Let's say a necromancer has a couple of Skeletons and Zombies.
Now some mean adventurers come around and kill most of his undead buddies before leaving again, but leave the remains lying around.
Can he reanimate those again?
Nope. Once they are destroyed(which is what happens to undead and constructs) they are no longer useful.
Pretty much. When you destroy undead you don't just render them incapable of metabolic life, as you do when you kill a creature: you have to smash them to bits in such a way as they can no longer animate. Hence once destroyed they aren't usable any more.
You could maybe salvage enough material for a Flesh Golem though.
You could maybe salvage enough material for a Flesh Golem though.
Not by the rules you can't. You need corpses not chopped up pieces of corpses
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This here is why the clever PC necromancers animate their stuff as bloody skeletons, unless put down with positive energy, they just get back up in like an hour.
Bloody skeletons have far less utility for NPC baddies because when you're routinely fighting good guys since the go-to against undead (positive energy) is what wrecks bloody skeletons.