This is a spiritual successor to [YATZ] You Are The Zombie.
In this mod, you are no longer just fighting zombies from the outside. You survive as part of the undead faction, constantly adapting between Zombie, Husk, and Drowned forms based on your environment. Each form comes with its own visuals, sounds, and combat traits, so your identity is not cosmetic only, it directly affects how you play.
This is not just a skin swap mod.
As The Zombie is built around a full “undead-side survival” experience. The world reacts to your status, and your gameplay loop shifts from normal human progression to hostile-faction survival. Villages and justice-aligned mobs become real pressure points, while your form changes add risk-and-reward decisions to movement, exploration, and combat.
You will also encounter the Steve Legion.
These Steves are not harmless ambient mobs. They patrol, engage, and pressure you as an organized hostile force, turning routine exploration into tactical encounters. Managing distance, terrain, and engagement timing becomes much more important when facing them.
If you do not want to fight alone, you can build your own undead force.
You can tame and command zombies to fight for you, forming a controllable undead squad for offense, defense, and sustained progression. This changes combat from pure solo brawling into unit-based fighting with positioning and target control.
The mod also includes extensive configuration support.
Core mechanics such as transformation timers, behavior logic, and combat parameters can be tuned for different use cases, including single-player survival, modpacks, and multiplayer servers. Whether you want a harsher undead survival challenge or a faster-paced faction-combat style, you can adjust the experience to match your design goals.
If you enjoy identity inversion, faction conflict, and environment-driven evolution,
As The Zombie offers a complete undead progression path rather than a one-time gimmick.

Players can crouch and left-click to change the state of a tamed zombie, and crouch and right-click to open the zombie's UI.

as_the_zombie-1.1.6.jar