Necromancy followers and Animate Dead
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Three animations, one bound undead and one Vengeful Spirit have separate limits, while sharing your follower slots.
Development source reviewed on 29 October 2026. In-game availability is unverified.
Limits and slot costs#
The normal follower budget is five slots. Other pets, familiars and summons still use that same budget; the limits below do not grant extra slots.
| Summon type | Maximum active | Slots each |
|---|---|---|
| Animate Dead creature | 3 | 1 |
| Bound undead | 1 | 1 |
| Vengeful Spirit | 1 | 1 |
Animate Dead#
Animate Dead has a required Necromancy skill of 40.0, base mana cost 23 and base casting delay 1.5 seconds. It consumes Grave Dust and Daemon Blood under normal reagent rules. The result depends on the corpse group, the corpse owner’s fame and your Necromancy and Spirit Speak.
- A corpse cannot already be animated. Player corpses, summoned creatures, bonded pets and creatures with less than 100 fame are rejected.
- Animations are not ordinary tame pets. They lose 1 health every 1.65 seconds and cannot be bandaged.
- An animation consumes one follower slot from the shared budget.
Vengeful Spirit#
Vengeful Spirit has a required Necromancy skill of 80.0, base mana cost 41 and base casting delay 2 seconds. Only one may be active; casting another does not replace it. The target must be a different living creature. Its base pursuit duration is 10 + (Spirit Speak×80÷120) seconds, before the summon’s extra cleanup allowance.
Source notes
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These references identify the reviewed shard files. Source presence does not establish live availability.
Projects/Server/Mobiles/Mobile.cs:7827
Normal default follower maximum5Projects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/NecromancySummonLimits.cs:5
Three/one/one caps and 1 slotProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:107
Animate skill, mana, cast delayProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:12
Animate reagentsProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:140
Corpse eligibilityProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:254
Animate count and follower budget checksProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:327
1.65 second decay timerProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:347
Onehit decayProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/AnimateDeadSpell.cs:371
Necromancy, SpiritSpeak, fame influence summon selectionProjects/UOContent/Items/Skill Items/Misc/Bandage.cs:466
Animateddead cannot be bandagedProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/VengefulSpirit.cs:26
VengefulSpirit costs and per-caster restrictionsProjects/UOContent/Spells/Necromancy/VengefulSpirit.cs:114
SpiritSpeak duration
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