Skeletons Recruits

[Su Mellusu]

do y'all know where to recruit skeletons? i need to put them on my turrets and just leave them there, already got the unique ones, tried looking for the generic ones in various places but couldn't find them

[elvendualwielder]

Only Skeleton I found was Metaro and he was randomly wandering the world. That's after 200 hours of total play. So just go exploring. You'll find one eventually.

[NewkirkX2]

If i remember the Black Desert City has a couple of skeleton recruits

[kaiyl_kariashi]

there's only a handful. (by design they're ludicrously rare).

pretty much the only way to get a significant number without imports (or mods) is to abuse prison-break/slavery-freedom mechanics.

[tikiman572]

There are two definite Skeletons you can recruit in Kenshi, those being Burn and Sadneil. Sadneil is in Black Desert City in the Inn and you just gotta talk to him and go through his dialogue tree to get him to come along. Burn is in the Deadlands (I think that's what it's called, it's the area north of the Fog Islands) and he's located at his tower. Again, just talk to him and go through his dialogue tree until you get an option to ask him to join up.

As for other Skeletons, you're going to have to luck out. You might find one in a bar in the United Cities area of the map or you could find a Skeleton wandering about the Deadlands. Sometimes they'll straight up ignore you but there is a chance that an event will happen where they take notice of you and tell you to do your worst, thinking your a member of the Holy Nation. Assure them you're not and that they can come along with you if they want, the Holy Nation be damned.

[ggg]

You might also have luck in World's End; I usually see one or two wandering about shopping, or in the bar. Another place to check might be Spring. Good luck in your search, @Su Mellusu :)

[Su Mellusu]

aight, thanks guys, i'll go wander some more then.

[Mick]

There's also Skeleton village near Purple Sands to the north, on the north coast. You'll have to find it.

[cougar206]

There is no skeleton village in vanilla other than Black Desert City, so we would need to know what mod adds that.

But there is often a skeleton in Shark, the most reliable spawn.

[Mick]

Originally posted by cougar206:

There is no skeleton village in vanilla other than Black Desert City, so we would need to know what mod adds that.

But there is often a skeleton in Shark, the most reliable spawn.

Yeah, I keep forgetting that. I will look through my mods, all 300+ of them sometime and try to find out which one does that.

[Draa]

Skeleton CSB

I was going from Holy Nation territory to the United Cities in the east and I used the road that passed through Okran's Shield to get there. Just before getting to the 2 HN bases that are situated at the choke point, I encountered a Tech Hunter skeleton coming out of the Iron Valley region heading straight for Okran's Shield. It's stats were in the 70's and like normal, it was carrying a fragment axe. Then I thought about the coming fight and how good it would be to watch the HN get pounded so decided to hang back and watch the fun.

By the time the skeleton was noticed it was almost to the first wall of the base on the right. Around 10-15 HN peeps came out after it and they were followed by around 20-30 more soon after. None of that seemed to bother the skelly because it proceeded to beat the living hell out of the HN scum. Just destroyed them. And they just kept coming. At one point an iron spider even came out of the valley and joined the fun. I'm certain that between the skelly and the spidey there was 40-50 HN peeps laid out or in serious hurt and the fight had just started.

I must have watched the fight for 8-10 minutes or more but in the end HN numbers were too much. There was probably close to 100+ AI involved in that fight in total. And only 2 weren't from the Holy Nation, lol. But they eventually wore down the skelly. I actually felt bad, but not enough to get involved myself (I would have ended up the same way).

After they beat the skelly down they it carried through the gate of the base on the right and then walked back outside the gate and tossed him into the road. Being the kind soul I am I picked him up, carried him to Stoat, and the used a recruit anyone mod to make him the second member of my squad, lol.

[AlexDuos]

As far I experienced in vanilla there were only the two previously mentioned, but with recruitable prisoners mod you can scoop up nearly any skeleton you see.

[brown29knight]

There are 3 in vanilla that are always recruitable, Burn, Sadneil (both mentioned above) and Angu, who is locked in a cage in the 3rd floor of the tower of agony, in Venge. everyone else in the tower is hostile, so prepare for a fight before you go in.

[jerrypocalypse]

I can verify there is sometimes one in Shark. I just found and recruited one there last night at the Dancing Skeleton bar.

[Bedelguese]

There is Burn at Burn's Tower, Sadneil at Black Desert City, Agnu at the Tower of Abuse, and two unique dialog but generic named skeleton recruits that have a very high chance to spawn at Shark. If the two generic Shark skeletons don't spawn you'll need to recruit as many recruits at the tavern as you can and import and it'll refresh the recruits available giving you another chance to find them, YOU MUST RECRUIT THE PEOPLE AT THE TAVERN BEFORE IMPORTING OR IT WON'T REFRESH THE RECRUITS AND YOU'LL KEEP GETTING THE SAME ONES, otherwise they're a very rare generic spawn it seems and you'll just have to recruit all recruits in a town (I found a skeleton recruit in Heng for example) and hope the next batch when you import has a skeleton.

There's also one final way to get a skeleton recruit, you need to have a human with nobody else with them wearing a Holy Nation disguise (has to be looted from a Holy Nation soldier), you must then find a single lone skeleton walking the mountains above Blister Hill (single as in not a part of a group of skeletons walking together) and you'll get a random chance for special dialogue that allows you to recruit him, however there are also groups of skeletons walking around up there as well that have a chance to decide to attack you out of paranoia and most likely kill you.

I believe that's about all there is to it without mods, good luck in finding some skeletons!

[tikiman572]

I found one of those Skeletons who thought I was Holy Nation but I wasn't wearing any sort of disguise. I think it's just a random chance with no merit on the gear you wear.