What are YOUR stupider deaths?

[Thieverpedia]

I'm not talking about the ones you thought were unfair, I'm referring to the ones that occurred due to that simple moment where you lost focus for a moment or underestimated something. Something one would take full blame for. We all have one, or like me when you've played since the beginning, many. Here's my recent dumb moment.

I was enjoying my first legitimate run as Maxwell with the RoG DLC. I got a Krampus sack from the first visit, I barely finished off the Moslings from Spring, I had a nice collection of things from spelunking, and I had beaten all the giants and boss monsters...except one. I planned it all out, to kill the remaining Dragonfly, and to complete my odd collection of boss drops and move on to a new world after that accomplishment, so when I heard that familiar buzz, I decided to bring the Dragonfly to the swamp and try the tentacles out on it. Night fell as it got distracted, and I made an endothermic fire, but I was at risk as the Dragonfly drifted torwards me. Completely unarmored, I stepped back a bit too far...and a tentacle was the one that killed me after I got distracted for a moment, not seeing it rise in the darkness. A touch stone revived me, and I headed back to my base and got a log suit, in an attempt to get my things back. But it was all in vain. I stupidly grabbed my new krampus sack as the tentacle rose, and it finished me off. I suppose I was angry, but I guess that'll teach me to think ahead in the future.

That's my stupid death, and I'll happily take full blame for that. What's yours?

[F1sh]

I was playing as Wilson, I decided to attack the lure plant eyeballs with an axe and no armor.. This was on day 45.

[omgkukiii]

Oh you know, I accidentally whacked a beefalo and ran in the wrong direction, towards more beefalo. Never again.

Oh you know, I accidentally whacked a beefalo and ran in the wrong direction, towards more beefalo. Never again.

[YouCleverBoy]

Not exactly a death, but one time I started a new world and found a nice spot for a base on my first night. I made a science machine, but didn't have enough rocks to make a fire pit so I had to settle for one last campfire. I started making boards either for my future alchemy machine or a chest (I can't remember), but I had no inventory space left so I just dropped them on the ground.

 

But they were too close to my fire. Whoosh! The boards and my science machine go up in flames. I was so mad and it was only my first day so I raged-quit and deleted that world.

[Auth]

Running away from a rook in the ancients

 

tried to lure into pseudoscience machine to distract him

 

rook hits pseudoscience machine

 

got hit by 876545678 lightning bolts at once

 

ded

[Abenlen]

I've had more than my fair share of stupid deaths, but none that felt unfair.  At lease once I figured out that this isn't a kids game and night is very dark and very deadly.

 

Stupidest death.  Barely surviving a hound wave.  Running around looking for flowers.  Saw a group of merms and pigs dukng it out.  Tried to sneak in real fast to grab a fish.  BOOM, headshot, down you go!

[The Letter W]

Was running around in a Savannah with a Smallbird hanging out with me. Suddenly, the Smallbird's animation broke and it started gliding around my screen.

I ran into a Lureplant and died.

[LadyWerebeaver]

I have a LOT of stupid deaths... I'm not proud to admit it, but I'm not actually all that great at this game. Too bad I'm addicted! I'll tell you about the 2 most recent.

 

I hit the 200 day mark playing Maxwell and I was so proud of myself, I was going spelunking and ran into the ancient guardian which killed me- no big deal, I have a meat effigy waiting for me on the surface. I got revived, built another meat effigy, went down to try to pick up my stuff "real quick". I must have died like 4 or 5 times to that stupid ancient guardian- every time getting resurrected by the meat effigy I made on the surface. Each time I died I would go up, make nightmare armor, dark sword, and meat effigy and then try to go pick up my stuff again. The permanent death happened when I decided that I was going to try to keep my nightmare armor at 100% while I attacked a tallbird with the Bat Bat. That did not work out in my favor. The most brutal part? The most recent death in the caves had been something I didn't even understand. I had lucked out and picked up my backpack and ran across a chasm so the ancient guardian was running at me but couldn't hit me. I read the Codex Umbra to get some help in this fight and... died. The cause in the morgue? Shenanigans. I have no idea what happened since I was at 90% health, 70% hunger, and 100% sanity.

For my most recent death I was in a pig village when a Spider Queen spawned. I figured I would get some help from the pigs and take care of this no problem. I had my Shadow Armor and Dark Sword, and I was taking a beating but doing pretty good. All the pigs died but I was able to take out the spider queen in the end. The problem? A spider warrior was still alive and when it attacked me I died.

[keagan]

This was also my first death ever, I heard the hounds coming, so it thought it would be a good idea to hide near spiders. Then as the came bounding towards me I would run near the spiders nest and whack a beehive and they would all fight each other. But instead they all killed me and ignored each other

[Kokojo]

I have many many many deaths like this.

Adventure mode, level 5, about to go in the portal, put willow's lighter in the adventure portal, losing my light. Charlie took that one 

With maxwell, day 250, I used space to pick up a feather, but picked up some meat in front of 8+ bunnymen.

Wilson : Attacked my own shootius when wearing no armor

Wilson again : Ran into bearger's attack.

Wickerbottom : Ah! Moleworm, let me hide this old bell... and leave this gunpowder on the ground. *boom*

And another Wilson : Hound attack during summer. Used my boomerang to distract the fire hound from the beehives, forgot to catch it.



Most of my other deaths were : I can DO THIS withouth going back to fully prepared!

[Malk]

Not hearing mole worm rang my bell*squish*

Red mushroom 1 hp

2 hp 1v3 spider

And the worst part...

Suide

9 times

[Mcdooby]

Thinking I'm clever waiting till it had turned dark to plant a campfire then getting attacked by hounds no torch no fire death sad face

[jeneah]

Oh man, just the other day I went for what was meant to be a quick afternoon trip to cut some wood near camp. For some reason I left most of my stuff behind, including (unfortunately) my miner's hat and any materials I could use to create a torch. What was I thinking?!

 

When it got late I started running back to camp ("I can make it!") But darkness fell just as I was coming in to camp. Too crowded to create a fire from scratch or just to aim for the fire pit and "add fuel" like crazy. So I died of darkness in the middle of my camp, right next to a fire pit.

 

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[Shadowtime]

Ate a red cap due to misclick and died instantly because of my low health. On day 113. 

 

And then the hounds came. .

[collect12]

I remember loosing my Woodie game because I made friends with a pig. Next thing you know, bearger comes, and the pig leads him to my base. Bearger eats my food, rekts my base, and then winter. The next day.

[DmLinken]

One time Chester got stuck on a tentacle so without putting my armor (I don't know) I went over to help out. Dead in two hits. Revived at touchstone and thought "Oh I'll just go grab my stuff really quick". So I ran over, picked my stuff up and started returning to my base when I got 360 no-scoped by another tentacle. (Walked right into it)

[NeoDeusMachina]

I was fighting my way through hordres of hounds in the desert on day 5 (I had not prototyped everythign yet), trying to clear the area so that I could do some gold mining afterwards. I was not really being careful, not wearing any armor, so I took a couple of hits which dropped my health really low (like 5-10HP). Everything is under control, I clear the area, I live to see another day?

 

But on my way back, I come across the summer trap. I know it's the summer trap (or the winter trap). I decide to bash on the icebox with a hammer anyway to dismantle it. I did that in another game and the trap didn't trigger. To my surprise, the summer trap DID trigger this time!

 

You know that thing one of the bad guys say in Dexter ? ''Tick tick tick, that's the sound of your life running out''! I rush, build a science machine and try to craft an endothermic fire but apparently my grass either vanished or I just didn't have any remaining (more likely). At 5-10 HP before triggering the trap, I quickly died of overheating!

 

Stuff like that tends to happen when you've played the game a lot and feel too confident that you can deal with everything the game can throw at you. You become lazy and take calculated risks most of the time, but Maxwell always has some kind of trick in his pocket to remind you that you are never safe! =)

[frogglebunwich]

I guess dumbest was the first game I had begun to get Wilson to survive in winter (still havent made it through yet after dozens of games but I only started last weekend with the Steam free to play offer, have bought it now despite my howls of anguish everytime Wilson dies) anyway I had made wood armor and a spear and managed to fight off a vicious four hound winter attack by dodging around a bit and whacking them until they died but I was really low on health and hunger so in the midst of victory I looked at the monster meat all around Wilson and being a noob I wondered if it was edible... he ate a bit and promptly died. 

 

You had to be there, it was the timing and the look on his face, made me laugh, poor chap. I found the wiki and learned to pause after that!

[LineLiar]

I guess dumbest was the first game I had begun to get Wilson to survive in winter (still havent made it through yet after dozens of games but I only started last weekend with the Steam free to play offer, have bought it now despite my howls of anguish everytime Wilson dies) anyway I had made wood armor and a spear and managed to fight off a vicious four hound winter attack by dodging around a bit and whacking them until they died but I was really low on health and hunger so in the midst of victory I looked at the monster meat all around Wilson and being a noob I wondered if it was edible... he ate a bit and promptly died. 

 

You had to be there, it was the timing and the look on his face, made me laugh, poor chap. I found the wiki and learned to pause after that!

That's hilarious! What's the death cause called? Starvation? Simply death?

[tetrified]

My stupid death.

 

I was on day 300 something on my wx-78 world. I stoked the fire, and was pretty much prepared for the night.

 

My friend then got called in to work, he was trying to get his girlfriend to log on to his work laptop, and she kept getting the password wrong, I used to work at the same place, and he had stuck with the default password, so I knew it, and decided to log in for him. By the time I had logged in, commented on how he has the windows post-it thing as a shortcut on his startup menu (actually "sticky-notes - (shortcut)" instead of just "sticky-notes") and gotten my laptop back into my lap, I had died due to charlie.

 

I should have paused.

[YouCleverBoy]

Also, I'm a bit oblivious at time and forget things. I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten to turn off my flingomatic before lighting a fire. Usually I'm quick enough to shut it off and relight the fire or I have a torch on hand.

 

Charlie doesn't get me often, but I have in fact died to this ONCE...

 

Okay, twice.

[LineLiar]

Also, I'm a bit oblivious at time and forget things. I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten to turn off my flingomatic before lighting a fire. Usually I'm quick enough to shut it off and relight the fire or I have a torch on hand.

 

Charlie doesn't get me often, but I have in fact died to this ONCE...

 

Okay, twice.

 

Your name does not do you justice.

[YouCleverBoy]

Your name does not do you justice.

Well, I suppose there's a difference between being clever and being a blundering buffoon.

 

I'm the kind of person who can easily do math and science, but pushes a door when the sign clearly says pull.

[ImpactedTooth]

Once I figured out what the beefalo horn did I dragged a bunch of beefalo into my base in late winter. A day later they went into heat.

 

I knew nothing of beefalo biology.

[greenglacier]

I was eating a carrot 'cuz I had very low health. Then suddenly a bunnyman attacked me and yes... you know what happened. Still curious why dear that frigin rabbit attack me! I didn't even hurt it... Envious shiet...