Kenshi: Mount and Blade meets Rimworld, meets three other games

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Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Get the mod that enables the peeler machine. It is guaranteed not to disappoint.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1396056759

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 16:52

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 07:02

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

MRLOLAST posted:

So I got this yesterday and have been fiddling around with it. Is there anything that is a must do in the beginning to get a good start ?
I did the wanderer start and have just been exploring and running around/ away from stuff and done some scavenging.

I used this guide to get some early funds and equipment to start. Pretty fun actually and introduces you to using mercenaries as you are a weakling at the start. Be warned this guide contains a few *spoilers* in the form of exposing locations on the map that you can discover on your own.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1508134396

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 15:53

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

buglord posted:

A semy cheesy way to also build skill is to mine an inventory full of rocks, carry a dead guy, and explore as usual across the wasteland.

What? You mean you don't carry a backpack made of sticks and linen full of rocks with a dead guy slung over your shoulder in your daily adventures around town? :v:

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 17:22

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

dogstile posted:

If you really want to get into training, just build a shack with a bed in it, strip a hungry bandit's weapon and have fistfights.

Rotate the bandit out on occasion so he doesn't become a kung fu master. Or feed him up once he's sufficiently trained and dump him in front of a dust bandit. Whatever floats your boat.

A third option is to get the recruit prisoners mod and recruit said kung fu master into your group.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=726254871

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 20:04

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Dandywalken posted:

How moddable is this game? Im definitely intrigued by it. Is there a possibility for new races, combat skills etc?

Moddable to an extent. The game comes bundled with mod tools which allow you to tweak numbers and attributes. It is possible to create new dialogue trees with new character/squads. The bundled mod tools also allow you to post from the tool to steam workshop, which is fun. New races are possible, but apparently a bit of an asspain to get working correctly. Skills are hard coded, not sure you can change those around. The ones that exist work well though.

If you are interested in modding at all, check out the Kenshi discord. There is a pretty active modding community there.

https://discord.gg/3A4Wump

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 16:21

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

puberty worked me over posted:

Is there really no way to get a high bounty off your head other than declaring all out war and annihilating the faction you have a bounty with? You can smooth over faction relations but the same individual won't help you get the bounty off your back.

Strip your guy with the bounty. Throw him over a shoulder. Then, make sure you�ve smoothed relations with the faction. Then, go turn him in and claim the bounty yourself. Then, bust him out of prison. Bounty gone.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2018 13:15

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

My five robot roamer-trader squad. Well-equipped and well-trained to handle nearly any foe. All equipped with masterwork scout legs. These guys scoot.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2019 17:57

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Looking at my main base. Los Lobos Aceros are fruitful and productive. We make robot limbs, weapons, armor, grog, and hash for export. Can fully supply a 50 man army, and protected by rapid fire harpoon cannons, the Citadel is nigh impregnable.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2019 18:00

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Blackluck posted:

I did find a few specialists and masterwork limbs in the skeleton city, but it seems like a crap shoot on what you can get. Probably going to take a while to get them outfitted all with masterwork limbs. I've started robotics crafting but that looks like it's going to be a long process, and so far I've not had much like finding AI cores for research (only three so far that I bought from the skelly city.) Anyone know of a good place to get them?

Sounds like my playthrough. I found quite a few AI cores in the various ruins north (I think) of the fog islands. There are also economy mods which make them more common to purchase or make larger robot spiders drop them. Finally, the Ashlands has some NPCs which drop them as well.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2019 13:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

So, I wanted to be able to add captured Broken Skeletons as followers using the Recruit Prisoners Mod. There is a long convoluted dialogue tree that you must navigate in order to "reset' the robot. If someone wants to know what they have to follow, spoilered below is the dialog tree. Each series of conversation topics give three choices. The list below includes the correct responses. The correct response could be any of the three listed. I dug through the mod in order to uncover this.

#1 Choose Common English
#2 Green, Red, Blue
#3 Yellow, Beige, Brown
#4 A, Z, C
#5 Book, Tree, House
#6 4, 32, 1
#7 36, 54, 22
#8 Bowl, Hat, Knife
#9 Shirt, Light, Pen
#10 74, 109, 96
#11 V, G, O
#12 A, Z, C
#13 B, X, R
#14 Choose #^&@ English file note found - Jiko Ketsui Mode

Enjoy your new Skeleton Recruit!

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 16:28

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I'll be damned, I never noticed that. I just went through the dialogue tree in the mod. Welp. Thanks for that.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 18:07

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

LuiCypher posted:

Another thing to add - resist the temptation to savescum. I know I couldn't resist the urge when I started thievin', but after recruiting a decent posse in Shark and trying to snatch some blades from the Hounds, I decided instead of reloading that I would hightail it out of there with my new group of low-level/extremely specialized recruits. My ninja took an arrow to the gut, but we managed to book it relatively unscathed. The person I tried to steal from would not let that grudge go, however, so once they chased us into the middle of the swamp we turned around and beat them senseless. Now we're going to carry their unconscious body around in case we need to leave some snacks in order to escape some hungry critters.

None of this would've happened if I save scummed just to snatch that stupid high-quality horse chopper, and I would've been poorer for it.

Yeah, I fell into the habit of savescumming on my first run through. It's much better to just let the game play out.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2019 21:29

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Turpitude posted:

My fearless leader is a chick with a green Mohawk, gas mask, and leather jacket. I gotta find her some sick pants and boots.

After nearly dying multiple times we are finally re establishing ourselves at the hub. Joined the shinobi thieves and I have my dudes with the biggest backpacks mining copper non stop while the rest train. Soon we are going to establish our own dojo and run down to the swamps for hash. Considering starting my own hash dealership in town where I will assault and enslave customers I don't like the look of.

Is there any way to send mined ore straight into backpacks? I'm sick of micromanaging the drones

If I recall correctly you can buy one of the broken down houses and build copper storage. Then set your drones to auto haul to the storage.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2019 20:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Clark Nova posted:

I have, in that I had a smiling, ingratiating white man with a bible to deal with the fuckers on my behalf, then I had to run from them as my people started to acquire prosthetics and robo friends, then I got swole and wiped them off the face of the earth

wiping out the Holy Nation with a bunch of Robo-Sheks is one of the most satisfying things in Kenshi.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2019 01:24

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Leal posted:

Taxes are awful up there, they charge you an arm and a leg.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2019 13:19

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Turpitude posted:

Anyone have modding experience? How hard is it to add an NPC, or several, with dialogue?

https://discord.gg/3A4Wump

Join the Kenshi discord and ask. There is a vibrant modding community there.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 23:17

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

quote:

right now i'm working on my crafting empire, while carrying a goat with me at all times to become Strongest.

New thread title tbh.

Kenshi: right now i'm working on my crafting empire, while carrying a goat with me at all times to become Strongest.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2019 16:08

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Communist Q posted:

Backpacks can also be put in backpacks. There's no limit to how many backpacks you can put in.

It's backpacks all the way down, sir.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2019 16:15

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

EmbryoSteve posted:

Last saturday I started a new slave start and left it running AFK for like 6 hours while i did other stuff. Resulted in some strong fast starter chars. Since then I managed to escape and wandered north for a little bit until I looped back down to the hub to research/scheme. I'm starting to get the hang of this whole thing.

I made a mine near the hub and started making building materials with 3 out of 4 chars while the 4th continually mined copper near the hub to keep a marginal income flow and food in people's bellies. I scouted the area looking for a place to build a base and learn those ropes. I really love base building it was a main driver in buying this game. I sent my main guy who thanks to slaving for 50 days had like 60 str and 70 athletics and a traders backpack full of building mats to scout locations. The Vain was a scary place. I am all inclusive and have a few shek and women in my crew so going north of the hub was a no go. I went into the swamp and got lost and couldnt find any spots with good iron or copper near by. I eventually found a fairly even plateau on the eastern edge of the borderlands near skinners roam (which I have not explored). It is just north of a waystation, by that tiny settlement which has good mats just laying about to help jump start the settlement, and good stone, like 3 iron deposits, a 2 person copper deposit and 100% fert. Water reading in prospecting is not great (arid area) but I have not used water yet. So I decided that this is the place to try out babbies first settlement. build a mine and two processors, and went out and hired like 4 more recruits. squad has 8 or 9 peeps now. with 6 of them dedicated to producing building materials or iron plates. Almost have the walls completely up. though they are only mk1.
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I didnt realize I could build research bench lvl 2 on the roof of a stormhouse in the hub so I just started researching t2 stuff. researched building shells first, and am working on building a bughouse first (it looked the coolest). Though it requires 35 building mats jeeeez.

Anyway I'm excited about getting started on the base. Looking around at how others defend bases I will have to redo the front end, I just have a double gate but have not kept them closed. If I close them does that prevent my dudes from transiting on their own? Like is it a complete lockdown?

There have been A LOT (near constant) wandering dust bandits and raids like every single day. To all new players I must say that mercs to guard the base are a STEAL at 1k a day. If you have someone who is just dedicated to mining copper off screen while you try to get stuff set up somewhere this is easily paid for. The mercs get downed a lot because of frequent enemies, but they get back up quickly and whomp the poo poo out of dust bandits. Tho I was also raided by some ninja dudes I've never seen before who appeared to be a match for the mercs. Most of the time since my walls are not completely up I just send my labor crew off into the hills if I even need to. Most of the time the raiders get hung up with the mercs and don't even aggro on my dudes who can keep laboring away.

I'm not sure if there is some standard way to make a new base, but building from the inside out (with moderate disruption due to raids) appears to be a working formula. Why haul when I can just build immediately as I produce on site? Once I figure out how to produce my own food things will become infinitely easier/less micro managey. Biggest hurdle right now is keeping everyone fed. Like 50% of my somewhat passive income is spent on food. Where is a good place to buy wheatstraw and cactus? I need some to research the farming?

All in all having a blast as I am transitioning out of an RPG kind of mindset and into an RTS mindset. I look forward to switching back and exploring more once I get a stable self-sufficient homebase up and running.

I built my first base in that same location. It's a good spot. I used the moisture condenser mod to get water and built a few of those on a roof. Hydroponics is also nice.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2019 21:36

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Cardiovorax posted:

Pretty much, yeah, by about a 1:2 ratio. The big advantage of cotton over hemp is that hemp grows well only in swampy areas while cotton grows well in green biomes, which are just way, waaaay more common. The Swamp, the Burning Forest and the Wetlands, that's pretty much it, with some minor percentage in the Vain. If you want to be a drug lord, you have only so many places available to be it in.

Hydroponics brah.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2019 21:20

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Fewd posted:

Indeed... I bought a masterwork steady arm from Black Desert City and it's +25% crossbow and +20% dex.

Go ahead and sacrifice rest of the weak flesh Green, I will rebuild you. Rebuild you BETTER. REBUILD YOU INTO A CYBERNETIC POST-APOCALYPTIC MACHINE GOD, AN ETERNAL METAL COLOSSUS TO REIGN OVER THE RUINS OF THIS DEAD WORLD like Beep

yeah my first playthrough went a little like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIMZ0WyY88

The weakness of my flesh disgusted me.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 19:46

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Panfilo posted:

I kind of want to build up a Kung fu dude because the idea of role-playing Fist of the North Star sounds awesome.

But I heard it takes a long time to get good with them.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=796807327 5x EXP for the Kenshi player on the go!

Seriously, I like this mod. Makes starting games a little quicker. You'll be punching arms off in no time at all.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2019 17:42

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I fell in love with Martial Arts after a failed raid on Stack. All my guys were captured. My MA dudes were able to get out and skirmish with folks. My weapon users were SOL, as the Paladins had taken their weapons. It was from that day forward that I decreed that no weapon shall ever be used (aside from crossbows). MA dudes are never unarmed.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2019 19:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

My punch-gods don't care about beak things, they fall like so much chaff before our scything fists. (Also have some crossbow users to attack from range.)

# ¿ Apr 23, 2019 21:23

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Crumblejon can be found in Mongrel not far from our lord and savior, Cyber-Beep, pbuh.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2019 16:37

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Panfilo posted:

I found beep but not Crumblejon.

Ugh I don't know how I'm supposed to get these newbies out of the fog lands in one piece...

Or, resign yourself to the fact you're not leaving Mongrel anytime soon and buy a house there. Train Beep and Crumblejon by beating the Fogmen.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2019 21:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

That Guy Bob posted:

Can't wait for the Kenshi 2 epic store exclusive announcement.

# ¿ May 8, 2019 21:07

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I've been having a lot more crashes recently. Feels bad.

# ¿ May 10, 2019 17:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Bonedogs are the best. Seta chased me out of Stack, then a bunch of bonedogs ate him.

BEEEEEP!?!?

# ¿ May 14, 2019 14:43

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Bofast posted:

I'm enjoying your adventures so far

Me too. This is your blog now.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2020 15:23

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

I like the Mod Mindoor. I think that�s the one. It allows you to build miniaturized versions of ore smelters and stuff inside. You can buy a few houses in town and have an almost functional production chain. I find it really useful if you want to rebuild the Hub or have a base in Mongrel.

# ¿ May 4, 2020 14:14

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Sing Along posted:

i just bought kenshi and this seemed like a great starting point. unfortunately hobbs was not at the hub, so I looked up his other possible locations and wound up running to world's end, where he wasn't either, and then up to the northern fishing village. my main character now has 28 athletics and hobbs needs to step his game up.

Recruit a random in a bar and name him Hobbs at that point.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 15:05

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Sing Along posted:

everybody in Squin vanished, do I need to restart? i started looting because I figured that they'd gotten wiped out by a faction but apparently this just happens.

Import your save. There should be an option to respawn npcs. Like Dead NPCs or something. Uncheck it.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 22:33

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2020 00:35

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Peeler machine produces animal skin right? :black101:

# ¿ Apr 10, 2021 23:27

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

KirbyKhan posted:

Is the certain youtuber in question Ambiguous Amphibian, cuz I love that guy and the recent TorSquad arc brought light into my life and pulled me out of a mild depression.

I don�t think that�s the one he is referencing. �Hey hey�

# ¿ Apr 13, 2021 23:11

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Coolguye posted:

a generic training lounge where you can assign a teacher and a student, and the teacher slowly brings the student's stats and skills up to their level, would make it so a lot of this jank poo poo is actually extremely optional as you can just go play the game the fun way to raise someone up and then assign them as a teacher to get a cool buddy to roll with.

That would be a cool mod. I�d download that.

# ¿ May 21, 2021 12:59

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

CommissarMega posted:

It's been a while since I last played the Rebirth start (or heck, Kenshi itself), but I remember repeatedly unshackling myself and storing the manacles in my character's pockets, letting a guard shackle me again, and then repeating the process until I'm massively weighed down. I then let my character go about their daily routine until they're swole while I read books and watch YouTube or something. Does this not work anymore?

That still worked on the last Rebirth start I did. That was maybe 6 months ago though.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2021 20:41

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Don�t stop, I�m thinking about playing Kenshi again.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2021 02:22

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 07:02

Saul Kain: Dec 5, 2018; Lately it occurs to me,

what a long, strange trip it's been.

Beep

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 00:14

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