# Can't unbind suicide key. Help!

**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [November 3, 2013, 8:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795 "2013-11-03T08:22:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![krAbhandz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@krAbhandz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/krAbhandz)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2013, 8:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795/1 "2013-11-03T08:22:28Z")

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I can only unbind the suicide key for a brief period of time through the ?-1 menu. It persists through a save but resets to normal after I reboot the client. Keymap.txt in data isn’t doing anything for me. I’m stumped.

Workaround for the time being is to rebind the key to an Alt combination, like ALT-222

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### Author: ![Mamalque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@Mamalque](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mamalque)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795/2 "2013-11-03T19:14:31Z")

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Yeah, I have the same issue. There are workarounds, as you say, but it’s weird behavior.

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### Author: ![HS1342](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hs1342/32/190_2.png) [@HS1342](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HS1342)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795/3 "2013-11-03T22:10:53Z")

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Have you tried to unbind the suicide key using the  
? -\> 1 | Menu?

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### Author: ![Mamalque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@Mamalque](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mamalque)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795/4 "2013-11-03T22:50:52Z")

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Yeah, that’s the one I tried using.

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### Author: ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-unbind-suicide-key-help/3795/5 "2013-11-03T23:35:52Z")

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I can confirm the automatic ‘rebinding’ of the suicide key if you unbind it, happens when the game is closed and restarted, but not if you load-\>unbind-\>save-\>reload without closing the game.