Ah, yes, the Ashlands. The most winter holiday location in all of Kenshi, home of Santa Cat. Truly a fitting location to cover on Crimbus Eve! Happy holidays, everyone!
Paul Rogers: There will be no spoilers. Paul Rogers: Here is Cat-Lone :D. Paul Rogers: Should you settle the Ashlands? There is no fertility or water. No iron, copper or stone. No reason to settle here. Paul Rogers: Should you settle the Ashlands? Definitely! Paul Rogers: Here is Cat-Lone :D. Paul Rogers: Thanks for watching. Great video. Congrats on 10K. Peaceful and happy holidays to you.
I've put hundereds of hours into Kenshi and never even knew cleanser units existed until now. Never seen them in games or videos or even heard of them.
I've got around 530 hours in Kenshi, and believe it or not I've never actually gone to the ashlands. It's just one of the many places I've not bothered to explore. I'm typically picking a spot to set up shop and I don't venture very far away from it. I had NO idea that huge cleanser unit existed, or that they had such good loot for what seems like very little risk. I really need to get out there and roam around the world more, there's a ton of stuff I'm missing just because I haven't bothered to go out and look around.
Not uncommon. Once you base up it's hard to leave it, or feels that way at least. Lots of mods to add camping type stuff to make a nomad playthrough to see the whole world more viable.
You basically did the Kenshi equivalent of settling that contested desert area between Egypt and Sudan. Technically you could walk over there and declare a micronation, but it's a total resource deadzone whose primary export would be sand, and you have two not exactly friendly factions on both sides of your very isolated outpost.
There's a zone to the northern portion of the Ashlands that actually gets it's resource values from The Pits, so you can get water there if you truly want to be "immersed" into the Ashlands. It's right by that stretch with the tower in the central area of the coast.
I built a single outpost s-IV the day before yesterday. It is super cozy, you have little wind, but no no water though so you can use it as temporary shelter only to lick wounds while you take out bosses in the domes. It is fun that I checked for a video from you before building and here you are :)
Found out about you a few days ago and was wondering if there's gonna be an ashlands guide in the near future, such perfect timing. Thanks for the video!
I built a small fort basically where you show in the map. It was not supposed to be a full base though. Just a place where my expeditions could store excess loot and rest while exploring the ashlands. Had it manned by reprogrammed skeletons using the recruitable prisoners mod. But as you said once i had the walls up nothing came to challenge. The only time i had issue was pulling in skin bandit patrols who saw my fleshies working.
dude wtf ive put 1800+ hrs into kenshi and i had no idea those cleanser units existed!!! lmfao i thought you just forgot it was a mods content. oh man i must blind
Was just talking about you on stream today about who I suggest people check out for building/base guides and you go and upload a new video haha. 0:55 Was able to correct you but you mention the 300/300 Iron/Copper nice! Also there is another spot to the north.. I wanna say to the east of the S at the end of Sonorous (in the Ashlands ofc) there is 300/300 as well. Provided you build initially in the Ashlands I have never gotten a Skin Bandit raid after expanding into Sonorous Dark. You can place a Stormhouse in Son Dark. On the top floor put the hydroponics and the acid/rain will water them for you automatically. No need to use the 110 quality water. But the 200 quality stone in Son Dark is amazing. 3:06 If you just count the Skeleton Eyes, Muscles, AI Core and CPU Units they worth an average of c.71,464 a kill! They are insane! 4:13 They Skeletons will sometimes occupy your base... It can be... Really bad. Also to add Reavers, Crab Raiders and revenge raids (Wrath of God stuff like that) are the only raids I've encountered. 5:30 If a lot of the spawns are Iron Spiders/Cleanser Units so if you defeat the Legion patrols and more "animals" spawn they won't despawn unless they patrol far enough away meaning less chance for legions to spawn :) Ashlands is one of my favorite base locations in the game. (Buy materials you need for building from the Hive Caravans near Flats Lagoon if you need stuff to set up your Stone Auto Mines, Iron plates/ele components as you mentioned earlier are very easy to get from the inhabitants) Congrats on 10,000 man!
just found you today, and so far you seem superb :D I do like your style and explanations, i appreciate you hiding the lore (while i know it, it's always fun to learn for yourself :D) while giving an indepth analysis of the surroundings, cheers
Three locations came to my mind as potential locations I want to try later. Shrieking Forest: Green fertility, shrieking bandits aren't that bad, close to Mongrel & Western Hive. Purple Sands: Can get green fertility if you are close to Shrieking Forest. Beak Things provide meat & leather. Great ancient lab to loot nearby. Cool looking place. Berserker Country: Seems like an aweful place to settle. But it looks cool and would provide a good challenge.
Happy wookie life day to all. Great video and nice job avoiding too much spoiler info. If I could suggest one thing, make a video showing what kind of mobs can be recruited in vanilla from slavery either via rescue by break out or purchase from shops. The slave shop town on the eastern side of the eye is a key location for this for me. As grass pirates will raid it and end up cages while you sit afk. In addition outlaw swordsmen with bounties abound in the region and once turned in may also end up enslaved and make solid recruits. The boss units of city heroes faction have strength rivalling Agnu and the other stats lol enough to make potential recruits. Holy nation surgeons of kidnapped and taken to u.c. slave shops are another extraordinary unit with high skills. Best research recruits. Bo of the anti slavers can be gained this way if you use something like some iron spiders dropped by her to get her beat down and patch her up and carry her to a shop and drop. And avoid allying with the anti slavers. Dust bosses are basically equals to outlaw swordsmen. Dust bandit bowmen are better due to having upwards of 20 in ranged skills making them nearly as good as grass pirates for ranged units. Maybe also a video about faction friendship with the gutter and spider factions using the two special human NPCs and slave shops. Hint take off their limbs first to make it much easier to do.
I really want to figure out the basics. Yeah I've dealt with the bugmaster and omw to finish the game . Yeah it's probably written somewhere, but how many outposts can you *really* have and what things can you do with them? You mentioned a splinter cell base for water and that opened a whole realm of possibilities for me. Will NPCs walk through town and buy stuff from my shop counters if I set it up on a major road, not talking about the random caravan traders that spawn. How do I get different animals and where are good locations to get them? What is a squad of polearms compared to a squad of martial artists? What's a good mix for a squad? There's tons of things that come to mind. Hopefully one of those ideas give you a great motive for another video. Always watching a kenshi video as soon as you make it ! Thank you for great content.
i have had a base there is pretty good for reasons similiar to shem but you are probably there to trade with black desert city and waystation frequently as well as invade / ally UC
It'd be neat to see one or two long-form plays...though a stream would be infinitely easier and tickle the same itch...either for an average start, or a challenge run. Sometimes it's hard to piece together bits from guides and such, so seeing someone play can help.
I just looked up days agk for your video of the about ashlands but it didn't exist yet and funny enough you post it now. GG. And thanks for everything btw😊
I'd love to see what you'd do for a settlement in the Royal Valley. I have a base set up there and found it to be a great place to train once I had quality gear and enough people.
Can you make a "leveling thief guide" that isn't cheese-based? Some cheese is okay, but it be nice to see a video that goes over how to level that skill up the legit way. Merry Christmas!
I know its not kenchi but matchless kungfu would be cool to watch. I also liked your lets play episodes. Kenshi 2 might be a couple years so if you go to other games that peak interest
Funny enough i always avoided the cleansers as I assumed they were as dangerous as other large creatures. So just a wee bit ago after seeing this I sent Chad the Chad who in my current PT is a stealth master and has his current main combat stats around the 50s and his MA and dodge were at 40, plus MA gear for boosts. Chad was able to beat a cleanser to death in a head on fight with such stats. The risky part was the odd spider and squad of skeletons wandering by to interfere. So frankly guys, the AI cores are pretty darn viable to hunt from them much earlier in the game than one might imagine. You could go in there with Green and Headshot once they get some stats to back up their ranged skills and a few master work eagles crosses and take these guys down very early game I suspect. I have zero doubt a squad of around 10 Grass pirates kitted in gear to survive the environs and solid ranged weapons could go in and hunt them too.
It's funny how the white ash makes it looks snowy and cold but there is a constant air distortion effect that suggests that the Ashlands are actually unbearably hot.
I’m 150 hours into the game, second play through, and i have never yet been to Ashlands…. And i still enjoy all other aspects of the game, just want to get best gear before going there
Ah yes, the ashlands. One of the most mysterious and dangerous places in the entire continent of kenshi. To be honest, lore vise its even more dangerous than, lets say, cannibal plains or fog islands, becauss you can get your characters eaten in thoose places. I explored most of it, and is accurate to description. No water, dead environment, no stone, iron or copper the entire zone. Hordes of some of the toughest enemies in the game. Extreme isolation, literally not a single faction would normally bother you if you settle deep. It is really peaceful, if not for the murder bots. The terrain is wery uneven, especially close to the Ominous Place. However, i don't know for sure why, but the most south-east part of ashlands is actually considered as NONE zone, having 100% all environments and fertility. I don't know if it's due to mods, but it would make a great place to settle.
That part where you mentiond how rarely talked about cleansers are is wierd, like despite the games popularity it feels like that 40% of the map is basically uncharted waters
u forgot to mention that the ashlands is the perfect location to smoke hashish u r far away from any governments, skeletons wont steal your stuff, [REDACTED] seems like a chill guy who would double in some green goodnes himself and most importantly you dont even have to clean up after you smoke MERRY CHRISTMAS HAMSTER
Ah, yes, the Ashlands. The most winter holiday location in all of Kenshi, home of Santa Cat. Truly a fitting location to cover on Crimbus Eve! Happy holidays, everyone!
Ah, the ashlands. Thank you little hamster friend.
No joking around, Merry Christmas Paul. Thanks for the vids this year. Kudos and keep it up.
Paul Rogers: There will be no spoilers.
Paul Rogers: Here is Cat-Lone :D.
Paul Rogers: Should you settle the Ashlands? There is no fertility or water. No iron, copper or stone. No reason to settle here.
Paul Rogers: Should you settle the Ashlands? Definitely!
Paul Rogers: Here is Cat-Lone :D.
Paul Rogers: Thanks for watching.
Great video. Congrats on 10K. Peaceful and happy holidays to you.
Who is Cat-lon? Never heard of her. 🤫
I've put hundereds of hours into Kenshi and never even knew cleanser units existed until now. Never seen them in games or videos or even heard of them.
Same, I have friends who’ve also put a lot of hours in too and have never heard of them. Time to start a new playthrough lol
What a glorious end of the year for this channel. Merry Christmas Beep!
I've got around 530 hours in Kenshi, and believe it or not I've never actually gone to the ashlands. It's just one of the many places I've not bothered to explore. I'm typically picking a spot to set up shop and I don't venture very far away from it. I had NO idea that huge cleanser unit existed, or that they had such good loot for what seems like very little risk. I really need to get out there and roam around the world more, there's a ton of stuff I'm missing just because I haven't bothered to go out and look around.
Not uncommon. Once you base up it's hard to leave it, or feels that way at least.
Lots of mods to add camping type stuff to make a nomad playthrough to see the whole world more viable.
I love kenshi bc of that, the world keeps spining
We settling the ashlands out here
One of my best places to settle is royal valley. 100 green, good fertility and the hive is a good way of leveling up. And it's pretty central.
You basically did the Kenshi equivalent of settling that contested desert area between Egypt and Sudan. Technically you could walk over there and declare a micronation, but it's a total resource deadzone whose primary export would be sand, and you have two not exactly friendly factions on both sides of your very isolated outpost.
There's a zone to the northern portion of the Ashlands that actually gets it's resource values from The Pits, so you can get water there if you truly want to be "immersed" into the Ashlands. It's right by that stretch with the tower in the central area of the coast.
Congrats on hitting 10k before the end of the year dude!
I built a single outpost s-IV the day before yesterday. It is super cozy, you have little wind, but no no water though so you can use it as temporary shelter only to lick wounds while you take out bosses in the domes. It is fun that I checked for a video from you before building and here you are :)
Found out about you a few days ago and was wondering if there's gonna be an ashlands guide in the near future, such perfect timing. Thanks for the video!
Merry Ashlands, everyone!
I built a small fort basically where you show in the map. It was not supposed to be a full base though. Just a place where my expeditions could store excess loot and rest while exploring the ashlands. Had it manned by reprogrammed skeletons using the recruitable prisoners mod. But as you said once i had the walls up nothing came to challenge. The only time i had issue was pulling in skin bandit patrols who saw my fleshies working.
Glad I'm not the only one who had this experience. Can't believe how chill it was
When Buck Dodgers makes a video I click!!!
Merry Cristmas everyone! Nice video.
Merry Crimbus!
What a lovely gift. Merry Christmas.
I just started playing Kenshi again, this is amazing timing!
dude wtf ive put 1800+ hrs into kenshi and i had no idea those cleanser units existed!!! lmfao i thought you just forgot it was a mods content. oh man i must blind
Was just talking about you on stream today about who I suggest people check out for building/base guides and you go and upload a new video haha.
0:55 Was able to correct you but you mention the 300/300 Iron/Copper nice! Also there is another spot to the north.. I wanna say to the east of the S at the end of Sonorous (in the Ashlands ofc) there is 300/300 as well. Provided you build initially in the Ashlands I have never gotten a Skin Bandit raid after expanding into Sonorous Dark. You can place a Stormhouse in Son Dark. On the top floor put the hydroponics and the acid/rain will water them for you automatically. No need to use the 110 quality water. But the 200 quality stone in Son Dark is amazing.
3:06 If you just count the Skeleton Eyes, Muscles, AI Core and CPU Units they worth an average of c.71,464 a kill! They are insane!
4:13 They Skeletons will sometimes occupy your base... It can be... Really bad.
Also to add Reavers, Crab Raiders and revenge raids (Wrath of God stuff like that) are the only raids I've encountered.
5:30 If a lot of the spawns are Iron Spiders/Cleanser Units so if you defeat the Legion patrols and more "animals" spawn they won't despawn unless they patrol far enough away meaning less chance for legions to spawn :)
Ashlands is one of my favorite base locations in the game. (Buy materials you need for building from the Hive Caravans near Flats Lagoon if you need stuff to set up your Stone Auto Mines, Iron plates/ele components as you mentioned earlier are very easy to get from the inhabitants)
Congrats on 10,000 man!
just found you today, and so far you seem superb :D I do like your style and explanations, i appreciate you hiding the lore (while i know it, it's always fun to learn for yourself :D) while giving an indepth analysis of the surroundings, cheers
Thanks Demon! Glad you found our Kenshi channel 🙌
Three locations came to my mind as potential locations I want to try later.
Shrieking Forest: Green fertility, shrieking bandits aren't that bad, close to Mongrel & Western Hive.
Purple Sands: Can get green fertility if you are close to Shrieking Forest. Beak Things provide meat & leather. Great ancient lab to loot nearby. Cool looking place.
Berserker Country: Seems like an aweful place to settle. But it looks cool and would provide a good challenge.
would be happy to see guide videos on these locations
Happy wookie life day to all.
Great video and nice job avoiding too much spoiler info.
If I could suggest one thing, make a video showing what kind of mobs can be recruited in vanilla from slavery either via rescue by break out or purchase from shops.
The slave shop town on the eastern side of the eye is a key location for this for me. As grass pirates will raid it and end up cages while you sit afk.
In addition outlaw swordsmen with bounties abound in the region and once turned in may also end up enslaved and make solid recruits.
The boss units of city heroes faction have strength rivalling Agnu and the other stats lol enough to make potential recruits.
Holy nation surgeons of kidnapped and taken to u.c. slave shops are another extraordinary unit with high skills. Best research recruits.
Bo of the anti slavers can be gained this way if you use something like some iron spiders dropped by her to get her beat down and patch her up and carry her to a shop and drop. And avoid allying with the anti slavers.
Dust bosses are basically equals to outlaw swordsmen. Dust bandit bowmen are better due to having upwards of 20 in ranged skills making them nearly as good as grass pirates for ranged units.
Maybe also a video about faction friendship with the gutter and spider factions using the two special human NPCs and slave shops. Hint take off their limbs first to make it much easier to do.
It had to happen at some point, quite exciting and challenging area. Merry Christmas everyone
I really want to figure out the basics. Yeah I've dealt with the bugmaster and omw to finish the game . Yeah it's probably written somewhere, but how many outposts can you *really* have and what things can you do with them? You mentioned a splinter cell base for water and that opened a whole realm of possibilities for me. Will NPCs walk through town and buy stuff from my shop counters if I set it up on a major road, not talking about the random caravan traders that spawn. How do I get different animals and where are good locations to get them? What is a squad of polearms compared to a squad of martial artists? What's a good mix for a squad?
There's tons of things that come to mind. Hopefully one of those ideas give you a great motive for another video. Always watching a kenshi video as soon as you make it ! Thank you for great content.
Merry Christmas Paul I hope you & your family have a good holiday & new year
Congrats on the 10k subs 🎉
Thank you Yonnder!
Congrats on the 10k subs and merry christmas 🎉
Merry Christmas!
Congrats on the 10k subs Paul! I hope you have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.:3
Always look forward to your videos , please keep it up in the new year!
Merry Xmas mate
Likewise!
Thank you for making this video :)
Shouldve expected it to drop on christmas. I subscribed just because i waited for this specific video xd
Cat-lon and his elves bring Christmas cheer 🎅
I'd love to see something on the Grey Desert. It's kind of dimly popular but I don't see enough people talk about it, it's my favorite region
i have had a base there is pretty good for reasons similiar to shem but you are probably there to trade with black desert city and waystation frequently as well as invade / ally UC
thanks lol been waiting for this one
It'd be neat to see one or two long-form plays...though a stream would be infinitely easier and tickle the same itch...either for an average start, or a challenge run. Sometimes it's hard to piece together bits from guides and such, so seeing someone play can help.
I just looked up days agk for your video of the about ashlands but it didn't exist yet and funny enough you post it now. GG. And thanks for everything btw😊
We're getting there! And you're very welcome 🙏 Thanks for tuning in
I'd love to see what you'd do for a settlement in the Royal Valley. I have a base set up there and found it to be a great place to train once I had quality gear and enough people.
It's a white Christmas!
Hey, why does the snow burn my mouth?
just watched like 10 of your videos and you happened to upload nice
Can you make a "leveling thief guide" that isn't cheese-based? Some cheese is okay, but it be nice to see a video that goes over how to level that skill up the legit way. Merry Christmas!
The safest and best way would be to steal items that are not in containers
I don’t think this game is fun nor do I particularly enjoy the world but I do enjoy these videos
I know its not kenchi but matchless kungfu would be cool to watch. I also liked your lets play episodes. Kenshi 2 might be a couple years so if you go to other games that peak interest
Funny enough i always avoided the cleansers as I assumed they were as dangerous as other large creatures. So just a wee bit ago after seeing this I sent Chad the Chad who in my current PT is a stealth master and has his current main combat stats around the 50s and his MA and dodge were at 40, plus MA gear for boosts.
Chad was able to beat a cleanser to death in a head on fight with such stats. The risky part was the odd spider and squad of skeletons wandering by to interfere.
So frankly guys, the AI cores are pretty darn viable to hunt from them much earlier in the game than one might imagine. You could go in there with Green and Headshot once they get some stats to back up their ranged skills and a few master work eagles crosses and take these guys down very early game I suspect.
I have zero doubt a squad of around 10 Grass pirates kitted in gear to survive the environs and solid ranged weapons could go in and hunt them too.
It's funny how the white ash makes it looks snowy and cold but there is a constant air distortion effect that suggests that the Ashlands are actually unbearably hot.
Merry Christmas in the Ashlands
Thanks for the Christmas present
Dammit you got me wanting to play kenshi again. The void calls....
I think I may be motivating all kinds of Kenshi playthroughs lol
I was waiting for the "No" and then the 'There Will Be Blood' music start playing.
Here we are. At the end of the road
Do you plan on making any Kenshi lore videos?
Aww heck yeah more kenshi content
I’m 150 hours into the game, second play through, and i have never yet been to Ashlands….
And i still enjoy all other aspects of the game, just want to get best gear before going there
Smart move. There's so much to do before going there
Question, "Should you settle the Ashlands?"
Answer, "No, settle Soronous Dark." xD
Ah yes, the ashlands. One of the most mysterious and dangerous places in the entire continent of kenshi. To be honest, lore vise its even more dangerous than, lets say, cannibal plains or fog islands, becauss you can get your characters eaten in thoose places.
I explored most of it, and is accurate to description. No water, dead environment, no stone, iron or copper the entire zone. Hordes of some of the toughest enemies in the game. Extreme isolation, literally not a single faction would normally bother you if you settle deep. It is really peaceful, if not for the murder bots. The terrain is wery uneven, especially close to the Ominous Place. However, i don't know for sure why, but the most south-east part of ashlands is actually considered as NONE zone, having 100% all environments and fertility. I don't know if it's due to mods, but it would make a great place to settle.
Imagine going from peace and quiet of ashlands to the screeching forest or bast weapon recycling centre.
I wonder which faction has the most merry, the most Christmas cheer...
That part where you mentiond how rarely talked about cleansers are is wierd, like despite the games popularity it feels like that 40% of the map is basically uncharted waters
How about greyshelf? I dont think you've done that one yet.
You should make a video about the weapons of kenshi I want to know your opinion
maybe my game was bugged but if you settle on the coast area behind catlon the game allowed me to plant crops and use wells.
Great desert next?
You should settle The Crater or The Grid next >:)
a guide on how to defeat a faction and what are the consequences
the grand finale
Finally
Hidden Forest and Stenn Desert
Praise the algorithm gods!
UC location guide pls
GENTRIFY THE ASHLANDS NOW
😅
You should add Turkish to the automatic subtitles, man ❤
Man why don't u make a kenshi 100 days video
WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Berserk country. Asking for second Time 😈
u forgot to mention that the ashlands is the perfect location to smoke hashish u r far away from any governments, skeletons wont steal your stuff, [REDACTED] seems like a chill guy who would double in some green goodnes himself and most importantly you dont even have to clean up after you smoke MERRY CHRISTMAS HAMSTER
Remember to set out your dusty sandwiches for Santa🧹🥪
Still waiting for obedience
No spoilers - photo 2 sec later 💀
This is the part where I blame the editor lmao
Murry Chrastmas.
Universal wasteland expansion guide.
play though when? XD
Hi
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