Can someone figure out why i died.

[Shikabane屍]

Today i think i had the weirdest death i've ever had in zomboid. I dont know how i died.

1. No Zombie Virus
2. Didnt eat bad food so no poisoning
3. No i didnt drink bleach

I was beginning renovations in my base for a new area where my character just... exploded? and died. for no reason.

ill run through the entire day maybe someone can tell me how I died here.

The previous 2 days i had been doing nothing but chopping trees and sleeping, High exertion and tiredness cant kill you as far as i know, so there's that. slept in my car till midnight because it was quicker than slow walking back to my base, woke up took sleeping pills cause im NOT working in the dark, went back to sleep till 3:30.

Got up, went downstairs ate a 20 hunger COOKED fish, yes i double checked.

refilled my water bottles from my plumbed faucets and went to work, grabbed a shovel moving my green garbage bin as needed and ripping up the hedges in the neighborhood.

Sure i would get over-encumbered doing so but encumberance cant kill you it only lowers your HP about 30% or so, and i dont recall even having the injured moodle when i died. I even respawned on a new character and kept doing it just to make sure they hadnt changed Encumberance damage and sure enough i didnt die from it.

but mid-way through bush picking up. BOOM dead, just like that. no warning, nothing, my character just died. I cant figure it out. I'm kinda pissed too, because this is the first time in zomboid a death genuinely didnt feel like my fault, it really feels like the game bugged out and killed me, but idrk how that would be possible??? idk, im kinda at a loss for words and really pissed off, can someone please figure out how I died.

[Kaldrak]

That is very strange. You describe it as exploded, but I'm guessing you just keeled over? There wasn't an actual explosion of some kind, right?

Barring anything else, I'm gonna guess it's probably some weird mod interaction. Are you playing vanilla or do you have mods installed?

[Shikabane屍]

Originally posted by Kaldrak:

That is very strange. You describe it as exploded, but I'm guessing you just keeled over? There wasn't an actual explosion of some kind, right?

Barring anything else, I'm gonna guess it's probably some weird mod interaction. Are you playing vanilla or do you have mods installed?

yeah 'exploded' is just the sound effect, blood coming out and falling over.

as for mods ill share what im using

More Descriptions for Traits 41.66+
Generator Time Remaining
faster Hood Opening
mod Options
Weapon Condition Indicator 41.60+

[Shikabane屍]

One more thing ill ad is that it WAS raining, but i have outdoorsman and had no cold symptoms

[King Smidgens]

Generally whenever I've had a character instantly "explode" like that it's because there were cheats/debug enabled at some point. If you save your character from death and then turn off godmode you'll be fine until you take any dmg and then you'll just instantly die like you described.

If you had godmode enabled while you were building and fell down at all with heavy encumbrance that may put you at a really high negative HP for instance and without using a cheat to heal yourself when you turn off godmode the game will go "Oh yeah, you don't have any HP" and then kill you when you take some dmg.

I had a char once I fell off a fence on the 2nd story (Hit E on one next to the sheet rope, oops) which is ordinarily no problem but I had a negative weight food in my inventory (While back if you used some rotten foods in a dish it would divide by zero and give you a negative/infinite weight food) and that caused me to have, apparently, a negative amount of HP. Until I took some damage and my char went BOOM. That was fun testing to figure out what happened lol

[Shikabane屍]

Originally posted by King Smidgens:

Generally whenever I've had a character instantly "explode" like that it's because there were cheats/debug enabled at some point. If you save your character from death and then turn off godmode you'll be fine until you take any dmg and then you'll just instantly die like you described.

If you had godmode enabled while you were building and fell down at all with heavy encumbrance that may put you at a really high negative HP for instance and without using a cheat to heal yourself when you turn off godmode the game will go "Oh yeah, you don't have any HP" and then kill you when you take some dmg.

I had a char once I fell off a fence on the 2nd story (Hit E on one next to the sheet rope, oops) which is ordinarily no problem but I had a negative weight food in my inventory (While back if you used some rotten foods in a dish it would divide by zero and give you a negative/infinite weight food) and that caused me to have, apparently, a negative amount of HP. Until I took some damage and my char went BOOM. That was fun testing to figure out what happened lol

i didnt have any godmode or creative mode activated though? and i've definitely taken damage before this incident? Idk, I genuinely dont think this applies to me here.

[Armagenesis]

Having god mode turned on then off won't kill your character.

My guess it's related to the generator mod. You might be "inhaling" a generator fume even if you don't have any or being outdoor.

[ld-airgrafix]

did you carry anything heavier than your character was capable off?

[Shikabane屍]

Originally posted by ld-airgrafix:

did you carry anything heavier than your character was capable off?

Yes but Encumberance cannot kill the player.

Even at max encumberance your character's health will only deplete by roughly 30% of your max

[Teratus]

Didn't have any injuries?.. cut's bleeding.. I think I read somewhere that bushes and stuff can cut you.
I'm still learning this game myself, real slowly since i'm a very slow learner and holy crap is there a lot to learn in this game lol

My first and only actual death happened because my character just wouldn't heal.. had him bandaged up, no infection but his health just kept going down.. even after wounds were healed, no idea why and eventually I give up and he just died sitting in his bathroom all depressed and lonely waiting for the end.
Had a few characters since then but they haven't technically "died", more got deleted as I started a new one lol.

Crazy game.. definitely a tough one to get used to playing and this early point is quite challenging.. specially for my current guy who I left in a motel bathroom because apparently his spawn house.. which saw fit to provide me with a single weapon.. and a damn plunger at that >.< happened to also be surrounded by multiple bloody hordes..
So yeah he's effed I think lmao