Kenshi Tutorial | Starting Out / Early Tips

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[@Jdjsksjdhdj]

the swamp ninjas use the shinobi thieves as a proxy to sell drugs to protect the swamp land... 1st job smuggle drugs from swamp lands to shinobi 2nd job smuggle from swamp to shek kingdom 3rd job deal with the concqunces of smuggling to the shek and building up reputaion from scripted interactions with rivals and getting cought shek learn you are apart of the shinobi in hub from scripted interactions with rivals 4th job defend from skripted shek attacks.. at the hub while building smuggling operations and strengthing (the hub (partially scripted) 5th job after you build up enough strength attak the shek take land and start a war or let them keep it and draw up a peace treaty (5)th job if peace treaty rival gangs sabatage peace treaty job find a solution or fail (5)th job if war fight shek until end 6th job finish building hub and deal with your giant broken city... 7th job deal with holy nation becaues of holy nation outlaw population (direct if war with shek) or (indirectly with peace treaty, because holy nation attacks the shek) mabey it good enough start to get other people to make it fucking amazing

[@swadianknight9394]

Actually everyone's first experience in 5 minutes into Kenshi: *Getting Injured* *Being crippled* *Being KO'ed* *Being a slave*

[@MrNight-dg1ug]

Nahh. I just played today. I spawned at The Hub, and it looked destroyed as fuck. Some goats were roaming around, and starving bandits attacked them. They got downed. I looted them all, then first aided the leader. I then healed and ran after + beat the shit out of the leader of and over, healing him on a bed.

[@skyforthewin]

And getting eating by darn Beakthings.

[@knuckledragger0092]

-leave the starting town -immediately eaten by blood spider

[@jpapa96]

My first experience last night was leave town bandit request money i have no money knocked . coma then death

[@drew7457]

@@MrNight-dg1ug Thought I could hunt down goats, got knocked out and died, looked at the 'rip gone forever' message for a long time wondering what the fuck this game was.

[@danielmurphy9204]

I can't believe I haven't heard of Kenshi before today. This is exactly my type of game. Goodbye life commitments... I'll be gone for a couple weeks

[@Quicksilver_Cookie]

So...how'd it go?

[@majorarcanavibes]

Never heard from again..

[@marceloaliaga1702]

Quicksilver_Cookie they say he still hasn’t left the basement to this day....

[@georgeswanson697]

Quicksilver_Cookie there’s stories about the great Daniel Murphy living in Stout who collects bounties and has 101 athletics skill...

[@ataridc]

Let's be real...he never had a life to begin with

[@thecakeisalie6392]

19:56 Pro tip: If you don't want to continuously be clicking in the screen to move your character, wait for an ally patrol, then hold right mouse button on one of them and select "Follow"; your character will forever follow the ally patrol automatically and also you'll count with their protection if someone dares to attack. You can even study, eat, watch KZbin or some film while your character is building up his/her strength :D

[@mikehunt3420]

Can also just open the map and click where you want them to run to. I do that and then click on the party to run with them.

[@capnheehee8103]

Thank you, I hadn't thought of doing that! It's a great idea. This is another thing that makes me think that when you're playing as just a single character, Kenshi almost feels like a single-player MMO. A "follow" feature is pretty standard in most MMOs, and I've used this trick before in online games to keep my character safe (or help them travel) while I had to go AFK. Gotta love patrolling NPCs.

[@zenniz1992]

Command a Garru to bodyguard your character and your character to follow the Garru. They will play merry go round endlessly.

[@elechain2441]

@@zenniz1992 this is a new one, thanks for this info 🙏

[@youtuechar]

COPPER!!! Don't go for Iron, Copper is 180 cats

[@germanmarcinkowski7131]

Iron is better, it's heavier, thus making your toons stronger

[@tablefancy7992]

Yeah, like the other dude said. Copper is better for making money, and iron is better for weighing you down for strength training.

[@ImaITman]

@@tablefancy7992 You top out strength training xp pretty easily so either will do unless you just have some mammoth who has 60 strength and you want to get it higher

[@mcmuggin8075]

@@ImaITman more stronk is better.

[@nastrael]

@@mcmuggin8075 Seriously, my guys need to be able to carry all the iron and each other to get away from blood spiders.

[@aurcereal9046]

"It doesn't get you a ton of combat points but it might be useful and it's quite entertaining to watch you character swing away at a cripple." Thoke is a menace

[@danelopen]

I found a fairly good way to get an early start. Found The Desert Kings tower and saw that he had a bounty of 35000 cats. So i decided to try something. i got him and 1 guard to agro me. After that i had them chase me all the way to the rebel tavern outside the hub. the guards then dealt with him and his guard and i got samurai gear, a good sword and then carried him to collect the bounty of 35000. only important thing is to level up athlethics before trying it.

[@marceloaliaga1702]

I died to something idk what it was but I came back and I was injured

[@andreasapei2859]

I did the same thing with high inquisitor Seta

[@Nate_Gaming98]

Just Thought I would add a few tips of my own. Tips (Key Bindings): F1: Opens tutorials tab F2,F3, and F4: Speed up and slow down time Space Bar: Pauses the game F5: Quick saves F7: Removes the HUD F9: Reloads your most recent save F12: Screenshots (Steam) ` (Button left of one): Selects all members of the viewed squad 1-9: Selects individual members of the viewed squad ALT (Hold): Views all items lying on the ground SHIFT: Hold and right click on items or people to open extra interactions TAB: Switches between squads If I missed any key bindings or if there are any tips you would like to add feel free to add them here!

[@joak-web]

that's very useful thanks

[@___X___]

You literally put the controls

[@Nate_Gaming98]

x's sandwhiches I’m sorry and how many new players know all of the keybindings?

[@theechadslayer8125]

@@___X___ i didnt check these and i started playing this helps

[@b3nadry1]

Ninja looter, the game.

[@Aereto]

Provided you actually use the Stealth skill. Practically every skill levels up like Skyrim without the perk system (everyone is equal under the Skill Stat system).

[@cameronewer5421]

I'm watching this because I'm currently locked up by the fish people

[@oqYouDontKnowJackpo]

Im watching this because i sit on the toilett and cant stand up - a bug in the game where im gliched on the toilett and the only possiblity to get away was to reload

[@boomerix]

@@oqYouDontKnowJackpo I found out that you can "sneak" out of the toilet.

[@OkagaCalifornia]

That early starving bandit group chasing you is what sold me on this game.

[@allenr316]

I know its boring, but I've always used the "mine a node" option for making cash early. First thing I always bought that isn't food... a backpack. Another thing I've found is that its pretty easy to train levels of stealth initially. I just had my group go into stealth and had them tail a hostile group, staying as close as I could but still keeping the "eyeball" symbol blue (meaning not detected). I went from 1 to 35 in about 15 to 20 minutes.

[@TobelPlays]

The mining thing is super easy and very lucrative. 10 ore on 10 people brought me just shy of 10k. You could continue that formula and just do trade runs to expand your retinue as large as you want.

[@pi654]

My main character got put in jail early and I hadn't recruited anyone else so I just left it running while I did some errands, but I left sneak on, not intentionally, and when I got out of jail I was 50 sneak

[@bigfella2111]

@@TobelPlays I mostly do long term game modes where I'm just a nomad going around and collecting expensive items so I need alot of space I have 3 mods that might make your game more fun they are all on steam one makes the backpacks huge (regular thieves bag is the size of a pack beast bag) a mod where items stack more I think I can stack 15 building mats in the thieves bag and like 40 regular research books and the last one is it makes the max skill level of 100 to 500 it's great when your hauling around tones of shit I can get my weight over 600 before getting over encumbered I love these mods and I think you will too

[@crazyeyes8962]

Fog Islands is a decent place to go early for training your dudes. Fogmen aren't very fast and you can run to Mongrel to get groups of Fogmen off of you. Additionally, they're just losers with iron sticks so they have no real risk of wounding you so bad that you can't get away. Sneaking around in the Deathyards makes your Stealth skill skyrocket. I am also able to pull only one or two Fogmen at a time, and then when they turn around I sneak back up and get ridiculous amounts of Assassination XP by sneak attacking them. I think kidnapping them also attracts Fogmen, because I was able to make a giant group attack Mongrel that way -- might have been a coincidence. And on top of all that, sometimes Fog Princes show up and die to the ninja guards, whose heads are worth 6,000 Cats flat. If you manage to rack up 10,000 Cats, you can join the Shinobi Thieves guild, which gives you free beds in a lot of towns, a good vendor that fences and training facilities.

[@RoninMike-DR]

I started with an orphan limbless little girl with only the cheapest of the economy arm. The moving speed was excruciating and encumbrance did not matter. I had max weight and always in sneak mode. Long story short I started in the town of spring in the middle of nowhere. By in game day 36 i was 85 stealth and 75 strength. Man that is the most difficult start I have played.

[@aFewBitsShort]

That first pull was crazy. I started as a slave of the Holy Nation and my defensive stats leveled really quick. Of course you have to be careful of dismemberment with those 50 str paladins attacking you. The bonus is as a slave hunger doesn't drop past 114 and you get free first aid.

[@TobelPlays]

Recovering is half the battle sometimes, so yeah free first aid and a place to recover would be nice. I don't think I've seen Holy Paladins dismember in one shot before. You could even do the advanced options and re-import the game to lower overall damage. That should reduce the chance of losing limbs.

[@aFewBitsShort]

I set dismemberment to off and death to low for my first game. I may alter things later. So to import you start a new game then import your characters? Do you need to export your squad first?

[@elandthirkhaoth4718]

With importing, you basically can reset the world without resetting your character/squad unless you select 'reset squad positions'. You can choose to delete buildings you made/outposts you made, or basically reviving npc's you've killed off. It also respawns all items in the world, including items sold at vendors even if you bought them, and often fixes bugs that occur to cause you to not be able to do something.

[@PennyBuns]

That's pretty cool. I was considering trying that start soon and this may have just made it my next character. I've barely played since the game has finally officially launched, so I'm excited to see how things have shaped up.

[@aFewBitsShort]

On a micro level the combat is fun. Especially trying to escape as a slave. However on a macro level a lot of the sandbox features were scrapped or patched up with hardcoded scripts instead of allowing freedom and emergent gameplay.

[@Jeff-qm4ci]

You can actually just hold alt and click on the building and it'll tell you what it is. Much easier than looking at the signs IMO. Thanks for the good video!

[@Kanakotka]

I have a better suggestion for strength training than running around encumbered, but it needs a few boxes ticked: You must have a base with walls and gates. You must have a good supply of medical equipment, preferrably from your own farm. You must not be too close to bonedoggos or other scavengers. At the spot where you have 5 or 6 people, you would in most cases have boxes 1 and 2 ticked, the third one is not an absolute must, but it's definitely a strong suggestion. If you have corpses laying about and don't have a scavenger infestation, then you're set. Now, you must build an enclosure, similar to what you would build for your animals. However, this one is for prisoners. You beat up or "kidnap" offending figures that are either trying to raid you or a nearby settlement, nurse them back to health once they have been carried to your enclosure (this is a great way to train first aid skill as a bonus!), and then leave the offendees laying around without their weapons behind locked gates, preferrably with their armor on, or even better, armor that you supply them with. The bonus for this? If you're in the middle desert, you get attacked so often you don't even need to think about feeding them. Now, once your cattle starts waking up, you waltz a few people who want to train their fighting in there, preferrably with poor weapons (you don't want to lob off limbs here, this is strength training) or none at all inside the enclosure, and make sure not one leaves until they've all been downed. Heal them up again, give them a couple of days to recover, rinse and repeat until they starve. You can refresh said stock with raids once you get better at it, and perhaps start sneaking in clubs to your would-be gladiators. The best part about this is that you can reward your most succesful inmates once you get toward unlocking cages, which gives them a chance to convert.

[@ferofax]

So... basically a rehabilitation center.

[@Kanakotka]

@@ferofax Only the rehab is assault and battery.

[@citizen_grub4171]

@@Kanakotka Ah, so the American prison system.

[@EviLLivEClan]

YEP AND MOST OF THEM DON'T EVEN DESERVE REHABILITATION. @@citizen_grub4171

[@InfectiousViper]

I made my way up the ranks of the Holy Nation, now I declared war on the Shek Kingdom.

[@qwertyqeys]

The first two tips about mining and scavenging is actually how I started the game going in blind, weirdly enough. I eventually got to building a two story building and making metal sheets, too. Then my computer broke

[@tablefancy7992]

Copper is better for making money, and iron is better for weighing you down for strength training (just run around while very overencumbered). I recommend to first mine some copper to sell until you have enough to get a backpack, then from there do either copper or iron as needed for weight training/money. Another benefit of the backpack is that sometimes early game you luck out and some roaming pack of animals gets shredded by npcs (or vice versa), in which case you can scoop up all the meat (or loot), and be set for awhile. Bonus tip. Press "B" to bring up a placement menu that allows you to place down a campfire if you have raw meat, as you can cook on one of those if you don't have a stove handy.

[@necrospaci4835]

damn I had no idea overloading your character raised stats I was under the impression that it was kill me lol thanks for the insight

[@deuceyd8468]

Hey tobel ive been following your kenshi lets play and I just wanted to say you've definitely convinced me to pick up the game and I hope your channels keeps growing as fast as it is, you definitely deserve it! Keep up the great vids man

[@brianbright7501]

Just happy someone made a tutorial for this. I was killing myself in the game with no clue what I was doing. Thanks again for the help :)

[@Shimmiy]

a few things, you want to mien copper as its much mroe valuable and you dont want to turn block on early as its going to gimp your attack gain early and its much easier to train block later when you have really good armor and weapons and can just tank weak ass bandits for power leveling

[@guildardaze1438]

a thing i did with slave start was to corner another slave and stand straight next to him to catch him to start fighting. If you can box him in well you can train as a slave and then you pray when your hit by the slavers you don,t die. But they will patch you up as slaves. You can't starve currently but malnourished and you can just train some fighting and sneak (hide amongs 15 slaves at night rises it crazily) and lockpicking there. For the great escape. Heck if you incredibly lucky you may be able to steal some food and swords before running away. But usualy not worth the risk of getting the weapons.

[@capnheehee8103]

Thank you, this video really helped me. I've been trying to wrap my head around Kenshi, I had no idea how to get going. A Kenshi solo start seems to mechanically have a lot in common with getting started in some oldschool MMOs, like OSRS or EQ -- which, as you identified, many find tedious, but anyone who's ever done a bit of grinding before in an old MMO will likely be able to tolerate it, or even embrace it (in controlled doses, of course). There's a lot going on around you at all times, which keeps things from being too stale. it's awesome how big and vast the game is in a single-player context. It feels alive!

[@nastrael]

The best spot I found for early loot gathering is Okrun's Shield. There are usually patrols of Cloud Ninjas with great gear (2x swords worth 1000+ a piece), Broken Skeletons with great 2h weapons and Iron Spiders with valuable items. To top it all off, it's got plenty of HN guards that also die in droves, allowing you to loot them as well. The only bad thing about this area is the long(ish) trek to any shops other than the 1 medical shop in town.

[@stevensims3342]

I tried this and got jumped by a squad of bandits. They left me busted up by the rock... I recovered blood but my chest went south and fell into recovery coma.

[@JessePatrick-zc8ng]

Gotta get a bag to sleep in. It helps

[@emiliogonzalez9555]

The best starting video for me so far. Glad I found your vids. Microphone is crisp and clear

[@SimilakChild]

I trained my strength from 1 to 32 in two days, have you and another person in the party (2 people required), get a large backpack and steal as much 20kg armors and weapons off the shop shelves and chests, stack them up into your inventory and backpack but wear the lightest armor ever (ex: ninja armor and ninja shoes), then pick up and carry your 2nd party member and run back and forth around the map, best to do this outside of a safe town so you don't get attacked by bone dogs and shit.

[@CtrlAndF4]

Two in game days i assume? Had to ask, you never know with games like this :P

[@Glorfindead]

Just order your guys to follow a guard.

[@jmoa5758]

Wow that sounds fucking terrible. What a way to waste free time.

[@alexandercanella4479]

@@jmoa5758 thats what my parents say about my ejaculation art hobby.

[@austintaylor1171]

Ordering them to follow a guard patrol is much better, you're fairly safe and can do something else with your time

[@___X___]

IF YOU CAN't DELETE YOUR SAVE 1 open kenshi settings 2 hover over save location 3 copy url 4 reveal all hidden files 5 close all apps 6 open URL from settings (...AppData\local\Kenshi...etc) 7 locate and confirm save file 8 hit windows R 9 run the save 10 delete the save 11 bookmark url for future trouble shooting Lo-Fi I think is trying to push out a hot fix this. If you change the location of the save to prevent this you are at risk of other issues. This issue comes from having more than one character save, and not deleting the old saves before staring a new game. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

[@boogeythegorilla7330]

8:28 "Blackened woman!"

[@mrrocksmithy]

Thanks for the vid! Definitely buying this now. Been keeping my eye on it for years.

[@BlackRabbit223]

Another tip is to sneak while carrying your bag filled with ore, being over-encumbered lowers your sneak ability making it easier to level. You can get your sneak skill up super quick like this and you level strength at the same time.

[@jorgehidalgo2791]

Downloading Kenshi right now. 5 mins left to complete download!

[@Drawfill]

Skeleton>Go to west hive>Farm for repair kits(Beak things nests are eazy income, each egg goes for 4K)>Go train toughness with fog people>Start exploring and maybe find yourself one of those legendary Meitous you keep hearing about, maybe claim a bounty... Visit the armor king, get yourself the nicest baddest heaviest plate you can find. You are now equipped to solo one punch the game. Good luck wanderer!

[@viperbroncoalmasty]

Bandit leader might have bounty. Always look for enemies with bounties and grab them. Turn them in for free cats. If you are carrying someone, you can use them as a backpack

[@CapybaraEnthusiast882]

Kenshi on lowest graphics can pretty much run on anything it’s insane. I run it on my old laptop which wasn’t meant for gaming at all and I lowered the graphics and shit and it ran really well considering.

[@PygmyKitten]

I realized going to that holy city near the hub gave me ample opportunity to overencumber my guys and let them follow one of the paladins with their little army on patrol. Set the characters to block, gain strength as well as some combat and medic skills while at it. Just keep an eye out in case the patrol gets overwhelmed and it's time to flee. 😁

[@Ivellios23]

One note : by "looting" skins from unconcious animals kills them, something nifty to know when that Beak Thing has 20 or less ticks on it's unconcious timer. I could have used a video like this years ago when I first played Kenshi...

[@dev6rehab666]

Did they put in an option to spar with the people in your party? Cuz that's what they would do in real life to get better. The training dummies only get you started out in the beginning until your level 15 or something like that. They should make wooden swords for you to buy to train in a non lethal way with your company.

[@TobelPlays]

Would be nice and also make sense, wouldn't it? There are some decent mods that add training dummies with no upper limit on skill. Also a wooden sword mod to beat up on enemies with.

[@walmartian]

i was able to force attack a sleeping party member but there is no damage done, just animation.

[@walmartian]

what i do is i build a fenced yard in between stack and hive to the south (swamp) and i look for opportunity to kidnap and heal somebody, i keep them locked up there with a sleeping bag, i have a camp a few hundred meters away with a food trough that we live outdoor at, with our "base" about 1km away and the camp is close to town guards. so we go out and we train our monk unarmed at the cage on the prisoner with also swordsman training to block and also stealth KO. the raiders show up to our base instead of our camp and we use our fastest member to kite one back to the camp and then we lock him up in the yard to train on him.

[@Sublimnalxx]

It kind of makes sense though, because if none of your guys know anything about swordsmanship there's nothing you're going to learn from each other just by striking one another with wooden swords. Though I guess along those lines you should be able to do that but only learn up to the level of the best party member.

[@Akranejames]

@@Sublimnalxx Nah, even then you should slowly get better. Sure, it's no professionnal level of technique, but having to develop your skills to counter whatever your friend can throw at you is valuable experience and should improve your skills with time, as each "breakthrough" in technique developped to beat the other could benefit both by learning it and also to counter it. After all, a competitive seance of sparing prepares you for the events of battle even if it does not for the stress of it. There is very little difference between sparing and battle that doesn't come down to there being more risk and more chaos.

[@thezanzibarbarian5729]

That made me laugh just before you did. Thoke stood in the entrance to the city. Arms folded. casually watching the carnage go on all around him :-))... It's a really in depth game. I didn't think it would be. Great video too. Funny too :-))...

[@ChiefKene]

I’m finally going to get a PC for gaming, this will be the first game along with bannerlord that I play

[@gjjkjhgfdskelley2288]

Check out rimworld!

[@cockoroach]

On the same note of lurking by fight scenes. Check to see if any downed baddies have bounties and turn them in. Last night I got 2500 catz for being a lurker in about a minute.

[@duck6747]

This honestly seems so much more proper because ive so far only done the nobodies run and i just had one of my dudes get a bounty bust them out then turn them in for dough (then rinse and repeat)

[@Dpedro2nd]

I like the slave start you can level a lot of skills there

[@BestKoreanFilms]

Only thing is, Bad Teeth's inventory trade spot is weak. You'll have to craft your very own materials to build a mega base. Plus side, the holy mine can be used to lore 30 ninja deep, to lock them down into a slaughter fest.. "BOOM!" You're mind is blown !!

[@jesusstaccato8448]

Very helpful, thanks dude. Confirms a few things I suspected and teaches me some new tricks.

[@commanderdata8427]

I bought this game on steam when it first went on sale. That was a very long time ago. Is the game worth playing now?

[@TobelPlays]

I think so. It still has its moments of frustration, but they are mostly few and far between. The hardest part is making your own goals.

[@Kanakotka]

I'm someone who bought this game more than 5 years ago and was somewhat disappointed then. I'd absolutely say yes, but you need to give it time for it to be good. Don't expect it to be mindblowingly fun from the word go. I'm 60+ hours in, and every moment i've put in feels better than the last.

[@resmarted]

Just started playing recently and it was a slow start, difficult to get into. Now I'm hooked.

[@Ronald2Shaoling]

I bought the game yesterday fairly cheap and it it awesome

[@Yggdra666]

Yea to anyone who considers getting the game, I can agree with everyone else. It's a slow start and chances are, you're not going to enjoy much of the first 5 hours. Once you pass a certain threshold where you learn how you might be able to survive and the massive possibilities that the game gives you you'll likely be hooked like everyone else. It's a very unique game and up to this date, only the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Chernobyl mod managed to get me immersed to such an insane degree. It's one if those very rare games that managed to get me on a 12 hour binge the first time I played. The game is all about it's game world, it's own laws and lore and most importantly it is about creating your own story within it. Even if you merely manage to die while escaping the slavery you've got yourself into 10 minutes into your very fist session.

[@AldemarHD]

Hey Tobel, nice Tutorial! Now i can start without failing hard.

[@sugarface88]

great video. You explained these concept incredibly well.thank you!

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

I started mining, then got to kiting and luring leather-dropping animals to town and city guards, then I got to smuggling drugs with multiple couriers running back and forth of the swamp. Issue is I feel like I now hit a wall, I'm researching base building and cycle dudes on training regularly (Have access to MKIII dummies in the Swamp), they're a total of 4 all kitted up but still I can't win a single direct confrontation with even starving bandits without micromanaging the hell out of it with crossbows and distancing or risking for everyone to die despite playing as safe as possible.

[@wroun]

F5 is your friend, hit it when you accomplish a deed! Then if you screw up you can restart at that point.

[@spellhaus]

great pacing and content, this is a lot of what i needed to see. amazed you don't have thousands of subs, i bet that's on the horizon. keep it up!

[@TobelPlays]

Thanks Sender I appreciate it! Here's to hoping.

[@lazy5753]

Subscribed :)

[@punkekahhh]

Excellent video bro. I played this game in its first relese. You could see the idea behind it was good, but since it was just one guy with a huge idea, i didn't get the grip of the game so i never played again. Now i've been wanting to play it, since there are lots of beginnings, was looking for tips on them, and your video got me really excited to immerse myself in this world. Sadly, game will never have a co-op mode, cuz it would probably be the best game to play with friend(s). Cheers!

[@TobelPlays]

Thanks so much! It's come a long way

[@punkekahhh]

@@TobelPlays Yeah, been playing for a while now, started with the 5 people crew, went rogue (not with citzen and traders). Sadly everybody everywhere i go attacks me. Went to the cities in the Great Desert, bandit attacked me, defended myself, guards attacked me for defending myself, killed all the city now everybody hates me. Have a group of 13, if i'm not mistaken. It's a fun game, and the closest we ever got to a "total free roaming" world. Sadly we can't take slaves, trade slaves and such. But really addictive. Nowm i'm wanting to play the one you are born in the deser with one arm missing.

[@ryuudachi]

Idk about this game but this appear in my feed so I watch it. Very interesting :)

[@TyTimeIsAwesome]

I just started this game...and I have 2 questions. 1. How long do I mine for before I can buy slaves/partners? 2. Where do I buy these "comrades"? I started as a wanderer and seem to spawn in a shit town.

[@CharlesOwens04]

Christ, I'm glad I never ran into a group of Hungry Bandits THAT size. Looks fuckin' intense.

[@bigfella2111]

Good idea for a longer play through there is a mod that makes the max skill number to 500 instead of 100 you can get really op once you get Max skills it will take a very long time but once you get there you can solo almost anything and the ammount of time it'll take you to get Max skills your most likely gonna have more people so by the time your main person get to level 500 you will most likely have 10 or more other people at least level 250 so you'll be able to kill anything

[@whatthefox6303]

Thank you for this! Made a character and wandered around for a bit then realized I had no idea what the hell to do. Going to be generic and play as a thief/smuggler.

[@TobelPlays]

It's definitely a bit of a choose your own adventure

[@vaporwaffle6361]

on kenshi i found a bug, if you are on jail and the guard is first aiding you, you can keep the sneak option on and them your stealth level will go up a lot without you having to move and still inside the cage

[@shabzGames]

Just picked this game up and I'm hooked. Great tutorial, have a sub!

[@TobelPlays]

Cheers Shabz, enjoy!

[@ugniuxpro3008]

Your tutorial helped me to become a good player

[@nilocrekkab3112]

What I do is I go North from the hub and find a HN city and sneak around for a day to level up sneak. Then at night I rob any kind of clothing store because shirts and armor is worth loads of money. Then in the morning I run our of the city and I go south to a Shek city and sell off all of the goods because they are part of a different faction and don't care. After I sell the goods I have about 10,000 cats so I have enough to join Shinobi Theives. But first I rob the Shek city. I run to the hub join the ST then I run to the HN city and sell the Shek goods, and repeat.

[@devonjohnson8536]

Great video, I was surprised to see that you had less than 5k subscribers after finishing the video.

[@TobelPlays]

Much appreciated. I started about two weeks ago, so perhaps that can happen someday!

[@kgentertainment7755]

Can put drops from 2-3 animals in one animal then pick it up and walk him to your base with all the loot

[@masdox27]

Thanks. I didnt know about pressing tab marks the building signs

[@TobelPlays]

I think the left ALT key is what you're thinking of, maybe I misspoke in this one.

[@masdox27]

@@TobelPlays I knew about the alt key to highlight items

[@rockyis2403]

great tutorial, easy to understand

[@PolarfuchsMusicFav]

Enjoyable and informative. Thank you!

[@TobelPlays]

Thank /you/

[@mitchmitcho1183]

Not sure if because im modded but when my characters are sneaking around their strength and athletics still go up with the sneaking so I have all of my miners sneaking. also when my ore node already has the max of people and I assign one more, that person will run back and forth from the node to the box grabbing what ever is available when they get there. if there is ore in their backpack but you take off the backpack and put it into their inventory this weighs them down to build strength on the way back to the node and not just when they are carrying the load to the box they also wont dump the inventory of the backpack if they aren't wearing it so they keep the "training-ore" on them when they dump.

[@JessePatrick-zc8ng]

Step 1. Get bandages. Step 2. Pick a weapon type and stick too it. Step 3. Wear some armor no headgear. Step 4. Go fight starving bandits and run as close to home as you can. Economy comes later. Sneak and steal is OP so you should be able to get at least some gear.

[@MyBadBro86]

if I start of as a wanderer, can I later on recruit people and get a gang, and maybe build a city as well?

[@youtuechar]

Yes

[@gordo_careta]

Yes, i'm working on it in my run

[@Sublimnalxx]

Getting a gang is the easy part. It's when you try to build a city and you're constantly getting raided or extorted for your food while you're first building up that's tough.

[@matalvis]

Maybe keep raw meat on you and set up a fire outside town. click on a part of town (the end) and the job will make you run to the fire to cook the meat. Click on the end of the town before they get there. That way you only need to click once in a while instead of around the town.

[@youtublife4540]

5:00 looks like a big mess is going to start... Me: *Grabs popcorns and sit behind watching the slaughter*

[@stevendamascus5338]

amazing guide i bought it while watching this video(also was on sale) so thank you

[@SimilakChild]

If you want to train your toughness quickly, i think its possible if you wore a full masterwork plate armor set or better yellow quality, find a big group of those tribe people with those weak bronze sticks, and just let them attack the shit out of you, you should absorb mostly all the dmg except for about 1 ~ 2 dmg occasionally, and your skill level would skyrocket

[@austintaylor1171]

I prefer to avoid the tribes, I would rather just deal with homeless men and bandits. They won't kidnap me and eat my limbs

[@Rucka_Inc.]

Can you give any advice for late game? I'm at a stand still. I can't find ancient science books and the few ruins I can find are overrun with enemies that kill my guys with one hit.

[@HyperionTwo]

Grind grind grind. Hire a lot of people. If you need to, you can also hire multiple bands of powerful mercenaries to help you out.

[@BestKoreanFilms]

Run up North to Worlds End.. The Ancient science books re-spawn there. Build a camp sight to keep a trader squad post near the city, because it makes your NCP's retarded climbing up that God Damn mountain every time...

[@sonoftheemperor5685]

Wait is this on steam? I love the look of this game and if it’s modding community is strong it’s a deal

[@TobelPlays]

Absolutely!

[@sonoftheemperor5685]

Tobel Plays thanks man

[@entoxb9]

Hey man! Really great videos, i hope to see more soon. Keep up the good work.

[@bennyc390]

On my very first time playing this game the guards in a city attacked some traders and I was able to loot them for over 40k worth of goods was loving it and felt so smug hahah

[@TobelPlays]

The Kenshi gods giveth and the Kenshi gods taketh away

[@bennyc390]

@@TobelPlays lmao well now I'm nervous what they going to take. If it's my kids that's fine hahah

[@TormodSteinsholt]

80 cats per piece of iron. You need about 8 in order to even break even in terms of food, right? A basic meal costs around 600. Or am I missing something?

[@goldenage1978]

Never start building a outpost unless your chars are heavily trained and geared, even making a small shack will get you heavy bandit parties in most areas, kenshi has no way of scaling attacks on your town so you might face several armies with a shack. i recommend buying a building, either longhouse or a svamphouse, the round ones that cost 80-100k are the best you can buy in towns in my experience. Once you have a trade empire and can make decent profit along with building materials and iron plates then you can start a outpost, i recommend having atleast 10 geared companions. Early on the best way of getting rid of bandits is by paying them off with 2000 every so often, its expencive but better than risking your characters early on.

[@samuelrs5138]

Personally I wait only until I have 4-5. Those bandit parties are a great way to level even though you often lose the fight. I also have a house in town to do research with while away and use the base for just storage for awhile. Raiding parties don't show up if no one is there.

[@vividlight5789]

If you haven't, and you play this game regularly try checking out the modding tool! It's easy to learn

[@davidlynch3581]

Do guards still attack bandits? I started as 'the nobodies' and was mining copper when a bunch of dust bandits demanded money. I refused and ran off to the town but the guards didn't help and the bandits just ran past them. This has happened on 2 seperate occassions and the guards don't seem to be helping fight the bandits

[@chillboiremade5714]

Looking foward for next tutorials

[@TobelPlays]

Going to do base building next. Any requests other than that?

[@chillboiremade5714]

@@TobelPlays I am learning the game literally from you. So i think you are the boss. So far tutorials are very clear to understand and yeah waiting for new ones.

[@TobelPlays]

Sounds great, will have some more out today.

[@HorváthDániel-o4g]

Top tier game i cant believe i havent heard of this earlier its mount&blade combined with fallout

[@TobelPlays]

Kenshi is that stealth game somehow people still keep finding. Good news you may be close to kenshi2

[@a.trance6997]

Is this still applicable in 2021? I'm playing Kenshi these days and Idk jack shit on what to do. For example, in your exampleof "don't loot the paladin guards lest they aggro you" Can you drag their body away and loot them from somewhere hidden?

[@eeej6199]

this is like if runescape was good. would love to see a magic/fantasy version of this.

[@diealready6274]

Nice simple tutorial... watched it at 1.5x and I'm totally into the game within an hour. Soo fun :D

[@Gibblegobblegoob]

I'm thinking about getting this it has a mount and blade kinda vibe and I need that itch scratched

[@saturn12002]

How do I bring up the iron resource output window? I just got the game last night, and when I went to mine there was no output window.

[@coolminer1231]

I had no clue you could dual wield if you have two small weapons

[@neevasteria8060]

A little late, but dual wield isnt implemented. Having two weapons in weapon slot 1 just makes the weapons show up on the back of your character. Its more on aesthetic purposes as you only use one weapon during combat.

[@nardi_7740]

okay so im doing this and there is no bar saying how close I am to finishing mining

[@Wolfenacht]

You have a lot of good info here.... but it's really hard to hear you. The ads will blast my ear drums just so I can hear what you are saying. :(

[@onlywson]

Very helpfull video! Do you have any mods installed?

[@TobelPlays]

Hi, I have a few in my Let's Play series, honestly don't remember if I had any for the tutorial!

[@mlembrant]

I saw what you did! Pick up the book!

[@TobelPlays]

Okran can't touch this.

[@ScoopDogg]

I tell you what if you like Kenshi, you will love "Outward" it has the same get beat wake up a prisoner and ry survive to become powerfull after starting out with not even clothes due to a shipwreck. Would make an excellent KZbin playthrough too. love your channel ...thnx

[@johnpatz8395]

Could you have carried the unconcious Holy Nation fighter someplace isolated, to loot him, without drawing aggro from the other Holy Nation fighters? I just bought this game yesterday and am really enjoying it, although the whole get KO'ed and have to sit watching your character lay aound unconcious for 5 minutes or so is annoying. I don't mind grinding, but sitting there unable to do anything for several minutes, when you only have the single character, really sucks the fun out of the game, and makes me want to avoid any fights, despite needing to get into fights to improve my toughness.

[@Volvith]

Started Kenshi Created bugboi called Nook Nook being kind and stuff, mining for an honest living Bandits come and beat up Nook, and take all his stuff Nook bleeding out on the ground Luckily i have a medkit on me Just barely survive and start to recover Missing a left arm Oof Try to crawl back to city that's 200 meters away Bandits come back and poke holes in Nook Nook slowly bleeds out ... Nook never hurt anybody Why Nook have to die? Nook sad Nook dead 10/10 would die a painful death again

[@deapdead]

Poor Nook 😔

[@Zaris1021]

why do all tutorials have such low narration volumes.. aside from that, good vid thanks

[@TobelPlays]

Yeah it's a bummer. These videos were from when I first started out doing YT videos a few months ago. I didn't quite have my sound figured out, and it definitely shows. But a lot of people gave some helpful feedback and I got it figured out.

[@Sky_Explorer]

If you enable sneak while doing daily tasks, can you increase your sneak skill along with other skills?

[@SetariM]

If I'm playing the demo that was update a few days ago before 12/22, I don't actually get a bar telling me how close I am to mining a resource. So...? Edit: Nvm I had to click the iron vein