Kenshi: Building tips and ramblings (re-upload) 

It seems the clipping trick used during the later half of the video no longer works due to a patch. Thank you to Fanunic and Paul M for pointing it out.

Never knew the wall clipping tip -- definitely using this for my next base!

That clipping trick is very cool. I never bothered with gates because they will just break through a random piece of wall somewhere and gates become useless. This gives me ideas.

One mistake I notice a lot is spamming rows of turrets on a single length of a wall - Kenshi has this quirk that turrets have 360deg arc of fire or close to it - and line of sight is wonky as hell. Meaning that your turret guards will often shoot at things they can't conceivably hit, and instead, they will hit other turret guards. To avoid it - you need walls/buildings as tall as possible (to give turrets steep angle) and set your guards apart. On wall, friendly fire will still happen occasionally, though unless you scatter your gunners few and far inbetween. Literally the only building I have found that has no issue with friendly fire appears to be the watchtower. You can put multiple guards there, and they will not hit each other, unless enemy actually gets to the tower itself.

Excellent time saving knowledge you shared, sir! Thank you!

Thanks

For my first gate, I want V-shaped walls. Why? Good crossfire, but also the ability to start peppering enemies from far away without having to dismount and draw my Eagle Railgun. Alternately: Towers on either side of the gate. Second gate will have backup turrets for my archers, but will also hold my repair boys. Armed with Falling Suns. I don't believe in defense-in-depth. If the first gate falls, the second gate is to prevent baddies from overrunning my farms and factories while they get sliced into pieces. Idea: Put the entrance to your base next to an acid lake. !!he he he!! 12:45 Good tip.

Whenever i need base building help you always come through Mr Anomaly

Great tips but I saw a guide where it tells u to flip the walls so the archers can rly shoot at targets will definitely combine these things for my first base 👍

Idk why but for me the hardest part is always finding a location where to start building On a somewhat related note base building needs some serious rework in my opinion it's the wonkiest out of everything, i rarely settle down and build a base due to how glitchy it can get sometimes you build a wall somewhere and your character is stuck and can't move or enemy runs in your base while you're building walls and they end up on top of the wall which makes you either build a ramp to get to him or tear down the wall entirely just to get him out

Awesome tips, never even thought about putting a wall inside the gate to shoot out, or even clipping walls alongside buildings, thanks for the video!

im one of the cool design lover more than practique, and i loved the way to mix things like that. Thats changed all my plans now. Great tip men my greetings. My Base go look damn crazy thx to u :D. And more defensive also (:

I suggest quick encampment videos , basebuild in interesting areas from the scratch and triggering events like crab tournament, or how to join reavers or how to increase faction relations, how to befriend gutters etc tricks like that

Completely new info to me. Never even knew this could be done. Thank you so much. Subscribed!!!

"Makes a 14 min video on base building" Yeah I don't have much to teach... Dude, I have, literally, 999 hours on kenshi and I still learned with you. Great guide, 10/10 would recommend.

Much love for the upload Shama

Even better if you built a base in vain, the acid rain and the acid water are even better for thinning out enemies before they even got to knock at your gate. Been using this method in my current playthrough and i only hear the harpoons firing everytime some bandits pass by every hour or so

Yeah, I definitely want to a see a playthrough!

i found there isnt much need for walls at all. make first base in area with low level enemies, near a town with guards. the first bunch of raids, when you are no-level, run to safety near town. slowly take beatings, slowly get tougher and better stats. the raids will show you how you are progressing, the amount of time it takes to access high level tech like level 3 walls you will be strong enough to combat raids in early game areas. going from getting smoked by hungry bandits to putting everyone but your newest guy on block and letting him fight an entire black ninja genin raid is great training for everyone too. by the time you can make a meaningful base via tech, with too many walls and crossbows you will wind up with great engineering and turret skills, but you are missing out on massive amounts of toughness training that lets you get out into the wider world. i built walls for fun when my guys were hitting level 40 and 50, at that time the base was a sprawling complex with access to all resources needed, no walls no crossbows. a larger base is great for strength and athletics training, and again, even hungry bandits are good training partners when you are loaded down with iron ore. with no walls, each invader will 'partner up' with one of your guys, as opposed to having to walk everyone to the front gate after unloading each person [too much clicking]. this is also a great way to train new skills, keep the newer half of your team geared up at their best, while the other half takes off their armor, practices dodge/martial arts, or a new weapon. as mentioned in the video, if nobody is at your base than you dont have to worry about it being raided. once your team is super tough, then its alot safer to leave 3 or 4 people at home while others go out, but more effective to have your entire team at peak level to maximize adventuring strength. by making a complex wall trap you are denying yourself passive experience, actually delaying the progression of your team. once you have a squad of 30 tip-top warriors, you can base up in more difficult locations with little difficulty. walls are unecessary.

Does the clipping trick still work? I was trying it earlier when planning a base from scratch and the planner wouldn't let me clip anything, it gave me red

You have very good videos, content wise. Hope to see more from you.

very nice

around 12:38 "the cell loads out" Do you really say that? Anyway, I just don't get it. What does that mean? the video is useful already as it is. Thanks

I really like this thumbnail, may I have the link to download it as my wallpaper?

Thank ye for the tips Sham, I was really struggling with finding a good way to funnel enemies into death... Anyways XD hope ye have a good day my dude :D

I know this is old and you probably won't see this but I had a question about the building stuff in other stuff. So can you build walls with ramps that lead onto roofs of buildings or is the pathing fucked?

Trying to build a beautiful base with upgraded walls etc. But i have Real trouble placing these damned walls...... trying now to place watch towers on corners with walls going inside them. No idea how it will go.....

No gates or walls are enough to stop a x4 raid size of black ninjas from stealing all your food, even a full team of 1-hit killers is hard-pressed to stop them all.

Stupid question, how did you elevate that gate? I heared you press something:)

Other question, there is a setting for how many characters can attack another character at once It's initially 1, because of this all other attackers wait for that one and not attacking at same time How do we increase that 1 to many, I know its doable and have seen done but I don't know how

Noice video. Really helpfull.

I end up never using crossbows and just have 1 powerful guy guard the gate with a plank. Granted training said guy (A Shek is what i choose) will take time. But i never need anything else.

And if you put your gate inside acid water, you don't even need harpoons!