10 CRAZY BEGINNER and ADVANCED KENSHI TIPS And TRICKS That You Need to Know!!!! 

What is your Favorite Tip or Trick from this Video?

Dunno if this qualifies as a tip, but when selling a bunch of loot from a pack animal, you can get around constant inventory dragging from the animal by moving the animal near the building, initiating the shop menu with a player, and then with the shop menu up, you can click the portrait of the pack animal and open up its inventory. You can then sell directly from the animal’s backpack providing the shop is in trading distance of the animal.

Kenshi is one messed up game when using a person as a extra loot bag is common sense. I personally always tried to find the strongest guy possible, usually a Paladin from the Holy nation and when the chance came snagged them up to use as a backpack and punching bag. It was also very good sneaking and assasination training to keep the character alive, but crippled so that you still get that benefit from doing all those horrible "Misery" esque things to them. Also, slapping a massive backpack on them adds even more room for stuff. Also, becoming a slave willingly is a great way to get into shape. The best outcome I had was getting dragged to Rebirth and spending a lengthy amount of time breaking free, getting the shit beat out of my character and learning martial arts, sneaking and improving toughness all the while. I eventually had to escape when my character got so tough that he risked losing limbs, since he wouldn't go down without being beaten to the inch of his life. Slavery is basically the best workout you can get in Kenshi.

Basic Kenshi experience: Spend 15 minutes prepping, training and exploring. Spend 30 seconds getting ambushed. Spend 4 minutes bleeding out, unconscious on the ground. There's a fine line between realism and enjoyment and this game seems to know exactly where that is, then tear it to shreds and shit on it.

a tip for leveling up skills that require movement i.e strength training while overloaded - just set your character to follow a town guard that is moving a lot

Excellent tips. I don't know if you'll see this, or if anyone will read this .... outside of the discord, Kenshi topics seem inactive. Just a tip to go with that first one, on wearing weaker armor. Something I noted when I had a single person ferrying iron back to Squinn from the iron deposits outside was they trained athletics very quickly ... reaching level 80 in about 15 hours of play, even when wearing athletics enhancing gear; slowing down their xp gain. You can automate movement of characters between two points. Build two say ... copper storages, or better yet a crop storage you don't grow. Then fill up their inventory with objects so they can only move one item at a time. Then tell half of your trainee characters to haul to one, and half to the other. The amount of items in each can slowly unbalance. Just check in once in a while, or make the characters all have a secondary command to move items back. This plays havoc with their AI, as the condition for the first order will occur the moment they pick up a single item from the full bin, so it's less reliable and efficient. Now, if they're carrying a lot of heavy stuff, say iron, and are carrying a body, and don't have a command to carry any iron to a storage, they'll keep going. Same with if you filled up their inventory with another crop, which would train athletics. Heck, you can even buy two houses in the city and have people sneak between them, or have them swim back and forth across a pond. Alternately, you can have the characters pull single resources from a mine/processor to a storage/processor, rather than ferry items between two storage depots. As they're never idle, they'll never go to ditch resources. For added security, you can create the setup in a faraway city.

Hey mate, great video. Not sure if you have covered this in a previous tips video but its about how strength and dexterity effect your weapon speed. For example a weapon with high blunt damage and low cutting damage will need more strength to wield efficiently and the other way around so if a weapon has a high cut damage and low blunt damage it will take more dex to wield properly. (e.g. a meitou fragment axe has 3.60 blunt dmg and 0.66 cut dmg so it will take much more strength than dex to weild this weapon efficiently). Forgot to mention if the weapon has around an even blunt and cut dmg it will take an even amount of strength and dex to wield such as the falling sun.

Damn dude, tip #1 was under my nose the whole time! And I have 300+ hours logged into this game. Great video🙏

Thanks for the tips! I didn’t even think of tip #1 haha. It’s so practical

Most of these I knew, but I didn't know number one, that's a heckin life saver man

got an even better one for #1 tip yes to having 1 person collect everything but then have a different character trade with the loot character, this puts their inventory on the right side when you select different characters it'll always change the inventory on the left side leaving your loot character's inventory up all the time though I have used the trick you used before

About wall mounted crossbows - the situation with them is more complex than just assigning the job. Higher tier walls have these "nests" that protrude beyond the wall - and the game may count the characters within as being "outside" - they will not go to eat anything if the gate to your base is closed. Sometimes, when loading the game, they may also spawn outside the wall - so don't save during the attack. You best way to work around this issue - Skeletons - use them - they don't eat, they can stay at wall forever. Another tip regarding the wall defenders - avoid setting your turrets in a straight line. Wall turrets actually have nearly 360 arc of fire, and Kenshi's line of sight is a bit wonky. Chances are that turret gunner will swing into the walls and start firing, hitting other gunners near them - even with 100 Precision Shooting. So - don't put your gunners in a straight line, and leave gaps between them. Make use of the watchtower building - it is so tall that this friendly fire issue is negated. Another thing - lights are more than just decoration - working in good light is faster and more efficient (and gives better quality when crafting weapons and armor) - do not neglect the light - put lights around your farms as well, to ensure they work efficiently 24/7. This also applies to defensive operations - enemy in light is easier to spot for your gunners, and friendly fire is less likely. Are your crossbowmen hitting your own guys? Give shooter a really bad crossbows and your frontliners the heavies armour you can afford - this will negate any friendly fire damage and will level up precision firing in no time.

That last tip is amazing. constantly opening the trade menu to my pack beast when transporting bsttle loot or crafted goods was super annoying. Thank you!

A note on stealth: it actually works even out of sight of enemies. You can tell a unit to sneak to another town, for instance, and still level stealth. Good video!

Love it man!

Holiday, thanks for the great video, helped me a lot! Please allow me to suggest that the number of followers you have on social media is not important, and that the best things in life are found outside of the internet. Keep making great videos brother!

This was a whole lotta tips.

Helped thx!

You can level up both strength and stealth together by having them carrying tons of weights and sneak around tons of NPC villagers. I did this when waiting for trading at night in a town.

I screamed into my hands on the last tip. That would have saved me so much time lol

thank you !

Thanks, bro.

2:50 If you're gonna use a _dedicated_ weight for strength training, use a living enemy. Living enemies don't despawn. Just don't give 'em gear.

Best base personnel are Skeletons. You can explore to your heart's desire without worrying your farmers and crafters will die of starvation if you forget to micromanage them. Conversely, Skeletons make best explorers - you can run across the whole map without carrying even one piece of meat with you.

Tip #1 - ignore Tip #1 and just get yourself a Thieve's Backpack, it has almost NO negative effects.

Thank you, useful stuff for a noob like me

Some of your tips are really essential like trading between squad members. I've been playing for a month and did not figure this out. Thank a lot

Back packs(empty) inside backpacks, fill backpacks with best utilization in main inventory. Fill backpacks and place in main inventory. Or animal.

Didn’t know about the attack all thing! Thanks!

for the stealth tip do u have to move around or can u just stand still?

Good refresher for someone like me that is going to start a new game after ... like ... 2 years? My first objective will be to recruit beep, for he is the heart of any proper colony :3

Remember that as long as you have one alive character with medipacks , you are never gonna loose someone from your team. Just always have that backup sneaky guy who can heal up your people. Also remember to skin animals after you fight a herd of them. You wont belive how durable they are and how fast they get up if you wont kill them. Also if you knock out any npc excluding skeletons , be sure to make them barehanded so even if they get up and fight you , they wont deal bleed when beating you up and you will live after some time in coma.

the first tip is good, but you can always set out to hunt beak things

great video! what is the UI mod you are using?

On Tip #9 "why don't use an unconcious alive body?", the another reason is when you put your own gear (you owned it yourself) to the "duffle bag" and then you decided to take your item back from the "duffle bag", you will recieved it as "stolen" item. I've learned this by my own experience when the Black Dragon Ninjas were raiding me and took all my food, then after the raid, I take the food back from the dying ninjas that stole my food and I recieved it as "stolen" item from that ninja that stole my food

*_KNOWLEDGE!_*

Tricks? Make the paladins take bandits or somebody to jail till all jails be filled, then take 2 KO skeletons from the mountain and when you deliver one spam talk and deliver to the inquisitor to get 100 relationship whi holy nation, then go to the fenix and become allie whit him so you can talk about destroy the shek kingdom (spaming 1 on dialogue you get 1 of thats letters to get a paladins group as allies) then wait till the fenix be sleeping and whit a backpack spam talk and 1 when you start the conversation. Thats equal to EASY MONEY!!!! (every time you talk and spam 1 you get 1 and each one are valued on 15k of cats) you can also do this when hes on the throne but have to wait till he end talking to repeat.

BTW: if you select "attack all targets", on my plays at least, you'll also attack any other npc that's attacking with you. Your helping the HN defend the gate? Don't select attack all, you'll eventually attack the friendly.

Thanks for your video. I uninstalled the game after watching this. This games seems like it’s so much micromanaging. I had no idea how to get started or what to do and how to do it.

Didn’t know that gunners would go eat if you made manning turrets a job, I thought they wouldn’t leave the turret at all

For most of the early game my guys just stay overloaded and carrying captives all over the continent. Then do two hash runs, and sell the captives. Then I have the cats to buy the kits I want and my stats are trained up.

You were at 666 likes so I had to like, also nice helpful vid 👍

How did you make your DarkUI transparent?

how did u do that 0% encumberance

I! What mods do u use?

How do i dye my armor? I need to make my skeleton army match colors

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The only pro tip for Kenshi you need to know is quicksave is mapped to f5

Another tip to the sneak leveling up that I've found, is if you hold shift and right click back and forth like 30 times from one side of a town to another while sneaking, you can queue up a bunch of sneak walking for them. You don't have to manage it at all after that while they do it. An optional thing I like to do after that is get them enslaved so I can train up a ton of lock picking and toughness. Slavers will always heal you and feed you so it's free toughness experience. Just sneak around at night and lockpick everyone in the buildings' cages and shackles, steal everything out of chests, practice assassinate on another inmate repeatedly on people in cages. Boom free ninja

Nr 1 only works for combat skills

My turret gunners don't get food even with your tip :( I have to feed them manually they are too dedicated to their jobs

Is the sneak bit mod related? Sneak doesn't improve when the red eye appears or when it's just allies for me.

Ranged Character at 4x damage one shots everyone

So, I just bought this game, and I haven't finished your video, so I don't know if you mention it, I'ma watch it, but I just wanna get this question out of the way. Can I become at King and rule the land and have a town or whatever and everyone FOLLOWS ME AS THE TRUE RULER!? 😂😂 I'm just saying since, you know, you can do anything you want. 😂😂

I lost the body of the dust boss because I loaded a save

Are you still doing youtube

Why would armor negatively affect your defense…

Hey these tips were not "CRAZY"!!! You sold me these would have been CRAZY tips, instead I just got regular tips...

Don't mention your socials and tell your viewers to subscribe before they have had a chance to view your content

Here's a few extra tips 1. If you need to travel through a dangerous region, try to do it at night. All characters have reduced line of sight when its dark, and won't be able to see you from far away so long as you avoid light sources. This is really useful when traveling through places with Beak Things, since most of them will be asleep in their nest and the few still walking around wont see you unless you get real close. 2. Camp fires can be used as substitutes for other light sources. If your characters are building or working and you dont want to build a torch or light fixture, putting two camp fires close by will produce enough light to avoid the "Working in Darkness" penalty.

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