Should You Settle the Bonefields? | Kenshi Location Guide 

The bonefields! A constant mosh pit of wildlife trying to one up each other while the high bonefileds are called that because you must be high to go there

I remember being new to the game, strolling into the swamp with my bands of misfits. One day the bands leader lost a limp in front of the dancing Skeleton while I was not paying attention. Not being aware of the existence of prothestics, I thought the only way out of that despicable hell hole the swamp was to me, was to go south. I wasn't aware of kenshis map balancing either. After a days spanning struggle to survive, which another member of the crew lost to the grisley bonedogs of that corner, I found myself in catun, being safe for what it was worth but also trapped. The only logical step was then to explore kenshis base building for the first time. The true next step though was a constant grind of my will to survive, playing out on my very teeth. Right next to the city, where a big Chunk of metal leads up in to hills again, I set up, thinking that that castle like agglomeration of little plateaus must be just right for defending. Dozens of hours went into withstanding the constant onslaught of band of bones, beak things and much worse. Numerous times man hunters and slave mongers destroyed weeks of progress in moments where the smuggling of hash, my best members tried to conduct, seemed like the silver lining able to turn everything around. Man I love this game, hasn't changed since.

I played with some mods that made elder beakthings spawn in the swamps. It was a horror game, seeing a giant shadow in the mist, taking cover behind a tree while hoping that the fishing that my lone hiver had done would cover his scent.

Catune is unironically my favorite city in the game purely because it feels like a really well defended stronghold, it scares me seeing its double gate entrance and large quantities of double barrel harpoon turrets

I personally consider the western and southern rim of Flats Lagoon and the southern mountains of Shem to be spirutally a part of the Bonefields. Beakthings, Gorillo Bandits, Band of Bones, are found in both, and Flats Lagoon also has the Boneyard Wolves. Thank Okran theres no Elder Beakthings there tho. Otherwise the hashish run wouldn't be so profitable. Also, hell no I'm settling the bonefields. Fishman Island (once gurglemaster is dead) is much safer, more fertile, and richer in ore while having basically having just as good access to the Bonefield's neighbors.

I will never forget the first time i saw an Elder Beak Thing. Oh the horror...

Until you mentioned Beakthings not being able to enter building I was like "no way am I EVER going to settle there" now I'm kinda intrigued...

My favorite kenshi hamster made a new guide, awesome and congrats to your Milestone:)

I gotta tell you dude, one of my favorite parts of your videos are the sudden out-of-pocket comments. Combined with the deadpan tone you use it always gives me a laugh!

One of my most memorable Kenshi journeys has got to be the time that I started a hive exile playthrough. I tried to make some money around Vain, but it quickly turned out to be too dangerous, so I ventured south. I obtained a crossbow from one of the bandit patrols there. Fast forward to the Bonefields. I got ambushed by a Beak Thing a while after leaving Catun. The fragile hiver's legs nearly instantly crumbled away under pressure. By some miraculous chance the Beak Thing was distracted by the Bonefield fauna and I managed to get away. There was a slight problem though. My Hiver character had only a left arm left after the encounter. Well, tough luck. I started to crawl towards Mourne in order to gain some sustenance. After a brief rest I continued my journey towards the Flats Lagoon. It was nerve wracking to say the least. But after sneaking-crawling my way through the Bonefields, at last I reached safety and managed to purchase some replacement limbs. The hiver then went mad and any and all further recruits were required to have at least one prosthetic robotic arm. But that's another story :p

Alternatively, you can try to restore Mourn This city feels like a harder, endgame version of a Hub Though, it'll take you a shitton of wind generators to get this place up and running again

When the update dropped that opened the SE 1/4 of the map, I ended up migrating my fog island base to the south coast of the Bonefields near the fish bridge (where you marked your fantastic spot). I had plenty of resource to build up a walled base quick so the animals were not a threat. Was kinda funny watching the beak boys eat half the invaders (except for the fishies 'cause they came from the water) Of note on the Elder beak boy, his attack speed is faster than other beak boys. I remember quite a few streams I've seen where someone assumed they could just run from beakthings like normal, overconfident in their experience of running faster than a beakthing's swing. There are only two things that can out run an elder beak boy. Hivers with masterwork scout legs and I think elder Garu (assuming they don't get stuck on objects). The location of this bonefield base . You did forget the band of brothers who often would "try" to raid my base. 90% of their raids seem to end up as wild life fodder. Sometimes I'd be nice to the United Cities and find their tax collector icon stops moving, deploy a group to find them getting nom'd on and carry them back to base to heal them, pay tax, etc. Was when I wanted to maintain trade with the UC while poking the southern hive.

For real though this is probably one of the harder places to get set up in, but struggling and successfully thriving in here makes you so much better at the game and the finer points of microing. The only logical next step from settling this hell pit would be something truly suicidal like "Should you settle Arach?" or "Should you settle the Ashlands?". Or maybe a challenge run like "How to cope with settling in The Black Desert" or "Why did I settle Purple Sands?" though the later is most likely a would be an excercise in comedic frustration.

Theres the video now, no bars nor percentages. Thank you kind hamster

I was looking forward to another one of your videos!!!

i love the way beak things fall over

Bonefields in my opinion are a good colonization site for smaller settlements if you are going for a large player faction playstyle due to the proximity to Shem, and additional distance from the Holy Nation. Furthermore it can be a ironically good spot to prepare to colonize Shem instead due to the ability to setup a shack and hole up in there any resources your slowly gathering up with relative safety. I have ironically spent alot of early games that started somewhere in the south setuping up in the Bonefieldss first to gather resources before moving on to the area I actually want to colonize.

Elder Beaky is great for powerleveling ;)

Love these videos, looking forward to thoughts on Darkfinger

When I played Kenshi all those years ago, the High Bonefields were where I settled my first major base (not counting a couple starter shacks up near Hub that I quickly abandoned). Being new to the game, I had no idea of the relative threats or difficulties of each zone, and my primary concern in settling in the High Bonefields was being far away from other factions that would come bothering me (plus having good enough resources and a central enough location). Packs of bonedogs, beak things, and skin spiders sure made life interesting for a while, but it turned out to be a very productive base.

Someone said "no balls" and my man did it

Very decent place with lots of ore and food for those who are looking for a challenge and like their base getting attacked.

I settled on the border of the swamps and high bonefields at a road crossing. There's a lake for gate defense as well as possible chokepoints if you don't want to abuse the water. It has one copper and iron ore vein as well as swamp and arid fertility and you can use wind generators. Best of all its within a short distance of Catun, Shark, Flats Lagoon and Mourn. Imo the very best spot in the midgame.

I do wish the game had a more robust ecosystems, especially the lower end of the food chain such as deer and rabbit analogs, maybe mountain goat and monkey analogs too. Not only would it make the wild regions feal more wild, but Their could be all kinds of vermin permeating the more hidden and unkempt parts of cities. As well there could be rare species that are considered valuable in animal trades or religious society's. Beast masters wondering the wilderness would make for interesting encounters, perhaps becoming the beast master yourself.

100% reccomend getting someone's legs eaten off and then replaced with speedy prostetics, on one of my saves I have a character that runs 38 mph, way faster than most creatures in Kenshi, and it is insanely useful.

Ayyyyy ! Nice location

I just built a mid game base not far from the fishmen isle bridge. I must have started the game with double nests and larger spawns as the Elder beaks are thick as fleas here. Fortunately I have a squad of (mediocre) crossbowmen and one or two decent tanks which helps tons. The skins and meats just rolls in.

Unwanted zone is the true National Geographic special

Mourn in Bonefields is really good for passively leveling up your characters to 40-50 combat stats (assuming you have a non-combat medic)

all the wild stuff there a good defense mechanism since beak thing might stop a part of the attack or anything else that don't like paladin XD

I always get anxiety (the good kind) walking (usually sneaking) through the Bonefields. I tend to just dash through the High Bonefields. 😅

Catun are always my first city that I live. Books, guards, that kill beakthings so I can sell everything, but after I have my squad I am getting out of there. Fast.

Currently have a base set up in the high bonefields on a large plateau with only one entrance. Every resource that I could need is within my walls and the area is so ungodly dangerous I have yet to see a single raid make it to my base alive. I tend to make bases that are more aesthetic than practical but this might be the first one ive made that has achieved both.

Personally, I don't find that it's hard to lose the Beak things by running away. The only thing that they have is top speed, damage and numbers. They are seriously hampered by the slow attacks which makes it possible to lose them on foot. They have good top speed but they have poor agility, they can't turn on a dime.

Should you settle the shrieking forest?

paul posted

Fed so many damn beak things with my first characters, all because the Martial Arts Village mod drops you right the hell in there and I didn't know any better back then. I'm talkin', "Lets go exploring, I'm sure 18 athletics is enough!" levels of naive.

My entire time playing this game I found beakthings very manageable didnt really get why people were so scared of them, then i went to the bone yards and experience being chased down by an elder at 55mph, that fucker did even need to bite me it could have just run full force into me xD

Nice

Bonelands sounds like a big nope to me for the forseeable time! Much appreciate this series. Which of your playthroughs do you recommend me/us to watch after finishing this series?

I was playing a solo heavy weapons game and the Mourn on that save was completely wiped out by a elder beakthing

Should you Settle The Pits? next video pls

even the empire fades from here...

one day you will do the raptor islands, it will be a funny day

👋 comrades

I call the Elder Beak Things "Beak Towers"

I did the Slavery-sell exploit with both Bugmaster and Noface, and now I'm allied with the Beakthings and all spiders. Perhaps I should move in here... just need to befriend the wolves somehow and now I'M the bugmaster.

Would love to see your thoughts on spider plains- seems like an incredible mid-game base location (fittingly i'd say, considering what it's near)

My best explination for laviathans is that they used to live across all of Kenshi but due to changes in the world they can only survive now in the bonefields and laviathan coast. I mean after all If they tried to cross the HN they would be killed...

high bonefields neighbors the swamp lol

Id like to see the island base ratings [ raptor island] [ crab island] and or fishman isles

should you settle in Venge when? ;)

Deadlands location guide next?

The only thing Cat-Lon did wrong was fail. [[THIS POST WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SKELETON BANDITS]]

4:05 the bigger dogs also spawn on flats lagoon, it's not unique to the bonefields

hmm, nice. i think its an advantage of having 200+ guarddogs etc against raids;-)

So many Baka things. So many of them chasing me.

Venge and unwanted zone guide when?

beak things cant enter buildings?!?!?!?!? my B-Team was destroyed by a patrol of them....and when we finally reached safety after losing my pet Gorillo one proceeded to just run into the hiver traders building!!!! it was an "Oh SHIT" moment for sure lol

Desert sabre kills skin spiders easy, no problemo

I am a gorillo bandit

Elder beak thing are horrible, i met once near catun, first time i surprised why it run so fast, my team can outrun normal beak thing. When i got hit i just realise it was elder beak thing, bcs the damage 2-3x than normal. Bait it to catun, the guard beat it after lose so many men, and i take the elder beak thing as my punching bag at mourn 😂

Wtf is a Caucasian, do you mean Greenlanders? 0:17