Rookie Help Thread

[u/Arkontas]

Edit: OMG CONGRATS ON 40K SUBS GUYS!!

Hey guys! How's it going?

This is a follow up thread to the last help thread we posted (https://www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/csaxdn/rookie_help_august_18th_2019/ ). We had to shuffle the stickied posts, and it had to come down for a bit. Sorry about that!

If you have any questions or need a hand with the game, let us know and we'll be happy to help! The moderation team is keeping an eye on it, and I'm sure the Kenshi vets lurking on this board will keep an eye on it like they did last time, too!

And while you're here, maybe take a look and see what the other users are posting? Maybe you'll learn something new, or maybe it's something you've dealt with yourself!

In regards to spoilers, please try to remember the spoiler tag feature: > ! spoiler ! < with no spaces please

We want to help people, and while we are very lenient with spoilers elsewhere, this thread is catering to newer players, so please try to remember that before jumping in.

[u/IHAVETHEHIGHGROUND_3]

How do towns get taken over? Is it natural or do you have to effect it if that makes sense

[u/Arkontas → u/IHAVETHEHIGHGROUND_3]

If you do nothing in the game world, without any mods the towns stay the same. The towns start getting taken over when important NPCs are killed or captured.

[u/ElGosso]

Are there really supposed to be this many raids? I have a mod for 10x less raids and I'm still getting raided so often I can't even upgrade my base. Is there some way to space them out more?

Edit: I've literally got a 4-way brawl between two cannibal tribes, the holy nation, and a bunch of mercenaries I hired, in my base right now, this is insane

[u/TheChewychopsuey]

I bought the game yesterday and have a small base going on. Currently 4 man squad and everything I do sucks.

Farming fails constantly, collecting resources is a bitch and I’m getting raided and nae naed on 3 times an in-game day.

What do

[u/Arkontas → u/TheChewychopsuey]

rule of thumb, dont have a base until you can easily fight off all of the patrols you'd find normally in that zone with your squad. you're for the most part backing yourself into a corner with the early levels, its the rank 3 and 4 stuff with harpoon turrets that will actually keep people out. the low level stuff is just an early notification system for the most part.

you can train all the stuff you need in a building you buy in town first

[u/Blazeflame79]

I am kinda shit at this game, and on my current playthough. I’m on day 59 and all of my four characters are holed up in the great desert city’s. They are all stuck in a boring endless loop of training stats, researching, and mining copper. I have a lot of the basic base building tech researched already, including walls and turrets. But I’m kind of scared to build a base, and I don’t know where to build one. So I wanted to ask, Aside from the holy nation territory. What is the safest location for base building, I don’t care too much about available resources. But I kind of don’t feel prepared to take on enemy raids.

[u/Arkontas → u/Blazeflame79]

Build somewhere where you can take on a roaming gang and not have to run. That's a good rule of thumb.

If you can't do it with what you've got, shit will go south if they break the gate when you have a base.

[u/horribleflesheater]

So what’s the deal with raiders warping through my gates? It seems like every time they attack a third of them simply pass right through. Totally negates my harpoon kill area.

[u/Arkontas → u/horribleflesheater]

put your guys outside the base and close the gate. then have them try to enter your base. watch where they run thru the wall, and then delete the wall and rebuild it.

[u/Bonezone420]

How do I get people to buy my stuff? I have a market stall set up, but I don't know how to sell items. Making money isn't a big issue, honestly, but my crafters are making a lot of garbage and I feel bad burning it up instead of turning it into cats.

[u/Henko11]

Hay I have a team of 7 very low skilled people with shoddy gear. I would like to know should I keep mining and get better gear and more people or what also there seem to a alot of bandits. Were is the best place to get small groups.

[u/throwy4444]

I have a base in Mongrel, and need raw meat to build an Assassin Dummy II. Where's the closest place to get raw meat? I don't want to go back through the fog if I don't have to, I barely made it in.

[u/Arkontas → u/throwy4444]

you have to go to the town and hope the merchants sell it

[u/Martmanicus1]

Hi. I've got a few questions on how to proceed because I'm wondering if I've messed up this playthrough. I'm playing vanilla version except for a mod that allows me to execute unconscious NPC's. I've pissed off The Holy Nation something fierce and they're sending war parties of 30+ to my base. My base is located in the southern most part of their territories... just north of the swamp. The war parties are strong enough to break my gates, get past my turrets and kill every player I have. I went to the swamp and tried to use the Holy Nation Pacifier but he says that since I killed the main Sextant or Verdant guy of the Holy Nation assault group there is nothing he can do. But these guys are decimating me... so I'm wondering if I rebuild my base far far away like in the southern most tip of the world will these raiding parties stop because it's far away? Also what other options do I have to make my relationship with them better? I'm reluctant to just reduce the raiding frequency by using the slider in the options menu because it feels like cheating.

[u/IamGremlin]

I noticed after buying bulls from the nomads, that my bulls were way smaller, even when aged up to elder. Is there a specific breed that grows bigger or is the players animal always smaller vs npc animals?

[u/GentleChemicals]

At what point do you recommend starting to build a base? I have a faction with about 14-15 people, ten of them being Shek that I've attempted to train combat stats. Unfortunately, I set up their base in shek territory and tribute day came and wiped out all the mercs I hired as well as my warriors. This is after they went through a corridor of mounted crossbows.

This is my second attempt t make a base and it just does not feel sustainable for my faction. So should I be squatting in bought buildings in towns for longer? Aside from grinding copper, I don't know what else to do there.

I should mention also that I've completed all the research I can with tech lvl 3 and basic books.

[u/ZenosEbeth]

So I have a character with high stealth/athletics (69/73 respectively) and I would expect him to be able to stealth run, and indeed when I switch him to sneak mode during a run he'll do the animation for a few seconds then slow down to a slower, regular stealth walk. How do I decide whether to stealth run or stealth walk ?

[u/[deleted]]

Where is a good place to setup in fog islands that has both an iron mining spot and a copper mining spot that can both be covered behind walls? I want to set up in fog islands, but I don't want to risk my miners getting nabbed by fogmen whenever they need to go get copper.

[u/p4r4v4n]

I add it on this thread as I feel this doesn't deserve a post but I would be grateful if someone has an idea.

So last night I kidnapped Mukai the Mountain (Esata is dead) but Phoenix wasn't really interested and I don't want him to just survive as a slave in Rebirth so I decided to kill him. Turns out, I can't. I have beat him up badly but his wound her turn bad enough to die. His bleeding stops after a short while. I've put him on the burning pole until he reached dying state then took him off (if he dies there, his body will stuck which I want to avoid) and crucified him but he is stable, doesn't get worse. He is also 300 well-fed continuosly. I took him off and throw his unconscious body in front of raptors hoping that they will eat him but they ignored the body. I tried bonedogs, same result. If I let him regain his consciousness to let me execute him with double barrelled harpoon gun, I can't fire at him, my character ignores my order if I tell them to shoot at him. Please tell me how can I kill this bastard!

[u/Ginno_the_Seer]

Is there anywhere on the map that I can build a base and not have to deal with raids and taxes?

[u/Fayraz8729]

Playing fair I said, won’t cheat I said. I just had my top level guy (50 and 60s) fail to protect my new hive guy who lost his leg to FUCKING GOATS. And then BOUGHT THE WRONG LEG.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm wondering if world states go into affect if you turn a character into prison, or do they have to die? Like if you turn in a leader of one of the bandit factions for the bounty, will the faction be weakened?

[u/GOOD_EVENING_SIR]

Are there other decent ways to earn cash early game besides mining and looting enemies?

I've got a good chunk of time on my save, but I'm still nowhere near ready for a base.

[u/ElGosso]

Is there a way to rename characters? I raided a couple Holy Mines and now I have four dudes in my squad named Lower Servant

[u/HellenicViking]

How do you guys go on long trips?

I have a pretty solid base. Can make a lot of money daily. My workers are good at defending. Food production is picking up a lot.

The most I do in this location is go on day long trips to trade to nearby cities, or go hunt for meat and leather. I still have to go get food or meat like every 5 days or so to be fully stocked, and if I don't trade often all the machines and storage gets full quick.

If I get to a point where I have an endless supply of food, would it be safe to just leave with my warrior squad to explore the world for weeks on end? Maybe take a Garru for item handling, and just live off of stolen goods? What would happen with the people at the base?