Breaking Kenshi: How To Remove the Shinobi Thief Buy Multiplier and Get Their Stock for Free!

[@balaurizburatori8607]

Shinobi "thieves" are the most generous faction in the game and you can't change my mind. I surely can't be the only one that's hauling wandering assassins on every single squad member?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Thank you to the 4* people who subscribed after watching this video! Two things to add. 1) Shinobi Thief Traders have a restock time of 12 hours. That means 12 hours after they restocked last they will refresh their inventory. So if you really want to you can go between the UC towns just "buying" them out of everything you want. 2) The only other NPCs I know of with a buy multiplier which is actually used are the ones in slave trader territories. There are the stolen slave clothing shops found in a few slave camps and slave farm traders found in some slave farms, like the one north of Gut. The clothing shops have restock time of 24 hours, but the farm shops have a 12 hour restock time just like the Shinobi Thieves. If you're looking for some very cheap Bread/Wheatstraw/Cotton/Cactus look there. (If you can get past the whole slavery thing) *As I was writing this a 4th person subscribed so had to change the 3!

[@dagoonite]

Make that five now. I've been meaning to subscribe for a while, dunno why I didn't.

[@mageguest]

@@dagoonite Same, dint even realize i wasn't suscribed

[@notfounder_notes]

great tip! it is really interesting which mechanics can be distorted this way will hashish change price or else unrelated fresh(?) tip: hiring bodyguards for 2k can get you starting gear early on in the game. the trick seems to be to run far away from the place of hiring (I tried with the Waystation), then the "pick up" option appears which allows to pick up and loot them without consequences. or we can just sell the gear for more money than hiring 🤷‍♂

[@FrankieWuzHere]

The pickup option is allowed once you get a short distance away from their town. It works for all units :) Even hostiles. If you lure a unit from a town then they happen to get beaten up you can pick them up freely.

[@ganimedes2014]

Neat, guess the shinobi thief must file for bankruptcy now. Cause I am about to get back all the money they stole from me. At least this should definitely prove I am a thief, so I am getting my inscription fee back as well please.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

No Honor Among Thieves.

[@SCARaw]

i love your discoveries Frankie even if some of them are 10x more efforts for 2x better deal

[@NotHappening-b8t]

i just wish stores had more money. 25k cap is annoying. especially since player shop doesnt really work. imo game be about as close to perfect as u can get if they fix the economy. and yes i know there mods out there that resolve it. but they dont work with many the world overhauls. still game is amazing. whats amazing to me is its done on such an old engine. no other game close to it. im excited for kenshi 2. hope they somehow keep the ligntning in bottle.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Not too much effort :p

[@SantinoJame]

I need help with training MA. I usually kidnap cat lon and punch him but it only work with low strength characters. But this time i want turn a dude use heavy weapon to Martial artist, because he use heavy weapon his strength is high around 85 so cat lon get knock pretty fast. And if i use method like your vid, it not work well because high strenght lower encumbrance, using heavy armor make my character cant dodge those attack or land a punch, he often get KO after 2-3 punch. Btw he not a skeleton so after get KO, my man need to rest make traing time even longer. Anything i can do?

[@elanlozano2718]

Nice, thanks for the tip. Your videos really help me out

[@TheVampireAzriel]

Holy Shinobi! Definitely going to try this.

[@EduardLex]

Hey, Frankie! Look, I've been curious about one thing and maybe you could make a video on the topic? You know how Skeletons are the best combat race there is, right (are they, actually?)? Well, I've been thinking... Wouldn't it be great to have more of these best warriors? So far we have Sadneil, Burn, Bee- I mean Agnu, Holy Nation Skeleton and whatever the bar squads decide to generate, right? Even if you start as the 5 person squad and make them all Skeletons, you're only getting a total of 9 guaranteed pawns total. That's a lot for a game, yes, but what if there is a way to make infinite amount of Skeleton recruits? And I think I found one. Problem is, I only know it from FCS, I can't really test it in my game because I'm either doing something wrong or it just requires more patience than I have. So, apparently Floodlands only spawn spiders, Broken Skeletons and Tech Hunter ones. Apparently, if the TH Skeleton spawns with Honorable personality and it gets healed by the player it will join your squad. I don't think these Skeletons spawn only once, nor does the dialog appear once. Could it be the infinite source of hunger-free miners or is the chance of getting one this way unrealistically small? I figured the spiders don't cause enough harm for the healing to count, so what I did was run around the Tech Hunter one until he faced the Broken one. I spent about an hour and had no luck, to the point I considered stealing The King and dropping that guy in front of him to make sure he gets recruited... But I don't have time to test this. Could you do that?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

I haven't heard of that before... But I can look into it sure man.

[@EduardLex]

@@FrankieWuzHere So any news on that one? I need to make some clarifications I guess. The Skeleton I'm talking about is not from Tech Hunters, although I clearly remember them being from Tech Hunter faction. Maybe it's cause they don't look any different from the random TH you can find around the world, like how I saw two in Skinner's Roam and Cannibal Plains. Anyway, here's the theory. I still need to test it all but I'm too busy with my current "All factions hate you" playthrough. Apparently, Hivers don't mind trading with you even if they hate you. Only soldiers outside will attack you. Anyway... The theory is, in Floodlands there is a "Skeleton Seeker" spawn. These guys have the "drifter" dialogue package. In that package, they have recruit dialogue for when healed and freed from prison. I still don't know if slavery = imprisonment, but I have a theoretical plan for both, but my knowledge is still lacking (hence why I'm here, on your channel). If slavery truly equals imprisonment, then you should be able to just take out the guy, bring him to Rebirth and get him enslaved. He has 70s in stats though, so obviously you need a skilled character for it. Then gotta free him and see what happens. Problem is, I don't know if Assassination counts for the "I hate that guy" flag, so if it is, then maybe it's best to lure that guy into Rebirth (for an "All factions hate you" run it's quite easy). If slavery is not the same, however, then you'd have to bring the Skeleton to either Bad Teeth or Blister Hill. The guards will assign the bounty when attacking the robot, so he will definitely go to prison. That should, in theory, give you infinite Skeleton recruits. Ah, I only wish there was a way to recruits P4 Units this way. Also, about your recent video. I do not understand how you put a camp bed on top of a camp bed. I tried everything: putting two blueprints on top of each other, confirming a blueprint and getting to the Build Mode again, finishing construction and placing a blueprint, but they all say the "Too close to another building" message. So I can't figure it out. P.s. you should also make a guide on how to make most of the world friendly to you by buying members from slavery. People say things like Gutters, Iron Spiders (Old Machines), and potentially Fishmen could all be befriended if you have an extra trillion cats in your pocket. You know, just for the people who don't know

[@alentjanestetico3014]

Selling hash at an actual 1200% markup instead of an effective 600%? There's something to try right there

[@FrankieWuzHere]

You can sell hash for 1200% normally if you kill Longen and Tengu. Traders Edge is taken over by Anti-Slavers and their two shops will pay that amount :) But this is a much easier way to get that trade hah.

[@alentjanestetico3014]

Not only easier, an alternative path for those who don't want to change world states at that point in time

[@coolkaibear1239]

You bought both backpacks half off for 4000 then sold them for what said 4000 full price (because the sell value is half the buy value) but you somehow got 8000? Do you know what happened or if I’m not seeing something?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

I sold them back at the buyback value as I never closed the shop inventory.

[@coolkaibear1239]

@@FrankieWuzHere I see now thank you

[@MacDac]

I can't make it work

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Are you doing what I did in the video?

[@MacDac]

@FrankieWuzHere Buying, opening campfire, selling, closing campfire and repeat. At the point of selling with the campfire opened the -50% still shows up and sells for the same prices as buyed. I am coincidentally in Heng also. Any detail i might be missing?

[@FrankieWuzHere]

What version of Kenshi are you playing? Maybe that might have an impact?

[@MacDac]

@@FrankieWuzHere As far as I know, I haven’t touched anything related to the versions. I should be on the latest one, but I’ll check. I have some kind of economy mods, I think it gives merchants more money, so I guess that might be the issue.

[@FrankieWuzHere]

Shouldn't change anything. This exploit works on (I tested) 1.0.55 and the most current experimental branch. You aren't trying to sell an actual stolen item are you? This doesn't remove that buy mult. (Crossbow locker will help with that)