All Dead Rails Enemies: How to Survive Every Mob
In the dangerous world of Dead Rails, your journey is filled with threats that can end your run if you’re not prepared. From slow-shambling zombies to lightning-fast werewolves, knowing what you’re up against is half the battle. This guide covers every enemy you’ll face, their stats, and the best strategies to defeat them.
All Mobs in Dead Rails
Normal Zombie
Zombies make up the majority of enemies you’ll encounter during your travels. While individualzombies aren’t particularly threatening, they can quickly become deadly in large groups.
How to Deal With Them:Normal zombies areslow and weak, making them theeasiest enemies to handle. Any weapon can take them down, butranged weapons are preferredto avoid taking damage. If you only have melee weapons, time your attacks carefully while walking backward to avoid getting hit. Remember that you can hit zombies through walls, which is a great way to eliminate them without risk.
Runner Zombie
How to Deal With Them:These fast zombies can catch up to you if you’re on foot! Always keep your horse close when you go into buildings. If you hear them coming, get to high ground or jump on your horse. In small spaces, try to get them to come through doorways one at a time so you canshoot them with a shotgun.
Banker Zombie
How to Deal With Them:These zombies wearfancy suits and top hats. They’re special because theydrop bank codeswhen you kill them. These codes let you open banks in towns to get money and items.
Dynamite Zombie
How to Deal With Them:These zombies carry bombs!Kill them from far awaybefore they can reach you. A rifle is perfect for this. Be extra careful in small spaces like inside buildings, where their bombs can easily kill you.
Sheriff Zombie
How to Deal With Them:These zombies carry guns just like outlaws do. They’re not great shots, but they can still hurt you if they hit. Stay far away anduse your own guns to take them out. Try to get behind cover when fighting them so they can’t shoot you.
Zombie Soldier
How to Deal With Them:You’ll only find these zombies atFort Constitution.They carry guns or swords and move as fast as runner zombies. Stay far away and use guns to kill them before they get close. A shot to the head with a rifle will kill them right away.
Captain Prescott
How to Deal With Them:Captain Prescott is at Fort Constitutionwith his zombie soldiers. He’s no tougher than other zombies, but he’s worth a lot of money! When you kill him, hedrops a key that opens the fort’s supply room. You can also take his body to theSheriff’s office for $150. Just like with other zombies, a headshot from a rifle will kill him instantly.
Lab Zombie
How to Deal With Them:These zombies onlyshow up in the Tesla Labwhen youtry to rebuild Nikola Tesla. They wear lab coats and move as fast as runner zombies. Deal with them the same way you would with runner zombies – use guns and keep your distance.
How to Deal With Them:Outlaws are living humans with guns. They can hurt you a lot. The safest way to fight them is toshoot them from far away with a rifle– a headshot will kill them right away. When outlaws are on horses, you can drive your train and get them to bunch up behind you, then shoot back at them
How to Deal With Them: Vampires have more health than zombies and can teleport right next to you when you least expect it! Vampires spawn mainly during Blood Moons and around the Castle area. When fighting them, keep moving instead of staying in one position.Always keep your horse within reachas an escape option.
How to Deal With Them:Werewolves present a major threat with their500 health points– five times that of standard enemies. They appear primarily duringFull Moon events, throughout the Castle location, and sometimes within regular wolf groups.Their combination of high damage output and fast movement speed makes them lethal in close quarters. The recommended strategy is to engage frommaximum range using riflesfor precision headshots.Mounting a horse gives you the mobility advantageneeded to maintain safe distance.
How to Deal With Them:Sterling mines are the only location where you’ll encounter skeletons. Their health and damage output match those of standard zombies, but the environment makes them particularly challenging. The narrow tunnels of the mines limit your movement options and escape routes.
How to Deal With Them:Wolf encounters occur primarily in the desert regionswhere packs of 2-5patrol together. Their threat level ranks as moderate – their speed exceeds basic zombies but falls short of runner variants and werewolves. Wolves are smaller and move around a lot, so they can be harder to shoot than zombies.
A cool trick: if you drop a dead body near it, you cantame a wolfand will help you by attacking other enemies. This can be really helpful when you’re fighting lots of enemies at once.
How to Use Them:Horses are found all over the map ingroups of 3-8. Wild horses will run away from you, but they can betamed with a Saddle. Tamed horses are incredibly valuable as they allow you to move much faster than on foot and can outrun all enemies.
Nikola Tesla
How to Deal With Him:The endgame boss Nikola Tesla becomes available through a specific sequence at Tesla Lab. Players must firstreconstruct his remains and then defend against waves of Lab Zombiesduring the resurrection process. Once awakened, Tesla won’t appear immediately – he joins the final confrontation at Outlaw Town.
His5000 health points make him extraordinarily durablecompared to standard enemies. His attack power caneliminate players in just a few hits, while hismovement speed matches that of runner zombies. Tesla’shead serves as his critical weak point, where damage is multiplied. Solo attempts against Tesla rarely succeed. So we recommend you to take on him in a team.
Dead Rails may be dangerous, but with this knowledge of your enemies and the right strategies, you’ll be well on your way to survive!
Karan is a gaming writer at TechWiser. you’re able to find him playing Chess and indie games when he is not writing articles.
