How NOT to survive
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This will all lead to a YASD, which stands for "Yet Another Stupid Death", an acronym common in many rogue-like games, YASD is any death by entirely preventable causes, of oversight or just carelessness.
- Trying to take on many zombies at once without proper equipment or preparations.
- With Safemode turned off, holding down arrow keys to move quickly, and run into inescapable situations - like running into a Jabberwock.
- Eating chunk of tainted meat or drinking raw water. (unless you are a Rat, Chimera, Raptor or Troglobite).
- Ignoring the dosage frequency warning on your RX12 jet injector.
- Try to combat zombies skilled in dance fighting.
- Light up a dynamite and forget to throw it.
- Not noticing land mines on the road and stepping on them. In older versions minefields did not have signs, so you could easily step on them by accident.
- Letting your pain go too high and getting stunlocked to death
- Attacking a mi-go with a stick
- Pissing off an NPC who is wielding a gun, has military grade armour, a big F-ing axe, high melee skill, high unarmed combat skill, or all of the above. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE ANYTHING!!!
- Using guns too much and letting their noise attract hordes of zombies which you cannot possibly hope to defeat
- Not using diagonal movement. This makes sense for circular distances but you end up wasting time and using more resources than you need
- Getting bitten and not cauterizing/disinfecting it
- Getting infected and not taking antibiotics
- Eating addictive substances all at once. You will need the rest to hold off addiction penalties (which are HUGE)
- Killing an innocent NPC to get -100 morale penalty, so welcome to no crafting for a few days, including cooking food! You are screwed unless you find some serious foods, books, or tools to increase morale.
- Killing too many zombie children at one time, especially if you are a pacifist, psychopaths aren't fazed though.
- Jumping into a fire
- Jumping into lava
- Jumping into water (without swimming skill/too much equipment)
- Jumping into acid
- Jumping into a car and have its fuel tank explode on you while running zombies over
- Running too much and not being able to fight effectively because your stamina ran out
- Turning on a flashlight in a zombie infested city AT NIGHT.
- Not picking Night Vision trait and exploring at night
- Run into a zombie hulk
- Driving a car with no seatbelt, you get damaged for impacts
- Explore a spider basement
- Become a melee character... with Flimsy, Frail, or Fragile traits
- Running out of bullets while you're cornered and not having a backup melee weapon (including unarmed skill)
- Become deaf from building falling and not hearing anything for a few days
- Knock down a building you are in.
- Thinking you are invincible just because you have layers of kevlar plate armour, a big helmet, and tough shoes
- Standing next to an active mininuke
- Being surrounded by any enemies tough enough to kill you
- Charging a rickety, home-made wooden bike at a zombie horde
- Throwing something at a (buried) land mine while close to it
- Going into a survivor house (with red carpet) and being killed by shotgun traps or buried land mines. (there can be land mines on the toilet)
- Lighting flour on fire and trying to put it out with water. That makes the fire bigger.
- Say hello to a moose's bloody antlers up close without proper protection or means to kill it
- Fistfight with dogs while naked
- Slapping an NPC because he/she stole items from your base... then getting cut up by a katana/shot by an M4A1/burnt by a spraycan flamethrower
- Not getting guns. Seriously.
- Playing with no cities on (0 city size) as a shower victim
- Fall in a pit/bear trap/tripwire with a small sliver of hp
- Getting a limb blown off by a high damage attack
- Getting your health (not hp) to -100 and not being able to regen hp by sleeping
- Chop down a tree and make it fall on you
- Drowning. Seriously? Couldn't you at least strip naked and drop if you had to swim at 0 swimming skill?
- Getting caught by police robots
- Set all of str, dex, int, and per to 4 (the minimum). You can't read many books, traps are invisible, melee is near impossible, and you have very little hp
- Committing suicide by pressing Q.
- Driving your death mobile into a minefield, or a VERY thick forest
- Pretending to be a knight in NetHack and trying to lance a zombie with an awlpike while riding a bicycle
- Trying to fight a Shocker brute with a Katana
- Reading this page and trying everything listed here