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[turgidtoupee]

I've searched but I don't seem to have any concrete answer, can someone tell me whether or not zombie/skeletal creatures can be captured in cage traps or trained? If not, can I mod it in somehow?

[NecroRebel]

Undead can be captured in cage traps, but cannot be tamed or trained.  Undead are hardcoded, unfortunately, so it's not possible to mod them to tamable or trainable.

IIRC, undead are, however, hostile to all living things, and the wiki backs this up, so if you want to sic undead horrors upon your enemies you just need to drop one into the other and, if you dropped the undead on the enemy, a way to recapture your 'soldiers.'

[turgidtoupee]

Damn. Can they breed?

[NecroRebel]

...They're walking corpses. That'd be a no.

Someone said that undead populations don't get depleted, unlike living creatures' populations, so you could just keep trapping them and amass a sizable army that way.

[turgidtoupee]

I could only hope. There goes my plan for an army of skeletal whatevers.

[jryan]

I like using undead as traps.. fill a room with cages attached to lever, close off room with flood gate, throw lever to "free" them... attach flood gate to floor plate... fun for the whole family!

[Grendus]

Skelk *shudder*

Undead creatures are very fun^tm.  Was attacked by a zombie wyvern once. After scaring my entire fortress half to death (five pages of "interrupted by zombie wyvern") and hovering just out of reach of my melee dwarves, I finally dispatched a few marksdwarves to take him down. Four quivers of *iron bolt(25)* later, and he finally falls to the ground where a few pissed off hammerdwarves finished him off. Zombies are fun.