Should You Settle The Unwanted Zone? | Kenshi Location Guide 

Cant believe they named a zone after me. Truely the real Kenshi experience :O

The unwanted zone also has a great use in the form of luring nobles into it and then being not responsible for their mishaps

Started playing Kenshi a week ago First time I go outside my confort zone outside the great desert Enters the unwanted zone Me: hm, I wonder why it's called the unwanted zone Gets butchered by a horde of beak things Me: I see

one interesting place to make a base that is very easily overlooked is the islands directly west of the iron trail. the unmarked "zone" only has a very poor iron deposit and wind as resources so at a glance it looks like a terrible place to make a base. however seemingly unique to my knowledge is that at least at default faction relations literally nothing hostile will ever show up and the only visitors that will show up is hive and nomad traders that can provide otherwise missing resources. may be worth a short video if only due to unusualness of not having to worry about any hostiles.

You settled in Kenshi's middle east, you should have expected NOTHING but trouble! The fact that you even have walls is a Kenshi wonder of the world.

Amazing Kenshi Zone, i want to vacation there with my children

There's a spot on the border of The Crags/The Pits, once you find it you'll have an awesome endgame base location. Would make for a great video with how many different enemies you get to fight there, 200% metals, good water but no fertility so its either hydroponics or skeleton base. With both dust storms and acid rain there are decisions you'll have to make in terms of gearing your people and for me in a Holy Nation aligned run it's a great place to hide a skeleton army.

I like how right after talking about meat, you put up a screenshot that includes your outpost named Arby's

Youve made a factual error in this vid. You say that the skin bandits sre skeletons, but they are very visibly, clearly, humans. They even say so.

Like I said, the unwanted zone isn't that bad. The Beakthings are like a constant stream of steaks bleeding to death right in your kitchen. In addition, you should have built a tower there at least once in your life.

Love your work! Gonna try building my base here!

Glad to see kenshi real estate is still booming, even after the apocalypse

The algorithm showed me your videos right when I'm in a Kenshi mood again.... so needless to say I'll be watching all your great videos

I love these videos. Cant wait until the inevitable ashlands base video

really nice video. I don't like settling places lacking bodies of water and trees, so I don't see myself settling here, unless part of some challenge or strategical move

Nice video, makes great background noise while playing a game.

ive been waiting for this one i love owning the worlds sole leather factory

I love this game so much. It was such a nice surprise. Looked rough around the edges initially but upon putting in a few hours I become addicted! Im looking forward to Kenshi 2 and will probably do a new playthrough of the original.

the only time i have ever been there i wandered in not knowing anything about the place and strangely nothing was spawning. i walked to almost the middle of the whole zone when suddenly i was completely surrounded by beak things and i almost didnt make it back out

Built a base in the Unwanted Zone on the NE border with Strobe's, close to Black Scratch, with animal nests set to 400%. Even on the edge of the province it was rough to set up, mainly due to the huge hordes of beak things and occasional Reaver raid. Once the base was walled with a turreted killbox entrance, it was still a major pain to get to Black Scratch to buy/sell. Plenty of meat and leather, though.

It has been awhile, but one of my favorite base spots was located just north of the ghost village in Northern Coast. Also Darkfinger has a few good locations as well, but I prefer the Northern Coast because it is close to Worlds End, the Fishing Village, and Flotsam Village. Also west of the Fishing Village has no taxes or prayer day, but east of it does have prayer day. I have not tried Hidden Forest, but there seems to be a few decent spots in the northern parts of it, but the raid map makes it looks like it could see both taxes and prayer day in parts of it. I also really like the Forbidden Isle as well, if you kill a certain character the iron spiders change to Garru and Goats. So it depends on what local loot you want if you want to do that or not. Just make sure to come equipped for acid rain.

Love the sense of humor, thank you based algorythm.

Once you start settling, ive found beak things to be more of a benefit than a hindrance. Raiders and threats have to contend with them too, and once you get a wall up or even just a house with a door and a crossbow on the roof, they stop being a threat almost entirely. Plus theyre a source of leather and meat! Nothing quite like seeing a holy nation raid or slaver raid coming at you, only to run into a beak thing pack outside your walls, and their shrill screams and cries for helo as theyre eaten alive, lull your people to sleep. Lol

I settled there and its amazing. Although raid could not survive gettin to my base lol

The southern bits of the deadlands are pretty great.

If you're going for safety and convient location you should do an all skeleton team and build in the deadlands; every faction that attempts to invade you dies to acid and there's plenty of iron and copper to repair your skeletons. You can't grow food or use wind power but you can buy fuel from the skeleton city or you can set up near the border and cheese wind wind power into your base. Also you can have acid immune hivers that serve as your expoditon team that can live for long periods of time off of looted food. Otherwise if you're crafting repair kits as you should you can sell repair kits for copious amounts of shitty food to give to your hiver squad. thank you for listening to my tedtalk

settle the ashlands i dare you

Completely unrelated but a must have mod I use is better smiths of kenshi, it makes it so that other craftsmen have a chance to sell weapons with higher qualities never enough to to exceed anything edge walker does but enough to match it so you can actually use the hidden buffs from smith to smith, like how catun weapons do mor blunt damage, I forget the percentage but check it out it’s awesome for role play and themed play throughs

At 4:25 you can see a massive mountain in the background. You can actually settle up there. There's only a very tiny path leading up there (I actually blocked it with a single gate and defended it with a single storm house right next to it on the cliffs with initially 2 harpoon turrets mounted on it), but the area up there is huge. You have strong winds, actually pretty good fertility for weed and hemp, max stone quality, okay-quality iron, but very low water and no copper. You can simply fix the water issue with multiple wells, but you need to travel down to the valley for copper, which is a fucking dangerous undertaking, since the Blood Reaver's base is literally right next to the mountain. Speaking of Blood Reavers: they'll attack you CONSTANTLY. Sometimes it really feels like hour-long wave attacks sent from their headquarters. If you're using a Recruit Prisoner mod, that's actually good for you, since you can easily farm them for dudes with stat lines of 50+ in everyything. The real problem is 1. the amount of factions attacking you there and 2. which factions those are. The Skeleton Legion and the Skin Bandits are no joke, especially with the latter faction kidnapping your guys as soon as they hit the floor. During their first attack, they took no less than 6 of my guys with them to their main base all the way down in the south. The plains arround this mountain are so dangerous that I couldn't follow the kidnappers, so all I could do was to repair the gates and watch them run off into the distance. Settling up there was hella fun (I cosplayed a primitive mountain barbarian tribe that occasionally raided United Cities territory), but it definately was among my hardest playthroughs ever and as an experienced player that barely risks anything I was damn close to getting wiped out completely multiple times, so try it at your own risk. ;>

do shun next, most neglected region in the game.

I'm high and the thumbnail cracked me the f up

Ah yes, the tainted water of the unwanted zone. If you experienced 1993 Kentucky, you'll be fine.

Black desert is another gem, for skeletons. there is an elevated platform you can build on with 2 entrypoints on 1 side. so you can easily make you defences point in the right direction. innthe center, entries on north side. and obviously raiders suffocate getting to you. its a harsh environment for sure.

I usually settle in Dreg where it touches the Fog Islands border from the south and a little bit to the east. There is a prime place with a lot of good quality iron nodes, a few good copper nodes and super fertile land. The drawback, of course, is the risk of being eaten by cannibals or fogmen but there are 0 other factions with which you can worsen your settlement's relationships. Ok, on very rare occasions (I think this is a bug) dust bandits can arrive but they are usually eaten by the aforementioned cannibals or fogmen before they can even break through the gates (assuming you have gates). You can also perform a slave-trading trick to befriend both fogmen and cannibals and leave happily ever after. Be careful, tho, because fogmen will still eat all of your organic prisoners. It is also worth noting that cannibals will still form raids and come to you but when they actually start "raiding" they will do no harm to your pawns or property (despite being marked red when you hover over them) so just keep calm and wait and they will go away... snatching all of your organic prisoners, of course. Basically, you can't have any prisoners (except robots) with this kind of strat but this is a small price to pay in my opinion.

I have played Kenshi for soooo long and I never ever noticed how beak thing's tails wiggle when they attack probably because I just nope the fuck outta there when I see a beak thing.

my last playthrough i settled in the fog islands. once i was big enough to handle the fog men it became a very pleasant place to live. any "raid" that came by was basically a joke and many times the fog man hoards would take care of them for me.

next to the best iron deposites in game, also stay in the beak thing nest, blue zone, very good protection, taxman gets borked off by friendly beak things, I killed 2 nests and they stopped attacking me, maybe I culled the species, its south of all the best trading posts too bonus

If you are unsure what location to do next, I could really go for "Should You Settle Arach? | Kenshi Location Guide". After going there the first time I can recommend it for it's beautiful landscapes, and passive wildlife.

3:47 most well located arbys

I remember the Unwanted zone as one big Beakthing nest.

Bro its kenshi content. Agggghhhh we eatin good

The Shek people will make a great offering to the purported son of Kral by making a holy march into the shrine named Arbys in the Unwanted Lands

7:20 F pressed, thoughts and prayers given

Can you review the Black Desert for those massive iron and copper deposits? Iv only ever done it with a skeleton crew and bunch of mods.

Woo!

fog islands a little northeast of mongrel large area above the fog lots of copper iron and stone. it's perfect.

Hell yeah gaming

Good

I remember tryingnto set up a base in the islands east of unired cities desert and beimg absolutelt butchered bya building-sized crab...

You know looking back, I'm shocked no one is doing a Kenshi mod for CK3, Mount and Blade, or Total War.

I tend to play as Skeletons... So.. The rain part is not an issue.. My very first playthrough was as a Skeleton funny enough. I eventually settled in that place not even knowing about the acid rain till a little later.. Its way more of a bonus if you play as Skeletons only like I did that time over any other group but I can see how some people might see that as cheating a bit. ( I also made my Skeleton into a Ninja/shinobi and went around recruiting other Skeletons making them also Ninja/Shinobi.. lol So.. Yea more than one cheesy play by me straight away.. To be fair I did not know anything about Kenshi when I started it and just gravitated to those choices. Because I tend to like stealth in the first place when playing games, even when its not as useful compared to other things, and I also tend to like specific aesthetics more than others. The Skeletons fit that better than the others.. I was fine with their negatives for what they gained. )

I am familiar with the unwanted zone as I live in New Jersey, no skeletons or bugmen here though

Could you do a vid on ashlands? I've always wanted to set up there.

At last!

I have an idea to build a sort of a slaughterhouse operated by the skeletons in a building with turrets

Worrying about fertility in end game is pointless since you get hydroponics. You need Iron and copper to crank out weapons and armors.

Having a Walmart in a 20 mile radius is often what causes food deserts

Can you do the shrieking forest next?

I have my characters living in Gut, we homies with the beak things 🤙

don't worry I know you just want that late game middle east oil buff

Ashland guide next or cheaters run maybe ?

do the ashlands

I settled in vains western river to train on gorrilios and infinite food without fear of attack

if you have combat ability to live in unwanted zone you can live in gut or souther place has high quality mines it's simply as it's name.

I taught one time to settle there,but I didn't found there water.

People will tell you The Friend Zone doesn’t exist but they won’t mention that there is also The Unwanted Zone

unwanted zone? You mean AUSTRALIA?

Those are some nice armors... what mods are you using?

came here with 200 000 cats and a 80 stat character with full augmented body parts of master grade quality and yet the beak things are still annoying I swear to god they literally wait until you open the gate and sprint into your base from somewhere that is a pixel off screen, they never kill anyone but the psychological damage is immense, the mounted crossbows just attract more of them somehow like the idea of someone with a flashlight on a wall is a personal insult and started bashing down the gate every minute someone is up there.

I was wondering what kinds of activities would constitute "end game" in Kesshi?

Acid rain is an asset once you need to remove limbs.

I mean if you do settle there you could call yourself the Unwanted and what's more badass than that?

Do the Ashlands plz.

the home of all middle children

True chads only settle in the cannibal plains

The Acid rain makes the game easier when you become acid immune

Yeah but the rainwater everywhere else in the world is perfectly safe especially places like India and China

Factions should learn not to mess around with those foolish enough to want the unwanted

I think my parents found me in the unwanted zone 🥲

Saw a mod for Kenshi today, it was called beamthings, beakthings that shoot laserbeams out of their mouths. Now I hate myself but not THAT much damn, talk about masochism...

BURNING FOREST BURNING FOREST BURNING FOREST

I had a unlucky save and spawned in said zone

Good location to get rich, lotsa meats etc. beakies are no real issue, except for raiding parties lolzz!

ye forgot to mention the shek eat meat

so you have 45 videos of why you should settle here, where should we settle?

0:47 Of course you use Items from project zomboid haha

Sorry, but any region with Beakthing inside of it is just a big no for me

Day 1 of asking for a guide on the grid

No it's not whated😂

Pah! You’ve avoided politics for too long! Review the political shitshow of Bast and see how you fair being surrounded by hordes of people all trying to kill each other all at once.

You’re doing Okrans work sir! 🫡

Is there any chance of a shrieking forest location video.

Southern accent came out hard at 0:43 dunno if ur actually southern or not but we all love a Dixie boy