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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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Michael {United Critics} May 14 @ 10:48am 
What you mean that the mod is dead? (Yes the modder is not working on it, but it works and runs perfect for me and is SO GOOD!)

And who knows, might get updates/work out of nowhere, or for Kenshi 2, just have to wait and see (and play it)

Also check out some submods and other mods that works well and awesome with this mod, it makes it even better.

The mod works and it has so much content that lasts you for many of 100s of hours...
SOAP May 14 @ 10:39am 
i download this game only because this mod and now i am reading this mod is dead :(
Meatshield May 12 @ 10:29pm 
@DKO
Si mal no recuerdo, los planos del bláster E-11 se pueden comprar a algunos comerciantes de blásters. Pero lo más probable es que lo encuentres en el de la Ciudad Droide. También se pueden robar de los edificios del Imperio, aunque es menos probable que aparezcan.
DKO May 12 @ 10:50am 
Como demonios construyo un maldito blaster B-11 dios mio estoy ya en +70 skill de combate solo de buscarlo ayuda
HIM🐀 May 11 @ 4:06am 
holy SHIT, what a titanic mod
Meatshield May 8 @ 9:51pm 
@Leon
I was having the same issue whenever my game tried to load certain cities/areas. Somebody suggested this mod and it solved basically all my crashing issues.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/506
Michael {United Critics} May 8 @ 9:23pm 
I got the mod to fully work for me, I uninstalled the game & removed all mods & deleted all files on PC, then installed game on a other SSD & it works like a charm.
Leon May 8 @ 3:36pm 
Guys, really appreciate all the hardwork. But after many attempts with changing mods order and disable many mods that this good looking starwars feel mod still crash every hour or so. Too much work to play this lovely mod like that. Hope they will open-source this game and the powerful mod community will make this better.
Kashen May 4 @ 7:06pm 
Very good
Michael {United Critics} Apr 30 @ 11:55am 
@Sauron - You mean the RE_Kenshi mod on nexus?
If so, it's still there and link above works for me and I just downloaded it.

If not that mod, then I'm not sure.