# Exploding NPC?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [January 3, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238 "2017-01-03T11:25:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Moreal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/moreal/32/2030_2.png) [@Moreal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Moreal)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238/1 "2017-01-03T11:25:58Z")

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Think you guys might thought ‘brain exploding NPC’ before reading this, but it’s not that one.

Some NPC comes while I working on building Solar power generator, His approching method was hostile one. Thought I might be able to persuade him, but it fails and so I have to kill him. As my character hit the final blow, he explode on death. No, not the brain one. it was C4-Tier explosion. Explosion is filling 2/3 of the game screen And My character is dead. I dunno how i trigger his WMD but I’m sure it’s not my bullet’s, I hit him with entranching tool entirely. no fire, no explosives nearby, no highly flammable things nearby, no C4, no Mini-nuke.

It reminds me I was playing ‘roguelike’, but i wonder what cause this happen.  
I’m sure i didn’t add ‘Crazy Cataclysm’ mod.

Am i just the unlucky one?

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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:** [January 3, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238/2 "2017-01-03T13:20:30Z")

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He may have been carrying glitched explosives on him, and dropping them made the game realize “Hey this should have exploded hours ago”.

Pretty terrible way to die tbh, but I primarily murder NPCs from a safe distance if they aren’t willing to follow me around.

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**Author:** ![Moreal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/moreal/32/2030_2.png) [@Moreal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Moreal)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238/3 "2017-01-04T06:26:06Z")

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[quote=“Weyrling, post:2, topic:13238”]He may have been carrying glitched explosives on him, and dropping them made the game realize “Hey this should have exploded hours ago”.

Pretty terrible way to die tbh, but I primarily murder NPCs from a safe distance if they aren’t willing to follow me around.[/quote]

Thank god it’s not the one that intended. Next time I should be more careful dealing with NPC then.

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**Author:** ![KliPeH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/klipeh/32/11298_2.png) [@KliPeH](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KliPeH)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238/4 "2017-01-04T14:12:38Z")

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> [@Moreal](#):
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> Next time I should be more careful dealing with NPC then.

No, you shouldn’t, neither should anybody else. We’ve had a similar thing in the past where the game killed NPCs off due to a bug, but we shouldn’t have to anticipate an NPC “accidentally” suicide-bombing us and quite frankly I’ve become terrified of the possibility after reading your thread. This is a bug and the people who overlooked it should be held responsible. Don’t have that “whatever, I’ll manage” attitude, encourage those who hunt bugs to fix this as soon as possible. I don’t want to live in fear the next NPC who runs towards me blows me the fuck up and kills my hardy veteran survivor. What, am I supposed to not get close to NPCs at all now? It’s such extreme RNG it would be almost impossible to avoid.

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**Author:** ![Kadian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kadian/32/214_2.png) [@Kadian](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Kadian)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/exploding-npc/13238/5 "2017-01-04T17:50:02Z")

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It wouldn’t be the first time that NPC’s have active explosives in their inventory. In fact, I think an npc from the shelter gave me a lit dynamite once. That was quite in the past, true, but I don’t see a reason why it couldn’t happen again.  
That would mean that he was a living bomb anyways, because he had an active explosive in his inventory - he would have gone boom anyways, you just had bad luck standing near to him.  
Another idea that springs to mind is that the npc wanted to use the C-4 as a weapon and therefore activated it - given enough time, he could have tried throwing it at you, who knows.

Still, all of these options seem still a bit…buggy, so to say.  
If it helps: The NPC was a run-away slave with an explosive collar. You accidentally activated the collar because you hit it with your weapon, therefore kaboom. Yes, Fallout Reference. Deal with it. 😛