Why You Should Settle Cannibal Plains | Kenshi Location Guide 

Started in rebirth, escaped, went to cannibal planes to train there, came back to rebirth to raze it to the ground

Fighting cannibals isn't the most annoying part about living in maneater county; it's the fact that they will treat sleeping players as unconscious and carry them off. I generally don't build walls around my settlements, because walls are simply a barrier between me and the swordmeat I want to kill. In maneater county, I build walls so my guys can sleep without getting kidnapped.

In my current playthrough I actually settled a little farm settlement right next to the fishing village on the Northern Coast and it honestly just feels like a better version of that. Iron and especially copper are very trash but the fertility and water are top tier, you can mass produce grog and sell it to the local village (which also has basic mats and a ton of recruits) and the trek to World's End is not that bad. You still get raided by cannibals a lot too (they love to swim over from Darkfinger) so you're not missing on the exciting painted tribe adventures, the other threats are largely absent though (no beak things, berserkers or shrieking bandits).

Making a base in the cannibal plains especially with the cannibal mods is the true experience of life

Imma be real with you buddy. you're delivery and ability to speak fairly clearly and coherently on video is pretty damn impressive for someone so early in their video creating days. If you really wanted too you could have a pretty respectable following given more experience

I setteled there on my last playthrough.. I thought i made a massive mistake, but it tured out to be a blessing. My dudes became massive ass kickers.

Im waiting for the "Why You Should Settle In The Obedience" part. You know how it is: the worse it gets - the better it is for us masochistic bastards. (Mist Ghouls mod is necessary of course. 100% pain is not enough, we have to push it to the absurd)

3:37 that's a reactive world feature, there's just one cannibal faction in vanilla kenshi

I went there very unprepared with intent to settle before I knew cannibals were all over. I had run far enough that my run speed was very high. I actually had my best playthrough ever and made a mega base because every time a horde aggroed I'd just kite them to the nearest settlement and have them slaughter them for me, then I'd pick up the nicest scraps and sell them. Hundreds died. Potentially thousands of limbs were severed. Good times. The best, maybe.

Really liking your guides! Still teaching me things despite me having many many hours in Kenshi. I do however like the infographic style you have used in other videos more. Keep it up!

On my current play through I’ve been very tempted to settle in the cannibal plains. Plenty of cannibals to hunt and the resources seemed good. Also cannibal hunters patrols are expensive but are very powerful

I like to settle on the Leviathan Coast and raid the United Cities and Holy Nation to ashes. I imagine them talking about the people from "beyond the cannibal lands" being way more of a serious threat than the canibal themselves.

I settled on the coast and built a fort there. I get raided by cannibals but they are not a problem.

Yaaaay a new video Charging into the First Village with hired Cannibal Hunters was peak gameplay in my first run

The bull pack animal has a gore attack that can hit multiple enemies. It's regular head shake with horns is a multi hit usually. I usually get a pack of dogs and a few bulls. I feed the dogs arms and legs. If you load up a bull with all copper you will have 1776 pounds or so. Then you carry the bull to train your strength. The more weight you carry the faster you level strength. So I usually fill a backpack with copper then put it in my other backpack. Also having really crappy cybernetics helps you get those last few high levels. As its so hard to practice with crappy arms and legs that if you can pick locks with that you can pick it with anything

Cannibal Plains was always a great spot for me to go to after a Rebirth start, especially if I picked up some fellow slaves that actually joined the party as getting south can be a bit difficult. I tended to scavenge from the many, many battlefields id come across, sell the loot, and fight any unconscious survivors for easy XP

Hey man, nice video. One thing to add though. You can use the fact that the cannibals kidnapp Berserks so you can liberate them and (farm-recruit?) With some consistency some decent new people with good combat stats. Keep up the good work.

Your videos are good bro keep it up! My base usually remains right in front of Squin on the big hill towards the Hub where I jump start my early game with exporting tons of copper to the Squin shops, then I fortify my base as far as I can without unique research artifacts and collect an army of 30 weak recruits nearby, craft some lower level armor and weapons and go on research artifact expeditions out into the world. I usually neglect agriculture and food altogether and live off the Squin shops. Joining the Shinobi Thieves in the Hub is nice early on, and from then I slowly upgrade my army and conquer the map. It's convenient, but sometimes too easy as well.. Your videos inspire me to build an autonomous base from scratch far away.

Happy to see a fellow Ruka enjoyer

nice video mate keep up the amazing work 💯💯💯💯💯

just found your video , thanks for the advices i'm going to try that on my next play :D

I agree with you in regards to the cannibal's weapons. Yes, their stats are trash and even large groups of them can be easily dealt with mid to high stats characters (but that's the thing, mid to high stats). What makes these painted, naked savages dangerous is their choice of weapons The Hackers & Blunt weapon classes. Any armor below High or Standard grade will get demolished rapidly. Even Specialist or Masterwork grade is risky since Hackers & Blunts ignores 10-30% of armor + that additional +20% Damage to Humans buff. So your characters will get hit with stacking debuffs even in armor. Which is why the cannibals are dangerous - their choice of weapons.

Dropping a comment for the algo and to say nice job on another fun guide!

i always used to settle on the southeast of floodlands, quite some time ago. around the time when the last quarter of map got completed. there was a mysterious skeleton merchant, who proved to be a challenge to steal from

small channel, good jokes, hope you blow up man, subbed ;)

Good stuff, mang. That microphone, though! ^^;

Hey, on the topic of cannibal territories: Darkfinger is a goddamng paradise! This place has everything - iron, copper (both up to 150% eff.); 50% green 100% arid fertility, stone, and medium speed wind. If you need an idea on the next video, this might be it.

I like your videos bro keep it up

You definitely need the Cannibal extended mod, and some other cannibal mods. Makes for quite a different experience lol. Also made a small mod where i can include the h meat to create 'people pies' and sell them to shops. Which i find hilarious. It's just so kenshi 😂

The cannibal expansion mod is highly recommended.

First time in Cannibal Plains found a huge random 100 mob and that was on decreased enemy squad size and not at a base !

Cannibal plains with cannibals and beakies, huh. Seems like the next perfect place to set an oupost in after wiping the floor with Tengu and Phoenix's faces.

I love your content

Might consider actually building there because it seems like i would have a similar experience there as in the northern coast

My base I set up is boardering this region, more in the Hidden Forest- but it doesn't keep these guys from constantly trying to raid us.

If you like like living world and reactive world you should try kaizo some time

Hey brother my one recommendation is to bump up the volume a bit on your editing. even maxed out everything I can barely hear you unless i put on headphones lol

You should do the burning forest

Im a big fan of the north coast for settlements. Cannibals raid you, so plenty of conflict to keep thimgs interesting.

I build a base near Cannibal capital and spent days before vising capital. When the base is done and scouts were sent to capital but the place was dead already. Vanilla cannibals are vulnerable and fragile.

Moll is always the first one i turn in at holy nation prison

Better if you wolfpack your own cannibal tribe to clear out the riff raff. Best part about hanging out with your tribe- You never have to worry about resources and food.

I guess I am playing Kenshi wrong since I build up a Army of All Female Shock Troop Sheks and Marksmen Upgraded Watchbots and I captured Catlon and General Jeng with my main character whos a Master Thief. I accidentally wandered in on Catlon and killed his Thralls thinking it was just some random outpost. So my first combat I ever engaged in was at 65 stats with a Army of Sheks, Robots and MF CATLON against a large group of Hungry bandits in Shem. Once I realized how OP I and my Army was I just couldnt stop conquering. Since then I have been mowing down literally anyone in my way.

"The Cannonball Plains"

How many legs should a chair have?

Was thinking of taking my hiver colony here... I mean... Are people really gonna mind if we eat people... if the people we eat... were going to eat other people?

so, i was playing with a huge modpack. started in rebirth, slowy started recruiting other slaves for the upcoming rebellion, realised it was not possible, just planned one of us to escape so they could train, get help from flotsam bla bla. a scorchlander female named Odra was our best shot, she already had decent combat skills and she could run faster then all of the rebirth soldiers. she got out and then a 30 day training arc begun. sometimes going back in rebirth to save a slave or two. and after a lotta time, with enough manpower and equipment, the REAL main character, Aiden(backstory AI gave this name), supposedly one of the best strategists in kenshi, thought it was finally the time to attack rebirth. For a long time, our visits to rebirth was labelled "rescue missions". But this one would be big. Im gonna skip these parts, it was a big success, there was not a living rebirth soldier and all the slaves were free. Now Aiden had 50~ to manage. Flotsam Village was already full to the brim. So, the strongest of ours formed a team, took some flotsam groups and went after the cannibal leaders. it was bad for the both sides, but the grand wizard, canhead(?) and meatlord was no more. We allied with deadcat and cannibal hunters. We shook hands with Moll, told her thanks for our stay. Went to a coast... Biggest mistake of our lives. I've placed few buildings down, that goddamn notification came. "something something of Grand Wizard", then one more "something something of Meat Lord". There was so many notifications, i don't even know if i got raided by Canhead. We fought all of them, nearly all of the slaves were unconscious, some got kidnapped but i let them got eaten for RP purposes. Even some of our strongests was downed. And then two more notifications. A raid from Holy Nation and Yabuta Outlaws. I've never been to UC, i dont know how this faction formed without setting Yabuta free, but it was coming. Holy Nation was easy, they didnt come for a long time but i knew they would. But boy, Yabuta outlaws... They killed my best martial artist with one slash those dudes had amazing stats. One of my best warriors lost her leg. And then... Aiden died too. In a normal playthrough, i would've loaded, but goddamn all of this was epic. The combat, the feelings, the story that just got created.. TLDR: Settle down in Cannibal Plains, its worth it.

I started my first ever kenshi playthrough and ended up settling in the Stenn desert. Do you have any tips for that area?

Note to self: make a custom faction of all female units called 'Hostile Moms'

I wonder what happens if you try to resettle bast. Would you have endless prayer days AND UC taxmen? What about the fact rebel farmers are based there? The world may never know because im not going there!

thumbs up for hostile moms, truly a nightmare

Correction: there is only 1 cannibal faction in vanilla kenshi

As a man in his late 30s i can confirm many moms are indeed hostile.

One thing I wonder: If fertility is actually pretty good, why are they cannibals?

I recommend living in bast as uh … (free loot)

Ninja Women > Cannibals

bro bro. love the video. get a better mic. can barely hear you. Not being mean just want better quality from you is all. Please and thank you.

Nice try cannibals

Hostile M O M S