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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iyas9-YHbM

The only future is acceptance of the claw.

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>>552324184
This pic could be a start scenario. Short Greenlander with tall Berserker wife. Maybe a pet goat.

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>>552327595
The human male milks the goat. The shek female milks the human.

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>>552324184

....

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There any way for me to remove this retarded rock that had vanished since I settled here and just randomly decided to spawn in again on top of my battlements and wells?

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Somethings always happening outside the base.

>>552348078
try f12 mode

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>>552227717
>>552259241

Multiple world overhauls loaded in, and I loaded my savegame.

We've got... Living World, Universal Wasteland Expansion, Equinox Overhaul, Reactive World, and various patches so that they are supposed to get along with each other.

Right away, The Holy Nation is back. This wasn't a new playthrough, so I can't be too shocked that something inserted them.

There are giant crabs in the Holy Land. Not in the middle of my camp, yet. Hopefully never.

HERE IS WHAT IS UNFORGIVABLE. They slowed down the scout legs. Not sure which mod did this. Is the creator of it just anti-fun? I will have to find a way to reverse this change.

...

So I ran Stumpy home, and on the way the game announced that there was some kind of farmers revenge on the way. This is at the back of two Berserker raid attempts.

So I looked at the map, and I saw some white dots both north of the base, and approaching from the south. When I ran Stumpy out to scout around, both groups weren't farmers. They were some kind of "Bounty Hunters" group. The one up north was basically just standing around. So, clearly these are like slavers, ready for the attack so they can pick off the fallen. I had Stumpy knock them out and strip their armor and weapons away.

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>>552361318
With the world full of new surprising things, and my inventory crammed full of building material, I decided to just go ahead and start building some walls. I can't completely fence in the valley, but maybe I can close off enough that invaders will have to change their path.

I saw another white dot on the map, to the west, and sent Stumpy over the check on it. She passed a herd some kind of new animal called a Paracer. It was quite large. My first thought was "is this edible?". But it can't have been the source of the white dot. So, just over the ridge, maybe 50-ish Rebel Farmers, the kind you see way out in the deserts. And following them was another group of Bounty Hunters.

We were outnumbered, so I didn't know what to expect. As it turned out, the farmers were somewhat feeble. None of my people fell. Also, at some point they started to attack the Paracers, who fought back against the farmers. The battle was really quite short, all things considered. None of my crew fell. Farmer massacre. A couple of young Paracers seem to have died in the battle.

I had previously thought about hunting the Paracers, but this herd earned my pardon, and received first aid from Stumpy.
I did harvest the meat from the dead Paracers, which some of which was kinda funny... and then some River Raptors wandered through. Larger and more colorful than normal, and they had a wider variety of weird rancid meat.

I was sorting through the unusual new meats, I checked on the kitchen, and found that the 5 barrels of raw meat I had previously, were empty. From the evidence is seems that some chucklhead moved the ingredient meat supply to the output finished food barrel. One of these mods introduced a lot of new meat types, and a lot of new foods, and... I guess my kitchen automation still works, but now I have a lot of meats that I don't know if are usable at all, and they certainly don't fit into the workflow that I have. How extensive the kitchen will have to be redesigned?

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Happy new year /keng/ here's my squad vs some meatheads

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>>552365753
literally me

this year we will get a crumb of gameplay for sure

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I'm getting the Kenshi itch again. I've roughly marked the places I've made home before. Where should I build on this new run for something different?

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Just realized Mogwai deleted his mods from Nexus too now, I have the ones I like downloaded but I'm curious did he upload them somewhere else?

>>552390296
Forget Mogwai's work. Goes around threatening anyone who reposts it. Atlas and Genesis encourage this behavior. The only thing anyone can do at this point is rebrand, recreate and decouple from Mogwai and anyone who willingly associates with the Genesis clique. They aggressively promote branding people thieves and climbing the Karen e-mail chain until someone ends up banned. The best option is to stop giving these people any further reasons since this is what they live for (control).

>>552378843
Cool armor, where's it from?

>>552381084
Try Bast

What was a very refined wah.

>>552393272
Yeah, but downloading Mogway's work - and using that work in the way Mogway doesn't want - is very kosher.

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it's pronounced ken-sheeit

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Having mercs is nice when you can't ass yourself to deal with the dusters.

>>552393759
Hives Expanded, the pants is just Samurai armor dyed with this mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2440370655

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>>552381084
I marked some of my spots in blue.
>Heng's tail
Comfy isolation simulator. I think that's the entire reason those islands exist.
>Shun
Likewise. Anywhere in Shun will do, I just like the spots by the river.
>Burning Forest
This was a Skeleton/hiver run, those with flesh won't care for it. It's more or less identical to the swamp except there's dust storms half the year.
>Sinkun
I *think* that's where that little box canyon is, but I might be wrong. There's box canyon somewhere up there you can close off.
I am not a man who likes neighbors.

>>552419756
I forgot
>The Eye
In a UC challenge run, I wanted to build a fortress called "The Iris" surrounding the fallen satellite since that sounded cool. I have yet do do so.

>>552399361
I heard Mogway just really hates when anons accidentally reveal how much time they spend thinking about him & prove hes the landlord of their empty skulls.

There should be some kind of Steam policy where a modder has to give a one day notice before nuking their workshop.

>>552427075
Actual narcissism. It's closer to occasionally encountering someone who purposefully walks their dog by your place and leaves the shit on the lawn but will swear to the end's of the earth they're being harassed when asked to pick it up. It's simply an example of a person acting so badly their name has earned the right to be brought up in a consistently negative context. Hardly the only one, just the most notable and recent. The Kenshi community has plenty of people who reasonably would be better off disappearing entirely. Their work isn't worth the trouble they create.

>A mod has an attractive feature at the top of the description.
>Then later on they have a list of things they claim to have "re-balanced".

Fucking hell, people! Can't they just keep things simple?
I wish there were more mods that were simply about restoring small sets of vanilla settings so that players could undo some of the large mod overreach.

>>552430803
Obsessing over someone & calling them the narcissist clearly doesn’t add up. You’re literally describing your own behavior.

>>552434005
I'm learning a lot about what it's like to interact with someone who is so mentally vacant that they just... repeat back whatever is said to them in a projected format. Wild. You're lucky breathing is automatic.

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How did Chris manage to cram such low-poli textures that take gigabytes of space? Didn't he spend more than a decade making Kenshi?

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>>552429390
Make it a week minimum.

>>552432835
They are being called "modniggers" for many reasons. Their inability to restrict themselves must be studied.

>>552437413
Oi m8, quit validating his existence. His sense of self-worth depends on replies from others. He is aware how stupid he is - he comes here to "win" arguments with "chuds" to fool himself into believing that he is the smartest kid in the class. It is the only place where he doesn't get banned from the get-go.

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>>552437413

>>552363862
>>552361318
Seems like Equinox is probably the main offender. Life might be easier without it. There's a part of me that is tempted to just push through the complications, because vanilla really does have a quite small set of edibles. There is maybe more variety now than I know what to do with, but maybe that means accepting fashionable redundancies rather than seeing it as a barrier to finding what is optimal. Equinox truly isn't intended to stack with the others, even though I have, and it hasn't crash yet because of it. It's basically loaded before all the others.

The food is not insurmountable. It just complicates the automation. I would really like to just use the stuff, but every new viable ingredient potentially doubles the number of stoves to add to the automation queue. But I can just give up hunting and they can live on the vanilla foods, or I burn through the extra meats in some un-optimized way. If a single stove was capable of holding a static crafting queue based on ingredient availability, kinda like the regular character task queue, it wouldn't be an issue, but the game doesn't seem to support that.

I don't like the idea of downloading custom robot leg mods, if only because the upgraded stats seemed a bit cheaty compared to vanilla. Suddenly they seem attractive as a way to return to something closer to vanilla.

>>552442378
>>552432835
It seems that modders that like to play like a pure militia combat sim, like to ruin other play strategies. They don't value the prep required to perform the other strategies, or that it might be more logical than the way they do it. They may not even be fully aware that Kenshi is a game full of situations in which the correct approach to something is to run the fuck away.

>>552450109
It's the bell curve of playstyles. The vast majority of people will default into treating Kenshi as an auto-battler. The game has an easy route for optimizing away difficult by just stacking numbers (stats and manpower) or cheesing (Crossbow R-toggling & assassinations). Micro management and strategy are a lot more work than the alternative of overwhelming numbers.

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How did your New Year night go?

quiet hours on /keng/

so quiet.

>>552458048
Very normal and typical, most of the family didn't even bother watching the ball drop.

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>beat Dust King
>go to Stock with female Greenlander and male Scorchlander humans
>jail vendor guy tells my girl to fuck off
>bar vendor calls Scorchlander a "dark one" and tells him that she won't take his Cats
i thought the Holy Empire was just fantasy racism

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>>552448142
If I didn't have too many mods before, I do now. I can identify at least 4 towns overlapping here. 2 Shek, 1 Flotsam, and one Holy Nation.

uhee~

beep

>>552390296
kino cosplay

>>552419756
>>Burning Forest
Were you actually able to settle there? The one time I tried I triggered the entire region to beeline to my base and they never stopped coming until I left because it was eating my framerate.

>>552480927
Crown ojou-sama, my beloved!

>>552480927
holy nation are fucking hardcore. scorchlanders handle prayer day fine though

>>552361318
>UWE and Equinox at the same time
What kind of unholy abomination is this.
Im very torn on UWE, on one hand it ramps up the action, but the world feels overpopulated.

I didn't know the UC can kidnap so well.

>>552517765
I guess I'm just fooling around to find out how well or badly they mix. There is every chance I will end up turning a lot of them off. Especially if they argue about the city layouts.

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time to bump /keng/ again

>>552514556
That spot is right on the edge of the high bonefields, I didn't get swarmed or anything. You do have to get it up and running pretty quickly since it's between spiders and gutters, and certainly with more than ten donuts.
Fantastic farming spot though, it's similar to the Shem/Swamp border with Swamp/Arid fertility and the added bonus of acid rain for defense if the gate is on the forest side. It's a quick run to the Lagoon for hash and not too far from South UC for Sake runs.
This is my Holy Sword run, so my settle spots were limited. I wouldn't have considered it otherwise but we *are* outlaws.

>>552517765
>>552523836
Yeah, I gave it a go, and I'm pretty much going to strip it back down to just Reactive World alone.
I saw some other mods about expanding the hive and the cannibals, and maybe I will see what those have to offer if stacked on Reactive World.

While testing ways to compensate for the debuffs of the multi-set I tried some mod robot limbs. It's kinda addictive to travel around at 103mph. I'm not sure I can give this up, now that I've tasted it.

beep

>>552552958
no beeping allowed.

>>552559420
Time to mod in a hive character named Honk?

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*sniffs*
yeah, it's holy sword start time

beep

>>552561160
Post screenshots onegaishimasu

>>552573042
>"Mama, can I eat a scorchlander?"
>"Only after you finish your shek, dear."
>"Awww, but this one is all crunchy."

>>552559420
*BEEEEEP*

>>552561160
I was gonna start that this time, but accidentally hit enter? when I hit new game, and ended up doing wanderer. got me a cool shekmommy, a pack bull and two little buddies I picked up for free (hive worker and male scorchlander.) might have to settle in HN territory and have a small farm! haven't done that yet

>>552584910
also, self-imposed stealing ban. isn't as shit as I thought it would be

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Fools... If only they knew the power I wield in my hands... 2.64 cutting damage.... not to mention the +10% bonus towards human scum like them! oh, and what's that? is that a 1.20x Blood Loss stat I see? heh... their fate is sealed.

>>552585071
I'm considering giving myself a no killing rule. Not counting animals, I would have to resist ever directly smiting anyone by my own had.

>>552585472
I can practically hear them screaming "NERD!!!".

>>552585671
stealth takedown run? I can dig it. I think I saw a guy do that

>>552586384
Hmmm.... when you say it that way, I'm kinda already playing like that. Except that I've been letting my extra characters do whatever they feel like when they have the upper hand.

Maybe I need to strip down. Just a greenlander and his shek wife... and maybe a dog or a goat. Meh, it will be a while before I start over anyhow, so I can hammer out the details later.

>>552587434
you'll figure it out, man. lots of goofy shit to do!

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>tfw I want to fully move to my massive base in Stobe's garden but the sheer amount of training my guys get bullying a near constant stream of Grass Bandits around the storm coast is so good it's hard to pass up

found a HN mine ruin with an automine. fuck yeah free building materials forever \o/

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>>552324184
>Kenshi 2 Announcement
the only thing I'd like to change in kenshi is how the chat menu is. I'd preffer something like those semi-transparent overlays used in many other games, and be able to move it around and have it showing all the time, It's a pain in the ass when my donuts get suddenly attacked when it could be evaded by just talking to some dude, all because I was focusing on somewhere else, or didn't even see the npcs were talking.

>>552589831
There is a holy farm that frequently looses its farmers to river raptors. I'm a little curious how far someone could go just squatting there to live. I think it grows wheatgrass, but I don't remember it having a silo to turn it to flour. I swear the game is kinda full of places that are almost tutorials about what the player could build, but are just slightly incomplete so you won't simply kill the residents and move in.

>>552590405
oh yeah. I know that place. ran into it on my first save like 'fuuuuuck save the cows :<' the couple of spots I want to settle but they always bug out with edit mode are the ruined holy outpost and tiny settlement in the border zone. those are so cool. I love Y-houses on hills

I don't care about kenshi 2. Sequels are garbage these days. I will enjoy the land and not allow its memory to be tainted.

>>552590819
I don't blame you.

>>552590819
based. I hope it's a damn-near clone of the first one with a slight twist

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oooh the other house at that farm is for sale. never noticed that until now

>>552592419
I haven't noticed that before. Could you have a mod that did that?

I've sent people to that farm before to grow and harvest the crops, and being them back to seed my own farms. I'm reasonably convinced that's the true purpose of the farms.

I've seen mods about indoor wells and silos. It should make a house in a purchased location like that fully cooperative with automated tasks. It's a real pity that purchased houses don't have some kind of build range that let you put things out on the lawn.

>>552590405
I found a farm in holy kingdom, but I'm not sure about something...
if you go and start farming the wheat, then the npcs start saying the "raptor eating crops" dialogue, but you don't get any crime for doing it, also... sometimes the raptors get bounty on them while they eat the crops, and I run allt he way back to bring a downed one to claim the bounty some times, but it kind of expires really fast.

>>552593249
I didn't notice the raptor bounties. I always just harvest their innards. You can grind a lot of armor making skill just by spamming turning them into leather.

Given that the crops are outdoors, I don't think you can actually get in trouble for harvesting them. Unless they've been scripted specially? I usually harvest when nobody is around or looking, because my harvesting person has robot limbs. They're like a public well in a city, where it's always a 100% steal chance.

>>552593910
>You can grind a lot of armor making skill just by spamming turning them into leather
Is that from some mod?
I don't remember being able to do that.

>>552594052
No, it's vanilla. One of the stations has just the singular purpose of turning animal hides into leather. 300 hides in and you are making consistent specialist armor/clothing with a chance for masterworks.

There is a mod out there to turn the foul meat into regular raw meat. It requires input time and water and electricity.

>>552594672
oh, I forgot they also droped skins.

>>552594882
In my current play I've got about 30 characters, and I've managed to get a farm and a chef and some crafts people trained up and running on their queue of automated tasks. I feel like I'm at the point where i can go AFK and when I come back everyone is still alive. I built it partly just because the more characters i got the faster they ate all the food, and getting food was deleting all by earnings. So now that they farm, money means nothing, because I have both food and materials.

I'm curious now how productive that one or two characters by themselves could be without a large group, when given the right equipment and programmed to be left AFK. The one sticky part is fewer people to resist raids.

>>552592931
nah the only real mods I have are recruitable prisoners and custom start mods I made. yeah I would like a yard in a townhouse too desu. bummer

What if the real mods were the friends we made along the way?

>>552604432
Well, I mean, isn't that what custom starts are? Building some friends in the construction set?

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>stock
>20mm MK2 hispano jam's in a 2sec burst
>need 3 unlocks yo make it not shit

>>552605337
they adding planes to kenshi?

>>552608589
I remember seeing some ruin out in some location like looked like a wreck of an old prop plane.

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lol jackpot, bitch!

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>>552324184
For me, it's tall muscular short-haired tomboy greenlander waifus

>>552625774
imagine the sons she can birth!

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Laquisha was defeated.

>>552652175
What mods to make my kenshi graphics equaly beautiful?

>>552653020
Ask the guy who made her, I only saved his webms for latina booba.

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>>552327595
it's funny when it happens randomly during a playthrough

>>552625774
*laughs in scorchlander/shek marriage in HN land*

>>552652175
Never going to forgive people for the engine limitation lie. OGRE is and always was fine. It's a resource, manpower and code quality issue. Kenshi 2 will require hardware that is dramatically more expensive and the only gain will be graphical fidelity you can't decouple from. The underlying systems have never required Unreal to work but it will requires thousands upon thousands of dollars to render the massive sandbox they're building all for the sake of 4K Beepface. Did you really vote for hardware obsolescence?

>>552666331
mein negger, I wasn't even aware of that voting.

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>>552666653
a likely story. say you hate Nat right now or else you're one of them

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>>552667210
I hate that jewess so much - I wouldn't even rape her.

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a blessed day to you, niggers!

I like being a drifter in Kenshi more than the base building.

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>>552625774
(You) wouldn't last a minute, drifter

>>552676569
I have at least 80 toughness. I think I can lick their navels clean before they put me in a coma.

My PC died
Back to my old laptop
Can't play Kenshi no mo.

>>552684243
my condolenses.

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>>552483064
Backed away to Living World and a patch for Living World that claims to have Reactive World wrapped into it. Animals appear back to normal. I don't see overlapping buildings. The fogmen are a bit further into holy territory than before, but not in a glitchy way.

So I sent Stumpy and Slink out to explore. Worlds End seemed normal enough.
I had them explore further north than I had before. When I saw a named town, I didn't expect it to be full of cannibals. So now they have some bounties, that I have to figure out what to do with. Gonna be a bit of a hike away.

I assume they are armored because I installed a Cannibal expansion. I also have a hive expansion installed, but I haven't seen the result yet.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4X9bXkKUJE

Scorchlander women are ruining my life.

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>>552691206
Turned in the bounty... and they've sent a cannibal horde to attack my camp. Found the blip on the map and sent a scouting party. They don't look especially mighty, but there are a lot of them.

>>552324184
Just getting started in Kenshi. Wat do?

>>552701264
Apparently they're meeting up with another group. This group has some armored heavies.

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>>552702268

>>552702220
Stay alive. Slowly expand how much control you have over your own fate. I recommend learning to run faster.

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>>552684243
big F. I know that feel bro

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>>552702456
It took suck a long time to "thunk" the group from behind, that they started to wake up and run to catch up with the pack. If they aren't all out at the same time, the attack isn't ended. However, Stumpy and Slink managed to disarm all of them except for one, so when they do reach the base, hopefully they will be easy pickings.

On the way abandoning the group, they happened upon a small group of Fogmen. For luls, lead them back to the cannibals. Hopefully this won't inspire them to pick the dropped weapons off the ground.

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>>552708149
They eventually reached us.
The Flotsam sent troops to aid us, and so did the Shek.
I also hired a group of human mercenaries.
Turns out we did alright without them, the help is kinda standing over there-ish off frame.
Cannibals canned quickly.

>>552709907
Flotsam looting the dead. Kinda weird she put on the cannibal helmet.

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>>552710187

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>>552698016
This is why I download mods on long hair. Villainesses must be stunning. Amazing. Irresistable. They must look like evil queens. And evil queens have long royal hair.

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>>552713027
Completely agree. I think of the imperial upper crust as being exceptionally vain and socially instructed to relentlessly select for success. Unsurprisingly then you have openly elitist bitches such as Kana who won't even show her face to or breathe the same air as the peasantry.

>>552714285
>openly elitist bitches such as Kana
sometimes I wish I could draw. I can, in theory, make AI sloppa "fan art" of her, but that's not the same...

>make a holy nation outpost just above stobes corpse
>Men fight with hackers, nothing else. Women make armor and man turrets, as is appropriate. Making weapons is skeleton shit so we buy or loot our hacker weapons
>Cactus only, almost no water, but highly defendable.
>Have to buy tons of food to stock for siege supplies
>Multiple defensive rings.
>Goal often expedition is to defeat the skin bandits, skeleton bandits and the antislavers.
>Get attacked by them all, including reavers
>Decide to kill the reavers since they are annoying and low hanging fruit
>They get replaced by southern hive
>Write to the Inquisitor for divine guidance
>He decides we need allies in the region
>The only other humans in the area worship fucking crabs
>These pagans
>Try to explain okran to them but they think he's just a really awesome crab, they're cool being allies anyways.
>When they show up to help they talk about literally nothing except crabs. And they smell like crabs.
Such is the life of the righteous. *Sigh*

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>>552709907
>>552710423
The Berserkers are on the march towards us again.
Seems like every day is a new attack.

Meanwhile, I don't know what the Flotsam did to upset the Shek, but they have been fighting. The Flotsam that came to help me are getting wrecked by the Shek that came to help me.

Many irons in the fire, I send Stumpy out to thunk and disarm the approaching Berserkers. This time, going to leave one of them normal. Maybe if they actually arrive, it will let them lose interest. But as long as she was in the area, I had her capture Ghost from the Berserker village and turn him in to the Shek. I wanted to be friends with the Berserkers, but they aren't leaving me with logical alternatives.

And I sent Slink to look at what is at a slave market. I don't really need more personnel, but I should see what the game function is about. Maybe if I bring something home, they can be used to dye clothing.

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>>552702220
>Wat do?
pick mods. Have fun.

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>>552722534
>>552722534
After having wrecked my protective Flotsam, the Shek that came to protect me announced that they had to go. This is just moments before the Berserkers arrived.

Fortunately, they Berserkers were naked and unarmed at this point, so their wish for suicide was coming true. They announced their wished just a few feet from the guards of Bad Teeth, and in front of some wandering warriors, so this was a momentary massacre.

Back when the cannibals attacked, the Flotsam were looting the bodies. Now the Shek are looting the bodies of the Flotsam. This Shek is wearing a Cannibal helmet.

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>>552725073
And almost immediately, a Dust Bandit horde arrived.

Should the game be spamming these groups like this?

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>>552725412
Sent Stumpy to the old holy mine where the Dust Bandit's dot had seemed to originated from. This dude seems to be the one in charge.

Quiet hours on /keng/

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You tell em, beep

Big large huge shek milkers.

This game has collected dust in my library for a long time and I had an unexplainable itch to play it. So I started in the great desert and picked up a rusty katana from some dead guy. Nice.

Half an hour later my arm got bitten off by sand spiders. Lessons learned about how to pick fights.

And lastly I thought I might have better chances in a group. So I scrounged up some skill 1 deadbeats and put down a shack and stone mine near the cost. That apparently caused various trader, slaver and bandit factions to slaughter each other almost every day while I leave my scrappy base to watch the carnage unfold.

It's fun.

beep

>>552757939
yes

>>552761493
Post your screenshots here.

>>552324184
>be wandering out in the desert
>a group of slavers notices us
>we're not slaves but they chase us all the way to Heft and then take us prisoner
>savescum
>hire a bunch of mercenaries
>go find the slavers and then absolutely crush them and take all their stuff
and that's the story of how i got a katana

>>552784198
Early in my run, I kept getting arrested and enslaved, and just about the time I felt like I developed the ability to escape at will anyhow, one of my people was getting carted off. I seriously thought about having a "ok see you later during the escape" approach to it, but then I saw some mercenaries, and just tried it on a whim. They cost probably half of the money I had on me. Made money in the operation, and walked away with piles of little backpacks.

Why is Fertile (the song) so good?

>>552784198
yeah I did this after they caught my slave buddy that joined. had cyber beep with a gun just gat their ass down while mercs tanked. best fight I've ever had in this game that wasn't cat-lon v. world

So who's better on average, Hive Prince or Worker?

>>552790401
The prince gives head.

>>552790401
Hivers are specialized. In general I'd favor the prince over the worker; the prince is slightly hardier in combat and gets boosts to all kinds on non-combat skills that make him handy to have around, great quick medics too. I get use out of workers as miners and farmers I can second to a big fight like ashigiru, with the hats and Polearms and everything. That being said they're hivers, you can get both and they'll only east as much as one guy. I'd go Princes for leaving the base and Workers within it, both make good ranged units but princes make good dex fighters as well.

Mods that make Shek women look nicer?

>>552800027
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2973033435
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1599736449
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1739
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/268

>>552800027
search face mods on Gabenshop. You can change the bodies without any mods - in the "editor" folder there are files of bodies. Open with a notepad-type program, scroll down, experiment with the numbers.

>page 10
Again?!

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>>552727298
The Flotsam won't go home, and the Shek and Flotsam have completely turned on each other. It's become a loop of healing. I tried to drag some of them away to a Flotsam village, but they came back and got their asses kicked again.

It's been like three weeks since the dust bandit raid and the hub barkeep is nowhere to be found

>>552833970
Import button is magical.

>>552833970
could've gotten owned, man. I've seen shopkeepers be suicidal as fuck

>>552833970
He's dead, Jim.

>>552381084
There's a little plateau on the eastern beach that's nice. Just north of the crab people town. North of the way station is a cool place too. And then there's Leviathan Coast.

>>552585472
Holy shit. That's literally me. Hairline, height, frame, and everything!

>>552829626
>>552725073
>>552722534
More Flotsam walked past outside town, and the Shek wreck them. My people have been automatically healing while they get back up and fight again and again. The ones that don't lose limbs are grinding stats. I saw them laying in a bed to heal while Shek wailed on them.

It's basically Shek vs Flotsam war. My groups rep with both is at 100 because they are healing allies non-stop. I tried to drag them away to a distance, but the Shek followed and wreck them there too.

These factions are coded to loot the fallen in a battle. They must have caught each other looting each other back when the cannibals were around. >>552710423

I might have to move just to get away from it all.

yeah, I started out a solo beep-kun game, but I think it would be really fun to only recruit doots and be full martial arts wearing those sick dustcoats. stylish af

>>552845194
I think I saw a mod that give hivers the martial arts bindings.

>>552845457
that'd look cool. I just stole him a vest from armor kiiiiiing

When you wipe out a faction, the game should send one last member of the faction to try to join your party.

trying out kaizo. seems alright so far except holy paladins run at 21 mph in heavy armor, which is lulz

nm, holy nation is assaulting the hub with a whole fucking clown car of rigged pallies

What's the most fun team size to start with?
I guess everyone has their preferences, depending on if you want to build a base and so on. After a brand new start I recruited 5 other guys and it was hell to keep track of who is about to die or get enslaved where. I think I'll restart since I didn't get far anyway.

>>552848797
I'm getting to where I like solo, or solo + all skeleton followers so I can train one and just let them idle without worrying about 'ermagerd sterveng'

>>552848774
Just be sure to keep the bar owner alive. It they're knocked out, that's your chance to put some armor and weapons on them. Just don't let anyone see you remove any of their inventory or the faction will get mad at you.

>>552850298
If you like messing with the automated job queue, that can be kinda nice for a big group. Otherwise they're just mouths to feed that aren't gaining stats while they idle around.

>>552848797
3-5. Try to keep it under 10 generally. I tend to get into base building so I've managed parties over 100 before. Traveling is easier the more compact everything is.

>>552850298
Getting some skeletons is a nice idea. The food drain was getting annoying after a while. Especially since I couldn't even kill a single bonedog for meat on the go without taking a risk.

>>552848797
For simple drifting, I think 2 is the best, easy to manage and it's much easier to stay alive than being solo. Then you can add more people slowly over time. If you're struggling with money and survival in the early game then try not to recruit too many Shek, they get hungry more quickly than other races

Cooling fan died. PC parts are expensive. Sorry Chris, I won't have money to buy Kenshi 2...

Quiet hours on /keng/

>>552848797
1 human
1 shek
1 skeleton
1 hiver

>>552875640
Luv me fish
Luv me drugs
Luv me toothpick
Simple as

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>10

A boring day on /keng/.

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>>552907998

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>>552875640
luv me stinky bog

Athletics 0 - 10: only walk
10 - 25: jog
25 - 50: faster jug
50+ : max speed running

Consider the following: if Chris couldn't ass himself to add the stamina bar - this would be the other good way to implement stamina. This way it would make random recruits from the "I was a mercenary\adventurer" stock with 25+ stamina actually valuable.

>>552913926
Neat!

I like making "factories" in kenshi
I got lucky and the scraphouse is selling 8 science books and 1 ai core
I'll be able to set up a sake factory in catun once i get 8 more science books and some kickstart cash
Funding the warband more or less

>>552850812
yeah I installed the cbt training mod, so gonna give that a shot the next time I make a colony!

>>552851716
I love doots as much as I love shek women. built one up about halfway a couple of days ago, and she was surprisingly good for defending a new colony solo with some sam armor and a nodachi

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Does anyone know of any good mods that let you take over the Lost Town in Howler's Maze? I've only found one and it has a bunch of different steps you have to follow before you even install it.

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>>552839935
>>552829626
Now the Shek have turned on the Mercenary Guild...

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RE kenshi is pretty cool, It's like a script extender?

This game is giving me ambition is pointless thoughts all because I keep daydreaming about being a hash smuggler who gets 500K

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>>552956226
what do you say, saar?

>>552956226
I mean, technically you could sell drugs irl.

beep

beep

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aw yeah we pumping iron now. fuckin animation gets me every time

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>>552969879

>>552987967
BEEP!

>>552324184
Just did a data transfer, had to dip back into the old comp to snag my Kenshi saves. They're all there and recovered, every donut accounted for, now on a much better performing comp. I've invested too much time into those saves to abandon them.
Now that I can afford it, what are some mods to make this game pretty? I saw one that puts heavy outlines on people like a comic book, that looks neat.

>>552995925
>mods to make this game pretty
If you mean shaders - search on the Gabenshop. Surely the good ones are popular.

beep

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>>552988335

I am reminded that there is no naval warfare in Kenshi 1. I am very annoyed.

>>553021736
No mounts either

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>>552890539

>>553016471
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

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>>553042214

Quiet time on /keng/

Does anyone use genmod? I fucking hate it but it adds some nice stuff as well. Is it worth having?

>>553056471
You are always welcome (and able) to sit down with the mod, make your own, find what you like in GenMod & merge/migrate it to a personalized version taking only what you like. You'll likely need to do a little massaging to re-implement some parts but an evening with the FCS has only taken out a few people over the years - you'll probably survive and have a nice clean personal mod to boot.

>>553056471
All u need is pure cutest trained 100 strength large 200kg 4k muscular nude shek woman party + performance.

>>552381084
Try Leviathan

>>552790401
For me it's the soldier
He's so wonky and useless I love him

Do any of the mods that fix NPC shopping income actually work? Even the noble in Catun runs around from store to store saying, "I can't afford that!"

>>553068249
Ehhh... Not really. No matter what, they kinda only want food and the most basic first aid kits. At the end of the day, it will never beat just running your spare inventory to a store and unloading it. Makes me wish the town I'm nearest to happened to have more shops.

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Total Starver Death

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R8 my martial arts academy

>>553072587
Could use some more training dummies, but not bad.

>>553072587
>reading books
>sewing
martial arts you say?

>>553073178
Industrial arts can be kinda martial.

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>>553068863
It makes me wonder wtf was intended with shop counters. I noticed all there mercs patrolling my base had 1 bread from when they first arrived but nothing ever sold after that, not even to caravans. I guess that's so persistent NPCs don't overload their inventory but then why are caravans so hard to coax inside? I tried some mods and moved into a city building with a new game but still can't figure it out. At least I can sell directly from storage to other merchants so it's just as low maintenance as moving it into a shop counter.. but I kinda just wanted to make a comfy bar

>>553074994
You'll get more city visitors if you check that box to make you base available to the public, and certain rowdy visitors may suddenly become well behaved, but none of it will make the shop counter profitable.

Maybe it was just supposed to be a monkeys paw storage chest. Like, yes it hold a lot, but every now and then some item in it might vanish.

>>553075217
Oh damn, never noticed that check box. Now I feel retarded

>>553046060
das a hive prince, son

>>553087050
stylish!

So Stobe is Chitrin right?

I wish leveling dexterity wasn't dependant on stupid fucking cut damage.

Alright /keng/ WHO is best girl (vanilla recruit)?
I'm a big fan of Red myself, since she was my first ever partner in my first playthrough.

>>553100238
>put beak thing in bed
>cut with a shitty rusty katana
>???
>profit!

>>553068249
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1581929438&searchtext=

>>553100348
I do that but train MA instead so my waifus look extra shredded

>>553100546
based, just did this myself in fact

>>553100469
That's the one I tried but it didn't seem to do anything on a fresh save. NPC behavior might be a little different. I noticed some buggy tech hunters in the hub getting stuck in the broken homes while "going shopping". But the problem with NPCs running out of money after a single purchase is still there

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>>552875640
>>552890539
>>552913926
>>553038417
based swampchads

>>553100242
imo, Rane. Ruka's cuter, but them skills

>>553100242
Agnu

>>553112004
location? swamp seems comfy
luv me banjo, luv me hash, luv me spoiders, simple as.

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>>553123703
island in the South Wetlands
perfectly placed between Shark, Clownsteady and Catun
the only issue is raids getting stuck swimming under the bridge instead of coming to whack the gates

so how do I become an imperial noble?

>>553130924
you gotta get STORY'D in /rwg/

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yeah cranking the pack size slider with kaizo was a dumb idea. "10,000 paladins in the showers at ram ranch" mode

Has a reproduction mod been created yet?

>>553139475
No

>>553139475
Not possible without source code.

I wonder if it would be possible to make a growth mod where characters mature like animals from cubs to elders. Might require the replacement of every NPC with a custom race, and may result in some features being lost (like talking, trading etc.).

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YEP two sheks training in my house

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just wanna thank [that one weapon shop] and [that one armor shop] for only giving me a slap on the wrist after stealing everything in my inventory. doots are such bros and want me to succeed

>>553139475
Someone will make such mod soon, Inshallah.

>>553132963
if your hardware is strong - you might as well.

>>553164653
some stuff is ridiculous but it hasn't been too bad so far. got the 512 texture thing and the particle reducer, so aint bad at all!

think I'm gonna settle in vain now that I have a couple of people with falling suns and a few doots with polearms. we just 3v3'd some beak things in light+medium armor without much trouble. they sure are a pain in the ass when you're a newb tho

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You guys know those slaver guys who hang out in The Borderzone and randomly enslave anyone unconcious? I got curious and intentionally let myself get enslaved by them just to see what they would do with me, and it turns out they don't just mull around waiting for you to escape.

It took like an hour of 3x speed, but eventually they brought my hiver guy all the way to Rebirth, which was really surprising. They didn't put me in a cage though, I had to break out of the group and actually imprison myself for it to work since they just stood outside the gates of Rebirth like bums. It was surprising either way.

These are the stats and gear my dude has after escaping slavery. My strat was to use martial arts to just beat the paladins since assassination sounded boring, then dispose their weapons when they were down. I power levelled strength for a while by piling shackles in my inventory as I worked, then fought at night if my health was good enough. It was a fun time.

>>553169595
good shit. I thought mining raised strength early on, so I was like 'hehe I'll just afk as a slave :^)" but you gotta mod that in. it makes sense too.

easiest time I ever had doing strength though was the mongrel start mod. infinite fogmen to carry around and the ore node is right in front of the gate. very comfy until they start flying through town and try to snatch you up while you rest at the bar lol

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First time visiting this thread, don't know why I haven't in the past. Figured I might as well share a little challenge ruleset I've been using for anyone else who wants to up the ante.

>1. You can't sell anything you haven't produced yourself. That means no looting guys and selling their gear and no selling items from ancient ruins. Anything you pilfer from ruins has to be used in crafting, which you can then sell.
>2. No stealing, stealth, or assassinations. You either buy or craft your own gear. The only exception is Meitou weapons, since they're unique and also fun to collect.
>3. No drug dealing. The days of running two feet to Flats Lagoon and making c.50,000 are over.
>4. No hiring mercs or luring bandits to gate guards.
>5. No water-gate nonsense. Not fair for the enemy to swim a mile through water while you shoot them.

I've been having a lot of fun with this ruleset, it really makes me think on how to make money, especially early game when I don't have a base. I have to scrounge around for random bounties or mine copper, and getting better gear is actually really hard since it's so expensive. I have a few economy mods and going from rags to riches is pretty satisfying when all I'm trading is homemade brew and rusty ass swords.

>>553178171
>First time visiting this thread
Hello.
>all I'm trading is homemade brew and rusty ass swords.
Makes me remember that there is no slider for the speed of gaining skills. Suppose Chris made the skill grind easy to make sure the ADHD zoomers will buy his game. Even at x2 production speed blacksmiths learn how to make proper weapons very fast.

update: killing beak things and getting riiiiiiiiiiiiiiich off hides. haven't even sold the eggs yet lol

>>553179416
People would always act like it was easy money to collect eggs, but I hardly ever actually find the nests, and they don't pay much better than anything else.

>>553190624
yeah like 4k a pop is nice, but you have to look a while for nests.

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yeah ol' ashley here is what we call 'dedicated'

>>553195905
What could go wrong?

>>553203427
not much, thankfully. black plate jacket with 90 toughness is remarkably strong

kinda want to mod the game after testing it the other day but then I remember the whole internet is one giant spyware now and nexus wants my phone number and im not sure I can be arsed. why did people allow this. same goes for youtube hoarding videos WE made and monetizing it, same for spotify same for every streaming service especially amazon which still has ads when you pay for it

waking up to a flat tire has not helped my mood.

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how do I get a scorchlander gf in real life

>>553001974
I found what I was looking for, 'Native Stylize".

>>553215750
and then your mod gets integrated into Genesis and they never let any other part of the community have access to your assets after you've left the community. the whole culture is infested with people clawing to claim ownership. creators plant trees and build bridges, control freaks march in, set up a toll booth and build a wall around the garden. the worst part is the latter will attempt to speak for the former and what remains is total ecosystem stagnation. curated (sponsored) algorithmic discovery and platform monopolization is exactly why people despise entities such as Google and Amazon.

more like kek hunters, amirite

>>553218774
is he STILL working?! When will he retire?

beep

beeeep

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>>553244098
>>553242178

beep

>>553168104
Neat. Post screenshots.

Needs a necromancy mod to bring back the dead.

>>553229880
>never let any other part of the community have access to your assets
You havent created anything, shut up.

>creators plant trees and build bridges.
Ppl like you just leech it, steal it, whatever & dont even appreciate when anything original or new is created. Ppl like (You) especially is why the workshop is stagnant

>set up a toll booth & build a wall around the garden
It’s not motivating when you steal work or can’t even credit the people who actually put in the effort. Your mashups of other people’s assets is a downgrade. You act like anything shared is communal property while relying on the same creators you refuse to appreciate.

>Genesis
In terms of "assets" everything in Genesis was made by other people, Atls didn’t make sh*t. If you want to use them, get permission from the "actual" creators. Even Atls managed that. Stop assuming you’re entitled to other people’s stuff you lazy commie pos.

>>553254240
I already did

>>553215750
>>553229880
>>553258340
>>>/lgbt/ is this way, faggots ->

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>>553259991

>>553258340
>steal
grimy homeless control freak

>>553262940
yeah pretty much. niggas gayyyyyyy

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXVIgmp2j8

>>553267704
Cute catlander

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wake up samurai

>>553229880
I think that era of toxicity might be behind us, people have left that Side Quest guy alone. He took another overhaul to keep updating it and he's incorporating other mods too.

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>>553281657
>ToXiCiTy

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yeah. I think I'm going to send him to rebirth to catch up with us this time

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>>553291089
You wouldn't...

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lol they let you just walk right in

>>553258340
The moment you upload something to the internet it's no longer yours.

>>553291745
They are confused and amused.

>>553298820
and possibly a little aroused

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>>553291713
I would, and I did
>>553301656
oh they're gonna be hungry soon. stole all their food. think I'm bored with this save tho. got like 12 people training in my gym and I just wanna fuck off playing beep. gonna stash all their shit and dismiss em I think.

>>553303752
I feel like my current play-through has lost a lot of the challenge, but at the same time, if I don't pursue to the end of the tech tree and make my own weapons and stuff, I'll end up chasing completionism again next time. I've got to get a lot out of my system.

>>553304361
yeah I don't know about any of that, but I got too many characters and stole them all edgewalker weps + the meitous off the skeletons so it's like, ehhh too much shit to work on. need to keep things simpler and steal less or not at all. I tried no-theft and really liked it

>>553303752
>filename
lel

>>553311404
yes

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lol found a cool spot for assassination pl. as long as the swarm isn't there, you're good at like 20 stealth. fuckers are blind while eating