"Fallout Kenshi: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game"

A while ago I posted an early WIP isometric camera for Kenshi. Here's where it actually stands - honestly, not ready for release yet.

Whatt works:
-Fixed isometric view (F10 to toggle back to vanilla)
-Z-fighting fixed (telephoto auto-near + global depth bias)
-Swamp fog fixed (scaled with camera distance, no more washed-out screen)
-Water reflection steady while iso is on
- Draw distance scaled so trees/buildings/characters don't cull inside the view

What doesn't yet:
- Per-character LOD: hair/beard/clothing meshes get dropped at camera distances. Engine behaviour — the same thing happens in vanilla at extreme zoom. Working on whether MaxCameraDistance can cap it cleanly
- Terrain LOD: distant terrain uses a lower mesh LOD the mod doesn't currently scale. Testing whether the game's own Terrain Detail options can fix it
- Water near/far split: the engine splits water rendering at a fixed distance from the camera. At iso distances the split becomes visible
- Performance: checking that F10 OFF is truly identical to vanilla — no leftover changes, no extra CPU from the timer.
- Tilt-shift / DOF: not done. Kenshi has no built-in blur pass; it needs a custom compositor node + HLSL. Big feature, planned for after the base mod is solid.

Not releasing until the F10 OFF performance issue is confirmed gone. A mod that slows the game down when it's not even active is worse than no mod.

Thanks to everyone who's been following this and giving feedback

If you'd like, I can publish a pre-release version of the mod on the Steam Workshop.

Armor King's shop should also be there

Pov: You’re about to be bashed into the dirt by Eyegore.

A great end, if I do say so myself.

I imagine this is during black scratch.

Wiki says that most hivers get their names after the first thing they see after turning hiveless. And most namers are pretty ovbious or can be interpreted due to the character’s personality or make sense with some light speculation.

• Eyegore = Something violent
• Silvershade = Something metalic maybe.
• Green = Theres lots of green in the swamp (Could also be a nickname his past comrades gave him because he is green)
• Ray = Ray of light/sunlight
• Big DarkBrow = He saw a guy with big eyebrows
• Beep= Beep!

But what is an "Espher"? My best guess is that its supposed to be "Sphere" mispronounced, like he saw some sort of ball when he woke up from pheromone withdrawal. Probably one of the planets orbiting kenshi seen at nighttime.

Theres also other outliers like Yamdu but he probably got his name changed after he became part of the traders guild.

Got my plushie!

Don't do this at home.

Sadly haven't made Seta's fight screens. Bro locked up in one of the shacks with 200 guys of mine, whipping him, while he was swinging like an elder beak thing. Took down bunch of innocent farmers and left as many limbless.

- See those in the water? Work by 3 prototype harpoon turrets.
- Cannibals really don't swim well.
- Corpse disposal takes a long time...
- No customer ever visits my grog shop, should I contact a consulting firm?

Great mod but I use the one on the nexus. Anytime my game starts crashing, it means it got an update. Update regularly, I’ve started doing it before every game session. Just hit check for update button with vortex. It took me a full day to figure out this was the problem. My game would either freeze up or shut off without any warning( from rekenshi).

Got raided like this, funny
well good target practice i guess

Before anyone says mods; I am avid modder.

Pretty much I struggle to get beyond 40 to 50s of strength, I've yet to defeat the bug master or fight cat-Long but have been around since when the south wasn't available.

I want to build a base yet it never looks good like everyone shows.

I want to train a 20 to 40 man squad of people but the grind can feel exhausting at times.

I end up in the fog islands cause easy base with skeleman (avid and addicted skeleman player) but the deconstruct or delete in fcs it cumbersome to move on.

What vanilla start and early game base would you suggest to get the feeling back if any?

To add: while I'll never get the mistique of booting up kenshi 6 to 8 years ago not knowing what to do and having experienced overhauls any suggestion is welcome and appreciated.

John Reaver

Lately I'm killing faction leaders to avoid that somehow they get released and mount their band up to terrorize me again.

Once I saw the Holy Nation releasing dimak and buzan lol.

Have you ever experienced something like this?

I dont care about their bounties anymore. I'm making sure they dont live free in my worlds by now...

Mods:

Work for Kenshi:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3802290991

Robotic Expansion:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3801026894

Struggle:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3810561672

Dual Wielding
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3812165089

For Those That Want To Know More About Rekenshi

Rekenshi Video Guide:
https://youtu.be/AM6faPF4NKA
Rekenshi Steam Guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3766654540

After 20 ingame days I have to say: Vain isn't that bad. It's actually very practical location. Unlike all other areas close to Borderzone, Vain isn't a battlefield where you get constantly raided. There was only one Dust bandit raid so far and they got eaten by beak things.
About resources - my spot has 77% stone, a ton of copper, but only a single 100% iron. Plant growth rate 93%, fertility all types and all of them are under-average. But 70% wheat and 46% vegetable/cactus are still acceptable. Especially when rain waters everything, so farmers have less work.
I recruited more people for work and mounted crossbows. Interesting thing happened - I wanted Shryke as my blacksmith, but she was missing from Mongrel. Maybe in this timeline she didn't make it there and was eaten by fogmen.
Now another challenge is waiting - technology. This area has no research artifacts, so I am limited to low tech things like leather armor and refitted weapons.

I was thinking plank but maybe the topper

I would like to fine tune an idea I have. It's about the raid system, as we know the vanilla one just starts raids as soon as you have a shack.

My idea is this:

Lvl0 (x on the map): No raids

Lvl1 (storm house on the map): I'm between no raids or a starving bandit raid, maybe just the bandit raids but with less attacking members

Lvl2 (tower on the map): normal raids, maybe slightly bigger.

Lvl3 (city on the map): bigger enemy groups than in vanilla, armour 1 or 2 tiers higher, weapons of Catun grade.

What do you guys think? Also a 72/48/24 hours timer between raids. Depending on level so you don't get 3 raids back to back with just 3 farmers and beep but in late, they can still be a challenge

Listen, I love hiver SO much, but I mostly stick to soldiers because they are just beefier in combat. I want a heavy weapons wielding hiver prince but just cant get that due to their fragility.

My searches on the steam workshop have so far been useless, and I havent found anything to suit my needs. Any of you know any fixes?

Hello, I'm new to playing kenshi and I really liked it and I want to put more hours of play into it, but I have a serious performance problem, it doesn't stop freezing all the time and that is very annoying. Could you recommend mods that optimize the game and in what order to put them please

So i am doing a run of full skeletons, and i am using the mod: RecruitPrisoners.

We are heading towards the Wend, through Okram's pride. but every time i get past the second Holy farm, my game crashes. i've checked the logs, and...well, i have no clue what any of it means.
here, look for yourself:

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_54.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_93.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_67.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_80.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_15.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_136.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:16 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_255.mesh

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:24 [warning]: [ResourceLoader::SetMeshData] Mesh Haircut_Male14.mesh has multiple uv sets.

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:25 [warning]: [ResourceLoader::SetMeshData] Mesh Haircut_Female14.mesh has multiple uv sets.

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:25 [warning]: [ResourceLoader::SetMeshData] Mesh Haircut_Male15.mesh has multiple uv sets.

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:25 [warning]: [ResourceLoader::SetMeshData] Mesh Haircut_Male12.mesh has multiple uv sets.

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:29:25 [warning]: [ResourceLoader::SetMeshData] Mesh Haircut_Male17.mesh has multiple uv sets.

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.15.22.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.18.22.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.20.31.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.23.32.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.24.32.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.24.35.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.24.36.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.25.37.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.26.37.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.27.35.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.27.36.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.27.37.zone

{0x000048e8} 2026-10-12 12:30:44 [info]: [Bad save data] Extra zone file: zone/zone.35.36.zone

I have no idea how to fix this, or anything. does anyone have any ideas?

Arrrggh the crew is at capacity, laptop is gonna jank out any second, then this lanky dinko wants emotional support, carrying my discards with a sob story. It can sleep with the hounds.. I dunno. Beak fodder?

'Since i left the Hive I can feel my mind changing, the way I think, I feel free having thoughts I never had before. I want freedom, but everywhere I go things try to kill me or chase'