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(Beta) Project Kathun - A Kenshi Star Wars Mod
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Characters, Buildings, Gameplay, Clothing/Armour, Factions, Items/Weapons, Research, Total Overhaul, Races, GUI
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(Beta) Project Kathun - A Kenshi Star Wars Mod

Description



*(NOTE: the mod is called "UnknownRegionsAdventures" in the launcher if you can't find it.)

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Update, March 25, 2025:

I've not really been able to work on the mod for a while due to mental health struggles and a general lack of motivation.
However, I will most likely try to bring the mod over Kenshi 2 once that comes out. Hopefully it'll allow me to do stuff I can't do because of Kenshi's current engine limitations (emissive materials, cool effects, etc).

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*[Landspeeders have been temporarily disabled as they've been causing crashes. Not sure how to fix it at the moment but I'll look into it.]

!!READ BELOW FOR IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT HOW THIS MOD WORKS!!

This mod uses RE_Kenshi by BFrizzleFoShizzle, and includes custom sounds and music. It's still pretty experimental however and may cause crashes, but it's rare.

You must have RE_Kenshi for sounds to work.
RE_Kenshi can be found here: https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/847

UPDATE: Audio should now work fine without needing to download the audio as a separate mod (Thank you, BFrizzleFoShizzle!).
Note: you will still need to install RE_Kenshi!

If you still have the SOUNDS_UnknownRegionsAdventures mod, you can remove/untick it as it's no longer needed (and it's not up to date).
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This is the beta release of Project Kathun.

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Project Kathun is an ambitious mod that aims to transform the ENTIRE world of Kenshi into a Star Wars experience, adding tons of new armour, clothing, weapons, buildings, and much more. It's heavily based on the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies, but also has some original content.

It pretty much changes the whole game world, with barely anything left untouched. Even dialogue.
Base game armour/weapons have been replaced with weapons based on the ones from SWG, and ALL characters get new loadouts (some have unique or legendary weapons that can only be acquired from defeating them!).

As a few examples, United Cities becomes the Galactic Empire, the Anti-Slavers becomes the Rebel Alliance, and so on. The Holy Nation becomes a faction known as the Federation of Kathun, and are allied with the Empire.

What is Kathun?

Kathun is the name I've given to the world of Kenshi for this mod (sort of based on Catun). With the Star Wars setting in mind, I figured the planet would need a name. It's supposed to be a planet in the Unknown Regions. I also wanted to challenge myself by creating some original content!

All combat animations have been overhauled. While the base game anims are still there, they have all been changed in one way or other. Guard stances have also been changed, and limited to 4 guard stances for melee: two-handed, one-handed, polearms and hackers (unarmed, because normal unarmed guard stances cause your character to run like they're holding a gun). The reason why I've limited the guard stances on all weapons is due to how ranged weapons use "katana" animations for idle stances while the weapon is out. That way, characters will now hold rifles/pistols properly when in bodyguard mode.

As for attack animations, I've added a ton. As an example, Katana/Polearm animations are what lightsabers use, so expect fancy moves, force powers and so on for both!

Some characters come with specific ranged animations! For example, you can find pistoleers and marksmen around the world. Marksmen sit crouched while shooting, while pistoleers work best with pistols!
All of these have their own subraces as well, so you can customize the way you like.

There are several new races as well! These include Rodians, Zabrak, Twi'lek, Trandoshans, Chiss, and Wookiees!

There's also two quest chains for Jedi/Dark Jedi. One for each. Should you choose to become one, search for the Shady Merchant, who likes hanging out in bars around the world...

From the playthrough I've done so far personally, it's been fun. Sided with the Empire, bought an AT-ST, became a Dark Jedi Master, destroyed the Rebels...

Maybe you'll have the same kinda fun.

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COMPATIBILITY ISSUES AND IMPORTANT INFO:

Because the mod is pretty much a total conversion mod, most other mods will mess it up or just not work at all.
It changes animations, world states all over, changes EVERY SINGLE NPC, changes all armour/weapons, major changes to settlements, etc.
Use together with other mods at your own risk!
Mods that add more buildings should be okay.

I also do NOT recommend using other animation mods with this mod, as weapon animations have all been revamped to work with this mod. I may add more animations to make up for that, however.

It even changes sounds, and adds custom music! RE_Kenshi is required for the sounds to work, but not needed for general gameplay if you prefer the old, quiet Kenshi.

The mod also features its own version of the Adventurer's Guild mod by Haend.
Same rules apply as that mod. (Make sure you have a settlement or you waste money.)

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CURRENT KNOWN ISSUES (some that I can't really do anything about):

Probably the biggest issue is that due to FCS limitations it's currently impossible to add glow effects to lightsabers/blaster bolts. Projectiles will also be stuck in walls like harpoons, but you can disable it by going to your kenshi folder and opening up "Settings" and setting harpoonLimit to 0. Sadly the same can't be done for characters currently, so they'll still look like pin cushions. I've done what I can to make it less visible though.

Lightsabers/blaster bolts also look solid, because unfortunately Kenshi doesn't allow opacity/transparency on weapon textures.

Wookiees will look really weird if they become slaves due to how I set up the race model. I may change it later on.

If you experience crashing let me know and I'll see what I can do.

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To-do list:

- Update character models with my own.
- Update most textures, and some of the models.
- Add more creatures to the world.
- A few additional races.
- More vehicles maybe?
- Map overhaul if possible.
- Buildings overhaul.
- Glowy blaster bolts/lightsabers (I really wish).
- Further attempts at modifying the male/female animation skeletons? (Might not be possible without breaking the game though.)

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Credits:

- LucasArts/Disney for Star Wars and SOE for Star Wars Galaxies and most of the armour, weapon and building designs.

- Sounds used are from Star Wars Galaxies, Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy and music by John Williams.

- BFrizzleFoShizzle for RE_Kenshi, which made a huge chunk of this mod possible!

- Various other modders for inspiration and help! Cattrina's Sage Steeds mod is a good example. It made vehicles possible!

- Anyone who's supported me along the way. It really does motivate me a lot more. Thank you.

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If you have questions or need help, it's easier for me to answer them through discord.

Link here: [discord.gg]

(Banner art by Atlas. Cheers!)


Lastly, making this mod has taken A LOT of time. While it's not necessary (and there are no benefits to doing it), you can support me on ko-fi if you want.

Link here: https://ko-fi.com/kityakitters
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Pico Nov 24 @ 1:25pm 
@Zega
If you create a second mod list, you can easily swap between them. Just go to your Kenshi installation folder, open the data folder, and make backups of mods.cfg.
You can keep one for normal Kenshi, and one for Kathun. Whenever you want to swap, just copy the text in the backup and override mods.cfg
Zega Nov 24 @ 1:23pm 
Is there a way to install this separate from my main Kenshi game? I'd like to try it but I don't want to abandon my current save games.
Meatshield Nov 22 @ 12:43pm 
@Kamikaze
I don't remember if i had the same issue, but you can drop food on the ground and your rancor will path over and eat it. Although i don't think it will eat every type of food dropped.
There is also a mod that adds a Rancor backpack and that might make it so you don't have to micro it's food needs.
Kamikaze Nov 22 @ 12:24am 
There`s a problem with rancor. When it`s under your control - eating corpses doesn`t satiete him.
generaldurandal Nov 13 @ 2:20pm 
why do I need 4 Building Materials to make 1 chair...

when it takes 3 Building Materials to repair a damaged shack?
Happy Coconut Nov 12 @ 3:34pm 
@Roger#1 and @Pico

Something I've heard but haven't experienced myself is that the recruit event spawns an actual squad, and that squad can be destroyed en route. As with vanilla, multiple locations might cause destination issues, and isolated outposts can be more dangerous.
Pico Nov 10 @ 5:54am 
@Roger#1
Do you actually have an outpost? I haven't looked into the requirements beyond that, but the recruit visit should appear in your Faction menu as an upcoming event.
Roger#1 Nov 10 @ 5:44am 
can someone explain how the recruitment specialist works ive paid him the 5000 and he says the recruit will go to my outpost but they never show up
Happy Coconut Nov 5 @ 2:31pm 
Not anything important, but setting the record straight: the race population issues were my fault, I forgot I was using a (vanilla) mod to populate cities to make them feel more alive, which apparently overwrite kathun races. I'll either drop it, or see about making a patch.
Dahaka Nov 4 @ 9:43am 
@luporafael

Hey, yeah, I just don't know where to put the mod. No matter what position I put it in, it doesn't work.