How To Repair Building In The Hub Kenshi

The beginning function of this guide provides an updated Roadmap and Beginner Guide for new players focused on base-building. The second part provides in-depth sections for all players on specific topics in Kenshi, including Race/Role Rankings, Farming, Autohauling, and more. There are a lot of good guides out there for achieving particular goals, but few, if any, focus on base of operations-edifice first, and warrior development second. This guide attempts to show you how to exercise that.

Introduction

Welcome, Drifter.

Like many people coming into Kenshi, my first few playthroughs were rough. I wanted to establish a settlement and I didn't want to focus on training upward a core group of fighters over a lengthier period of time to do it. To avoid spending hours on a death simulator, I've tried to walk you through what you need to do to successfully focus on base-edifice start, and warrior development second.

At that place are a lot of good guides out there that focus on particular ways of achieving sure goals, and there is a really keen roadmap for building a faction based on a group of well-trained fighters (which I highly recommend). Even so, hither, I will attempt to show you lot how to accept the changed approach.

This guide has two parts:

Roadmap for New Players– Using a sample playthrough, I effort to show you how to create a settlement in the harsh lands that you'll inhabit in Kenshi.
In-depth Topic Guides – Providing new or old players communication and strategies on specific topics, with an emphasis on big faction and city edifice.

These can and should exist used in conjunction with one another. For case, at various points in the roadmap (or as early as character selection), you may need to know specifics about the different races in Kenshi that aren't covered until Department eight and 9, so bound to those sections. When the roadmap tells y'all to focus on building upwardly agricultural production, consult Department 5. Basically, if the roadmap doesn't contain plenty of a how-to, wait below, where I've provided assay, descriptions and links. If yous experience like there is a segment that needs a improve explanation, please feel gratis to allow me know in the comments and I'll effort and update it.

There is almost certainly a way to play the game with evenless early on grinding than I did hither, but this guide will demonstrate a way to get to a place where you lot can sustain a settlement and motion on to whatever aspect of the game you about aspire to.

The earth in Kenshi can be a tough master – it won't necessarily forcefulness your play style but it will force you to make hard decisions or punish you lot for rushing. If you desire to strike out on your ain and empire build in a tax-free or lawless region, y'all may need to grind a scrap and/or recruit a ton earlier you tin can fairly defend the settlement. If you desire to live in a safe region, like the Holy Lands, you take to follow the rules (meaning you lot tin't recruit not-greenlanders or females without some risk of bringing unholy hell downwardly upon your new settlement). And generally speaking, if yous are in a more than "controlled" portion of the map, your settlement will accept to pay taxes. A lot of them. Unless yous want to fight the very people y'all hope to trade with or receive protection from.

Important Initial Note:
I've tried difficult to refrain from putting in any spoilers, but the roadmap – past necessity – discusses the path I chose to take to become there. As such, it contains the names of a few of the towns and their relative location, an paradigm of the map around Squin (the town I focused my start on), as well every bit some of the factions I had to deal with.

Changelog(afterward 12/11/eighteen)
– 12/11/18 – Added Farming, Base Location and Layout, and Equipping your Squad Sections. Added other minor updates to various parts of it and tried to make it cleaner.
-12/12/18 – Greatly expanded department on Arming and Equipping team; added weapon breakdowns and thoughts.
-12/xiii/eighteen – Pictures and a few updates added for Farming
-12/fourteen/18 – Added notes on automobile-hauling and efficiency
-12/16/18 – Added a few notes throughout, including base setup, farming, and stackable backpacks in auto-booty section.
-12/17/eighteen – Added sections on Early Money Making Strategies and Faction Economy Strategies. Inverse up section locations and added info throughout.
-12/18/18 – Added sections on Race Breakdowns and Role Choice and Job Rankings. Boosted edits fabricated throughout. Advanced Killzone motion picture posted.
-12/twenty/18 – Added War Political party and Advanced Research and Looting sections, made additions and edits throughout including moving sections around.
-one/6/19 – Began incorporating questions and suggestions from comments and messages, and added edits and a few tips throughout.

Character Cosmos and Get-go Pick

Character Cosmos and First Choice
I started as a lonely wanderer, which is what this guide volition focus on as it is the standard start.

Your primary grapheme will likely be your most consummate. I chose a Male Greenlander, and if this is your first playthrough that makes a lot of sense. You won't exist hated by Holy Nation, which frees upwards much of the middle-north portion of the map. Still, the cooking, farming, and science bonusses, while groovy overall, are not real important on your starting character which volition likely be one of your primary warriors/jack of all trades throughout.

If you desire to play it a little less safety and get more combat bonusses, yous could effort:

a Scorchlander due to how rare they are to recruit, they accept few penalties making them a sort of jack of all trade plus gainsay bonuses and eat less than greenlanders or Shek. An added bonus is that while they aren't liked past the Holy Nation, they are tolerated and won't exist attacked on sight, or
a Shek warrior due to gainsay bonuses. They have a horrible hunger rate, which is painful early on, and a ton of job limitations, which can likewise exist painful. But they are good at fighting. Notation that they go targeted by the Holy Nation so that might limit you for early on recruiting and trade in the central northern portion of the map.
Note – While Skeletons are incredible late game fighters, and a team of them may be your desired roving warband, they are, in my opinion, a bad early selectionfor a new role player. They will be attacked on sight by the Holy Nation, and are very expensive to repair and maintain, even if they take no hunger. That said, if you do go that route, you can rent skeleton repair beds in Hive territory (as well as in other tech areas).

For more on this, look at Sections 8 and 9, which break down the various races in Kenshi, their combat roles and non-combat roles.

Quick Primer on Stats
For the most part you'll observe this information readily bachelor in other guides merely I'll provide a quick overlay beneath. Attributes and skill levels cap at level 100, and racial bonuses merely go towards feel earned.

Attributes – your fundamental, underlying stats that bulldoze everything, relate to combat and other skills.

Strength– Ability to use heavier weapons, strike harder (particularly edgeless dmg), carry more. Used to touch total blood level but may no longer do this (discussed beneath). This will be a skill you level on pretty much all your characters. This will go upwards naturally enough, specially if you're swinging heavy weapons – but classic ways of leveling this include filling sacks upwards with iron ore and then doing your tasks (or running effectually), carrying captives while you work, swinging heavy weapons, etc.
Toughness – Ability to take a hitting, furnishings harm resistance, and KO level. You want this on everybody, merely its the nigh difficult to level – Pretty much the only way to level this is to continually take a beating. I merely allowed this to level up naturally, but the classic leveling for this involves prisoner grooming (discussed beneath).
Dexterity– Effects attack speed, cut damage, dodge ability. It is raised "per hitting," so faster weapons will train information technology upwardly faster. Very important for all chars, peculiarly martial artists.
Perception– Pretty much the just "form" dependent skill, perception governs a character's ability to see things in the wilderness, likewise as ranged weapon accuracy. Yous pretty much volition only be building this on your ranged fighters by practicing ranged combat.

Skills – Job specific skill levels, which fall into six categories:

Weapon Skills – Self-explanatory, your ability to use particular weapon types (discussed in particular beneath) will level upwards as yous use them. Also includes turret skills and friendly fire reduction (precision shooting).
Combat Skills – Govern how constructive your characters are in combat more generally – including success with attacks, blocks, dodges, and martial arts. Yous will level these up through combat.
Thievery Skills – Govern all things related to being a thief/ninja, including stealth, lock picking, thievery, assassination.
Athletic Skills – Athletics, and to a lesser extent swimming, are pretty important from the first.
Science Skills – Skills that govern intellectual activities include medic, engineer, robotics, and science. You will be developing medics and science from the getgo – your engineer and robotics characters come up along later.
Trade Skills – Skills that govern crafting, farming, and cooking. Y'all volition have a lot of characters uniquely focused on these.

Basic Roadmap – Part ane: Beginning Steps

Beginning Steps – Initial Training and Purchases
RUN. Always. This is the simply rule for first your life in Kenshi. While getting beat up isn't the end of the world (or even a bad matter), in that location is plenty of time for that later.

Run speed is based on a character'southward athletics skill.
Initially, you lot want to exist running around to get your athletics up to 20 or so – that fashion you have a higher take a chance of escaping penalization. Y'all will do this naturally by running back to the copper or fe vein you desire to mine, but you lot tin also try finding the cities north and s of Hub, just remember to go along a close eye on the horizon for bandits and your inventory relatively weight free (one food, 1 medkit).
Recruit the freebie Hobbs (free recruit) in Hub, and start mining copper or iron nearby. Note – At that place is some randomness built into the spawn location of the gratis recruits, and so, for instance, Hobbs may not automatically be spawned in Hub at the start. Exploring the Biome a bit is dangerous, just it provides an added incentive to find Squin (South of Hub), and/or Stack (north of Hub) to see if they have whatever free recruits.
Ever keep food and a medkit on each of your guys.
Relieve upwardly coin from copper mining s of Hub to buy the large backpack (3k) and access to the Thieves Guild in Hub (10k).
The Thieves Guild volition allow you to train your character in basic melee (up to five or 10), lockpicking, and sneak attacks (which you should train no higher than 17 or 18 correct now, and are really merely of import for escaping imprisonment and stealth attacking bandits to get prisoners for training which is useful afterwards).

While I relied on safely copper mining in this playthrough, Department one, beneath, provides more depth on how to mine for coin, and discusses additional early money-making strategies.

One instance of this is a strategy I read about but didn't attempt which requires that you find the Waystation south of Squin and hire bodyguards to attack the Grit Bandit rex, heal him and turn him in for his bounty to requite a sizeable starting income. I would recommend non doing this until you've looted the corpses creating by the guards at Hub or Squin.

Other things to continue in mind early on

City Exclusion Zones – Unless yous're inside a purchased abode, you can't build in cities or in the areas immediately outside of them. This will limit your ability to use a starting metropolis as your ain personal settlement bc you can't build many of the early on buildings indoors (similar refineries for edifice textile).
Configure your settings to reduce any potential lag while trying to maintain the highest view altitude you tin. Specially early, when yous need to be on the lookout man for raiders and you lot don't have the game running your gang of 30+ workers across large areas. There are a lot of different guides for reducing potential lag in Kenshi, simply turning down the display settings and selecting the option to only run the game where my screen was worked fine.

Basic Roadmap – Office 2: Before Yous Settle

Okay, yous've trained your starting character up a bit, recruited the freebie in Hub (if he was bachelor), and are now set to build an empire, or at least some metallic objects in the desert then you can say yous've left your marker on the globe.

Squin Base of operations Start – In this sample playthrough, our kickoff step is to observe Squin (shown in the map below). Information technology's in a skillful central location south of the Hub with a ton of stale meat from its ii confined and an adjacent copper source.

If there's a free recruit in a bar in Squin, yous'll want to scoop them up immediately. You lot'd like to start with at least 3 people.
Set i of your recruits to mining that copper source simply outside the south entrance of Squin full time.
Always mine while in stealth, which doesn't appear to deadening downwardly your mining and significantly reduces your chance of being attacked (plus it builds upward your stealth skill when raiders wander by).
Purchase and repair a longhouse in town and build a research bench. Try and choice the one closest to the copper source your guy is set on mining, and get one char to showtime researching mining and storage tech. Note: Basically, you want toblitz copper storage, which is the "Storage Boxes: Ore" Research.
During this time focus on buying upwards all the dried meat from the Bars; it is so much more affordable than other sources of nutrient.
Keep in mind that – unlike about stores – the Bars are e'er open up, and restock daily.
If Squin runs out of dried meat, do a run north to Hub (1 bar) and/or to Stack (3 Bars).

Automate Route – One time you lot've researched copper storage, automate the starting time route past setting up copper storage in the townhouse you purchased (by this I merely mean, have ane worker assigned to mining copper and then hauling it to the storage, allowing the process to echo on its ain and non freeze after hitting the 5 copper limit).

Early on Recruiting – With your principal graphic symbol focus on recruiting i Pack Bull (and eventually a second), freebie recruits and anyone that is 3k or less.

The basic thought is to maximize the amount of mining/resource production for your two early on outposts while not being forced to spend a ton of your early money on nutrient.
3k recruits should always exist picked up (and plain freebies) considering in most playthroughs they are relatively rare in the early going for this expanse – most recruits are 6k – and the amount yous salvage on these guys makes an impact. I don't think my squad went higher than ten or and then in this menstruum so if you're finding cheap recruits plentiful, you don't need to go crazy (you can, information technology will make the subsequently steps easier, but will cost you a lot more in food so make sure they have work).

Initial Outposts – Fix up two small-scale mining "outposts" (beneath) which you shouldnever defend.

When you see a raid, go all but your fastest character (highest athletics skill) back to the rubber of Squin asap.
Then, use your fastest character to pull the raids dorsum to guards at Squin.
Don't worry most your stored resources – I never had whatsoever issues with the storage units being raided when I abandoned the bases, and you can now apply the loot to upgrade your player equipment. Notation – Food storage is the exception, so keep most of your foot in town and only run information technology back down as needed or as much as won't be missed.

The kickoff and primary outpost should be located south of squin where you have a 2 man copper vein and a lot of iron/stone. Ready some refineries and start collecting rock, iron and copper. Put 1 pack mule here to ferry resources back to storage/town for auction and so bring food back to your workers. Note – If you lot build a food storage barrel, they'll consume from it without you have to individually provide them with dried meat only call back that the food butt can be looted by bandits. You tin also use the miner back at Squin for your sales person in town.
The second outpost should exist setup n of squin where in that location were several ii man copper veins. Y'all already have iron and stone being mined, and then just focus on copper mining here. Use the second packbull to repeat the process of bringing ore back to boondocks for sale, and bringing food back to your miners from town.

Prepping for Expansion:

First, you'll probably demand more infinite. Buy a 2nd business firm and I recommend edifice an additional research bench (ideally tier Three). Yous desire to make certain you have researched defensive walls to at least Tier 2 and so that when you really construct your base yous tin can mount them immediately.
Likewise get-go building general storage chests – they fit the most compactly in your house and have the largest amount of space.
Yous tin can also build some prison cells if you lot desire to train fighters on the rooftop. Remember that prisoners are only more mouths to feed, and Sheks are the worst bc they have the highest hunger rate.
This should just be done with characters who don't have an explicit part in making you money.
If you decide to go that route, focus on naked training to build toughness. In my case, I only worked on building my main character as my other guys were focused on building labor/research skills.
Continue to stockpile equally much edifice materials and atomic number 26 plates every bit you can. Y'all're going to need a ton when you make the motility south and so gather as many as y'all can.
When you've built up a adequately large stockpile of materials in boondocks, showtime stockpiling a lot of cactus and wheat (I call up I had at least xxx+ cactus and 15 or then wheat) with 2 of all other farm resources for research purposes for the planned expansion.
Research as much your level Iii bench allows for purposes of town building – ignore things similar training dummies, and weapons crafting for at present.

Building your faction – Once you've automated mining, selling excess scavenged appurtenances, and whatsoever bounties that you pulled to the Squin guards y'all should accept 30k to 50k resources saved upwardly even while continuing to purchase up all the dried meat you come up beyond. At present is the time to explore a bit/offset recruiting in earnest.

Nearby recruits – Using your main character, find the Waystation (southward of Squin) and Stack, which should both have some recruits for you lot to find for 3k. You can also recruit the 9k holy warrior in Stack also. Gather them upwards and set them to tasks in your 2 outposts earlier beginning the journey north.
World's End – You tin can use your own discretion on this but in this sample playthrough, I wanted to find Scorchlanders for crafting, Sheks for fighting, and Greenlanders for farming. I had run into plenty of the latter 2, but no scorchlander recruits so I headed north towards World Stop with my main character. I recruited every 3k person I could observe, and a few 6ks (I think ane was a skeleton).
Later, I connected north to the Fishing Town higher up Earth's cease. I recruited a few more scorchlanders I plant there and another one or 2 Greenlanders.
No matter where you lot recruit from, ship them running as fast as they can towards Squin. They will require monitoring to make sure they don't go aimless on the long trek south.
At this betoken, you want 17-20 recruits equipped with all the Dust Bandit gear you've looted, most 3-5 or then with backpacks, and ii pack mules. I recommend making two of these 2 doctors/researchers which you should keep on passive (see more on this in the equipping section). If yous tin equip your guys with katanas/nodachis and polearms that's a plus since they don't take much skill to use and are good against the low armor opponents yous'll primarily run into.

You are now ready to create your settlement.

Bones Roadmap – Part 3: Building The Settlement

Starting Your Settlement – There are so many workable locations in the game, each with different pros and cons. See the Section 2, below, on settlement location for more but in this sample playthrough, we volition be going to "Rainbow Valley" (discovered by Stormbrooke on steam).

Background on this location:

Its located between 3 unlike Biomes, with groovy arid farming, ample admission to 6 copper mines, several iron mines, and 100% stone.
Commencement Biome –The Edge Zone: Shek Territory. Primarily Arid with medium winds. This is where y'all've been operating, and it is adequately safe. Nigh animals you encounter won't attack you unless provoked, and you should be familiar with the dust bandits that roam the wilds. It contains ii major cities: Squin and Hub, and another very useful location is the Tech Hunter Waystation in the central south portion of the biome. In that location are also a number of quest locations which you will observe once your squad is able to go out its safe confines
Second Biome –Vain: A dangerous biome on the western coast, information technology has depression winds and is dominated by wildlife (Beak Things and Gorillos beingness the about prominent). It is likewise home to many Hive settlements and is split up evenly between Dark-green and Arid environments, although for our base location it is green. Information technology also contains some swamp environments. There are many secret locations that you can explore and loot here, but it will have fourth dimension before you're set up and a key early move is to gate/wall off this department of the map to prevent wild animals from admittedly decimating your team.
Tertiary Biome –Stenn Desert: Shek Territory. A completely arid environment with very high winds (best for air current generators). Contains the city of Admag, where the Shek leadership resides. Your biggest threat from here will be Shek war parties if you lot refuse to pay them taxes.

At present, you're ready:

Apply your pack mules to haul all of your stored edifice materials, iron plates, food, etc. to this location. You can too use a few wooden/trader backpacks (which allow stacking) to help with this.
Outset, yous need to create storage bins for all basic base of operations-edifice items (iron plates, building materials) and transfer all your stored materials to them which will allow your engineers to automate.
Side by side, focus on getting upwardly some initial refineries, mines, and storage containers.
Afterward, build defensive walls around the inner sanctum of your base. You don't need to create a wall funnel yet, merely a bones inner sanctum that you will later on aggrandize with other walled in segments to protect your resources from animals, create farming zones, battlements, etc.
Below yous tin can run across where I chose to build my inner sanction (ignore the balance for now):

An additional and possibly simultaneous priority here is to dismantle your 2 earlier outposts and get to the nearby Waystation to hire as many Mercs as possible for the boondocks (2) – if you don't dismantle them, the mercs volition baby-sit your old outposts unless you rent them as bodyguards (but then you're limited to two days and if y'all're using your main character to run all over the map it'southward better to keep them in town).
Once this is done, build a Storage House, then focus on edifice upward food production with the Cactus and Wheat you lot had stored up in Squin. Food product and buildup are explained in depth in Sect. 5 (Farming), below.
The next things on your agenda should be a Nutrient Production Building (Kitchen) and a Inquiry and Crafting Station.

Expanding

From hither, focus on trying to recruit some specialized characters (in particular: two Greenlander cooks, and two scorchlanders for armor and weapon smithing). If you lot followed my guide from before, you may already accept done then, and that's fine too.
Yous can rely on mercs forever, simply if yous'd prefer not to, now is the time to start building up and training a "fighting grouping." There are several means y'all can practice this – Y'all can apply a few training prisoners, training dummies, etc. Or you can course a hunting party with a few guys and try to hunt lesser creatures. I volition be expanding on a hunting section subsequently I experiment with information technology more. The raids and random attacks will also slowly build up your factions fighting capabilities while this is happening.
The Shek will come to collect taxes. I chose not to pay them and had to fight their state of war parties continuously throughout my sample playthrough. It was completely doable, particularly with mercs, simply you may consider doing otherwise. From these interactions, they eventually went to war with me.
Expanding your walled sections is the side by side priority, peculiarly in the north by the Vain Biome to protect your miners from the Neb creatures that roam there. You probably will not have researched large defensive walls withal, but you can e'er tear them down and put up new ones later on. Yous want ii principal entrances to your base that have funneled impale-zones (explained in Sec. 3, Killzones, below).
Build a few power plants just outside your inner sanctum. I used large wind generators, only there are benefits to using small wind generators since they don't require every bit much current of air to operate. The ideal location is in the Stenn Desert, just the Border Zone works well too, just brand certain not to put them in Vain.
Use your pack mules to ferry copper to nearby cities, the Hive Boondocks and Squin primarily – you'll be doing this even after you've developed your farming capacity to the bespeak where you lot tin can craft lucrative trade resources and shops (meet the relevant sections below for tips on how to practice this).
At this signal, you will need to spend a expert deal of time working on three things: ane) Continuing to recruit people to exercise basic jobs similar farming and transport; 2) Training turret gunners and manning turrets in the impale zones; 3) Continuing to build up subcontract chapters to feed your growing faction; 4) Continually crafting and equipping better armor and weapons for your faction.
When yous feel reasonably comfortable with treatment raids on your base, feel complimentary to upgrade the walls and impale zones around your base. For reference, in my sample playthrough the outline of my base of operations looked more like this after upgrading the walls and defenses (compare to the screenshot above, which captured the outline of my base with its original walls and kill zones):

9. At this indicate, you have all that you need to go along building an empire. Consult the second office of this guide for more in-depth information and bask your experience in Kenshi.

2d part of the guide

In-Depth Kenshi Guide on Base Building

Both this part and the second role were written by Ironslasher who has graciously permitted me to feature his guide on this web log. Thanks again.

Too check out this Kenshi Review if you desire to convince your friends to try the game.