In my head, I imagined the bull being animated and anthropomorphic drawn in the style of Ren and Stimpy

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You hear stories of people who keep prisoners around to let out and beat up, only for the prisoner to eventually get tough enough to beat up the players team and just escape.

​@@FrancisJohnYT yeah the xp they gain is also nice causes a back and forth, I usually end up killing them before that thpugh, after a trainee gains up to 50 in a combat skill I "initiate" them by making them kill their first target, that beimg the training "dummy"

@@comatose1818 hardcore stuff man. I like to use some sort of recruiting mod, usually the lore friendly one but recruit anyone if I'm feeling like an unbalanced playthrough. Then you recruit the training dummy after you're done with them and send them out into the wastes to prove themselves. This can honestly lead to some really interesting stories, especially when you see your former training dummy again in a slavemonger caravan.

In theory you could do the same thing with Bugmaster to become allied with the spiders as well, though it would cost a hell of a lot more as slaves are valued on there stats.

It’s also a way to Recruit Skeletons without mods. Drop ‘m down near a slaver, make HIM the bad guy. Then “free ” him and feel good about yourself. Works 40% all of the time!

Oh we have some tricks we can break out to level up combat stats and toughness, I just wanted to ally with the beak things early so we could open up the map.

@@FrancisJohnYT - Fun fact - the beak things in earlier versions of Kenshi could talk. One of the things they said was "Relax. Enjoy death."

@@ahmataevo i would run like hell when a monster like that exist

@@ahmataevo lol why did they take that out thats funny

Agreed, the slave start in Rebirth with the two characters is the best start in the game by far - spend every day running around fighting guards and every night sneaking around stealing and knocking out guards, you level so fast no exploits are required - by the end fo the second in-game week, you're stronger than most of the guards (all stats in the high 50's-low 60's) and have enough athletics to simply run right out the gate past them if you want...but also high enough martial arts skill from all the unarmed fighting to beat the shit out of every guard in the camp LOL. Personally I like to knock a few of em out and throw them in their own cages at night....their friends let them out in the morning, put shackles on them, and treat them like every other prisoner LMAO after a few days, most of the slaves are former paladins, and you can free all the other slaves.

That's good advice.

Francis pointed out this gets exploity fast, this comment is unnecessary as it is pedantic, there are a million more videos showing how to "properly" play kenshi. Worthless advice.

You said "do not do the things in this video" then told us what to do lol.

Agreed. You CAN break the game and just go on a big power trip. Just like playing D&D, you can min max your character and make yourself Godlike, most people try to do that when they first play, after awhile though you realize there's only so much fun in that. Past that it's about making a realistic character and stepping into their shoes to make a story. For that, Kenshi is an S tier sandbox.

better idea for any new players: you bought the game, play it any way you like to.

I tried doing that but could not pick one up, I was hoping to carry a few into some towns.

@@FrancisJohnYT thats strange. Maybe it was in sneak or non-sneak? I could do it immediately. Just walking up to one, long right-click, pick up.

Come on now, everybody knows that you just gotta put yourself into prison and it's an instant acquittal.

I can assure you all of the tips in this video do apply for real life. Like getting yourself a bull to help you rob a shop etc. It works 100%

Oh yeah I just started few days ago and stealing from him regulary lol. Good tip on knocking him down

@@whoknows8223 Kinda makes you wonder how all these Mongrel shops keep getting resupplied lol

@@JB-xl2jc they knock out other shopkeepers and steal their goods

I made this guide because it was the one I wanted when I first started :)

I hate using mods, so this video was just perfect. I may never use the intel, but I just love sitting on it... just in case.

Yeah we are not playing this the way it was intended, this is more of a on a repeat playthrough version.

I feel like Starsector and Kenshi are games that are not quite big enough to have decent tutorials for them. You have to spend hours reading old forum posts to figure out how to play them well. It's really a pity as they are great games and deserve more players.

Oh I'm going to try random pawn start, so no picking stats or traits. I'm sure the first dozen or so will die at least. But we should figure out how to survive... eventually.

@@FrancisJohnYT Seconding Wirthi wirth's suggestion of a "random monthly 'new' game you try out a bit". I've loved both series immensely.

Hummm that means we don't need to join the thieves guild that early. Makes things a bit more straight forward.

Sorry about that. IMPORTANT I say I start as "The nobodies" but I actually pick "The Freedom Seekers" make sure you pick the freedom seekers.

You can find pretty much all this info on the reddit if you do enough searching but I figured it would to nice to have it all in one place. It's crazy how quickly you can break this game.

I appreciate the succinct video though. I have never thought to myself, gosh, I must go on reddit and research the crap outta this game... I just play them and occasionally trip over a video on KZfaq about them. Thanks.

Thanks, I feel bad if all the time I spent learning a game goes to waste. Far better to share it with other people who end up on the same path, saving other people a bunch of time is what I would like everyone to be doing.

@@FrancisJohnYT Did you know that No-Face can be recruited afterwards? Drop him back on his island, he thanks you (I suppose for getting him out and bringing him "home", not the abuse you inflicted on him) and runs off, supposedly looking for his family - in one big loop around the Gutter. I suspect this would work after buying him/bailing him out just once, without the whole shebang, maybe this is another way to befriend Gutters. Will try on the next go around. Come back later, he recognizes you and you can talk to him, not much in terms of dialogue though. His stats are crazy good, like you'd expect if you seen him fight. Waaay better than any other recruit I saw on the wiki or found during the last few days of play. But you need to meet some pre-requisite for the recruit dialogue to show, otherwise he only offers you money and says he can't leave his family.

@@iriemk9543 I never thought to try, that is a hell of a lot of effort to go through to recruit him though. 400k is a bit expensive. I assume their is a cheaper way?

The desert city bank restocks same frequency as vendors, for about 100K per thieving run. It can be hard finding vendors who can buy that many leviathan pearls though.

@@ahmataevowell tbf you can buy alll the scrap master high end stuff and then use the beak thing eggs to fund it making it a very quick way to get edgewalkr weapons

You can do the same with the shinobi thieves guild, once you join them you can practice on them to your hearts content.

They're well aware of everything and left it in deliberately.

@@KainYusanagi I think they just didn't want to spend the time debugging. Kenshi 2 won't have so many easily exploitable things I imagine

​@@EssDubz They spent years debugging, actually. A lot of idiosyncracies of the game are due to the engine, with some even being ascended memes that the playerbase embraced and didn't want fixed. Kenshi 2 is being built specifically to deal with most of them, at least the ones that are engine-based, since it's in a new engine (from OGRE to Unreal Engine 4).

@@KainYusanagi how soon? Cant wait for Kenshi 2... hope they drop the Holy Nation bs...

The "R" button, it's my accent and you are not the first to get confused 😃

The R key on the keyboard, it tells your pawn to stop what they are doing. So if while paused you told them to say move somewhere by accident and you want to cancel that move as they are currently committing a crime, the R key stops them and causes them to stay where they are.

@@FrancisJohnYT Thank you. I've been watching your stuff for years and this is the first time that your accent (I know you don't hear it, nor do I hear my own) has caused me any issues understanding. Keep up the good work!

Damn I’d already killed the blood spiders there but when I start a new playthrough I’ll try it

I have tried this but can't get it to work, does this require the waypoints mod or is this vanilla? Can you provide more details?

@@FrancisJohnYT kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd6YltKi3Ja6ZHk.html ive made a tiny showcase of what i mean because my brain is a mush and i cant explain anything with words

Cant claim credit for figuring it out, was directed to a reddit thread. Feels totally broken as it makes traveling almost risk free.

Hopefully Don't Starve Rog or Darkest Dungeon 😊

I vote is on a darkest dungeon speed run on blood moon difficulty, see how quickly he can defeat the darkest dungeon.

I promised to do a Rimworld playthrough, was thinking of doing the Ice sheet challenge.

@@FrancisJohnYT Oooh nice, that was my fav type of playthrough when I last played RW even going as far as putting permanent winter and cold freeze and everything to lower the temp as much as possible especially starting with nothing or as close to it as possible, pro tip cannibalism is OP for that scenario as corpses don't spoil

@@FrancisJohnYT But I'd really love to watch you learn and master Don't Starve Reign of Giants and also Darkest Dungeon and other games cuz uve done a lot of rimworld

I have had issues with misclicks in the past, I prefer to be real careful when it comes to stealth KO. But barring that their is no mechanical difference.

Money printing is pretty easy this way for sure, it's not worth the effort of stealing beak thing eggs to sell, robotic repair kits are more valuable and more compact. I want to see how quickly we can get to the point of training 10 trainees up to level 80 ish is all the combat stats, I'm thinking strength is going to be the slowest one we level.

@@FrancisJohnYT Probably way too late with this reply but i read on the wiki that you can set a group member to block and then exile them or kick them from the group (sets them to drifters faction) and they will be stuck on block. Load the trainee up as heavy as possible, carry someone and use either the heaviest weapon you have for ultimate strength gain or go unarmed to power-train martial arts, dexterity and strength at the same time. As you train your ex-friend will be leveling his defence too so it scales with you to 100 if you are patient. Another version of this is to find a hostile skeleton and hope one of their legs falls off, put them in a skeleton repair bed and just beat them forever but this will be slower unless you plan on dragging Cat-lon or Tinfist to a repair bed minus a leg... Also works with iron spiders but that's janky and also slower than the block method as "sleeping" things only level toughness and no combat stats leading to slower xp gains as you become more powerful than they are. Or for the simplest and dirtiest version find a bonedog or similar, have it be put into a time out by some passer-by, carry it to a bed and hit it with blunt weapons for a morally bankrupt yet very successful training method that can level martial arts, blunt and pole arms (with staff) to the 80s in an ingame day or two, bonus strength xp if malnourished so keep hunger just above 100 and technically you will be getting the xp rates of someone at 30 str when you are at 100, have an arm broken for a further 33% decrease to effective strength for 33% bonus xp per strike.

Okay, after spending far more time than I should have wondering about this, I realized that "or" = "r." I'm just gonna leave this note here for the next confused American. Once again, I regret my unfamiliarity with any accent not from the United States. Love the guide, BTW. Informative AND entertaining.

It's the "R" key, my Irish accent makes that unclear.

@@FrancisJohnYT omg now i hear it I feel ridiculous for asking, thanks!!! XD

@@TheMiniMadCat If you check the comments you will find you were not the only one. Try sorting by the newest 😃

XD fair! Don't whatever you do change it, if it gets that many comments, then you know you're doing something right!! ❤

This is more of a reminder for me so that next time I play I have a video I can look at to refresh me on all the exploits.

With max stealth and thievery you can clear out an entire city of money. Usually faster than the city can reset so you end up sleeping for a few hours until they get more money to steal.

Yes you can, usually a go idea as strength is always going to be necessary.

The "R" key Must be my accent.

Me too, but maybe when more is known about the game. I'd rather watch FJ play and explain a game he's mastered than see another Lets Play noob fumble around and miss obvious things in the game.