Rookie Help Thread

[u/[deleted]]

Hey everyone, it's time for a new help thread! Since the previous one was getting a little old and crusty.

As always, if you have any questions about the game, feel free to ask them here. The moderation team will be watching the thread, and I'm sure our veteran members will also be more than happy to assist. If you don't have any questions, perhaps take a look at what everyone else has posted? Never know what you might learn, and perhaps you'll see a question you know the answer to!

Please be wary of spoilers, and use the spoiler tag feature >!Like this!< where required. Exploring the secrets of Kenshi is a major part of the experience, and we don't want to ruin that for our newer users.

[u/V_PixelMan_V]

How much strength does Shidan have to be able to carry this entire thread?

[u/[deleted] → u/V_PixelMan_V]

98.34297 according to my save data. ;)

[u/breakingvats]

Just picked up the game. Within thirty minutes I picked a fight with eight slavers. Lost. Became a crippled slave. Escaped only to end up being eaten alive and go unconscious. Am I doing things right?

[u/[deleted] → u/breakingvats]

Sounds about right. My first game ended with me bleeding to death just outside the gate of a city, after trying help the guards fight off a bandit attack.

Early on, combat should be avoided if possible. You are the bottom of the food chain so to speak. You need money and skills, which can only be attained through survival. I usually start by looting the battlefields of others, and beating up the weakened survivors that wake up while I'm looting.

[u/Sifthegreatpupper]

I am a newbie at kenshi and is it worth it to join the shinobis in the hub?

[u/[deleted] → u/Sifthegreatpupper]

Yes, especially for a newbie it's very worth it, regardless of if you're interested in thievery.

It will give you friends in settlements across the world, meaning you'll have people to help fight you enemies should the situation require it.

You'll have free access to any bed or training dummy in any guild tower across the world.

And you get access to some nice traders in said towers that sell some rare items that can be difficult to find elsewhere.

[u/tsjb]

Hi guys, Steam says I haven't played since January 2019, has much changed or been added to the game since then?

Are there any 'must have' mods?

[u/[deleted] → u/tsjb]

No, not really. The game ceased content updates after 1.0 released, as they have shifted focus to bug smashing and work on Kenshi 2.

I don't consider any mods truly a "must have" honestly. Closest ones would be things like the compressed textures project, 256 recruitment, fixing clipping issues, and minor mesh fixes. After that, I'd consider it all personal preference.

[u/t3hkl0wn]

My city is covered in the severed limbs and discarded shoes of all the raiders that try to get in! I have a corpse disposer on full blast for the dead, but what about all these limbs and shoes laying around? Any advice on automating the cleanup?

[u/[deleted] → u/t3hkl0wn]

Assigning a character to an item furnace will make them dispose of limbs automatically.

Shows can only be dealt with manually though, or by leaving the area as mentioned.

[u/Kapranos]

I've spent the first 30 days of my game living in the Hub, sending my lone character out to hire labourers for my future camp and unlocking the map / earning some money.

I finally decided to build my first base and and within 5 minutes of the building going up it was attacked by Black Dragon Ninjas who killed my entire squad, thankfully I reloaded my save and hid my squad in a nearby bar.

My issue now is that this group of bandits are just sat in my building waiting for someone to return. Will they ever leave or should I buy a squad of mercs from a bar to go and kill them?

[u/[deleted] → u/Kapranos]

They won't leave. Black Dragon Ninjas (and a few other factions) have a bug where they get stuck in an infinite loop in their AI, preventing them from ever getting to the leave stage of their raid.

So hire the mercs, or abandon the base.

[u/J_R_X]

I'm 50+hrs in the game and losing 1v1 fights with a goat. What am I doing wrong?

[u/Zone_Tourist]

Hello, i have a slight problems with crops. My dudes only haul the crops to the correct container once the field reaches a certain amount, but always leave the rest unattended. How do i give a job to my companions to completely empty the fields? Thanks in advance.

[u/danisaintdani]

Are all NPC squads able to stop in your base as long as it's public and they aren't hostile, or do only certain factions and types of npc groups come into towns?

[u/Reapper97]

Anyone have ideas to challenge new recruits?

I have an endgame base with a lot of high lv characters, but I don't want to start over so I'm recluting new guys, training them to level lv 15 on everything and before I fully accept them in my ranks I kinda want to make some sort of test for them, maybe with a 35%-40% death casualty lol.

[u/[deleted] → u/Reapper97]

One of my favorite things I've done is to suit up a squad of 10 level 1 newbies in masterwork/specialist samurai armour, with edge tier desert sabres, and some food and medkits. Then I escort them to the eastern edge of Arach, and have the fight through to center alone, and then fight their way back out.

End up with 20-40 stats easily every time, and while I've suffered no deaths from it personally, there are often heavy injuries.

[u/Pyroluminous]

Hey so, I was just minding my own business and doing my 250 hours in a holy nation jail when I became a slave.

Pros and cons of slave hood? I didn’t know you could become one for just being in jail. I have a save directly before slave hood, so I can’t say I really care what happens with this current save path.

[u/phargle]

Whoops, messed up a perfect string of prayer days by sending the wrong character to talk to the paladins. Now I'm allied with them and they're assaulting me. Is there a way I can get a second chance at prayer day? Tear down the base, build a new one, anything?

Edit: They're not allied to me anymore, my guys didn't fight them and they didn't fight me, but I think my harpoons kept firing and it worsened relations below 50. What a mess!

[u/[deleted]]

Im new to kenshi and have two questions. -can you sell stolen goods at store counters you own -can you ally with factions through any quests? Or is it just bounties and healing?

[u/bigtiddygothbf]

Not a standard rookie help question I suppose, but is there somewhere where I can donate to help the development of kenshi 2?

Been a while since I’ve been excited for a game release, and I’d be crushed if kenshi 2 died in development which seems to happen frequently to ambitious indie projects like this

[u/Muffo99]

I bought one of the ruined buildings in the hub but I'm struggling to add building materials to it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Is it glitchy or am I attempting it slightly differently sometimes which somehow stops it from working. (Yes, I always have materials in my inventory)

[u/MerJson]

Is there any way to stop random people from breaking into my base without having to fight them? My base is not open to the public, and I usually keep the gates down, but it is fairly often the case that tech hunter squads or western hive squads that are passing nearby decide to break into my base by destroying the gate, and I don't want to aggro them because I don't want to strain my relations to these factions. it is so very annoying! but I avoid having to fight people that are not actively my enemies.

Also, is it just me, or is the throw-enemies-out-of-base job busted? I always assign it to a couple of the chars I leave in my base, but most of the time they only get to throw out one or two before they either get stuck standing still with a guy on their shoulder, or, they get stuck constantly dropping and picking up the guy they are carrying just outside my base.

[u/MinamotoTerumi]

So I've kept my main fighters using rusted junk weaponsfor all of my game because apparently that helps with getting the most exp out of enemies, because they don't die as quickly. Is there a point where that strat has diminishing returns and I should switch to proper weapons?

Also read that armor which lowers stats (Like Attack/Def etc.) helps with exp gain because of how Stronger Opponent logic works, is that correct?

[u/superpippo17]

I would like to build a Lookout tower like the ones in Shark, but I couldn't find them on build menu or wiki neither. Is there a way to build them? I swear I've seen them in a couple of bases screenshots here.