They are very expensive to maintain, and collect some of the highest wages during payday (750 gold at level 1!). In addition, placing them in a Temple annoys them rather than appeases them. Vampires do have some deficiencies: they cannot engage in any sort of manufacturing, are fairly easily annoyed, and do not tolerate being picked up for long. Coupled with their Teleport ability when ordered to flee, Vampires can prove almost impossible for enemies to permanently remove.

The quantity of experience needed to level-up is sharply increased after 3, but if the Vampire is slain, he turns into vapor and resurrects in his Lair, minus one level. When he reaches level 3, the Vampire becomes Immortal. Vampires are among the strongest melee attackers before they learn Drain, whereupon they favor ranged combat and kite against pursuers. In a rare few maps, Vampires are added to the Creature Pool and enabled for Keepers to attract through the Portal with a 30+ tile Graveyard. Vampires rise from a Graveyard for every 10 corpses that decay there. Vampires can be created in a Graveyard from decomposing bodies.'

Then, it resurrects itself in its Lair when it dies although its experience level drops by one. If a Vampire’s experience level is higher than three, it becomes immortal. If it is scavenging in the Scavenger Room and there are no other Vampires on the map, it raises your Portal attraction by half, thus increasing the creatures who enter your Dungeon. Description ( Dungeon Keeper) 'An undead creature that is a natural at research and scavenging but refuses to get its hands dirty and manufacture for you.

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