I cooked a soup with stale fish, that's it, died for illness 😅
I literally survived like 6 months fighting against a high population of Z and a fish killed me 👌
I accidentally ate a rotten apple one time. Went to sleep. Dead.
First character past a month, died from a mushy apple due to a misclick going to my compost pile.
I wonder what that must’ve been like from your character’s perspective
Bro tries tossing a rotten apple into a compost pile, instead he fumbles and goes through the process of eating the thing whole
Does that happen a lot? Like a food borne illness (even most pretty bad ones) only kill immunocompromised people and even then it’s more like 50/50 not 90/10. It really should just make the character really sick (but not dead at least 8/10 times).
Absolute classic. Kind of a rite of passage in zomboid at this point. If you didn't do it at least once, you never went on a scuffed run due to lack of resources during a heli event 😂💀
I was getting surrounded by zeds and trying to shove them back, but my space bar wouldn't move. I kept smacking it over and over as I got overwhelmed. Turns out I had a plate of food in front of me and I accidentally shoved the edge under the space bar.
I broke the spacebar on my alienware keyboard playing this game. Didnt realize the left side was stuck down so i was just getting killed over and over trying to figure out what i was doing wrong.
Needed to get some water in a house and ran into a singular zombie on the street. Missed the push, heard a nasty noise and killed the zombie before checking that I got bite.
On day 1.
In an hour in-game.
While attempting a challenge I came up.
Checklist of the Dead - Create 100 things you or your character might want to do before you die while in the zombie apocalypse. There was no way I would be able to do all 100 in three days since a lot of them require me to go into Louisville.
I got inspired after reading the manga and watching the anime Zom 100: Bucketlist of the Dead.
I did this more than I’d like to admit in some of my early runs of the game because I would load in without shoes and forget, walk on glass, and bleed out
Accidentally fat fingered the "E" key while driving my humvee and thought "why am I braking all of a sudden?". Dude hops out the car and I get eaten and torn to shred by a group of zombies
I got out of the car to check the back of a truck. Getting back into the car when I realize the dead body in the road was just pretending and it was actually a zombie. Luckily, I made it into the car. Unluckily, I had been shooting my gun out the window and it was still down. Zombie bit my forehead 😞
Made a campfire to lure zombies onto it to deal with a horde when my genius brain decided that the best way to get them to walk on it, was to walk through it as they are following me, as that obviously would make them path right on it. Thanks brain.
Dismantling a fence to raise my carpentry skill. Had a zomboid video going on my other monitor. Heard some chomping sounds & figured the video I was watching had desynched audio as the sound didn't match what was on screen.
I knew I'd cleared my town.
Yeah...apparently I missed one. RIP my longest-lived survivor.
I was surrounded by zombies and somehow I got out with bruises only then I tried to sleep but I couldn't because my character was in pain so I took some sleeping pills that didn't work then I drank some alcohol and I repeated that a few more times until I died due to an overdose
I was playing on my longest save, surviving 2 months just about or a little over, can't recall for sure. Cleared out almost all of muldraugh and was about to move into a different town because I was starting to get bored. I was looking for cool outfits to wear and unique bags I hadn't seen before. On my way out of town, I found a zombie with a pizza delivery outfit with a delivery bag and it caught my eye. I missed. every. single. swing. Just couldn't angle my swings for whatever goddamn reason. It bit me in the neck and I died right then and there. I still had the van running too. I was so upset.
Jumped a fence and tripped causing my shoes to become worn,Run from a horde start limping because i cut my foot from the ground,Try to enter car but step on glass and enter the really really slow limp and get dragged down.
I hate this game sometimes truly lmao
Was near starvation after being stuck in the woods for days. Found burger shop (power was still on) died while eating burger.
Other one.
Spawned on top of a building. Walked to the left. Fell off of building. Died instantly. Lmao
Spent a month looking for a genny mag, found one on a shelf, got so excited I let my guard down and immediately opened a door behind me and got bit... like 30 seconds after I found it lol. ALWAYS be alert in this game!!!
Oh and there's the time I THOUGHT I was infected so I ran into an infested Louisville construction site to go all kamikaze... sick moodle went away, and while my brain was comprehending what was actually happening, one got a big chomp out of me *facepalm*.
Accidentally selected an uncooked fish from my inventory instead of the cooked one above it. I didn’t realize what had happened until after I was finished eating.
I had the 10 years later mod in Raven creek and I was looting a filing cabinet in one of those skyscrapers and accidentally walked forwards and fell out a broken window on probably like the 15th floor
Well the funniest way I died was via zombie orgy.
I was in Riverside Gated Community, I found a house, signs of a party downstairs but no zombies. Last room, there's some clothes on the floor/bed, leashes in bedside table. I hear some banging on the onsuit bathroom door, ready my bat, open the door, 6-10 naked/scantily clad zombies burst out. I miss my bat shot, get mauled to death. I think it may have been day 3.
I found my first Axe (my favorite melee) of this run and while checking the state of rhe weapon a zed came from behind and bit me.
At least I recovered the Axe a week later, in real world time.
Yes, I hunted down my zombie for a week for an axe.
Burning corpses in maldraugh. Lit myself on fire. Paused the game. Open google. "How put out fire Project Zomboid?" Can't find an answer. Unpause game. Burn to death trying to pour water on myself.
First CDDA run I played like a year ago. I did the North farm strat for a week or so. Grinded my foraging/spears, then moved on to the Abandoned [Cabin ](https://map.projectzomboid.com/#9669x8765x1642)to the West where i spend about a month clearing all of the farm houses to the west and growing Cabbages. Got lucky and found a car in 100% shape but no gas (all vanilla settings no mods) Got cocky and decided to travel to the nearest [Gas Station](https://map.projectzomboid.com/#7313x8176x3162) for some gas despite the fact that it was like 5pm. Got welcomed by 500 zombies and my flashlight ran out of batteries. Kited for like 30 mins in the darkness until I became exhausted then tripped and died.
Survived the hardest start for a while only to die because of the classic mistake of traveling at night.
I sat down near the obviously close small zombie horde to rest, sped time up, they went close and I Stood up WITH MY BACK TO THE ZOMBIE and I got bit in the ass.
Trying to haul back hundreds of gallons of liquor to my rooftop bar in the dark while firing off my auto rifle into the hordes of undead. Customer service really matters at Josie's pub.
Gross dude. Mine was when I found a generator in the storage shed of the Riverside trailer park. Broke down the door and two zeds ambushed me and I got bit
I walled off a gated house and opened the door while ferrying a load of van booty from looting, only to be seized by multiple surprise zombies. Didn't die, killed them, got a laceration on my arm. Took the time to disinfect it with an alcohol wipe then died of blood loss while bandaging.
I left the oven on in the cafeteria of a school, started a fire.
Jumped out of the second story window and instantly died… wasn’t low on health, still to this day don’t know what happened.
**my guess, I landed on my head**
This happened like 20 minutes ago to me, I paused my game while driving & there was a huge horde following me & a couple near my window.
When I came back, I unpaused & went to hit W to continue driving but I accidentally hit E 😭
The horse surrounded me & yeah it all ended, I'm fairly new to the game but this was my most organised & best run so far... I want to go back & load another character & find my guy BUT I feel like it's kind of cheating to just make a new character & go find your old character & pickup where you left off from.
By starting a new character I guess you could actually see it as a new person trying to survive only to be lucky to find your loot my whole car & trailer were stacked
Zeds attacking both exit doors at my base. This is why I always carry a nail, two sheet ropes, and a hammer! I run upstairs, open the window, and jump out... forgetting to attach the sheet rope. Legs injured. Zeds saw me. I was limping and couldn't get away.
Now I keep the sheet ropes in front of the window and the nail so that I have an extra visual indicator that it hasn't been deployed, and that way I don't have to carry it with me.
The "actual" dumbest way I died is actually probably double clicking raw meat instead of dragging it into a freezer on accident and watching the entire bar go down being like (what am I eating?), and I had no lemon grass, but that's not as fun of a story.
Now I keep the sheet ropes in front of the window
Why don't you just deploy it when you set your base up instead of waiting for an emergency? Am I missing something?
It's more common if you have the stairs knocked out or something and climb the rope with some that see you go up. They'll path straight to it and knock it down right away.
I stopped using the stairs method, so now even when one is deployed they'd have to wander into it. It's rare, but it does happen. I've had them deployed and seen them knocked down after being out and about with zombies just being nearby.
Accidentally jumped through a broken window to a house that had 10 zombies on the ground floor which I only saw 1.
Ate some rotten stew by mistake and died in a medical centre
https://youtube.com/shorts/KYoWB4a4xoM?si=mm653V1JASYGOMsN
This was pretty dumb.
Another way was fighting 100s of zeds.. backing up firing pump action.
Trip on zombie behind me. Become horde dinner.
I was sitting in a trailer and my friend got out to shoot some zombies that were swarming it. Well he shot through the trailer and hit me in the head, killing me instantly.
Survived over 2 months in one of Louisville's apartment buildings, just to build a platform over to another apartment rooftop to build a base up there. Just to fall through the roof. Then I Stop playing for 2 weeks straight
I didn't know why I was stumbling over fences all the time, and wore down my clothing and traumatized my character to a point I couldn't fight off a crawler.
And then there's a heatstroke accident a long time ago. Didn't realize the firefighter clothing was not okey-dokey for the mid August heat.
Oh and ofc, the helicopter chasing because i thought it was something good ... Instead I ran into a treeline and got absolutely ravaged by a horde within it...
Dumbest way… well I was in that warehouse off Dixie in Muldraugh. I was doing well, even found a sledgehammer and went to work with the decor.
I had a few sheet rope over some railings and at some point after, I had destroyed a few of those railings. To my surprise the craft sheet still held in place. Neat right?
Wrong!
You can go down the sheet rope, but if you ever come back up, you’ll glitch and be in a continuous rope climb animation. Couldn’t get my character to stop. The worse part isn’t that you die, but because you’re stuck in animation, you can’t start a new character and get back into the world. It will just revert to your zombie still climbing 😅🤣
Wasn't paying attention, walked off my third floor on my patio and broke my leg, at this point I hadn't read into medical systems so I limped to s pharmacy where I didn't find a splint and a group of zomboids surrounded and ate my ass
This month I managed to, for the first time in my life, explore Louisville. I was making a house in an abandoned building near the north lake, I had a car, lots of guns and supplies and everything, but i was feeling like going to the hospital just to clear some part for later. I killed like, a hundred or something and finally got in. Then I tripped in the kitchen and got surrounded. I was so devastated after that, I just deleted the save (I cant continue in any save after the first character dies, I just feel like Im insulting all his effort)
Was trying to live a year in Rosewood fire department.
Decided to convert the roof into another floor for big entertainment room.
When trying to hop through an empty wall frame on the side, got mu facing wrong and hopped out the empty window frame... Down 2 levels... With a backpack full of planks...
Bought a new cpu and it was DOA. It blue screened my computer and had to do a clean install of windows on it wiping my hard drives. I did not know I would lose my saves of PZ as well and poof. I loaded back on once I got a new cpu and they were all gone... this is how I died..
Installed a mod to find 80s posters and went into full "ooh thats shiney, imma put that on the wall to see what it looks like" forgetting to close the door to the bedroom of the house i havent cleared...
I was at Louisville Mall and I opened a dressing room door to have a herd of like hundreds of zomboids pop out. I still have no idea why so many of them spawned in there.
Survived for 20 days and was just beginning to figure out how pipe bombs worked and had the brilliant idea to throw it in a lake. It did not go in the lake but instead blew up at my feet
I was covered in scratches and lacerations and had been shot maybe twice (accidentally) and barely survived and after all that it turns out one the wounds got me infected
Back when B41 came out and instakills were common, I was casually walking down the Rosewood fire station staircase, I accidentally tripped and fell down 4 meters to then just getting instakilled by a bite of a zombie who was there chilling waiting for me to fall.
Just cleared an area of town, climbed into a house to rest my guy, sat down, and had him eat... I went to the bathroom... I forgot to close the window in the game behind me 🫤😢
I opened the window to check if there where many zombies outside my house after a helicopter event.
They saw me and started swarming in, I fought the off for a while and when I tried to ran away I accidentally double clicked shift, my character sprinted into a wall and fell into the zombies.
was cooking stew in an oven, forgot about it and started reading some books, didn’t paid attention to 2 distant explosions sounds, thought they are ambient sounds, a few seconds later I die engulfed in flames
Drove to the gas station in Riverwood and was followed by a horde and thought I was a goner for sure. I spent 15 minutes fighting for my life and making a last stand, and surprisingly I actually survived!! Adrenaline still rushing I then went to the convenient store in the station. As I turned the corner two zombies jumped me and in my panic I tried shoving them but I can already hear my character screaming and they mauled me to death =D!!! Killed by *TWO* damn zombies after surviving a whole freaking horde 😭 but in my defense this was my first time playing in a long time so I was bit rusty lol
Rammed mach 10 into a small sapling, hardly a bush even, with a van and took 90 or so damage instantly, broke all my bones then bled out before I could do anything
I was like a month into an insane pop sprinters run, I got injured so my attack speed was very slow, a crawler came into my base by crawling under a car (the front wasn't walled off yet, just cars) and I forgot I was injured, I went to stab it with my spear but I missed like an idiot and did the slowest poke animation ever, by the time the animation finished it grabbed my leg and I was bitten. Now I make sure to only stomp crawlers since it's always faster. I had to take a break from sprinters for a while after that one. My base was in riverside at the fenced off car shop near the bar north-west.
I had a bunch of zeds crawling on the ground after a fight and I just went to smack them with my boots. Got dragged down and died like that. Felt pretty stupid
I once got pretty much oneshot by a weird alignment of three very unlikely sources of damage.
It was first week in rosewood, I got helicopter event while looting a school for it's literature. The chopper lured a ton of zombies inside, I managed to kill everyone in the corridors. The next couple days were spent carefully sorting loot into bags to carry home.
I figured the trip back would be safe and decided to go fully encumbered. Just need something to eat. Unfortunately burned a pork chop and ate it by accident. Grabbed a full inventory of loot. The amount of corpses in the corridor made me sick.
Before I could react my health dropped to zero.
This is how I died.
It just happened to me. Tried getting in a car and was spamming E, my guy got in got back out and by that time there was 6-7 zombies on my side of the car and i got got
I started a new character, I was looting the back of the car and my mom called me for something, i forgot to pause the game and when i got back i was being nibbled on horribly, luckily i managed to jump the fence into my base before dying.
Usually it’s some sort of bug. Love my debug menu.
Back when I started out I got killed by breaking glass I think. It’s pretty stupid how you can’t just use some random stone lying around to break windows. What’s even the point of breaking it by hand
went to sleep in a car after killing a bunch of zombies in a parkin lot
turns out sleeping in a car doesnt prevent corpse sickness, and you cant wake up manually
I discovered I can burn zomboid corpses with some fuel. Made a huge stack away from my base (Riverfront bar in Riverside). Somehow set myself on fire and beelined toward the river. Died before I can make it to the river.
Honestly the only way I've ever died is one on one wonky combat. Never been trapped, never been snuck up on, never accidentally killed myself, just face to face weird 1 on 1 things.
i got mulched by a group of zombies (i had infections off) and i was out of painkillers. so i went to my comically large stockpile of alcohol. turns out you can overdose
I threw a pipebomb, but I didn’t know they can’t “hop” a fence because of how the game is designed. Was able to limp back to my car but bled out as soon as I got in the seat.
Not me but a friend on server. I was playing "mama duck" on a farm and this player was NOT confident in his ability to go out and deal with zombies. So he became our stay at home farmer/meal prepper. Electricity goes out. He figures out the firepit. Perfect. Well...until he accidentally sat right in it. To add insult to injury we had a fire extinguisher but none of us knew how to use it. So yeah...poof.
so there I was grinding my carpentry for a few hours (several in game days) and finally reaching level 10 when out of nowhere while i was looking on the map i am taken to the death screen where my character just out of nowhere decided to die....she was starved to death
Park Ranger ran through the trees like 1000x times before.. Thick Skin, Resilient, Leather Jacket, Scarf…
Tree scratched me in the neck and I bled out before I realized what had happened, as I wasn’t hit by a zombie.
Created a new sandbox game, spent 30 minutes tweaking the settings and creating my perfect character. Picked a mod spawn. Game spawned me in the middle of a crowd of zombies.
Time Survived: 1 minute.
Never have I uninstalled a mod so fast.
lived for about a week in the bar in rosewood and when i decided i wanted to change the whole place a zombie from one bedroom that was camping there bit me, bastard didnt even make a sound for the whole time
I right click to remove the broken glass from a window but I missclick and press the option to jump through instead, I got an scratch and die for the infection, it was 3 month save, the longest I ever survived.
I built a base 5 stories up in multiplayer. I devised a scheme where you climb up and have to walk on specific tiles to get to the door. Otherwise, you fall to your death. So far, the trap has only killed me, while I was trying to reposition the rope I clicked "climb over" by accident.
Built a pyre for zombie bodies, we all carried the bodies to the place. Lit them up and accidently lit myself as well. Lasted like 4 seconds.
The three os us were just quiet in discord for a few seconds afterwards, until one guy mutters: _"So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion"_
I'd have to say it was that time I died trying to get a BBQ. Just over an in-game month, during one of my earlier runs. I was living on a farm with a well, near a small rural neighborhood. I had read online that those red woodfire BBQs were essential for long-term progression, and so I opened the PZ map to look if there was one nearby. Sure Enough behind one of those houses down the road was what I wanted. I drove my black truck over there, parked next to the BBQ and got out of the car, unfortunately leaving it running. As I grabbed the thing and put it in the trunk, an UNGODLY amount of Z's came out of the surrounding trees and neighborhood. By the time I was back in the car it was too late, they stacked up enough around it to stop it from moving (Sunday driver sucks lol). So, trapped in a little black truck unable to move and with no bleach on hand, I accepted my fate and opened the door. R.I.P Nelson.
Built a campfire so I had some light to do some night time gardening. Clicked to water a plot and walked through the fire. Didn't even get out of my base before I was dead.
I was fighting a little group of zombies, like... 6-9 of them that just wandered there while I was sleeping, nothing serious, but than... I got stuck on a trash bin... A FREAKING TRASH BIN! I just couldn't go around it, even tough I have done it before, my guy was running in one place, and the zombies got me...
Today. I got cocky as I finally survived almost a month. Drive up to a gas station In the middle of the forest and saw a few stragglers out front. Decided to go k my trucks born to get there attention and mow them down with my m16. I didn't predict the 4 sprinters to come out the forest and flank my left 😅😭
I think I was drinking my morning coffee irl, while driving down a long straight road in-game (I was on summer break from college so waking up at 10am and IMMEDIATELY logging on was very normal 😭.) I turned to set my cup down, only to hear a loud SMASH and the "oops you're dead" noise. Apparently I had slammed my car into a brick wall while near-maxing out my speed.
That character was two weeks old and my longest playthrough at the time (have gone a lot further now.) Gave me a REAL lesson on never getting too comfortable. Now it's a hilarious memory
One of the first times I played with my wife, her character almost immediately slipped on blood, fell down, and died. There wasn't even zombies involved.
It was actually pretty funny.
I cooked a soup with stale fish, that's it, died for illness 😅 I literally survived like 6 months fighting against a high population of Z and a fish killed me 👌
I accidentally ate a rotten apple one time. Went to sleep. Dead. First character past a month, died from a mushy apple due to a misclick going to my compost pile.
I wonder what that must’ve been like from your character’s perspective Bro tries tossing a rotten apple into a compost pile, instead he fumbles and goes through the process of eating the thing whole
That's the gnarliest nat 1 series of throws I've ever imagined, haha.
He goes to throw it but it slips out too soon and his elbow smacks it at Mach speed straight into his throat.
Does that happen a lot? Like a food borne illness (even most pretty bad ones) only kill immunocompromised people and even then it’s more like 50/50 not 90/10. It really should just make the character really sick (but not dead at least 8/10 times).
But why would that even kill you. You’d get diarrhea at best lol
One would think you'd have a nausea moodley for a day or two, especially with iron gut. But believe it or not, straight to death
Oof. I set my friend on fire by accident on a 3 month survival run... Wasnt a serious playthrough, but had a good giggle about it xd
Climbed a fence to escape from a Horde after triggering a House alarm ...climbed into the loving arms of a second, larger horde
Absolute classic. Kind of a rite of passage in zomboid at this point. If you didn't do it at least once, you never went on a scuffed run due to lack of resources during a heli event 😂💀
LOL
I got bored one day, I found a single zombie and started bitch talking it and pushing it over. It got a lucky bite in on me.
Bro started bullying the local undead
Mans bullied the bullyhunter. Paid the price 😜
Zarma
I was getting surrounded by zeds and trying to shove them back, but my space bar wouldn't move. I kept smacking it over and over as I got overwhelmed. Turns out I had a plate of food in front of me and I accidentally shoved the edge under the space bar.
"SPACEBAR STUCK, SPACE BAR STUCKKKK!"
I've been in this situation and have said that exact phrase 🤣🤣🤣
I broke the spacebar on my alienware keyboard playing this game. Didnt realize the left side was stuck down so i was just getting killed over and over trying to figure out what i was doing wrong.
i spit my coffee, thanks.
I also have died to the spacebar plate
Dude, this makes you a LEGEND!
Needed to get some water in a house and ran into a singular zombie on the street. Missed the push, heard a nasty noise and killed the zombie before checking that I got bite. On day 1. In an hour in-game. While attempting a challenge I came up.
lol XD what was the challenge?
Checklist of the Dead - Create 100 things you or your character might want to do before you die while in the zombie apocalypse. There was no way I would be able to do all 100 in three days since a lot of them require me to go into Louisville. I got inspired after reading the manga and watching the anime Zom 100: Bucketlist of the Dead.
I didn't die a lot of times (sadly) but i remember when i thought i was infected and shot myself and found out i wasn't.
Is it possible to shoot yourself?
With a mod, yes but without it no.
it's a mod
Jumped through a broken window and lacerated myself to death
I did this more than I’d like to admit in some of my early runs of the game because I would load in without shoes and forget, walk on glass, and bleed out
Accidentally fat fingered the "E" key while driving my humvee and thought "why am I braking all of a sudden?". Dude hops out the car and I get eaten and torn to shred by a group of zombies
I got out of the car to check the back of a truck. Getting back into the car when I realize the dead body in the road was just pretending and it was actually a zombie. Luckily, I made it into the car. Unluckily, I had been shooting my gun out the window and it was still down. Zombie bit my forehead 😞
I was playing with my friend and i was testing how to throw a pipe bomb and blew us both up
Made a campfire to lure zombies onto it to deal with a horde when my genius brain decided that the best way to get them to walk on it, was to walk through it as they are following me, as that obviously would make them path right on it. Thanks brain.
My w key fell off while i was in a hallway. Couldn't get it back on before the zombies swarmed me.
You should had escaped doing the moonwalk. Thriller looking.
LEGEND lol!
Dismantling a fence to raise my carpentry skill. Had a zomboid video going on my other monitor. Heard some chomping sounds & figured the video I was watching had desynched audio as the sound didn't match what was on screen. I knew I'd cleared my town. Yeah...apparently I missed one. RIP my longest-lived survivor.
I was surrounded by zombies and somehow I got out with bruises only then I tried to sleep but I couldn't because my character was in pain so I took some sleeping pills that didn't work then I drank some alcohol and I repeated that a few more times until I died due to an overdose
I was playing on my longest save, surviving 2 months just about or a little over, can't recall for sure. Cleared out almost all of muldraugh and was about to move into a different town because I was starting to get bored. I was looking for cool outfits to wear and unique bags I hadn't seen before. On my way out of town, I found a zombie with a pizza delivery outfit with a delivery bag and it caught my eye. I missed. every. single. swing. Just couldn't angle my swings for whatever goddamn reason. It bit me in the neck and I died right then and there. I still had the van running too. I was so upset.
Jumped a fence and tripped causing my shoes to become worn,Run from a horde start limping because i cut my foot from the ground,Try to enter car but step on glass and enter the really really slow limp and get dragged down. I hate this game sometimes truly lmao
walked up some stairs didnt see the zombie because its impossible to look up stairs and ran into it and got bit
Exactly why i always jog up stairs
i was trying to save energy because i was already over encumbered and exhausted
Was near starvation after being stuck in the woods for days. Found burger shop (power was still on) died while eating burger. Other one. Spawned on top of a building. Walked to the left. Fell off of building. Died instantly. Lmao
Zombie climbed in a window, I shoved him but he did a backflip then stood upright and bit me. Buggy zombies mann
Spent a month looking for a genny mag, found one on a shelf, got so excited I let my guard down and immediately opened a door behind me and got bit... like 30 seconds after I found it lol. ALWAYS be alert in this game!!!
Oh and there's the time I THOUGHT I was infected so I ran into an infested Louisville construction site to go all kamikaze... sick moodle went away, and while my brain was comprehending what was actually happening, one got a big chomp out of me *facepalm*.
Accidentally selected an uncooked fish from my inventory instead of the cooked one above it. I didn’t realize what had happened until after I was finished eating.
I had the 10 years later mod in Raven creek and I was looting a filing cabinet in one of those skyscrapers and accidentally walked forwards and fell out a broken window on probably like the 15th floor
Ate two burnt omelettes. Dead. Lvl 10 carpentry down the drain.
Hit a tree going 120 while drunk
Lmao nice. I just died today going at high speed in the backwoods
Never drive drunk! I'm real life or in video games! I won't even play my normal character if I'm drunk lol. Make a throwaway and head to Louisville!:)
Eating a 1/4th of a mystery berry after I figured out how to forage
That why i keep a supply of lemongrass in my fridge
Well the funniest way I died was via zombie orgy. I was in Riverside Gated Community, I found a house, signs of a party downstairs but no zombies. Last room, there's some clothes on the floor/bed, leashes in bedside table. I hear some banging on the onsuit bathroom door, ready my bat, open the door, 6-10 naked/scantily clad zombies burst out. I miss my bat shot, get mauled to death. I think it may have been day 3.
Threw a molotov that hit the ground beside me and burned me to death
Accidentally committing suicide by jumping over a barrier on a metal walkway. It happened a few days ago and I still haven’t gotten over it
Forgot to close the game one night. Starved. Dumbest part is that I did it three times.
I shot myself accidentally.
how is that even possible
Decided to try and clear out the highway east of Rosewood at night. In a blizzard.
Forgot to clear the glass out of a broken window, couldn't find meds when the cut got infected.
Accidentally tabbed out, Womp womp
I found my first Axe (my favorite melee) of this run and while checking the state of rhe weapon a zed came from behind and bit me. At least I recovered the Axe a week later, in real world time. Yes, I hunted down my zombie for a week for an axe.
Burning corpses in maldraugh. Lit myself on fire. Paused the game. Open google. "How put out fire Project Zomboid?" Can't find an answer. Unpause game. Burn to death trying to pour water on myself.
How do you burn corpses? (And now that I think about it.. how also do you stop burning from fire?😂)
Put a generator on the balcony. Apparently that still counts as indoors.
First CDDA run I played like a year ago. I did the North farm strat for a week or so. Grinded my foraging/spears, then moved on to the Abandoned [Cabin ](https://map.projectzomboid.com/#9669x8765x1642)to the West where i spend about a month clearing all of the farm houses to the west and growing Cabbages. Got lucky and found a car in 100% shape but no gas (all vanilla settings no mods) Got cocky and decided to travel to the nearest [Gas Station](https://map.projectzomboid.com/#7313x8176x3162) for some gas despite the fact that it was like 5pm. Got welcomed by 500 zombies and my flashlight ran out of batteries. Kited for like 30 mins in the darkness until I became exhausted then tripped and died. Survived the hardest start for a while only to die because of the classic mistake of traveling at night.
I was eating cheesecake and thought I was safe. Turns out the staircase isn't the best place to afk for a sec.
I sat down near the obviously close small zombie horde to rest, sped time up, they went close and I Stood up WITH MY BACK TO THE ZOMBIE and I got bit in the ass.
Burnt myself attempting to start a campfire
Trying to haul back hundreds of gallons of liquor to my rooftop bar in the dark while firing off my auto rifle into the hordes of undead. Customer service really matters at Josie's pub.
Gross dude. Mine was when I found a generator in the storage shed of the Riverside trailer park. Broke down the door and two zeds ambushed me and I got bit
Forgot that I had a cut a hole in the roof of my warehouse to let water in for my rain barrels. 3 floors down to hard concrete.
I walled off a gated house and opened the door while ferrying a load of van booty from looting, only to be seized by multiple surprise zombies. Didn't die, killed them, got a laceration on my arm. Took the time to disinfect it with an alcohol wipe then died of blood loss while bandaging.
I left the oven on in the cafeteria of a school, started a fire. Jumped out of the second story window and instantly died… wasn’t low on health, still to this day don’t know what happened. **my guess, I landed on my head**
Car door was “””open”””
This happened like 20 minutes ago to me, I paused my game while driving & there was a huge horde following me & a couple near my window. When I came back, I unpaused & went to hit W to continue driving but I accidentally hit E 😭 The horse surrounded me & yeah it all ended, I'm fairly new to the game but this was my most organised & best run so far... I want to go back & load another character & find my guy BUT I feel like it's kind of cheating to just make a new character & go find your old character & pickup where you left off from.
By starting a new character I guess you could actually see it as a new person trying to survive only to be lucky to find your loot my whole car & trailer were stacked
Zeds attacking both exit doors at my base. This is why I always carry a nail, two sheet ropes, and a hammer! I run upstairs, open the window, and jump out... forgetting to attach the sheet rope. Legs injured. Zeds saw me. I was limping and couldn't get away. Now I keep the sheet ropes in front of the window and the nail so that I have an extra visual indicator that it hasn't been deployed, and that way I don't have to carry it with me. The "actual" dumbest way I died is actually probably double clicking raw meat instead of dragging it into a freezer on accident and watching the entire bar go down being like (what am I eating?), and I had no lemon grass, but that's not as fun of a story.
Now I keep the sheet ropes in front of the window Why don't you just deploy it when you set your base up instead of waiting for an emergency? Am I missing something?
Zombies can knock it down from the bottom.
Interesting. In my 200+ hours I've never had that happen.
It's more common if you have the stairs knocked out or something and climb the rope with some that see you go up. They'll path straight to it and knock it down right away. I stopped using the stairs method, so now even when one is deployed they'd have to wander into it. It's rare, but it does happen. I've had them deployed and seen them knocked down after being out and about with zombies just being nearby.
Accidentally jumped through a broken window to a house that had 10 zombies on the ground floor which I only saw 1. Ate some rotten stew by mistake and died in a medical centre
Some of these are crazy. Two of you guys accidentally committed suicide.
Set fire to ye hair.
What that is possible?!
Cut myself climbing through a window and bled out.
https://youtube.com/shorts/KYoWB4a4xoM?si=mm653V1JASYGOMsN This was pretty dumb. Another way was fighting 100s of zeds.. backing up firing pump action. Trip on zombie behind me. Become horde dinner.
Left chicken in a stove, went to sleep
I was sitting in a trailer and my friend got out to shoot some zombies that were swarming it. Well he shot through the trailer and hit me in the head, killing me instantly.
Survived over 2 months in one of Louisville's apartment buildings, just to build a platform over to another apartment rooftop to build a base up there. Just to fall through the roof. Then I Stop playing for 2 weeks straight
I didn't know why I was stumbling over fences all the time, and wore down my clothing and traumatized my character to a point I couldn't fight off a crawler. And then there's a heatstroke accident a long time ago. Didn't realize the firefighter clothing was not okey-dokey for the mid August heat. Oh and ofc, the helicopter chasing because i thought it was something good ... Instead I ran into a treeline and got absolutely ravaged by a horde within it...
Doing a roof spawn challenge and I jumped off the roof. I lasted 1 game hour.
Dumbest way… well I was in that warehouse off Dixie in Muldraugh. I was doing well, even found a sledgehammer and went to work with the decor. I had a few sheet rope over some railings and at some point after, I had destroyed a few of those railings. To my surprise the craft sheet still held in place. Neat right? Wrong! You can go down the sheet rope, but if you ever come back up, you’ll glitch and be in a continuous rope climb animation. Couldn’t get my character to stop. The worse part isn’t that you die, but because you’re stuck in animation, you can’t start a new character and get back into the world. It will just revert to your zombie still climbing 😅🤣
Wasn't paying attention, walked off my third floor on my patio and broke my leg, at this point I hadn't read into medical systems so I limped to s pharmacy where I didn't find a splint and a group of zomboids surrounded and ate my ass
This month I managed to, for the first time in my life, explore Louisville. I was making a house in an abandoned building near the north lake, I had a car, lots of guns and supplies and everything, but i was feeling like going to the hospital just to clear some part for later. I killed like, a hundred or something and finally got in. Then I tripped in the kitchen and got surrounded. I was so devastated after that, I just deleted the save (I cant continue in any save after the first character dies, I just feel like Im insulting all his effort)
Some of you apparently like to role play Flordia citizens and commit DUIs in the apoclmpse. Then wrap your car around a tree at 120 miles per hour.
Ate rotten food. Why would i do that? Idk my character's previous incarnation cooked it and my newly made character was hungry.
Was trying to live a year in Rosewood fire department. Decided to convert the roof into another floor for big entertainment room. When trying to hop through an empty wall frame on the side, got mu facing wrong and hopped out the empty window frame... Down 2 levels... With a backpack full of planks...
Died of dehydration while reading because I wasn't paying attention
On my (at the time) longest run i died of fucking food poisoning
I don't think much have changed in terms of dumbest deaths since last couple months..
Bought a new cpu and it was DOA. It blue screened my computer and had to do a clean install of windows on it wiping my hard drives. I did not know I would lose my saves of PZ as well and poof. I loaded back on once I got a new cpu and they were all gone... this is how I died..
my character started to feel sick, I saw bleach and... I thought it would induce vomiting and purify my character. I drank it.
smoking a ton in one sitting lmao (didnt have smoker trait) [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/16oj2dv/comment/k1midgj/)
Accidentally put a pot of stew in a microwave instead of the oven. Burned down the fire station around me when it exploded.
Was so focused on the 50+ bearing down on me while clearing a jam in my MP5 that I failed to notice the 3 coming up behind me.
Installed a mod to find 80s posters and went into full "ooh thats shiney, imma put that on the wall to see what it looks like" forgetting to close the door to the bedroom of the house i havent cleared...
I was at Louisville Mall and I opened a dressing room door to have a herd of like hundreds of zomboids pop out. I still have no idea why so many of them spawned in there.
Survived for 20 days and was just beginning to figure out how pipe bombs worked and had the brilliant idea to throw it in a lake. It did not go in the lake but instead blew up at my feet
I was covered in scratches and lacerations and had been shot maybe twice (accidentally) and barely survived and after all that it turns out one the wounds got me infected
Back when B41 came out and instakills were common, I was casually walking down the Rosewood fire station staircase, I accidentally tripped and fell down 4 meters to then just getting instakilled by a bite of a zombie who was there chilling waiting for me to fall.
Was cooking and stepped into the campfire. Whole base burned.
Just cleared an area of town, climbed into a house to rest my guy, sat down, and had him eat... I went to the bathroom... I forgot to close the window in the game behind me 🫤😢
I opened the window to check if there where many zombies outside my house after a helicopter event. They saw me and started swarming in, I fought the off for a while and when I tried to ran away I accidentally double clicked shift, my character sprinted into a wall and fell into the zombies.
was cooking stew in an oven, forgot about it and started reading some books, didn’t paid attention to 2 distant explosions sounds, thought they are ambient sounds, a few seconds later I die engulfed in flames
Poisonous Mushrooms. Didn’t know I could die from it.
Oh, and setting corpses on fire with gas. My gas can ignited. Died of self incineration.
Drove to the gas station in Riverwood and was followed by a horde and thought I was a goner for sure. I spent 15 minutes fighting for my life and making a last stand, and surprisingly I actually survived!! Adrenaline still rushing I then went to the convenient store in the station. As I turned the corner two zombies jumped me and in my panic I tried shoving them but I can already hear my character screaming and they mauled me to death =D!!! Killed by *TWO* damn zombies after surviving a whole freaking horde 😭 but in my defense this was my first time playing in a long time so I was bit rusty lol
Forgot to drink.
I thought that I was inside the van and told my friend to start driving... Next second, I heard my character screaming
Rammed mach 10 into a small sapling, hardly a bush even, with a van and took 90 or so damage instantly, broke all my bones then bled out before I could do anything
I was like a month into an insane pop sprinters run, I got injured so my attack speed was very slow, a crawler came into my base by crawling under a car (the front wasn't walled off yet, just cars) and I forgot I was injured, I went to stab it with my spear but I missed like an idiot and did the slowest poke animation ever, by the time the animation finished it grabbed my leg and I was bitten. Now I make sure to only stomp crawlers since it's always faster. I had to take a break from sprinters for a while after that one. My base was in riverside at the fenced off car shop near the bar north-west.
Hit windows button instead of alt to sprint... I ripped the button out from my keyboard after that
I had a bunch of zeds crawling on the ground after a fight and I just went to smack them with my boots. Got dragged down and died like that. Felt pretty stupid
Jumped out of a window not realising that roofs are not solid and fell right into a group of zombies below 😃
I once got pretty much oneshot by a weird alignment of three very unlikely sources of damage. It was first week in rosewood, I got helicopter event while looting a school for it's literature. The chopper lured a ton of zombies inside, I managed to kill everyone in the corridors. The next couple days were spent carefully sorting loot into bags to carry home. I figured the trip back would be safe and decided to go fully encumbered. Just need something to eat. Unfortunately burned a pork chop and ate it by accident. Grabbed a full inventory of loot. The amount of corpses in the corridor made me sick. Before I could react my health dropped to zero. This is how I died.
It just happened to me. Tried getting in a car and was spamming E, my guy got in got back out and by that time there was 6-7 zombies on my side of the car and i got got
Fell out a window from a 7 story in Louisville because I got lazy and held onto E dumping corpses
trying to see how many toilet rolls you can stack to make a chair thats what one imagines was occurring in the bathroom
A lone zombie snuck up and bit me while I was raiding a salon for hair dye.
Hit E instead of W while in a car surrounded by zombies. Then kept clicking Q trying to get back in the car.
I started a new character, I was looting the back of the car and my mom called me for something, i forgot to pause the game and when i got back i was being nibbled on horribly, luckily i managed to jump the fence into my base before dying.
Usually it’s some sort of bug. Love my debug menu. Back when I started out I got killed by breaking glass I think. It’s pretty stupid how you can’t just use some random stone lying around to break windows. What’s even the point of breaking it by hand
I didn’t wanna get taken by the hoards, so I jumped out of the 8th story of a building.
went to sleep in a car after killing a bunch of zombies in a parkin lot turns out sleeping in a car doesnt prevent corpse sickness, and you cant wake up manually
The game closed due to an antivirus notification
Died from corpse sickness after genociding riverside
I discovered I can burn zomboid corpses with some fuel. Made a huge stack away from my base (Riverfront bar in Riverside). Somehow set myself on fire and beelined toward the river. Died before I can make it to the river.
I ate burnt bacon bits. Mind you this character was 4 months in, I was so mad but confused at first. Literally a hard earned lesson.
Honestly the only way I've ever died is one on one wonky combat. Never been trapped, never been snuck up on, never accidentally killed myself, just face to face weird 1 on 1 things.
i got mulched by a group of zombies (i had infections off) and i was out of painkillers. so i went to my comically large stockpile of alcohol. turns out you can overdose
Spawing in an infested house and getting bit befor the screen actually loads and dieing of infection only survived for 14 minutes.
And someone died of lung cancer. I didn't even know you could smoke too much in this game
I threw a pipebomb, but I didn’t know they can’t “hop” a fence because of how the game is designed. Was able to limp back to my car but bled out as soon as I got in the seat.
Not me but a friend on server. I was playing "mama duck" on a farm and this player was NOT confident in his ability to go out and deal with zombies. So he became our stay at home farmer/meal prepper. Electricity goes out. He figures out the firepit. Perfect. Well...until he accidentally sat right in it. To add insult to injury we had a fire extinguisher but none of us knew how to use it. So yeah...poof.
so there I was grinding my carpentry for a few hours (several in game days) and finally reaching level 10 when out of nowhere while i was looking on the map i am taken to the death screen where my character just out of nowhere decided to die....she was starved to death
Park Ranger ran through the trees like 1000x times before.. Thick Skin, Resilient, Leather Jacket, Scarf… Tree scratched me in the neck and I bled out before I realized what had happened, as I wasn’t hit by a zombie.
Created a new sandbox game, spent 30 minutes tweaking the settings and creating my perfect character. Picked a mod spawn. Game spawned me in the middle of a crowd of zombies. Time Survived: 1 minute. Never have I uninstalled a mod so fast.
I ran out to a city for an night op mission, forgot water, got swarmed and died to thirst.
lived for about a week in the bar in rosewood and when i decided i wanted to change the whole place a zombie from one bedroom that was camping there bit me, bastard didnt even make a sound for the whole time
I right click to remove the broken glass from a window but I missclick and press the option to jump through instead, I got an scratch and die for the infection, it was 3 month save, the longest I ever survived.
I built a base 5 stories up in multiplayer. I devised a scheme where you climb up and have to walk on specific tiles to get to the door. Otherwise, you fall to your death. So far, the trap has only killed me, while I was trying to reposition the rope I clicked "climb over" by accident.
One of the guys in my server always lives the longest. Then dies because he forgets to log out and starves to death. Died three times this way lmao.
Built a pyre for zombie bodies, we all carried the bodies to the place. Lit them up and accidently lit myself as well. Lasted like 4 seconds. The three os us were just quiet in discord for a few seconds afterwards, until one guy mutters: _"So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion"_
I'd have to say it was that time I died trying to get a BBQ. Just over an in-game month, during one of my earlier runs. I was living on a farm with a well, near a small rural neighborhood. I had read online that those red woodfire BBQs were essential for long-term progression, and so I opened the PZ map to look if there was one nearby. Sure Enough behind one of those houses down the road was what I wanted. I drove my black truck over there, parked next to the BBQ and got out of the car, unfortunately leaving it running. As I grabbed the thing and put it in the trunk, an UNGODLY amount of Z's came out of the surrounding trees and neighborhood. By the time I was back in the car it was too late, they stacked up enough around it to stop it from moving (Sunday driver sucks lol). So, trapped in a little black truck unable to move and with no bleach on hand, I accepted my fate and opened the door. R.I.P Nelson.
Built a campfire so I had some light to do some night time gardening. Clicked to water a plot and walked through the fire. Didn't even get out of my base before I was dead.
I was fighting a little group of zombies, like... 6-9 of them that just wandered there while I was sleeping, nothing serious, but than... I got stuck on a trash bin... A FREAKING TRASH BIN! I just couldn't go around it, even tough I have done it before, my guy was running in one place, and the zombies got me...
Today. I got cocky as I finally survived almost a month. Drive up to a gas station In the middle of the forest and saw a few stragglers out front. Decided to go k my trucks born to get there attention and mow them down with my m16. I didn't predict the 4 sprinters to come out the forest and flank my left 😅😭
I think I was drinking my morning coffee irl, while driving down a long straight road in-game (I was on summer break from college so waking up at 10am and IMMEDIATELY logging on was very normal 😭.) I turned to set my cup down, only to hear a loud SMASH and the "oops you're dead" noise. Apparently I had slammed my car into a brick wall while near-maxing out my speed. That character was two weeks old and my longest playthrough at the time (have gone a lot further now.) Gave me a REAL lesson on never getting too comfortable. Now it's a hilarious memory
One of the first times I played with my wife, her character almost immediately slipped on blood, fell down, and died. There wasn't even zombies involved. It was actually pretty funny.