Kenshi - Weapons Guide

This guide lists the price and stats for some of the games most common non-ranged weapons.

Introduction

Welcome to the Weapons Guide, the purpose of this guide is to help you familiarise yourself with Kenshi's weaponry so that you can choose the best weapon for the right job. Below I will be discussing the Class, Damage and Value of many of the items you Loot or Purchase ingame.

Chapter 1 - Blunt Weapons

As the name implies, Blunt weapons excel at dealing blunt damage, and have a very low chance of causing Bleeding. This combined with the Stun Damage that it deals makes Blunt weapons an excellent choice if your intent is to capture the target alive, whilst causing them the least amount of injury.

Manufactured	Cutting Damage	Blunt Damage	Weight KG	Buy Value	Sell Value
Jitte	0.00	0.09 to 1.80	3 to 25	1,357 to 75,547	203 to 11,332
Heavy Jitte	0.00	0.13 to 2.60	6 to 36	2,036 to 113,322	305 to 16,998
Iron Stick	0.04 to 0.22	0.07 to 1.40	2 to 28	271 to 15,109	40 to 2,266
Iron Club	0.04 to 0.22	0.09 to 1.70	2 to 34	542 to 30,128	81 to 4,532
Mercenary Club	0.08 to 0.44	0.10 to 2.00	4 to 40	1,017 to 56,660	152 to 8.499
Spiked Club	0.12 to 0.66	0.10 to 2.00	4 to 40	1.086 to 60,438	162 to 9,085
Homemade	Cutting Damage	Blunt Damage	Weight KG	Buy Value	Sell Value
Jitte	0.00	0.09 to 1.35	3 to 18	4,525 to 34,251	678 to 5.137
Heavy Jitte	0.00	0.13 to 1.95	6 to 27	6,787 to 1,018	1,018 to 7,706
Iron Stick	0.04 to 0.16	0.07 to 1.05	2 to 21	904 to 6,849	135 to 1,027
Iron Club	0.04 to 0.16	0.09 to 1.28	2 to 25	1,809 to 13,700	271 to 2,055
Mercenary Club	0.08 to 0.32	0.10 to 1.50	4 to 30	3,393 to 25,688	508 to 3,853
Spiked Club	0.12 to 0.47	0.10 to 1.50	4 to 30	3,620 to 27,400	543 to 4,110

Chapter 2 - Hacker Class Weapons

Hacker class weapons often combine the best of both worlds as weapons of their class start really heaping on the blunt damage.

	Cutting Damage	Blunt Damage	weight kg	Value	Trade Value
Flat Topper	0.24	0.11	4	696	139
Flat Topper	0.32	0.20	4	1758	357
Flat Topper	0.49	.40	8	6594	1318
Straight Cleaver	0.56	0.30	13	4464	892
Straight Cleaver	0.64	0.30	13	3845	769
Flat Topper	0.66	0.60	12	12654	2530
Straight Cleaver	0.98	0.80	16	16486	3297
Straight Cleaver	1.20	1.00	20	24062	4812

Chapter 3 - Heavy Class Weapons

The Heavy Weapon sacrafices speed and accuracy for outright Blunt damage which devastates armored and unarmored foes alike.

	Cutting Damage	Blunt Damage	weight kg	Value	Trade Value
Plank	0.44	0.36	10	3845	769
Plank	0.58	0.60	12	5326	1065
Fragment Axe	0.12	2.0	40	28875	5775

Chapter 4 - Katana Class Weapons

Arguably the most common item in the game, almost every character in the game carries one or two of these and for good reasons. Not only are they the most versatile weapon in the game, their also one of the cheapest, a good choice for any Swordsman whether he be a grand master or aspiring student.

	Cutting Damage	Blunt Damage	weight kg	Value	Trade Value
Katana	0.32	0	2	587	117
Katana-straight	0.44	0	1	347	69
Short Katana	0.50	0	1	1153	230
Katana-light	0.56	0	2	1537	307
Katana-light	0.73	0	2	2130	426
Katana-light	0.81	0	2	4328	865
Katana-straight	0.88	0	1	3296	659
Katana	0.98	0	2	6594	1318
Katana-light	1.20	0	2	9625	1925
Short Katana	1.20	0	1	9490	1898
Katana	1.30	0	2	12654	2530

Chapter 5 - Polearms Class Weapons

Two handed spear-like weapons that lend it's wielders some added reach.

Cutting Damage

Blunt Damage

weight kg

Value

Trade Value

Chapter 6 - Sabre Class Weapons

The Sabre attempts to close the gap between balancing Blunt and Cutting damage while throwing some extra weight into your attacks.

	Cutting Damage	Blunt Damage	weight kg	Value	Trade Value
Horse Chopper	0.35	0.005	6	1175	235
Ringed	0.58	1.155	8	1742	348
Ringed	0.67	0.075	8	3845	769
Ringed	0.77	0.10	8	4464	892
Horse Chopper	1.10	0.20	6	13189	2637
Horse Chopper	1.30	0.25	6	19250	3850
Ringed	1.30	0.25	8	24062	4812
Horse Chopper	1.50	0.30	6	25309	5061

Updates

Update 1 (03/05/2016) - Added tables
Update 2 (10/10/2016) - Removed repeated weapon profile from the Two Handed Katana table.
Update 3 (13/03/2017) - Added tables for Polearms. (Tables only, no information yet.)
Update 4 (17/03/2017) - Added another Chapter on Blunt Weapons.

Epilogue

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[SoulResperz]

nice guide and random cool warhammer 40k story , best of both worlds

[ロードコーソ]

I'm not a witch but my parents are pagan...

[Farsight]

Damn, are you a witch? I was looking over this guide just earlier this day.

[ロードコーソ]

I like to think that polearms are so seldom used nobody would bother updating it for 18 months.

[Farsight]

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_Farsight

[Hue Lord]

awesome but why the T'au symbol?

[Farsight]

Seriously though, go for it, I won't turn down help.

[Farsight]

@BillyBrown Sure, go for it.

[BillyBrown]

can we update the list please?

[Zesty]

Guedez, yes the reach dose indeed effect combat, if you use a ...Wata-... the "Dagger" of Katanas over a staff the reach is noticeabul. Im not that great at this but I do know that shorter the weapon the less recover time between swings yet the closer you have to be to the target. And revered that for staffed based weapons.