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Shortcut: FA Featured Articles Featured Articles are considered to be the best articles in the Urban Dead Wiki, as determined by its users. Before being listed here, articles are evaluated with criteria acting as a guideline. Formerly, only good articles were eligible for featured status, but the good article procedure was ended in 2012. At present, there are 21 featured articles with 19,388 articles in total.

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Borehamwood is one of three cities available in Urban Dead; the others being Malton and Monroeville. Borehamwood was introduced on Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 as part of the promotional campaign for the UK release of Dead Set, (more...)

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The Zombie Lexicon. There are 4 different complex methods by which zombies communicate using Death Rattle: Zombese, Zombish, Zomban, and Zamgrh. The former three refer to codes that can be translated, while the latter is a zombie attempt at language. These serve several important functions including coordination with other zombies and limited communication with survivors. (more...)

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Classes

Civilians pay 100 XP for all skills. This means that they need to spend fewer Experience Points than the other classes to buy all available skills. (more...)

Survivors with the Military character class pay 75 XP for all military skills, 150 XP for science skills, and 100 XP for all other skills. (more...)

Survivors with the Scientist character class pay 75 XP for all science skills, 150 XP for military skills, and 100 XP for all other skills. This means they must pay a little above 10% more than any other characters to buy all available survivor skills due to the abundance of military skills in the game. (more...)

Zombies (known in Zamgrh as zambahz) are the walking dead; Either players who started out as zombies, or survivors who died and stood up as zombies. Zombies have access to the zombie skills tree, and can pay 100 XP for any zombie skill. Characters that begin the game as a zombie start with the skill Vigour Mortis, which gives them +10% to hit when using all non-weapon attacks. (more...)

Events

The Battle of Blackmore (August 18th-October 13th, 2006) was a major siege centered around The Blackmore Building in Ridleybank and Nichols Mall in Stanbury Village. The fight appeared to be a stalemate for almost two months, until zombies eventually overpowered Nichols Mall's defenders on October 12. Blackmore fell the next day. (more...)

The Battle of SantLUEville was a week-long battle in late July and early August 2007 between the zombie horde LUE and the survivors situated in and around the suburb of Santlerville. While Dowdney Mall fell almost immediately, once the fight moved to the surrounding suburb, it took on an entirely new dimension and organized revives held survivor numbers steady even as dozens were killed each night. (more...)

Blackmore 4(04) was a siege that took place from August 19, 2010 to August 31, 2010. It began with an alleged "failed Piñata" by the group 404: Barhah not found, and quickly spiraled into a suburb-wide conflict between various survivor groups, the Ridleybank Resistance Front, and the Feral Undead. It ended after thirteen days when a joint strike by RRF strike teams established a foothold and overpowered survivor resistance inside the building. (more...)

The Fall of Monroeville Mall Monroeville Mall is very special building in Monroeville for many reasons: Its unique size and shape make it the largest multi block building in either Monroeville or Malton. The only larger building is the Big Brother House in Borehamwood. (more...)

In the First Siege of Caiger Mall, on October 27th, 2005, Caiger Mall came under assault by a large number of zombies. Although minor engagements between survivors and zombies had taken place before, the Siege of Caiger Mall is considered by many to have "officially" begun on November 10th. (more...)

Guides

Welcome to the city of Malton. A Beginners Guide to Urban Dead serves as a brief introduction to the game, as well as a pseudo strategy guide for beginning players. (more...)

Guides:First Day in Malton is for people who come to the wiki after (or hopefully on or before) their first day in Malton — or for those who wish they had done so. (more...)

Grims guide to staying alive : Well, I'm just writing a lovely guide to human survival, based on my experiences as feral zombie, horde zombie, zombie leader, "PKer", NT nomad, and general all-around villain. (more...)

The Ghost Town Reclamation Guide explains how survivors can reclaim areas with little survivor or zombie presence. Normally ghost towns occur when a large zombie horde has destroyed an area and no one has tried to reclaim it. (more...)

Guides:Managing Encumbrance explains how best to handle encumbrance, the measure of the amount of items in one's inventory. Improperly managing your character's encumbrance can lead to AP spoilage, missed opportunities and in some cases death. (more...)

Guides:Siege PKer Guide, by IAmRisen, is based on his experiences at Blackmore-1 and the sieges of Stickling and Giddings Malls. It describes what he did at those three sieges, namely PKing in support of an attacking zombie horde. (more...)

The Zombie Lexicon covers much of the vocabulary of one of the four different complex methods by which zombies communicate using Death Rattle, namely Zamgrh. The other three are Zombese, Zombish and Zomban. The latter three refer to codes that can be translated, while Zamgrh is a zombie attempt at language. These serve several important functions including coordination with other zombies and limited communication with survivors. (more...)

Locations

Borehamwood is one of three cities available in Urban Dead, the others being Malton and Monroeville. Borehamwood was introduced on Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 as part of the promotional campaign for the UK release of the television series Dead Set. The Borehamwood map is based in part on the real-life location in Hertfordshire, UK as well as locales featured in the television series. (more...)

Resources

Necrowatch is an initiative to collate NecroTech scans from across the city of Malton. (more...)

Darkness was implemented on May 28th, 2008, with the following words: As the moss and lichens spread across the final few skylights, several types of buildings are now dark without a generator hooked up, reducing search and attack rates until power can be restored. Banks, Cinemas, Clubs and Fort Armouries are all dark in Malton. (more...)

Decay is the process by which ruined buildings become more difficult to repair over time. Repairing a ruined building requires that all zombies be removed from it, and that the survivor has a toolbox in their inventory. AP cost to repair any building begins at 1 AP and increases by 1 each server midnight left ruined. This is shown on the "repair building damage" button. (more...)

Play Style refers to the actions and intentions of groups and individuals. These actions generally place groups or individuals into one or more generalized categories of play style. (more...)

By Spawning, after signing up to Urban Dead, your new character will be placed somewhere inside the city. Exactly where will be randomised, but will be based on a number of criteria, defined by the character class chosen. (more...)

There are popular theories concerning the best Survivor-Zombie Imbalance, or ratio of survivors to zombies. (more...)

Tactics

Rat Tactics: A zombie horde has trashed your suburb and moved on. The locals are dead or scattered. Ferals are roaming everywhere. All your safehouses and resource buildings are thrashed. Using Rat Tactics is one way to handle such a situation. (more...)

River Tactics are a broad range of strategies which seek to gain an advantage over zombie horde and mega-horde incursions through flexibility, redirection and avoidance. (more...)

Other

The Alner Family, known as the tenants of the once-extravagant Alner Mansion, stand among Malton's elite, being largely responsible for Roachtown's redevelopment after the Great Fire of 1912, as well as its fall into disrepair. (more...)