Should You Settle Stobe's Garden or Stobe's Gamble? | Kenshi Location Guide 

This territory can be described with three words:Crabs and Raiders

Love the Sseth reference. I've just settled in Stobe's Garben and all I can say is that I love the character development potential from the amount of strong yet beatable enemies in the area. Just have to be careful with the Skin Bandit raids, bros turned my free Ells into sausage. Rip Ells, may you steal more booze in hell.

Stobes garden is defiantly one of the most visually stunning places to settle.

Can't believe we got to see Toe Beans again. Glad to see he is safe and sound :)

I did settle in stobe's garden in early mid game surrounding stobe himself and incorporated him into my base for roleplay reason. Do note, from my experiences crab and skeleton bandits will not attack you, until there settlements appear on your map and you will only have to deal with reavers and black dragon ninja raids with patrols of crab bandits, reavers, and skeleton bandits a common occurrence. So if you do not want to get raided by the crab bandits or skeleton bandits, do not go to their base, unless you are going to ally with them.

Settled my end game base just south of the ruined way station in stobes garden. It’s a great location for training combat skills. Fun tip: instead of allowing the skin bandit raids to run off with all of your unconscious characters, simply allow all of them in your base and then close the gate. The ai does not know how to act and you can just keep getting up over and over again and even place your guys in beds to heal while they just stand around and wait to be killed. Maximum training efficiency.

Send the Beak Thing to Blister Hill. They'll be a gift from Okran!

You would like a base in shrieking forest, if you think stobe's garden isn't chaotic enough...

Wow great timing. I'm getting back into kenshi right now and I just reached the anti-slavers in Stobe in my game.

Black gorrilos are one of the best targets for training. Also if reavers enslave characters they bring them along on patrols to fight which can also be decent for training

I just settled in Shun for the first time... really underrated starter base location you can safely start a base there right off the bat, provided you have the materials, sure depending on where you start it can be quite a perilous journey especially at low level, the zone is not claimed by any faction meaning you won't have any raids knocking at your door but you can still get into fights with roaming squads, it's a 100% arid environment with 100% fertility, there's tons of iron and plenty of copper all around and there's lots of roaming garru and the occasional white gorillo, oh and skin spider so yea.. It's chuck full of ancient libraries and even an ancient tech lab, it's also close to Drifter's Last and it's pretty safe to send people to sell stuff in town since there are no nest spawns in the zone. Oh and the views and aesthetics are slowly becoming my favorite in the game you can really see what was lost in this zone so much implied lore. All in all this is going to be my new goto starter location from now on.. it's extremely underrated.

I can't play this game but I love watching the gameplay!

Settling in Stobe's Garben has easily been my favorite playthrough. Currently at least 70 hours into this playthrough. Modded, and I don't know if I'd enjoy it as much in the base game. I added the Ceasar's legion faction(playing as them) and have mods like party size 256 and recruit prisoners, started off at the hub and made a bunch of money mining and looting, grabbed some recruits and found my dream spot a plateau with only one ramp up. Started extremely difficult and frustrating but once I was able to do some research, build some defenses and then over time increase in numbers by taking out Reaver patrols and camps and converting their guys. Eventually we were strong enough to take out the Ark, then over time Crab Town, then the Skeleton Bandits and then finally the Black Dragon Ninjas(low priority) Now Stobe's Garden is a pretty happy and peaceful place where we have a massive city and are in the process of destroying the United Cities while collecting as many bounties and nobles along the way. I just love that the world of Kenshi reacts to what you do, and over time you can turn a pretty hellish place into a comfy home.

This is my next playthrough spot! Thank you for this series! I’m going to set up as the “Eastern Hive.” Start off with 5 hivers and roll from there. Do a craft/sell only as well

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Stobes Garden is my favourite spot for a settlement. Made a base where he rests and walled off the entire plateau. Plenty of space for farming and if you build your gates correct you can force stall all raids and prevent them from ever reaching the settlement and beginning attack, letting you kill them all off with 1 or 2 turrets.( Importing/exporting can mess up the gates and change the base marker location in dev mode so you may need to fix it any time you import or add mods)

NEW VID LETS GOOOOOO

Those regions are not as big as you think. The whole world of Kenshi has a land area similar to Indianapolis.

Send the elder beak things into the Fog Islands!

*Me and my base on the Squin Flatlands north of the Waystation* I like it here

I decided to venture into the Ahlands, barely surviving the skin bandits. I savescummed my way out of there, avoiding skin bandit patrols. Now it's time to build a base. My closest base is Gut, so I think I'll do Stobe's next! Gut isn't really challenging once you've got the base set up.

3:17 Fun fact, two days ago I took out the Southern Hive, perfect timing I guess.

A video on weapons and armor would be neat if you're looking to branch out a bit. Either way these videos are quite useful as someone who hasn't ever really done anything then solo runs.

One day i will build a base right at the lap of stobe himself

Depending on where you build in stobe's garden, you will get skin bandit raids too which can be incredibly overwhelming. (I built roughly in the area you labeled "very good + waterfront"). I recommend just getting rid of savant with your best ninja, play it safe. Aside from that, that area offers iron, copper, water, and excellent fertility. The added bonus of having stobe overlooking your base can be pretty cool for roleplay purposes, and if you ally with anti-slavers your friends aren't far.

you can get a world state with an extra city in stobe's gamble

stobe's garben

Theres a perfect base spot between strobes garden and greenbeach. Its this little platau area thats great for defending. Also strobes garden is perfect for people who crave combat but dont want to deal with the elite troops of samurai or paladins like in the north

Finally!!!! Tho i have a question. How viable is a base directly in front of Stobe? With a party that doesn’t need food.

do you plan on making a video about the great desert or the surrounding areas? my first successful playthrough has been starting out in the united cities, living in Stoat, accumulating money off of selling skimmer teeth and copper ore. 14 days so far and my squad has had 3 people added to it. plan on trying to build a base soon when we get some more hands and a pack beast

My Brother in Okran, those elder beak things should have gone to Spring, the true end fortress of Kenshi.

Can you send those elder beakthings straight into Shek territory/one of the bigger cities in the Stenn Desert? They crossed paths with me a few times. Do not appreciate tax collection mobs at my front door

Hm. Yeah that map checks out.

Mmm yes… C R A B S

What mod are you using to make map markers?

is there no benefit to building on the border to benefit from both regions?

there is acid rain in Stobe's it doesn't seem as, damaging? as the other ones witch is weird

9:45 “and the base attacks are stronger than everywhere else on the map” We’ll see this statement retracted when you try to make a base in the Shrieking Forest with Shrieking Bandits Expanded 😎

Send the elder beak things to a farm up state (interpret that however you will)

Bro where did got your geography books from? How Texas + California is the same size of Chile and Brazil?? Brazil is the 5th Biggest country on earth. Brazil from southern most point to the northern point is like Mexico City to Winnipeg, and Chile while "thin" is yet 2-2,5 Californias. Best comparisons would to an european understand would be Italy and France, these have similar sizes to Texas and California.

Length of chile? It's a great day to be chilean

what about the unwanted zone?

Sonorous dark when?

how did i get here at 4 minutes after upload?

Send the elder beak things to Heft. No easier way to destroy a major city.

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Burning forest, utilise rain collectors and collect water from acid rain and water alike and build a farming empire! Just be sure to build a wall around your farm as nasty red things are out there...

I love how you think your european viewere know about Chile and Brazil. Because we do.

These elder beak things are too large,theirs size is probably modded.

west germany - east germany

Paul: "For my European viewers who are unaware of the AMERICAS i'll use a more practical example:" (proceeds to show 2 American countries as reference) Me as an European: Right... LMAO

wtf using SA to describe to euro people?

lol you said "for my European viewers" and then used south American examples. if that was a joke it made me laugh a lil.