Kenshi Tutorial - Job Automation and Redundancy

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Thanks for the helpful tutorial! :)

[@Orange01gaming]

No problem!

[@McWillis]

Ambig you got me to finally play Kenshi instead of just seeing it on my wishlist for 5 years. Been a week and already at 100~ hours. RIP another 1000+ hour game. Factorio, RimWorld, Prison Architect and moreeeee....

[@kalkkar]

Holy turtle or what ever you are, i go to look at a random vid to help me and here ya are, must be good advice here

[@IIISWILIII]

Good stuff! The jobs/automation system is definitely the most esoteric part of an already esoteric game

[@Orange01gaming]

Yeah, but its nothing compared to DF!

[@skavies2351]

Redundancy is making a Bob. lets say I'm starting a base and I want to make iron bars with basic level mine, and refineries. Those will normally let 3 people operate each one. Most people think you should assign 3 characters to mine, 3 different ones on the manual iron refinery and up to 3 more on the iron bars. I think that's a waste of 3 people when Bob can do it. Have 2 out of 3 people on each machine. They are ONLY supposed to operate 1 machine. So 2 on mining iron, 2 on the manual iron refinery to make iron plates and 2 more assigned to make iron bars. Bob is told to do all 3 tasks starting with Iron bars, then do Iron plates finally Bob is told to mine iron. While having 9 people is faster than 7 doing it, the game doesn't always run each station at the same speed and some of your workers will stand around doing nothing because maybe the manual iron refinery can't keep up with the iron ore being mined. Bob will work on the last part of the chain first, and move from there down the list to the first part to keep the work flowing smoothly. Yes, you can have people doing multiple tasks to compensate, but canceling orders has to be done 1 person and one job at a time, so I find it a lot easier to have most people only doing a few jobs and make 1 Bob for each supply chain. Bill is another very useful person to have. Bill is assigned to put stuff in storage. Bill is the only one assigned this task (everyone else will do it automatically when bill won't keep up). Bill is unfortunately very bad at his job because bill is carrying around 1 empty traders backpack on his back so he can do his job and 2 traders backpacks filled with iron ore and a dead body, so bill moves very slow. On the plus side, Bill gains strength very fast and other than assigning Bill to put stuff in every container I have, and handing Bill 2 filled backpacks and a body, I don't have to pay any attention to Bill and his strength will go up a hell of a lot. I make all my people be Bill at some point.

[@user-zn7he5rm5t]

thanks a lot for this information good sir, such simple concepts to solve such complexities yet never thought of it, stay safe!

[@skavies2351]

@@user-zn7he5rm5t Given enough time in Kenshi, I'm pretty sure everyone would think of this, but it's so nice early on when you don't have tons of people, or advanced machines that take less people to operate. Bob is only needed early on in base building, but Bills are always in demand since it's the easiest way to auto train strength. When your base gets big enough, you can lighten Bills load and let him train athletics instead, so he won't be as slow when traveling with your attack group.

[@user-zn7he5rm5t]

​@@skavies2351 I would love it if you let me know if the current version is very different from v1.0 which I play until I can buy the game, got a 100 days+ gameplay I've grown attached to and loosing it forever scares me a bit

[@skavies2351]

@@user-zn7he5rm5t I'm going to go with not really. Was the whole map available in 1.0? (the bottom right corner was added last). Most of the updates removed exploits, or made the game slightly harder. I'm fairly sure you can update your 1.0+ games to current patch without losing stuff, I think the days of updates forcing a restart were all pre 1.0, but if you're that paranoid, make a separate install of Kenshi and copy the saved game folder over to the new updated one.

[@n1vr132]

Wait so in assigning Bob's task. I should let him do the last task first up until the first task as last?

[@SlimShady-tc5mb]

My question is that , is there any range limitation to this? In case I made my base too big for them, and I place let's say iron mine and raw storage too far from each other

[@Orange01gaming]

Kind of. The game tries to put them all in one base. If you wall it off it should be one location, but sometimes it gets confused. Makes for bad pathfinding as well. Some people have built whole cities and it seems to work well.

[@Gearz86]

Why can't I get a simple miner with 2 jobs to mine ore until it's full and then empty it out? Regardless if I put the haul job above or below the mining job he just goes aimless when the machine gets full

[@Orange01gaming]

I believe if you have someone set to fill a copper storage automatically it should take care of this. Haul is specific to the storage container, so I just want to make sure you haven't set up a haul job for a different container or item type. Its not like rimworld or df where there is a generic haul job. Other than that I am not sure why you are having that issue.

[@oliveoil7491]

I’ve recently started and was making money mining copper I tired automating it by setting one person to auto mining and another to auto hauling but when the person reaches the storage they stop moving and don’t go back to haul more iron how do I fix this?

[@Orange01gaming]

Is there iron ready for them to haul? How far away is the iron from the storage? Otherwise I'm not sure why it isn't working.

[@oliveoil7491]

Orange 01 This is in stack with the safe copper node and the storage is in a small shack near by and there is copper available for them to harvest yet they don’t move after depositing the first copper also this might not be related but is it a problem that when I assign them a job they don’t do it till I click on the node for them to do it thanks for the reply I honestly didn’t expect a response

[@Orange01gaming]

@@oliveoil7491 Strange, I have done something nearly identical in Mongrel and it works perfectly.

[@oliveoil7491]

Orange 01 When they get assigned a job do they automatically start doing them?

[@Orange01gaming]

@@oliveoil7491 Yes. They will do jobs in the order of top to bottom.

[@Zer0Gunner]

Thanks I didn't know that the quality meant the speed at which you mine it. I thought maybe it was tied to how much you could sell it for but i see when i try to sell it, it's basically a set price no matter the quality. Thanks for the tips!

[@Orange01gaming]

Yeah for ore quality just makes it faster. But item quality: shoddy, standard, high, specialist and masterwork have a HUGE effect on selling price.

[@albertorai3480]

Wow great stuff i need a slower more basic idea behind building a self sustaining base

[@Orange01gaming]

Thanks! I have a video on starting a settlement in the desert, but it doesn't get to the point of being self sustaining, it just gets some food production started, some walls and a building to heal up inside of.

[@LeagueOfLegendDelita]

How do you assign "engineer" or general roles like this (Farming, Police etc..) for general tasks instead of one specific task. like I.A Routine.

[@Orange01gaming]

Hold down shift when selecting a object you are building. This assigns engineering. Same for selecting a farm to set them to farm that object. If there is a drop down menu when your right click on something you can assign those jobs to by holding down shift(IE throw out intruders when picking up enemies)

[@baandroidarg2006]

any mod to click and all characters get at least one job depending on their stats? i have 120 chars and im lazy.

[@Orange01gaming]

Not that I know. Just give them each 10 or so jobs and see who is standing around.

[@yuripantyhose4973]

FFS Man! SHow the essentials first without going off on random other things! Anyways thanks for upload.

[@danielmurphy9204]

Started my first base and have my hive people farming and mining automatically. I've been having issues with hauling and making bread. Could you make a walkthrough video of making bread for example,? Step by step?

[@Orange01gaming]

You basically need the wheat farm, a grain silo, and a bread oven(all of which is unlocked by bakery tech). I would also recommend having a wheatstraw storage near your grain silo. If you assign someone to each of these jobs it should go automatically. Let me know if its still is unclear and I could make a tutorial.

[@thien-vietnguyen3571]

Also, you need a Bread Basket to store the final product of "Bread" Because Bread does not go in the Food Store barrel

[@thien-vietnguyen3571]

If the Wheatstraw storage is full, then the worker wont do any tasks after that, they get stuck

[@NurComments]

why do you have gas masks on all of them, does it have good general stats?

[@Orange01gaming]

You can't breathe the air in the black desert without one

[@NurComments]

@@Orange01gaming ow okay, i'm still avoiding those regions for now. black desert percs = the iron?

[@Orange01gaming]

@@NurComments Yeah its 200 qaulity and I've got a ton of nodes. Air also kills raids for you.

[@sallybennetts3447]

Whats the mod you have for the gui?

[@Orange01gaming]

Dark ui

[@GregamazingNinja]

Great video! But imma be real with you fam, your slanted buildings are giving me serious anxiety

[@Orange01gaming]

Thanks! How do you get them flat again?

[@teddypicker8799]

@@Orange01gaming "[" and "]" keys i think

[@reallybadgamer]

Nice tutorial.

[@Orange01gaming]

Thanks! Did you see I have a whole series of tutorials and two let's play series?

[@reallybadgamer]

I think I started, but since I am new to the game (or was) I didn't want to give away the ending. :) Great work though.

[@Orange01gaming]

@@reallybadgamer Yeah the tutorials are mostly spoiler free, unless you consider cybernetics spoilers.

[@jackalmuldipuluscabal5288]

Ive subscribed. Your tutorials are amazing! Thank you

[@Orange01gaming]

Glad you found them useful!

[@Don-ds3dy]

Incase someone can't find the answer they're looking for...followers will only automatically take certain items out of specific containers....ie cactuses out of cactus storage boxes.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Thank you for that. Haven't build a base yet, trying to learn before i start that..... Currently. Setup a few stations in a town. Research etc. Tried making a leather armor, which disappeared.? Probably a bug. Its a cool game but man its buggy

[@Orange01gaming]

You also need to set them to stock some containers.

[@Orange01gaming]

It may have been stored in armor storage chests or cabinets. Bases on towns is the smart move early on. Get an ally and set up base nearby. Then you can rebel or move once powerful enough.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

@@Orange01gaming txs. Another thing was a guy operating a medic station, dumping his entire inventory in that box, seems to be a bedroll bug. I love the game, but the software bugs are literally another enemy 🤣

[@FastDuDeJiunn]

100 hours n game so far. i had no clue that rescue button was there.......... ofc no clue what it did either. now i gotta use it....

[@Orange01gaming]

Nice. There is always something to learn in Kenshi.

[@andrewjamesgoff007]

Thanks great help bro!

[@Orange01gaming]

Glad to help!

[@Orange01gaming]

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[@stelerium4272]

Ty

[@Orange01gaming]

Glad to help!

[@kyl3497]

bro are you VIetnamese

[@Orange01gaming]

nope but know some people who are.

[@shqiperia60]

I canta see shit

[@Orange01gaming]

What are you trying to see?

[@macromachina7339]

Not helping your rambling. Like the others. Not realy giveing info. Like what happened when 1 npc is like fk your jobs an those task an just stands there instead of haling sayed resource to a storage container.

[@Orange01gaming]

I give tons of tips, if it's not susinct enough then google it. It sounds like your pathing is messed up or the jobs button is off.

[@pietaritikkanen1142]

This video does't tell shit.