{Shek seductress} editionPrevious >>552324184>Current version: 1.0.64>Latest important announcement (May 12, 2025)https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/233860/view/509579312492447178>Kenshi 2 Announcement:Soon (tm)>What is Kenshi?"A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story.""Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Research new equipment and craft new gear."https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/https://www.gog.com/game/kenshi>Demo Linkhttps://lofigames.com/>Tips for beginnersLearn to pick your fights, don't hesitate to run away and don't reload unless you die, any fight you survive makes you stronger. Building an outpost will attract trader caravans and hostile raids. Building one too early might be more than you can handle. Pressing F1 will open the tutorial screen. Mousing over the stats screen and HUD will reveal useful tooltips and additional info. If the enemies feel too difficult - get crossbows for your units. And don't be afraid of the RP autism - engage in it whenever you can. And do unlock the sliders.>https://pastebin.com/zw9fCJdC>Some modshttps://mega.nz/folder/x4d1SLwZ#i09S39AoukUkqYLtHaTWTg>AND a link to the giga muscle-girl modhttps://mega.nz/folder/6ZBmADJK#8uL2GFZYoLgdS6kBV0DJfA>Some moonrune mod archive on the LL Kenshi threadhttps://ux.getuploader.com/hentaibutayarou/index/date/desc/1>LL modding threadhttps://www.loverslab.com/topic/87203-kenshi/>post with jonijonikenshi mods (like milking mod) after he deleted it allhttps://www.loverslab.com/topic/87203-kenshi/page/48/#comment-4050418>LL mod indexhttps://www.loverslab.com/topic/172556-kenshi-mod-index/#comment-3450198>Kenshi Fuck Modhttps://www.loverslab.com/files/file/24433-kenshi-fuck-mod/>The package of optimization mods from Nexushttps://mega.nz/folder/XhERDCRI#37kPAWeA_LKfPTO-qiaY1Q
>>553340164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV_O1a2ptAM
>A legion of tall shek women will never abduct you for their own sexual gratification between their battles.
luv me swamp castleluv me rainluv me hashluv me spidersand most of all git the fuck outta me swamp
>>553351745i love the swamp aesthetically but goddamn i don't have the patience for it to load all the time. i hope they improve the performance for the 2nd game so i can finally live the bogdaddy lifestyle
>>553352013Get a better computer.
>>553352013yeah, my computer's maybe seven years old and I don't have any trouble there. Maybe these mods will help. they did in my case: texture options (512. there is a 1024 one)https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/113?tab=filesless foliage and rockshttps://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/54reduced particle effectshttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1470372482use steam workshop downloader + steamcmd if you're on a bootleg version like me. gl, anon!
Is the script extender actually here I saw some kind of plugin mod on the workshop
Hunchbacks
>>553340164Mods to try.
>play my Hivers Only run>ready to build a base>kinda want to build it in the Burning Forest, since it's a more central location and is close to both Flats lagoon for hemp smuggling and the Hives for kidnapping runs, but it also has no good areas to build>also kinda want to build it in Howler Maze, because it has lots of decent places to build, a nice big ruin, and easy access to crab... but it is pretty out of the way>can't decide, switch over to my Shek Only run so I can clear my head>remember that they're also ready to build a base>don't want to build directly inside the Shek kingdoms, but don't want to build too far away, either>do I just buy up all the buildings in the Hub? do I take over southern Skinner's Roam? fog islands would be nice, but it's such a pain in the ass going in and out>can't decideFUCK.
>>553370967Dark ui is slop. It looks terrible. The vanilla UI is far superior.
>>553372061Shut up, Chris.
>>553371865those islands above howler's are the shit. I'm looking for a cool spot for this new save too t.b.h.
Favorite minor faction? For me, it's the black dogs
>>553375637Mine would be the gutters
Berserker women are kinda hot. Just saying.
>>553340164big fat shek tats
>>553376565This but shek women in general
>>553375637the shinobi thieves have saved my ass many times
>>553350740Stop making me sad, drifter.>>553351745Swamp is a good place for chill playthroughs.>>553355082Mine is from 2018 - these mods can help indeed.>>553355730No idea.>>553357146They will capture human men. They will fuck human men. No women, human or shek, can stop them.
Any mods that make the feet prettier?
Anyone ever actually tried Odyssey?
>>553377450The entirety of their UC bases have been enslaved and dragged away because they throw themselves under the buss whenever the guards fuck with me. Will they all still be at nearby slaver camps if I wanted to break them out?
>>553386742Yep, it's alright though definitely left unfinished. For parallels, was a mix between UWE and Interactive World/GenMod.
>>553389532I wouldn't hate the UC nearly as much if they were victimizing literally anybody else lmfao. Every time one of those shitlord guards gets funny ideas I wanna destroy their entire kingdom. I have to force myself to work for them because I keep gravitating towards the Shek Kingdom and I feel like I'm missing out on content. At least the Shek's are dicks straight to my face and don't randomly shoot me with sniper rifles while I walk around.
>>553389532They will be gradually killed. Even if they aren't killed, their AI brain changed when they were enslaved, and they will never return to normal.
>>553377670mine is from this year, and they still work if you ever decide to get an updated version!
What are actions are performance hungry? If I leave 20 dudes at base? 20 dudes doing 1-2 things? 1 dude with an absurdly long tiered priority of things to do? How well optimized is it for this sort of thing? I noticed my guys seem to be getting worse at pathfinding, especially over long distances, as I recruited more and more
>>553401018If you have a food barrel, with food it in, they will interrupt whatever they are working on and grab a bite. If the barrel is near their normal walking route, they won't even have to interrupt what they're doing, they'll just have grabbed something along the way. But yeah, they will lose the plot if you have enough people. Even when it's obvious what they should be doing, they just won't do it.If they're told to work on a resource, they'll automatically haul to storage, if the storage is kinda near. If you give them explicit haul-to commands regarding where they put it all, they can extend that a bit further, but they may occasionally pause to resolve a loop. If things are too far, the stuff they're working with will kinda unload from active memory and they won't recognize it. It won't even be named in their list properly.
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>>553402928It's more the pack animals I send off to offload at towns just won't even move when I command them. Maybe having a guy posted up in NPC town, guys working in the outpost, and my own squad exploring has too much shit loaded at once. Or running the same routes a few times in a single session causing loading / unloading issues? idk. I'm playing it through a compatibility layer on a laptop so it's not very obvious. Hesitant to dismiss, but I guess it's what I gotta do
>>553408874Sounds kinda like they might be having trouble figuring out their path. Sometimes it's just one obstacle that causes trouble. Like, there is that one vertical river to the east of Hub that you might have to micromanage crossing over. Or getting in and out of World's End.
>>553408874>in and out of world's endah so these problems are not unique. stuck on that one dead-end fog island when going east-southeast out of mongrel too. next time I see it, I should open debug/mod menu and see if messing with the roads fixes anything
>>553410623There are some pathing mods around. They seem to do something. Either that, or I've gotten better at choosing where I click.
>>553374203I'm serious about that. The Dark UI just looks out of place. It's like all the modern slop UI in other games. No character. No charm. No diegetic flavor. Whereas the vanilla UI looks like some rusty old machine you found in the world itself with post it notes on it to keep track of things or some kind of white board that started to turn yellow from age.
>>553420580By Okran, behave yourself or I will give you a taste of my shoe!
>>553375637The Hounds are bros if you build in the swamps, they take their 2k cut but they work for it, defending your settlement whenever you have any trouble. And of course the ever loyal Crab bros.
I placed a shopping counter at the intersection of major routes entering and exiting Okran's Valley and a giant wall to funnel everyone though the market. It's been an unending massacre ever since and I haven't even sold a single meat roll..
I noticed the swamper buildings all have satellite/radio dishes on them, does this mean kenshi has radio stations? Big missed opportunity there.
>>553374304Gut is always fun, I like building on one of the islands in the bay. You can do the slavery trick with No-Face to ally the beak things if you're so inclined. Then you have free raid defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NIMwyZe5eY
>>553446836>old first empire satellites are still in orbit>surprisingly, they have archived audio logs that are still uncorrupted by time>due to errors in the comms software, they regularly broadcast these logs on a frequency that can be easily picked up by even the shittiest radio tower or receiver dish>the bulk of what gets sent out is just dry work-task related shit, sort of like listening to a dude read a fucking dishwasher manual or something>but some of it is personal logs full of drama and gossip, which generally gets talked about by the people of Kenshi like some exciting telenovela>and then, if you tune your receiver JUST right, you get the good stuff>like the audio logs of Brad, who recorded himself having sex with over 200 women without them knowing about it>so on the right night in Shark, you can walk into a bar and be greeted with "PLAP PLAP PLAP ooowwww Brad that's the wrong hole!" and the whole bar cheering
>>553444967>It's been an unending massacreWhy?
>>553444967You won't sell a meat roll because it's almost certain nobody patrolling through has the shopping UI & metal roll on their list. Shopping is and always will be incomplete. Let me cut right through the fat so it makes sense:>wages do not refreshSo even if you do manage to effectively weave in shopping behaviors & lists for the localized spawns their wallets are going to empty out. What this really means is the best (only workable) implementation of shopping is done in a mobile fashion, because sitting in one spot is the antithesis of the system we're offered. That is to say - the whole squad list would need to be picked over & updated, plus you would need to adopt a "temporary trading post" playstyle. Setup, receive customers for a time, teardown and move to another "fresh" area for customers with fresh wallets. That's why shopping doesn't "work" and the mods don't go far enough - it's broken enough to require janky adaptation by the player and considerable oversight by the modder.
Unga and Bunga.
>>553340164Is the cathay unit roster kinda weak or is it just me?
I like the crab bros. Coolest bros in the world. It's a shame they don't live in the swamp.
>>553469154>"Hmmm... I really want to fuck a huge musclebound bear of a man, but I'm afraid people will call me gay. What do I do?">"I know, I'll give him oversized clown tits! I'm a genius!"
>>553351745This spot is pretty cool BTW. You have some of the flora of the swamp, iron, copper, and a decent stone spot, along with some of the flora of the burning forest running into the swamp.
>>553481952ooh looks comfy! nice find, anon.
>>553481478lol
>>553459214most NPCs want to kill each other. even random packs of starving bandits and herbivores use these invisible roads for pathfinding so a herd of buffalo will roam through town and then get attacked by hoards of hobos, bandits, before a holy caravan comes through, and then the shek>>553460637yeah yeah, I know. It was an experiment. I actually built here assuming it would be comfy to have caravans move through town. But I assumed that randomly generated NPC groups patrolling the wilds like holy caravans might spawn with new wallets each time. I have a mod that supposedly increases their allotted amount and widens shopping lists but none of it works. I get the impression from reading old posts that wages not refreshing was intentionally changed at some point during early access and this shopping counter and all of these mods are just defunct holdovers from when the system worked differently
>>553481952you can actually see more than 2 feet in front of you the hell
>>553488632Naruhodo.
>>553488632No matter how many invading factions my group can evaporate in seconds, they still get mostly knocked out when taking on a herd of bulls.
A nomad trader came through and I bought all 5. Now I have their power for my own
>>553495265meant for >>553494063failing the captcha fried my brain
>make massive base with only 3 people in it>have no idea what to fill the empty buildings with I've made a smithy, a drug farm, a prison, and a big kitchen, idk what else to do I have like 4 more massive buildings to fillAlso protip do not start a base with only 3 people shit takes forever
>>553495265>>553495657Not the craziest idea. But now you should train their strength stats.
>>553497979fill it with goofy shit like peelers or prison cells, make a rp bar and sell food
>>553497979The more crafting equipment I cram into buildings, the more I wonder why I didn't just leave everything outdoors.
>>553499220the bar is a cool idea, i'll start making alcohol to sellim gonna need more people to harvest the farms tho lol
>>553501334In my experience the more useless decor you add the better your base turns out, like those little dividing walls that look like shit to seperate beds in a barracks. Or random ceramic plates on tables, or a prison pole in the middle of a bar as a stripper pole. Stupid shit like that makes it feel more alive, even if it's kinda pointless.
>>553501334If you're going for RP you could always reduce the scale to fit within the bar itself and done by a single worker. From my experience ~4-5 hydroponics farms -> 1 cooking job is the most you'll want to assign though. You want some downtime so they don't overproduce either and get their work priorities fucked and start hauling things 1 at a time
>>553505074How do you place shit on shelves like that? Shift f12? Does it stay when the area unloads?
>>553505504Those are the swamper storage shelves from forgotten buildings mod. I think this mod is all in-game buildings that we can't normally build. But nothing was adjust because I didn't know I could do that so no clue if those will stay. I'll have to try it out by building a swamper base later. Fine-tuning the walkways is why I never bothered but this will make it easy
If they made a movie, who should play the part of the tall shek wife?
>>553490258I turned up the view distance. I'm also using the reduced weather effects mod. Don't need it. But it was subscribed to when I had my old computer and I didn't change the mods.
The swamp is such a beautiful place. I think one day I'm going to build a big beautiful wall around it.
It's going to be a BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL and the Hive will pay for it.
>>553521765https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_B242bUsMEHere's a rough summary of the conditions leading to the destruction of the Western Hive and the beginning of the Southern Hive invasion, as I see it.>Following the assassination of Esata and devolution of the Shek into suicidal warfare, their frontline cohesion breaks as quickly as it initially formed, leading to rapid division and easy pickings for the emboldened imperial military.>With the Okranite lands quickly beinh subjugated, the Phoenix in custody and the priesthood brought to terms, the Holy Army is rendered defunct and ineffectual as a rebellious force. >With the samurais and slavers grip solidifying across the green lands a flurry of militaristic expeditions, some privately funded, others of enterprising bounty-seekers, pour over the hotbed of conflict raging across the Stenn and Kingdom's weakening territories. >It is through this regional intervention to squelch the Shek aggression in a thorough manner opens the doors to the real prize: ending the trade war with the West once and for all.>Having now sensed the extents and depths of Hive territories through explorations of the Stenn and into Vain... the Queen's location is eventually discovered.>What worked on Esata... will surely work on a frail female bug.>Curious. Where did all these Fogmen come from? That's not good...>Concerning. Where did all these Southern Hivers come from? That's definitely not good!And so everyone across the Swamplands territories is even more fucked than usual.
>>553521765Did Phoenix have to campaign to get his job?
>>553514921that's a good question. no idea I don't watch movies anymore really
Arranged Shek Marriage time.
>>553530129My Seto farms my Greenfruit hydroponics.
>>553525564
>>553530225She will learn that the sheks can just make food from nothing, by farming. In the long run it is the most valuable teaching she can get.
>>553525701phoenix is on the tengu list
>>553532595The Warden said it was on his desk.
Why the fuck is every fogmen death camp under a big piece of iron debris, I'm trying to fight these blue faggots and the camera can't pan under the iron scrap and I CAN'T SEE WHAT THE FUCK I'M DOING DURING A FIGHT I NEED TO MICROMANAGE LEST I GET EVERYONE CAPTURED AND STUCK ON POLES FDGSGDF B JFM I FJHGF
>>553534320I sympathize, but why stick around in their territory? They don't have loot worth having, and the game won't let you eradicate them permanently.
>>553535103>knock out fogman>tie him to prisoner pole>wait for princes to show up>KO the princes >take their heads back to MongrelThat'll be 20,000 cats plus tip
>>553535423I guess if that method works for you. I usually run around in stealth, and then just target the prince for a thunk-and-loot before they see me. The roaming legions almost always have one prince.
>>553530129enjoy prime shek princess pussy
>>553535423I just wander through the fog exterminating fogmen until I find a prince to kill
>>553544610kek
>>553556776Girl at work is like this. Her father is 6'5 and is the dictionary definition of bulky. Cue his firstborn daughter, who has thighs that could be deemed lethal weapons. She is exactly what I'd imagine death by snu-snu would be like in real life, except she's some fucking farm girl with a bull for a father. I'm going in, even if it kills me (which is also fine).
>>553578221good luck, anon! get you that country wife o7
>>553578221That sounds nice. Too bad I'll never have this because I'm a short man and can't hang around tall women without feeling bad about myself.
>>553587903don't feel bad, shortbro. us tallbois have back problems and run into shit a lot. I've almost knocked myself out a few times
>>553588551sounds like "woe is me, my steak is too juicy and my lobster is too buttery".
Stats are stored in the tits.
>>553590167yeah I love concussions you're right. they're so cool
Mogwai's race mod is back on the steam workshop
>>553597558That's not Mogwai's doing, a skinwalker killed and replaced him.>>553597118Silence, lamp post!
>>553598123lol ggwp
I set up on that swamp island anon showed and I have to say its a very comfy area, very safe, no fog, fairly flat, has stone on the east side, natural iron and copper, excellent spot 10/10.
>>553601609Post screenshots.
>>553597558Careful, anon. People have been getting workshop bans for reuploading Mogway stuff. If you need the mods, there are better places to grab them anyway.
>>553605036She just commented now to remove. What is her deal. Gets in some discord politics drama and decides to remove all her mods and brick up everyone's saves.
>>553605487They are control freaks. People keep learning the hard way that poking them just gets your workshop privileges clipped. Just take it down, move on & ignore them.
>>553605487Unrelated question - is Mogway living in Minnesota by any chance?
>>553606962No, Russian I believe
>>553606941I can unlist it so you can only find through a direct link
>>553607256Russian or Russian-speaking? The second category can live anywhere on the globe, including Minnesota.
What's the best combat build for a single drifter? Assuming you do very little kiting. Samurai armor + heavy weapon?
>>553607985If you know for sure you will be in battle, samurai armor, or at least legs, can help you keep alive and walking. If you value stealth, you need to pick something else. Someone that is solo, I would think would value stealth.
>>553607985The best armour you can get without dex penalty, fast weapon. Nodachi or heavy polearm, switch between the two depending on what you're fighting. Katana as a sidearm. Oldworld bow. Heavy weapons hit hard but their animations are very slow which means you defend slower and get hit by more attacks. Polearms and katanas have very fast animations.
>>553607847Not 100% on that, why do you think Minnesota?
>>553604467I will when I get home in about 7 hours, wagecucking is hell.
>>553578221oh god. i wish i was you
>>553609682Get off your phone and back into your cagie wagie. Mr. Goldberg needs a knew Yacht.
>>553448205kino
>>553448205Groovy.
>>553608631/pol/ reasons.
For fun I ranked the weapons, considering all combat situations.S tier>Falling Sun>Heavy Polearm>Polearm>Naginata>Paladins Cross>NodachiA tier>Foreign Sabre>Desert Sabre>Fragment Axe>Plank>Topper>Naginata KatanaB tier>Katana>Guardless Katana>Mercenary Club>Spiked Club>Moon Cleaver>Long CleaverC tier>Heavy Jitte>Jitte>Combat Cleaver>Flesh Cleaver>Ninja Blade>WakizashiShit tier>Holed Sabre>Ringed Sabre>Horse Chopper>Staff>Longsword >Short Cleaver>Iron Club>Iron StickFor whatever reason the longsword is way way worse than the stats suggest, no idea why but its horrendously bad.
>>553626265>S tier ones all bretty gud tbf>hackers not making up all of A tier>NO MENTION OF BEEP'S FISTS>the fuck
>>553626265Do heavy weapons have very different hit boxes? I swapped my falling sun for a plank and he seems to hitting way more people with each swing
>>553632617Yeah longer weapons have longer hitboxesPolearms are crazy cos one swing can hit like 5 people
>>553628443In my testing the hackers are all pretty mid aside from the paladins crossIdk just feels like if you're gonna use something so heavy then just use heavy weapons
Should I go with Recruit Prisoners and just make a slave tab, or Players Slavery and deal with its weird implementation?
>>553634118Recruitment seems better. Of course if you want a no-fuss working class, there is a mod out there that increases the number of skeleton recruits in bars.
>>553375637I like Reavers in concept but they suck in execution
>*knock knock*>"Hello fellow human. I hope you aren't talking about any Hiver conspiracies on the internet again."
>>553639653ashland goggles are so stylish
>>553638852i like reavers just because they scream their bullshit before fighting youYOU EITHER FIGHT WITH USOR AGAINST USFOR THE BROTHERHOODALL HAIL VALAMON
Any idea how much time is spent on smithing crafting per level? Is there some sort of autism chart showing the scale for XP versus time spent? I want to optimize crossbow crafting
>>553626265Now do armor
>>553644713I know that converting around 300 animal skins into leather will get you crafting top quality armor. I don't know if crossbows have a similar grindable, but if making bolts has a similar effect, I would think you just want to get above level 80.
>>553375637These purple bastards unsettle me every time>stats under 50 fool you into thinking they're manageable >instead they're lighting quick with the longest reach weapons in game>swarm like fogmen, will decimate your squad no matter how advanced >King is virtually unbeatable >exiles are so rare they're basically unicorns
>>553646553I like their drip. I try to dye my hivers clothing in those colors.
>>553604467its not finished yet and please excuse the dead raptors
>>553649240Looks small but neat.
>>553649240Island life seems appealing. I'm personally considering just putting some buildings out in some water and letting my people swim between them.
>>553646553Robbing the pink hivers is quite fun.
>>553626265I'd put all the shit sabres int C tier at the very least, because they're just sabres, solid weapons, decent for dex training. No penalties against armored enemies, unlike most katanas too. I also have a massive hateboner for the moon cleaver, whenever I used it my donut couldn't hit anything with the wide baseball style swing.>>553646553>>exiles are so rare they're basically unicornsI managed to find a pink prince in a stone camp once, it was quite a sight
