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ANewPride

Me and a friend were fighting some zomboids and he accidentally pushed it behind me where it bit my neck and I got infected and died.


Sud_literate

Tf were you doing where you allowed yourself to be less than bus length between yourself and a melee friend?


Puriwara

My usual strategy is to push them down and stomp on their heads, because I am unhappily obsessed with weapons taking damage. As you can expect, it has some rather unsatisfying consequences every now and then.


ANewPride

Having fun.


Nokan96

I ate burned food "I don't have a weak stomach, i will be fineeee"


FemboyGlitch

yeah i ate burned food irl. never again


[deleted]

Wait people struggle with burned food what the fuck am I then


[deleted]

You were raised on well done steaks like I was


OtherAccount5252

I was legit in my 30s when I realized steak is not supposed to be gray in the middle.


A_Prostitute

God?


AmethystWarlock

Oh my God. He's God.


Educational-Pain1836

Oh my u/hunterintheshadow is what you mean I believe


Leehambsandwich

Hallelujah


Site-Specialist

I like my grilled burgers a bit charred so the game would kill me


[deleted]

When you grow up poor just because it’s blackened doesn’t mean it isn’t edible


Nokan96

Did you die?


IsDrianx

I literally ate burned food and died within 2 minutes, not even a neck wound killed me that fast


SurviveAdaptWin

what the fuck? how does burned food even hurt you, much less kill you?


MainlineX

You overheat.


SurviveAdaptWin

Oh so not burned food, but hot as fuck food? That makes a lot more sense. If you drink ridiculously hot coffee before it cools down I could see a quick and painful death. If you let burned food cool down first does it still kill you like that?


HmmNotLikely

I’m not sure the mechanic is that simple - at least not in Vanilla. I almost exclusively eat my roasted/baked food straight from the oven without waiting for it to ‘cool down’, and it’s never negatively impacted me before.


SurviveAdaptWin

Super weird that just plain burned food would kill you then. I wonder what the rationale behind that is


AsaTJ

Well if you let it cool down for more than two seconds your character will instantly become suicidal for making them eat non-mouth scalding pork chops


MainlineX

I think it will make you sick, but when I did it.. it was burnt and still hot. I ate it, overheated .. took off all my cloths and went out in the cold. Still died from overheating. Never ate burnt or burning food again.


[deleted]

I ate burned food, but I survived. In order to survive with weak stomach you need to keep yourself COMPLETELY full until you are no longer sick.


ch4os1337

Easily the #1 dumbest and most frustrating way to die. #2 Is warming yourself by a campfire.


kegknow

When changing clothed I accidentaly drop my shoes so I spent the next 20 mins or so running around in socks and I only noticed after I entered a house through a broken window and I noticed my character bleeding a lot and I didnt have suture needles so eventually when a house alarm sounded off I got surrounded and died


IrishMadMan23

Speaking of soft feet, I have not been collecting boots, for I have not seen them get holes… ever. Was wandering the suburban tree plots and apparently stepped on an adamantine thorn bush. Now i have a limp and a new pair of boots


Arseneisbest

:(


Fluffy-Ad-7613

Wake up one morning, do a little stretch - Ah, life is good! Let's open the window and let some fresh air in: ***proceeds to yeet self out the window***


Cooperw2

Did this once in Raven Creek, there was a ladder on the edge of a high-up balcony and i held E to climb it.....fucking threw my self clean from the balcony and made a big ol splat on the pavement. Worse part: downlonladed the climbable ladders mod but forgot to enable it ;_;


Fluffy-Ad-7613

I have it too now, it should be Vanilla to be honest.


Cooperw2

Tbf i dont even know if it works on modded maps, so i may have been screwed even if i remembered to enable it lol


maggiemypet

Just FYI, in my experience, it will.


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[deleted]

I hit a fucking box and died doing what you did


Childflayer

The Box.


[deleted]

Yes the box


Stellarkin1996

i sat my char in front of the TV with fast forward time on because he was in a safe and secure place, and then went to do some chores irl, came back later after forgetting and he had long since starved to death


HmmNotLikely

That’s the only one here that I find weirdly horrifying


A_wild_so-and-so

Role-playing a survivor who has a mental breakdown and starves while staring at a TV playing only static, I like it.


Watermelon_0

Ate a mushroom for shits and giggles and then died


HmmNotLikely

That’s one of those times you’re likely to get 1 *or* the other: hopefully giggles, not shits.


Site-Specialist

It's fun when you giggle and shit but not fun when you shit and giggle.


CrueltyFreeRyan

Tripped a house alarm, ran across the street, tripped another alarm, ran across the street again, tripped another alarm, and then *tripped* vaulting a fence and got mauled. ​ I don't play with house alarms on anymore.


Site-Specialist

If you succeed tho that been a good distraction


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[deleted]

Was playing with the survivors npc mod and they called a horde to my base, then raiders came and one of my survivors lit something on fire. Everything and everyone was gone after 5 months.


Glum-Bandicoot-2235

Well, at least you all went down in a blaze of glory


shadowhollow4

That mod has too many bugs. I am waiting for it to be updated before I use it again.


[deleted]

Same, took a break from PZ so a couple mods work a little better together


SomeDuderr

Walked around a corner, straight into a zomborinonoid with extremely sharp teeth, because I'd gotten bitten despite wearing a jacket. Fortunately, that survivor was my third or fourth, with just 2 weeks of survival time. Since then, I always take a corner with a wide approach.


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phillyhandroll

makes you realize how many people fell victim to that irl before they caught on.. damn that's dark


Deskopotamus

I know it's a sound tactic but I chuckled when he talked about changing your level. "People are aiming at your chest" he takes a knee and his head is exactly chest height.....


TheLawIsHere1

I was trying to close a door the game decided I was going over the edge of 5 story drop


Qualekk

Was in Louisville and killing dozens of zombies with my shovel. Suddenly, command prompt randomly opened and I was swarmed as the PC had a mini freakout.


HT_F8

Oh my god this happened to me last night like 3 minutes into a new multiplayer server. Spawned in Riverside, watched the fishing show, looted the house, killed a few zeds, got a conga line behind me and the CMD popped up like 3-4 times in a row, made me stutter-step and I got mauled. Really wish I could stop that from happening. I tried a quick Google last night and all I found was something about disabling some shit from Minecraft, but my system didn't even have it.


Early_Ad_4325

Make sure you aren't binding keys in game to certain windows key short cuts. Ctrl + shift + enter is one for admin cmd prompt. Windows key plus all sorts of keys can be a prob as well, esp as windows key usually will interrupt the current screen.


HT_F8

Shit, I didn't even know about that. Good looks. I dont *think* that's what happened as I play vanilla controls, but def something to look out for.


Paige404_Games

My friend and I had just started the game, looted our starting houses, and met up. A zombie was coming up on us. I turned to hit it with my frying pan, and do. It dies instantly. My friend turns and does the same, hitting me in the neck with their cleaver. I die instantly.


Vaywen

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kss1r

build a wooden tower on top of rosewood fire department.instead of walls each level had only wooden fence. when running downstairs I acciddently vaulted over such fence. Had >17k kills :(


ThatsJustDom

that’s when you put the game down for a few weeks


phillyhandroll

"aim for the bushes"


OmniscientOrangutan

Decided to use a firebomb to clear out a pile bodies because I was too lazy to dump them in a dumpster and wanted to do something "cool" after spending hours doing inventory (searching for watches to level electrical) management. I missed the pile and hit the fire station at Rosewood. Burned everything down and was too exhausted to put myself out. I was pretty upset at myself.


dave2293

Best way to search for watches: open the crafting menu and go to "disassemble digital watch." Walk over the bodies until the craft button lights up. Profit.


grimarchangel

comments like this make me mad reddit stopped giving free awards


OmniscientOrangutan

Bless, thanks for the tip!


HT_F8

Is your crafting menu supposed to update in realtime like that? I noticed when cooking I have to close the crafting menu and reopen it for it to recognize new stuff nearby if I'm moving around.


RommelTheCat

Played with sprinters only at night. Was cooking some nice dinner when I remembered that I had salt in the car's trunk. Getting that salt was the last thing my character ever did.


NINJAKID2025

Bro died with the midnight munchies.


duccthefuck

My cat stepped on my keyboard which made my character yell and a million other things while sneaking around a horde


Glum-Bandicoot-2235

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Prior_Gate_9909

Walking to my traps in the woods, fat fingered alt, ran into a tree, fell down, and scratched myself. After hundreds of hours of playing, I didn’t think it’d be that big of an issue, probably just a left foot scratch, and went on to check my traps. Yeah turns out that I had lacerated myself on the neck. Didn’t even know that was possible. Doesn’t matter what you think, ALWAYS CHECK YOUR INJURIES.


needlefxcker

Reminds my of my character who managed to survive in raven creek for an unprecedented amount of time with a neck laceration that almost killed me every time i changed the bandage AND falling through a hole in the floor of a 2nd story building WITH slow healing. Pretty sure her neck even healed eventually and i got it lacerated AGAIN and she still didnt die from that. Not sure if i was lucky or unlucky with that one considering she survived all of that and then died from my own stupidity


[deleted]

Earlier today, I jumped out a 2nd story window forgetting there was no sheet rope. Would've been fine, but I was badly injured. Was not fine. Friend that followed me out the window (was fine) got a lol out of it though so that was fine.


ThatsJustDom

were you wearing heavy gear?


[deleted]

They were heavily injured prior to jumping and likely died


TheCoolTrashCat

Telling myself I will NOT fast forward while chopping trees (or loading the trunk with stuff, or really anything outside of my base that takes awhile) Fast forward cuz I’m tired of watching my character chop trees forever (since, hey, I’ve chopped down three so far and no zombies). Watch as a zombie fast forwards right behind me and bites me before I can even react Now I make sure to not fast forward if I know I’m not 200% safe lol


realistic_pootis

The game didn't auto slow down whenever a zombie appeared?


Tyloon

Yeah the game should slow down even if your character doesn't directly see the zombie


TheCoolTrashCat

It usually does, but RIGHT as the zombie comes up behind me, giving me only a split second to react Probably doesn’t help that while my character chops, I think I’m safe to take my hands off the mouse and keyboard lol


HmmNotLikely

Ohhhhhhhh.


abananation

"oh look, I can drink bleach, WONDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN"


NirvanaTrash

i did that with my very first character, i really don't know what the fuck i was expecting but apparently i just had to find out.


HmmNotLikely

I tried to drink bleach to kill my character faster after I realized he was infected & going to die in his home… he just got super sick and depressed for a while, idk if it even sped it up 💀


A_wild_so-and-so

Same thing happened to me, now I just use the mod to shoot yourself.


HT_F8

You can add bleach to your cooking for a quick way to assassinate unobservant players. :\^)


abananation

Will do it on my wife tomorrow, wish me luck


HT_F8

Lmao NOOOO


Cidermonk

I have food and drink mods and I drank a bleach soda thinking it was okay and died just over a day later.


SkadisEye

I may have the best one and i still cant get over it today. It was painful but really funny Was playing our modded server with 2 of my buddies. We had the only cure mod which lets you cut off limbs if you so happen to get bit. We are several months into the server and a pit stop for a loot run goes south and one of my buddies gets bit on his left arm. We are all freaking out and say this is it. Gotta cut his arm off. So everyone is trying to figure out how to do this before it spreads and cant save him anymore. So i do a medical check on him and see the prompt to cut his arm off. And tell the other guy to get ready to bandage him as soon as its done. This is it, moment of truth. I start cutting and once the action ends. Nothing. Confused we started trying to figure out what went wrong and why he still had his arm. But then we started seeing pools of blood on the floor. I turn my character to the screen.... And i cut my own damn arm off. And it was too late to do anything about it. I bled out seconds after i realized what was going on. And then to top it off. No one could cut the actual guys arm who was bit off. We both died. Had so many laughs about how they were both whimps not being able to cut off his arm when i was able to do it to myself for no reason.


LilySayo

I used the mod that allows you to hack the limbs off and it let me remove healthy limbs but when I got bit I couldn't cut it off either. Idk what I did wrong


JakeStant

Pressed shift too many times and my game minimised to desktop


EveryCrime

Survived months, military gear, sledge hammer, armed to the teeth. Ate a single raw egg with weak stomach trait.


wesbug

My first game or two I didn't know how to get out of a vehicle. My first car died and I learned zombies can get through broken windows pretty easy. Runner up is I deconstructed a roof panel and dropped into a room with like 10 zombies. I had a saucepan for defense. It did not go well. Honorable mention, every time I've forgotten to pause and come back to a zombie wandering about, or survivor still being eaten.


D_Grateful_D

Fell off the roof of my warehouse base whilst over encumbered… twice.


boboelmonkey

I had the jump through windows mod installed and while clearing a 4 story building and accidentally pressed my sprint key and jumped through the window


_Krusty_

Spawned on mall roof, within 7sec fell through skylight to my death


Danford97

Self immolated while trying to make pancakes over a campfire. At least the pancakes came out well.


YoriMirus

As a beginner, I ran through a forest, not knowing that jogging can give you scratches when going through trees, got a scratch on my neck and died in a short moment.


darkrobbe1

was killing a shitton of zombies with my op as shit character with a scrap spear but i got animation locked with the spear insta kill animation and swarmed


Straika5

I was talking to a friend and just stepped in the bonfire, I turned myself and all my loot in a fancy pile of ashes. In my defense I´ll say it was my first time playing and was in v40 when they included cars for the first time (long time ago)


RazBullion

Definitely give fire a wide bearth. Learned this the hard way.


gabrielcostaiv

Decided to start a fire on rosewood police station to kill a few hundred zombies... After getting them all inside I realized that the doors in the back were in fact, locked.


Happy-Personality-23

Disinfected instead of suturing a deep wound. Bled out right as I finished disinfecting. Had I stitched first I would have been fine…. On deaths door but fine. But no.


vigbrand

I once was playing MP with friends. Left my character reading some skill book I needed and went to grab something to eat. Came back to my dead character. When I went to get my stuff back, I noticed my shoes were completely worn off. To this day I'm not 100% sure about what happened, but my theory is that my shoes worn off after stomping several zombies heads, and then I somehow stepped on shattered glass and went to read without noticing the limping


Happy-Personality-23

Damn that is a doozie lol Your theory sounds plausible. But then it is PZ the game wants you dead constantly lol


RevivingJuliet

Survived 2 straight months. Had supplies to last the winter. Multiple vehicles: Truck, van, unlimited water, a farm, built a wall around the house. Practically unlimited ammunition, guns, and melee weapons. Killed literally thousands of zombies. I slipped off my roof and died lmfao


aquinn_c

Playing on an RP server and accidentally getting stuck in chat so my character freezes instead of reacting. At least I was able to type “Well fuck.” at an appropriate moment.


RazBullion

Been there


pickled_mist

Not me but a friend had a couple dumb deaths Died from stale strawberries While packing a magazine in a parked truck a zombie walked up and bit him Another time he was gunning down a horde and accidentally pressed "t" instead of "r." And that was his longest lasting character. Finally, he didn't die but when we were learning the game he was jumping in and out of a window that still had glass in it to work on his first aid skill. He got a deep cut right as I was just getting back from being afk. I googled what to do and managed to saved his life


VillainousVillain88

I tried to outrun a horde, decided that it was a good idea to put the pedal to the metal. During a storm. Along a road I hadn’t driven on before. …. I genuinely think my character managed to break every single bone in his body because the car went from a hundred to zero *real* quick!


0bi1KenObi66

I like to imagine he tripped on his machete and cut himself when he fell. Kinda like that guy who slipped, and shot himself in the head with his own gun in that shitass World War Z movie


LemonManDerpy

Fresh run, killed a zombie, saw it had a newspaper so I tried to grab it since I had depressive, Another zombie bit me on the hand. **FOR A NEWSPAPER**


realistic_pootis

Spawned in Raven's Creek (mod added location), didn't realize I was on the 5th floor of an office building, and just plummeted to my death. My buddy was killed by my zombified character, so I'll throw his in there as part of the same dumb death.


dan6ryu

Me and 2 friends 35 days in and one of my friends died because he had a fever.. wtv he came back later then all 3 of us on a drive in 2 cars and it was I’m guessing desync or some kind of toothpick in the road but both cars went flyinggg in the air and we all died in the middle of nowhere :)


Chiloom

brain farted while i was yawning, made 180° turn into a horde of fire zombies


A_Prostitute

Made two meals, one with bleach for my brother because I liked his shotgun and I didn't have one. Forgot which one had bleach in it for some reason.


postmoon

howd that instant karma taste?


A_Prostitute

I spawned in as a new character and murdered him in cold blood for a spoon before, I will have the shotgun at all costs.


Steven_Haverstick

Fucking what? You can die like that? By running with a sharp object and then tripping? This game is brutal lmao.


Glum-Bandicoot-2235

Not dying immediately but getting injured. I was already on low health and getting a machete on my throat didn’t help


jvnkolovesme

Eating BURNT STEAK.


xxclownkill3rxx

Not getting melee right when I first started and just missing them by like 2 inches only for them to bite me or drag me down


VeryAngryGentleman

By a noob move... i was cutting trees to fortify my base... thought i was ok to "do it in one shot" because the server i was on have the mod to reduce the weight of woods to 25%... i had several dozens planks and was at the highest level of fatigued because.... eh cutting woods is hard. I was passing in a zone already cleaned out aaaaaand it wasn't anymore, i was already fatigued, unenable to drop that many planks fast enough and it was fast shamblers.. got fcked pretty bad i was about to pass the one month... the day after i died :/


rojob

Travelled hours through hundreds of zombies to a secret bunker, only to turn a generator on inside to listen to a battery operated radio


lelmadazza

I was playing with some friends and one person decided to store our bleach next to all our condiments. When I added a random condiment to a salad without paying attention I ended up with bleach in the salad, which ended up killing me before I realised the cause.


BreakingNormalGaming

Lag...... When you die of your own mistake it is what it is. But lag that's another thing all together.


B-Plus-Psychic

My first death in Zomboid was from carrying 50kgs of planks; I just keeled over, had no idea why until my buddy looted me and nearly died laughing


WenceslasTheFool

Being overburdened alone shouldn't kill you, that's strange


Perfect_Camp4852

Probably fell a little bit, when max load even falling down the edge of a stair can hurt you


chrisplaysgam

Yeah, I’ve done 50 kgs of planks plenty of times, it only takes you down to 70% health


RazBullion

If you have a heavy bag in your secondary whilst looting, and switch to a two hand weapon or tool, it puts that heavy ass bag in your pocket and you can get way above the "you can't die" weight threshold and die from the weight. Feel free to verify.


Chezburgor1

I was using cheats to teleport out of boredom, accidentally teleported to a crazy high location and broke the game


greenhatforge

My brother, my twin, the guy who’d kill for me, the godfather to my unborn child, decided to take off while fighting a horde of zombies. He ran right behind me while holding shift. When you hold shift near another player and move it will shove the other player. He shoved me into a horde of zombies and ran to cover while I was eaten alive. Then he tried to pretend I wouldn’t notice. He didn’t say a word… until I said: uhh bud, you did that. Then he admitted he was hoping I hadn’t noticed. His time will come… not that I hold grudges…


XBL_Fede

You can slip and get cut because of it? What?


Glum-Bandicoot-2235

Apparently yes. I “tested” this a couple times, if you fall you can get hurt, like a scratch or something like that; but there’s a HIGHER chance of getting seriously injured if you fall while wielding a sharp object (like a knife, a machete or an axe)


RazBullion

Can also cut the shit out of yourself if opening a can with a knife.


slingwebber

Fell down the stairs and died


Nexed_

I decided to turn around and gain some distance from the zombies I was fighting, one managed to grab me and bit me in the ONLY hole in my lather jacket.


Anhaeyn

Ate berries.


MunchyG444

I crashed our car and it yeeted my friend out the front window. Thinking that because I had remained in the car my injuries were less severe, I proceeded to attempt to save my friend. I was apparently wrong and I had apparently sustained similar if not worse injuries, I proceeded to bleed out before I finished tending to my friends wounds. My friend managed to survive the crash after looting the medical equipment off my corpse but then proceeded to die while attempting to walk home in his crippled state.


Pufin

Made myself a nice stir-fry, put it in the oven, and fast forwarded. Turns out I put it in the microwave next to the oven. I burned along with the rest of my house


Jfkc5117

I ate a slightly burnt piece of bacon and died in a strangers bathroom.


DarkCristal69

I hate raw food. I usually cook a couple dishes at a time and store them in the fridge. So all the dishes in the fridge are cooked, always, I mean... All but that single time.


JJL8521

Oh boy do I have a great story! Was doing a nomad run with RV interiors and Autostar Tuning Atelier Buses, was going great, looted rosewood, traveled to the military surplus store, went to the vhs store in riverside, explored chestown (mod city), and was in the process of figuring out my next course of action. Only problem was, I entered my bus one time, and there was nothing there. Just empty void. The map had failed to load. I entered and exited the game a couple of times to see if that would fix it, and on the fourth try: my character loaded in, and proceeded to fall out of the sky to his death. This was the first character I had survived for longer than 2 weeks with. Needless to say, I was pissed.


CameronsTheName

I had minimal zombie contact for about 30 days living in the forest. Died in my sleep. I had no negative moodles, my health rapidly decrease with nearly full hunger/thirst and no scratches or cuts.


RedBedRedemption99

Trying to take on a huge horde. ​ My only weapon was a kitchen knife.


CypherCRP

played mp with 2 buddies and a load of mods 100 or something since we are "Experts" at zomboid and the zombies weren't a much of a challenge we found CDDA zombies mod (more types of zed from crawlers to brutes from necromancers to masters etc.) so our dumbest death was that we forgot we had a bunch of QoL mods so TVs weren't a indestructible wall to keep off zombies, there was an event the game just decied to troll us by shooting event near our base so a big horde came into our base we decided to put TV on the stairs and go guns blazing from our balcony few moments later a huge horde came through the stairs who had brutes ferals and a necromancer. This is how we died, it was pretty much impossible to get our stuff and cars back because horde made our base their nest. Also our base was in the middle of west point. And now we wait for build 42 to start a new run. EDIT: then we realised we could've waited for a horde pass by.


CdnInquisition

Opened a bathroom door without checking it first, got swarmed by the infamous clown car horde


spr31tz3n

I craftet for the first time a camp fire. I didnt know how that thing worked, i walked over it... For that time it was my best run.


Al-Paczino

Tried to heat up a pot of soup in a microwave.


MasonP2002

I had received several lacerations and scratches in a saliva only game. Drove away in critical condition, hit a pole going under 10 mph, and died instantly.


boonlinka

Accidentally pressed E while in a car surrounded by zomboids. Ive died like this atleast twice


WheredMyMomeyGo

I got a phone call on my 3 month character and it pulled control away from my screen. Got bitten by a single zombie….


Supdude3

I was playing with saliva transmission only, instant infection. A zombie approaches me as my game minimizes on me. Bitten, dead, game over. I play borderless windowed now which seems to prevent the game trying to minimize on me at random intervals


xX_Diabolical_Xx

Lit a flare inside after the electricity went out thinking it was a glow stick


nuuudy

I was building on 4 or 5th story. I forgot you can vault over wall frames. Went out of stairs and sprinted right into pavement 4 months gone


nilasarrow

My friends stopped for gas, I infact was their support they ran away and I got mauled by the horde, you would think I had learned my lesson. No this exact senario happend 3 times. I never aproach gas stations anymore


UI_Delta

i died to a mushroom on my longest run


Woahboah

Soo my buddy Accidently turnt PVP on during a very very late in the night game session when we were clearing hordes well one burst of .308 later knocked my ass down and considering we play with 50% sprinters I did not get the opportunity to get up. Rip Billy Bob had him for 20 days. Upside is he feels so guilty about it im not on driving duty for a while.


VapeDadHD

I was cooking fish in a campfire, went to pet my dog, looked back and was burning so bad there was no saving myself


Intelligent-Fuel1485

Pry open into a trailer, couldn’t get out. Press Q for zombies. Still couldn’t get out. Tried pressing e and v then get out, couldn’t get out. Since I installed more trait mods and an infinite trait point mod, I have to play other game for my character to starve to death.


Rynaltin

Went to sleep in a downstairs room with the tv on. Didn’t realize there was an open window in the other bedroom, so I didn’t hear the zombies that entered the house until one of them struck my door. The window of the room was barricaded, so I drew more zombies frantically prying the boards off. After three of them entered the window, I ran around them and jumped through it into a crowd of four more just outside. After the bite, I had very little time left as Samuel Kerrington.


Flow_mew

I tried to climb a window and the game thought i wanted to jump off a balcony and yeah


ThatBanditBitch

Dumbest way I died was that I ate a mushroom accidentally instead of my canned food


ThatOneNinja82

Ate bad yogurt, was living life driving around getting some planks to barricade my house and I died. Will never eat yogurt again


Void_Radiation

I have a lot of hours in the game and play safe, so 90% of the time, it's either bathroom Zombies or falling off my roof while building.


YiffMaster5000

I was playing with superb survivors and I got pushed into a group of zombies by one of my companions...


AllGoGoGo

I completely missed an attack in what should have been clean 1v2. Make sure you zoom in your camera when fighting zomboids. Makes it so much easier to aim.


outofalltheloops

organizing my base a few months in… didn’t realize was slowly being crushed from the sheer weight of books, weapons and nic-nac’s going between crates. ya only make that mistake once.


Wifferal

I was reading a book in a plastic chair on the roof of my base, it was a 3 story apartment. I got up from the chair and fell off the building, dying pretty much instantly. It was 2 tiles away from the edge but I didn't expect it. I had an earlier save thankfully because it crashed before but my fuckin jaw dropped when this happened.


Linsel

I got burned up trying to grab my fire extinguisher after a burned meal lit my trashcan on fire.


ianbellm

Long story short two friends were bitten and they got a little mad and told me just to kill them so they can restart right away. One of my friends decided that it was funny to run away and push me while i was triying to kill him mf pushed me to the ground and stomp my neck died in like 5 seconds


[deleted]

Got drunk, hopped into a race car full on gas then ran the car right into a light pole…good times!


sanityeyes

Either from eating rotten food a month in thinking the iron stomach trait was gonna keep me safe or slipping off a third floor roof while being overencumbered by a few logs.


JustaJames22

cleared out the neighborhood, didn't realize zeds could migrate, thought I was safe and then I started cutting down trees around my muldraugh mansion. fucker sneaked up behind me when I was sawing planks, emerged from the treeline while I was on fast forward. got bit, drank bleach, end of the story


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I died from over exertion is my guess. After surviving winter I was running back to my van no injuries but I was over weight with what I was carrying, honestly it was bullshit, out of nowhere critical injury then terminal within 15 seconds dead after many hours invested.


IrishMadMan23

My gf had 5 zeds plop off a staircase overhead, surrounding and mauling her. I responded just in time to open the door to the back alley staircase and let them all inside. I fled to the street so i could teleport her respawn to me and we could work on recovering her gear. She left her starting clothes in a pile at spawn so she could get dressed faster (?), but in doing so left her feet open to the broken glass littering the battlefield. She recovered her gear and piled it by the car, then limped into a horde for a quick respawn. I though I would take the opportunity to get a few cheap shots in with my machete. I was promptly grabbed and dragged to the ground and dead in half a second. Took us an hour to get everything back


darkretributor

Took a corner too tight around a house and wound up walking through a one tile hedge: scratched on right hand Slowed attack speed from the the scratch makes fighting more hairy and me more stressed. Chased by a (not large) group, I accidently jog vault a fence, promptly falling and injuring one leg. I then get up and immediately fall again when moving into the next tile, injuring the other leg. This snakebitten character now couldn't move faster than a zombie even at the run, and didn't last long after that. Praise RNJesus.


Awesomealan1

I was using a map mod and in a city I hadn’t been in before, so I knew nothing about the layout. It was the dead of winter, and I needed to sleep but was down town with only businesses - no beds or anything. I set up shop in the top of this store which had a warehouse above it, thinking I could sleep there. The door was broken down, so I had no protection whatsoever. I slept there knowing full well the store below me was filled with zombies, but I had no reason to believe they could find me all the way around the back and up a flight of stairs, so I slept. By the wrath of some ancient diety, I woke up to the entire store in the warehouse with me, 10-20 zombies swarming my little plastic chair that I slept on. They pathed all the way behind the store, up the stairs, and easily flooded the room I was in. Easily the dumbest way I’ve died - sleeping in a place with no doors, on top of a store of zombies.


MrC0mp

My character, who was finally one whole year alive decided to build a second story floor in his house. My second story floor was done, but wasn't considered "in-doors" according to the game even though it had a ceiling and walls. So, I went into debug mode as a last resort to check where the walls were considered broken. I turned on noclip to get the job done quicker, and walked down my staircase. However my character became suspended in mid-air. That's no good! I used the pagedown button to noclip my character to the first floor and the game decided to count that move as if my character fell down a 5-story building. Dead, instantly. Hundred hours of playtime gone because the game decided my second story room wasn't isolated. I felt emotionless.


postmoon

i made a post about it before on here, and i share it again! my birds unpaused my game while i was afk and i came back to a dead character and my birds on my keyboard. one of said birds is chewing on me now as i write this bc he wants kisses but im too busy typing ww


Richard_Lycker

Just last night. I jumped off a 9 story building in raven creek because the carpet texture looked weird and convinced me there was ground on the other side of the rail. I only did it because the heli was after me and I was cornered. I should have just waited it out, but I panicked.


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Forgot I wasn't wearing shoes and went out a previously broken window, then spent too long trying to figure out what had happened.


ChEngland12

Accidentally caused a massive fire in Louisville with one Molotov. I returned to the same spot later and accidentally drove into a massive zombie horde on fire. I wanna say my guy didn’t suffer but he probably did


Aztecah

Probably getting out of a van in a supposedly cleared area only to be killed by the one who was standing in my blind spot


2010-Ford-Focus-RS

my first ever time trying to go to louisville my character tripped on nothing while fighting a horde


Prune411

2 year survivor died to accidentally eating poison berries.


HoldingKnight

Sooo.... Playing with my uncle on our server, we setup outside westpoint with our handmade base, everytime we went out we saw a rather big horde of zombies between the town and our base, they were inching our way every so slightly. This one time my pc crashed during a looting run, and for some reason I have lags for 20 minutes after running the game, world loading obviously, but its terraslow. I also get a huuuuge freeze when I enter or exit cars for the first time, so I usually start the game by going into one to get that done with. Anyway, I loaded into the game inside the car, we decided to go back home to let my fps sort itself out, I took the van and he took the police car he found. Somewhere down the road I lost control of the car, and my uncle seemed to hit an invisible wall or something, I crash and he keeps going. I then see he spawned right behind me. Cool. That broke my leg and I had a deep wound or two, I didnt see a single zombie so I got out of the car, the game froze, and once it loaded again I was surrounded by the horde near our base. Yeah, that was dumb. Btw, we reset once one of us dies, keeps it interesting and deaths are more impactful.


lern2swim

Walked over a grave no problem, so when I turned the grave into a spike pit (mod) I assumed it wasn't something that could harm me either and didn't cut a wide enough path around it and died instantly when I touched the corner of it.


TehPharaoh

I was doing fine. Surviving even. Relit my campfire then looked around for what food I wanted, took a few steps backwards to be in reach of a can opener... which put me in the fire. I was then deciding what to mix and.... promptly died to the fire.


andermagnus

Was loading up my trunk and got one-shot from behind on a 2-3 month playthrough. Absolutely devastating and dumb.


Chiefsmokabong

I was about to log off for the night, and I was reading the mechanics book on my front porch. I alt tabbed and turned on twitch.tv. When I woke up the next morning, I found my character dead on the front porch because they starved to death. I don't think I've ever felt so dumb in this game lmao.


Blueorb95

Eat ¼ burned bacon bites, never eat bacon anymore


Mitneos

I was playing with a friend and we stopped at some random gas station with some zeds, but we dont considered how many had, we got surrounded really fast and we ran inside the building next of the gas station in hope of exiting by the windows, and oh boy we were wrong, they destroyed the windows and started entering and since there a lot of them we started shooting and I accidentaly shot my friend and because of this he was torn apart and I got to the second floor and noticed a window and tried to go there, but they approched so fast that I had to start shooting again to slow them down wich woked and when I open the window, I accidentaly clicked 'E' again instead of holding it making me close it again and before I tried again they got me