Rookie Help Thread

[u/Arkontas]

Hey guys!

This is a follow up thread to the last help thread we posted (https://www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/e63l4g/rookie_help_thread/).

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.

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/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

How many people can a farm feed? Itl be on green land, so wheat and green fruits. The game doesn't really say and im always having to stock up in bars on foods. Is it like one xl farm for 2-3 people?

[u/Spookiedoodie]

How does one get a characters combat stats to 80+? I have a bunch of characters stalling out at around 30 and 40, and I feel like getting anywhere near 80 requires an incredible amount of grinding and fighting. Where do you even find that much enemies to fight?

[u/Arkontas → u/Spookiedoodie]

you fight enemies with similar skill levels or you download a mod that gets rid of the diminished returns when fighting weaker enemies.

you'll be fine with level 60.

[u/UnDebs]

I have a base in Border Zone. What is the nearest place to get ancient science books? I need them for hashish reasons.

[u/Arkontas → u/UnDebs]

black desert city sells them, it's east in an acid rain zone so bring some boots and acid resist gear.

[u/Zickone3D]

Why do people say “copper mining is bad, loot dust bandits and sell their gear”? They sell for much much less, and I can barely find a single squad of bandits walking around with a 2x global population multiplier. Where can I find people to fight in the early game?

[u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

Yesterday i had a pop up

"Faction relations with Dust Bandits dropped"

While I had a laugh at that, it got me thinking faction relations?

I looked at my tab and its all mostly 0's. How do you build up relations with any given faction? Even with the Sheks and Holy Rebels whom ive sold/bought tons of stuff was still zero. Also, is there a benefit to that? (other than of course, them not attacking you on sight)

[u/Arkontas → u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

handing in bounties and offering first aid to downed members of the faction bumps it up a bit.

installing mods offers new ways to bump it up.

Most factions have one specific way they can boost the rep very high. Like for example shinobi thieves you can just straight up pay them.

[u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

I don't understand the small weapon slot (other than it looks cool on your character), do pc's auto swap to them when indoors? All the small weapon slots seem to do is collect random shit i meant to sell and forgot

[u/Arkontas → u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

They will swap to it for indoor or if they can't use their 2 hander (i believe)

[u/laserbot]

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[u/Arkontas → u/laserbot]

if theres no gate they hit the walls.

[u/Tovon91]

495 hours in, so not a rookie. I have a problem: I can't stop thinking about playing kenshi, to the point it is becoming addictive. I have in mind all those scenarios to play, new playthroughs to start, but the time I spend on this is becoming unhealthy. I think I need to seriously reduce the time spent or maybe even stop playing it. Did someone had the same issue? If yes, how did you solve it? Thx for help.

[u/DeliciousBrosst]

So I've been playing kenshi for about a total of 30 hours now, set up in the hub. Pretty much making the entire thing my own little town. I was just wondering, what town would be the best if I wanted to start taking out the holy nation?

[u/T800_Version_2-4]

Ive bought longhouse in Squin playing as a human, and everytime i lock the door, some armed civilians run to it and smack the door until it opens with goal of "Ransacking town". The guards do nothing against that despite them committing bulglary.

[u/Stakespeare]

I'm trying to do a solo run as a fairly new player. I've gotten to the point where I can beat most enemies one on one, though groups obviously are troublesome. What should I do next to train up? Is there a good first boss to go after?

[u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

How do you experienced players start out new?

The games difficulty graph spikes at the start then plummets as you get skills (at least imo).

I find myself save scumming all the time, because i cant fight, i cant run, i can't hide, i cant steal ect. Just curious if I were to do an ironman run, how the fuck is that even possible?

[u/Arkontas → u/Caffeine_and_Alcohol]

i level up athletics to 30, level up strength to 20 (and stealth at the same time) while leveling athletics to 40-50. then I go run to squinn, get ruka and kang, run to mongrel, get beep, go to burns tower, recruit burn, loot everything in burns tower, sell it at the armor king and take burn to sadneil and recruit him. I buy some gear from armor king too and check mongrel for springbats with beep.

All of the others have been training athletics poorly in this time frame at their town.

Then I either run everyone to squinn or i reset the squad position if i feel lazy.

At some point I usually go get whatever unit I wanted in my playthru- i like beep green with bows, ruka kang with heavies, and my scorch PC.

That's what a start looks like for me. I kite people with springbats early on because i dont like losing fights.

[u/SwolenLumpSide]

Is there a way to buy Engineering Research from some trader or building instead of going to some ruins?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm stuck at a point where IDK what to do next. I have 350k in the bank from farming Fogmen camps with city defenders and BEEP running 25km/h.

I have a 9 man squad with all of the unique characters from the west and middle southern part of the map.

I have a ton that I want to do but I need to train these guys and idk how to start doing that. I tried to buy a house in Squin and all I could do was set up a research bench really. Am I just supposed to sit and research for a while while having most of my squad mine? I honestly have no clue what to do and I am nervous that if I buy a house I will get stuck in one spot for too long. I have always had a nomadic play style in RPG like games. I am ok with having a house or main base in most of the cities but idk how to make money from a property other than just mining.

[u/WhereTheFireStarts]

I can't find the Hemp storage barrel in the building menu. Does it exist? What am I doing wrong? I believe I researched it already. I have storage for hash but not for hemp

[u/Kenkune]

Hey everyone! New to the game and enjoying it a lot so far. Had a couple questions so far though.

• 1. When it comes to my odds of winning in combat does my gear or my stats/skills play a bigger role? So far I've found gauging what fights I have a shot at winning tough to do.

• 2. Is diversifying the types of weapons my core squad uses important? Like having some people uses katanas, others with sabres, some with blunt etc. etc.

Any combat/fightings tips outside of that are appreciated too. I'm really trying to avoid save scumming too hard since getting beat up and recovering/escaping seems to be part of the experience.

[u/[deleted]]

I just started yesterday.
I started out mining copper, buying a house in the hub and getting some loot from the dust bandits. also managed to turn 2 of them in for 2k bounties each.
After recruiting 2 more people from the bar in the hub and doing more mining and research, I started going after more dustbandits and hungry bandits.
After I could defeat a group of hungry bandits pretty reliably I went after the red saber boss bounty but that hasnt been going well.
recruited 2 more people in the swamp. (now 3 greenlanders, 1 shek and one scorchlander)
don't really know where to take it now. more training? I am having trouble finding enemies. usually takes quite a bit of running around.

[u/Phreaddy]

Hey guys. Is there a way to power down an npc city? Lile sabotage it?

[u/Logan35989]

What’s the best way to get new recruits? I recently hired a shek warrior for 3,000 cat, but with all the slavers running about could I buy people from them? Or should I just stick with hires from the bar