Are zombies afraid of fire?

Although it is a tempting concept, refrain from using fire to combat the undead. Most zombies are oblivious to fire, much less afraid of it, and although fire does eventually kill zombies, it takes a long time to do so and since they are unfeeling, they will continue to come at you, now even more dangerous.
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Does fire hurt zombies?

Fire damage to characters

They take no damage from surrounding fire, only from their "on fire" status effect. Being on fire causes players and zombies to take damage over time. Zombies take 20 times less damage, often lasting many days still ablaze.
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Are zombies weak to fire?

Advertisement: A very common weakness shared among The Undead is fire. Chopping such creatures into little bits may not stop them, but fire generally will. They also often burn more readily than is strictly realistic.
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What are zombies weaknesses?

Weaknesses. Stupidity - Zombies have no intelligence and no survival instincts, and so they can be easily lured into traps. Speed - Traditionally, zombies cannot move very fast due to their decayed state and complete lack of coordination, making it relatively easy to outrun them or navigate through them.
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What is the fear of zombies?

Kinemortophobia, or the fear of zombies,1 is surprisingly common. Zombies play a major role in horror fiction from novels to Hollywood films and are a staple at most major Halloween events. The term "zombie apocalypse," which refers to a pandemic in which zombies take over the planet, is a relatively new concept.
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Night of the Living Dead: zombies are afraid of fire



What are zombies attracted to?

The zombies are cannibals.
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  • As in humans, sight, smell, and hearing.
  • Particularly attracted to the smell of blood and the pheromones in sweat.
  • Their sense of smell can be overpowered by chemicals with a strong scent, ie perfumes or alcohol.
  • Alcoholic drink may either disguise humans or repel zombies.
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Can zombies go in water?

Bob Bankard of philyburb.com argues that “water remains a safe boundary against decomposing bone-biters.” Other sources, however, suggest avoiding shallow water in the event of a zombie attack, as zombies do enter water and can remain underwater indefinitely. (Deep water is okay – zombies are too stupid to swim).
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Can zombies run fast?

Fast zombies don't just run fast; they become zombies fast, too. In “World War Z,” the time between being bitten by a zombie to being reborn as a sprinting, snapping shock troop of the undead yourself is less than 15 seconds.
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Can you drown a zombie?

You can wait for them to drown but you don't have to. The zombies still drop their items whether you kill them or if they convert into drowned. However, if you see an armored zombie, let it drown, because an armored zombie requires more hits to kill.
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How do you beat a zombie?

Nearly all zombie survivalists are in agreement that the destruction of the brain is the only surefire way to neutralize the zombie (though a few rare types of zombies require complete dismemberment).
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Are zombies attracted to fire?

Although it is a tempting concept, refrain from using fire to combat the undead. Most zombies are oblivious to fire, much less afraid of it, and although fire does eventually kill zombies, it takes a long time to do so and since they are unfeeling, they will continue to come at you, now even more dangerous.
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Is fire a vampire weakness?

Vampires start with a 25% weakness to fire at stage one, and it increases by 25% each stage; maxing out at 100% in stage four.
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Is Jakobs Cove on Pandora?

Jakob's Cove is visually similar to Eden-6, the home planet of the Jakobs Corporation, despite being on Pandora.
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Can zombies burn to death?

We're probably supposed to assume that burning a zombie enough - that is, at a sufficiently high temperature for a sufficiently long period of time - will indeed kill it, but if a charred zombie is still somewhat active, the skin and flesh were burned but the brain was more or less unaffected.
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What happens if you burn a zombie?

Edit: Once you burn them or kill them after they come back as Crimson Heads, they're gone for good. Zombies that remain on the ground after you return to an area is a sure sign they can come back to life. Naked zombies never come back to life also, so when you're in the lab, dont worry about those ones.
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How long does it take zombies to burn?

so zombies will burn in 2 hour game time ? They begin to die in an hour. But the last of the same group will burn out in a 1.5 to 2 hours.
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Can zombies poop?

Thus, even with a sick brain the zombies would most likely have normal excretory habits, albeit without the conscious sphincter control (CNS) exhibited by most of us living folk. Your answer, then, is yes. Zombies poop.
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Can zombies survive cold?

Because zombies aren't actually alive, they suffer no ill effects from extreme cold. Extreme heat isn't an issue either, unless it is so extreme that the zombies burst into flames.
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Can zombies swim 7 days?

The zombies can't swim and as long as you have sufficient food, water, and clothes on your person you can stay in the water all night. Then when day comes the feral horde has to walk instead of run and you can just swim to land and dispatch them like any other horde.
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Can zombies open doors?

Only the most basic of motor function is left behind. They only have the drive to eat human flesh. Also they can't really interact with anything. They can't open doors unless they can be pushed open.
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Why do zombies walk so slow?

The classical 'Romero-style' zombie moves slowly, almost reluctantly. It was deliberately created to give them the effect Romero wanted. Zombies play to the core human fear: the human-looking inhuman thing. They are so like us in appearance, and so different in behavior.
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Can zombies talk?

They can communicate in English or whatever language they used to speak. In extremely rare cases they can form friendships or relationship and bond with humans.
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Do zombies sleep?

Zombies are on the prowl at all times of day and night! They are not nocturnal, they are arrhythmic! And insomniac. They never sleep!
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Can zombies jump?

Can zombies jump one block distance? Could they jump this? No. They can climb up one block, however they cannot go over a horizontal space.
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