Kenshi - The Border Zone Base Location & Guide

[@AlmarWinfield]

Apologies for the annoyingly loud music, I didn't realize how loud it was during the first few dozen Kenshi videos I made

[@Joao-ev3uj]

WhoooooooOOOOOOoooooOAaaaaaaoooooooohhhh

[@adiabeticjedi3278]

Dude I didnt notice until after I read this comment. lol

[@BarrickMacready]

It's that midnight ear rape, my subwoofer loves the attention lol

[@corvusaflame713]

the most Kenshi moment ever while play "music creeps in and blasts before going away again.

[@BarrickMacready]

Midnight ear rape lol

[@Takayama-sama]

I wasn't sure I would like this spot at first because I'm playing as a solo character at the moment, but it's actually been quite profitable so far! I set up shop and a few days later some dust bandits showed up, but due to my character's crazy high stealth I was able to knock all of them out and steal their gear! There was also a bandit camp right next door so every night I sneak over there, kidnap a bandit, strip his gear and then beat him up inside my house to level up combat. I've basically become a Kenshi serial killer who traps people in my murder house. Good wholesome times!

[@BoxBoy_99]

I remember finding this spot on my very first kenshi playthrough... I made a base across the other side of the river for easier shek kingdom trading access (i made my fortune in squinn) with the intent of eventually building a bigger base here... I never got there. I did become friendly with tech hunters, beat up the Dust King, kidnap the Southern Hive Queen, play gang fights in the swamps, make layered turrets defense, craft specialist grade armor, and amass a crew of about 25 adventurers, 10-15 base homebodies, three cows, and a bonedog tho. My elite crew grew from 3 to 5 to 9. 9 is enough to take on some End game bosses :) gosh I miss this game

[@Valans03]

You can adjust the music volume in the settings and also when you are editing

[@KonaFanatiker]

If you are low on ressources for something you train (Animal skin at tanning bench for Armor smithing / Iron plates at weapon smith for Weapon smithing / ressources for cooking / etc.) then you can abuse low skill levels due to penalties to get more xp. The ammount of XP gained is always the same, no matter what you craft. It only depends on time spent doing that action. So if you do not care about quality outcome (tanning leather has no quality involved / T1 weapon smithing bench cannot produce highest quality weapons anyways / cooking has no quality ), then working in darkness is good. It increases the time drastically you spend working on something. Even better but difficult to manage is working with low energy on a bench that needs power. That can easily drop work efficiency to under 10%, slowing down the workprocess. So this can help you save ressources for training if you do not have enough (yet), time spent to achieve a certain skill level is the same. Also, you can level engineering for almost free with a trick as well. But it takes at least 2 characters. Start constructing something that takes 10+ ressources ideally and get it about halfway done. Then select additional characters and send them to deconstruct / dismantel the thing you are building. The people working will keep trying to build it, increasing progress. The people dismantling will try to decosntruct it, decreasing progress. Both levels engineering skill and if you balance it properly, you keep your engineers working near endlessly to cosntruct / deconstruct a tech bench or a bed. Maybe let them work in a city with a big house. If you want to make money off trading goods you produce, make sure you check the prices of the places where you sell them. If you are unlucky, the extra time spent converting copper to electronics might not be worth it for the money, compared to just mine more copper if possible. Foodcubes are generally the easiest and msot profitable produce to sell if you take into account production of wheat and greenfruits. Personally I do like buying / stealing Sake and then reselling it in UC cities for fun. Easiest money in my opinion is stealing robot limbs in mongrel and selling them there to other merchants. They are not allied to the skeletons, so you have 100% chance to sell them and even at half price a single day can give you 100k - 200k for 5 minutes of work. Just recruit a skelleton or 2 to keep posted in Mongrel for that, then you do not need to worry about food or getting eaten.

[@doanprasmana1444]

1400hours game play,never think about enginering lvl up like that... haha really thanks.

[@namanhlehoang9999]

The engineer trick is genius, man.

[@BoxBoy_99]

YES BLAST THAT MUSIC LOUDER. man this game has some visceral memories attached to it. Base B O O STED

[@Dice_Daddy]

Fun fact with the thievery you’ve been caught stealing pop up if you are paused when stealing from and inventory and that pops up you can stay paused and try again and each failed attempt gives you a ton of thievery experience. Can get level 80 within 3 min just by clicking and when you succeed stealing just replace the item and keep going til the pop up comes back

[@Manpigeon]

You can also pick up and drop stolen items on the ground repeatedly to power level it.

[@denterdall7117]

If you are having a hearing issue with the classical eering kenshi music, turn down the volume and turn on the subtitles, however my friend. Thank u

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Me: This looks like a great spot for a base, then I realize that I have a Hiver, a Skeleton and a Shek in my group.

[@syvain1821]

Note: When looting bodies after a fight you can pick them up and loot them to prevent getting caught taking their stuff.

[@duncan7593]

i just settled this spot and walled off the entire perimeter of the plateau. It was so sparse that i had to make my engineer assigned characters manually build the walls because i guess it was too far away from my first buildings to be considered part of my base.

[@EvilNecroid]

theres an old bug where sometimes enemies can push each other through ur gate. so its a good idea to have 2 gates

[@AlmarWinfield]

tbh I never close the gate to stop enemies, they bust it down way too quick. What I like to do is wait until enemies are inside then close the gate behind them. Works amazing for enemies like Reavers or Skin Bandits who kidnap you. Instead of Kidnapping you when you close them in the base with you they just stand there since their only route out of the base is blocked their script just bugs out

[@EvilNecroid]

@@AlmarWinfield could put more people on crossbow duty or download a mod that doubles the health of gates :p

[@rpscorp9457]

@@AlmarWinfield Need better gates. Theres mods that actually makes better gates, but i just made my own.

[@mbatistas]

Are you using mods? The other videos I saw, people couldn't stack items in inventory, only in specific backpacks like the wooden one.

[@AlmarWinfield]

yes, increased stack size is one of the few mods i use

[@danpats1]

How do your farms have little fences around them?

[@AlmarWinfield]

that is a mod for farm fencing to help keep them organized

[@patrickdixon3512]

What level shouls i set base up in the broadee zone

[@lukmaanpratomo6866]

Based on your TOUGHNESS & COMBAT STATS for the BORDER ZONE region: 1. Have AT LEAST 3-6 characters built specifically for combat. 2. Have those 3-6 characters with both TOUGHNESS & COMBAT STATS in the 30s to 40s should be enough. 3. Remember to occassionally/always hire Mercenaries or Tech Hunters to bolster your defense, or run away with ALL your food items to any nearby cities or waystations until the attacker leaves, should you get overwhelmed. Unmodded/vanilla Border Zone only spawn humanoid enemies with shit gears and early-game stats. The 2 you only need to worry about are animals and Black Dragon Ninjas.

[@monleyslumpd1561]

when i starting build base here, Dust, hungry bandit, black dragon ninja, holy nation bug me same time .

[@bonetown]

how do u get your map to say if you are in border zone or not

[@duncan7593]

its a mod in steam workshop

[@keiraaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Love the video, it’s helpful, but maybe consider lowering the music before recording next time lol. I use to do some videos myself, and Kenshi’s just one of those games where the audio can get super loud. Hearing you try to basically speak louder over it was funny to me because it was like the music was this big wave that was just pulling you in lmao. Keep it up man! I still enjoyed the video :)

[@AlmarWinfield]

I actually wasnt trying to speak over it, I play with my speakers muted when I record and I always turn down ingame sounds to 20-30%. Kenshi just has one annoyingly loud part of a song that I did not notice until I had recorded about a dozen videos.

[@Tiger4ever89]

ur videos are amazing!! but pleaseee! lower the music in-game a little!!

[@AlmarWinfield]

I have since these videos. Kenshi's in game music is so obnoxiously loud in one singular part. It makes it insanely hard to balance around

[@Tiger4ever89]

@@AlmarWinfield yeah i know.. it happens to me also, but u look like a dedicated Kenshi player. i respect that!

[@Regularcayden1]

Does anyone come for triube for building there or no

[@KingR787]

Great video! Thanks

[@KingR787]

Your reviews are so good! Great that you specify what base areas are good for what level of players. Just spent ages getting my team (noob team) to and End game base location which I thought would be good, because another review website said 9/10 great base location blah blah but didn't specify for end game players. Now to get Battai the Dwarf and Ice safely back to Squin where I can begin this base :)

[@gw2macken757]

I turn my volume why down in order to not go crazy with the sounds.

[@AlmarWinfield]

sorry about that, my early Kenshi videos had the obnoxious music going too loud. I typically play with my sound all the way down and didn't realize it was still so blaringly loud for awhile

[@SilverNicron]

Great Guide bro . ty for sharing . are u using any mods . am new to the game and i see u have stacks of iron while i cant stack then like that :D.

[@AlmarWinfield]

yea a stack size mod is one of the like 6 mods i use. You can find it easily on Steam or Nexus, there's like 20 mods that increase stack sizes. lol

[@TheStupidwolf1]

Hello there! New Kenshi player here. I managed to survive 50 days on Hub and surrounding areas but now i need to start a base. Please tell me that the Holy nation preacher with his faithful team of heavily armed paladins dont come visiting you here because as wise man once said: I don't recommend making them upset. Well, im actually itching to making them upset but probably shouldnt. Not yet anyway... 😅

[@TristanCoombe]

Conformed they do come

[@ye5396]

Does it have water in prospect?

[@Regularcayden1]

Yes

[@J2011AH]

What mods are you using?

[@AlmarWinfield]

increased stack size, increased squad size and better crop fences -- that's all

[@Ravenleaf182]

Have you considered your people are inefficient and hauling a single item precisely BECAUSE you filled their inventory with junk? I'd at least give them all wooden backpacks so they can stack items, you probably have them so loaded with weird items in odds ways they can only fit or pick up a single item at a time

[@AlmarWinfield]

I use a mod that allows me to stack items so i dont need wooden backpacks. But no that isn't the problem, the problem is if you assign them multiple tasks throughout the base they try to carry around all the ingredients they need at all times and it creates issues. I've encountered the issue many times and have (more or less) narrowed it down to the root cause

[@janvisagie231]

Please turn the music off/dow when filming.

[@manofaction1807]

You need to be up there in 40's - 50's in your skills to be in that area. anything East of there will one shot yu, if your not careful. Have some Sheik, and Buggies with you, as well. That will give you access to the south lands with no issues.

[@alpereira7450]

For the love of a warm fluffy Krispy Kreme donut, just go in the "Options Menu," to the Audio, and Zero out the Music....

[@AlmarWinfield]

i wish i could go back and fix the obnoxious music in these videos. I typically play with my speakers turned all the way down and before I record I always drop all sounds ingame to 30% then test them. Sadly, there is like 30-45sec of ONE song in Kenshi that is just obnoxiously loud and I didn't know until I recorded 20-30 vids.

[@TheEpicSpire]

You can turn down or mute the background music. Seriously un watchable.

[@AlmarWinfield]

Like the top comment said, the background music was down to about 20% and I thought that would be enough. I wasn't expecting one insanely obnoxious part of one song that occurs in 5 of 20 zones.

[@TheEpicSpire]

@@AlmarWinfield i love the music of kenshi, but i have to play it completed music off. i have the sound track that i play looped with PMusic from Rimworld when i do play, so the sound is more consistent. I'm just an ass when it comes sound and ear noises. to the point that when i recorded and streamed my videos for a while i would have music off and then add music for background in post.

[@AlmarWinfield]

@@TheEpicSpireThe reason it's in the videos is my fault, i dont edit properly and record them kind of like podcasts. Normally when i make videos i turn down the volume to 10 - 20% then i play with it at that volume for a bit to make sure it's ok. I guess I was in a map without that blaring 'WARRRRARARRRRR" when i did my testing. I only noticed after making 20 or so videos that there was a 30second sound clip in one of the songs that was obnoxiously loud. I fixed it for future videos but these ones are still... "infected". It's very disappointing to me but I can't fix it unless I record them all over again which I lack the time to do.

[@TheEpicSpire]

@@AlmarWinfield i understand that. i lack the time to record now days too. i really enjoyed it, but the editing takes so long.

[@amocv]

3:36 but its good for training

[@admiralpiett5894]

You would think this guy would lower the damn music...

[@AlmarWinfield]

You would think people would read the pinned comment. Yes the music was at 20% but it still had one part that I didn't realize was ungodly and annoyingly loud.

[@putin7959]

Couldn't hear shit lol

[@denterdall7117]

BROOOO the music wtf

[@AlmarWinfield]

agreed, the obnoxious song in this game really annoyed me too lol. There is one song that only plays in certain zones and it's this loud even with volume at 10% on my game. I didn't notice it until I made about a dozen videos sadly

[@denterdall7117]

@@AlmarWinfield also, thanks and thats the only issue but nah like

[@rpscorp9457]

Too far from hash runs sir...

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

TURN OFF THE F***ING MUSIC WTF?!?!?!?!??!?!?! CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AlmarWinfield]

agreed, it's quite obnoxious isnt it? My volume was set at 10% and yet there was still one part of the song that was BLARINGLY LOUD lol

[@007Hutchings]

dear god that music is unbearable turn that crap down boy daaaaaamn

[@AlmarWinfield]

sadly not even having volume at 10% was enough to stop that from happening, that's how insanely loud that part of the song is lol

[@adiabeticjedi3278]

Xenophobic*

[@AlugerGaming]

Racist says what?

[@AlmarWinfield]

"teach people that skin color is important when considering a person's historical oppression (Intersectionality)", "teach people that skin color is the #1 thing in determining if a person has suffered oppression or hardship in their life (Critical Theory)" Those are things racist people would say

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

@@AlmarWinfield Amen, brother. Also, nice video, despite the "Kenshi Moment" with the music. I know you know about it, just busting your chops. It's still an awesome video.