Why You Should Settle Fog Islands | Kenshi Location Guide

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

Something else to note is that characters that have less than 15 melee attack can train in the soldiers headquarters. Unlike other citys they are ok that you train there and won't kick or kill you for it

[@paulrogersgaming]

Didn't know that. Mongrel is best city 😎

[@connycontainer9459]

Beats 'hidden' training thats for sure.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

@@paulrogersgaming The Mongrel city guards are smart. They know that the more fighting men and women there are in town, and the stronger they are, the longer the city (and them) has left to live.

[@theelderswear]

Well tbf theyre a faction of the flotsam ninjas ​@@mirceazaharia2094

[@mycereal]

Actually, they don’t like you doing that. Make sure that both the cages are full before training there. When the soldiers are on the roof and putting fogmen in cages they can see you on the dummies and tell you to quit it. But since they don’t normally path the the roof, that’s why they never see you.

[@metazare]

This is actually where I settled in my current playthrough. I enjoy it very much so. My characters have got so much experience fighting fogmen, that every encounter is just limbs flying across the screen. On a side note. You don't have to tie one of your own people to a pole to attract a prince if you don't want to. You can tie one of the fogmen to it and a prince will come along to eat em just the same.

[@kazkaz5681]

This is brutal

[@Assassino275]

This is brutal

[@callusklaus2413]

"Eating limbs isn't the point. Eating someone tied up and screaming in pain is the point. Don't care who it is, as long as they're screaming"- Hive Prince probably

[@ericchrisman6255]

This is brutal

[@XavierZazi]

This is brutal

[@Ilikehelmets]

I'll say the fog islands are an amazing location for an all skeleton party. If you bring enough repair kits your group can train combat skills almost 24/7 without a worry of getting abducted. And if you collect fog prince heads you can easily pay the skeleton bed fee in mongrel to heal off wear dmg!

[@Volucrum]

For skeletons there are much more specialised areas. Like badlands and any area with poison air or acid rain. And since you don't need food you could just forego it entirely until hydroponics

[@chickenpurple6704]

​@@VolucrumI like the mountains of the leviathan coast for my skeleton crew

[@0The_Farlander0]

I build at least one tinfist every game

[@theelderswear]

Hot take. Not no but absolutely no. Foglands are actually better for fleshy characters. 100% green and 70% arid means plenty of food, scorch landers are the best crafters and foglands have an iron and copper quality of 100. Fogmen provide a free limb removal service and toughness training. Fogmen have blunt weapons only so they do extra damage to your skeletons, making them much stronger against skeleton party members, especially the fog heavies. Repair beds in mongrel are expensive (2000$, 1600$) for skeleton parties I think burning forest is one of the better locations I found, acid rain isn't too bad so you can bring your humans once you have housing, massive hordes of blood spiders that have high stats and extremely low HP make for great training(they can't eat skeletons and their stats get up to 45), flats lagoon has a repair bed for 800, you also have the bone fields nearby for capturing beak things for a training room. Also the location of Burning forest is much better. (Crops are good here too and you can grow hash so humans will have a tougher time but it isn't too bad)

[@Ilikehelmets]

​@@theelderswear it ain't that deep

[@aldrixlevy228]

Also protip: there's an iron mine in Mongrel that produces infinite iron ore. If you want to passive train someone's strength or just get free money, check it out.

[@TheVampireAzriel]

What do you mean infinite iron ore? I've never had an ore mine run out.

[@TheVampireAzriel]

Do you mean like the machine that does the mining for you?

[@TheVampireAzriel]

@kiraxxxxxxxxx found and actually currently using 😁

[@Liednard]

I was so scared of settling the Fog Islands initially, but in the end I 100% recommend it, it's very beginner friendly! Mainly that "gold standard" spot, it's perfectly located so you can reach Mongrel or exit the Fog Islands quickly, and incredibly easy to defend: Fogmen rarely path up there (only had an attack every 20 days or so, even though I increased enemy spawn settings), and it's easy to force them into a good killbox. For "preparation" I'd only recommend one thing: Until you have walls built, only bring your strong characters there. A couple of strong soldiers can decimate a whole swarm of Fogmen, but on the other hand these hivers are very good at picking out weaker targets during a fight, and running away with them while your big hitters are busy mowing down the Fogmen.

[@jacobcurliss9687]

You forgot to mention that unlike the peeler machine, the fogmen build up your toughness while they eat your limbs off. This is in addition to the toughness boost you get from losing limbs. I could be wrong but I believe that the boosted toughness xp gain from the being eaten status does apply to the limb loss xp too.

[@paulrogersgaming]

Good point. I'm going to try to mention this in a future video. Toughness XP is crucial.

[@Elunev]

I believe it does - in base Kenshi I've gone from 1 Toughness to 50 after getting all four limbs eaten by Fishmen. Extremely good way to make a combatant, that 50 Toughness will take them so far

[@giovannicervantes2053]

Power gaming via cannibalism

[@Cloutru]

​@@giovannicervantes2053In Kenshi you quickly learn flesh is a weakness

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@Cloutru indeed holy nation learned that the hard way

[@MenwithHill]

I don't even play Kenshi but these videos are a lot of fun. It's a very cool world and I like seeing the kind of stuff you deal with in there.

[@paulrogersgaming]

That's great to hear! Kenshi most definitely has a unique world.

[@Zephyr_The_Robot]

Ever since I saw this video ive veen using the fog islands as my Go To base location! I absolutely LOVE the inital challange!

[@connycontainer9459]

Haven't played in a while but I really enjoyed just beeing a lone wanderer in this game. Getting a small shack somewhere, living among the locals for some time and then moving on.

[@Quarter324]

I think the Fog Islands are the best mid to late game base. The constant attacks from Fogmen will keep your people well trained; the soil is fertile and is perfect for agriculture; and there is a particular canyon valley that has two entrances that makes for a perfect base location. My favorite aspect of the area is that any raiders have to fight their way through Fogmen as well.

[@warzagg5022]

Once you've gone through a lot of good locations to settle, it'd be interesting to see some guides for settling in challenging regions, like the Black Desert, Deadlands, Cannibal Plains and Sonorous Dark.

[@paulrogersgaming]

I like the idea of that. I do have a feeling that certain areas might push me to my limit though. Could be entertaining at least right? Haha

[@MenwithHill]

@@paulrogersgaming "Maybe reconsider settling the Sonorous Dark"

[@Oryxification]

Best place to settle SD is just S of skinhouse HQ right on the Ashlands border. Mining on SD side, wind turbines in the Ashlands. No wind in SD. Also I reccomend building a ring of small shacks surronding a watchtower as the bases core.

[@paulrogersgaming]

Do the toxic clouds get into the base?@@Oryxification

[@Oryxification]

@@paulrogersgaming No. But you need to be quick setting up defenses, and have all you need to build prepared in advance, the skinbandits ARE coming. Also each crafting industry will fit in a small shack each with main storages in the middle, or you can use storage shed mod to put them between industry sheds. SD is insanely mineral rich, more than anywhere else on the entire map. Stone iron copper all overlimits. None of that in ashlands though. Also hydroponics is mandatory, and moisture collecter mod is a must, no water.

[@ailius1520]

Another cool feature is if you want to become an ally of the Holy Nation, this is the easiest way to do it. Your diplomatic efforts start as one would expect for a game like Kenshi: by having your assassin knock out and kidnap Lord Phoenix. Then you take him to the Fog Islands and drop him in front of a fogman. Let him pick up Phoenix and tie him to a pole. (Do not tie Phoenix to the pole yourself.) Then when the fog prince shows up, kill all the fogmen present and rescue the Phoenix. He'll thank you and declare you an ally of the Holy Nation.

[@TRG29338]

Lmao

[@xadierz1816]

What the actual fuck?! 😂😂😂

[@kazkaz5681]

My favorite zone ! My base is located just in front of the eastern gate of Mongrel, litteraly on the side of the mountain shown at 2:22 . It is flat enough for a small base and you can make a fun city layout on the mountain. The thing to take into consideration here is Shinobi guards patrolling in this area. They are super strong and are a great help to defend your base against fogmen and the few cannibals raid that can occure, pretty usefull when you are beggining a playthrough. The other thing I would advice is : Adopt a bonedog ! They are not picked up by fogmen and when they reach adulthood they litteraly shred fogmen into pieces, feeding on their limbs and keeping themselves alive. You can basically place a bonedog in front of your base and forget him forever. I even think they could be a great help to settle in Cannibal Plains if cannibals don't forage animals but I'm not sure about that.

[@MRVukable]

I wanted to settle that place, but it says its too close to a town

[@AsteriskMHM112]

Now I'm gonna build an outpost in near Mongrel. These guides are amazing, keep it up!

[@paulrogersgaming]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@Chonicle2]

The Fog islands are my early game training area i love the place you don't need much in the ways of stats to survive fights with drones, so long as you are careful, and well they are way easier to find than starving bandits

[@hushpool3915]

2:15 Don't mine iron. There's a place on a canyon with minable wreckage pieces. And there are 4 (!) nearby copper sources for 3 characters each. 2 of them are reacheble from the hill, so you don't have to go down into fog and you can loot them from safe position. And, if that wasn't enough, you can level up your sneak as you keep mining. If you see patrol - just run to the gates. You won't lose anyone even if that's a brand new recruit. Guards will interfere much faster. A little downside with that mining place - it's too close to town, so you can't place protection structures around it. But for the start - it's ideal location.

[@eROCKaustin]

i nearly maxed some of my characters' stealth like this. i have a spot not far from the gate with a couple copper nodes. it is uphill from their main pathing so at this point they just walk right by without even noticing them. i have copper and iron inside my base now, but will probably send more guys over there just for some stealth training and extra cash heh

[@ScarecrowXDD]

The Fog Islands are my go-to location for any starter character because of three reasons. 1. Mongrel's shinobi HQ has tier 3 training dummies that you can easily use without getting into trouble, because there's like only two cages up there, which get quickly filled out, meaning the shinobi guard do not walk up there at all. 2. Fog Men make a very decent early game enemy to train your combat stats on, provided you don't overextend. 3. It's one of the best early game locations to make money passively, as the assaults on Mongrel are quite frequent, and so you can easily sell fog men weapons in bulk, with the addition of fog prince heads.

[@PerfectDeath4]

My usual Fog Island strat is to buy a shack next to the big Y house, build an ore storage there, it is in range for miners to haul ore from the gate. Very safe, can leave beep there to train his strength and run speed while the rest gathers science, etc. Eventually all that ore can be turned into armor plates for selling and training armor craft. As for my main money earning, I like to pick up KO'd fog boys and mount them on poles as bait (heavies have higher limb HP so I'll prefer them if available). Do this over a couple of death yards and wait for the *crunch* *Munch* noises. Sometimes I gotta wait for the princes to disperse because if like 5 show up to a pole, they'll bring some 20 heavies total + drones. Ideally the princes show up ahead of the heavies due to their speed giving a quick opportunity to nab some cats. Early on I tried to help the Holy Nation Outlaws roaming around, sometimes even buy them a cheap leg, let them sleep at the Y house I use as an HQ, etc. But they dumb AF, loud as bait at least. Then after a while I did a little bit of a culinary exchange program of supplying fishmen, cannibals, and foggies to each other because I had a 54mph Beep delivery service.

[@paulrogersgaming]

The authentic Mongrel experience here ^

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Wow. That was at least as messed up as anything that can be done in RimWorld. I am impressed. Certified Kenshi Moment.

[@PerfectDeath4]

@@mirceazaharia2094 When you want to remove a limb for superior prosthetics: Rimworld: Sleepy time, hope the doc doesn't screw up. Kenshi: Do you want the acid pool, the fogmen, or the peeler?

[@s3ns3nwolf22]

Bought the game like 3 months ago gave like 130h into it and only scratched the surface love your locatuon guides keep them coming 😄

[@paulrogersgaming]

To this day, I still feel inspired to start new playthroughs with new character "roles". Glad you're enjoying the vids!

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Try setting up in the waystation in tne frey desert. you'll love it. it's the dirty little secret of many players. you can hide out, it's guarded, you can buy the tower and fix it up. and make money from: random animals and spiderbots, ninjas (also free equipment), raiders, and the best of all: smugglers. they carry the 'green smoking materials'. And in case uou didn't know yet, the weird town on thr oil platform, which is close to the grey desert, buys the green stuff for 500% of the price. you can also raid the secret drug lab for the same trick. about a 100k in there easy. Grey desert is perfect. and my major base is often in Shem, because A. it is beautiful B. no city taxes. C. you can build around small lakes, and or put the entrance at water, so raiders need to swim to you. while the harpoons do their work. Shem is basically the safest place imho

[@Wasted_spaceman]

The fog islands is OP as fuck. My first play through i used the natural cliffs to make walls so i genuinely never used crossbows or walls in any meaningful capacity. My base was right in front of a deathyard so i was able to have my groups just standing outside racking up stacks and stacks of heads. 100% green in some spots, high wind, natural protection, and potential infinite resources makes it just the best spot. You can also just forget about raids cuz if you make them load in they will get attacked my fogmen. No matter what.

[@Odessa0v0]

This is one of those games where it is so much better to play with only a basic understanding before you go out and learn more indepth things. I never had a trouble in the fog islands because I made sure the only time I go in there is when I can book it, and I never once fought fogmen.

[@lordnelson7524]

I actually did the exact opposite. I only went in when I had 15 well-armed and reasonably trained fighters because I was scared shitless of fogmen. Turns out, "apply sword to face" is a viable problem solver for Fogmen-related issues.

[@begusmegus6628]

There is a third kind, the horde slayer, just hacking and smashing through the fogmen until the sheer amount of limbs crashes your computer.

[@chromacorvus9651]

You can actually toggle sneak on and never toggle it off unless said character can handle 20+ fogmen and reach 50 or more sneak in 2-3 days

[@XellosDarkSlayer]

This is where I settled the first time. There is a place at the south-eastern part, if I remember correctly, which is essentially a medium-sized round valley with two exits surrounded by mountains, you can get water, stone and iron there and copper is very close in some wreckage just outside of the Fog Islands. The funniest part is how many raids who will come to attack your settlement will often either get stuck because of the path-finding or get eaten by fogmen.

[@timspeller4084]

I had a mod installed called Fogmen to Fugmen, it replaced all their normal textures and 'dialogue' with spurdo sparde and spurdo speak Many laughs were had

[@TheDilden]

Fren

[@Enruler]

I loved settling here to start my Kenshi runs. The fogmen feed you such a huge amount of XP and the cannibal tribes that raid you once in a while are just as weak. My last run I made thousands of food cubes and had all my character well trained before I moved out to a more difficult area. Anyway love your videos, I've been binge watching them, makes me want to load up Kenshi. Haven't played in a few months.

[@paulrogersgaming]

Glad you're enjoying the series!

[@wolas321]

Fog boys are actually the best limb replacement method you can get. While peelers are safer so long as you have someone with enough strength/athletics to outrun the fogmen then its a moot point. They also don't give you truly massive amounts of toughness XP like being eaten does. You can easily get 10 levels of toughness from losing all your limbs even at high ranks like 60-70

[@TheFaqvideos]

There's this one plateau I found in the fog islands that only had one entrance and it was a pretty hidden one, the fog drones mostly left me alone and they served well in killing most factions that tried to invade me, and whatever actually managed to climb up to my lil town got decimated at my gates, was a damn good settlement.

[@rogaldorn5486]

This guide made me set up third or so base in the foglands... Suprisingly no one got eate for a long time 😅 but i did not even know the tech tree so it was just pure chaos but like the swamp, left an impression so that i live there for atleast a short time in every new Game and wuld not want to miss shryke or Beep!

[@doggod100]

This was pretty interesting, I wouldn't have guessed the farming capabilities would be that high!

[@paulrogersgaming]

Tbh, the Fog Islands terrain looks awful. There are piles of garbage (iron n stuff) all around. Then, you go on the wiki or on reddit and see that people love the place. Oh Kenshi, what a game.

[@bare_bear_hands]

The Bowl is one of the best places I know to settle 😂 nearly all crops grow great, masses of iron and copper, very enclosed and easy to lock up entirely.

[@brentwhite7150]

I usually go into the fog islands with a large group. We use the enemies to grind our combat skills.

[@ennou1236]

Another perk is that you can call you outpost the mist village and your people the mist ninjas/shinobi

[@drgud3900]

Just arrived at Mongrel, I'll definitely consider this. Thanks!

[@bimaakhmadi9466]

if you have high assasination and stealth character, you can easily rack up serius amount of money per day on mongrel. have 2 characters, one to distract the robot arms dealer, making him face the other side, and one with the high skills knock him out. steal the arms from the 3 boxes and 'wash' them on crossbow locker in one of your bought property. you can get like 80k+ cats a day it is kinda ridiculous. free high level robotic arms too if your characters 'accidentally' lost their limbs on deathyard. it makes buying initial materials and books from the construction and general store basically free.

[@Kneejair]

Dirty

[@jhman8254]

Hey Paul! Great videos! Good luck with the channel!

[@paulrogersgaming]

Thank you! I appreciate your support

[@Apoc2K]

One fine day in the borderlands, my little base were graced by a bunch of Shek from Squin. They demanded that since I was farming on Shek land, they deserved tribute. Once I made it very clear that no, this is my food and if they're hungry they can either buy it, learn to farm themselves or just stick to eating rocks. They didn't like this, so they did the reasonable thing - attacked us, raided my base, took it for themselves and left my folks to starve and bleed. It was treason - we had been their partners. Their shops thrived under our trade. I could have abided by the mockery, the insults - even the "routine" checkups every time my Ashlander was sent into town, but this was the straw that broke the camels back. Deciding that I'd rather deal with endless hordes of man eating bugmen than pay taxes, I used what little savings I had to buy a pack animal from a caravan, which I named "Hop" because it looked like a giant naked rabbit. We grabbed what we could carry, torched the old place and headed on over to the Fog Islands. I had to deal with Holy Nation lunatics on the way and rabid packs of bonedogs while traveling at a snails pace because my civvies weren't really accustomed to traveling the wilds. My first few night consisted off fending off tireless waves of patrolling bug men. We beat the first, barely beat the second, but the third managed to break through and abducted two civvies. Though messed up, my warriors attempted a rescue, but ended up getting ambushed themselves and had to retreat. At night, we could hear them scream from the fog. It went quiet soon after. By the time the walls were up, the farms were running and the we had a place to rest out heads most of the settler were battered, bruised and tired - but they had gotten pretty strong and were hankering to take the fight to the bugs. Throughout the day we'd work the mines and fields, and in the evening they trained away. As my settlers trained to become warriors, the town took shape. We named it Svard, after the one of the settlers who were taken from us by the bugs. We stockpiled food, materials and weapons. We crafted out own equipment, as the roads were still too dangerous to traverse. One morning we woke up to the howling of one "Mighty Canhead", a cannibal raider who had decided that we were slim pickings. By now, my once squishy civvies had packed on muscle, traded in their rods for swords and polearms. The cannibals thought to find pudgy villager cowering behind walls. They instead found an unshakeable wall of iron and muscle. The few who made it past the crossbows swiftly found themselves having to deal with my Shek warriors. Kang a tough as nails Shek saw fit to take the leg of Canhead. While he was flaying about on the floor, we settled on a suitable punishment. As a final act of defiance, we denied him glorious death. My medics patched him up, and while my people looked on, he started his long and arduous crawl back to the shithole he came from. Without his helmet, which was now Kang's prize. Whether he made it back, whether his own people ended eating him or the bugs - no-one knows. It was the last we ever heard of Canhead. One thing was sure, the price for attacking my people was steep. Things became quiet after that. The bugs stopped raiding my gates. Every now and then some starving cannibals raid would try their luck. We'd leave them to die at the gates, as bait for the bugs so my gunners could train their aim on them. We were without mercy. This world had taken more than it's fair share, we were embittered, disillusioned. But we stood as one, and that made us strong. It made us dangerous. One evening, we heard the howls of someone come from fog below. Not the guttural shrieks of cannibals, but coherent. My men, seeing a chance to correct their previous mistake, charged into the fog. This time, we would take the fight to them. This time, we would not tolerate failure. This time, they brought back a survivor. A Holy Nation outlaw, down an arm and a leg and on verge of death. We bandaged him, fed him and let him sleep in our beds. When he came to, he thanked us - and in return, offered him a shelter and food. He graciously accepted. We used our resourced to augment his limbs. We trained him in the way of the sword and polearm - our people's weapons of choice. In time, he had become one of us. Strong, disciplined - and with a healthy disdain for bugs. Our town grew. We saved more people from the fog, we recruited folks from Mongrel. Our trips to through the valleys below become more common. Escort missions became patrols, and patrols became hunts. As we whittled away at the bug population below, our numbers ballooned. I build a squad out of my 8 most elite warriors, led by Kang, who'd forgo their civilian life to train day in and out. Each one, more than a match for an army of bugs. We slaughtered them by the hundreds, bringing back the heads of princes, whose bounty we used to fuel our growing town. Once we've stomped out the bugs and rid the fog islands of their presence and the people of Mongrel and Svard can freely walk the fog islands, only then we will go back to the borderlands. We will reforge the remains of our base into a mighty city. And the first Shek who believes he can walk up to my gates and demanding tribute from MY people can consider himself lucky if I allow him to utter his final words before I impale him on a harpoon.

[@lsswappedcessna]

I love how basically everyone has Kang (Shek warrior), Logan (Human crossbowman), Ruka (Shek warrior), Beep (Defective Hiver Drone) and Stone (Hiver crossbowman) in their party.

[@theabsolutelycursedsprout9308]

are you a writer???? this is awesome

[@alicebrown6215]

I remember a mod that lets you yoink the head from all the fogmen, not just the princes, but I couldn't find it last time I looked. Fogmen huntins a good job, mate. Challengin work, outta doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry, cause long as there's at least two fogmen left in the fog islands, everyone is gonna want them dead.

[@TRG29338]

Mod is called Fog Hunt. If you have UWE theres a mist creature version as well.

[@cashel1111]

good tip for mongrel if you dont mind the thieving cheese: it seems the robotics trader is not in the same faction as the other shops, so you can sell him stolen goods for full price he also has heaps of cats, so you can make bank fast!

[@Lemonidas_of_Sourta]

The first time I ventured into there, I thought this was an end-game zone. Enemies kept running out of the fog and soon my squad was overwhelmed. Soon they were dinner guests at the Fog Boi nests.

[@SkrubyWubby]

You should cover doing the black desert sometime. I personally haven't found amazing spots there but you can usually find good iron and copper along with plenty of flat space and a central location. If anyone raids you, they tend to lost half their numbers because they didn't bring gas masks

[@chickenpurple6704]

Skeleton supremacy

[@lsswappedcessna]

Sounds like a great place for a skelly squad to settle down and hang their hats wait skeletons can't wear hats without mods. Hang their... uh... What would a humanoid robot wear that you could hang? Jackets?

[@SkrubyWubby]

@@lsswappedcessna They'd hang their skin of course

[@eROCKaustin]

just started this game a couple weeks ago and ive settled here in my first playthrough. i found an awesome hilltop with only 2 ways up and gated them off. i had dust bandits come to attack me, and they got flanked by a swarm of fogmen hahahahahaha it was epic timing. my other favorite part was before i got a corpse furnace or w/e its called built, i would toss the bodies over the cliff and watch them ragdoll down to the bottom lol

[@deleteduser121]

What I noticed about the fog Islands is once you settle there and build your walls and base. The fog disappears then foggment attacks drop significantly. There's also some issues with wall building there where I'd build a wall but the computer players can still walk straight through the walls.

[@childishplumbino]

If you can get to the Holy Nation Outlaws that end up on the poles, you also have decent starting characters for an army if they decide to join you after being freed.

[@ГеоргийШендриков-н6и]

I really liked setting base there. I mean, Fog Islands give you some real emotional rollercoaster and so much adrenaline. And I did one more thing: I installed "Fog Hunt" mod which allows you to decapitate Fogmen and Fog Heavy as well, but for the less bounty. Some may call it cheating, but as for me it doesn't make the game easier, since in reality your greed drives you into some outrageous bloodshed, which gives you even more emotional roller-coasters and you know... It's just so satisfying, when you bring hundreds of heads. You really feel like a Chaosmarine from Warhammer, bringing skulls for the Khorne. And yeah, there is a balance mod which makes Fogmen's heads cost near to nothing, yet it's just so enjoyable to decapitate somebody.... I probably should talk to psychoanalyst after that XD

[@yourranger7025]

I really hope Vain or the Swamp is next

[@duckspiguels8871]

Still waiting for Vein

[@atamalethatwantstotalk5177]

Bast for me

[@paulrogersgaming]

I'll put out a poll soon for choosing the next guide!

[@paulrogersgaming]

@@atamalethatwantstotalk5177 I'll add Bast to the poll I'm putting out :)

[@atamalethatwantstotalk5177]

@@paulrogersgaming thank you

[@akiamini4006]

Such a wholesome community ! Thanks for the guide , gonna smack some beak thing ass level up strenth 30 martial 50 with a couple of bros , dealin hash to get rich and migrate to the fog islands FRFR

[@paulrogersgaming]

I love the stage of the game where you're looking to just fight everything and deal drugs. Best of luck out there!

[@akiamini4006]

@@paulrogersgaming the peak

[@LawrenceRebulado]

7:37 no, you just have to assassinate the prince. If you have a recruit with 1 assassination skill, you can start whacking the drones first. The assassination might fail,but they won't budge. Also, you can move around the ritual and watch your sneak skyrocket, just don't go in front of them. One cheese way in raising your assassination with the fogbois is rapidly right-clicking before the hand hits the nape. If you can 100% bring down a drone, do the heavies. Work your way up to the princes. This is how i end up having a "Deathyard Exterminator" in one of my playthroughs. If this fails, well that is what the 21+ running speed is for.

[@TehJuiceBoks]

My main run's main base is in the fog islands. Shryke sadly died during the founding. Once you can hold off the fogmen at your gates without worry, the fog islands is the most secure location. No taxes, tythe, or prayer day.

[@badluckjohnny1025]

Don't know about settling in here, but it's a pretty good place to get some money if you start as a slave at the Rebirth. With high stealth and assasination, you can knock out and put one of the fogmen on the pole in the deathyard to attract the prince so you can knock him out too and "steal" its head.

[@dagothhyde7297]

Grey desert is my favorite location to settle. It's a central location in the east with oodles of copper and iron. I've created massive industrial powerhouses fueled by outposts in gut and shem with skeleton caravans escorting the shipments. You can sell all your products to the 3 nearby settlements and have caps comin out the anus. I've had to buy houses in nearby settlements just to store ore because I max out how much I can sell to every shop.

[@gunterandersson]

idk why the tiger king reference hit so hard but it did

[@paulrogersgaming]

Glad you liked it!

[@Ironmaidenportugal]

in this place you don't need to wall around the base, just put them on the choke points which is basically 3. just move the character outside the the area do see which paths needs to be walled. one of the paths i put the wall lower to reach the 100% water.

[@Tempus62]

When I first started the game I went to Fog Islands... The Fog is now my home.

[@JleonardoCard]

Cool guide! You know, before watching this video, I created a hive exile start... and in the (short, very short) run before, I discovered the existance of Mongrel, but... didn't manage to get there because, well... the fogmen (that's pretty much the reason I was starting all over again). So, I went with a Hive prince which are pretty much perfect thieves, and SOMEHOW, evaded all my enemies (after a couple of scum saves) and VOILÁ, made it to Mongrel. The city was considerably big and I was satisfied, with 0 Cats to my name and the first couple of 'talkable' NPCs telling me that was a city that you couldn't get out of... I was like... so, now what? Since the base stats of my prince were perfect to be a thief, I tried to join the thieves guild. But I had no money with the NPC telling me, if you don't have $10k you're not a very good thief, and I was like... d4mn right, Starting ANY character into thievery in this game is F*CKING Hard, you get discovered often even with 90% chance of stealing. Doing a no save/load run as a thief must be impossible, although having to constantly reload also kinda sucks. Anywaaays... shortly after, I started to do what every Kenshi player does... Scavenge on whatever gets killed by the guards, and OH F*, I discovered the deadhive heads... I trained my favorite skill when you're managing only 1 char. (Athletics), and... OH BOY I made SOME money bringing hordes into the doors of Mongrel. Whatsoever, I made most out of Mongrel in about 6 ingame days and got out to the... swamp. But somehow I don't wanna continue anymore, having to manage the inventory and actions of like 10 characters is getting so boring and tedious, I don't feel like dealing with it. I probably just experienced like 10% of this game, but it feels weird to pause and give endless actions to multiple characters. Maybe I just have to get used to it, idk... but I'd appreciate one of your videos on character management... I feel overwhelmed with 10, what am I even doing with 256? FFFFFFFF

[@Hashashin_Fidayin]

I see what you're saying, it could be difficult at first to manage multiple people. You also don't need to expand your squad immediately if you don't want to. The game doesn't have any set way you have to play it, if you want to focus on having a smaller team and train them up instead you can do that. Just because some people play the game one way does not mean you have to play it that way. Many people also consider bases to be an end-game or mid game project. Since it requires so much research as well as good combat training for your characters to defend your base. Another option is mods a very popular mod is the recruit anyone mod, it allows you to recruit enemies who you capture which greatly decreases on the training time when you can capture a unit who already has decent stats. There are also mods that change or update the way that training happens so that you could potentially use training dummies to increase your base stats more. Like you said focusing on stealth and fevery is a good starting plan, as is increasing your athletic skill. With high stealth lockpicking and athletic skills you can move around the map and steal most of what you need, getting good cats in the process. I'm still new and haven't discovered even half of the map yet, but many of my playthroughs have just been me hanging out in the great desert outpost in my tower base enjoying the scenery, and stealing and selling any gear I can find.

[@san-6377]

Love this guide so much

[@paulrogersgaming]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@TheVampireAzriel]

You can put Fogmen onto the poles and it will still trigger Fog Princes.

[@dankmansmit]

Great video, keep up the good work

[@paulrogersgaming]

Thank you dank man ☝️

[@DumbguyMc]

I tried to settle out in the Foglands after doing a beep speedrun and setting up out of mongrel. Word to the wise, Dreg is totally dead on fertility and full of cannibals. I tried to settle on the South West portion of the Foglands right on the border of dreg. Tons of space to set up, amazing 70 70 arid green fertility perfect for growing fruit(70), cactus(70), wheat(107), and hemp(100). Plenty of iron and copper nodes in a small area. Problem is we set up to take out fogmen and had no problems from them, yet because we were on the border of dreg, apparently cannibals constantly invade the foglands from the south via dreg. We opened ourselves up to all sorts of cannibal raids. Scrawnys were no problem and left sacrifices for the fogmen to take. Mighty canhead was kicking our asses and the only way we were in any position to defend was to hire mercenaries and we still got tossed around. Ended up leaving and settling squin till we could come back with better armor. Another advice is if you are settling foglands or any area with cannibals, make sure you train everyone in lockpicking. The locks arent tough but if you have a 0 skill its only like a 9% chance to pick. versus a character with around 20 skill who has a 45% chance to pick when captured and a 90% when not captured.

[@Sykxplaysgames]

Ive just settled on the fog islands and i must say the fogmen havent even bothered me once I keep getting attacked by cannibals from the hermit tribe lands but they usually get wiped out by the fogmen before they even get close The best free protection i could ask for

[@eloquenthillbilly]

My games are usually in the "lore friendly vanilla +" category, and I'm going off memory alone. Corrections are welcome. I'm almost certain that getting your limbs eaten by fog princes is the best way for a fleshie to prepare for cybernetics. Getting nom-nomed by the blue boys seems to give way more toughness than the peeler, starts with the legs, and is way safer than getting chewed on by gutters or hacked apart by cannibals. Tying a new character to a fog pole and having all his or her limbs chewed off usually leaves them with toughness in the high 30s or low 40s, which is good enough to prevent getting killed by Band of Bones, Kral's Chosen, and other new game training fodder. The fact that fog men start with the legs is great! If given a choice, I like to leave my fleshies with their God given arms as long as possible for the sake of dex/str training, but the stats affected by leg prosthetics (stealth and athletics) are easy to power level quickly, ignore, or train passively. By the way, if you use a mod that allows you to make prisoner poles, fog princes will eventually show up and eat whoever you tied to it. This can be used to cheese fog princes into a safer area, but I mainly use it for disposing of UC nobles.

[@Dexok123]

Fog islands are where im doing my current playthrough, was the most stressful setup because i was dumb and didnt bring enough materials to build walls so im running my 4 characters in and out of a shack every time the fog men come on screen so they dont aggro on us in between stone mining sessions

[@paulrogersgaming]

Locked doors are so nice!

[@erisch126]

This is alway my place to safely reach the midgame. Great way to farm skills

[@georgeblair3894]

I discovered that if you stealth through the Fog Islands, your stealth will skyrocket. On (or in) my latest playthrough, I have two (Elder) Pack Bulls with stealth > 50. However, when passing groups of oblivious Fogmen, huge stat increases.

[@spatrk6634]

yea you can easily get your stealth to 70-80 that way. the way it works is if you are stealthy around large groups of hostile enemies that would attack you on sight, you will get huge increase in stealth xp. fogmen are not that safe to train stealth around tho. there are large groups of starving bandits in skinners roam that are best and safest way to train stealth. you just attack one of them first to get them hostile and ran away then stealth and follow them around. there is even larger xp boost if you are doing that during the day instead of night .

[@WasabiCracker]

instructions unclear, created a cursed society of Boops and enslaved fogbois, and regretted every step of it.

[@paulrogersgaming]

No regerts! Also, it's great to hear from you Wasabi! I'm flattered that you watched one of my videos. I'm a fan of your content.

[@WasabiCracker]

@@paulrogersgaming :D :D :D if you ever want to collaborate on anything let me know

[@paulrogersgaming]

@@WasabiCracker I'd love to do a collab. I'll be sure to reach out in the future. Once I hit a few short-term goals with the channel, I'll be more available.

[@WasabiCracker]

@@paulrogersgaming awesome to hear :D of course if we do any projects together I will plug your channel to go along with it!

[@Chubbybrocast]

i really like these videos man.

[@paulrogersgaming]

Thank you! I have been enjoying making them when I escape from work.

[@Endgunner]

Fog Heavies will also SNACC if you kill the Fog Prince they are protecting.

[@paulrogersgaming]

The most versatile Fog Boi!

[@wisegoongala4305]

Went to Mongrel to train and save Beep. Ended the playthrough with 40 combat stats across the board and a cannibalized Beep. Obviously I’m restarting from square one at the Hub 🥲

[@BREJIKsAlt]

You can actually attract princes by tying up fogmen corpses to the poles instead of having your own characters tied up like at 7:40 those princes are too damn hungry lol.

[@patrickdixon3512]

I usually go in the fog island for training have a bunch of low level people send them in with on high level make a base have a place no bandits will go and training base

[@johncampbell631]

Tie my own character to the pole? Pox on that. I've had several High Paladins chase me into the Fog Islands. Two chased me all the way to the gates of Mongrel. Either by my hand or the Fog Bois, I've enjoyed the death screams of half a dozen Holy Nation zealots and got the heads after the show.

[@roach7191]

Would be cool for a skeleton playthrough

[@legacy9171]

If the town guards arrest a prince you can steal his head from him while he’s in the cage which is funny (yes it kills him)

[@TRG29338]

The fact that they lock up fogmen is so funny. Sometimes they even let then out as if they don't know what's gonna immediately happen.

[@sunax222]

yea i struggled a littile bit here but i have 2 bases set up nicely

[@AureliusDux99]

subscribed, loving these location videos. what about that area of the map north west? like the purple sand area?

[@paulrogersgaming]

I may be taking a trip up North in the future. We will see 🙏

[@AureliusDux99]

@@paulrogersgaming awesome sauce

[@scottstratton9470]

Do you plan on doing a playthrough? I'd watch hour long videos for sure

[@paulrogersgaming]

I'm considering this. The problem I've had is that I am VERY quiet when I play. I get so focused and hardly say anything. 😅

[@NotHappening-b8t]

i never noticed only the princes eat the victims. so good to know for farming credits. i had almost given up on gaming when i found this game about 1 year ago. really got my fun back. x4 foundations is another game that gets overlooked a lot. i feel the title, and i guess it had not so good launch held it back. but like kenshi great rpg space opera game. u choose ur path. that said i trying to do simple 5 man fogman outpost base. for starter base..... lol. 3 of the 5 are skeltons. then ofc BEEP and my human char. i figured 2 humans makes for way less food-farm production. i can focus on just crafting. mining. atm i trying to settle in the gold standard spot. looks nice but i not sure how to wall it off..... mixed feelings about the spot. but i wanted something new and challenging from my first play through by squinn. and keep it smaller cause i know i move once im lvled up again. this game is such a hidden gem. i feel anyone that doesnt like it just doesnt give it an honest chance. or they get to frustrated with the ai and bugs......... admit it can feel frustrating. but time, patience and trial and error u can usually figure it all out. my biggest headache was making bread last time. forget at what point but they struggle to move something to next machine for some reason. i do know i finally found solution to it. and also learned eventually sometimes the AI just breaks. and u have to reload the game. save reload and everyone be working proper again. old engine........ works its butt off for this game.

[@lsswappedcessna]

The problem X4 has is its poor optimization and in general being a very ambitious game, a lot like Kenshi in many ways, though despite Egosoft being a small studio they are more than one person. The game really struggles to run smoothly once you have a trade fleet, much less a fully equipped and combat ready navy, and forget it if you have any satellites in a high traffic area or combat zone (Hatikvah's Choice comes to mind because of the constant swarms of xenon hemorrhaging from Tharka's Cascade at a rate that would make a ruptured aorta blush). Thankfully modern hardware and the devs giving a shit means it has gotten better over the years.

[@brianshissler3263]

I started as 5 skeletons and settled in okran valley to piss of the holy Nation. Apparently though, after you take them out, the former come out of the fog islands cuz the holy Nation outposts were keeping them at bay lol. Oops

[@Yamata_orochi]

Wonder what will happen if u carry large animal and put it on pole?

[@someone-ke4qj]

By the time i got here half my group was 30-40 melee abd defense and we just cut dowb the fogmen although they still do more damage then i would have thought. Theres a lot of them though. Im more afraid of the holy nation areas.

[@ferretmonger0236]

"Mad Cat" . . . You a Battle Tech enthusiast as well?

[@sritter66]

Only had the game for a couple of months. Quick question: why are the health bars in videos green? Mine are yellow. Thanks!

[@fang4223]

Doesn't even mention Infinite Wingwang... tsk... Show some respect to the first unique recruit. He was around back when Mr. Floppy's flophouse was a thing.

[@paulrogersgaming]

Didn't know that! Infinite Wang 4 life

[@fang4223]

I remeber back in The Day™, early in Kenshi's time on steam back in the early days of Steam Greenlight, when mass combat was still on the skills page, the biggest piece of advice you were likely to get was to nab Wingwang as he could carry you against most things you'd come across in the field. Compared to today, the occasional roaming sand ninja was pretty weak. I wasn't one of those folks, I was preaching fighting alongside gate guards, but hey, we were still figuring things out back then. Another fun fact, back in those days, the only way to get a small backpack was to loot one off a knocked out paladin. No, the thieves' packs didn't exist yet. Statwise, it was the best you were going to find.

[@kg30004]

This is a fun one

[@christophbeck1305]

I will probably settle there if i can get enough characters and train up some i made like 85k just killing the fog princes with my starting skeleton and only stoped because i was like i need to train Beep and Infinit wingwang in my current playthough plus a base there is probably good if i anger the bigger factions after attempting to toppel them

[@GamingMasterAnthony]

My trick for the fog lands is this: don’t go in there unless you have to unless you’re a skeleton.

[@mirdav3648]

Hello are u using a mod for having the green on the skill panel?

[@TheTheiceking]

What if you destroy mongrel will they take it over?

[@stellargalaxy9]

So I based up here in my current playthrough and this place is so cheese. I can make 50k cats a day with my assassin just running around and stealth KO’ing princes. And Mongrel is amazing, they even have a robotics shop.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Never settled there, i did train my skeletons there and got filthy rich hunting princes :-) Stamina training man, it's fantastic, they club you down and don't eat you heheh

[@grimsgraveyard3598]

I love the text when the guy was being eaten its just like fuuuuucccckkkkkk! Lol

[@SoupBaaaaby]

Once you down the fog prices you should first aid them and tie them to the pillars, the fog men eat them just the same xD

[@zerglingist]

today I learned that crossbows can shoot through the gates.

[@paulrogersgaming]

I haven't know about that for very long. Before, I had thought that tier 2 walls were needed to shoot over the gate. 😬 I wish I would have mentioned this too but you can totally build the turrets on the ground. They won't have as big of a height advantage, but as long as they have line of sight, they're good to go.

[@sz2yn]

7:50 you don't really need to attach a human character, as far as i've seen fogmen work too

[@leandrodejesus338]

Make a video about why you should settle at bonefields

[@paulrogersgaming]

I love the bonefields. Definitely hoping to make a video on it soon

[@leandrodejesus338]

@@paulrogersgaming I don't like because there's beak thing, but they are everywhere, but I remember when playing Kenshi and my exploration squad have to pass in the bonefields and after a time i notice a beak thing run with all his mighty just to kill my squad.

[@paulrogersgaming]

@@leandrodejesus338 Elder beak things are a problem. Also, the beak thing hordes feel like a death sentence. I'm planning on making a video about how to handle beak things soon.

[@takashishin8282]

I'll try to settle in that place I will never settle again

[@unknow0145]

watched

[@joea5183]

If u steal, then once u get to mongrel, just rob the skeleton limb guy and u can sell the limbs in the same town. In a week, u will never have to worry about cash again. Almost makes the game easy

[@Alexander59059]

You’d think a place with constant fog would have a decent amount of water

[@redrum3405]

I let my guy be half eaten. Arms and legs. Then I rescued him with followers and ran off. Massive toughness gain.