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Shub-Nullgurath

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Zombie Dragons?
« on: April 15, 2017, 04:27:57 am »

Just generated a world to find out it has a zombie dragon:



When was this implemented and how, exactly, does this happen?

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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2017, 04:35:45 am »

It mostly likely had died, and then got reanimated, or it could be a thrall. This is super rare, since, evil weather is rare, and for the dragon to be traveling right when the cloud passed was pretty crazy. With a zombie dragon. That would be almost impossible to kill.
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2017, 11:46:53 am »

Two things:

a: THIS IS SUPER COOL!!!

and now to a more sensible b: I have to concur with Sbcc, the "reanimated by unknown forces" probably means that it was reanimated/killed by evil weather. So, technically, it was added quite some time ago, but I have never seen one before! try checking if The Strange Wastes is an evil biome, I would LOVE to hear more about this dragon, pls upload the whole legend of it if you can!
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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2017, 02:33:17 pm »

As others have already hinted at, I believe this zombification occurs when the megabeast's lair is plopped down in an evil biome.
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Re: Zombie Dragons?
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2017, 02:35:58 pm »

now to the !!FUN!! part! can we replicate this in adventure mode? are you going to catch and weaponize that beast?
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Shub-Nullgurath

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Re: Zombie Dragons?
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2017, 02:40:27 pm »

Damn, I wish I'd knew it was this rare. By the time I posted this I'd already deleted the save (I was just testing part of my Underdark mod).

I wonder if I can use something similar for dracoliches... Hmm...