Temple Dungeon (Armoured zombies)
61, 67, 69, 70, 72, 76, 78, 80, 81, 85, 86, 90, 95, 98, 100	Lair of Tarn Razorlor (dungeon)

Many zombie locations are far from banks. For players wishing to slay zombies and bank their drops, consider the following:

• Low-level zombies
  • The Draynor Sewers are moderately close to the Draynor Village bank.
• Medium-level zombies
  • The Lair of Tarn Razorlor (dungeon) has a banker. However, using this dungeon requires the Haunted Mine quest, The Lair of Tarn Razorlor miniquest, and a 100-coin fee to the banker for each access to the bank.
  • The zombie cave in the Chaos Tunnels is easily accessed from entrance #1 to tunnels and is thus moderately close to the Edgeville bank. However, care should be taken because entrance #1 is in low-level Wilderness and also enters the cave with rather dangerous Gargoyles. Also, the tunnels are a multicombat area, and aggressive Skeletons in the cave with the zombies may interfere with zombie hunting.
• High-level undead ones
  • Level 68 and 73 undead ones are by the entrance to Shilo Village, which is quite near the bank in the village. However, the Shilo Village quest is required for access to the village. Undead ones count as zombies for slayer tasks. When killed, the undead ones emit a 'green thick mist' that chokes you, doing some minor damage for a couple seconds. This mist is not poison, so anti-poison has no effect. The net effect is that players will take some extra damage killing these undead ones.
• Varies (in Daemonheim)

Also, player looking for good drops from zombies should instead consider slaying armoured zombies in the Chaos Temple Dungeon.

Champions' Challenge

Zombies are one of the 'races' who have a lesser champion in the Champions' Challenge activity. To fight the Zombie Champion, the player must kill zombies until one drops a Champion's scroll, a very rare drop.

It should be noted that whilst undead ones count towards a zombie slayer task, they do not drop Champion's scrolls.

Gallery

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  An average and common zombie.

• A zombie found in the Stronghold of Security, among some other places.

  A zombie found in the Stronghold of Security, among some other places.

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  Another zombie

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  A different zombie with a mutilated face.

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  A discontinued Temple Trekking zombie.

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  A male zombie at the Graveyard of Shadows.

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  A female zombie at the Graveyard of Shadows.

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  Another male zombie at the Graveyard.

• A zombie in the Chaos Tunnels.

  A zombie in the Chaos Tunnels.

Drops

Note: The level 18 zombies in the Edgeville Dungeon near Vannaka only drop bones and nothing else. Level 18 zombies elsewhere have regular drops.

100% drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bones	1	1 Always	105

Herbs (members)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	2 Common	521
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	41
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	56
	Grimy harralander	1	3 Uncommon	385
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	3,508
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,496
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	2,877
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,902
	Grimy cadantine	1	5 Very rare	1,336
	Grimy lantadyme	1	5 Very rare	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	5 Very rare	7,525

Weapons and armour

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bronze hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	36
	Bronze longsword	1	3 Uncommon	38
	Bronze helm	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Bronze kiteshield	1	3 Uncommon	30
	Iron dagger	1	3 Uncommon	13
	Iron hatchet	1	3 Uncommon	12
	Iron mace	1	3 Uncommon	28
	Iron arrow	5,8	3 Uncommon	50–80
	Steel arrow	5–32	2 Common	70–448
	Mithril arrow	1,2	3 Uncommon	23–46
Exchange:Sling	Sling	1	3 Uncommon

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Body rune	3–11	2 Common	15–55
	Chaos rune	4	3 Uncommon	344
	Air rune	3	3 Uncommon	24
	Fire rune	7–84	3 Uncommon	98–1,176
	Mind rune	5–7	3 Uncommon	20–28
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	5	3 Uncommon
	Law rune	2	3 Uncommon	298
	Cosmic rune	2	3 Uncommon	220

Quest Items

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Compost potion (1)	Compost potion (1)	1	2 Common (m)<ref>Dropped by zombies in the Lair of Tarn Razorlor.</ref>	1,980
	Blue key	1	2 Common <ref>Dropped by zombies in Melzar's Maze.</ref>	Not sold
	Zombie bone	1	2 Common (m)<ref>Dropped during the Rag and Bone Man wish list.</ref>	Not sold

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Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	1–82	2 Common	Not sold
Fishing bait	Fishing bait	1,5,7,9	2 Common	9–81
	Anagogic ort	20	2 Common	Not sold
	Limestone brick	2	2 Common (m)<ref>Dropped by zombies in Melzar's Maze.</ref>	224
	Tinderbox	1	3 Uncommon	62
File:Tile.png	Tile	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Beer	1	3 Uncommon	260
	Copper ore	1	3 Uncommon	58
	Iron ore	1	3 Uncommon	216
	Tin ore	1	3 Uncommon	54
	Ashes	1	3 Uncommon	276
	Eye of newt	1	3 Uncommon	9
File:Unholymould.png	Unholy mould	1	3 Uncommon (m)	Not sold
	Spin ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Half a meat pie	1	5 Very rare	222
File:Champion's scroll (zombie).png	Champion scroll (zombie)	1	5 Very rare (m)	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

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Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 810 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,295 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 2,613 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 9,402 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,758 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 9,520 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 13,572 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 10,393 Dragon dagger 1 2 Common 17,356 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,285 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 800 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,130 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 40,021 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 867,800 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 34,977 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,553 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 60,107 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 31,600 Rune arrow 150–200, 500 4 Rare 28,500–95,000 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,315,350 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,200 Air orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,216,000 Fire orb 1000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,406,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 457,724 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,485 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,650–28,910 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 48,450–67,830 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 137 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 165 Pure essence 500–15000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 53,500–1,605,000 Template:ExchangeItemNat Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare – Soul rune 20 4 Rare 6,360 Death rune 50, 121 4 Rare 9,250–22,385 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 9,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250, 1000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,875–303,000 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 129,750–259,500 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 52,650–175,500 Coal 150–7500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,450–1,972,500 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 248,250–1,324,000 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 9,200 Adamant bar 1000–7000 (noted) 4 Rare 2,175,000–15,225,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,067,100 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,029–1,954,350 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 115,665 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 69,100–691,000 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 168,210–672,840 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 277,960–2,779,600 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 854,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 5,583 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 84,903–4,245,150 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 294,483–1,766,898 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,219,220 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 26,078 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 274,040–8,495,240 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 2,052 Yew logs 100–20000 (noted) 4 Rare 49,400–9,880,000

Trivia

• During the 2010 Halloween event, if a player went to the ruins in the Clan Wars free-for-all arena, there was a huge horde of zombies that spawned there. Those zombies would not give exp if killed.
• A zombie bone, which is different from the usual bones dropped by zombies, is a rare drop after completion of the first part of the Rag and Bone Man quest. It is one of the items in the wish list for the second part of the quest. This bone cannot be buried.
• Zombies have more graphical diversity (different-looking versions) than any other creature in the game.
• Unlike other zombies, the zombie in the bridge event during Temple Trekking does not drop bones of any kind and has the examine, "I wonder if he'd let me borrow his hatchet?" It also has a guaranteed drop of a bronze hatchet, which can be used to complete the event.
• One of the various examines for a zombie is "Could his name be 'Lurch'?" This is a reference to the butler in The Addams Family, Lurch.
• Various zombie combat animations were reworked on 9 November 2009.
• During the quest, Defender Of Varrock, when zombies attacked Varrock, one of them would be non-aggressive to you even though other zombies were aggressive to you. This was a bug and fixed by Jagex during September 2009.
• Note that zombies in the Defender Of Varrock Quest and the armoured zombies in the base of Wilderness do drop Champion Scrolls as well.
• An update on 12 April 2010 made the sound of the zombies when they get hit much deeper than previously.
• Zombies drop fishing bait commonly, because it is revealed in Let Them Eat Pie and Recipe for Disaster that fishing bait is actually maggots, which makes sense since maggots should be on a rotting corpse.
• Zombies were originally blue/cyan coloured, this pre-update version can still be seen in the Zombie Walk and Zombie Dance emotes.
• Zombies, particularly the ones found in Daemonheim , appear to have very low magic resistance. For this reason, it is advised to safespot the high-levelled ones in favour of meleeing them in order to avoid taking unnecessary damage.