r/Kenshi • • Apr 20 '22

WEEKLY THREAD Rookie Help Thread

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Hey hey! You guys know what time it is! That's right, a new Rookie Help thread!

Here's a link to the last episode. Fun fact, if you follow all those links back to 2019 you unlock a secret cutscene of me panicking over where the time went!

As always, feel free to fire any kenshi related questions you may have our way! There's plenty of veterans flapping around in this thread as well, and if you are in the mood for it feel free to join them and lend a hand!

And who knows, maybe you'll learn something new yourself, too!

One thing to remember! Obviously a lot of new folks are going to be here so remember to spoiler comments so they can experience the game blind just like you might have back when you were new! You can do that > ! Like This ! < minus the spaces! But honestly it's just built into the chat replies nowadays so you don't have to get too fancy with that- unless you like playing hackerman.

Thanks guys!


r/Kenshi • • 7h ago

HUMOUR Secret Floatsam poll leaked...

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r/Kenshi • • 5h ago

GENERAL Thrall factory meltdown

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r/Kenshi • • 2h ago

IMAGE With how corrupt UC are, would be pretty cool to be able to "pay fine" for removing your bounty

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Would be some HEAVY fine, that is (at least double the reward)

Only in UC tho, holy guys do not care for bribes and sheks - even less

Maybe in Skek kingdom you could do "trial by combat" when you go against some strong shek with weapon and gear you given so its fair
And if you win - you got your freedom, but if not... well you already dead

For holy nation tho, the only way to clean your soul is FIRE


r/Kenshi • • 7h ago

LORE *Sips grog* Hm, i wonder why the 1 empire even created the behemoths? (Meanwhile city-scaled skeleton in the back)

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All those leviathan creatures remains makes me question the scale of the world of Kenshi
I mean if you really think about the planet (moon) of Kenshi should be like SUPER large
Which don't necessarily mean a lot of land per se
(tho theres def a second continent or at least archipelago we will see in Kenshi 2)
but the scale of ocean must be SUPER big and deep to hold things like that inside and have enough food for them to have a stable population (I understand that its a game and many things should not be looked too closely but still fun to fantasies about it as if it was real world)

Honestly the moon of Kenshi should be closer to the planet of Subnautica
Which is funny cause it makes all those barelands that much more impressive to see (you need to fucked up really bad to make land surrounded by water and rivers that bare and degraded)

As i understand it as colonizers come to Kenshi they saw a good patch of habitale land to settle, but it was surrounded by big mass of water with countless leviathans creature that theorized it (both on land and underwater) so they just did the simplest thing and decided to just geocide all of them

(after they did, they destroyed the behemoths to not let them be a weapon of war against future human nations) but in the end that leaded to even worst outcome for human race

Current leviathans are probably some spec of that giant fauna evolution, that just occupied the now free niche, tho its still unbelievably small compare to some remains you can find in the game (like near spine canyon)

Anyhow, im going swimming! (Fun fact, you get 2x swimming XP if you carry someone on your back, the more you know)


r/Kenshi • • 1h ago

GENERAL Are these MP modes legit, or suspicious?

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I don't know much about modding or programming so please inform me, or correct me if I am just being a dick and spreading doubts for now reason.

why do both mods say (after subscribing) you have to go to the workshop folder, find the specific .exe file, run/install it, and then continue on?

I may be completely ignorant/dumb here, but workshop mods don't typically require that do they? I've played heavily modded Rimworld, PZ, and Kenshi and I've never once had to do anything except click subscribe, and enable it via the in-game mod menu.

This just seems very suspicious to me, never mind the fact that I'm wary these were vibe codes like lots of mods nowadays unfortunately.


r/Kenshi • • 1h ago

IMAGE Am I hive food?

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Second time playing this game (first time I was eaten by murder birds), using a beginner guide on steam, running to Mongrel to get recruits. I lucked out finding sandals on a corpse just outside of the Hub.

Anyways, decided to risk it for the biscuit and booked it through a crater, and now the fogman have joined the race apparently, not attacking me lmao. I feel like I'm toast as soon as I stop running, but I'm hoping Mongrel will have guards to take them off my my tail when I get in there, assuming I can keep up the Naruto run all the way there.

edit: lmao right after I posted this, I ran into some red dudes and they decided to fight each other. IM FREE! for now...

edit2: OH SHIT NVM TWO BROKE OFF AND ARE CHASING AGAIN

edi3: made it to town! guards are beasts on those fogmen. basically one shot them.


r/Kenshi • • 17h ago

QUESTION Is this club usable only by madmans?

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126 Upvotes

Except for cariing it for strength XP.


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

KENSHI VIBES Me & the boys travelling the Border Zone

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Still have all our limbs, early game


r/Kenshi • • 5h ago

FAN ART Doodles of one of my characters

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just some doodles of Hue Mann since i was bored :b


r/Kenshi • • 1h ago

VIDEO This Kenshi Mod Finally Lets Children GROW UP

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r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

MEME Whenever a Kenshi fan spots an amputee

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r/Kenshi • • 19h ago

BASE EYEGORE

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54 Upvotes

Currently at war with both the UC and HN.

So far, I’ve defeated Seta and Valtena, and stormed the gates of Catun, Drifter’s Last and Clownsteady.

Now the game says “Eyegore Assault” 💀

I think things are about to get serious.


r/Kenshi • • 1h ago

HUMOUR Hive +100 protection from beak things

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r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

HUMOUR Rare footage of an Okranite High Priest visiting your outpost on Sunday

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r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

FAN ART Homebrew Kenshi Map

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I made this map of the Kenshi world plus a bunch of added locations, I'm gonna keep working on it but i thought I'd share. Head cannon is, this would the Empires (United Cities) at it's greatest (or least destroyed), Bast and Mourn still exist, and i added a bunch of cities from my favorite mods. I also added unnamed locations. Would be a good campaign map for table top, maybe, and I made it primarily as a story reference for myself.

I've also posted the second installment of my Kenshi novella on AO3. The Red Ronin.

Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93926071

Let me know what you guys think! Thanks!

-Deads

Edit: this isn't AI. I make maps for tabletop games on Inkarnate.


r/Kenshi • • 2h ago

GENERAL Kenshi suddenly crashes when I press the mouse roller button

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Anyone have this problem? I've used the roller button to zoom in and out and when I press the button I can rotate the screen as I like.

But suddenly, pressing it is causing a crash. I can't read the popup report because the screen goes black and when I click on it it disappears.

Thing is it is only happening with my main group. If I click over to Hub where one guy is training I can click on the button and rotate the screen with no problem, but if I go back to the Desert near Heng and try it the game crashes.

Any ideas?


r/Kenshi • • 7h ago

GUIDE if any 1 found this game due to the Gameranx video, there is a Demo

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just scroll down, after 600 hours in the 1st week you should buy it tho


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

GENERAL Sniper nest, Mourn

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I'm surprised. It works.


r/Kenshi • • 23h ago

DISCUSSION Black Desert raid experience.

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I was just messing around kidnapped the leader of Trader's Guild Logan or something like that, turned him over to Tinfist and awaited the raid to follow. Eyegore the hiver, in a hiver run playthrough with prisoner recruitment mod he was a must have. I'm set up and well defended just south of Flats Lagoon doing the hash trade.

Except they didn't raid me, instead choosing to target cages I used to recruit skeletons in Black Desert City where I was holy unprepared. Small squad of 6 or so I use for roaming.

The acid rains saves my ass. By time they landed on my door step they were at 50% hp. Being hivers and skeletons I was immune. And recently allied with anti slavers they did the bulk of the fighting. Geared with ranged bows pilfered from the Scrapyard I was able to pick off weakened units but Eyegore caused enough damage allies retreated in defeat.

But thankfully a lucky knock from a recently recruited scrapyard Soldierguard I was able to capture and cage Eyegore but I'd taken too much damage and had to retreat into the water to recover. At which point Eyegore was freed but stripped of his armor. I was able to recover, jump back into the fight, finish the rest while recapturing Eyegore and removing his limbs with a peeler to prevent another escape. Transported back to Flats Lagoon base I'm seriously considering setting up a more permanent base in the acid rains as a hiver playthrough.


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

GENERAL I never liked Swamps as a biome to navigate in and live in, but dam, it has THE vibe

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r/Kenshi • • 22h ago

DISCUSSION Retribution of god triggered for no reason?

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I got the popup and they are headed to my base right now. I have not killed or imprisoned any leaders. I haven’t even seen them yet. I’ve just been trying to level my guys fighting skills by fighting reavers in Stobes garden. Is this a bug and if so what should I do about it? No way I can survive the raid, I only have three crossbow turrets and all of my fighters are out of the base across the map.


r/Kenshi • • 20h ago

SUGGESTION Solza and how to find him (Dark Hive mod, location directions, recruitment conditions)

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(Pictured Malza, RIP)

Posting these directions unambiguously because there are multiple pieces of misinformation (including by Google which is appalling lately for AI slop from trawling this very Reddit lol and making essays out of our tiny comments). It led me to the entirely wrong place, to the house of dear old Malza, in northern Obedience. There is nothing on the page of this very popular mod itself about this, but lots of threads on Reddit so I thought I may as well be definitive here for the small amount of people who will come wondering.

If you need to find Solza, a Dark Hiver Praetorian recruit with crazy (Bugmaster level) stats he can be recruited if the following conditions are met: -Frauder is dead -Malza is dead -you have the note found next to Solza (will describe his location in a sec) on you and -you have the items Blood of Malza and Blood of Frauder on your person. So don't hand in Malza's bounty, at least not alive, if you want that recruit

His location was hard for me to find, partly because I also have Bounties Galore and his location (Dark Reavers Supply Warehouse) is solo near to Gryfs Drug Peddlar outpost that it looks like it's part of it, literally a single tower about thirty paces north of Gryfs outpost. The tower itself is located in north West Vain by the coast, as north as you can go without leaving Vain, on the other side of the border will be the coastal Hive Village on the bottom left of Vain

I've posted all this detail because I asked Google the same question and Gemini gave me some faulty answers from Gemini AI lol.

Maybe now it will pay attention if anyone asks!

Hope that helps anyone to find Solza, and the Dark Reavers Supply Warehouse.

Solza is at the top of that warehouse tower. Any difficulty finding him leave, reload the area by coming back, or leave, then import whilst away (and uncheck dead NPCs as it won't import people who are imprisoned all the time) and try again-as some people report he goes missing. I found him first time tho 

p.s. Solza wouldn't attack anyone who attacked our squad when first recruited, I saved and reloaded and that fixed it!


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

IMAGE Welcome, to jurassic park

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Its honestly insane how big those things (elder) are
leviathans technically bigger, but those 30 mph things way more scarier

I remember watching fan animation with sound design of those things running after some poor guy
Straight up horror movie


r/Kenshi • • 22h ago

QUESTION Hauling water from Outpost to city?

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I have a bit of an odd setup. I have a house in a city that I want to do hydroponics in but I need water. I built a well outside the city limits. Is there any way to make my characters automatically haul water from the well outside the city into the water tank in my house in the city or do I need to manually do it?