Comical deaths are achievable in many, if not most, games. Bugs and features working unintentionally are left in games only to be found by the curious or unlucky. This time around a player found a strange Skyrim bug that resulted in a swift and funny death. A pot hanging from the ceiling was this Skyrim player's demise.
Recently, a Redditor known as juuseiki shared a clip of them playing Skyrim only to find a hilarious way to commit in-game suicide. In this case, the bug wasn't turning Skyrim wolves into kangaroos, instead, cooking equipment became a lethal torture device. In the video, the player was spending time with their trusty comrade Lydia in a nondescript basement or dungeon. In this cobweb-infested place, there were only barrels, wooden boxes, and a hanging pot. This was enough for this poor Khajiit to meet their maker.
As the player walked at the swaying pot, it hit the player in the head and started swinging back and forth profusely. This out-of-control pot dealt massive damage to the level 30 player, killing them on the spot in mere seconds. While Lydia's curious deaths in Skyrim are a common occurrence, she couldn't prevent her master's unmaking. Instead of helping, the housecarl Lydia watches with a deadpan face as the player tragically collapses.
While the player was only level 30 and had probably limited health, considering the choice of race, likely even Skyrim's fanciest armors wouldn't have helped them. While the pot swung wildly back and forth, there only seemed to be two instances where damage was registered. That was enough to kill the player from full health. The cause of the death was likely the physics engine doing what it is meant to do - dealing damage to the player when an object hits the player with enough velocity or vice versa. Most people are used to dying from falling. However, in this case, it wasn't a head hitting the dirt at lethal speeds, but a pot hitting the face.
The Reddit thread appreciated this hilarious death by creating pot puns. Some suggested "Stay away from pot kids" while the top comment turned a familiar meme into a new form, "In Skyrim, pot kills." Fellow Redditors also shared their own experiences with the physics engine. One remembered stepping on a skeleton only to be catapulted off a cliff and into immediate death. Indeed, the physics engine of Skyrim is truly marvelous at delivering death and destruction to players and NPCs alike.
The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.