Why You Should Settle Gut | Kenshi Location Guide

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@Dragonjv2 Жыл бұрын

Ah, Gut my beloved. Ive settled here multiple times. Anytime i try to settle anywhere else it just pulls me back. That vibrant blue, the convenient location, the fertile soil rich with all the minerals, and the land teeming with walking sacks of meat and leather. With Slopeless, the terrain becomes less of a problem, and really, the Beakthings are only a problem for weaker characters. We already have a golden rule for kenshi base building in "dont do it too early or youll get your shit pushed in" which applies for literally any region, Gut included. But really, you could have a sneaky character build any building and run into it for cover early game. Beak things cant enter doors(unless they noclip through). The only difference i see between Gut difficulty and the difficulty of any other region is that Gut tells you straight up what you gotta deal with, while other regions pretend to be quiet and inviting so they can slap you with raids. Gut is love, Gut is life.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

This guy Guts^

@colinlohden9359 Жыл бұрын

@@paulrogersgaming living in gut is probably the equivalent of having the brand of sacrifice in kenshi lmao

@mirceazaharia2094 9 ай бұрын

@@colinlohden9359 Berserk is grim and dark. Kenshi is brutal and unforgiving. Seems legit.

@mirceazaharia2094 9 ай бұрын

The initial settlement might as well be in The Hub, I guess. New Kenshi player here, starting out tomorrow. Good newbie zone, lots of buildings to buy up, bar, hungry bandit patrols, copper / iron nodes nearby.

@DriftedVisionMan Жыл бұрын

Pretty interesting, I just was thinking about settling over there in Gut. Would cool if you did a "Why you shouldn't settle" on the places that are the most difficult to build bases in.

@thisisaname5589 8 ай бұрын

In the early game, you can kite nearby slavers into the beak things to help clear out the area you want to settle for you. And all you need is a single house with a door to be safe, they can't actually open building doors.

@samjukes8187 10 ай бұрын

Gut was essentially my first ever base location, and it was extremely memorable. I didn't even know about walls or crossbows, I just had one dude who was really good with a falling sun and I got everyone else to evacuate inside whenever the gutters showed up. I recall being worried about the taxmen coming and not having the money to pay them, and when the day came I watched them get ripped apart before they could even get close, so not having to pay UC taxes is certainly a benefit of Gut. One thing I can personally attest to is the sheer amount of meat and leather I stockpiled in this location, I even ended up naming the place "Crazy Jake's Meat Shack" in reference to our main export and the man with the falling sun that made it all possible. I love this whole series, and to all of you: GO TO GUT!

@paulrogersgaming 10 ай бұрын

Settling in gut for real had me thinking "Why do I even need to farm here?" There's just so much meat available at the front gate.

@warzagg5022 Жыл бұрын

With a name like Gut, it must be a great place to settle, right?

@RedSemen420 Жыл бұрын

as long as you remenber to... hurry your forces, it is pretty chill actually just watchout for gutters before your walls are up, or you mid... lose an arm or something ok ill stop

@nullifier_ Жыл бұрын

I wonder what the inhabitants of the place are called 🤔

@slinkyslink5161 10 ай бұрын

@@nullifier_you will settle in their gut after they eat you, so, gutters!

@Shadic24367 9 ай бұрын

It is if you befriend the beakthings

@El-s 8 ай бұрын

I got a gut feeling it must be

@Busson_0 11 ай бұрын

Biggest advantage of Gut is definetely its aesthetic.This blue terrain nearby ocean is really atmospheric❤.

@paulrogersgaming 11 ай бұрын

Gosh, I love the blue

@Hydracakes Жыл бұрын

Beak Things are extremely dangerous in the early game but once you have a couple of competent fighters, or a good killbox setup like you mentioned, I find them to be the most reliable source of meat and leather, and XP. Also good source of cats, if you're brave and/or crazy enough to raid some nests. :)

@thisisaname5589 8 ай бұрын

level 30+ sneak and those beak things nest are reliably safe to raid at night. And if you're living in Gut, chances are just crouch walking around your house will powerlevel your stealth.

@aceofheartsch7887 Жыл бұрын

Man I really like the idea of this series. Kenshi needs more attention.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

It is criminally underrated, or, at the very least, not discussed as much as it should be. I have played some incredible games over the years and Kenshi is probably #1.

@daledozerx2920 Жыл бұрын

kenshi is magical and extremely hard. as someone who doesn't have the millions of hours required to see it all! your videos are great!

@wolas321 11 ай бұрын

I will forever have fond memories of Gut. Settled here on my very first playthrough of Kenshi purely for the lovely aesthetics and I was woefully underprepared for the task. Huddling in my little shack hut as beak things patrolled outside, sending them out to attempt to clear them out or save my party members getting eaten and finding myself weirdly grateful for my beaky oppressors when they cleared out raiding parties for me. Felt like a true taming the wilderness experience.

@ailius1520 10 ай бұрын

RIP to all those UC tax collectors who made the ultimate sacrifice attempting to collect taxes from a Gut base but getting eaten by beak things along the way.

@Barb0nius Жыл бұрын

If you can knock out a gutter nest (and have an obscene amount of cats) you can take the beak things to slavers, put them in cages, and buy them back from the slavers to increase relations with the gutters Note: you can only do this once per gutter as the slavers will butcher them the second time you drop them in a cage

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

Are you serious?? I'm just now hearing about this!

@confessor183 Жыл бұрын

Holy shit that is epic. I haven't heard about this anywhere. I'll have to give it a try.

@BearoVonBeary Жыл бұрын

@@paulrogersgaming there is a npc somewhere that is a ``beakthing whisperer`` meaning if you use him the butcher problem is gone, i believe his is in a swampy area in the east coast in a hut by the ocean

@STOTW.SoundTracks0fTheWastes Жыл бұрын

High IQ moment. I tried and works for the most part

@stankobarabata2406 Жыл бұрын

@@BearoVonBeary I'm pretty sure that's a mod, I've played the entire base game and no such npc exists. I only play vanilla - the only mod I have is to remove excessive texture loading. You people really need to start checking your modlists before coming onto videos, guides and the wiki and spreading misinformation about the vanilla game.

@7Seven-Four4 Жыл бұрын

Always good to see appreciation for Gut. It's one of the most defensible and profitable regions, as well as one of the most beautiful, and there's seldom a dull moment. It's probably my favorite region of all, and one of my most enjoyable playthroughs of the game involved settling there. During this particular playthrough I was roleplaying a group of "rangers", hunters of beasts and bounties that did a little opportunistic banditry and slavery on the side. Aside from their headquarters in Heng, they had a little storm house on a plateau in the middle of Gut that served as a hunting lodge. Beak things couldn't fit through the door, so the group could shoot at them from mounted crossbows on the roof all day, every day, which made for great dexterity training. They took shifts at the crossbows, nest raiding, and leather crafting, raking in such enormous profits that this became their permanent stronghold. The outpost was named "Gutter Alley", for the long and narrow path that snaked between unscalable plateau cliffs and makeshift walls ensconcing the growing complex; This alley was the only path to the entrance, and was frequently patrolled by beak things lured in by the dead and dying left in gibbet cages outside the gates, serving as unwitting defenders and a convenient delivery of meat and leather. This position was so defensible that the rangers could run the outpost with just a skeleton crew and some slaves to basically print money with excessive meatwrap, grog, and iron production. I don't think I've ever made a base as satisfying and effective as this one since, and it was a fun exercise in making the most of rougher terrain, and taking advantage of everything a region has to offer, even its dangers.

@poplopong 10 ай бұрын

I love gut, when i found it my first playthrough and saw the blue hills i knew i had to settle there. Beak things became the instrument of my survival, no raiders can stand up to them once your city walls border their nests. And if they got through, every building was a tower bristling with crossbow turrets. They're a source of infinite biofuel, damage output, meat, and leather. Thank you for this series, I will have to revisit gut again

@jamesmoran3748 Жыл бұрын

I really love this series, having so many hours in the game, I often struggle with finding places to live. Maybe that’s just me being too green, but I find these types of videos extremely helpful for possible places to live. So thanks for sharing this type of content even though it’s not insanely popular (which it should be for obvious reasons)

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment! My overall goal is to create a library of guides so that Kenshi is more approachable for people. I would like for the guides to get lots of views of course, but developing a high quality community is the top priority!

@TheIcewolfe1 Жыл бұрын

Honestly I love settling Gut simply for the aesthetic and the cool bases I end up with when building there. I've had enough drab mottled browns, annoying foliage, and constant rain muddling my view, time for ~blue~ (and yes, murderous beak things are part of the aesthetic lmao). Everything else is icing on top! Thanks for the guide! Hopefully more base builders will fall for good ol' Gut.

@aintershowofficial Жыл бұрын

I routinely settle in the fog islands for the soil, and I usually find that most invading forces get overrun by the fogmen and only like a couple of raiders make it to my gate. The downside is that if anyone ever gets downed in your area they are pretty much vanished and eaten.

@kylerblack5189 3 ай бұрын

I have a hiver squad of 12 goons that are strictly on base defense. They all use a mix crossbows and pole arms to deal with invading forces and beak things. They’re surprisingly great turret gunners too

@BlikeNave 11 ай бұрын

I made starter bases in bought buildings nearby, and once I got enough food and money rolling in, I started buying and exporting supplies to set up in gut. I thought the beak things would protect me somewhat and I could also train on them. Worked pretty well but I didn't know about the reavers, so that was an extra surprise challenge. However, once everything evened out, I like this base a lot. Getting supplies there was sort of annoying at first, but once it's running it feels good and close to a lot of things. Allied with the crabs, UC, and slavers... makes a nice little niche here. By the time i got there though I already had hydroponics... I couldnt really imagine setting up here at the start without a lot of challenge.

@williamhuebler68 10 ай бұрын

I’ve settled there and definitely enjoyed it. It was an early game so I learned a lot since but it was still fun

@seamusfinnegan1164 11 ай бұрын

I would consider this area a hassle for a main settlement but definitely a good area to get food and iron if your main base is anywhere nearby, potentially even a reststop for trading parties heading elsewhere.

@parokki 10 ай бұрын

Gut is great! My latest base was on the large flat peninsula bordering Howler's Maze visible in the distance at 8:32 . Great soil, ok iron, lots of free meat and leather (my party was really high level at this point). The only problem was no copper, but micromanaging a bunch of guys to mine the nodes at the Gut/Heng/Howler's Maze border point every now and then wasn't too big of a hassle. Very convenient location if you want to destroy the United Cities. I think you initially get their tax collectors, but that stops if enough of their cities go down and the Beak Things eat a lot of them. Also sometimes Reavers manage to beat the odds and make it to your doors.

@martinsodkhunthod9223 Жыл бұрын

Honestly I've just started on Kenshin (around 120hrs) and I have a base set in the foglands and I might just try settling in gut after watching this

@joerenaud514 Жыл бұрын

I decided to settle there with just the knowledge of a lot of beak things being there , and it ended up being one of the best bases once my crew was strong enough because the beak things were just a natural defense tool. I rarely had fights where all of my enemies were starting out at full health by the time they got to my base.

@omarcillo060 11 ай бұрын

Duuuuude! This is really fun to watch, I was inspired by your video to build a base on Gut, just created a copy of my main playthrough and it's really fun to see gutters having their way with taxmen from UC 😁

@eyekhan6099 Жыл бұрын

Currently on a solo play through but will try settling in Gut on one of my plural plays. Nice video!

@metazare Жыл бұрын

Never tried settling there but now I think I'll give it a go.

@atomiccheddar Жыл бұрын

Gut's scenery is imPECKable!

@rogerp566 Жыл бұрын

I've a settlement almost in the middle of Gut. I've had 2 beak thing invasions but mostly they ignore my walls and tear apart any raids (or traders) that come into the area. I've had 2 or 3 raids make it to my walls out of dozens of attempts. Tons of meat and leather if you want. I emptied one nest of eggs and made a tidy profit from them. I tend to not want to agro beak things as they are cheap security and actually an interesting wildlife to watch (from inside thick walls of course). My only 2 issues are copper and a quick in and out of the area. I end up going around to the border with Howler Maze and then swim in and sneak through my gate. But as my base is mostly self sufficient there isn't a lot of need for this. As to copper, it is a short distance from my base location and that is right next to a beak thing nest. Sneaking to mine sometimes works. I've enough stored to meet needs but maybe next time I'll have walls around it as well. I just didn't want a massive footprint. Thanks for the video! Give Gut a go if you have medium level characters that can set up the initial settlement.

@nubbyshober1283 7 ай бұрын

As a Kenshi noob I tried settling Gut after hearing of its many wonders. Equipped my weak, early-game squad with just enough materials for a bughouse, materials mine+processor, 1 Adv Windmill, and 4 spotlight Mk.II crossbow turrets. Snuck deep into Gut, got everything built and running without a single fight, turrets all manned and ready. Then the wind completely died, rendering the turrets inoperable...just as wave after wave of beak things moved in...(playing on 4x nest size setting). Had to hide in the bughouse for what seemed like days until the wind started back up. Gut has extremely fickle wind speeds...

@afivey 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoyable video. I've played Kenshi a few hundred hours now and I'd completely forgotten about the farm to Gut's North; though considering how necessary it is to kill some beak things Gut really throws calories at anyone prepared to survive there.

@DarkOmegaMK2 9 ай бұрын

Gut is one of the more fun locations to settle in. After you can deal with Beak Things they pass from being a downside to a massive upside, as you can potentially survive solely on the meat they provide and have a strong economy with leather crafting due to the high frequency of the attacks. You will rarely get taxes by the UC as their squads will perish before reaching your base or they'll reach in a very weak state.

@thisisaname5589 8 ай бұрын

Gut is the first place I ever settled my first time playing Kenshi. It was rough at first, until I got a slaver raid and saw them walk up to my collection of small shacks, talk about enslaving us all, then get ripped apart screaming by the nearest beak-thing nest as all my people went back inside to keep tanning leather. Eventually, I got one of my guys the best scout skeleton legs money could buy, and used his ridiculous speed to kite vast swarms of beak-things to Heng, or whatever raid was coming at me that day, then use my pack animals to loot the vast amount of corpses left behind. Best region in the game, by far. The sheer amount of free stuff that gets dumped into an even moderately well-defended base is staggering here on top of the excellent minerals, stone and fertility, and the tax collectors regularly being eaten outside my walls.

@duckspiguels8871 Жыл бұрын

I love Vain, specially that zone near the foglands and the coast, maibe Vain for nex video?

@ticklezcat5191 8 ай бұрын

Got the fishman Isle vid reccomended to me, now I'm going through the whole playlist.

@paulrogersgaming 8 ай бұрын

Noice!

@CyberBeep_kenshi Жыл бұрын

A new favorite of mine is the Black desert. You can build a large base in the center on some elevated platform, with 2 small entrypoints. Which you can use well. And the gas takes care of a LOT of enemies, or at the very least weaken them.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

I need to check Black Desert out for sure! I think I have overlooked it.

@CyberBeep_kenshi Жыл бұрын

@@paulrogersgaming Bring a gasmask or skeleton;) good to lure raids etc. it was lots of fun. Use the advanced camping mod, allows you to build small fences so you can funnel in the enemy and literally line up the harpoons :-) Somewhat in the middle, look for an elevated area, rectangle-ish, had 2 natural ramps, so build on the other side (south). have fun:)

@jowern0224 Жыл бұрын

definitely keeping this for when im doing a united cities playthrough

@docc1742 Жыл бұрын

clicked this random kenshi video only to have the everloving daylights scared out of me because your voice sounds exactly like mine.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

I'm you! 😱Multiverse confirmed?

@Shumab02 7 ай бұрын

Gut was my favorite place for a base or outpost. Placed dead smack in the middle with no walls. I liked putting outpost buildings over the ponds to prevent characters from pathing into them and having to swim. Harvesting gutters was automated along with everything else. Raids and the UC taxman usually never made it. Great biome, both beautiful and brutal at the same time.

@Nachtschicht1 Жыл бұрын

Just stumbled upon your video. Gut is really not to bad to build a settlement. In my current game I built my outpost on the border between Gu and Stormgap Coast, north of Brink (?) and west of the fog village. there is a nice flat hilltop and a little valley on the Stormgap Coast side with lots of space to build and farm. The beakthings are a good source of food and money (leather). I regularly hunt for them, they are pretty easy to kill if you know how. My current hunting-party has seven people with attack/Defense above 35 (preferably above 40) and somewhat decent weapons and armor. The trick is fighting them 1:1 and keep all Characters who don't fight away from them. My hunting party is always on hold and I trie to get far enough from my base so noone from there comes to "help". When I spot beakthings I just order 1 of my hunters per beakthing to kill it and take care to move them far enough apart, so no one gets aoe-damage from another beakthing. They easily block most of the attacks from "their" beakthing and kill them without taking much damage. Of course I avoid to numerous groups of them, like you find them at the nests, but with a large enough group that would work the same way, it's just a lot of micro-management.

@speedwagon9274 Жыл бұрын

Pretty good video 👍. I just recently started a another playthrough of Kenshi, so I might give Gut a try when I'm strong enough and have the research for crossbow turrets.

@bradjarman8721 Жыл бұрын

Havent settled in Gut yet, but a theory would be to build base and then increase squad sizes. Bigger beak thing squads would pretty much deal with all base raids and give you more meat 😁

@_masssk_ 10 ай бұрын

I tried Gut once. I chose a peninsula in the very center so my enemies have to face b-things first. Then I put walls on the perimeter with the gate far from the land to push them swim. It was actually pretty peaceful time! B-things are not so scary and great for training. You can trigger them one-by-one and micro manage so only one of your soldiers is in front of the beast(and take hits) and the other dudes kick it in the ass. If you clear the nest and grab eggs, I'm not sure but it looks like they vanish from that point. Because one of the nest was inside my future base so I took cear of it first. Gut is in the center, you have several cities to trade. I had a robots commune so I captured a dozen of headless robots in Black Desert and put them on the walls I tried to capture and sell No-Face dude (who is right on the east of my peninsula, on an island, it called "strange camp" on the map) - I saw a guide that you can became a friend with b-things. But it didn't work for me.

@dracthewanderer6871 11 ай бұрын

Wish I could build straight walls on a water. Gut looks aesthetically perfect for some beach housing and on water condos. Especially that peninsula close to Howler Maze. But don't build on the coast next to maze. Rains can turn acidic.

@paulrogersgaming 11 ай бұрын

Yeah there's a really good spot on the coast, but that acid rainnnn. Oof

@Czarewich Жыл бұрын

Gut is by far the best place to settle imo. Beak Things are a benefit. They attack invading parties, they provide a good source of food and leather, they are honestly pretty good for training mid-level characters into absolute behemoths (and frankly even low-level characters with good equipment can 1v1 a beak thing relatively well). I almost always settle in Squinn first, or the Swamps, and then move to Gut when I have a few mid-level characters.

@duncanlettts9952 Жыл бұрын

I only recently found out about this games existence. 171 hrs in and i die alot. I did run out and build a base as aoon as i could. Way way to early. I died. So i started watching youtubers playing kenshi without mods, sometime with if it is funny. Anyway my life is over. I live in Kenshi now. Ps I flilppen hate the beak things and the holy empire. 😅

@KekkusMaximus 4 ай бұрын

There is a very important exploit for gut to point out. The beak things in gut are part of a faction called "gutters", and in that faction you also have a single scorchlander that lives in the strange camp on the northeastern side of gut. If you kidnap that scorchlander and bring him to a slaver settlement you can abuse the relationship bonus that you get from freeing slaves to become allied with the gutters faction and then beak things will no more target your faction members while still aggroing all outsiders that come to your doors. To do so you just leave him unconscious on the ground and the slavers will imprison him instantly, then you buy him back and you leave him unconscious on the ground again, rinse and repeat until you're allied with the gutters. It is expensive to do so since the dude is worth like 10500 cats to buy from slavers each time they imprison him but it can be done. You can technically do the same thing with the Beastmaster to ally with skinspiders but it costs even more since slave price is proportional with skill levels

@elian5798 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video mate

@joshuajimbun5877 7 ай бұрын

God damn, I've played kenshi for almost 500 hours and never could I've imagine that weird tree is an ore vein

@Titan_TM Жыл бұрын

i've settled in gut, towards the south there is a large bit of flat land. it was pretty good but the save borked and i lost it. It's also great for avoiding taxes, as the taxman often will die trying to get your base.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out

@AvengedSpector 5 ай бұрын

Currently trying to do the Stenn Desert. I've died so many times 🙃 had a dust bandit group come my way. They found nothing but ninjas and chosen fighting over my corpses

@Gdsryrox Жыл бұрын

The beak things and crabs are good at keeping the tax man off my back

@oski_c-1377 Жыл бұрын

Really really nice videos, keep it uppppppppp love from Italy 🍻🇮🇹

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@MediHusky 8 ай бұрын

This is the best place to base because it is blue and my favourite.

@paulrogersgaming 8 ай бұрын

The blue ground is pretty ngl 👌

@DevonBagley Жыл бұрын

I think there is an exploit that allows you to become allies with gutters, and makes the gut beak things friendly.

@silverkitten2909 7 ай бұрын

My favorite way is to play hives and settle in howlers. Crabs are easy food with crossbows.

@Lemonidas_of_Sourta 29 күн бұрын

No rice? No dice. But honestly, great video! Looking forward to going through your settlement playlist.

@StiveGuy 2 ай бұрын

I've settled on the coast of gut, it was OK, not my favorite base but not terrible.

@minibotas9496 10 ай бұрын

Ahhh, Gut… what I thought was a cool underwater-esqe alien ocean biome turned out to be a death trap :) I’m trying really hard to not save scum but I had to that time, what a fool I was.

@farcried8279 Жыл бұрын

Do venge or unwanted zone next!

@begusmegus6628 6 ай бұрын

It is also just beautiful, the perfect spot to have no walls and all polearms.

@gavinbarnes4701 Жыл бұрын

Wow, the beak things made a video.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

The best way to survive a beak thing attack is to play dead.

@jyryk4623 10 ай бұрын

Somebody else said this, but the land is called "Gut" because that's where you'll end up if you go there

@bastard6805 Жыл бұрын

I’ve settled there, it was pretty great, though I prefer locations that are more center map, particularly Shem and The Swamp. Would be cool seeing a video on one of those next?

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

Don't tell anyone... but Shem is next!

@bastard6805 Жыл бұрын

@@paulrogersgaming :0 my lips are sealed

@GearShotgun Ай бұрын

I tried to settle in the middle of Gut as a joke once. It was hilarious watching the United Cities tax collectors try to fight their way through the Beak Things to reach me. It ended up taking their squad several days to reach the gate, and only about half of them were left. I coughed up the cash and watched them limp back into the blue hell. None of them made it out. All I could find afterwards was a pair of boots where the sergeant made her last stand. I gave up on the outpost not long after that, the beak things were just too annoying to deal with. But watching the UC send a squad of samurai to their death, just to collect taxes that would never make it back to them, was priceless.

@sonwig5186 Жыл бұрын

I always use beak things for training

@foxdavion6865 8 ай бұрын

Golden Rule of Base Building: This goes for any start, *especially* The Freedom Seekers. The Freedom Seekers are *not* as ready as the game makes them out to be and you may think they are if you're first time. There is a reason it has an easy/hard tag, it is deceptive; You should and need to treat them as a "better" version of Nobodies, what you should do is from your waystation move to the nearest friendly city, buy a house, then task 5 of your crew to mine the surrounding nodes and your veteran solider with gearing up, research and hiring muscle. Spend your time there researching to at least all tech II, you likely won't be able to research tech III due to the limitations of building profiles, but you can try if you manage to buy a big house, but tech II is good enough as it gives you all the essentials for self reliance, from making your own bandages, to beds to more importantly, ranged base defences and actually good power generation and both alcohol and fuel production. Alcohol and narcotics are the highest and most efficient ways to make Cats in Kenshi and are the least burdensome to transport. You'd also want to bring 25 of each crop you plan to cultivate with you on the journey (the 10 you start with isn't even enough to feed the 6 people!), by the time you're ready you've long since run out of the Gohan you started with, so save up and buy a lot of Gohan, Meat Wrap or Food Cubes for the journey and to keep everyone fed until you have XL crops set up. You likely won't have the space to fit 60+ crops in your bags, so you bring enough to build mediums then upgrade those mediums into XLs and while you're doing that you need to live off the rations you bring with you. Bring enough building materials to build a shack, a bed in said shack, a Stone Mine, Inner compound walls and storage bins for ore and food (you likely won't have enough space to bring enough to build all your walls, so focus on just a core defensive castle you can all flee into if danger approaches, you can tear these down once you build walls around everything, or not), ranged weapons and bolts for all your peons so they can stand on the walls and fire down on anyone assaulting your gatehouse (I recommend an L bend set up with your raised defences, be it a wall or building overlooking the outside of the gatehouse, otherwise they won't have line of sight, the AI is coded to prioritize the gate during assaults, they only go after walls if they have broken through the gate). Alternatively, if you want to pack lighter bring two-thirds the amount of building materials and Build a Stormhouse with a makeshift wall and gate around it instead and position your ranged guys and crossbows on top of the Stormhouse. Bring enough steel plates to build the STC... I mean Stone Processor, Iron Refinery and Arrow Making Bench to craft bolts. First thing you should do is set up your mine to construct building materials, use said materials to build a well, get to producing water right away. Once you have enough water to put one in each crop, set up your crops and water them. You'd want to upgrade your crops to XL instead of using them to make food right away. If you only have 6 people, you can live off two large crops of any food type. But, if you have 20+ people, you'll need multiple XL crops immediately to be self sustaining, as you'll run out of the supplies you brought with you by the end of the first week otherwise. Also, if you set up in "safe" zones which are in the middle of no where, like Fog Islands or the outskirts of the map; No trade caravans will come visit you, so you're on your own. But nasties will! So you have to be ready before hand with the capacity to venture to cities on your own to buy books etc. Gut is in my opinion just a better Shem; Only issue is, the UC will come to tax you in Gut and Gut is inside UC territory (As the Freedom Seekers the Old Soldier is ex-UC military so they'll be nicer to you than the Nobodies), while in Shem you'd get Dust Bandits trying to extort you; Upset the Dust Bandits, if you're strong enough, eventually they'll give up on going after you; But, if you upset the UC, you're in for a world of hurt, doesn't matter how strong you are, oh and they'll enslave you, while the Dust Bandits will simply loot your base and leave you all for dead, in their case you can all limp back to beds. But, I'd take fertile soil over arid, because in arid zones everything except green fruit and cactus takes forever to grow and both hemp and rice won't like growing there at all and those are your cash crops. Also Gut is in close proximity to some of the friendlier neutral factions in the game such as the Tech Hunters, Anti-Slavers and Crab Raiders. The Reavers will leave you alone if you stay on your side of the fence or if you have no problems with slavery or you're not an escaped slave, they like to keep to themselves, despite their nasty name, they're more or less an isolationist version of Caesars Legion from Fallout, to them you're nobody and not a conquest target; Their focus is on a macro level, not a micro level and they're in a cold war with the UC.

@redsol3629 7 ай бұрын

When I was a weaker man The Gut terrified me. I watched this strange land from afar as hungry creatures stalked the trees. I have grown much since then so now I see only opportunity nestled in the bones gathered by the tall creatures that make this place their home.

@Schitters Жыл бұрын

You should check out the north part of Flats Lagoon

@kusocoobie6147 5 ай бұрын

There's actually an area on the southern shore of Gut that has relatively flat land and has both an iron tree and a copper formation in close proximity. I always build there If I'm aiming at taking on the UC in that playthroufh but I dont have enough manpower to handle the inevitable counterattacks. I just let the Beak Things do most of the work.

@Grozzgar 7 ай бұрын

after i learned how to become allied with the beak things (gutters) Gut became a favorite find the npc No-Face and knock him out and take him to a slave market and drop him on the floor in the slave shop and he gets enslaved, now the important thing is to make sure No-Face is unconscious when you buy him, his unconscious body plops out of the cage so pick him and putt him down again and after spending around 450,000 cats, have one of your lads check if the beak things attack or not

@ambermcgourthy7899 Жыл бұрын

i DON'T find beakthings that difficult to deal with in small numbers but when it's a nest you know there be hundreds of corpses just waiting to be looted.

@donaldpetersen2382 Жыл бұрын

My crew takes their gutter body pillows everywhere ♥

@onyxzero3133 7 ай бұрын

Look near the Coastline near the howler maze. A large flat area. With a really good iron deposit.

@onyxzero3133 7 ай бұрын

Forgot to mention the wind is poor. And not much copper. Build an item furnace. For the copper.

@scottraine8969 3 ай бұрын

You can gain allies with the Beaks, lots of cats and time but worth it as they are great guards

@kperson4560 Жыл бұрын

I like being there because the beak things stop a ton of raids

@redroachdk8378 11 ай бұрын

In the basegame there's an NPC in the beakthing faction. If he gets enslaved (doesn't matter by whom), whoever buys him out of slavery will get +rep with the beakthing faction. So technically it IS possible to ally the danger-giraffes in the base game.

@paulrogersgaming 11 ай бұрын

Where is the beak thing npc? 🤔 I've heard rumors but people say he doesn't exist.

@redroachdk8378 10 ай бұрын

The NPC is called No-Face, and is located in Strange Camp on an island in Gut. There's a page on him and his camp on the Kenshi Wiki @@paulrogersgaming

@warzagg5022 10 ай бұрын

That would be No-Face, the crazy hermit who attacks anyone who swims near his island.

@paulrogersgaming 10 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh, it's THAT guy. I thought he was just another crazy outlaw@@warzagg5022

@warzagg5022 10 ай бұрын

Yup! Essentially the only reason he doesn't get swarmed and eaten alive by Gutters is because he's one of them! I suspect he was made a part of the faction to keep him from dying in every game before players could see him.

@snepping1885 8 ай бұрын

ah yes my favorite berserk character, gut

@TheDanc1nghawk Жыл бұрын

I used my stealth characters to build the walls. once walls were up, moved everyone else in to clear the compound and set up shop.

@waldirnacarath Жыл бұрын

great work, do shem next

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

Within the next week, you might see Shem get some much deserved attention.

@malchelo-7627 7 ай бұрын

This is where I put my first base.

@kitkami 9 ай бұрын

My last playthrough i settled here. BUT I allied with the beak things so they were not an issue for me. Sadly they did not keep the tax collectors from making it to my town.

@pawelbm69 Жыл бұрын

Love these, keep it up ❤️

@chromacorvus9651 Жыл бұрын

It takes guts to settle in gut

@pwnsolo443 9 ай бұрын

Theres a dude on an island in Gut sitting in a chair. Stealth KO him and turn him in for bounty and then instantly buy him and free him. It raises your rep with him and the beak things and after about 400k cats worth of rep grind like that you will be allied to beak things and they will protect you. Even more badass is to pick up a few of them and drop them in a Holy Nation city. The dude is instantly KO when you buy him so when he falls on the ground the slavers instantly throw him in a cage. Just buy him back and keep repeating the process.

@33mavboy 8 ай бұрын

there are a few spots that have quality 200 iron in the middle if im not mistaken

@melanclock Жыл бұрын

Do one for burning forest :)

@darthbrooks4933 2 ай бұрын

Saw a video where a dude got allied with the Gutters, the beak things were green arrow Ally’s. He could roll up and take eggs like he wanted, after doing that there is no better place to settle than Gut, lol

@LowSkillSurvival Жыл бұрын

If Gut had more flat ground absolutely, might consider it now anyway despite the hills.

@paulrogersgaming Жыл бұрын

That's a valid deal breaker. Its terrain is more chaotic than most other spots.

@TheDanc1nghawk Жыл бұрын

I love Gut. favorite place to settle. free security from slavers. set up in the middle of Gut, on the coast where it's flat(er).

@daral9217 8 ай бұрын

So I have settled here before. Most memorable bit was never worrying about the taxman. They never made it to my base alive and so didn't even get to ask for money. The joys of watching idiots tramp through the death swamp.