died to a tree scratch

[Pottujλuho]

so i was walking thru the woods with good quality clothes (as a park ranger), a branch scratched my neck and i got critical damage, i died in 20 seconds.
as a person who goes camping irl regularly and lives in the woods this seems very dumb to me

[Shady Allie]

In real life you don't try to walk through a tree, you walk around it.

Use the "walk to" feature and you will auto walk around trees.

[Pottujλuho]

usually in zomboid i try to zigzag around forest to avoid touching trees/branches

[Brotarius Najius Maximus]

I think what Shady means is that you can use ''walk to'' option to automatically and safely walk around the trees, but still as straight as possible.

You can do this by clicking with the right mouse button on the desired tile you want to walk to. and then the option ''walk to'' will appear. You click on that option with the left mouse button to do the action.

Hope this clarifies a bit.

[Pottujλuho]

yes i do know about the walk option, but i think i was foraging and looking around at the time, anyway for the next survival you just gotta accept the fact that branches are made out of barb wire

[BDZ1972]

Zomboid is played out on a perfectly "flat world surface", I think the random forest damage is trying to simulate "difficult terrain" (hills, inclines, tripping hazards, drops etc).

Always use the "walk to" option when in forests.

Any neck injury must be bandaged immediately, even changing a neck dressing is risky, you need a clean bandage ready to go immediately in some cases. You really can dump out your 8 pints of life-juice in seconds in this game!

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by BDZ1972:

Zomboid is played out on a perfectly "flat world surface", I think the random forest damage is trying to simulate "difficult terrain" (hills, inclines, tripping hazards, drops etc).

Always use the "walk to" option when in forests.

Any neck injury must be bandaged immediately, even changing a neck dressing is risky, you need a clean bandage ready to go immediately in some cases. You really can dump out your 8 pints of life-juice in seconds in this game!

there is no forest in kentucky that can cut your neck deep enough to puncture an artery, by simply walking through trees. if it were the slightest risk, they would have made us privates at knox wear the kevlar gorget that goes with the flak vest any time we went into the woods.

"difficult terrain" injuries should be restricted to hands, arms, feet, and legs.

[Greb]

All wounds damage your health when exposed and unbandaged, bleeding makes this even faster. Neck injuries damage your health like 5x as much as any other wound, that's the "bonus" effect wounds get for the neck (like how movement speed is slowed with leg wounds, and swing speed is lowered for arm wounds - for the neck it's just raw extra damage)

You also die faster based on the time settings in the sandbox, I.E if you have it set to 15 minute days you'll die 4x as fast than when set to 1 hour long days, and if you set the day length to like 24 hours real time you pretty much barely take damage from injuries, it's that slow. Unless that has been changed since the last time I checked anyway.

Yeah though, I've experienced your pain before, playing on a Thin Skinned + Slow Healer character in the Riverside Gated Community, I attempted to move through one of the hedgerows there at running speed and it gashed my neck and I died too without realising I was messed up, lol. I guess it's just a really, really unlucky scratch.

Watch out for trees and hedges anyway, especially if you're Thin Skinned - less of an issue if you're using traits like Outdoorsman or Lumberjack etc, but still, never hurts to be cautious. Don't go running through forests and hedges!

[Derpentine]

right click "walk to" hold sprint, youll auto walk around trees like irl. run full speed INTO a real tree with your neck out, matter of time till your jug gets stabbed lol
with that said, i think its dumb to be in game where you cant see each branch and dodge with your head while trashing your arms to move branches

[a three-colored carp]

I want there to be a mod that makes trees even deadlier

[Greb]

Originally posted by a three-colored carp:

I want there to be a mod that makes trees even deadlier

There's a couple of RuneScape mods in the workshop already. Next up we need a chance for any tree being cut down to turn into an evil tree ent and instantly break your axe if you finish chopping it.

That'll show 'em! Lumberjack? Pah!

[AnInfiniteArc]

If you can't imagine how it's at least conceivable that you could give yourself a nasty neck wound by stomping through dense foliage incautiously, then I wonder what kinds of woods you've been hanging out in. Is it entirely completely realistic? No. But beyond that I don't think there's much to say.

[Greb]

Maybe it's not the tree but simply a rather vicious bird or squirrel occupying the tree you so rudely crashed your way through?

Ninja squirrel takes a slash at your neck with his tiny acorn katana, I dunno. Sounds feasible to me, anyway.

[John Battman]

Originally posted by Greb:

Maybe it's not the tree but simply a rather vicious bird or squirrel occupying the tree you so rudely crashed your way through?

Ninja squirrel takes a slash at your neck with his tiny acorn katana, I dunno. Sounds feasible to me, anyway.

Lmao this + your Ent comments are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hilarious... I can just see it in all its glory. Man, that was a great little scene to play out in my head lol.

@Terrorsaur, why would dangerous terrain injuries be limited to limbs??? You've surely heard of people slipping and hitting their head on a rock, or other similar events. Especially if it's raining (who knows whether it was in OP's scenario but that hardly matters). Other than "I don't like dying to my in-game character being clumsy" I can't see any cohesive logic behind your suggestion.

[MightyMonte88]

Originally posted by a three-colored carp:

I want there to be a mod that makes trees even deadlier

Someone adds a mod that just makes the trees uproot and run around like zombies attacking people .

[John Battman]

Originally posted by MightyMonte88:

Originally posted by a three-colored carp:

I want there to be a mod that makes trees even deadlier

Someone adds a mod that just makes the trees uproot and run around like zombies attacking people .

10/10 I'd play that.