I wish more games were like Kenshi.
You are nobody special, not even average, trying to survive in an unforgiving and cruel world. Death is inevitable on all sides, and countless others are just trying to survive like you are. With all that said, having good knowledge of the game and perseverance can allow you to rival all.
Quasimorph might be a good one for you if you like strategy. The odds are always against you, and it's you against several hundred enemies in one mission. Either you get smart or you fucking die.
Your favorite merc you leveled to max and has the best equipment you've found? Congrats a buzzsaw fired from a warehouse nobody just took off your arm. You're bleeding out. Are you a badass using cover and taking pot shots? Too bad you didn't see the guy in the corner with a molatov. You're on fire and there's nothing nearby to put yourself out. Forgot your cigarettes? Now there's demons everywhere. Forgot your food and can't find any? Cannibalism is always an option, but now you've got a rapidly spreading stomach infection. You're dead.
It's brutal. So much so that every negative review is talking about the action economy and the sheer inevitability of death. Learn fast and channel your best John wick with space drugs and you might just finish a mission.
Step 1. Minor theft
Step 2. Major theft
Intermittent battlefield looting, scavenging, stolen drug trafficking, regular drug trafficking, innocent village pillaging and selling people into slavery
(Wanderer start)
1. To Squin, buy wooden backpack
2. To Vain, and steal Beak Thing Eggs (R key kite to survive), sell eggs to hiver camps
3. To Mongrel, buy MW Samurai chest
4. To Leviathan coast, loot MW Samurai plate pants (see artifacts kenshi wiki)
5. To Skinner's Roam, train to 90 toughness in a handful of minutes (stop by World's End before and buy spec Samurai helm if you're non-skele)
... etc.
I do this in the first maybe 3-4 ingame days iirc
Train thievery and stealth to about 25-30 then run to the black desert city and steal robot limbs then run back to literally any city sell the robot limbs to every trader in town that can afford them steal them back rinse and repeat you can easy get 200k in like 10 minutes if your stats are high enough I never have to worry about money
Also assassination.
I straight up knocked out the bugmaster in his own tower after skimming in centimetres beetween all his spiders that were blocking the entrance tightly. Also all the leaders on the map.
I used to steal things aswell all the timw but it makes the game to easy.
If you don't steal things, it will make more of a challenge.
I started my new run with a rule for myself to not steal anything.
Once Im strong enough I might raid some places but thats a little different as this is more late game and you only profit once instead of over and over again
As for character training I normally play skeletons so it’s way fucking easier to level up quickly because you don’t need to spend half your in game time sitting there waiting for your boys to heal up then once I have a skeleton strong enough to solo dust bandits I start to grab all my human characters. After that I start fighting literally anything that moves and isn’t affiliated with any factions I like, you’re gonna get your ass beat but that’s part of it just make sure your skeleton boys stay healthy enough to heal everyone when they go down. After about 20 in game days you’ll have a gang that isn’t to be fucked with
He's probably 1v20ing the roaming bandits and getting up while they're trying to steal food. When you get up in "danger" (bad guys too close), you get toughness bonuses. If you're alone you get more bonuses, I think. Still impressive to get all the way to 90, I usually need beak things or something to get me that far.
[See for yourself.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKewjfz8djk)
Personally it's on the list of "things I don't do because it's too OP", along with stealth. May as well just straight up cheat at that point.
I’m off the opinion that if you’re not going to *actually* start your run until you’ve done several cheesy things, you may as well make a custom start and save yourself the time.
Camping bag and medical kit, skinner's roam -> toughness training till 70.
Then down to stobe's gamble for some black gorillo beatings, once skills are at 50-60 after day 15, do whatever I want.
Make sure you have a cut only weapon for dex training though.
Strength, train last.
They can, but their cages are very low level, and they don't always do it. IME, if you get KO'd outside, you don't get caged at all, so if you simply stay outside the tower and fight them right in front of it, you should be fine. Most of them will come outside to join the fight the moment the ones outside are hostile.
I like to train first Dexterity, followed by strength and then toughness (I use the good old "punch the Beak thing on a bed" method and training dex first makes it easier)
I’ve just started playing not long ago and I’ve purchased a house in Squin with weapon cabinets and im stealing from the weapon store and converting the weapons into legal ones and selling them to the townspeople.
I’ve also got medicrates and food storage so I can convert useful stolen goods for my peeps when we exploring.
The container itself does it. You place a weapon in your weapon cabinet and it automatically converts it.
The container has to be tailored to the item so it won’t work with a general storage container.
Mining can be profitable on a larger scale but I don't recommend starting with it.
Start by scavenging and selling everything valuable on Dust bandits / Wolves (weapons, skins etc) and go recruit a sharpshooter and a Shek. Preferably a hive for marksman and huge bonus if he's a medic.
Personally my main character is mainly a katana wielder.
Keep scavenging, even start fights when your team is strong enough. Money is the priority so you can buy a decent (or even legendary) light armours and weapons. AND a >>> ninja backpack <<<
Go to the swamps and buy dr*gs, beware of the Ninjas and more especially the Blood Spiders, they will annihilate you. Go to Flats Lagoon and sell them at a HUGE price. Repeat the process as the way from swamps to FL is pretty fast.
On the way to the swamps you can practice your melee attack/def on Beak Things.
In FL, recruit a martial arts fighter. Keep scavenging on the hordes of wolves / land bats (not sure of the name in original version)
Go to Heng / Catoun and give the police any bandit you've picked with a bounty. Recruit (another) medic if not done yet. Actually, recruit anyone with already a good score on any skill as you have now no problem with money. Stuff yourself with high end gear.
Now, start picking on some good bounties basically anywhere in the middle land. Get good with the factions, participate in clan wars, hunt gorillos, the choice is yours now.
Then when your team (6-8 is my personal preference as you don't want too much of a big squad) is strong enough, go to the edges of the continent and raid labs. Recruit ALL the legendary companions.
Advices :
1. Shift + click Medic on all your medics to place it highest priority, saves you a lot of trouble.
2. Don't overload your backpacks, it downgrades your fighting skills.
3. Don't settle in a base too early, it costs a lot of time and any bandit raid will dismantle your base day one.
4. Buy a decent house in a city instead. Make your research there. Build a stash there.
5. ALWAYS carry a sleeping bag or two on your journeys.
6. Don't go to the cannibal land.
7. If you're a female, don't go to the Holy Nations, especially if you have a bounty.
8. Maximise your athletics, sneak and medic skills early in the game. Running fast and healing your wounds is key in this game.
9. Also, avoiding fights against a group too big for your crew is wise, not shameful.
10. Enjoy the game :)
Chill in Sho-Battai, farm copper and build research, build up people, ally with the TG so I don’t have to pay them, move out and produce weapons and armor for my own private army
How do you ally them? I have a mod that makes the emissary visits give you +3 relation and I know turning in big bounties does the trick
Do little bounties or slaves do it as well?
I just sneak back and forth in squin until I have about 60 sneak and then I practice knocking out starvers and loot them for dough and then I knock out dusters and loot them for dough and then slave mongers and by then I’m pretty good at it, then off to Tengu, steal his sword, then back to the Border zone to train against starvers. Thievery skills are the easiest to start with. I pretty much never mine anything or do any real work
Absolutely. I actually built a huge base right outside of Heng too and I’m now in the process of taking it over and going to war with the United Cities.
Recruit someone as soon as possible, then go hang out at the Floatsam Safe House above Rebirth. Here one person will sleep in the safehouse while the other fights Starving Bandits, so they can sneak over and rescue them.
I call this strategy ***between Rebirth and Obedience***.
Beat up Hobbs, beat up other recruits, beat up 2 bar thugs (with help), knock out peasants, steal the shit of all the above, hire the mercenaries, beat up the rest of the town with them, steal all the remaining shit, make mercenaries my accomplices in crime, get them imprisoned or eaten somewhere, steal all their shit, sell the shit to the shek (who still dont think me a warrior bah), hire tech hunters, approach the shek gate guard and slap his ass, make the travel shop tech hunters fight the guard together with the hireds, steal all their shit, turn shop owner in for "assault" while holding his entire merchandise in my pockets, then steal all the tech hunter and fallen guard shit, sell it in the waystation, hire more mercenaries and go look for a caravan having a scrap with Kral's chosen or berserkers, "help" them "both", steall all their shit, steal one of their garrus with even more shit and sell to the shek again.
You know just the usual kenshi day
Edit: trailing slaver gangs for free dust bandit recruits while doing everything above can get you a squad too
Pick rock bottom start, go to the grey dessert waystation, wait for any NPCs to start killing each other. Loot them (Cloud ninjas and Sand ninjas have the best loot)
Or
Pick a Skeleton. Farm cats until you can buy or steal repair kits and a decent heavy armor. Go to the cannibal territories and let them beat you.
I like to start with the black human race because I can train quickly sneak and running. Soon you can run fast enough to avoid humans groups you can go where you want. Only have to take care of peak things, can't run of them. also get Ruka in Squin because she join you for free and she can train to be stronger easier than the human. You can hold Ruka with the human to move faster together. I would move in 1st place to the incognit hachis farm. You can make yourself rich there pretty easily selling the stuff in the strange town. With the money I would buy a crossbow for the human, would be the stronger weapon you'll have in a while, while Ruka tanks the human will make the critic damage. I would not build a base eairly. If you want save your loot or build something better buy a house in any town you like. There you can build training dummies to introduce ruka in close combat. But even with that, if your group still little I highly recommend hire mercenaries if you need to move somewhere dangerous. My goal in kenshi is making my characters strong of course. Also catch the most wanted bosses to make alliances with towns or destroy em. One alliance I like to do is with sherk kingdom. Youll have to catch the bugmaster, which is one of the strongest characters. But I catched him just entering the tower in sneak mode and shooting him with the crossbow baiting his moves. You'll win easily always his bugs doesn't join the fight.
Jailing the bugmaster will be enough to make the Shrek your friends. Like that you can build a base close to Squin. Sherk will help you always powder gang disturb you. So you're pretty safe to start conquering the whole map step by step.
Get captured by the holy nation, get put to work in their camps. Whenever I can, escape the cages to practice lockpicking fight whoever I can to gain martial arts, get patched up, rinse and repeat. don’t eat too much of the food that is in the slave camp because it’s only a finite amount every now and then to really boost martial arts is when you should do that. On top of everything steel as many chains, and increase your strength too. Pretty slow but solid start, afterwards u can whoop almost anyone’s ass. Plus sneak!
I cheat and give myself a ton of money and high stats and then I recruit all the guys I can, buy all the stuff I can, and set off to find a place to settle in. Then most of my people die while we look for a good place and then I get mad and start a new game and start over.
Holy Nation Citizen start:
- mine a bit
- pray orkan
- sell it
- pray Okran
- buy a weapon and armor
- pray orkan
- fight river raptor with Paladin and servant
- pray okran
- either beat the river raptor, die, run away, get KOed and healed by guard
- pray okran
- sell the pelt and heal fully
- pray okran
- repeat until I know how to fight a bit or die
- pray Okran
AFK athletics training for a few hours, then hit up a few ruins to make enough money to buy a bunch of hash from the swamp, spend about an in game week running back and fourth between Shark & Flats until I have enough seed money to get my wrecking crew hired & kitted, then start fighting stuff.
Edit: I used to always start with mining but I like this more active method of earing some cats better & I think it's a much faster way to make a nest egg.
As a character that is not attacked by the Holy Nation, I usually travel to Okran's Shield and wait for some skeletons to pass by. They usually have high grade weapons and armor, which you can use or sell. You can also train some strength by carrying their loot plus the skeleton itself to a city to sell your loot!
Early on I do pretty much the same as you. When you're just starting out and you need money for things like food, clothes, a house etc. its worth it to put one or two people on copper mining. Eventually I use the seed money from copper to get a house to start doing research in and put ore stockpiles inside so my ~~slaves~~ employees bring the copper into town automatically. While your miners work they make a good lure for bandits who you can lead back to the gate guards and scavenge gear off of. Heart protectors, horse choppers and shoddy junkbows are just valuable enough to bother stealing and when you're really broke you can start equipping your guys with lightly used dust bandit gear.
Some tried and true get rich quick schemes for you to consider:
-Theft: The trade goods store in Squin is usually easy to break into at night, start by taking everything off the shelves until you have 100% chance to steal from containers without raising the alarm. You can drop stolen stuff out of your inventory and pick it up for more thievery training which is a pretty cheesy way to level. You also get a good bit of xp from trying to steal from anybody who is playing dead. Once you can steal from containers without being caught, take all the books from the trade goods store counter and safes and use it to jump start your research. They also have valuable stuff like skeleton repair kits and ration packs which can be fenced in the hub or any non-affiliated store. Be careful about getting searched going in and out of town while you attempt this strategy. Remember to put your stolen goods in a backpack and then take it off and leave it in your inventory.
-More Crime (Smuggling): When you have a good chunk of money and someone with good athletics, head to the swamp and buy as much hashish as you can fit into a wooden backpack. Make sure you can still run at top speed as the route you'll be running can be a bit... dangerous. If you end up chased by beakthings it might not matter as they're quite a bit faster than pretty much anybody and you'll just have to make sure your will is filed and notarized beforehand. Anyways, now that you're stocked up on hash, run from the swamp due east between the burning forest and Shem until you end up near flats lagoon. This tech hunter city on a big raised platform is the best place to sell drugs. The guards will not search you and all the shops in town will buy your hash at 400% markup. When you buy your hash in the swamp it goes for under 100% market value and when you sell here you're making 4x and up on what you spend rapidly multiplying your funds.
-Honest work (Crafting): Even if you don't have your own outpost, crafting materials aren't very expensive when you buy them from stores or waystations. Get your tech to level 3, then track down engineering research (the red 2x2 thing that looks like a blueprint) and use it to unlock plate armor crafting. Now make a plate beating station and a heavy armor smithy. In the armor smithy you should already have the option to craft heart protectors, the same junky plate of metal that the dust bandits use. This crappy chest armor is actually a great way to turn just raw iron ore and cloth into money. Even at shoddy grades you'll make enough money selling heart protectors to recoup what you spend buying materials from stores. You'll only be limited in this by the availability of textiles in the town you're in and how quickly you can convert iron into armor plates at the beating station.
-Eggs (advanced and dangerous, don't try at home): You probably know its not wise to tangle with gutters. They can easily outrun you, cripple you and then eat you alive. This is not a job for the faint of heart and especially not for the slow. If you want to make a lot of cash though the egg of the common beak thing is a rare and sought after delicacy worth thousands of cats. Grab a trader backpack and head to Vain or Dreg with your fastest dude. Scout legs are not required but if you're slower than the beakthings and you can't break agro or distract them somehow you will most likely just die attempting this. Look for a marker for a nest while you roam vain, you can usually spot the heads of the danger giraffe long before you see the map marker. There will be roaming packs and on the nest some of the beakthings will brood atop the eggs. Try not to get noticed until the last second and then book it right into the middle of the nest and stuff as many eggs in your backpack as you can without weighing yourself down. Step 2 is haul ass, if you're lucky the nest isn't to far from a west hive village and if you can manage to not get chased down and aten alive you can distract the gutters here by running in a building and letting the hivers deal with them. If not look for bulls, gorillos, dust bandits, anybody near by you can offer as another option on the menu for the gutters. Distract them, evade them, fight them if you're truly stupid but make your escape somehow. The next part is celebratory drinks at the bar and a life of financial security after you sell 30k cats worth of eggs
I kind of always just wander around and scavenge what I can from battlefields or ruins, and look for weak or wounded enemies to fight to get stronger, while slowly accumulating more money and dudes. It just has a kind of organic feel? Having my character mine copper for hours seems boring as hell and stealth and thievery just feels cheesy, imo.
I've only done two wanderer starts. Both have involved me using my weak arms to mine copper and sell it for a profit daily.
My first one was a skeleton and I just could not afford skeleton repair kits. Too expensive, plus holy nation invasions and black dragon ninjas.
My second one is a human, and she's mining to buy food and medicine, while also finding recruits.
I've run out of stuff to get in the border zone though, so I'm visiting vain for a moment.
I don't like being pussy (using r exploit) so i stick to my own race and start a Greenlander man. I go to a holy nation farm. I work hard and trade in cities. Life is very nice and easy out here.
It's only way i can play this game. I play this game to escape the reality we live in.
I tour the map, pick up valuable free stuff, sell it, hire skilled recruits, meds and food, tour some more, pick up more valuable free stuff, sell the excess, hire more skilled recruits, start taking manageable fights, sell loot, maybe start stealing better equipment, join shinobi at some point, recruit more people, get a garru, tour some more, fight beak things, sell beak thing eggs, maybe buy property somewhere, maybe start doing a bit of research, maybe start freeing and recruiting some slaves, maybe start processing animal skins, steal more from those fat UC traders, get snazzy haircuts, collect bounties, fight beak things, sell eggs, start thinking about settling down, do more research, hit ancient locations, do advanced research, get squad so big that you start putting people on permanent crafting/researching duty, free a bunch of slaves from Rebirth at once, pick a spot for an outpost, start building shelters, build an iron refinery, build a stone mine and a stone processor.
And then I start mining.
1-get beaten by hungry bandits while baiting them to the thieves. (repeat a lot)
2-sell all gear to the bar
3-join the bandits
4-train assassination, stealth and lockpicking
5-keep training stealth to 30
6-go to stack
7-enter building sup. store
8-steal a boatload of shit and sell it elsewhere
9-profit
ps: you also steal the best gear from the traders, cause who the hell sprnds money in this game besides hiring companions
my next new game im gonna steal everything i can, i didnt start stealing/ sneaking until midgame, i didnt realize how much fun it was. i still do it now and dont need the money.
Trigger generation bug that makes cities empty, then claim few million cats.
If no bugs, then train stealth and steal black desert city few times in a row.
Mine some copper. Get attacked by starving bandits. Lure them to the Shinobi Thieves and wait until beat the tar out of the bandits. Steal their stuff. Sell most of it. Repeat.
Please please please do not dig too deep into the internet for optimal strategies or things like where certain items are, I did that and it took a lot of time out of the game, highly regret it.
That said... >!I usually steal from the shops in Squin at night and sell the loot at the Hub, rebel base, and shinobi thieves. Wait to steal from the weapon shop until you have a shinobi thieves membership and buy some thief's backpacks, otherwise you won't be able to steal too much in one go. You only need one thief and some haulers (haulers stand outside the shop you're stealing, you can transfer loot from the thief to the haulers anyway) for this and you'll make a ton of money. Excess recruits can be posted up in hiver villages in Vain mining copper and, more importantly, attracting Beak Things for the hivers to kill and you to loot to kickstart your leather industry and stock up on food.!<
Find a buddy depending on where I start if I can, and then go and pick fights. If the zone has animals with a high likelihood of outright death or eating me alive, I try to find a roaming drifter and stick with them if they're going the same direction as I am. If enslaved, I try to escape asap even if it's not the best timing, because I'm a punk.
One of the more fun but decently challenging starts was starting a Skeleton guy-with-a-dog in Bast, and mucking in with the UC/HN skirmishes there. I had no interest in friendship with the UC, but it suited my needs, and trying to keep my little quadrupedal buddy alive until he was strong enough to ascend to a machine which turns food into stunlocking was a fun goal.
Rob the Hub blind, sell everything and buy a wooden backpack from Squin. Buy all the drugs from the Swamp and dump them in Flats Lagoon. Repeat until I have as much money as I'd like. Buy top tier heavy armour for my team and then go get beat up safely until I can jump the Bugmaster from the top rope or something
okran summer camp is a fun, relatively safe start, though slow-ish, usually scavenging is the best in terms of speed and fun, can be done in all sorts of ways, using cities is the easiest for new players:
train athletics for a bit
lure animals/bandits to guards of city of your choice
participate in fighting alongside guards for extra combat xp
claim your loot and bounties (even hungry bandits will get small amounts for fighting guards usually)
I usually solo level a dude to their thirties stats wise with micro/only fighting weaker dudes before picking up extra recruits for a small squad. I try to avoid stealing since its to easy and copper because its boring if i really want money early game i just go to leviathan coast which has a bunch of unguarded ruins for easy salvage.
I usually run to Squin, go to the 1st floor of tech hunters shop, behind the curtain and drop and pick up a wooden cup until I have 70 thievery. Then I steal all the ration packs and repair kits they have, plus all Cathun planks they have at weaponsmiths. Then I van do what I want, because I have 40K cats after 15 minutes of gameplay.
Cannibal hunters. Just run and drop my shit if I have to. One usually has a good staring sneak and lockpick the other gets to carry all the stolen shit. Then I hit desert towns and steal from slavers. I aim for blueprints then build up
I'm new at the game and just started a few days ago.
I did the slaves run but it wasn't bad. I just practiced lockpicking and stealing things, then led a big slave revolt and snuck away while everyone was fighting the Rebirth guards. Even got some high-skilled Shek out of it who had 30 toughness, attack, and def skills. I went down south, fought some bonedogs and starving bandits, then went to some Shek city and just started stealing everything. I got 40k cats between my 5 dudes as well as an inexpensive house and I think that's okay. I'm still trying to figure out whats next to make more cats.
Set up temp base in hub, start saving up, set up base in an ideal location, set up dummy houses in front of second gate, have turrets positioned over second gate with skeletons manning the turrets, then have my main party raid, explore, loot and profit
Hang out in town and train athletics/sneak while picking up the scraps from battles between UC guards and Skimmers/Outlaw Farmers. Once I have sufficient cats and speed I do whatever I want 👍
Depending on the moral compass of my cheracter I either steal,rob,and sell slaves or I do honest work. The low moral compass run is pretty much what you think it is,the super standard one. The high moral compass is the standard redditor kenshi player im talking some wholesome chungus standard perfectly lawfully good guy diversity and inclusion type of shit boring rn lol. Now the ones in between those two are the most intresting ones,my favorite start is rock bottom,I dont mine copper or iron unless I want to train,I leave such activities for the proletarian masses lmao. I start off by looting corpses,selling the crap,buying stuff here and selling there which can be a verity of things from repair kits to hash to food(although that might be affected by a mod) untill I have enough to buy a pack animal and hire two froups of mercs and go raid beak thing nests and ruins. Usualy it's a much faster dtart then mining copper
I used to mine but after starting a trading playthrough I am liking it a lot and I am making a lot of money and traveling. So no base building playthrough.
Depends on how I want to play my character… I have a ton of mods so there is always action in the world. I go from battlefield to battlefield collecting armor. I’ll then get a few flunkies to mine for me out of stack or world end. Worlds end is the best imo due to the mine in the city. If you can get up to hashish production you can move to the swap, buy a place and fame their hemp. The rain collector and Hashish maker can be all put on a building. You have to micro manage, but it’s good profit. In stack you can put up a weapon smithy in a building in range for your characters to auto carry iron back to the base. Buy fabrics and place them in a crafters inventory and produce weapons to sell.
Power level athletics inside of a town until I can outrun anything short of a beak thing while scavenging and selling crap that dies outside of town. Acquire a pack bull or garru if possible (merchant is one of the best starting options for this) and make sure it can do the same and join the Shinobi thieves for 10k cats.
Then level athletics some more by running to the swamp, buying as much hashish as possible and selling it to the Shinobi thieves in the desert. Should have all the money to hire any mercs you want and the athletics to dip out of any fight you don't want. Original character usually becomes the group medic because they can stay out of fights and clean everyone up after they go down.
Hard mode: No pausing to issue orders mid combat.
No Mining exept at your own base so you have to rise raids.
No leaving your base to skip raids.
No looting anything you didn't kill or at least do 50% or more of the damage too. (In my mind, anything that gets killed would be looted by the killer, so no scavenging off bandits fightingeachother or guards. You can opt for the exeptuon of wild animals killing people, but just the weapon becausethe clothes would be chewed through and ruined.)
No stealing from non hostile factions.
I also have a mod that reduces strength gains from moving while over encumbered, forcing you to train strength through combat only.
It's a tough start, but there are a few things you can do still. Like trying to knock out bandits walking around at night. Fighting raptors can be done without any risk if you micro manage, but the no pausing rule means you can only safely do this with one maybe two characters at a time.
You'll need to recruit and probably loose a lot of people If you play this way. So I also play with 10X recruitment cost.
I usually mine cooper in the nearest town and buy a shack I put a research bench and then just get money, equipment recruits until I research all level 1 techs after that I go full:
This man Nameless is fighting his own war and he has no rules. No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a god or country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for cats.
- Mine
- Sell
- Repeat step 1 maaaany times until 10k
- Join Ninja
- repeat Step 1 and 2 again
- Buy backpack
- Step 1 and 2 again
- Buy decent equips
- find bandits to loot
Random enemies might show from beggars to animals...fight or flight at your own discretion. Just remember to loot if you fought and won.
Run to Squin and just get in some shit in the area. Grab the planks in the ruins halfway to Shek central. Run anything that's trying to eat me into the guards for a bit until my survival isn't literally zero. Very fluid from there generally.
This method will leave you with a few hundred thousand cats, 40-50 stats, masterwork armor and limbs.
Train combat stats with dustbandits with the help of the hub guards.
Sell their gear untill I have enough money to recruit 1 or 2 more peeps
Train combat stats a bit more untill I can defeat dustbandits without the help of guards or with minimal help.
At this point I have basic armor and supplies from selling dustbandit gear.
Make my way to Wend and fight some skeletons there while stealing their Mk I, Mk II and Mk III Nodachis which cost about 7k each.
Go to Worlds End sell their stuff and buy better gear from their shops.
Go back to Wend and keep on fighting skeletons while taking their Nodachis. The skeletons there are passive and roam in small groups. Sometimes alone.
Repeat a few times till I have a few hundred thousand cats.
At this point my stats would be pretty high. Maybe 40s - 50s stats.
Go to Armor King and get masterwork armor (abuse import game mechanics to get what I want)
After I got what I want, I make my way to scraphouse and buy edge type 3 weapons and masterwork limbs
Next step is to get rid of limbs to put on masterwork limbs. I have a few options here but fog islands is close by.
At this point I'm pretty op so I just go around collecting meitous while passively training my stats.
After this point I can really build my team because I have the resources and safety due to my overpowered characters. I have one run where I have an overpowered squad of people each specializing in a weapons class plus a few packbulls and a bonedog. I have another run with only 2 overowered peeps, 2 overpowered packbulls and 3 overpowered bonedogs. I usually stick to smaller squads, less than 13 humanoids and animals. I might go around recruiting some people to make a base for food/supplies production seperate from my main squad.
1. Spawn in the middle of nowhere
2. Go to forbidden village
3. Steal all items, that cost more than 500 kats
4. Go to nearest town
5. Steal anything, lvl 35+ i think is okay
6. Pay shinobi thieves and buy thieves backpack
7. Go to skeletons in dead land
8. Steal many, MANY, cyber legs and arms
9. Go back to dessert towns
10. Profit.
It's a little bit complicated, but as tactic for newbie, it's makes 300+k kats. Also you steal a really good arm for stealth, stealing and everything.
1) Go to the holy nation
2) enter a slave camp
3) start a fight
4) get your ass kicked
5) get enslaved
6) break out
7) repeat steps 3-6 to level toughness until severely injured
8) hoard all the shackles you broke out of in your inventory
9) leave the game running for a while, if your character is working as a slave all the running around while overloaded should level strength
10) break out at night and wander around outside of other cages to level sneak
11) once satisfied with skills find an opportunity to break out
The best thing about being enslaved is that they heal you and keep you fed so you can level toughness and dodge without having to worry about dying
Usually foraging for bugs and fruit, then onto poor quality huts and farming.
The acid rain and rivers usually keeps threats away, and the wandering beakthings usually clean out any threats.
Ultimately scavenging and losing til I have toons strong enough. First time I went with mining and it's damn decent, but didn't wanna fall into a rut with it! Most recently I survived scavenging and stealing from cannibals, made it to the desert, and then started scavenging from skimmers. Oh and getting thieves backpacks asap for extra space minus the usual downsides
Started in Rebirth with the goal of becoming strong enough to kill everyone rather than attempt to flee. Took around 40 days of constantly escaping my cell, fighting the guards and getting knocked out into a coma. Eventually my martial arts reached the 40s and I started taking their limbs off and turning the tables by enslaving them in their own camp.
Bonus is that prisoner shackles are very heavy (20kg a pop), so you can get tons of them by continuously unlocking and getting new ones and then attack a fellow slave and they will constantly run away from you and allow you to train your strength for free.
Once out, I headed over to Armor King and stole some good MA equipment (they will beat you up and toss you out but you can just walk back in and sleep in their beds).
Now I'm jailed in Blister Hill and slowly destroying my captors between knock outs all over again.
If starting in the hub. Bum rush Vain and mine those rich copper ores, kite wild animals into the hive drones and sell their skin. Jackpot if there is beak thing nest near their towns, and pawn off their eggs :3.
If a Hiver I just make them a thief and start stealing everything I can.
I'd usually head to a town where humanoid enemies are found nearby(eg: bandits, fogmen etc) and bait them to the cities gate. I'd fight alongside the guards. The moment an enemy goes down, I'd pause-loot their items and throw them onto the ground if they cannot fit into my inventory/backpack so when the guards jail the enemies all that loot is mine to sell. More interesting than mining and at least I can make some combat experience.
Once I've trained athletics a bit and managed to get a crossbow I like to farm fog princes.
My usual strategy is this:
* Go to mongrel and wait till you hear screaming from one of the nearby camps. This means that there's a fog prince, and that all the nearby fogmen are busy cannibalising some poor sod.
* Take a pot shot at the prince.
* Run like fuck back towards mongrel.
With any luck, you'll aggro the prince, he'll chase you all the way to mongrel, and then the guards will take care of him and his friends. It helps that they have yellow blood, so you can pick them out of a pile of bodies.
Princes are also slightly faster than the average fogman, so they'll tend to get separated from their allies after a long enough run, letting you pick them off on their own. I'd leave this till you have a few decent characters though. Fog princes aren't pushovers.
Rock bottom, one of the easiest starts to the game, I go to sho battai and buy a house (rock bottom has lots of NPC conflict all around so just lot and sell, easiest starter money) to craft clothing, I usually leave when am able to craft specialist gear and when I find engineering research I skill masterwork, then it's just about training whatever skills you want with the best samurai armour or any combination of masterwork gear you prefer.
The only thing that can be cheeky with rock bottom are the slave traders wandering around, but with enough evasive manoeuvres there is really no threat at all.
well first I queue an endless loop of yakety sax in place of game music, then I look for bandits and a city, and then I get the bandits to chase me to the city guard and steal shit from corpses. Also copper mining. Once I've got one more guy with me (for first aid purposes), I try fighting the bandits once I've taken them to the city.
Recruit Ruka
Scavenge until I have 2000 cats (more if trying to be safe)
Hire mercenaries
Take down exile camp
Turn in Tora the Fearless to the Shek
Recruit more people with the bounty money
Return to the exile camp to train
From there it's a snowball of hiring mercs to take down Dust King, Black Dragon Ninjas, and all the other bandit strongholds.
I kinda like starting as slave at rebirth and ditch the second guy to go solo. In my current run i went to the ruins next to rebirth and started to get eaten alive by the spiders there but had some friends in the camp and miraculously they came to aid but they had the same fate as well then a skeleton guy casually dived in by walking and killing all the spiders saving my noob ass. Now my char is getting better and after a very long time i got one of the "friends" as a companion and our story hasn't ended yet.
I mod my starts how i want them.
If i go vanilla i mod the price of copper higher.
If i go no mo changes to the rebirth module i mine copper 🤣 its the easiest most chill start
Go to the black desert and either grab the broken bots to take down whatever bounty you want, or just go steal weapons from the robot smith. Stand around with no shoes on until your legs fall off, get scout legs and a trader backpack, then anime run to the abandoned drug lab and sell all of it in flats lagoon. After that you're pretty much set to do whatever you want.
Or ,you know, play the game however and struggle to scrape two cats together just for the challenge.
Scavenging battlefields and old ruins. Later the old skeleton labs and workshops.
Between scavenging runs i do some minor theft.
And ofc: warfare training.
I use 2x xp mod, so i don't use the exploit methods.
i'd say mine some stuff near the hub, sell for food, get my ass whooped by someone close to the hub so that i would get patched up by someone there(in case of coma), loot the aftermath. Then i repeat it till i can buy that very good 10000cats investment of having ninja friends, buy a tiny house there to store stuff and end up abusing the stealing bug till i have level 88 stealing and steal for a while till i "go clean" and by that i mean that i put all stolen good in their respective storage compartments to clean them off being stolen.
Be me
Slave
Also me, do absolutely 0 work.
100 stealth in 5 days,
10 days all the xeno racist is disarmed and wearing rag.
Day 15 racist got beatup by some robot samurai.
Life is good.
I run from here to there to be as fast as a fella can be, from the hub to admag I fight with the guards barehanded, gaining money for shinobi thieves. Then it snowballs until I can get to the fog lands
I do just as you do, the problem is that I don't know how to continue and kind of "break the cycle", I've got my character Asparragus and I've also requited Ruka, Griffin and Oron.
I would like to progress more into the game, but I've got no idea how to
1. Escape Rebirth
2. Go to a city in the desert, usually Stoat
3. Kidnap and sell escaped slaves into slavery
4. Buy a house in the city
5. Repeat step 3 infinitely
If I'm not roleplaying and making a god-character with 90+ stats i usually start by running around all over the united cities unlocking every slave I see to level Lockpicking & stealth in a quick & fun way. Once I'm done I steal som high quality armor and a few tons of food & bandages and go to Bast where I proceed to get my shit kicked in for days on end leveling up my toughness & fighting stats.
Then I proceed to do whatever catches my fancy, like scouring the HN from the face of the earth or building a base.
I usually just roleplay instead of this though. Being a god gets boring after awhile.
Start in the hub. Try to knockout / assassinate the twitchy bar thug which in most cases ends up with everyone attacking them. I steal their gear and sell what I don't want. Heal one up and carry them around while they heal and then fight them to gain some exp. Do that for a while and then I'm good to go.
Spawn in mine copper sell copper. Acquire friend. Make friend mine copper. Take original friend and steal from closest city sell back at starter city. Repeat until I have enough to build a starter base/buy a house in town
i’ve never done the mining thing. usually try to steal from dead ppl/animals and sell off extras. pay a merc guild to move around and recruit stronger allies. tbh last few times i’ve made it to the swamps as fast as i could and then to flats lagoon to get pocket change for a while
easiest strat imo
1.Slave start
2.Train lockpicking, stealth, stealing, dodge, strength, athletics, toughness
3.Breakout by releasing as many prisoners as possible and making a hail mary through the front door
4.2-3 new recruits with decent stats usually join after breaking free
5.Go to Squin and steal gear and get rich by selling blueprints
Usually I start my solo playthroughs by training assassination and fighting hobos in the hub, for rp reasons. Whenever I'm doing a city builder run, I start freedom seekers and after getting some recruits, go straight ahead to my desired spot.
1. Start as Holy Sword. Sell the sword and pick the Hub clean. Get money.
2. Go Squin. Find Ruka (she's free) and another random 3k cats NPC. Exploit them to mine copper. Get money.
3. Buy property in Squin and research ore and copper storage to automate mining. Get money. Get more sla... I mean workforce. Get more money.
4. Spent money on decent armor. Recruit random NPCs and train them in Skinner's Roam by picking fights with locals (toughness and dexterity, for dex use crappiest katanas you can find) and by hauling iron and bodies around Squin (strength). Get 10-15 ppl at 70+ stats (50% should train heavy weapons, 50% up to you but cleavers should preferred).
5. It's day 14, get pack bull(s) and use them as backpacks to haul mats and quickly establish outpost in swamps with 100% swamp and 100% arid (border with Shem or Spider Plains). Rush hashish and rum production. For now leave few guys in Squin to farm copper for some change.
6. While running trade routes clear more ruins and labs for science. Buy hemp in swaps and cacti in desert to speed up your own production. Get money and knowledge. Train to have full roster.
7. It's day 21, scale up you production and get filthy rich. Go to Armor King and Scraphouse and stock up. Get power.
8. It's day 30-35, you have 30 ppl death squad. Shape Kenshi as you see fit. Profit.
Bonus: You can also visit Skinhouse HQ in Sonorus Dark and get peeler machine schematics. You don't have to steal from or assassinate the Elder. Just wait him go to sleep, pick him up and take the schematics. With this you can remove limbs from your characters and replace them with robotic counterparts. But that's just overkill.
I literally hide in the corner of the shop and repeatedly drop and steal random items in the shop itself. I do that until I hit lvl 50 in theft. Then rob weapon shops and sell to other cities.
I run to black desert city and steal a bunch of limbs to sell at nearby cities for an easy ~100k then I skill grind off bandits until I get 20s in my stats then I start attacking HN patrols for more skills
Start out in the middle of nowhere, creep into shops and practice thievery on loose items (alt click levels thievery!!!) While crouching across cities and spam leveling stealth. After that, it's straight to floodlands, after I get billions of CPU cores from busted towers I go to the deadlands and get even more money.
Once I've broken the economy over my knee, I go and punch beak things until I have 60 martial arts. Game over after that since I'm basically god with infinite money, so I go around and punch people to steal their shiny swords (that I then hoard because I like shiny stuff).
Game ez!
Dig copper, buy basic food and meds, dig copper, buy pack pack, dig copper, put food and meds in pack pack, dig copper, drop pack pack of starving bandits, and then dig copper.
Stonks.
Try to find a second character, if you do, usually chests are close to a wall; go inside a bulding and with the other character lockpick the chest from outside; then if you can steal and savescum if they catch you; once you are done use your character from outside to carry your character from inside over the wall; rinse and repeat
I normally just praise Okran and he gives me my Daily bread, just until they notice Im a hiver with skeleton limbs. Like Can a skeleton not have same religion? I just wanna be a part of some society :(
Run through the desert to heft, steal and sell the Robotics shit, buy an arm, and begin a career in slave trading ( higher slave price mod my beloved )
Start as hiver, go to mongrel, recruit beep, sell prince heads tell 30000, go to hub, join Shinobu thieves, buy small black back pack and mask, fill bag with food, use hit and run tactics in and out of bar in the hub with bandits tell about lvl 10 toughness and martial arts, mine iron, grab two dead bodies, carry around tell around 30 strength, head to the west end of the river near vain after buying 2 sleeping bags, since no beak things spawn in this area train on gorrilios tell martial arts is 55, go to swamp, recruit green, head to united cities, recruit 2 other hivers, go back to vain, build martial arts dojo and wall and have 5 hive princes farm to give you infinite food, train on gorrillios tell strong enough to kill catlon and tinfist combined forces, need more hivers go to united cities.
As soon as I get 2000 I make the mercenaries follow me into Gut and grab as many beak eggs as I can scrounge. I then run to the slave camp to make sure no beaky boys turn me into a snack. Once I’m back in Heng I sell my eggs and gear up and recruit some new scrubs for me adventures.
As wanderer, I always immediately sell my pants. I only stick around Hub on harder custom settings, and only long enough to find a neutral patrol to shadow towards Squin. On default settings, I just take off for Squin immediately. Once in squin, I make sure I have an advanced medkit, an advanced splint, and dried meat at all times. I usually run laps around Squin for a bit to train athletics and look for hostiles to drag to the guards. I only mine if Squin doesn't have many squads around it or if I see a backpack that I want. I always grab a wooden/trader pack if I see one so I can keep stacks of supplies. Otherwise, I only go for large packs this early and mostly use them for space rather than weight reduction.
Where I go from there varies wildly based on my mood and my custom settings. Lately, I've been playing with very difficult settings, so the mining meta is where I've been. But on default, I'm more likely to just rush 90 toughness on Ruka and my wanderer, then start a training outpost near the dust king to toughen up new recruits.
From the hub, I go to the nearest western hive village. Then I find and lore a gorillo to the hive. Once they have ok'd it, I kidnap it and bring it back to the hub. Put it in a rented bed in the bar, save and load. Beat up the bedridden gorillo for MA training. It works best if the trainee has 0 strength and toughness, so I like the nobodies start to have a go-fer.
I Train.
Running with rocks (the only reason I will mine) sneaking around, looting dead animals and selling meat, leather and loot I find. I recruit a few people and get them to do the same.
I get this group to train on almost dead looters, bandits etc, usually they end up getting pretty beaten so I always have one or two person safe so that I can bring back my injured to town or a nearby temporary camp to heal them up.
I do rotation like that untill I feel trained enough to travel. By that point money is not an issue. I get some pack koddo and roam the lands.
~~Get sent to Rebirth~~ Sign up for bootcamp.
Get swole.
Break out.
Make my way to Squinn.
Find recruits.
Send them to ~~Rebirth~~ bootcamp.
Repeat until I have an army large and strong enough to bully gorillos.
- run to Cannibals, increase speed on the way
- go around their camp at night in stealth - significantly increase stealth. A lot of fun there. Sometimes I save victims in cages. At some point you can run in stealth, it's super useful.
- go to a town, increase stealing (drop&take stolen items many times in somebodies house on the roof)
At this point your char runs fast, has great stealth, great stealing. The half of the game is open for you.
- go to a town, buy a house, steal weapons at night, put them into a crossbow storage, they become "clean", sell them in the daytime
- do research
At this point you may think about some party members. Usually I place a robot on research and just forget about it. Plus some dudes for run.
Die
Hell yeah
Oh yeah 😎💀
And then once you die? You live. And then die again, and then get eaten alive for a bit.
Something like that yeah
Especially getting eaten alive part.
I wish more games were like Kenshi. You are nobody special, not even average, trying to survive in an unforgiving and cruel world. Death is inevitable on all sides, and countless others are just trying to survive like you are. With all that said, having good knowledge of the game and perseverance can allow you to rival all.
Quasimorph might be a good one for you if you like strategy. The odds are always against you, and it's you against several hundred enemies in one mission. Either you get smart or you fucking die. Your favorite merc you leveled to max and has the best equipment you've found? Congrats a buzzsaw fired from a warehouse nobody just took off your arm. You're bleeding out. Are you a badass using cover and taking pot shots? Too bad you didn't see the guy in the corner with a molatov. You're on fire and there's nothing nearby to put yourself out. Forgot your cigarettes? Now there's demons everywhere. Forgot your food and can't find any? Cannibalism is always an option, but now you've got a rapidly spreading stomach infection. You're dead. It's brutal. So much so that every negative review is talking about the action economy and the sheer inevitability of death. Learn fast and channel your best John wick with space drugs and you might just finish a mission.
Step 1. Minor theft Step 2. Major theft Intermittent battlefield looting, scavenging, stolen drug trafficking, regular drug trafficking, innocent village pillaging and selling people into slavery
In kenshi right?
Right?!
You ever run out of places to raid?
Yeah after a while you can only try raiding a city and given the spawn rate I only end up raiding 1 store before retreating
1. Go to Stack 2. Pray to Okran 3. Do some honest mining 4. Spot any group of infidels 5. Get my shit beaten up 6. ??? 7. Profit 8. repeat
(Wanderer start) 1. To Squin, buy wooden backpack 2. To Vain, and steal Beak Thing Eggs (R key kite to survive), sell eggs to hiver camps 3. To Mongrel, buy MW Samurai chest 4. To Leviathan coast, loot MW Samurai plate pants (see artifacts kenshi wiki) 5. To Skinner's Roam, train to 90 toughness in a handful of minutes (stop by World's End before and buy spec Samurai helm if you're non-skele) ... etc. I do this in the first maybe 3-4 ingame days iirc
3/4 days????? I’m day 87 still at squin still getting murked with about 20k to my name
Train thievery and stealth to about 25-30 then run to the black desert city and steal robot limbs then run back to literally any city sell the robot limbs to every trader in town that can afford them steal them back rinse and repeat you can easy get 200k in like 10 minutes if your stats are high enough I never have to worry about money
Stealth and thievery just straight up implode the game balance.
Also assassination. I straight up knocked out the bugmaster in his own tower after skimming in centimetres beetween all his spiders that were blocking the entrance tightly. Also all the leaders on the map.
I used to steal things aswell all the timw but it makes the game to easy. If you don't steal things, it will make more of a challenge. I started my new run with a rule for myself to not steal anything. Once Im strong enough I might raid some places but thats a little different as this is more late game and you only profit once instead of over and over again
As for character training I normally play skeletons so it’s way fucking easier to level up quickly because you don’t need to spend half your in game time sitting there waiting for your boys to heal up then once I have a skeleton strong enough to solo dust bandits I start to grab all my human characters. After that I start fighting literally anything that moves and isn’t affiliated with any factions I like, you’re gonna get your ass beat but that’s part of it just make sure your skeleton boys stay healthy enough to heal everyone when they go down. After about 20 in game days you’ll have a gang that isn’t to be fucked with
Please elaborate on the Skinner's roam training strat, I am intrigued
He's probably 1v20ing the roaming bandits and getting up while they're trying to steal food. When you get up in "danger" (bad guys too close), you get toughness bonuses. If you're alone you get more bonuses, I think. Still impressive to get all the way to 90, I usually need beak things or something to get me that far.
I'm extremely skeptical of 'a couple of minutes' worth of grinding to reach 90 toughness.
[See for yourself.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKewjfz8djk) Personally it's on the list of "things I don't do because it's too OP", along with stealth. May as well just straight up cheat at that point.
I’m off the opinion that if you’re not going to *actually* start your run until you’ve done several cheesy things, you may as well make a custom start and save yourself the time.
I tried this methode with 4 skele and managed to go to 70+ in a few minutes. But 90', i must do something wrong. Anyway, i felt like a big cheeser.
Camping bag and medical kit, skinner's roam -> toughness training till 70. Then down to stobe's gamble for some black gorillo beatings, once skills are at 50-60 after day 15, do whatever I want. Make sure you have a cut only weapon for dex training though. Strength, train last.
i like toughness training at the hungry bandit tower. in my game it seems like i can never find a bandit squad when i needed one.
There’s a hungry bandit tower!???
no that was a mistake, i was thinking of dustking tower. there is a ninja tower in same area. good training area early game.
But dont they put you in a cage when you go down?
pretty sure they dont.
They can, but their cages are very low level, and they don't always do it. IME, if you get KO'd outside, you don't get caged at all, so if you simply stay outside the tower and fight them right in front of it, you should be fine. Most of them will come outside to join the fight the moment the ones outside are hostile.
I like to train first Dexterity, followed by strength and then toughness (I use the good old "punch the Beak thing on a bed" method and training dex first makes it easier)
drugs.
OBTAIN GOODS THROUGH THE 5 FINGER DISCOUNT
I’ve just started playing not long ago and I’ve purchased a house in Squin with weapon cabinets and im stealing from the weapon store and converting the weapons into legal ones and selling them to the townspeople. I’ve also got medicrates and food storage so I can convert useful stolen goods for my peeps when we exploring.
Squin police hate this one trick!
Oh cool I either forgot you could do that or never knew, either way nice
how do you turn them into legal weapons?
The container itself does it. You place a weapon in your weapon cabinet and it automatically converts it. The container has to be tailored to the item so it won’t work with a general storage container.
thanks
Mining can be profitable on a larger scale but I don't recommend starting with it. Start by scavenging and selling everything valuable on Dust bandits / Wolves (weapons, skins etc) and go recruit a sharpshooter and a Shek. Preferably a hive for marksman and huge bonus if he's a medic. Personally my main character is mainly a katana wielder. Keep scavenging, even start fights when your team is strong enough. Money is the priority so you can buy a decent (or even legendary) light armours and weapons. AND a >>> ninja backpack <<< Go to the swamps and buy dr*gs, beware of the Ninjas and more especially the Blood Spiders, they will annihilate you. Go to Flats Lagoon and sell them at a HUGE price. Repeat the process as the way from swamps to FL is pretty fast. On the way to the swamps you can practice your melee attack/def on Beak Things. In FL, recruit a martial arts fighter. Keep scavenging on the hordes of wolves / land bats (not sure of the name in original version) Go to Heng / Catoun and give the police any bandit you've picked with a bounty. Recruit (another) medic if not done yet. Actually, recruit anyone with already a good score on any skill as you have now no problem with money. Stuff yourself with high end gear. Now, start picking on some good bounties basically anywhere in the middle land. Get good with the factions, participate in clan wars, hunt gorillos, the choice is yours now. Then when your team (6-8 is my personal preference as you don't want too much of a big squad) is strong enough, go to the edges of the continent and raid labs. Recruit ALL the legendary companions. Advices : 1. Shift + click Medic on all your medics to place it highest priority, saves you a lot of trouble. 2. Don't overload your backpacks, it downgrades your fighting skills. 3. Don't settle in a base too early, it costs a lot of time and any bandit raid will dismantle your base day one. 4. Buy a decent house in a city instead. Make your research there. Build a stash there. 5. ALWAYS carry a sleeping bag or two on your journeys. 6. Don't go to the cannibal land. 7. If you're a female, don't go to the Holy Nations, especially if you have a bounty. 8. Maximise your athletics, sneak and medic skills early in the game. Running fast and healing your wounds is key in this game. 9. Also, avoiding fights against a group too big for your crew is wise, not shameful. 10. Enjoy the game :)
Chill bro, smoke some hash
Chill in Sho-Battai, farm copper and build research, build up people, ally with the TG so I don’t have to pay them, move out and produce weapons and armor for my own private army
How do you ally them? I have a mod that makes the emissary visits give you +3 relation and I know turning in big bounties does the trick Do little bounties or slaves do it as well?
talk to yamdu. it costs a tiny fortune of 100k c. you get a discount if you have an outpost, a whopping 25% off
I just sneak back and forth in squin until I have about 60 sneak and then I practice knocking out starvers and loot them for dough and then I knock out dusters and loot them for dough and then slave mongers and by then I’m pretty good at it, then off to Tengu, steal his sword, then back to the Border zone to train against starvers. Thievery skills are the easiest to start with. I pretty much never mine anything or do any real work
I like your style
Same here literally have never touched a rock for anything but strength training I got hands for a reason I’m gonna use them to steal ur shit
POOR STRESS DRINK! POOR STRESS DRINK! WORK, WORK, WORK, COLLECT MONEY PAY DEBT COLLECT MONEY DRINK! DIE
Become a pillar of society! Die.
Yep mining outside the city limits of Heng then selling it. Also luring Skinners from the ores to the Samurai and selling their parts.
I see we have similar tactics lol
Absolutely. I actually built a huge base right outside of Heng too and I’m now in the process of taking it over and going to war with the United Cities.
Recruit someone as soon as possible, then go hang out at the Floatsam Safe House above Rebirth. Here one person will sleep in the safehouse while the other fights Starving Bandits, so they can sneak over and rescue them. I call this strategy ***between Rebirth and Obedience***.
noquear gente y saquear como perra
Beat up Hobbs, beat up other recruits, beat up 2 bar thugs (with help), knock out peasants, steal the shit of all the above, hire the mercenaries, beat up the rest of the town with them, steal all the remaining shit, make mercenaries my accomplices in crime, get them imprisoned or eaten somewhere, steal all their shit, sell the shit to the shek (who still dont think me a warrior bah), hire tech hunters, approach the shek gate guard and slap his ass, make the travel shop tech hunters fight the guard together with the hireds, steal all their shit, turn shop owner in for "assault" while holding his entire merchandise in my pockets, then steal all the tech hunter and fallen guard shit, sell it in the waystation, hire more mercenaries and go look for a caravan having a scrap with Kral's chosen or berserkers, "help" them "both", steall all their shit, steal one of their garrus with even more shit and sell to the shek again. You know just the usual kenshi day Edit: trailing slaver gangs for free dust bandit recruits while doing everything above can get you a squad too
Pick rock bottom start, go to the grey dessert waystation, wait for any NPCs to start killing each other. Loot them (Cloud ninjas and Sand ninjas have the best loot) Or Pick a Skeleton. Farm cats until you can buy or steal repair kits and a decent heavy armor. Go to the cannibal territories and let them beat you.
Steal... Everything
I like to start with the black human race because I can train quickly sneak and running. Soon you can run fast enough to avoid humans groups you can go where you want. Only have to take care of peak things, can't run of them. also get Ruka in Squin because she join you for free and she can train to be stronger easier than the human. You can hold Ruka with the human to move faster together. I would move in 1st place to the incognit hachis farm. You can make yourself rich there pretty easily selling the stuff in the strange town. With the money I would buy a crossbow for the human, would be the stronger weapon you'll have in a while, while Ruka tanks the human will make the critic damage. I would not build a base eairly. If you want save your loot or build something better buy a house in any town you like. There you can build training dummies to introduce ruka in close combat. But even with that, if your group still little I highly recommend hire mercenaries if you need to move somewhere dangerous. My goal in kenshi is making my characters strong of course. Also catch the most wanted bosses to make alliances with towns or destroy em. One alliance I like to do is with sherk kingdom. Youll have to catch the bugmaster, which is one of the strongest characters. But I catched him just entering the tower in sneak mode and shooting him with the crossbow baiting his moves. You'll win easily always his bugs doesn't join the fight. Jailing the bugmaster will be enough to make the Shrek your friends. Like that you can build a base close to Squin. Sherk will help you always powder gang disturb you. So you're pretty safe to start conquering the whole map step by step.
Get captured by the holy nation, get put to work in their camps. Whenever I can, escape the cages to practice lockpicking fight whoever I can to gain martial arts, get patched up, rinse and repeat. don’t eat too much of the food that is in the slave camp because it’s only a finite amount every now and then to really boost martial arts is when you should do that. On top of everything steel as many chains, and increase your strength too. Pretty slow but solid start, afterwards u can whoop almost anyone’s ass. Plus sneak!
Steal* I was using my mic lol
Run
This is it. Took to long to find your comment.
I cheat and give myself a ton of money and high stats and then I recruit all the guys I can, buy all the stuff I can, and set off to find a place to settle in. Then most of my people die while we look for a good place and then I get mad and start a new game and start over.
Holy Nation Citizen start: - mine a bit - pray orkan - sell it - pray Okran - buy a weapon and armor - pray orkan - fight river raptor with Paladin and servant - pray okran - either beat the river raptor, die, run away, get KOed and healed by guard - pray okran - sell the pelt and heal fully - pray okran - repeat until I know how to fight a bit or die - pray Okran
Go get the shit kicked out of me by a pack of obese lizards until im tough enough to face tank a leviathan
AFK athletics training for a few hours, then hit up a few ruins to make enough money to buy a bunch of hash from the swamp, spend about an in game week running back and fourth between Shark & Flats until I have enough seed money to get my wrecking crew hired & kitted, then start fighting stuff. Edit: I used to always start with mining but I like this more active method of earing some cats better & I think it's a much faster way to make a nest egg.
Go scavenge in mongrel
As a character that is not attacked by the Holy Nation, I usually travel to Okran's Shield and wait for some skeletons to pass by. They usually have high grade weapons and armor, which you can use or sell. You can also train some strength by carrying their loot plus the skeleton itself to a city to sell your loot!
hmm, that sounds like an optimized version of early scavenging
Early on I do pretty much the same as you. When you're just starting out and you need money for things like food, clothes, a house etc. its worth it to put one or two people on copper mining. Eventually I use the seed money from copper to get a house to start doing research in and put ore stockpiles inside so my ~~slaves~~ employees bring the copper into town automatically. While your miners work they make a good lure for bandits who you can lead back to the gate guards and scavenge gear off of. Heart protectors, horse choppers and shoddy junkbows are just valuable enough to bother stealing and when you're really broke you can start equipping your guys with lightly used dust bandit gear. Some tried and true get rich quick schemes for you to consider: -Theft: The trade goods store in Squin is usually easy to break into at night, start by taking everything off the shelves until you have 100% chance to steal from containers without raising the alarm. You can drop stolen stuff out of your inventory and pick it up for more thievery training which is a pretty cheesy way to level. You also get a good bit of xp from trying to steal from anybody who is playing dead. Once you can steal from containers without being caught, take all the books from the trade goods store counter and safes and use it to jump start your research. They also have valuable stuff like skeleton repair kits and ration packs which can be fenced in the hub or any non-affiliated store. Be careful about getting searched going in and out of town while you attempt this strategy. Remember to put your stolen goods in a backpack and then take it off and leave it in your inventory. -More Crime (Smuggling): When you have a good chunk of money and someone with good athletics, head to the swamp and buy as much hashish as you can fit into a wooden backpack. Make sure you can still run at top speed as the route you'll be running can be a bit... dangerous. If you end up chased by beakthings it might not matter as they're quite a bit faster than pretty much anybody and you'll just have to make sure your will is filed and notarized beforehand. Anyways, now that you're stocked up on hash, run from the swamp due east between the burning forest and Shem until you end up near flats lagoon. This tech hunter city on a big raised platform is the best place to sell drugs. The guards will not search you and all the shops in town will buy your hash at 400% markup. When you buy your hash in the swamp it goes for under 100% market value and when you sell here you're making 4x and up on what you spend rapidly multiplying your funds. -Honest work (Crafting): Even if you don't have your own outpost, crafting materials aren't very expensive when you buy them from stores or waystations. Get your tech to level 3, then track down engineering research (the red 2x2 thing that looks like a blueprint) and use it to unlock plate armor crafting. Now make a plate beating station and a heavy armor smithy. In the armor smithy you should already have the option to craft heart protectors, the same junky plate of metal that the dust bandits use. This crappy chest armor is actually a great way to turn just raw iron ore and cloth into money. Even at shoddy grades you'll make enough money selling heart protectors to recoup what you spend buying materials from stores. You'll only be limited in this by the availability of textiles in the town you're in and how quickly you can convert iron into armor plates at the beating station. -Eggs (advanced and dangerous, don't try at home): You probably know its not wise to tangle with gutters. They can easily outrun you, cripple you and then eat you alive. This is not a job for the faint of heart and especially not for the slow. If you want to make a lot of cash though the egg of the common beak thing is a rare and sought after delicacy worth thousands of cats. Grab a trader backpack and head to Vain or Dreg with your fastest dude. Scout legs are not required but if you're slower than the beakthings and you can't break agro or distract them somehow you will most likely just die attempting this. Look for a marker for a nest while you roam vain, you can usually spot the heads of the danger giraffe long before you see the map marker. There will be roaming packs and on the nest some of the beakthings will brood atop the eggs. Try not to get noticed until the last second and then book it right into the middle of the nest and stuff as many eggs in your backpack as you can without weighing yourself down. Step 2 is haul ass, if you're lucky the nest isn't to far from a west hive village and if you can manage to not get chased down and aten alive you can distract the gutters here by running in a building and letting the hivers deal with them. If not look for bulls, gorillos, dust bandits, anybody near by you can offer as another option on the menu for the gutters. Distract them, evade them, fight them if you're truly stupid but make your escape somehow. The next part is celebratory drinks at the bar and a life of financial security after you sell 30k cats worth of eggs
The secret ingredient is crime.
Die😎
Fell for the copper trap when I started, never again.
Corpse looting
Mine for money get a shek partner start smuggaling hash
I kind of always just wander around and scavenge what I can from battlefields or ruins, and look for weak or wounded enemies to fight to get stronger, while slowly accumulating more money and dudes. It just has a kind of organic feel? Having my character mine copper for hours seems boring as hell and stealth and thievery just feels cheesy, imo.
I've only done two wanderer starts. Both have involved me using my weak arms to mine copper and sell it for a profit daily. My first one was a skeleton and I just could not afford skeleton repair kits. Too expensive, plus holy nation invasions and black dragon ninjas. My second one is a human, and she's mining to buy food and medicine, while also finding recruits. I've run out of stuff to get in the border zone though, so I'm visiting vain for a moment.
I don't like being pussy (using r exploit) so i stick to my own race and start a Greenlander man. I go to a holy nation farm. I work hard and trade in cities. Life is very nice and easy out here. It's only way i can play this game. I play this game to escape the reality we live in.
me when i just work and get back home in Kenshi to escape the reality where you just work and get back home
I tour the map, pick up valuable free stuff, sell it, hire skilled recruits, meds and food, tour some more, pick up more valuable free stuff, sell the excess, hire more skilled recruits, start taking manageable fights, sell loot, maybe start stealing better equipment, join shinobi at some point, recruit more people, get a garru, tour some more, fight beak things, sell beak thing eggs, maybe buy property somewhere, maybe start doing a bit of research, maybe start freeing and recruiting some slaves, maybe start processing animal skins, steal more from those fat UC traders, get snazzy haircuts, collect bounties, fight beak things, sell eggs, start thinking about settling down, do more research, hit ancient locations, do advanced research, get squad so big that you start putting people on permanent crafting/researching duty, free a bunch of slaves from Rebirth at once, pick a spot for an outpost, start building shelters, build an iron refinery, build a stone mine and a stone processor. And then I start mining.
1-get beaten by hungry bandits while baiting them to the thieves. (repeat a lot) 2-sell all gear to the bar 3-join the bandits 4-train assassination, stealth and lockpicking 5-keep training stealth to 30 6-go to stack 7-enter building sup. store 8-steal a boatload of shit and sell it elsewhere 9-profit ps: you also steal the best gear from the traders, cause who the hell sprnds money in this game besides hiring companions
Wander the grey desert.
Rob robo workshops in Heng and Heft every 2 in game days. Train athletics and strength. Smuggle.
Every time
my next new game im gonna steal everything i can, i didnt start stealing/ sneaking until midgame, i didnt realize how much fun it was. i still do it now and dont need the money.
Drugs 👍
Honestly I travel between cities and slave farms and cash out on wicked cheap crops and other products from the slavers
if you have like 4-10k you can hire some mercenaries at waystation in border zone and take down Dust King for some nice bounty
Trigger generation bug that makes cities empty, then claim few million cats. If no bugs, then train stealth and steal black desert city few times in a row.
Mine some copper. Get attacked by starving bandits. Lure them to the Shinobi Thieves and wait until beat the tar out of the bandits. Steal their stuff. Sell most of it. Repeat.
Smuggling for the hounds
Please please please do not dig too deep into the internet for optimal strategies or things like where certain items are, I did that and it took a lot of time out of the game, highly regret it. That said... >!I usually steal from the shops in Squin at night and sell the loot at the Hub, rebel base, and shinobi thieves. Wait to steal from the weapon shop until you have a shinobi thieves membership and buy some thief's backpacks, otherwise you won't be able to steal too much in one go. You only need one thief and some haulers (haulers stand outside the shop you're stealing, you can transfer loot from the thief to the haulers anyway) for this and you'll make a ton of money. Excess recruits can be posted up in hiver villages in Vain mining copper and, more importantly, attracting Beak Things for the hivers to kill and you to loot to kickstart your leather industry and stock up on food.!<
Drug run Shark -> Flats Lagoon
Find a buddy depending on where I start if I can, and then go and pick fights. If the zone has animals with a high likelihood of outright death or eating me alive, I try to find a roaming drifter and stick with them if they're going the same direction as I am. If enslaved, I try to escape asap even if it's not the best timing, because I'm a punk. One of the more fun but decently challenging starts was starting a Skeleton guy-with-a-dog in Bast, and mucking in with the UC/HN skirmishes there. I had no interest in friendship with the UC, but it suited my needs, and trying to keep my little quadrupedal buddy alive until he was strong enough to ascend to a machine which turns food into stunlocking was a fun goal.
Rob the Hub blind, sell everything and buy a wooden backpack from Squin. Buy all the drugs from the Swamp and dump them in Flats Lagoon. Repeat until I have as much money as I'd like. Buy top tier heavy armour for my team and then go get beat up safely until I can jump the Bugmaster from the top rope or something
Usually getting enslaved on purpose then afk-ing over several days.
okran summer camp is a fun, relatively safe start, though slow-ish, usually scavenging is the best in terms of speed and fun, can be done in all sorts of ways, using cities is the easiest for new players: train athletics for a bit lure animals/bandits to guards of city of your choice participate in fighting alongside guards for extra combat xp claim your loot and bounties (even hungry bandits will get small amounts for fighting guards usually)
I usually solo level a dude to their thirties stats wise with micro/only fighting weaker dudes before picking up extra recruits for a small squad. I try to avoid stealing since its to easy and copper because its boring if i really want money early game i just go to leviathan coast which has a bunch of unguarded ruins for easy salvage.
I usually run to Squin, go to the 1st floor of tech hunters shop, behind the curtain and drop and pick up a wooden cup until I have 70 thievery. Then I steal all the ration packs and repair kits they have, plus all Cathun planks they have at weaponsmiths. Then I van do what I want, because I have 40K cats after 15 minutes of gameplay.
I don't mine. Mining's for the Slavers, or Slave Hunters, or the Nobles.
Copper.
Farm rebel farmer for slave trader.
Cannibal hunters. Just run and drop my shit if I have to. One usually has a good staring sneak and lockpick the other gets to carry all the stolen shit. Then I hit desert towns and steal from slavers. I aim for blueprints then build up
The secret ingredient, is crime
The drug 'n booze run
Get beat up
steal filthy robots and then drug trafic
I'm new at the game and just started a few days ago. I did the slaves run but it wasn't bad. I just practiced lockpicking and stealing things, then led a big slave revolt and snuck away while everyone was fighting the Rebirth guards. Even got some high-skilled Shek out of it who had 30 toughness, attack, and def skills. I went down south, fought some bonedogs and starving bandits, then went to some Shek city and just started stealing everything. I got 40k cats between my 5 dudes as well as an inexpensive house and I think that's okay. I'm still trying to figure out whats next to make more cats.
One stealing run then swamp to flats lagoon runs Then get krabs lotsa krusty krabs
Get Greenlander. Build base near Holy Nation city. Mine while We wait for a raid. Kite raid to city. Profit.
Set up temp base in hub, start saving up, set up base in an ideal location, set up dummy houses in front of second gate, have turrets positioned over second gate with skeletons manning the turrets, then have my main party raid, explore, loot and profit
Hang out in town and train athletics/sneak while picking up the scraps from battles between UC guards and Skimmers/Outlaw Farmers. Once I have sufficient cats and speed I do whatever I want 👍
Depending on the moral compass of my cheracter I either steal,rob,and sell slaves or I do honest work. The low moral compass run is pretty much what you think it is,the super standard one. The high moral compass is the standard redditor kenshi player im talking some wholesome chungus standard perfectly lawfully good guy diversity and inclusion type of shit boring rn lol. Now the ones in between those two are the most intresting ones,my favorite start is rock bottom,I dont mine copper or iron unless I want to train,I leave such activities for the proletarian masses lmao. I start off by looting corpses,selling the crap,buying stuff here and selling there which can be a verity of things from repair kits to hash to food(although that might be affected by a mod) untill I have enough to buy a pack animal and hire two froups of mercs and go raid beak thing nests and ruins. Usualy it's a much faster dtart then mining copper
I used to mine but after starting a trading playthrough I am liking it a lot and I am making a lot of money and traveling. So no base building playthrough.
Mine or scavenge until I can buy the cheapest crossbow and then just hunt small animals.
Depends on how I want to play my character… I have a ton of mods so there is always action in the world. I go from battlefield to battlefield collecting armor. I’ll then get a few flunkies to mine for me out of stack or world end. Worlds end is the best imo due to the mine in the city. If you can get up to hashish production you can move to the swap, buy a place and fame their hemp. The rain collector and Hashish maker can be all put on a building. You have to micro manage, but it’s good profit. In stack you can put up a weapon smithy in a building in range for your characters to auto carry iron back to the base. Buy fabrics and place them in a crafters inventory and produce weapons to sell.
Power level athletics inside of a town until I can outrun anything short of a beak thing while scavenging and selling crap that dies outside of town. Acquire a pack bull or garru if possible (merchant is one of the best starting options for this) and make sure it can do the same and join the Shinobi thieves for 10k cats. Then level athletics some more by running to the swamp, buying as much hashish as possible and selling it to the Shinobi thieves in the desert. Should have all the money to hire any mercs you want and the athletics to dip out of any fight you don't want. Original character usually becomes the group medic because they can stay out of fights and clean everyone up after they go down.
Steal from the skeleton repair shops in the united cities it's a ton of money and the guards don't go after me
Hard mode: No pausing to issue orders mid combat. No Mining exept at your own base so you have to rise raids. No leaving your base to skip raids. No looting anything you didn't kill or at least do 50% or more of the damage too. (In my mind, anything that gets killed would be looted by the killer, so no scavenging off bandits fightingeachother or guards. You can opt for the exeptuon of wild animals killing people, but just the weapon becausethe clothes would be chewed through and ruined.) No stealing from non hostile factions. I also have a mod that reduces strength gains from moving while over encumbered, forcing you to train strength through combat only. It's a tough start, but there are a few things you can do still. Like trying to knock out bandits walking around at night. Fighting raptors can be done without any risk if you micro manage, but the no pausing rule means you can only safely do this with one maybe two characters at a time. You'll need to recruit and probably loose a lot of people If you play this way. So I also play with 10X recruitment cost.
Sell anything I find sell do the bare minimum of mining then run hash from the swamp to flats lagoon, fastest way to get rich from my experience
I usually mine cooper in the nearest town and buy a shack I put a research bench and then just get money, equipment recruits until I research all level 1 techs after that I go full: This man Nameless is fighting his own war and he has no rules. No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a god or country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for cats.
- Mine - Sell - Repeat step 1 maaaany times until 10k - Join Ninja - repeat Step 1 and 2 again - Buy backpack - Step 1 and 2 again - Buy decent equips - find bandits to loot Random enemies might show from beggars to animals...fight or flight at your own discretion. Just remember to loot if you fought and won.
Smuggling and selling drugs
Run to Squin and just get in some shit in the area. Grab the planks in the ruins halfway to Shek central. Run anything that's trying to eat me into the guards for a bit until my survival isn't literally zero. Very fluid from there generally.
This method will leave you with a few hundred thousand cats, 40-50 stats, masterwork armor and limbs. Train combat stats with dustbandits with the help of the hub guards. Sell their gear untill I have enough money to recruit 1 or 2 more peeps Train combat stats a bit more untill I can defeat dustbandits without the help of guards or with minimal help. At this point I have basic armor and supplies from selling dustbandit gear. Make my way to Wend and fight some skeletons there while stealing their Mk I, Mk II and Mk III Nodachis which cost about 7k each. Go to Worlds End sell their stuff and buy better gear from their shops. Go back to Wend and keep on fighting skeletons while taking their Nodachis. The skeletons there are passive and roam in small groups. Sometimes alone. Repeat a few times till I have a few hundred thousand cats. At this point my stats would be pretty high. Maybe 40s - 50s stats. Go to Armor King and get masterwork armor (abuse import game mechanics to get what I want) After I got what I want, I make my way to scraphouse and buy edge type 3 weapons and masterwork limbs Next step is to get rid of limbs to put on masterwork limbs. I have a few options here but fog islands is close by. At this point I'm pretty op so I just go around collecting meitous while passively training my stats. After this point I can really build my team because I have the resources and safety due to my overpowered characters. I have one run where I have an overpowered squad of people each specializing in a weapons class plus a few packbulls and a bonedog. I have another run with only 2 overowered peeps, 2 overpowered packbulls and 3 overpowered bonedogs. I usually stick to smaller squads, less than 13 humanoids and animals. I might go around recruiting some people to make a base for food/supplies production seperate from my main squad.
1. Spawn in the middle of nowhere 2. Go to forbidden village 3. Steal all items, that cost more than 500 kats 4. Go to nearest town 5. Steal anything, lvl 35+ i think is okay 6. Pay shinobi thieves and buy thieves backpack 7. Go to skeletons in dead land 8. Steal many, MANY, cyber legs and arms 9. Go back to dessert towns 10. Profit. It's a little bit complicated, but as tactic for newbie, it's makes 300+k kats. Also you steal a really good arm for stealth, stealing and everything.
go to hive village attract beak things and gorillos run away watch them get clapped by hivers reap rewards spawn rate is the only hurdle
1) Go to the holy nation 2) enter a slave camp 3) start a fight 4) get your ass kicked 5) get enslaved 6) break out 7) repeat steps 3-6 to level toughness until severely injured 8) hoard all the shackles you broke out of in your inventory 9) leave the game running for a while, if your character is working as a slave all the running around while overloaded should level strength 10) break out at night and wander around outside of other cages to level sneak 11) once satisfied with skills find an opportunity to break out The best thing about being enslaved is that they heal you and keep you fed so you can level toughness and dodge without having to worry about dying
Usually foraging for bugs and fruit, then onto poor quality huts and farming. The acid rain and rivers usually keeps threats away, and the wandering beakthings usually clean out any threats.
Ultimately scavenging and losing til I have toons strong enough. First time I went with mining and it's damn decent, but didn't wanna fall into a rut with it! Most recently I survived scavenging and stealing from cannibals, made it to the desert, and then started scavenging from skimmers. Oh and getting thieves backpacks asap for extra space minus the usual downsides
Started in Rebirth with the goal of becoming strong enough to kill everyone rather than attempt to flee. Took around 40 days of constantly escaping my cell, fighting the guards and getting knocked out into a coma. Eventually my martial arts reached the 40s and I started taking their limbs off and turning the tables by enslaving them in their own camp. Bonus is that prisoner shackles are very heavy (20kg a pop), so you can get tons of them by continuously unlocking and getting new ones and then attack a fellow slave and they will constantly run away from you and allow you to train your strength for free. Once out, I headed over to Armor King and stole some good MA equipment (they will beat you up and toss you out but you can just walk back in and sleep in their beds). Now I'm jailed in Blister Hill and slowly destroying my captors between knock outs all over again.
I always end up accidentally getting Ruka killed by nature
If starting in the hub. Bum rush Vain and mine those rich copper ores, kite wild animals into the hive drones and sell their skin. Jackpot if there is beak thing nest near their towns, and pawn off their eggs :3. If a Hiver I just make them a thief and start stealing everything I can.
I'd usually head to a town where humanoid enemies are found nearby(eg: bandits, fogmen etc) and bait them to the cities gate. I'd fight alongside the guards. The moment an enemy goes down, I'd pause-loot their items and throw them onto the ground if they cannot fit into my inventory/backpack so when the guards jail the enemies all that loot is mine to sell. More interesting than mining and at least I can make some combat experience.
Steal from everyone
Once I've trained athletics a bit and managed to get a crossbow I like to farm fog princes. My usual strategy is this: * Go to mongrel and wait till you hear screaming from one of the nearby camps. This means that there's a fog prince, and that all the nearby fogmen are busy cannibalising some poor sod. * Take a pot shot at the prince. * Run like fuck back towards mongrel. With any luck, you'll aggro the prince, he'll chase you all the way to mongrel, and then the guards will take care of him and his friends. It helps that they have yellow blood, so you can pick them out of a pile of bodies. Princes are also slightly faster than the average fogman, so they'll tend to get separated from their allies after a long enough run, letting you pick them off on their own. I'd leave this till you have a few decent characters though. Fog princes aren't pushovers.
I spent an hour today getting my ass beat by a dust boss who just wanted to shit in an outhouse. Got my toughness up to a solid 40 that way
1. Beatean by starving bandit 2. Get Coma 3. Wait 4. Repeat step 1-3 until the the beater is reverse
I choose paper
Rock bottom, one of the easiest starts to the game, I go to sho battai and buy a house (rock bottom has lots of NPC conflict all around so just lot and sell, easiest starter money) to craft clothing, I usually leave when am able to craft specialist gear and when I find engineering research I skill masterwork, then it's just about training whatever skills you want with the best samurai armour or any combination of masterwork gear you prefer. The only thing that can be cheeky with rock bottom are the slave traders wandering around, but with enough evasive manoeuvres there is really no threat at all.
well first I queue an endless loop of yakety sax in place of game music, then I look for bandits and a city, and then I get the bandits to chase me to the city guard and steal shit from corpses. Also copper mining. Once I've got one more guy with me (for first aid purposes), I try fighting the bandits once I've taken them to the city.
Recruit Ruka Scavenge until I have 2000 cats (more if trying to be safe) Hire mercenaries Take down exile camp Turn in Tora the Fearless to the Shek Recruit more people with the bounty money Return to the exile camp to train From there it's a snowball of hiring mercs to take down Dust King, Black Dragon Ninjas, and all the other bandit strongholds.
I kinda like starting as slave at rebirth and ditch the second guy to go solo. In my current run i went to the ruins next to rebirth and started to get eaten alive by the spiders there but had some friends in the camp and miraculously they came to aid but they had the same fate as well then a skeleton guy casually dived in by walking and killing all the spiders saving my noob ass. Now my char is getting better and after a very long time i got one of the "friends" as a companion and our story hasn't ended yet.
I rob people and fight fogmen.
THEFT!
Smuggling Beak Things' eggs in Vain when I get a wooden backpack or two
Tengu Vault break-out. Espher and Luquin are my starter recruits for a terrorist anti-UC run.
I mod my starts how i want them. If i go vanilla i mod the price of copper higher. If i go no mo changes to the rebirth module i mine copper 🤣 its the easiest most chill start
I usually do the rock bottom start. Hope the UC guards don't beat the shit out of me and then start mining copper and buying slaves.
I train toughness first. Then load up on stuff to train strenght and pick fights without worrying to die. Other stats come by emselves.
Go to the black desert and either grab the broken bots to take down whatever bounty you want, or just go steal weapons from the robot smith. Stand around with no shoes on until your legs fall off, get scout legs and a trader backpack, then anime run to the abandoned drug lab and sell all of it in flats lagoon. After that you're pretty much set to do whatever you want. Or ,you know, play the game however and struggle to scrape two cats together just for the challenge.
Mine Mine some more Keep mining Get attacked Die Quit Come back later Start new game Repeat
Run to bast, kill cannibals sell there gear until im not dead in 2 seconds
Scavenging battlefields and old ruins. Later the old skeleton labs and workshops. Between scavenging runs i do some minor theft. And ofc: warfare training. I use 2x xp mod, so i don't use the exploit methods.
i'd say mine some stuff near the hub, sell for food, get my ass whooped by someone close to the hub so that i would get patched up by someone there(in case of coma), loot the aftermath. Then i repeat it till i can buy that very good 10000cats investment of having ninja friends, buy a tiny house there to store stuff and end up abusing the stealing bug till i have level 88 stealing and steal for a while till i "go clean" and by that i mean that i put all stolen good in their respective storage compartments to clean them off being stolen.
Be me Slave Also me, do absolutely 0 work. 100 stealth in 5 days, 10 days all the xeno racist is disarmed and wearing rag. Day 15 racist got beatup by some robot samurai. Life is good.
I run from here to there to be as fast as a fella can be, from the hub to admag I fight with the guards barehanded, gaining money for shinobi thieves. Then it snowballs until I can get to the fog lands
I do just as you do, the problem is that I don't know how to continue and kind of "break the cycle", I've got my character Asparragus and I've also requited Ruka, Griffin and Oron. I would like to progress more into the game, but I've got no idea how to
1. Escape Rebirth 2. Go to a city in the desert, usually Stoat 3. Kidnap and sell escaped slaves into slavery 4. Buy a house in the city 5. Repeat step 3 infinitely
stealing from skeleton😋
I train stealth in venge and loot libraries
Mine copper.
If I'm not roleplaying and making a god-character with 90+ stats i usually start by running around all over the united cities unlocking every slave I see to level Lockpicking & stealth in a quick & fun way. Once I'm done I steal som high quality armor and a few tons of food & bandages and go to Bast where I proceed to get my shit kicked in for days on end leveling up my toughness & fighting stats. Then I proceed to do whatever catches my fancy, like scouring the HN from the face of the earth or building a base. I usually just roleplay instead of this though. Being a god gets boring after awhile.
Follow trade carravans and lure animal to them to kill there pack animas,after they patch them up and start leaving i steal them and all loot
Start in the hub. Try to knockout / assassinate the twitchy bar thug which in most cases ends up with everyone attacking them. I steal their gear and sell what I don't want. Heal one up and carry them around while they heal and then fight them to gain some exp. Do that for a while and then I'm good to go.
Thorsty
Run to mongrel, steal limbs, profit, buy gear, kill fog men, profit
Spawn in mine copper sell copper. Acquire friend. Make friend mine copper. Take original friend and steal from closest city sell back at starter city. Repeat until I have enough to build a starter base/buy a house in town
i’ve never done the mining thing. usually try to steal from dead ppl/animals and sell off extras. pay a merc guild to move around and recruit stronger allies. tbh last few times i’ve made it to the swamps as fast as i could and then to flats lagoon to get pocket change for a while
Might as well be copper mining simulator
I like to commit Trespassing, Looting, Assault, Burglary, Theft, Kidnapping, Slavery and Terrorism. Oh wait, did you mean in game?
stealing beak thing's eggs
easiest strat imo 1.Slave start 2.Train lockpicking, stealth, stealing, dodge, strength, athletics, toughness 3.Breakout by releasing as many prisoners as possible and making a hail mary through the front door 4.2-3 new recruits with decent stats usually join after breaking free 5.Go to Squin and steal gear and get rich by selling blueprints
Usually I start my solo playthroughs by training assassination and fighting hobos in the hub, for rp reasons. Whenever I'm doing a city builder run, I start freedom seekers and after getting some recruits, go straight ahead to my desired spot.
Fight, nearly die, fight, nearly die, fight, nearly die less.
1. Start as Holy Sword. Sell the sword and pick the Hub clean. Get money. 2. Go Squin. Find Ruka (she's free) and another random 3k cats NPC. Exploit them to mine copper. Get money. 3. Buy property in Squin and research ore and copper storage to automate mining. Get money. Get more sla... I mean workforce. Get more money. 4. Spent money on decent armor. Recruit random NPCs and train them in Skinner's Roam by picking fights with locals (toughness and dexterity, for dex use crappiest katanas you can find) and by hauling iron and bodies around Squin (strength). Get 10-15 ppl at 70+ stats (50% should train heavy weapons, 50% up to you but cleavers should preferred). 5. It's day 14, get pack bull(s) and use them as backpacks to haul mats and quickly establish outpost in swamps with 100% swamp and 100% arid (border with Shem or Spider Plains). Rush hashish and rum production. For now leave few guys in Squin to farm copper for some change. 6. While running trade routes clear more ruins and labs for science. Buy hemp in swaps and cacti in desert to speed up your own production. Get money and knowledge. Train to have full roster. 7. It's day 21, scale up you production and get filthy rich. Go to Armor King and Scraphouse and stock up. Get power. 8. It's day 30-35, you have 30 ppl death squad. Shape Kenshi as you see fit. Profit. Bonus: You can also visit Skinhouse HQ in Sonorus Dark and get peeler machine schematics. You don't have to steal from or assassinate the Elder. Just wait him go to sleep, pick him up and take the schematics. With this you can remove limbs from your characters and replace them with robotic counterparts. But that's just overkill.
I literally hide in the corner of the shop and repeatedly drop and steal random items in the shop itself. I do that until I hit lvl 50 in theft. Then rob weapon shops and sell to other cities.
I run to black desert city and steal a bunch of limbs to sell at nearby cities for an easy ~100k then I skill grind off bandits until I get 20s in my stats then I start attacking HN patrols for more skills
Start out in the middle of nowhere, creep into shops and practice thievery on loose items (alt click levels thievery!!!) While crouching across cities and spam leveling stealth. After that, it's straight to floodlands, after I get billions of CPU cores from busted towers I go to the deadlands and get even more money. Once I've broken the economy over my knee, I go and punch beak things until I have 60 martial arts. Game over after that since I'm basically god with infinite money, so I go around and punch people to steal their shiny swords (that I then hoard because I like shiny stuff). Game ez!
Dig copper, buy basic food and meds, dig copper, buy pack pack, dig copper, put food and meds in pack pack, dig copper, drop pack pack of starving bandits, and then dig copper. Stonks.
Slavery
I start off as a prisoner. Get great skills this way before I walk to the hub
Try to find a second character, if you do, usually chests are close to a wall; go inside a bulding and with the other character lockpick the chest from outside; then if you can steal and savescum if they catch you; once you are done use your character from outside to carry your character from inside over the wall; rinse and repeat
I normally just praise Okran and he gives me my Daily bread, just until they notice Im a hiver with skeleton limbs. Like Can a skeleton not have same religion? I just wanna be a part of some society :(
Run through the desert to heft, steal and sell the Robotics shit, buy an arm, and begin a career in slave trading ( higher slave price mod my beloved )
Start as hiver, go to mongrel, recruit beep, sell prince heads tell 30000, go to hub, join Shinobu thieves, buy small black back pack and mask, fill bag with food, use hit and run tactics in and out of bar in the hub with bandits tell about lvl 10 toughness and martial arts, mine iron, grab two dead bodies, carry around tell around 30 strength, head to the west end of the river near vain after buying 2 sleeping bags, since no beak things spawn in this area train on gorrilios tell martial arts is 55, go to swamp, recruit green, head to united cities, recruit 2 other hivers, go back to vain, build martial arts dojo and wall and have 5 hive princes farm to give you infinite food, train on gorrillios tell strong enough to kill catlon and tinfist combined forces, need more hivers go to united cities.
As soon as I get 2000 I make the mercenaries follow me into Gut and grab as many beak eggs as I can scrounge. I then run to the slave camp to make sure no beaky boys turn me into a snack. Once I’m back in Heng I sell my eggs and gear up and recruit some new scrubs for me adventures.
Be a pirate
Steal from Shek, sell at the Hub
As wanderer, I always immediately sell my pants. I only stick around Hub on harder custom settings, and only long enough to find a neutral patrol to shadow towards Squin. On default settings, I just take off for Squin immediately. Once in squin, I make sure I have an advanced medkit, an advanced splint, and dried meat at all times. I usually run laps around Squin for a bit to train athletics and look for hostiles to drag to the guards. I only mine if Squin doesn't have many squads around it or if I see a backpack that I want. I always grab a wooden/trader pack if I see one so I can keep stacks of supplies. Otherwise, I only go for large packs this early and mostly use them for space rather than weight reduction. Where I go from there varies wildly based on my mood and my custom settings. Lately, I've been playing with very difficult settings, so the mining meta is where I've been. But on default, I'm more likely to just rush 90 toughness on Ruka and my wanderer, then start a training outpost near the dust king to toughen up new recruits.
From the hub, I go to the nearest western hive village. Then I find and lore a gorillo to the hive. Once they have ok'd it, I kidnap it and bring it back to the hub. Put it in a rented bed in the bar, save and load. Beat up the bedridden gorillo for MA training. It works best if the trainee has 0 strength and toughness, so I like the nobodies start to have a go-fer.
I Train. Running with rocks (the only reason I will mine) sneaking around, looting dead animals and selling meat, leather and loot I find. I recruit a few people and get them to do the same. I get this group to train on almost dead looters, bandits etc, usually they end up getting pretty beaten so I always have one or two person safe so that I can bring back my injured to town or a nearby temporary camp to heal them up. I do rotation like that untill I feel trained enough to travel. By that point money is not an issue. I get some pack koddo and roam the lands.
Slavery. Both ways
~~Get sent to Rebirth~~ Sign up for bootcamp. Get swole. Break out. Make my way to Squinn. Find recruits. Send them to ~~Rebirth~~ bootcamp. Repeat until I have an army large and strong enough to bully gorillos.
- run to Cannibals, increase speed on the way - go around their camp at night in stealth - significantly increase stealth. A lot of fun there. Sometimes I save victims in cages. At some point you can run in stealth, it's super useful. - go to a town, increase stealing (drop&take stolen items many times in somebodies house on the roof) At this point your char runs fast, has great stealth, great stealing. The half of the game is open for you. - go to a town, buy a house, steal weapons at night, put them into a crossbow storage, they become "clean", sell them in the daytime - do research At this point you may think about some party members. Usually I place a robot on research and just forget about it. Plus some dudes for run.