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Have you ever wondered, "How many mods could I feasibly cram into Kenshi while simultaneously fixing the myriad bugs present in the base game and properly balancing an experience that doesn't deviate too heavily from Vanilla yet includes a healthy amount of unfamiliar content added in for the veteran player"? No? I don't blame you! It's almost a run-on sentence and a fairly niche situation!

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This collection uses Universal Wasteland Expansion, More Combat Animation, and No Cut Efficiency as foundational mods. It will therefore inherently not be compatible with Reactive/Living World, Project Genesis, Martial Craft, etc. I really want to implement Lost in the Ashlands when it gets revamped, which is part of my planned "3.0" release!

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This is a collection of mods and patches that I play with that (should) all work together nearly flawlessly while attempting to maintain the same sense of immersion as the base game. I went through the entire workshop searching for things like any armors compatible with No Cut Efficiency or world states compatible with the UWE//Kaizo package. Importantly, there are a lot of mods that are included in UWE by default and therefore there's no need to add them to this collection. There's plenty more that IS compatible with this collection as long as you grab those necessary patches but I didn't add them here for various reasons like wanting to keep any pop culture references/over the top mods out for the sake of immersion. You can add your big anime tiddy mods on your own time. You probably won't be able to find very many immersive armor/race mods that work with everything in this collection that aren't already in it unless they haven't had NCE or animation patches developed yet.

I purposefully didn't include the Adventurer's Guild, TameBeasties, or Recruitable Prisoners because they make acquiring new recruits too easy for the way I play. However, all three of those mods also have official patches for, and from the author of, UWE that you can download and I'm sure there's patches for the various respective skeleton races/animals added by the other mods in this collection. I have also decided to cut down on the amount of random recruits that you'll be able to find in bars. I have compensated for this by including mods that allow for more natural and immersive recruitment methods such as taming wild animal pups or healing down-and-out starvers, and there are also plenty more unique recruits to be found in cities compared to vanilla to make up for this deficit.

I have chosen not to include many popular belt slot mods since there seems to be an issue with adding them to NPC item pools, giving the player character's faction a very unfair advantage. There are many other mods that I have chosen to not include here for the same reason- just about any armor/gear/weapon mod that doesn't introduce its respective equipment into the world probably isn't included. If vanilla doesn't allow you to make Edge Type 3 weapons, you sure as hell aren't meant to have a stealth suit. As you can probably tell, balance is an essential facet of this collection that I'm not willing to sacrifice for anything- y'all can do that yourselves.

If you couldn't tell from the last couple paragraphs, this pack is meant to be merciless. A ton of the mods in this collection greatly increase the difficulty of the game with only a few exceptions that either fix bugs or just make sense, like no more raids on tier 0 player bases (from vanilla factions, at least) or some minor item weight/size adjustments. You'll never see me add things like "Weaklings Give XP" or any item stacking mods for this reason.

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Load order is exactly the same as below. I would heavily recommend using millerscout's Kenshi Mod Manager [github.com]because the default UI within the launcher sucks. However, here's the mod profile[drive.google.com] to make your life easier! There will be a load order warning due to this collection using a good amount of "all-in-one" animation patches or other similar patch bundles, but not all of their respective dependencies. You can safely ignore this.

The first five mods are for my sake, so if you've got a better computer than I do (not hard) you won't need them. Additionally, there's a patch that's closer to the bottom of this list in the "miscellaneous" section that reduces the texture size of the buildings included with the mod "Forgotten Buildings" so be sure to remove that one as well if you're going for the highest possible visual quality. There's also a UWE-related mod included here to change the color of any player-worn dye-able clothing to a dark gray; If you would like a different color, simply remove that mod and pick a different one from that series- it's located near the bottom portion of the modlist, after the section containing the official UWE patches.

I heavily recommend everyone download and install RE_Kenshi [www.nexusmods.com] from the Nexus. It saves your game upon crashing to desktop, lets you change the game speed past the vanilla 5x, allows for in-game customization of the number of attack slots, has heightmap optimizations, and fixes bugs within Kenshi's RNG. This collection is primarily made for people who exclusively use the Steam Workshop, but RE_Kenshi is just too good to miss out on.

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A million thank-yous to all of the wonderful creators within the Kenshi modding community keeping this game alive! This collection wouldn't be possible without y'all since I definitely know next to nothing about creating my own content.

Lately I haven't been doing updates as frequently, as I feel that the collection already contains most of the available things that fit the theme and I'm running out of corners of the workshop to scour. I'm always down to add more stuff, and I normally try to, it's just that I just haven't seen too many mods that I'm interested in adding lately. Please feel free to leave a comment if you find a mod that would be a good fit, or if you have any suggestions as to the proper load order! I've put it together in a way that seems correct to me based on some information I found on Reddit and the Steam forums, so I'm in no way an expert. Additionally, reporting bugs or conflicts is encouraged since there's so much content here that it's virtually impossible to see it all myself. If you like the collection, I'd very much appreciate a thumbs up as internet points give me a dopamine rush.