How do I get zombies?

[hollys]

So, I loved the zombie mods that were out but the new DLC said there are zombie-type creatures. How do I get a hoard of those, like with the mods? Do I have to use a cheat or is there a way to make them show up?

[Blastmetal]

You need to start interacting with the Monolith thats placed at the start of your playtrough, somwhere in the middle that scenario start already gives you a free ghoul by default. the ones your refering to are called shamblers. And can come from outside of the map as a event. Sadly they cannot be recruited but you can however make more ghouls later through research.

[HunterSilver]

Any prisoner or colonist can be turned into a ghoul with some common resources and a simple operation. Ghouls are cheap to make, cheap to upkeep (only eats meat), and cheap to revive if they die. They're very durable too and great meat walls.

There are rituals to spawn hostile zombie hordes, or you can make your own by using Deadlife Dust on groups of corpses. You can load deadlife dust into mortars and fire it, use them as IEDs, and some creepy drifters have the ability to release deadlife dust from their body. You can't recruit these zombies, but they're basically a shambling horde of friendly zombies that will attack hostiles for you.

[MadArtillery]

There's a ritual to summon a hostile to all hoard or deadlife dust shells, ied's, and deadlife backpacks to spread zombification to corpses. Deadlife dust is allied. Very stronk.

You can also turn on permanent deadlife resurrection as a modifier to a scenario for a hostile zombies everywhere corpse management playthrough.

[Jaggid Edje]

You'll also see them more often if you increase the frequency of anomaly-specific events with the sliders available in the custom storyteller options. You can change these at any point in an existing playthrough by going to Options->Gameplay->Storyteller settings.

Of course, zombies aren't the only things that will increase the frequency of.