I came into the swamp, a guy tried to extort me for some cats, i insulted him starting a bar fight that ended in a full on war that extended for several villages. Got a nice coat out of it 10/10.
To live in the swamp, or not? My heart says yes; I love making cats on hash, and the music there is great. The sheer hatred in my heart for blood spiders and my screaming computer say no.
@@paulrogersgamingwe killed all the beak things we sent our starving bandits (drug addicts) they devoured them in weeks those poor beak things didn't stand a chance.
I used to dislike relying on biofuel as well, but ever since I made a base in Howler's Maze, I actually prefer it over wind energy (assuming the wind isn't constant and high). Biofuel is very easy to make, especially when you use hemp. 3 large hemp plots produce more fuel and fabric than I know what to do with.
I don't usually comment on TH-cam videos, but its cool seeing your channel grow and the Kenshi content your producing. Keep up the work it's really entertaining and researched stuff!
One of my favourite spots is on the Western edge of the Swamp, southwest of the lost library, bordering the Spider Plains. You get wind on the slopes down into the Swamp and all three grow zones. It's a dangerous spot, especially with various expanded faction mods, spiders and bezerkers come in out of the plains regularly and UWE places the Blue Cleaver HQ right next door. If you are making hash it's also close to Squin which pays well
Burning Forest can be a good place to settle, as long as you have acid resistance. Pretty much the same as a swamp but with added benefit of wittlling health of most attackers.
Never knew there wasn't any wind power in the swamps. I didn't get that far. Like an idiot, I figured my second try at a base would be GREAT in the swamps. started to set up shop and was almost immediately devoured by blood spiders. Was a hard knock introduction to Kenshi base building. Enjoyed the vid.
My first base was shem side right on the border of Shem, traded a lot with Shark and man the loading screens and blood spiders are no joke. Made me kinda regret it and prefer dealing with the beak things on the way to Flats Lagoon
The swamp is a great place to train, the spiders are the only thing that will eat you, the gangs wont enslave you (the slaver raid can be avoided if you settle the northern part of the swamp), and if you put on some stat lowering gear, plant some crops and you can train to 60/60 on raptors without ever leaving your base. Bonus for putting nests at 4! Edit: the music, forgot the music
Not too long ago, I had a base on the border between the swamp and south wetlands. It was a little bit west of the Stone Rats and close by Red Sabres' hidout to its east. I had a good time there. But curiously enough, I actually could get wind power there. It kind of sucked and sometimes would go away. But I mostly used wind there. I just kept a backup generator for those times that the wind stopped. I had no idea you weren't supposed to get wind there.
Small swamp base is great for getting a lil hash going before hydroponics are researched. Just put the gate where it faces a pond/lake and pack pulls/dogs are great for spiders cause they cant block. Also, taking out the swamp ninjas base is easier than fighting their patrols all the time, and you always want to do the swamp ninjas **before** the red sabres. The stone rats/greyflayer "storyline" is a nice touch to give you an objective while living there. Burning Forest isnt actually all that bad either as it also has swamp but with arid, too. It's closer to Flats Lagoon, which is convenient if you want to be a hash dealer and to sell rum to the swamp while living off ricebowls. Just make sure all your workers are wearing a dustcoat or is a hiver lol
Always settled in Swamp even on my old 2005 HP pc, I endured the lag and I can outright say the swamp was always and will always be the best place to settle
i saw your gut video and wanted to ask for a swamp video because im absolutely in love with my current swamp base. decided to find your most recent settlement video to ask there and found this lol
During my last run i started out in the swamp. Tough at firts and ridiculously easy and lucrative later. Had so much hash i could not sell it to anyone.
Southern wetlands does have little wind, and sometimes there might be a few days without rain, in the swamp it rains 247? built my base at the rivers end, right next to the grid that has plenty of copper and iron.
I love the swamp. Get tech level 3, research hemp biofuel production, get 3 large fields growing, and never look back. Also if you shift right click the generator with somebody, you assign their job to resupply it with fuel, which they do automatically. No pesky micro needed.
I just found my favorite base location for the swamp. It hase 1 copper 1 iron deposit and even like 20% stone on its far edges and its also on an island so very defensible aswell. If you look east of the swamp ninja base, there is an island surrounded by a small body of water, its a bit small but managable and all you need for autonomy, also relativly close to clownsteady, a slave market and the nomads aswell as flats lagoon,
Ayyyy the Shem/Swamp border is where I put my very first (and only) outpost :) I never finished it, I should get back to that save. I think my thought process was that I wanted the swamp fertility, as well as just living in the swamp, but it was killing my computer, and the blood spiders where killing me. Shem looked visually pleasing, so I settled on the sand right next to the swamp and a pool of water. I liked having access to Shark and the nomads for trading, as well as Flats Lagoon being relatively close by.
I had a great swamp base where the entrance funneled enemies into an area where they had to swim while under fire from turrets. However the geometry was so lumpy that about every other day, a spider or sometimes 1000 raptors would clip through my walls and cause a huge panic.
The Swamps are great, I had a base there, just a little bit south-east of Shark. The town is a constant battle between the Hounds and Swampers, but hey. I settle there for the green, sticky good stuff, not deranged men and women howling in front of my gates.
@@paulrogersgaming They're part of the Hounds, and they come by every week to get their cut of my profit. Which is fine because I make more cats than I know what to do with. It's also only 2K each week, no more no less. Unlike those tin cans from the UC, who change the tax rate based on their mood. This happens only if you ally with the Hounds though. I mean why not, big mommy Grim wants 2000, I give her 2000.
i don't see why biofuel is such a big thing if you settled near the upper parts you could've just ran the waystation n bought fuel with hashish money, but i use a mostly Hivers n skeletons so i don't need to eat as much or at all lol Great video tho always useful content
When I first started the game, I let my squad run through the swamp, just clicking a point on the map and having tripple speed. My complete squad was dying and I had no idea why, turns out there was a spider following my squad, I tried to fight it...yeah not such a good idea with a bunch of weak memberrs. And since then I have avoided the swamp and never even tought about building a base there.
The speed that a spider can KO at is wild. Characters usually bleed afterward too so death is likely. Always panic inducing when there's a dying character in the water. Ya gotta fish them out of the water and then heal.
I love the Swamp! It has the best music and lacks that horrible earslpitting at night song. Getting some decent research done, fighting some dust bandits, and slapping everyone in the Venge suit (dustcoat + armoured hood) is usually enough to keep you from a total party wipe. Leave the gate open and put some turrets on top of buildings, your pack bulls and farmers will become combat monsters this way. Speaking of pack bulls, blood spiders can't block, a single lucky charge from an adult/elder packbull can outright kill a dozen or more spiders. The bad part of the swamp is performance and visibility, I still crash to desktop with current gen hardware. I swear fewer issues in Linux + Proton on old hardware, but that's likely anecdotal. Leaving so dead bodies and severed limbs can despawn helps and zooming into a random spot of dirt away from animations seems to prevent broken saves, if you let all the assets load before you zoom out. Crashing to desktop and having to import a borked autosave is pretty morale damaging, Edit: I've seen beak bastards wander in from the Bonefields/Shem in vanilla. In Kaizo (and other mods that remove no-go zones), I've seen elders with an age multiplier of 2.xx as far north as Mud Town. Living in The Swamp will have your squad lol at normal 1.10 aged elder beak bastards.
I love the swamp. Fertile land, moral ambiguity of it's inhabitants, the bandits there aren't too strong and the UN, UC and SK big boys don't bother you ... much. I come to hunt for turtle meat. I stay to sow wide, totally legal fields of hemp.
I setteled in the north east of the swamp. I hated these spiders, now i see them as toughness and medic traning I ran all the time from the truffle things 😂, didt know you could kill them I buy construction material all the time so my guys get fast and then sturdy I love the swamp its my home now in my 3rd time playing , and its so nice when i come from hilly and hot explorations and see my base gate in the fog to cool down amd smoke hashish
@@chuckn4851 I have full faith in the intellect of the creator, but the joke also shows that he is American so is it actually (assuming you are American) the Americans not understanding the nuances of European humor? ;)
I have been mixing it up more lately. I don't like to go above 30 characters. It gets too much at that point. I usually keep raids on the default setting, but it can be fun to increase their frequency. I think it all depends on what you're looking to do. If you're role playing as a faction at war with another faction, increasing the raid frequency is highly recommended. Makes it feel more immersive.
I would Not settle here, it's still not great with loading screens... i did settle onnan island south of it in the large lake. But it is not very active. You could make a small outpost for The 'grass' production, but even that is better along the shore near the strange town. which saves a lot of travel time lol
I don't like the swamp. It's all wet, sticky, stinky, muddy, damp and creepy. Once I saw a huge humanoid monster that resembled the slenderman. But once I got closer, it turned out to be just a tree. But I don't go to the swamp anymore unless I have to. I don't want to come across that tree at night, it might come alive then.
![HIWWHEE | OHM [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OJJLtTLqLag/mqdefault.jpg)
"The swamp can fit 3 Europes!"
3 images of Africa
That gave me a good laugh
Average American level of geographical knowledge in a nutshell 😹
@@Larzanghe's Clearly trolling bro most of us know where Europe and Africa are, and the fact they aren't the same continent but they are connected.
@@grimsgraveyard3598 Yeah, so? I'm still taking my independent jab at the education system and how much it has failed some people I know.
@@grimsgraveyard3598 imagine explaining a joke
@@grimsgraveyard3598 You know that there is water between Africa and Europe right?
I came into the swamp, a guy tried to extort me for some cats, i insulted him starting a bar fight that ended in a full on war that extended for several villages.
Got a nice coat out of it 10/10.
Love the place, would return again
I always feel bad killing swamp turtles. Theyre so sweet. One of the few true neutral animals, and theyve got a cute lil face.
True, they look so innocent
All I see is walking meat and leather.
This is only game I've ever played where I didn't feel bad killing the friendly animals
The swamp turtles sure are a unique looking creature.
I think I could even recreate one in spore
Had one as a pet once in Genesis.
Gotta love the random blood spider swarms and the fact that they can attack when underwater and your pathfinding sends you for a little swim
Robotics limbs don't feel so good when that happens...
To live in the swamp, or not? My heart says yes; I love making cats on hash, and the music there is great. The sheer hatred in my heart for blood spiders and my screaming computer say no.
I hate blood spiders too. Them chasing your characters underwater is nightmare fuel.
"There are no beak things."
Not spawns, but they can DEFINETELY wander in from Shem if you are near the border.
Just like Ohio, beak things could attack at any time.
@@paulrogersgamingwe killed all the beak things we sent our starving bandits (drug addicts) they devoured them in weeks those poor beak things didn't stand a chance.
I used to dislike relying on biofuel as well, but ever since I made a base in Howler's Maze, I actually prefer it over wind energy (assuming the wind isn't constant and high). Biofuel is very easy to make, especially when you use hemp. 3 large hemp plots produce more fuel and fabric than I know what to do with.
thank you for doing your part at keeping this community alive
We must keep Kenshi going until the blessed day when Kenshi 2 is released 🙌
I don't usually comment on TH-cam videos, but its cool seeing your channel grow and the Kenshi content your producing. Keep up the work it's really entertaining and researched stuff!
I have been very impressed by how supportive the Kenshi community is. Thank you for tuning in!!
If you strugle with the loading screens of the swamp, search the mod "Clean and speed" or "Clean and speed plus".
One of my favourite spots is on the Western edge of the Swamp, southwest of the lost library, bordering the Spider Plains. You get wind on the slopes down into the Swamp and all three grow zones.
It's a dangerous spot, especially with various expanded faction mods, spiders and bezerkers come in out of the plains regularly and UWE places the Blue Cleaver HQ right next door. If you are making hash it's also close to Squin which pays well
Burning Forest can be a good place to settle, as long as you have acid resistance. Pretty much the same as a swamp but with added benefit of wittlling health of most attackers.
I'm planning on checking it out!
Top left is legit, it's the center of the map and that drug run to flatts lagoon makes you super rich.
As soon as I get an actual computer instead of a laptop im definitely spending most of my time in the Swamp.
Never knew there wasn't any wind power in the swamps. I didn't get that far. Like an idiot, I figured my second try at a base would be GREAT in the swamps. started to set up shop and was almost immediately devoured by blood spiders. Was a hard knock introduction to Kenshi base building. Enjoyed the vid.
recently starting playing the game, gotta say thanks for all the guides you put out, they help a noob like me out a lot haha
My first base was shem side right on the border of Shem, traded a lot with Shark and man the loading screens and blood spiders are no joke. Made me kinda regret it and prefer dealing with the beak things on the way to Flats Lagoon
„Three Europes“
*proceeds to show Africa*
I'm using all 110% of my American education.
@@paulrogersgamingit used to teach that stuff when I was in school lol.
The swamp is a great place to train, the spiders are the only thing that will eat you, the gangs wont enslave you (the slaver raid can be avoided if you settle the northern part of the swamp), and if you put on some stat lowering gear, plant some crops and you can train to 60/60 on raptors without ever leaving your base. Bonus for putting nests at 4!
Edit: the music, forgot the music
Not too long ago, I had a base on the border between the swamp and south wetlands. It was a little bit west of the Stone Rats and close by Red Sabres' hidout to its east. I had a good time there. But curiously enough, I actually could get wind power there. It kind of sucked and sometimes would go away. But I mostly used wind there. I just kept a backup generator for those times that the wind stopped. I had no idea you weren't supposed to get wind there.
Small swamp base is great for getting a lil hash going before hydroponics are researched. Just put the gate where it faces a pond/lake and pack pulls/dogs are great for spiders cause they cant block. Also, taking out the swamp ninjas base is easier than fighting their patrols all the time, and you always want to do the swamp ninjas **before** the red sabres. The stone rats/greyflayer "storyline" is a nice touch to give you an objective while living there.
Burning Forest isnt actually all that bad either as it also has swamp but with arid, too. It's closer to Flats Lagoon, which is convenient if you want to be a hash dealer and to sell rum to the swamp while living off ricebowls. Just make sure all your workers are wearing a dustcoat or is a hiver lol
Hopefully with Kenshi 2 being on Unreal, the Swamp will be far more playable.
Always settled in Swamp even on my old 2005 HP pc, I endured the lag and I can outright say the swamp was always and will always be the best place to settle
i saw your gut video and wanted to ask for a swamp video because im absolutely in love with my current swamp base. decided to find your most recent settlement video to ask there and found this lol
Good review. Looking forward to the next one!
Man I love these guides
During my last run i started out in the swamp. Tough at firts and ridiculously easy and lucrative later. Had so much hash i could not sell it to anyone.
Southern wetlands does have little wind, and sometimes there might be a few days without rain, in the swamp it rains 247?
built my base at the rivers end, right next to the grid that has plenty of copper and iron.
I love the swamp. Get tech level 3, research hemp biofuel production, get 3 large fields growing, and never look back. Also if you shift right click the generator with somebody, you assign their job to resupply it with fuel, which they do automatically. No pesky micro needed.
I just found my favorite base location for the swamp. It hase 1 copper 1 iron deposit and even like 20% stone on its far edges and its also on an island so very defensible aswell. If you look east of the swamp ninja base, there is an island surrounded by a small body of water, its a bit small but managable and all you need for autonomy, also relativly close to clownsteady, a slave market and the nomads aswell as flats lagoon,
Ayyyy the Shem/Swamp border is where I put my very first (and only) outpost :)
I never finished it, I should get back to that save.
I think my thought process was that I wanted the swamp fertility, as well as just living in the swamp, but it was killing my computer, and the blood spiders where killing me. Shem looked visually pleasing, so I settled on the sand right next to the swamp and a pool of water.
I liked having access to Shark and the nomads for trading, as well as Flats Lagoon being relatively close by.
Watched and liked 🧡
the swamp arid base spot is really smart, unfortunately i started my playtrough just abit southwest to it. anyways, good video as always :)
I had a great swamp base where the entrance funneled enemies into an area where they had to swim while under fire from turrets.
However the geometry was so lumpy that about every other day, a spider or sometimes 1000 raptors would clip through my walls and cause a huge panic.
got this in my recommendations and I like it *sub*
Glad you liked it! ❤
The Swamps are great, I had a base there, just a little bit south-east of Shark. The town is a constant battle between the Hounds and Swampers, but hey. I settle there for the green, sticky good stuff, not deranged men and women howling in front of my gates.
Where are the women who howl? Asking for a friend.
@@paulrogersgaming They're part of the Hounds, and they come by every week to get their cut of my profit. Which is fine because I make more cats than I know what to do with. It's also only 2K each week, no more no less. Unlike those tin cans from the UC, who change the tax rate based on their mood. This happens only if you ally with the Hounds though. I mean why not, big mommy Grim wants 2000, I give her 2000.
nice vid, loved the humor 😂👍
Shart has to be the best town in the game.
i don't see why biofuel is such a big thing if you settled near the upper parts you could've just ran the waystation n bought fuel with hashish money, but i use a mostly Hivers n skeletons so i don't need to eat as much or at all lol Great video tho always useful content
Pretty good stuff
When I first started the game, I let my squad run through the swamp, just clicking a point on the map and having tripple speed.
My complete squad was dying and I had no idea why, turns out there was a spider following my squad, I tried to fight it...yeah not such a good idea with a bunch of weak memberrs.
And since then I have avoided the swamp and never even tought about building a base there.
The speed that a spider can KO at is wild. Characters usually bleed afterward too so death is likely.
Always panic inducing when there's a dying character in the water. Ya gotta fish them out of the water and then heal.
I love the Swamp! It has the best music and lacks that horrible earslpitting at night song. Getting some decent research done, fighting some dust bandits, and slapping everyone in the Venge suit (dustcoat + armoured hood) is usually enough to keep you from a total party wipe. Leave the gate open and put some turrets on top of buildings, your pack bulls and farmers will become combat monsters this way. Speaking of pack bulls, blood spiders can't block, a single lucky charge from an adult/elder packbull can outright kill a dozen or more spiders.
The bad part of the swamp is performance and visibility, I still crash to desktop with current gen hardware. I swear fewer issues in Linux + Proton on old hardware, but that's likely anecdotal. Leaving so dead bodies and severed limbs can despawn helps and zooming into a random spot of dirt away from animations seems to prevent broken saves, if you let all the assets load before you zoom out. Crashing to desktop and having to import a borked autosave is pretty morale damaging,
Edit: I've seen beak bastards wander in from the Bonefields/Shem in vanilla. In Kaizo (and other mods that remove no-go zones), I've seen elders with an age multiplier of 2.xx as far north as Mud Town. Living in The Swamp will have your squad lol at normal 1.10 aged elder beak bastards.
I LOVE wild bulls
Blood spiders have a long stick with a blade on the end of it extending their arms, watch out
Spiders have had a polearm this whole time 😳
I wish more areas had at least patches of swamp fertility... I love growing rice but there's only a few places you can do it in.
I love the swamp. Fertile land, moral ambiguity of it's inhabitants, the bandits there aren't too strong and the UN, UC and SK big boys don't bother you ... much.
I come to hunt for turtle meat. I stay to sow wide, totally legal fields of hemp.
Ma man❤
good video
Cant wait for the bonefields
swamp base location
8:44 wetland base location
you should try the burning forest, it has less foliage, same soil type and generally better locations t build
For sure going there soon!
Once I find a way to stop the Waystation shopkeepers from despawning I can finally upgrade my squad from hobo ninjas to ruthless drug dealers
Smoke some hashish and play as a hashish farmer, feel the full experience
Would be neat to see the krater 😄
I found a spot bordering the burning forest where I was able to get wind power + all resources at 100% except stone which was 50%.
Blood Spiders, meet the desert sabre!
Swamp music is best in the game too
So true
I setteled in the north east of the swamp.
I hated these spiders, now i see them as toughness and medic traning
I ran all the time from the truffle things 😂, didt know you could kill them
I buy construction material all the time so my guys get fast and then sturdy
I love the swamp its my home now in my 3rd time playing , and its so nice when i come from hilly and hot explorations and see my base gate in the fog to cool down amd smoke hashish
Says Europe shows Africa
I'm guessing he is American ;)
I'll have you know I have a college degree from an American university.
@@jimmyselsmark7346 Leave it to the European to not understand the nuances of American humor ;D
@@chuckn4851 I have full faith in the intellect of the creator, but the joke also shows that he is American so is it actually (assuming you are American) the Americans not understanding the nuances of European humor? ;)
@@jimmyselsmark7346 No one understands anything. I can agree with this lol
ah yes, the 3 europes allegory
i love kenshi and your kenshi vids wanna play dark and darker w me :3
"Three Europes."
Inb4 it is Three Africas :P
I am a victim of the American education system.
It won’t let me launch the game of steam, was looking forward to playing it
What settings do you recommend / do you usually play with in terms of squad sizes, raids, etc?
I have been mixing it up more lately. I don't like to go above 30 characters. It gets too much at that point. I usually keep raids on the default setting, but it can be fun to increase their frequency. I think it all depends on what you're looking to do. If you're role playing as a faction at war with another faction, increasing the raid frequency is highly recommended. Makes it feel more immersive.
The city of SHART
You're the FIRST person to comment about that. I mispronounced it during recording and left it in there. Shart is such a lovely city.
That's no Europe, it's a space station
🤣
i'm settle at Shem, and selling to swamp lol
GTX 1660 and 32gb of RAM and I never get loading screens.
south wetlands is pretty
Oh yes, US education system :D
there is education in america!?
0:55 "3 Europes"
- Uses Africas -
I would Not settle here, it's still not great with loading screens... i did settle onnan island south of it in the large lake. But it is not very active.
You could make a small outpost for The 'grass' production, but even that is better along the shore near the strange town. which saves a lot of travel time lol
Obedience settlement when?
Swamplands bestlands
Best region.
Btw. Don't kill turtles! They're friendly and nice
no swamp is evil
Netherlands simulator
I don't like the swamp. It's all wet, sticky, stinky, muddy, damp and creepy. Once I saw a huge humanoid monster that resembled the slenderman. But once I got closer, it turned out to be just a tree.
But I don't go to the swamp anymore unless I have to. I don't want to come across that tree at night, it might come alive then.
"the slave market is right next door if you need to sell "goods" lmfao
What mod is this?
Hey friend, the main mods I use are for: Genesis map (just the map), 3x attack slots, Squad Size 256, Dark UI, and Reactive World.
0:56 Dude, you said Europe, but showed Africa.
it's a joke because the world seems to think Americans do not understand geography
nice 😂 talks about Europe but shows a picture of Africa 👍
The American education system failed me
Swamp bois sad :(
I am so bad at this game
spiders are worse then beak things