Overview[]
Zombies are a group of entities that got added in the Renovation Update, and expanded upon in the first part of the 2023 Christmas Update. There are six different types of zombies that can spawn throughout the mine.
All zombie types deal about 10 damage every time you get attacked by one. Occasionally, they may bite off one of your limbs. It always happen in this order: Left Leg, Right Leg, Left Arm, and lastly the Right Arm. If you are missing both of your legs, you cannot climb ladder bricks. Once you have your right arm removed, you cannot use any items, and have to reset your character.
To kill a Zombie variant, use the Sword near the entrance of the mine, or use the Ray Gun gamepass. Each zombie has a different set of health that makes different zombies more challenging than the other. When killed, they may drop 2 to 5 ores of various types based on the depth the zombie was killed. They also give varied XP and 100 gold coins after being killed. Additionally, normal zombies can be killed instantly when coming in contact with a held Newtonium Pickaxe.
Trivia[]
- There used to be a bug where you could place blocks on Zombie drops. When you break the placed block, more stone would generate in places where it shouldn't be. If done inside a cave, the cave would 'duplicate'.
- Zombies could also spawn in the glitched/duplicated caves.
- On rare occasions, whenever you generate a special cave, the zombies will play their spawning sound, however the zombies will not chase after you, make any sounds after their spawning sound, and remain completely idle. It is unknown as to what causes this bug, but it is especially useful for dealing with certain zombies that are hard to defeat.
- Whenever you kill a zombie within approximately 1 second of it spawning, it does not drop any loot. The reason for this is because for whatever reason, there is an intentional 1 second delay when a zombie spawns after it plays its spawn sound before it runs the rest of the code which manages its behaviors, including ore dropping. This bug can only be done with a Newtonium Pickaxe.
- Before the Christmas Update 2023 (Part 1), all caves that generated under 4000m did not not spawn zombies. Void Guardians now spawn in all caves below 4000m.