# Necromancy mod suggestion (was in Latest Expermental Features thread)

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/necromancy-mod-suggestion-was-in-latest-expermental-features-thread/8121>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [November 29, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/necromancy-mod-suggestion-was-in-latest-expermental-features-thread/8121 "2014-11-29T05:12:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Commie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Commie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Commie)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/necromancy-mod-suggestion-was-in-latest-expermental-features-thread/8121/1 "2014-11-29T05:12:30Z")

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Any chance the Necro mod could just work on corpses directly, instead of needing chunks of meat?

For example, bear corpse + control chip = friendly bear?

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I’m looking at the Necro json files (something I’ve literally never done before, looking at code) but couldn’t there be a crafting recipe that takes corpse X, then outputs a living X, based on the monstergroup of the corpse used in crafting? So this could be done and just naturally work with every creature in the game w/o having to manually make a crafting recipe for every monster?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/necromancy-mod-suggestion-was-in-latest-expermental-features-thread/8121/2 "2014-11-29T06:00:14Z")

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Kind of, what we could do fairly easily is make a crafting recipe that takes a corpse, any corpse (along with other stuff) and turns it into a special item that when activated will spawn a monster. When you craft with something it stores the identity of the items used to craft it.