Can you get a fungal parasite from unclean water?

[Theinsomniac]

My character somehow got a fungal infection, I don’t remember teleporting and I remember not seeing any fungaloids, the only thing that was out of the ordinary is that I had my character try the water in the LMOE shelter before filtering it (because I’m kind of an idiot like that) to see whether or not I actually need to filter it, as soon as I did that my character got “The common cold” which later evolved into painful spasms and fungal spores bursting out of his arms.

[woofinator]

Maybe to make it more realistic, the devs gave every starting character a chance to be spawned with the onset of a fungal infection.

No one knows what happened to their character before 8:00 on Spring, day 1. You can’t rule out that he/she maybe was blackout at a End of the World party when fungals came, and he/she sprinted through the forest and passed out at a evac shelter. Upon waking, you had no memory of the night before, but you’ve already been infected by fungals.

[John_Candlebury]

Perhaps a flying eye saw you as you were traveling?
I dont even get how those things can infect you with the fingus by just seeing you.

[Pthalocy]

[quote=“woofinator, post:2, topic:2599”]Maybe to make it more realistic, the devs gave every starting character a chance to be spawned with the onset of a fungal infection.

No one knows what happened to their character before 8:00 on Spring, day 1. You can’t rule out that he/she maybe was blackout at a End of the World party when fungals came, and he/she sprinted through the forest and passed out at a evac shelter. Upon waking, you had no memory of the night before, but you’ve already been infected by fungals.[/quote]

/beats the odds by starting his games at 7am