Put your zombie to work.

Make one item, then keep the queue moving

These steps combine the supplied gameplay material with linked community references. Exact controls and patch behavior have not been tested by this site.

Before starting: have a zombie, a normal crafting workstation, its required tool, ingredients and room for output. Gardeners and distant log transport use different stations; use the specialist guides below.

1. Inspect the worker. Open its Character / equipment view and give it the job’s tool. Compare its own mastery with the recipe requirement, rather than the Keeper’s stat.
2. Choose a small queue. As an editorial test, queue two units of a familiar recipe for which you have all ingredients. Carry the worker to the bench and select Put Zombie.
3. Arrange local supply. Either supply and collect items manually, or unlock Zombie Assistant and assign a second worker to a Supplier Station. Keep inputs in open chests in the same room, rather than your backpack.
4. Watch the handoff. The supplier clears products and replenishes inputs. Leave free storage space so completed output can be removed.

Success check: the first item finishes, reaches storage, and the next queued item starts without you feeding the bench again. With manual supply, moving items yourself is expected; automatic handoff needs the supplier.

Supplier Station reference: Zombie Assistant costs 35 red and 5 green points; the station uses 4 Wooden Planks and 4 Bronze Nails. Check your technology screen and blueprint before spending.

The zombie is idle: check what is missing

If the checks pass but work still fails, record your platform, game version, recipe and a screenshot of equipment, queue and storage. Compare behavior with the references, then use the official bug-report forum ↗. This is a next diagnostic step, not a claim that every idle worker is a game bug.

Need another worker? Prepare a suitable body

• Unlock Reanimation and build a Resurrection Table.
• Use a corpse with all six organs and no Surgeon’s Error.
• Keep the collar in your backpack and Reanimation Liquid in open storage in the same room.

Post-launch patches also made zombies themselves a technology source: workers now earn red tech points for winning fights, and a fix restored red points at the stone and marble quarries. Check the official patch archive ↗ for scope.

Prepare, charge, collect

1. Place the body on the table and select a collar suitable for its red-skull count.
2. Choose Prepare; this consumes the collar and liquid.
3. Activate the charged Resurrection device. Sources describe recharge at the end of Lust day, for Envy day.
4. Collect the worker and return to the first-job test.

Success check: the body becomes a collectable worker. Check the room’s capacity display before preparing a batch. The sources support multiple prepared tables per charging cycle; do not plan around a supposed limit of one zombie per day. No disputed capacity formula is used here.

For increasing talent capacity later, use the red-skull and collar checks.

Patches after launch fixed workers that failed to resurrect despite meeting the requirements, added a zombie-limit hint at the Resurrection Table on PlayStation, and made the Panic debuff trigger correctly when you are over the zombie cap. If your game predates these fixes, update before troubleshooting further.

Choose the next job

For a powered iron line, continue to factory automation.

Production and combat need different plans

This worker guide does not establish a combat formation, weapon ranking or optimal army size. The supplied combat remarks do not provide a complete, verified route. For resurrection milestones, see the selected Steam achievement conditions.