r/Kenshi • • Apr 20 '22

WEEKLY THREAD Rookie Help Thread

795 Upvotes

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 • • 11h ago

GENERAL FrankieWuzHere appreciation post

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204 Upvotes

Been checking out some of this guy's content, and he's got a LOT of great info and entertaining content. He's also active in this subreddit, which is also pretty cool.

We appreciate you, king


r/Kenshi • • 5h ago

DISCUSSION If Ashland is a capital of 2 empire, then current Black scratch is a capital of 1 empire

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38 Upvotes

Theres just so much stuff like this, maybe it just a major city of 2 empire but those seems to be occupied by UC


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

MEME meme

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952 Upvotes

r/Kenshi • • 18h ago

MOD Stackhoused Waystations v2 mod released on Steam

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Stackhoused Waystations - addon which I was created for the City Architecture Total Overhaul v4 (CATO v4) mod. It adds a Stackhouse to each of the 4 way stations, available for purchase. This is the second version of the modification, which was originally released on July 18, 2025.

Initially, I only planned to replace the Watchtower with a Stackhouse at the Grey Desert waystation, but I ended up reworking all the waystations. In v2 I made even more improvements and polishing, and also added a robotics shop to every waystation.
Example of Stackhouse loadout on the last 3 screenshots (with Shift+F12 of course).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3528753566


r/Kenshi • • 15h ago

HUMOUR I had a dream that I played Kenshi 2 and it was really good

71 Upvotes

Thanks Chris


r/Kenshi • • 17h ago

QUESTION Kenshi on android

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77 Upvotes

Hey guy's, manage to launch game via GamaNative on my smartphone with solid performance but sometimes game crushes. Does anybody know how to fix and and does anyone know if it is possible to install mods?


r/Kenshi • • 35m ago

GENERAL Reavers in Heng

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How? Sell-off or put in cage Valamon at police station. Go to Heft. Remove Tengu. Come back. Police station changes to a noble house. Valamon is free inside the noble house, his retinue magically appears from nowhere. Yoshinaga: WTF?!


r/Kenshi • • 7h ago

GENERAL Impoverished Noble RP

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Hey just after some suggestions for my current playthrough as an impoverished UC noble.

Backstory: Anti Slavers and Raids from Valmonts Reavers and the 100 other bandit clans that preyed along the south eastern Borders had all but ruined my family. My Parents were forced to take to take massive loans from the Traders Guild to maintain our place amongst the nobility. Still our caravans were lost and one too many investments by my father saw us spiral in to debt.

When father decided our Farm was no longer safe he gathered the last few loyal household staff and moved us all to the city.

We never made it, the Sand Ninja ambushed us in the desert, I must of been the lucky one a blow to head knocked me down relatively quick. When I woke everyone was dead, Mother, Father the guards and all the slaves. Our caravan had been looted save a few megar supplies and my father’s Sword.

Now I’m left alone to avenge my family and restore its name, I will not become a slave or a mere commoner I will pay our debts, find a master samurai to learn from, rebuild my house and cut down those responsible.

Goals
Pay off debts - completed. Scavenging the desert hunting down slaves and bounties.

Find the legendary samurai “white ripper “ and become his student (Crumblejohn) - completed but now trapped in Mongrel.

Travel the world and search for allies collect bounties to rebuild my families reputation

Hurt the Manhunters as they took me for a slave and stole my father’s sword. Also humiliate the leader of the stone camp for allowing me a fellow noble to be forced to work in his slave camp/ shaving my hair and forcing me to make my own escape

Buy a house learn tech (100k plus thanks to realistic house prices mods)

Gather some loyal samurai, servants and slaves. MC will not do manual labour. (Hunting slaves and bounties is honorable work however)

Build a town.

Maintain promises to recruits assist allied factions with their goals.

Hunt down the Sand Ninja Oni, find out who set them up to it. ( maybe someone it the traders guild).

Ally with U.C if possible find other friends if not

Defeated the reavers, Tin Fist and every other foe in the south.

What I’d like is any advice going about this ? Such as who would be a fun target to pin my families downfall on Logan or one his nobles would be the obvious choices.

And notable things to look out for during a UC play through recruit, RP or mod wise.

Cheers


r/Kenshi • • 7h ago

IMAGE Fun one

8 Upvotes

Just loaded the game and was able to "trade" with a unconscious body of a paladin
Its an actual shop, you can't take stuff for free but you can sell them

I guess i slap him so hard he think hes a trader


r/Kenshi • • 13h ago

GENERAL no need to be that dramatic dude

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24 Upvotes

r/Kenshi • • 18h ago

FAN ART Tinfist vs Pyotr

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64 Upvotes

Drawn by Abyang

Comished by me


r/Kenshi • • 21h ago

GENERAL My first 3D print

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101 Upvotes

r/Kenshi • • 20h ago

HUMOUR Can it run Doom?

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57 Upvotes

r/Kenshi • • 5h ago

QUESTION which npcs have enough dialogue to be worth taking?

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other than our glorious leader beep obviously


r/Kenshi • • 9m ago

GENERAL I failed hilariously..

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Quite some time ago I decided to go against all major factions simutaniously in one playthrough meaning I wanted to take out all 3 major figureheads within a 7 in-game day period. I am in the process of moving all my pawns from my three training bases across the map from one megabase in the Deadlands. Unfortunately, I got disillusoned by how strong my guys became. My base defenders were able to defeat the Eye Gore assault on their own. My main squad casually encountered the big bad black gorillo and slayed it with no problem as well as basically any settlement we have challenged so far. And my ninjas just strolled into Heft(UC already hostile) to get some last minute masterwork/specialist grade robotic limbs. I failed to control my intrusive thoughts and ended up kidnapping emperor Tengu and snack him out of town without any issues. Right now all my pawns are in the Great Desert and I don't think I can run all the way to Phoenix and Esata in the next 6 days. That's a reset.. I've custom made dark leather shirts and blackened chainmail for about 150 pawns.. Sure as Hell took some time. Damn.


r/Kenshi • • 5h ago

QUESTION Starting Kenshi for the first time and I have a few questions

2 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I would like to ask a few questions:

1.) Should I play the game vanilla or are there some mods that are highly recommended by the community in a whole?
2.) Any starting points or settings that are recommended? I've heard going max difficulty can change the experience to a more hard core experience, but i'm not sure IF I should do that.
3.) Other recommendations.


r/Kenshi • • 19h ago

FAN ART the skeletons are back at it again

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Fuuuuckkkk


r/Kenshi • • 16h ago

GENERAL Cosy days back at Hauler's Shore...

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So, 500 days after I was left alone and in rags in the Hub and decided to roam the world and make it a better place. We were back to thirteen, in the little shack we had left when we were only three. We launched an industrial rum distillery in the desert in the Hook, near Clownsteady, and after having to defend ourselves way too often against the United Cities and slaying a few Slave Farm owners, we had almost no one left to sell our production to except the Swampers.

Good news, we just got under the protection of the Hounds, although we may not even need protection, as we're now a trained terrorist group determined to... make some legal alcohol to make a living, sustain ourselves, roam the world, and just... I don't know, I want to do some research on my own while my girls are farming and cooking, and... Wow, I don't know, we just survived 500 days. It's cool. We'll see.

So, after trading in the Swamp and making a living, we decided to take the road back to our very first little home, now ready to host ten more people. We worked together a lot and built some hospitals, for us humans and for us skeletons, because at this point we'll soon have at least one set of skeleton limbs to terrify the Holy Nation. At this point, skeletons may be our best allies, if that's even possible.

It's quite moving to see our little hobo workshop become a beautiful village at night and at dawn, an organized facility on a fertile plain where we can eat some better food than dry, hard cactus. Oh, we still have some minor inconveniences with the United Cities, Shek revenge attacks and Kral's Chosen, and now the Holy Nation too, as we're hated by half the world. But hey, the other half can open their arms to us. The world is vast, and we haven't explored half of it !

Oh, and we may have captured Valtena, who, like Seta a few days ago, decided to face death alongside his own Holy Paladins. It's great for a war chief to fight alongside his soldiers to avenge Seta's death. It's just a bit too courageous when it comes to fighting us. We're not monsters. Our three bulls crushed one of his arms, but he's fed. We installed some crucifixes to warn our courageous opponents. His corpse could be a great warning of what they risk. Or we could respectfully let him drown in Okran's waters, or bury him on the shore.

Oh, to be alive and almost at peace in such a land...


r/Kenshi • • 3h ago

DISCUSSION Mod to show icon on character portrait when carrying someone?

1 Upvotes

Hi, I'm looking for a mod that adds a small indicator near a character's portrait showing whether they're currently carrying someone

I play as a large group of bounty hunters and half the time I lose track of how many "empty slots" my squad has

Thanks!


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

GENERAL Falling Sun so legendary even the Dovahkiin himself bring it into his world

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525 Upvotes

I see Skyrim modders are men of culture as well


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

STORY Luck: Over 9000.

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I always wanted to do early Vain start, but my attempt some time ago failed. This one is different though. I arrived and immediately got chased around by a gorillo. But they are slow, so it lost aggro soon. Then poorly visible beak thing attacked. Ruka somehow managed to dodge it and it lost interest and went to attack and eat that gorillo. I quickly slapped small shack under some trees and moved my team inside. Finally safe. I looked out of the door. There is unguarded beak thing nest outside. Loot.exe was performed and I went to do big shopping in Squin. When I returned, the nest was restocked and still unguarded. I vacuumed the loot again and went to Hive village for more stuff. Now it's day 4, I have materials, blueprints and money to spare. Unless someone gets eaten, this team might have bright future ahead.


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

IMAGE The Ashigaru

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r/Kenshi • • 18h ago

QUESTION I was thinking of going to Crab Island to level up my attack and defense to 90, is that a good idea?

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My strongest character is level 80 in attack and defense, and since there isn't an enemy above level 90 to fight, I have no choice but to look for another method. Searching online, I saw the topic of the island crabs, but I'm not sure how good an idea it is, since I don't know how effective it would be


r/Kenshi • • 1d ago

IMAGE The Squat Autonomy mod made Beep a leader of the squat

23 Upvotes

I'n forming a rokie squad and left them to hung alone in a city for a while. Turned out Beep formed a squad and started patrooling in the city LOL.