By far this is one of the best "survival" games ever made. You start off as a character (main) and then recruit a few random NPCs to be a city builder/RTS game. I personally am more of a solo survival just roaming around, finding ancient tech, or going for a bounty hunt, or getting into good troubles. Although, I have to build a small town where my main character can just restock and trade for catun credits to buy more stuff, more NPC for weaponsmithing and armor, etc, eventually I can easily see it as a multi empire taking over the land... too much power for one guy. I think I have put over 653.8 hours so far and still learning from it, hell. I learned to mod my own subrace which is fun.
@@GothicDragonX best thing about kenshi you get to play it how you want i always loved games like baldurs gate so i got hooked on the "party" playstyle usually have a warrior a rogue a healer ect.
I love how he jumps to the next step in the tutorial and there are some bloodly bodies just liying around the main house as he keeps talking like nothing happened.
@@sergiosukamto415 Bonedogs ? You mean the big sized rats ? Just hit them with a stick until they die, you might lose some limbs in the process but it's not really a problem
Wow, I just have to say ... first off this game is probably the most underrated I have ever come across. I've sunk DAYS into it and in less than a week in at this point. Your videos should be getting millions of views but because of the underrated status of this game, your exposer is relatively minimal.. The way you explain things as your going, and your explanation of the mechanics are invaluable. VERY clear and concise information, I watched the entire video and it felt like 10 minutes. Do not listen to anyone down here telling you to change anything about the way you present these tutorials, no you don't move too much, no you don't need to slow down. You take the perfect amount of time on each step. These videos are amazing. Never change them. Thank you so much man!!
I agree. he covered everything very clear and didn't spend too much time on any one thing and didn't ramble so fast you can't keep up and wasn't so slow you just had to leave. I gave the only tiny bit of advice I had to maybe make this tutorial a little better but honestly it was a very tiny thing that wouldn't make a lot of difference. he did an amazing job. so yeah superbly done Tobel . very well done.
if anything he could have sped it up., i've had the game two days and skiped a good portion of this as the game clearly tells you. i dont even think a million people bought the game yet
I made a base next ti the hub and decided to relocate after 6 days of constantly being attacked on the daily basis multiple times a day. The holy empire was not happy when they saw a outpost of skeletons on prayer day.
Npcs also build near cannibals to counter raids. Action rpg lol. Using rts strategy, build in fort like areas with kill zones, or acid weather that reduces enemy logistics and morale
pro tip- build up your defensive walls and gate before laying out any buildings or food stores. Raids won't come to your base until you decide to either build a building or have a food store with food in it (forgot which one it was exactly, but just be sure to build all of your buildings as the last part of the base).
I like to assign 1 less than the "station" will take when assigning mining and refining jobs. That last slot is reserved for Bob. Bob will get assigned to every machine in that chain starting with the last one, so if I'm making steel bars, Bob will be told to refine steel bars first, then refine iron plates, then mine iron. Bob exists to clear up bottle necks in production chains. I also like a Bill. Bill is told to put stuff in boxes. Bill is the only one assigned to move stuff into boxes, so Bill gets a lot of jobs (people with full machines will empty them without orders when it's full). Bill is also normally over loaded and carrying around a corpse for strength training, so characters take turns being BIll. Bill also gets corpse disposal jobs when you get that researched. Anything you can do to make Bill move around the base is good for Bill.
I picked up Kenshi after 1.0 so I don't know how it was before but if you give someone a job they will automatically empty the produced item to the appropriate storage as long as there is room, you don't need to give them the job to haul to storage
Important to note that they *can* have trouble doing this if your storage is too far away from your farms, as they can't seem to path to buildings that aren't loaded in.
There's a setting under the AI tab in the window that pops up with the Map that allows you to have your units 'DUMP ITEMS' when there is the applicable storage container around.
@@WhoTouchMyGun This option is a huge irritation if you have food storage. I bring my roaming fighters into town to rest, and as soon as they get a chance they all rush off to dump their food into storage. It drives me nuts. I wish it could be switched on or off on a per squad basis.
barely remember watching your tutorial videos years ago. It's hard to remember the times when I had no idea what I was doing. thanks to you, I've sunk 900+ hours into the game and I think it's safe to say I now know how to survive in the world of Kenshi
It is just the base rts. More rpg action elsewhere in game. Each region has a political and culture flavor. This changes gameplay for player. I found exploring the world more fun than rts. Watching armies fight while looting the field feels like eve online pvp
This whole tutorial series was great for me. I've tried to get into Kenshi before because I love the let's plays I watch of it, and I love the concept, but I always end up overwhelmed by the sheer amount of options and depth. This however is by far the most beginner friendly tutorial out there, and I've been able to make a pretty decent first game in Kenshi 1.0 using your tips, so I don't feel totally lost. Keep up the great work, I'm loving this game now!
Love these videos man, super helpful. I only played for a couple hours awhile back but 1.0 got me to play again and i decided to watch some tutorials this time. Coming from Rimworld and I'm enjoying the game so much!
Have been playing kenshi for the past few days and listening to your play through in the background. Have been getting just wrecked when I try starting a base settlement. This is super helpful.
Side note: if you're training strength for a character. A good way to safely train is to have that character (or characters) as a designated hauler. On my largest base in the fog, I used to train newbies strength by purposefully putting my well far away from my water tower and placed bronze ingots in their inventories to bring up their exp multiplier
This video leaves out some key concepts on base building, namely kill boxes and utilizing the water this base has available...and trust me, you will need them.
wow we picked almost the same spot, i also had my eye on the fertile area inside the holy nation, my first base i'm excited. thanks for the video man! helps a bunch
I saw a playthrough a long time ago where the guy just attacked a farm and killed everyone and took the farm for himself. You get a free farm then. Boy, was that a run-on sentence.
You can do that I think; did the game mechanics recognize that as his farm afterwards? I'm going to try to avoid "innocent" bloodshed during this playthrough, but hey, accidents happen.
@@TobelPlays Yeah, it was his farm afterwords. He was showing the easiest way to get a farm. It wasn't version 1.0 so it might not work now, but it totally worked when he did it.
bought kenshi bout a week ago and man I've never experienced a game like this, I'm addicted. I built my base recently but i feel like im not getting the most out of it but seeing your video inspired me to make bases I've never even thought of making, thank you.
good little video. I find you can do a lot of your tech research in town, and make a point to buy a building in every town you trade in, load it with power production, etc. You don't need a lot of people to start with if you do it that way, and it allows you to equip those initial few with good gear, packs, etc, and horde up what you need to build your first base, train them all in turrets, etc. And yes, its totally smart to take all your people and leave the base to get invaded, I just never leave stuff behind to be looted and do regular runs into town. I found the easiest way to make money is to mine copper with a crew, giving them each turns to labor (sneaking while they work) and then make them run back to town to improve their hauling abilities. You used to not need as much food originally per person, but as your crew gets bigger, you need more food, and a single town may not be able to supply enough.
Good tutorial. This game is pretty brutal. I've got 17 hours in and just got one npc but have found that 90% of my time is spent running away from things. I really haven't even started on the tech part, but I was going in the right direction. This will help a lot. Thanks!
If it's 17 real time hours you should have a quite bigger group by now. Farm copper near a city or steal from shops to get a headstart (don't get caught or shopkeepers won't trade with you anymore). Your main problem is to keep the group fed. Gonna cost you a lot of money, until the point where you start to build your own base and farm. Have fun!
Thanks for the tips! I also bought a pack bull. Trying to keep everyone fed is the main problem, outside of just staying alive. It seems like if you get a bigger group you have to make a base just to support them. I already steal as much as I can, but just two npcs costs a lot and I really have tried avoid doing the mine grind. The river raptors have helped a lot in keeping the bull alive. This game is pretty tough.
I have a bit of a cheese option for your first base... so basically if you just need the stone and iron refinery you can build a house or small shack (doesnt even need to be build just place it) which you build in a screen distance of your actual working place... so what should happen is that raids will mostly run into the house and just chill there... doesnt always work though because some raids will still aggro your squad or run to containers
Something you can do if the walls look ugly is to go into the game editor mode, the key binding for it is listed in your controls and it allows you to move your buildings around with more freedom and can fix some of the weird wall issues.
Bruh Moment because it was developed by 1 person. A game this huge being developed by a single person is going to take a long time, no matter how good they are. As far as I’m aware, there are several guys working on the new one and they’re reusing the same engine instead of building a new one from scratch. The sequel shouldn’t take more than a few years to come out.
Really helpful vid thank’s. I’ll definitely give some of this a try, once I’m back to civilisation of some kind. Right now I’m a bit stuck, as wanting to explore, I followed a Nomad troop and they led me to a swamp village. But at this point they seem to be stuck pathfinding and unable to continue. But if I strike out on my own, I have to face the dangerous enemies they protected me from on the way here! Anyway, once I’m back I now know more about base building thank’s to your vid. :)
In my game, I actually turtle in a city until I unlock all research till it requires unique books. I make sure I get a longhouse and 2 of my laborers specialize in armorcrafting and weaponcrafting, using materials purchased from the stores. Meanwhile my fighting squad is out exploring and training.
I know this is a few months old but thought I would drop my thoughts anyway. I already know everything you covered in this video now but it would have been nice to have seen this when I first started. It was pretty informative for people new to base building. maybe mention that you can raise and lower the walls as well. I know you mentioned earlier in the video that you could raise and lower buildings but someone might not think that implies to the fences as well. it would be very useful to raise the walls as high as you can when walling across a river or stream. a little info about the walls as well; You can see the individual pieces of the wall and if you pay attention you can see the wall change from individual small sections to larger whole sections. these whole sections are where you will be able to place your mounted crossbows later when you start building them. having too many curves in your walls like making a circular wall around a base, (if the angle is too sharp) it will prevent you from placing much of a defense when it comes to mounted cross bows. I was watching the video because I'm trying to find out how the base development works when it comes to setting a base to public to allow non controlled NPCs to move in and rent your empty public buildings, as well as how to get people to actually buy from your market table. (I know how to change sections of walls, gates, buildings and the outpost itself to private/public but no one ever moves in and nobody ever buys from my market tables). all I have read about it is that you need your outpost set to public and the building its self set to public. I have that but I have yet to find a way for anyone to start buying stuff from it. I craft a lot of weapons and armor; stash them in market stalls so I don't have to take them to other shops to sell them myself but I can't figure out how to get people to come and buy them from me yet. I'm still being forced to deliver the goods to other shops at reduced prices. I would like to learn how to set guard patrols for my city defense squad's to patrol. I haven't figured that part out yet either. Nice starter tutorial though. will be helpful to a lot of people who are just starting out.
I know this is an old video but it’s very good thank you. I am playing with a whole skeleton squad and I gotta say, building near flats lagoon has been great, no need for food or any of that so it just comes down to strategical location and trade.
A tip to help get you going in the early game, when you spawn in, go immediately to the Hive village to the west. Keep an eye out for the beakers and the white ape things, can't quite recall their name at the moment. Wait for the local wildlife to push into the village and join their soldiers in killing them. Collect the skins/meat for cats/food. Within an hour you should have earned enough to buy decent armour/equipment supplies and have bought/levelled whatever weapon you want to be decently proficient with it.
be me. make a team of 16 persons with decent skills and a lot of building materials. start searching a good place to set. found it. set down,build little house,mine some ores. Horde of bandits appear, repel them off. celebrate. healing the wounded. another horde is coming to your outpost. another horde is coming to your outpost. fighting bandits and more powerful enemies. barely win 2 deads and 2 on foot all the others wounded. beak things appears from nowhere. beat the crap out of my 2 surviving pj. start eating them alive. they are all eaten. just another day in kenshi.
So helpful! The text guides on Steam didn't really cut it for me. Was having little trouble just playing solo and with a small group with no guides but after I tried making a base I got stumped.
I like to set up my base west from hub, near the holy land and southways from a waypoint. There's nice flat ground, good stone density, iron and copper. Also, fertile land. Since most threats will be starving and dust bandits, you're usually relatively safe as those just beat you up. Dust bandit might steal ONE weapon every 90 days or so and starving bandits are too stupid to check food stores for food. The only hike is prayer day, I recommend praying because you DO not want the wrath of holy nation when you don't got the skills and gear to fight their disciplinary squads. Though once you're set up with some decent armor and weapons, they're good source of training (I recommend armor to reduce the high chance of getting limbs chopped off)
You actually can make iron plates in the mining camp east of Heng and building materials in the stone camp east of Spine Canyon. Slvers don't seem to care that you use their machines and ore.
I just had an idea. Roman legions would build forts as they marched. I can put turrets up on buildings or walls. Just need a lot of bull mules. This way, open field fights will be more fun
Hey just a question but y dont u use the wooden backpack for its ability to stack? I drop mine in combat so i hopefully dont have any combat penalty or loss
I think it was the micro aspect I didn't like. That's a lot of dropping/equipping. Generally I run one or two people (my medics) with those packs and set them to defensive.
My partner and I ran from a group of bandits into the Stack city and the Holy Nation guards helped kill off the bandits. Then the guards turned around and wanted to enslave my partner because she was a Shek, so we hauled ass back out of Stack and started getting chased by the Holy Nation guards. This game is brutal!
Decided I may attempt Kenshi again. Last time, I quit because base building was a nightmare. Resources were too far apart, I was constantly running back and forth for building supplies, I'd assign people to do things, but they'd pick things up and just stand around because the walk distance was too far (I think), and of course I'd get raided right when I was finally starting to get things done. It's crazy that people can multitask with all these squads.
@@TobelPlays I'm fine with mods that change fix things like the blood spider attack range, but it feels like cheating to do things that prolong the time before raids or remove them in total. I was tempted at one time to get the exercise mods because it was taking an incredibly long time having squaddies run circles around Hub with backpacks full of ore to train Strength. Or maybe I was doing something wrong? I'm sure I didn't have enough combat ready dudes to fend off ninja raids, but the training grind is something else.
you can unlock a food basket that people will automatically go and get food out of. Once you've got everything automated food production can be largely ignored. It's a good idea if you have a particularly large base to have multiple food depots since the ai sometimes can't find them if they're too far away from it. And early game stop-gap is to put food in a backpack, as it will be automatically shared to nearby characters when they need food. That way you only need to keep an eye on 1 character's food stores until your automation is set up.
@@TobelPlays could you make a tutorial on how to get ancient research books, how to deal with raids and effective ways of making money on Kenshi? It would make a good update video
22:05 I have over 1 K hours in Kenshi and have no idea why I'm watching this... but if anyone is having this issue, try saving and reloading. Save/loading is the Kenshi equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?". It's less drastic than doing a full import and will let you keep your current trade modifiers, prisoners, that nomad dog that lives at your gate and eats corpses, etc, etc. Edit: Don't be afraid to import tho, I just like it when friendly/neutral factions decide to live in my base. I've had allies and some nomad lady with her animals hang out at my guard engineer picnic tables for in game months. I like leaving my gates open and having that extra buffer against animal attacks is nice. As often as the nomads and (no spoilers) have saved my bony ass, they can stay as long as they want.
"one of the safest areas" Fuck me, I'm doing a mostly skeleton playthrough and settled here right at the start without getting to know the neighbors. Now they visit me every Sunday and beat the shit out of my poor robots.
I'm pretty new to this game and to start my first outpost I've just been mining and selling iron/copper. Once you have a small outpost established, what is an efficient way to make money?
A few different things: You could grow crops and process them to sell. You could trade between other cities (and just use your outpost to get food). You could also hunt or use city guards to kill animals that have leather and sell that leather for a decent profit. Lots of options, it mostly depends on what you want to do.
If you've got iron supply, set a scorchlander to craft weapons. You'll end up with plenty of money and good weapons after a short while. Edit, also electronic bench is a great way to train science and make use of that copper.
If you get your thieving skill high enough and have a large backpack, send a character to the robotics shop in Black Desert City (central to the Deadlands). Pick the chest and (if not being guarded) safe on the second floor of the shop. The safe will have arms and legs that sell ~16,000 cats that you can fence for 100% of value with no problem in literally any other city, to any other vendor. Get rich quick and all it cost was an arm and a leg lol.
I started playing and I can't believe how addictive this game is, having a great time.
Deyvson Moutinho Caliman I always saw it pop up in my feed and thought “wtf is this messy looking game”. Watched a couple vids. Bought it. Addicted.
Yea it's so fun lol, just has so much freedom.. Most games now are too linear
@@terrydactyl2077 It's really scuffed but there hasn't been anything like it. Truly a great game regardless of it's issues.
By far this is one of the best "survival" games ever made. You start off as a character (main) and then recruit a few random NPCs to be a city builder/RTS game. I personally am more of a solo survival just roaming around, finding ancient tech, or going for a bounty hunt, or getting into good troubles. Although, I have to build a small town where my main character can just restock and trade for catun credits to buy more stuff, more NPC for weaponsmithing and armor, etc, eventually I can easily see it as a multi empire taking over the land... too much power for one guy.
I think I have put over 653.8 hours so far and still learning from it, hell. I learned to mod my own subrace which is fun.
@@GothicDragonX best thing about kenshi you get to play it how you want i always loved games like baldurs gate so i got hooked on the "party" playstyle usually have a warrior a rogue a healer ect.
I love how he jumps to the next step in the tutorial and there are some bloodly bodies just liying around the main house as he keeps talking like nothing happened.
Nothing to see here, move along folks.
At a point, starving bandits are nothing much than rats and removing corpses is a waste of time, so you just let them lay around :)
@@Alexrayioons but what if suddenly a pack if bone dog coming
@@sergiosukamto415 Bonedogs ? You mean the big sized rats ?
Just hit them with a stick until they die, you might lose some limbs in the process but it's not really a problem
Lmao
Wow, I just have to say ... first off this game is probably the most underrated I have ever come across. I've sunk DAYS into it and in less than a week in at this point. Your videos should be getting millions of views but because of the underrated status of this game, your exposer is relatively minimal.. The way you explain things as your going, and your explanation of the mechanics are invaluable. VERY clear and concise information, I watched the entire video and it felt like 10 minutes. Do not listen to anyone down here telling you to change anything about the way you present these tutorials, no you don't move too much, no you don't need to slow down. You take the perfect amount of time on each step. These videos are amazing. Never change them. Thank you so much man!!
Much appreciated Cody, thanks for your support!
Ya, this game is amazing honestly, supremely underrated
I agree. he covered everything very clear and didn't spend too much time on any one thing and didn't ramble so fast you can't keep up and wasn't so slow you just had to leave. I gave the only tiny bit of advice I had to maybe make this tutorial a little better but honestly it was a very tiny thing that wouldn't make a lot of difference.
he did an amazing job.
so yeah superbly done Tobel .
very well done.
settle down.
if anything he could have sped it up., i've had the game two days and skiped a good portion of this as the game clearly tells you. i dont even think a million people bought the game yet
I made a base next ti the hub and decided to relocate after 6 days of constantly being attacked on the daily basis multiple times a day. The holy empire was not happy when they saw a outpost of skeletons on prayer day.
Jesus. I can't imagine.
"Greetings friend! It is prayer day! Come out with your Holy Flame and pray to Okram with m- THE SKELETONS ARE COMING! THE 2ND EXTINCTION!"
i spent so much resources building the walls but cant stand getting bandits every day they killed the mercenaries i hired :/
@@the_wudarian harpoons, or abandon base until you get a hero fighter that can solo 4 bandits.
Npcs also build near cannibals to counter raids. Action rpg lol. Using rts strategy, build in fort like areas with kill zones, or acid weather that reduces enemy logistics and morale
pro tip- build up your defensive walls and gate before laying out any buildings or food stores. Raids won't come to your base until you decide to either build a building or have a food store with food in it (forgot which one it was exactly, but just be sure to build all of your buildings as the last part of the base).
I like to assign 1 less than the "station" will take when assigning mining and refining jobs. That last slot is reserved for Bob. Bob will get assigned to every machine in that chain starting with the last one, so if I'm making steel bars, Bob will be told to refine steel bars first, then refine iron plates, then mine iron. Bob exists to clear up bottle necks in production chains.
I also like a Bill. Bill is told to put stuff in boxes. Bill is the only one assigned to move stuff into boxes, so Bill gets a lot of jobs (people with full machines will empty them without orders when it's full). Bill is also normally over loaded and carrying around a corpse for strength training, so characters take turns being BIll. Bill also gets corpse disposal jobs when you get that researched. Anything you can do to make Bill move around the base is good for Bill.
I know this is years old but this is great advice thank you!
@@DH___ and get a wood backback preferably the trader version to train speed and strength but base one for melee/weapon training for bill
Just wanna say I'm a newbie to kenshi and your tutorials and let's plays are helping me so much! Thank you so much and PLEASE continue bud! Much love!
Will do, cheers!
I picked up Kenshi after 1.0 so I don't know how it was before but if you give someone a job they will automatically empty the produced item to the appropriate storage as long as there is room, you don't need to give them the job to haul to storage
Havent notice that, finally my life can be easy
Important to note that they *can* have trouble doing this if your storage is too far away from your farms, as they can't seem to path to buildings that aren't loaded in.
There's a setting under the AI tab in the window that pops up with the Map that allows you to have your units 'DUMP ITEMS' when there is the applicable storage container around.
I was gonna mention this because i just started and had this same issue, they would pick up the materials then instantly dump them back in the chest
@@WhoTouchMyGun This option is a huge irritation if you have food storage. I bring my roaming fighters into town to rest, and as soon as they get a chance they all rush off to dump their food into storage. It drives me nuts.
I wish it could be switched on or off on a per squad basis.
barely remember watching your tutorial videos years ago. It's hard to remember the times when I had no idea what I was doing. thanks to you, I've sunk 900+ hours into the game and I think it's safe to say I now know how to survive in the world of Kenshi
"Im using comma and period to rotate placements"
Quality content.
i dont even play this game but this is all so deep and thought through. amazing how much you can do in this game
If you're computer can handle it, I highly recommend the game. You'll lose hours to Kenshi and you'll enjoy every second of it.
It is just the base rts. More rpg action elsewhere in game. Each region has a political and culture flavor. This changes gameplay for player. I found exploring the world more fun than rts. Watching armies fight while looting the field feels like eve online pvp
This whole tutorial series was great for me. I've tried to get into Kenshi before because I love the let's plays I watch of it, and I love the concept, but I always end up overwhelmed by the sheer amount of options and depth. This however is by far the most beginner friendly tutorial out there, and I've been able to make a pretty decent first game in Kenshi 1.0 using your tips, so I don't feel totally lost. Keep up the great work, I'm loving this game now!
I'm totally new to this game. It helps a lot. Thank you so much! Keep it on!!
Happy to help, let me know if you have questions.
34:00 Incredible mechanics.. didnt even know such automatio was possible. This game just keeps amazing me
If you like those mechanics, check out a game like X3 Terran Conflict... automate an entire space empire lol
Love these videos man, super helpful. I only played for a couple hours awhile back but 1.0 got me to play again and i decided to watch some tutorials this time. Coming from Rimworld and I'm enjoying the game so much!
I love Rimworld so much. I get mod fever and can never stop once I get going.
2:44 genius.. and that wall, welldone
I've watched all the videos in the playlist, absolute beginner here. Really helpful... Awesome job, thanks!
Glad they were helpful. I will make some additional videos covering mid to late game concepts a bit later on.
Have been playing kenshi for the past few days and listening to your play through in the background. Have been getting just wrecked when I try starting a base settlement. This is super helpful.
Side note: if you're training strength for a character. A good way to safely train is to have that character (or characters) as a designated hauler.
On my largest base in the fog, I used to train newbies strength by purposefully putting my well far away from my water tower and placed bronze ingots in their inventories to bring up their exp multiplier
I've just gotten really into Kenshi and all of your tutorial videos were so helpful, thank you!
This video leaves out some key concepts on base building, namely kill boxes and utilizing the water this base has available...and trust me, you will need them.
wow we picked almost the same spot, i also had my eye on the fertile area inside the holy nation, my first base i'm excited. thanks for the video man! helps a bunch
I remember playing and modding this game way back in 2014 with my dad.
I saw a playthrough a long time ago where the guy just attacked a farm and killed everyone and took the farm for himself. You get a free farm then. Boy, was that a run-on sentence.
You can do that I think; did the game mechanics recognize that as his farm afterwards? I'm going to try to avoid "innocent" bloodshed during this playthrough, but hey, accidents happen.
@@TobelPlays Yeah, it was his farm afterwords. He was showing the easiest way to get a farm. It wasn't version 1.0 so it might not work now, but it totally worked when he did it.
@@dev6rehab666 You can't take over a farm anymore. You can stay there but you can't build anything in or near it.
It is possible to "occupy" a farm, but without mods you cannot gain ownership. However, farming and looting the output is possible.
This channel is a godsend for this game. Thank you very much for your content!
bought kenshi bout a week ago and man I've never experienced a game like this, I'm addicted. I built my base recently but i feel like im not getting the most out of it but seeing your video inspired me to make bases I've never even thought of making, thank you.
Glad you're enjoying it! It's an incredibly fun experience
Hell, i just learned what the jobs thing is for. Thanks alot. This is gonna prove very usefull for Medics and Researching
Very much! You can chain a lot of useful automation things together
good little video. I find you can do a lot of your tech research in town, and make a point to buy a building in every town you trade in, load it with power production, etc. You don't need a lot of people to start with if you do it that way, and it allows you to equip those initial few with good gear, packs, etc, and horde up what you need to build your first base, train them all in turrets, etc. And yes, its totally smart to take all your people and leave the base to get invaded, I just never leave stuff behind to be looted and do regular runs into town. I found the easiest way to make money is to mine copper with a crew, giving them each turns to labor (sneaking while they work) and then make them run back to town to improve their hauling abilities. You used to not need as much food originally per person, but as your crew gets bigger, you need more food, and a single town may not be able to supply enough.
Watched this years ago, and again now after a Kenshi hiatus. You are appreciated!
Thanks for the kind comment! You're breathtaking!
Finally someone who explains things step by step
I'm new to the game also and have started a let's play. Your step by step guide has helped me so much, thank you!
Keep up the great video's dude 👍
You are welcome!
Good tutorial. This game is pretty brutal. I've got 17 hours in and just got one npc but have found that 90% of my time is spent running away from things. I really haven't even started on the tech part, but I was going in the right direction. This will help a lot. Thanks!
If it's 17 real time hours you should have a quite bigger group by now. Farm copper near a city or steal from shops to get a headstart (don't get caught or shopkeepers won't trade with you anymore).
Your main problem is to keep the group fed. Gonna cost you a lot of money, until the point where you start to build your own base and farm.
Have fun!
Thanks for the tips! I also bought a pack bull. Trying to keep everyone fed is the main problem, outside of just staying alive. It seems like if you get a bigger group you have to make a base just to support them. I already steal as much as I can, but just two npcs costs a lot and I really have tried avoid doing the mine grind. The river raptors have helped a lot in keeping the bull alive. This game is pretty tough.
I have a bit of a cheese option for your first base... so basically if you just need the stone and iron refinery you can build a house or small shack (doesnt even need to be build just place it) which you build in a screen distance of your actual working place...
so what should happen is that raids will mostly run into the house and just chill there... doesnt always work though because some raids will still aggro your squad or run to containers
Something you can do if the walls look ugly is to go into the game editor mode, the key binding for it is listed in your controls and it allows you to move your buildings around with more freedom and can fix some of the weird wall issues.
I really wish I could rent out houses
Kenshi 2 is already in production
you can rent a bed or buy a house in an existing city
Andrew unfortunately I really can’t see it coming out to soon. I mean this game has been in development for like 70% of my total life so far.
Bruh Moment because it was developed by 1 person. A game this huge being developed by a single person is going to take a long time, no matter how good they are. As far as I’m aware, there are several guys working on the new one and they’re reusing the same engine instead of building a new one from scratch. The sequel shouldn’t take more than a few years to come out.
@@clark2501 reusing old engine? Didnt they decide on unreal engine 4 beacuse its more capable and would be better for optimalisation?
Really helpful vid thank’s. I’ll definitely give some of this a try, once I’m back to civilisation of some kind. Right now I’m a bit stuck, as wanting to explore, I followed a Nomad troop and they led me to a swamp village. But at this point they seem to be stuck pathfinding and unable to continue. But if I strike out on my own, I have to face the dangerous enemies they protected me from on the way here! Anyway, once I’m back I now know more about base building thank’s to your vid. :)
This game kicks ass. I can't wait until they make the i100 900 core so I can play it
It's not that heavy. You just need lots of VRAM and an SSD.
In my game, I actually turtle in a city until I unlock all research till it requires unique books. I make sure I get a longhouse and 2 of my laborers specialize in armorcrafting and weaponcrafting, using materials purchased from the stores. Meanwhile my fighting squad is out exploring and training.
I know this is a few months old but thought I would drop my thoughts anyway.
I already know everything you covered in this video now but it would have been nice to have seen this when I first started.
It was pretty informative for people new to base building.
maybe mention that you can raise and lower the walls as well.
I know you mentioned earlier in the video that you could raise and lower buildings but someone might not think that implies to the fences as well.
it would be very useful to raise the walls as high as you can when walling across a river or stream.
a little info about the walls as well; You can see the individual pieces of the wall and if you pay attention you can see the wall change from individual small sections to larger whole sections.
these whole sections are where you will be able to place your mounted crossbows later when you start building them.
having too many curves in your walls like making a circular wall around a base, (if the angle is too sharp) it will prevent you from placing much of a defense when it comes to mounted cross bows.
I was watching the video because I'm trying to find out how the base development works when it comes to setting a base to public to allow non controlled NPCs to move in and rent your empty public buildings, as well as how to get people to actually buy from your market table. (I know how to change sections of walls, gates, buildings and the outpost itself to private/public but no one ever moves in and nobody ever buys from my market tables).
all I have read about it is that you need your outpost set to public and the building its self set to public.
I have that but I have yet to find a way for anyone to start buying stuff from it.
I craft a lot of weapons and armor; stash them in market stalls so I don't have to take them to other shops to sell them myself but I can't figure out how to get people to come and buy them from me yet.
I'm still being forced to deliver the goods to other shops at reduced prices.
I would like to learn how to set guard patrols for my city defense squad's to patrol. I haven't figured that part out yet either.
Nice starter tutorial though. will be helpful to a lot of people who are just starting out.
Hello and thanks for your feedback and advice. Always helpful to new players to Kenshi who see your message.
@@TobelPlays yeah no problem. as I said tho. very small thing.
I know this is an old video but it’s very good thank you. I am playing with a whole skeleton squad and I gotta say, building near flats lagoon has been great, no need for food or any of that so it just comes down to strategical location and trade.
Glad you're enjoying it.
So much learned from this video. Good work
Excellent tutorial and the best I've come across thus far. thank you for sharing knowledge on this enjoyable time killer of a game.
Amazing tutorials. I just got the game and I'm loving it.
The job thingy was very helpful thank u
You are most welcome.
A tip to help get you going in the early game, when you spawn in, go immediately to the Hive village to the west. Keep an eye out for the beakers and the white ape things, can't quite recall their name at the moment. Wait for the local wildlife to push into the village and join their soldiers in killing them. Collect the skins/meat for cats/food. Within an hour you should have earned enough to buy decent armour/equipment supplies and have bought/levelled whatever weapon you want to be decently proficient with it.
Just a quick question,at 29:55 you move between your squad members without clicking on them. How do you do it?
I think that's just 1-9 keys, double tap them. You may have to assign shortcuts with control + number first
be me.
make a team of 16 persons with decent skills and a lot of building materials.
start searching a good place to set.
found it.
set down,build little house,mine some ores.
Horde of bandits appear, repel them off.
celebrate.
healing the wounded.
another horde is coming to your outpost.
another horde is coming to your outpost.
fighting bandits and more powerful enemies.
barely win 2 deads and 2 on foot all the others wounded.
beak things appears from nowhere.
beat the crap out of my 2 surviving pj.
start eating them alive.
they are all eaten.
just another day in kenshi.
This is literally every Kenshi playthrough
This is a excellent guide, its like watching a 1 hour indian guy teaching me engineering stuff. That good.
Do the Kenshi needful
So helpful! The text guides on Steam didn't really cut it for me. Was having little trouble just playing solo and with a small group with no guides but after I tried making a base I got stumped.
Excellent video, thank you. Time to restart in the valley!
I like to set up my base west from hub, near the holy land and southways from a waypoint. There's nice flat ground, good stone density, iron and copper. Also, fertile land. Since most threats will be starving and dust bandits, you're usually relatively safe as those just beat you up. Dust bandit might steal ONE weapon every 90 days or so and starving bandits are too stupid to check food stores for food. The only hike is prayer day, I recommend praying because you DO not want the wrath of holy nation when you don't got the skills and gear to fight their disciplinary squads.
Though once you're set up with some decent armor and weapons, they're good source of training (I recommend armor to reduce the high chance of getting limbs chopped off)
You actually can make iron plates in the mining camp east of Heng and building materials in the stone camp east of Spine Canyon. Slvers don't seem to care that you use their machines and ore.
The same seems to be true with the Farms and wells in the holey Nation, and in the swamp villages.
This was very informative video, thanks for making it
28:20 not true, you don't need to permajob hauling.
"Milking the Bull" 13:02 .. lmao
Awesome tutorial series! Thanks for making these
Super helpful as I start learning the game!
I just had an idea. Roman legions would build forts as they marched. I can put turrets up on buildings or walls. Just need a lot of bull mules.
This way, open field fights will be more fun
Quite possible to bring supplies and build a little mini fort. Lots of micro'ing though.
Hey just a question but y dont u use the wooden backpack for its ability to stack?
I drop mine in combat so i hopefully dont have any combat penalty or loss
I think it was the micro aspect I didn't like. That's a lot of dropping/equipping. Generally I run one or two people (my medics) with those packs and set them to defensive.
Is this still useful 3 years after? Getting into Kenshi now
Most of the core mechanics are the same
great tutorial, and a excellent presenter
Much appreciated XD
the holy nation always looks for trouble with my non human so i cant build in that location lol
yeah they're fuckers, set up in vain instead
My partner and I ran from a group of bandits into the Stack city and the Holy Nation guards helped kill off the bandits. Then the guards turned around and wanted to enslave my partner because she was a Shek, so we hauled ass back out of Stack and started getting chased by the Holy Nation guards. This game is brutal!
Youre not renting space, you own the house/building
Mandatory FABLE-inspired Rent Buildings Mod
This might unironicly be my favorite game of all time
It's pretty damn enjoyable. Very much looking forward to Kenshi 2
Thank you for these incredible videos!
Decided I may attempt Kenshi again. Last time, I quit because base building was a nightmare. Resources were too far apart, I was constantly running back and forth for building supplies, I'd assign people to do things, but they'd pick things up and just stand around because the walk distance was too far (I think), and of course I'd get raided right when I was finally starting to get things done. It's crazy that people can multitask with all these squads.
It can be a bit intense. And time is kind of working against you. There may be some nice large scale overhaul mods these days
@@TobelPlays I'm fine with mods that change fix things like the blood spider attack range, but it feels like cheating to do things that prolong the time before raids or remove them in total. I was tempted at one time to get the exercise mods because it was taking an incredibly long time having squaddies run circles around Hub with backpacks full of ore to train Strength. Or maybe I was doing something wrong? I'm sure I didn't have enough combat ready dudes to fend off ninja raids, but the training grind is something else.
Easier to buy the iron plates early on lol
how do you manage hunger with large groups of characters? that seems like it would take forever
you can unlock a food basket that people will automatically go and get food out of. Once you've got everything automated food production can be largely ignored. It's a good idea if you have a particularly large base to have multiple food depots since the ai sometimes can't find them if they're too far away from it.
And early game stop-gap is to put food in a backpack, as it will be automatically shared to nearby characters when they need food. That way you only need to keep an eye on 1 character's food stores until your automation is set up.
Food is the first production line you secure everything depends on that
awsome game, what kills it for most though is the painfuly loading times. but if you can struggle past then its awesome.
And lack of inmersion..
And lack of inmersion.. needs more ambient sound, music..
@@Shadow77999 are u deadass
ssd
i built my first base right next to stack as well, then moved to the fog islands got all my guys eaten. Best game ever
Just got the game --- TY, you made it playable!
Dude you're awesome the way you explain every bit of detail really helped i finally got my asnwer regarding research you earned a sub (y)
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. Any other games you'd like a tutorial for?
@@TobelPlays could you make a tutorial on how to get ancient research books, how to deal with raids and effective ways of making money on Kenshi? It would make a good update video
i learned so much thank you so much!
Thanks mate 👌🏼 Just started got a group of 10 already.
Thank you so much for tutorial series. It`s really helpful :)
Happy to make it!
how do you make a group of people good at combat without having a base? Im thinking you would get ruined from all the bandage and food costs and such.
This video is under rated
Thank you for explaining.
These videos are amazing. Thank you.
Thank you!
Thanks! Super helpful
I never really looked at your icon till now. Ive always seen a Trex out of the corner of my eye
22:05 I have over 1 K hours in Kenshi and have no idea why I'm watching this... but if anyone is having this issue, try saving and reloading.
Save/loading is the Kenshi equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?". It's less drastic than doing a full import and will let you keep your current trade modifiers, prisoners, that nomad dog that lives at your gate and eats corpses, etc, etc.
Edit: Don't be afraid to import tho, I just like it when friendly/neutral factions decide to live in my base. I've had allies and some nomad lady with her animals hang out at my guard engineer picnic tables for in game months. I like leaving my gates open and having that extra buffer against animal attacks is nice. As often as the nomads and (no spoilers) have saved my bony ass, they can stay as long as they want.
Importing is a godsend
"one of the safest areas"
Fuck me, I'm doing a mostly skeleton playthrough and settled here right at the start without getting to know the neighbors. Now they visit me every Sunday and beat the shit out of my poor robots.
subscribed, finally a nice tutorial
man this video is so fucking good man keep makeing new shit or tips on kenshi bro you got this shit in the bag !!!
Great tutorial, thanks!
I do enjoy your actual tutorials though :)
Nooooo Tobel , thats a bull... Oh god why.
Excellent series btw . TY
Thank you soo muchh for this tutorial, i really appreciated it it helps me so much now!!
Welcome!
I can always retreat to my base in a town right? and go back to finishing my outpost once i recovered
Thanks for mentioning the rotate keys, I wasted so much sq/ft with diagonal structures.
Very helpful thank you
You rock Tobel
I miss you Tobel
Almost back friend. Appreciate you!
@@TobelPlays !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JANICE TAKE THE WHEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most helpful series I've come across so far. Does this also help with the 1.0 release?
This actually was recorded after 1.0 was released, so yes everything is up to date as far as I can tell.
@@TobelPlays thanks for the info!
15:30 lol thats where i build my first base😀
me: sees tutorial*
also me: sees that the video is 48 minutes long*
also me: "what the-"
I'm pretty new to this game and to start my first outpost I've just been mining and selling iron/copper. Once you have a small outpost established, what is an efficient way to make money?
A few different things: You could grow crops and process them to sell. You could trade between other cities (and just use your outpost to get food). You could also hunt or use city guards to kill animals that have leather and sell that leather for a decent profit. Lots of options, it mostly depends on what you want to do.
If you've got iron supply, set a scorchlander to craft weapons. You'll end up with plenty of money and good weapons after a short while.
Edit, also electronic bench is a great way to train science and make use of that copper.
If you get your thieving skill high enough and have a large backpack, send a character to the robotics shop in Black Desert City (central to the Deadlands). Pick the chest and (if not being guarded) safe on the second floor of the shop. The safe will have arms and legs that sell ~16,000 cats that you can fence for 100% of value with no problem in literally any other city, to any other vendor. Get rich quick and all it cost was an arm and a leg lol.
Thank you so much, now I can see where I was wrong hahaha