How did I die?

[Mellowfungus]

I was totally fine, not infected (I repeat, NOT INFECTED). I developed nausea out of nowhere, my health took a nose dive and I died walking to a house. This all happened within the span of roughly 3 minutes.

No zombies around (Killed them all already)

WTF? Like What the actual ♥♥♥♥? I was doing so well and I just dropped dead...I don't even want to play anymore. That death was complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[Spiffo]

Did you not have any wounds at all ? Scratches for example? Do you have any mods enabled?

[TJ_4874]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I was totally fine, not infected (I repeat, NOT INFECTED). I developed nausea out of nowhere, my health took a nose dive and I died walking to a house. This all happened within the span of roughly 3 minutes.

No zombies around (Killed them all already)

WTF? Like What the actual ♥♥♥♥? I was doing so well and I just dropped dead...I don't even want to play anymore. That death was complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Where you scratched by a zombie? if so yeah no you were infected.

[Mellowfungus]

Originally posted by TJ_4874:

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I was totally fine, not infected (I repeat, NOT INFECTED). I developed nausea out of nowhere, my health took a nose dive and I died walking to a house. This all happened within the span of roughly 3 minutes.

No zombies around (Killed them all already)

WTF? Like What the actual ♥♥♥♥? I was doing so well and I just dropped dead...I don't even want to play anymore. That death was complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Where you scratched by a zombie? if so yeah no you were infected.

I had a wound, but I already had this one for a few hours. and I didn't develop any fever until randomly within the span of 3 minutes

[Mellowfungus]

Originally posted by Spiffo:

Did you not have any wounds at all ? Scratches for example? Do you have any mods enabled?

I had a wound, but I had this cut on my hand for hours already. If something I got a few hours ago kills me out of nowhere then wtf...

[TJ_4874]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I had a wound, but I already had this one for a few hours. and I didn't develop any fever until randomly within the span of 3 minutes

were you wounded by a zombie?

[Mellowfungus]

I'd like to repeat...NOT INFECTED

if you repeat this at me then I'm assuming your not helping

how do I get infected from a wound hours after I got it? And I mean real world hours, not in game. In game was probably days....

[Mellowfungus]

Originally posted by TJ_4874:

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I had a wound, but I already had this one for a few hours. and I didn't develop any fever until randomly within the span of 3 minutes

were you wounded by a zombie?

I'm not sure honestly, all my hand said was "scratch" and I didn't develop anything for days...

then poof, dead within three minutes, like really fast bro

[TJ_4874]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I'd like to repeat...NOT INFECTED

if you repeat this at me then I'm assuming your not helping

how do I get infected from a wound hours after I got it? And I mean real world hours, not in game. In game was probably days....

oh damn if it's world hours then that is way different. this could be lots of things like eating dangerous foods, corpse sickness if you were near multiple corpses for a long period, etc.

I thought you meant in-game hours

[wirewitch]

Did you eat burnt food? A poisonous mushroom or berry?

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

Originally posted by TJ_4874:

were you wounded by a zombie?

I'm not sure honestly, all my hand said was "scratch" and I didn't develop anything for days...

then poof, dead within three minutes, like really fast bro

Yeah, you are likely infected by the virus. Not regular infection, mind you.

On default setting, scratch and laceration caused by zombies have a chance to kill you. 7% on scratch, 25% on laceration.

And by default the infection takes 2-3 days to kill you.

Corpse sickness is also possible, since you only said you killed the zombies, not removing their bodies or being somewhere far from the pile of corpses.

Other possibilities are food poisoning or mods.

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I'd like to repeat...NOT INFECTED

if you repeat this at me then I'm assuming your not helping

how do I get infected from a wound hours after I got it? And I mean real world hours, not in game. In game was probably days....

How do you know you were not infected? If BITTEN, you know. you are doomed to die. but the other zombie wounds have no moodle or wound tell. Did you load in -debug to see your zombie infection counter or look at your "Is Infected" tag?

zombie infection has no moodle. you have a percentage chance to get infected. it is calculated at the time of the wound. if you failed the hidden roll, you get an immediate invisible infected timer.

do you know the the infection set in rate in the game code? default it is 2-3 days. That's right. if you are scratched or lacerated by a zombie AND you became infected from that wound, sometimes your wound can even totally heal, then you die from zombie virus.

If you dont like that, you may change it in the sandbox settings.

I for one, dont like waiting 2-3 (in game) days to lean i was doomed. SO i set my sandbox infection set in rate down to 0-12 hours.

Now with my new setting, if i get zombie wound, i will know with 12 hours if i am going to die.


Also if you dont like the game, it is okay not to play ever again.
If you do like it, and are momentarily raged and frustrated, walking away for a cool down period is totally fine. I have had many rage quits and frustrations in my early hours of zomboid.

[Sadist_cain]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I'd like to repeat...NOT INFECTED

if you repeat this at me then I'm assuming your not helping

how do I get infected from a wound hours after I got it? And I mean real world hours, not in game. In game was probably days....

xD you WERE infected.

The wound didn't say infected on it? Doesn't matter, that has nothing to do with the zombie virus, that means you didn't have a bacterial infection aka sepsis.

There's no way of telling if you were infected by the zombie virus until you die a few hours/days later depending on your settings and then you rise as a zombie.

Did your character turn into a zombie afterwards?

[martindirt]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

I'd like to repeat...NOT INFECTED

if you repeat this at me then I'm assuming your not helping

how do I get infected from a wound hours after I got it? And I mean real world hours, not in game. In game was probably days....

First, there is two infections in the game:
Classic wound infection has a tag on your health panel.
Zombie infection don't has tag, only moodlets hints it. You can get zedification from any zombie inflicted wounds (scratch 7%).
Zombification kills you after some in-game days (already forgot the defaults, sry).

Also. Mods (if you have any) can break the game easily.

[Mellowfungus]

For the last time, NOT INFECTED.

Went ahead and made another character to find myself. Dead on the flow, not a zombie. I REPEAT, NOT A ZOMBIE.

[Siodog]

Originally posted by Mellowfungus:

For the last time, NOT INFECTED.

Went ahead and made another character to find myself. Dead on the flow, not a zombie. I REPEAT, NOT A ZOMBIE.

That's what I was gonna ask if you turned or not.

Since you didn't heres a couple things:

1.Did you have corpses close to you/your base? If yes you depeloved fever that eventually kills you. You need to remove the corpses from your surroundings or move away until feeling better.

2. Were you hot/had to much clothes on? Heat can kill you eventually.

3.Did you mix drugs and alcohol? That combo kills out of nowhere

4.Mods?