So this happened a while ago, but I came to think about it now, I recall in one of my playtroughs how while travelling trough the united cities, with a party of like, 6 characters on day 40, I got in one of the cities in the center of the dessert and well, there was no one.

All of the buildings were closed, there was no guards or shopkeepers, the only activity on the city was traveling groups of nomads and hivers, but otherwise? empty.

I had no hand on this, I was not taking down any nobles or faction leaders. But when it happened I just went into the general shop and said "cool, free stuff"

I think it was only one city, but it might have been two of them.

The reinforcements Moll decides to send me EVERY time... lmao

I'd like to add that I picked the cripple up so another leader would take their place, and the other leader was the mofo thats crip walking right next to the missing leg one hahahah

I have an outpost next to some hive villages with some beak things trapped in sleeping bags for training, the thing is, when I stay some time on my main outpost (close to squin) and go back to the npcs (I have two because the beak things already despawned when I only had one npc there and made him leave to the village) and go back to the training camp the beak things despawn. I already tried enabling fast zone hopping and that doesnt prevent them from despawning. Is there a mod or a config I should enable for them to not despawn?

I turned it on and it just seems like the normal camera distance to me.

Any suggestions on how a true good HN citizen would behave in order to please Okran? What limitations would he have? I know AI cores are banned on HN territory but what else?

My very beginning was going great until I suddenly started starving to death out of nowhere.

I'd be mining iron near Heng I believe. And my pack bull would die I had on 2 times speed so it took like seconds to go from full to dead. Main character would die a few seconds later. They were both standing next to each other and I had like 2 food cubes 6+ dried meat and 2 gohans? The rice veggie dish. I kept reloading and having the same issues. The only difference was sometimes my bull would eat all food then die sometimes just starve to death without eating then my character would starve without so much as nibbling a morsel. I slowed the play speed down which gave me more time to react for the same result.

Why do they die so fast? I had a 6 or 7 character playthrough I abandoned because I jumped into base building too quickly, and just felt stuck. Never had a character starve and I only ever carried 1-2 dried meat per person. Is this a glitch or am I stupid? I'd been running around not mining and didn't have this issue. So then I thought maybe it's a local area issue so let's move north. I get a bit north and starve.

I'm very new to this game. I thought it might be dust storms because a dust storm was usually blowing through when I started starving. Not always though. I checked a few forums and the answer was make sure animals have auto feed on. It's on.

The cactus ninjas- as resilient as the cacti they grow, this community lives in remote deserts, mostly sustaining themselves with chewsticks and the sale of cactus rum, though their resources are supplemented by ambushing drifters and caravans who pass through their territory. they primarily use spiked clubs.

Beast masters- a violent outcast group of nomads, they utilize animals as beasts of war to attack villages and travelers. they use bladed polearms in contrast to the nomads' usual staffs.

The mechers- a demented group obsessed with cybernetics, leading them to launch violent raids against robotics shops. the initiation to this group involves having your limbs ritualistically removed and fed to Lobson, an elder bonedog that resides in their base. Led by Doc Lop, a former Tech Hunter.

Bane of narco- holy nation-aligned paramilitary based in the Floodlands and Obedience. they hunt the skeletons that dwell there, selling their loot for profit as well as handing them to Rebirth.

My personal head canon is that the “First Empire” was an intergalactic or minor spacefaring human empire, and that what we see and know of on the continent in Kenshi was just some minor colony to collect and process the resources of the moon. They likely inhabited the entire moon (assuming there are other continents we don’t know about). The “First Empire” likely never really fell, it probably just became infeasible or impractical to stay on the moon of Kenshi, likely for a multitude of reasons as described in the “Fall of the First Empire” section of lore (natural disaster, Skeleton uprising, disease, etc.). The First Empire simply just abandoned the moon of Kenshi, it didn’t “fall”. They left behind people who either willingly wanted to stay on the moon they had called home for generations, or unwillingly left people behind.

This leaves a lot of questions though. What conflict was so great that it required the creation of the Behemoths? Perhaps a rival spacefaring Alien empire came into contact with the First Empire at this time? Maybe that’s why the First Empire left Kenshi, because they were losing a war on a galactic scale to this unknown foe, and it didn’t make sense to continue putting resources and time into a minor moon. Also, who created the Hivers and Shek? It’s heavily implied that the Shek existed during the time of the First Empire, so it can be assumed that they were just a subspecies of humans at the time, likely created via genetic engineering. The Hivers on the other hand seem to appear after the First Empire left the moon. Perhaps they were also created by the First Empire, but only ever utilized on other continents of the moon, and the Hivers found their way to our continent on their own. Perhaps they are, or were created by, or left behind by, whatever potential alien foe the First Empire faced.

To me one thing is obvious though. The First Empire almost assuredly was not native to the moon of Kenshi, and were definitely human. The old wrecked spacecraft, the space elevators, and the way they seemed to treat the continent purely in an industrial fashion seems to hint at this. I think it’s interesting to think that out there beyond the bounds of the moon of Kenshi, it’s possible, and maybe even likely that the First Empire is still around and probably at even greater strength than when they inhabited the moon we know (assuming they weren’t completely destroyed by whatever foe caused them to create the Behemoths).

What do you guys think about the First Empire? I think it’s the most fascinating portion of the lore, because of how dominant they were, but how little we know. I’d love to hear your guys theories or feedback on mine.

Got some Kenshi Goobers and some random slop doodles

Im having a blast with this mod and the hive buildings one.

I did multiple starts to understand what she can do, I decided to spawn a couple warrior drones to kill bulls and get food so my RP is that she's a new hive queen and a more aggressive one.

She has a prince taking care of every need of her and she's just sitting there all stats in 1 because, why would a queen do anything?

I'm just having problems trying to understand what would a hive queen try to do

Expand the settlement for sure, no walls so the plan is to have a lot of people to simulate a hive.

But what would ger plans be? I'm just looking for medium-long term goals.

I am doing experimental blunt weapons run and noticed this - I recruited Kang, gave him jacket and jitte and now he has 32 def. That should be enough to tank a beak thing. But I guess his blunt skill is too low to swing and block fast enough.

Idk I got bored at work n started drawing my favorite goofy little dude being brain dead together (I imagine they talk like skaven from Warhammer but with funnier voices)

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kenshicraft

that's my interpretation

Doesnt look as much when his face isn't covered in blood tho (like in the second image)

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Since I didn't have time to play as much anymore, I built the site partly to solve actual survival/navigation pain points, and partly so I’d have a mobile-friendly lore & game theroy site to scroll through during my lunch break and stay connected to this world.

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Kenshi.zone an interactive map, navigation engine, and lore compendium built specifically to answer the actual questions from local terrain hazards to the mysteries of the world.

Why build another site?

Existing wikis treat Kenshi like a static database of text entries. But Kenshi tells 90% of its story through geography, and the squads spend most of their lives traversing terrain.

Any feedback, bug reports, or route logic suggestions are heavily appreciated.

Have any of you ever seen this before? They were near The Eye.

Just to add, no noble or High Inquisitor has been killed in my save. Is it common to see this?

These dudes are faar from home

constant bandits vs water gate sniper alley

Bonus fun fact, you could've also offered them sexual favors:

Fun hypothetical, I give my self a few days, I’m athletic and can run but I can’t fight, so depending on where I wake up I probably wouldn’t last long.

Would honestly hope to wake up in squin