Can someone explain to me WTF just happened?

[CrypticPassage (Is/Eum)]

So basically I’m sipping water from a well, when a dude runs up out of nowhere and hits me over the head with a portable stove, but somehow when he hits me over the head he ends up knocking himself out?

Can someone explain wtf just happened?

[Deaths]

Pleb tryin' to be Hard and it backfired.

[emmietiie]

Maybe the gas canister exploded, which knocked him out. You were likely protected from the explosion because your hitbox was inside some other hitbox. So, saved by a glitch.

Explosions are janky. I used to run over mines without taking damage sometimes. If feels like grenades and plastic explosives can get stuck inside floors and deal no damage.

[kolorotur]

If you're playing on a modded server, he might've attacked you in a PvE zone. It's common to set up PvE zones such that if you attack another player inside them, then you get all the damage.

[CrypticPassage (Is/Eum)]

Originally posted by kolorotur:

If you're playing on a modded server, he might've attacked you in a PvE zone. It's common to set up PvE zones such that if you attack another player inside them, then you get all the damage.

It was an official server btw

[Homeschooliazon]

If his leg was broken that KOs him if he attacks. Also if the gas canister explodes that also can knock him out if he has taken damage right before it explodes,

[Idaho]

Blue gas cans explode when used as a weapon in the hand. Takes 3-4 hits, depending on how damaged it already is.

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[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by Idaho:

Blue gas cans explode when used as a weapon in the hand. Takes 3-4 hits, depending on how damaged it already is.

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Except this won't happen when you're using the *portable stove* not a *gas can*.
Likelihood is that he was low on blood, or had a busted leg, or maybe even someone hit him with a suppressed shot from far away and was guardian-angeling our OP here.

Is also possible that he had low HP and straight up died instead of being KO'd, maybe due to hunger, bleeds, or temperature.

[Idaho]

Likely when he said portable stove, he meant that it was attached to a blue can, or maybe it was just the blue can... We'll probably never know, and it's mostly irrelevant, anyway.

[CrypticPassage (Is/Eum)]

Originally posted by Idaho:

Likely when he said portable stove, he meant that it was attached to a blue can, or maybe it was just the blue can... We'll probably never know, and it's mostly irrelevant, anyway.

It definitely wasn’t just an only-blue object

[LykosNychi]

If striking with the portable stove, and not the can on its own, then the can shouldn't be exploding. Plus, our guy would've heard an explosion. It'd have been obvious.

[Idaho]

Maybe he was on drugs. Most people are these days.

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by Idaho:

Maybe he was on drugs. Most people are these days.

what

[∆̷2̷∂̷∑̷R̷∞̷֎∦]

The best theory I can determine by the information accumulated by other players comments and the Arthur of topic in this discussion.

The player too whom attacked the survivor,
motive seems basically unclear other than the reason to stay alive,
they could have been dying of prion disease or was sick or poisoned themselves with cleaning products or by something else, most likely did not wash their hands.

The person trying to kill you most likely had pre-existing medical conditions that could have been from an infection or drinking clean water before washing their hands when handling an item or eating fresh cooked meat before washing their hands after placing it on a stick and not wearing gloves at appropriate moments when butchering meat.

once getting sick, dehydration will sink in and your the requirement for food and water will be about 10 times higher if your really sick, blood loss and the infections take over, even common cold left untreated will make anyone more acceptable to catch another disease that will have their effects strengthen due to being in a vulnerable condition prior to getting infected.

I am sure they were not mentally coherent to work with other people to stay alive with out violence, the laws of nature with-in the game saved you or just a weird bug.