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Rockefeller

Zombies, Mini BossesEntitiesDead Rails

Stats

Behavior
Hostile
Category
Zombies, Mini Bosses
Damage
~70 DPS
Detectionrange
130 (most likely)
Dmg
~70 DPS
Drop
Flamethrower
Fuel
100/2400
Hp
1,000
Location
Oil Refinery
Sell
Unsellable
Top speed
16

Overview

Rockefeller is an exclusive boss only found in the Oil Refinery. He appears as a giant zombie with a black hat, glowing eyes, a white mustache similar to that of Captain Prescott, black suit and black pants. He is equipped with a Flamethrower that deals high fire damage but has a short range. Upon death, he drops his Flamethrower.

Strategy

This miniboss is relatively easy because of his slow speed and short attack range. Be careful not to let him come too close since he deals very high damage. Sniping him beforehand, before killing the other entities is recommended because he can sneak up on the players while they're fighting the Zombies. Be careful not to kill him near Buildings or his weapon would get stuck and cannot be retrieved. Once he is down, only pick up the Flamethrower if there are no other enemies nearby. Similarly to Goliath and other minibosses, reviving this entity to get out of tight situations or to combat the final boss (e.g. Nikola Tesla) is also recommended because of this boss's high DPS at close-medium range. Snipe him from afar using the Springfield. It can kill him with 2 headshots as they deal 500 damage.

Patch history

Rockefeller is most likely based on John D. Rockefeller, an American businessman who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. As oil became increasingly important, Rockefeller eventually became the richest person in the United States at that time. Rockefeller is the third miniboss to be added, the first two being Ghost of Lincoln and Goliath. Rockefeller is twice the size of a regular Zombie; despite this, the flamethrower he holds is not scaled to his size. Rockefeller's limbs used to be positioned erratically on his corpse. This was fixed in a later update at the cost of making normal sized entity corpses have erratically positioned limbs. There is a strange glitch(?) where if a friendly werewolf is fighting Rockefeller, the werewolf will be flung and ping ponged around Category:Entities Category:Hostile Entities Category:Minibosses Category:Zombies Category:Stubs

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References

  1. 1.Sourced from deadrails.fandom.com · checked Aug 18, 2026
  2. 2.Image from Dead Rails Wiki (Fandom) · CC BY-SA · checked Jul 18, 2026

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