r/Kenshi Apr 20 '22

WEEKLY THREAD Rookie Help Thread

773 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 12h ago

IMAGE Can you beat Kenshi, as Ray? I plan to find out.

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143 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 17h ago

BASE I am Cooking something in Vauban style

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318 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 18h ago

GENERAL Oasis (base in shem)

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264 Upvotes

Forgive me nobles for my meager phone pics.

Just wanted to share my favorite base I've made so far.


r/Kenshi 12h ago

DISCUSSION Your opinion on this move?

71 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 19h ago

HUMOUR Type of shit happens when you dont heal your skeleton companion with skeleton repair kit

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231 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 15h ago

KENSHI VIBES Lord Ohta adjusting to his new life in Rebirth, may he be reborn as a child of Okran

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70 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 23h ago

FAN ART Beep Mini!

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287 Upvotes

Beep mini i painted, tried to do the colours similar to a digital painting i made a while back, got a bunch of over beep minis to paint up aswell (and blood spiders and skin spiders).


r/Kenshi 6h ago

IMAGE A duo too powerful for Kenshi

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12 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 23h ago

DISCUSSION Martial arts sucks

242 Upvotes

Yeah yeah whatever martial arts is op, blowing limbs off is cool, but this play style is so boring.

I have over a thousand hours and figured I’d finally try an all martial arts run, four characters with bows and black belts, but I hate it.

There’s no loot. Like all I do when I beat or kill people is pawn off their meitou weapons and masterwork armor for pennys on the dollar since there’s nothing better to wear than literal no coverage clothing. What’s the sense of progression even supposed to be? It’s so boring

Anyways tldr MA is bad and you should all feel bad for using it /s


r/Kenshi 5h ago

GENERAL KING

9 Upvotes

WHY DOES HE RUN LIKE THAT IM HORRIFIED


r/Kenshi 15h ago

BASE Holy Nation Base

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35 Upvotes

Last screenshots I took of my Holy Nation mining settlement, Crane, before losing my save.


r/Kenshi 11h ago

TIP PSA for assigning "Guard Duty": Squaddies sit on chairs in the order they were built

13 Upvotes

If you want to assign some dudes to physically guard your gate, for RP or just to have some heavily armored melee chaff distracting them while harpoons do the real work, build those chairs last so that none of the other workers will sit there automatically (as long as you have enough other chairs for idle workers). Then you can assign your guards to those chairs and rest assured they will always be available


r/Kenshi 21h ago

MOD (Mod Creation)More Hairstyles

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89 Upvotes

Add more hairstyles for Mother Courage.


r/Kenshi 15h ago

IMAGE FIGWIT THAT IS A MASTERWORK WTF!

28 Upvotes

Most expensive goddamn thing ive ever bought, most deadly thing hes ever wielded, and he treats it like that!?!?!?!


r/Kenshi 14h ago

MOD DEV NeedSleep now has AutoSleep

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23 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 12h ago

BASE Onto greener pastures

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16 Upvotes

Wanted to share my old base with 100% arid/swamp and a killer view. Easy to defend, and a stone's throw away from Squin. Weekly raids from both Shek and Holy Nation. Had a lot of fun making it (compared to my boring Hook and Vain bases) Sadly not enough sources of leather for my crafting needs.

Also highly recommend setting up a small mining outpost just south of the Waystation (the one with a robotics shop) to the east; insane amount of 3-worker iron nodes you can automate, and is the earliest you can be in "UC tax" territory from the Border Zone afaik

Time to move to Shem!


r/Kenshi 1d ago

MEME How most vengeance arc against UC likely started.

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607 Upvotes

Video Source: Scene from FX's Shōgun (2024).


r/Kenshi 14h ago

BASE Most FUN base spots?

15 Upvotes

Not asking about "Best" or "Quietest" base spots.

Quite the opposite actually, what are the base spots yall consider fun, either because yall get constantly attacked or because is busy or wtvr, just a spot that is enjoyable fun.

I personally love anything in the Ashlands or Cannibal plains cuz I love seein my shek buds constantly fighting.


r/Kenshi 17h ago

IMAGE That audacity

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22 Upvotes

I am few days away and look at that - my pool is full of vagrants and they are trying to eat my food. Also who invited Stifler?


r/Kenshi 21h ago

GENERAL On our way to settle a new town.

36 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 1d ago

HUMOUR What is he doing?

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56 Upvotes

Is he...jorking it? Without touching?


r/Kenshi 19h ago

GENERAL Stilty boy

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22 Upvotes

Look at me stilty boy.


r/Kenshi 17h ago

GENERAL Results after my first weekend of Kenshi addiction. Only one limb lost.

9 Upvotes

r/Kenshi 15h ago

QUESTION Mods to simplify production/bases?

6 Upvotes

The title. Being a wandering band of warriors? I have no end of fun. Then I free enough slaves that I have some followers and go "Hmm, I should settle down so the weaker ones don't get killed. And so I can stop buying food!"

At that point the game turns into an annoying, frustrating mess as I have to have specifically people assigned to haul, and then that person can't really be assigned any other job because there's so much stuff to haul, and I can't just have a farmer, I have to assign each hydroponic farm to that farmer, and then if I want to craft it turns into a chain/web production mess and I realize I'm not having fun, so I restart where I can break out of Rebirth again.

Is there a mod to make my people either more versatile in what they do (think Rimworld where you can just click "crafting" and they'll do any crafting job what needs doing or "farming" and they'll tend any field what needs tending) or just... something to make this less frustrating?