Dead Rails Zombie Class

The Zombie is a unique survival-focused class in Dead Rails. Its main strength comes from the ability to eat corpses to regain health, making it ideal for prolonged fights or solo play in areas with lots of enemies. However, it comes with the heavy downside of not being able to use Bandages or Snake Oil for healing.

How to Use Zombie Class?

1. Solo Play & Fuel Management

• Prioritize eating zombies for health, but burn furniture or valuable items for fuel.
• Leave horses alive unless absolutely needed for healing.
• Use barbed wire or turrets to weaken zombies, then finish them for consumption.

2. Town Raiding Tactics

• Use your lower detection radius to sneak past enemies.
• Shoot zombies near barbed wire traps to kill them without direct combat.
• Focus on quickly looting banks or stores while enemies ignore you.
• Heal by consuming corpses after clearing towns.

3. Defense & Endgame

• Always carry spare corpses in your sack for emergency healing at the final bridge.
• Consider skipping Forts or Castles unless confident you can handle them without healing items.
• Be cautious in the Final Bridge event — stockpile corpses for quick heals.
• Avoid open fights with Outlaws unless absolutely necessary.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Can eat corpses (Zombies, Wolves, Horses, Players) to regain health.
• Lower detection radius from enemies – useful for stealth town raids.
• Saves money from not needing healing items.
• Ideal for solo survival or specific challenges.
• Eating horses is possible — useful if starving and low on fuel.

Cons:

• Cannot use Bandages or Snake Oil at all.
• Eating corpses instead of burning them means less fuel.
• Risk of accidentally eating fuel sources (like zombies or horses).
• Regeneration is slow and dependent on available corpses.
• Not beginner-friendly due to difficult healing management.

Starting Equipment

• 1x Shovel

Trivia

• The Zombie Class is often considered the worst class by the community due to its healing limitations.
• Eating horses alive is possible — even while riding them.
• Corpses heal ~10% of max HP per consumption.
• Zombies do not heal more than wolves or players — healing is flat across all corpses.
• Introduced as part of the game’s expansion classes for advanced players.
• Zombie cannot use Snake Oil even if dropped by other players.

The Zombie Class in Dead Rails offers a very unique and challenging playstyle. Its low detection radius is incredibly powerful for town raids and stealth strategies, but the inability to use healing items makes it punishing in long fights or boss encounters.