Kenshi: Starter Guide 

The best way to start a game in Kenshi is the "Two slaves" start. You'll be forced to play as the game wants you to and you slowly but surely find your ways to turn it other way around. You will run by yourself. If you move you get bitten almost to death and in a short time realise that the only time you can do something is night. But your *insert skill there* is low, so you look for some odd, but existing ways to upgrade them. IMHO best starting, without going to much in detail. It forces you to do best thing in this game you can do - outplay it.

Btw my suggestion for start. - Spent all your money od dried meat. - Go sneak mode and walk around inside the city for literally 5 days so you rank up to lvl 45. - At this point your out of food but youre a ninja, you can go any house or shop and steal more resources to survive - Now you can decide whatever you want to do or whoever you want to be. I always start the game this way.

I have more than 1k hours in the game. If you just started out in kenshi, please don't mine. You will get bored to fucking DEATH. Starting in the hub, get your athletics up until you can run at a comfortable 18mph. Then, roam the area to find dust bandits : they're slower, due to their armor reducing their run speed, yet selling their armor will get you much more money than you need in the early game. Lure them into the city and let the guards pound them, steal their gear and SELL IT. You've just made nice money. Save your money to find a companion, and train your companion's running speed as well. This companion will be your "medic", leave them in the town or in a safe place with medical supplies. Now go find some hungry bandits with your first character, and fight them. Hungry bandits have blunt weapons, and are very weak, so you won't bleed out or lose limbs. Get your shit ROCKED. Make sure you don't have food on you, hungry bandits will steal it, they won't steal your equipment though, even if you allow it in settings. Once the area is clear, make your "medic" companion grab your hero and put the hero in a bed (a sleeping bag will heal you faster, and an actual bed at double the speed of a sleeping bag. There are beds for rent at the tavern in every city.) This is how you create a powerful character without needing to spend 3 real life hours grinding materials for no reason. Your toughness and melee defense will be through the ROOF. Use katanas or weapons that only do cutting damage if you want to level dex as well. Also one last "tip" but learn how the KO system works. Basically, no matter what, your character will go down if one of their vital bodyparts go below 0 health. If your KO threshold is -10, and the bodypart is at -11, you will enter a coma until you heal the bodypart up to >0. Otherwise, you'll wake up and play dead. Enjoy

Nice guide, its a safe and sure way to get a feel for the game. However for those who are willing to take a "little" more risk for quick cats without abusing stealth and thieving: Get a traders backpack, some mercenary bodyguards and head into vain. Find a beak thing nest. Let your guards fight and keep your head down. Steal the eggs and sell them. You wont have money problems for a while.

Mining is dull but as a new player it's about as safe a way to earn some cats as you'll get.

SCREW GRINDING FOR ORE !!! Potential spoilers for people who may want to experience this game for the first time the hard way instead, if you're a human, hire a skeleton or hiver. if not human, you can just do this. go to the skin bandits camp. it is a long and harrowing journey, save often. I would train athletics and strength first. You need to be able to carry a human and at least outrun other humans. I recommend swimming as a great alternative strat. Safer but a longer journey. Just stay away from the crabs and fishmen near some of the coasts When you get there, there will be skin bandits! I will let you guess what they do to people with skin. humans should wait outside, preferably in sneak mode. hang around until it's dark and their leader goes to sleep. when he gets in his bed, you can have pretty much any character walk in and pick him up off his bed. if you can you should also lockpick his safe and take his stuff. If you run outside with him and make it to the rest of your people you can have them take his robotic arms off. you now have a criminal who's worth 150000 cats alive or 80k dead in the nearest city, and his endgame robotic arms. This will make the beginning much less of a soul crushing grind, unless that's what you're looking for

What is your mod for graphics? Why everything looks like comic? xD