recommended mods

[gruber12]

what mods do people recommend for an improved experience

[Jakethesnake12124]

I think the base Kenshi experience is practically perfect, so my list will be pretty scant:
1. Enemies use splint kits
2. Pathing improvement mod
3. More Meitou

[Cattrina]

256 people limit is a must have, but everything else is dependent on your personal tastes. There are scores of mods available, you can tweak this game to hell and back.

[Caigoomballou]

Universal Wasteland mod, with an overhaul of your choice I do reactive world than a patch add anything else that has patches in it if you want, not living world or kazo it'll break your experience of capturing cities if you use living world,kazo and reactive world with wasteland expansion mod choose just 1 of those.

[ReD2222]

I agree with Cattrina. 256 limit is a super vanilla-friendly kind of mod cause the only thing it changes is the number of people that you can have in your faction. Instead of petty 30 in the original :(

[MinenSpecht]

I like the 'Wastelands' mod a lot. Played vanilla all the years and recently started modding. It makes the game visually a lot more enjoyable. Especially in the swamps and Vain.

[cdplayer906]

as someone who's just starting UWE and has played many other overhauls. don't start w/ UWE or any other overhaul for your toe dipping into mods. check out the most popular/subscribed mods in workshop and maybe find a popular mod pack/list and pick and choose what you'd like out of either to 'wet your whistle' so to speak. the biggest thing w/ modding early on is you don't wanna get too big too quick cause you won't even realize what it changed. which can be an issue outside of just experience.

[Oxygenus]

I would recomend Moisture Collectors - allows collection of water in town buildings to open your production of food or drinks, so you could have your own bar in town

[Oxygenus]

Originally posted by Caigoomballou:

Universal Wasteland mod, with an overhaul of your choice I do reactive world than a patch add anything else that has patches in it if you want, not living world or kazo it'll break your experience of capturing cities if you use living world,kazo and reactive world with wasteland expansion mod choose just 1 of those.

Do you mean UWE is working fine with reactive world?

[zeMantras]

Originally posted by Unassuming Troglodyte:

I think the base Kenshi experience is practically perfect, so my list will be pretty scant:
1. Enemies use splint kits
2. Pathing improvement mod
3. More Meitou

/\ This! and probably a map mod if youre starting out! will help you by showing the borders on each different biome, ( have to disagree with "more meitou" , base game already has enought of them )

[jerrypocalypse]

Most of my "must haves" don't change the game as much as they add to the variety and expand what's there.

I've been using Reactive World this run and it's become a favorite.

Mogwai's Bonedog Backpacks.

Let's Talk (so your recruits will reuse dialog instead of eventually becoming silent).

More Bounties to add more generic random bounties.

More Names to increase the NPC name pool

And since I like Skeleton variety - Mogwai's Concept Skeletons and their Rare Skeleton Types mods to add in Skeleton variants (2 + 9)

Oh, and Nice Map [Zones + Zone names + Roads], and Dark UI.

[Dragon Slayer Ornstein]

The '256 limit' and attack slots multiplier mods are part of 'RE_Kenshi' which I would highly recommend as it also does shader caching.

'PerformanceFix' fixes the miss-match in mesh versions which cause error in the game engine which slows down loading, also compresses a few textures to DXT that are in PNG format so the game engine doesn't have to do it on the fly.

'Native Stylise' - Does better anti aliasing + other reshade type stuff that you can toggle in game.

'increased_mine_node_storage' - I just made that to increase the mining node storage to 10 so they fill up their inventory. You can make that yourself in about 30 seconds with the FCS.

'Reactive World' is optional, you might not like the changes to the world, it uses more of the event driven stuff where factions can take over more places depending on who has been killed.

On Linux I use a version of Wine/Proton (GE-Proton) because it has in built FSR 1.0 support + fsync and the various other patches and run it without Steam, I upscale 1440p to 4k because my GPU is too weak for Kenshi,

A quick ls of my Kenshi mods dir. None of these mods other than 'Reactive World' change the world all that much. I like the bug fixes and performance improvements and some QoL stuff.

AnimationOverhaul
'Armour Variations'
'Backpack Distribution'
'Billyro Masks'
'Building Collision Fix'
'Campfire with Stand'
'CBT Prison House'
'CBT Robotic Legs with Boots'
'CBT Vanilla Hair Fix'
Crucifixion
'Dark UI'
'Distant Towns'
"Dread's Gear"
'Dustless Furniture'
'Dustless Interior'
Execution
'Fixing Clipping Issues'
'Flipped Buildings'
'Grid Tool'
GuardsUseGates
"hippity hoppity you're now my property"
increased_mine_node_storage
'Kessaku no iro Dark'
KPM_Performance_Particles
"Let's Talk"
'Little Better Farm Fences'
'Mediocre Hairstyles'
'Minor Mesh Fixes'
'Money theft'
'More Names'
'Native Stylise'
'Nice Map [Zones + Zone names + Roads]'
'Particle fix'
'Patch Dread Gear and Armour Variations'
"Patch for Fixing Clipping and Dread's Gear"
'Plate Jackers are Equal'
Quiver
RadiantFaces
'Reactive World'
'REALISTIC BLOOD RETEX'
'Reaver_Female Armor Fix'
'Reduced Weather Effects'
'Return of the Side Pony'
'RW Distant Towns'
SamuraiMeshFix
"SCAR's pathfinding fix"
sg_SimpleMapIcons
'Short Wall Node'
'Short Wall Ramp'
'sideways wall ramp'
'Slaves FIX'
Slopeless
'Sneaking is Sus'
Splints
'Storm Walls'
Thicc_Foliage
'Unofficial Patches for Kenshi'
'Vanilla Armor Colors'
'Vanilla Transparency Mask'
'Water Optimizer'

[Bandy]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2385662816&searchtext=foodcube

[Cuddle_Rat]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2840444811

[gruber12]

ive grabbed UWE and reactive world and the patch for them, the 256 limit and the biomes map cause me map recognition skills are amazing.

not sure if one of the mods or if its the united heroes league or something else but stared UC citizen start and my people kept getting arrested for assault and then my starting person got a terrorism charge.... okay i can see how its "kidnapping" was just trying to help >.> and now iam in a mechanical hive village with a nice set of samurai armour and a security spider.... end rambling.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

-shops have more money - this makes it so you dont have to spend 3 hours running to every shop on the map to sell stuff.
-no female/male muscle definition - removes the terrible feature that makes you look like the hulk if your stats and skills get too high
-max stats 100 ->250 - increases max stats. says 250, but in reality its 99999.
-backpack of holding - gives you a backpack that isnt complete and utter garbage, while essentially removing the pointless encumbrance system that literally nobody wants in any game.
-cheat training dummies - lets you get skills/stats above level 100, and train skills very fast. great for tearing the tedium and monotony away from the game.
-bouncing boobs - self explanitory
-dark UI - because the vanilla UI is terrible.
-sensible spider range - makes it so that spiders dont have a melee range of 10x their body size.