Sis* (or auntie)
This old lady accidentally spent about 5 hours playing instead of "checking if it works".
Sometimes you just want to be a little skeleton girl, abandoning the ashlands, creating a gated skeleton community while hanging out with the machinists... Maybe you make a few little skeleton babies along the way.

Hope you enjoy the collection bro!

Thanks! I remember playing your list in February or even January? So it's been a while <3

@Expensive-Paper-77

That's pretty much exactly the use case for this mod list haha. The list is designed around small group/solo Combat and Exploration, particularly if you wanted to play it "Ironman" style. There's a lot of New Factions and new quests, NPCs, etc. to help fill out the world as well. I'd say it's mostly balanced/lore friendly, and I did change a few things myself (particularly with UWE) to help put it all together coherently.

I pretty much exclusively play with around 8-10 Characters total across my entire faction, mostly starting solo in Rebirth and building up from there. You'll find something new almost in every corner of the map, and a lot more dynamic interactions between all of the factions, including Drifters.

Hello! I wanna get back to Kenshi but I forgot which modpack I used for what. :p

For more RP and especially about crafting and trading, primarily with a single character or a small group, would you recommend yours at this time? I don't recall which mods made the npcs feel livelier, haha.

@Mathev

No problem, When I get a chance I'll take a look at the .mod file and see where it should be crafted at. It might even need a small patch if it's pointing to a workbench UWE doesn't recognize

@Dr. Igor Dolvich So after reaching tech 5 and unlocking chain crafting still no sign of dark chaincoats.. No clue where to find them lol

i still havent found the chain mail crafting station so maybe its there but ill need tech 6 to verify this.

Oh nevermind*how to craft it* lol. Yeah I might need to look into it again, but UWE kinda splits up the various crafting into new benches.

If you're still unable to craft it after checking a few different benches, let me know and I'll need to check the mod in particular in the mod tools to verify.

@Mathev

You can probably find them in the Scraphouse at Black Desert City , as it's what is described specifically in the Mod Page for that armor.

It could be in a few locations though, although it's all in the surrounding areas of the Scraphouse, such as Flats Lagoon and the Great Library in Black Scratch .

I'm glad you're enjoying the Collection!

Hey man, great mod collection. A small question so i dont make another discussion thread. do you know how can one craft the dark chaincoats? (the one you can get a blueprint in scrapyard) i have all smithy and cant find where to craft it.

@PhantomRima

Yes the mod is safe to remove. Any time you get a crash in a specific area, it's more than likely due to Zone Corruption. You can try doing an Import and see if that fixes it too.

Game crashes whenever I get close to Obedience...could it have something to do with Throes of Obedience... Is that mod safe to remove?

@-Uchu-

Glad you were able to solve the issue! Thanks for letting me know 🙏

@IShowSlavic

Haha thank you bro

Good modlist

i removed shader ssao nd now its gone

Hey so i just installed this list fresh with all the performance stuff on nexus, but whenever i zoom into my character theres this texture on my screen which is just lines of rectangles and a few island looking things, is this normal?

I never use quick load myself, just make new saves. Did import and went to same location and it did it again. You mentioned save scumming though, and for me to get to that area i have to go near the crater. I constantly get the infinite loading issue there so I always have to load the game a few times until I can get through. Made a save while at the ruins then imported and the chests/bookshelves had non bugged loot. Seems to be as you said, related to spam loading. Appreciate the insight!

If it's still an issue after Importing , this might be a weird issue stemming from a mod. Although, just based on your description, it sounds like an issue I had myself before realizing "save scumming" is a major problem in Kenshi due to the way the Game Engine works lol

@Shoulderdeep

This sounds more like an issue with "Corrupted Zone Data". This is a common issue that will arise if the zone data corrupted in that region. If you look through chests and they have a lot of duplicated items, it's because the game can't really reference things properly and it is also a common reason for crashing to desktop.

Please do an Import and see if that fixes the issue. You can also follow the Corrupted Zone Data guide if you have this issue somewhat often. This can also happen if you Quick Load while already in game (ie. save scumming), as it causes data to corrupt over time.

Thank you for the bug report! Please let me know if an Import fixes it or not.

So found a bug though idk what causes it. At the Lost Library Shun N ruins, an NPC drifter broke down the door to the ruins after I cleared all the crabs. Once I cleared inside, every shelf and every chest was locked. Unlocking them caused them to lock themselves again after like .5 seconds. If you loot the chests or shelves in the .5 seconds, the entire inventory was filled with tech/military maps, and random lore books.

If you loot anything and your game is not paused, it autofills with more books. If you loot the entire shelf/chest while paused, then unpause, it refills it with the rare loot like ancient science books, ancient weapon research, engineering research, ancient weaponry texts, etc. This can be abused as well by just pausing, fully looting the shelves/chests then unpause and repeat.

Have not made it far enough in my playthrough to check any other ruins though to see if its the same.

v1.9.8.1 Update - This resolves the long standing issues of random NPC bonedogs (and possibly your own) from eating prisoners in various towns. Thank you FightWithFear for the information!

If you do have it installed, it's possible it has to do with the UWE races (ie. The shek subraces), which I'll need to look into it! Thank you for reporting it either way

Do you have the Crash Fix [www.nexusmods.com] installed? It's a manual install from Nexus and should resolve that issue.

I uninstalled the another stealth run and still crashed when going into stealth with more than 1 character selected. A minor nuisance since I can just stealth every character individually. Not sure what would be causing that though.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted about this yet but I found a new bug that crashes the game when you have the full squad selected and you go into sneak. It seems to be related to the another stealth run mod since I've seen people post on their mod comments about it too. Just letting you know in case anyone else runs into this problem as well.

Added to the "To-Do" List / Bug Report . Thanks again Faze!

No problem! Hopefully it gets fixed soon, I keep an eye on the Workshop a decent amount when I'm not actively playing and such so I can favorite various mods to add in the future. If you happen to notice anything else or would like to suggest anything , feel free to let me know!

Have fun! I'm glad you're enjoying the collection so far bro

Glad I know it's not come from my end. Guess I have to avoid Hamut (and his wife) for now. Thanks a lot for the advice!

@FaZe

Thank you for the detailed report! I'll make sure to reference back to this in the future. It's probably already known by TreadLightly (UWE Author) as he's very active on the Community / Modding Discords for Kenshi and I'm certain others have already told him lol. I'm sure it'll get fixed soon, if not a fan patch will probably be made.

Unfortunately it is something of a side effect with the "Dialogue Package" system for Kenshi, as I had very similar random bugs in my Quest mod that are hard to troubleshoot at times. It could be random somewhat unrelated AI / Dialogue Package that Hamut inadvertently inherits from something else entirely. lol

Okay, so when I'm turned off UWE, Hamut didn't have any problem at all. But when I'm turned off every mods except UWE, then the problem show up again. I even redownloaded Kenshi and installed UWE alone and the same thing still happened.
I also decided to check the comment section and the Bug reports in the Discussion tab of the UWE page (at page 59 and 61 of the Bug reports thread), seems like other people also encountering similar problem with Hamut. So I think that's definitely come from UWE.

@FaZe

If you want, you can test a few things. Try disabling everything except UWE and do an Import to see if Hamut is still having the issue (you can backup the mods cfg to make it easier lol)

It could possibly be a conflict with something, as others have suggested possibly a dialogue mod (ie. Talkative Kenshi ). I'm not currently at my computer for a bit, otherwise I'd try messing with things myself haha

Thanks for responding! I started a brand new save at Shark and still encountered the same problem with Hamut, so I think that's an UWE thing. Kinda strange because I never encountered this bug in previous UWE version before, so maybe this is the newer UWE problem

@FaZe

I'm glad you're enjoying the collection!

That also seems like a new issue which might stem from UWE (and/or UWE patches?) as nothing else should really edit his dialogues besides UWE and it's a similar issue someone else has reported with the guards (which might actually have to do with the Stealth Buster guard dialogue UWE patch).

I normally recruit Hamut every playthrough and they wouldn't do this before. Can you try and do an Import and see if that particularly changes anything?

Enjoy the collection so far ! I don't know if this is a more recent bug or what, but when I'm recruiting Hamut, he kept doing the "following and talking" goal with the "..." text box. Also everytime when I'm assigned him to do work like mining, he kept ignoring the job and do the samething I mention above. Is this something to do with UWE? Thanks a lot!

@Buttercup

No problem, Kenshi can do odd things at times for seemingly no reason lol (especially with a bunch of mods like this collection). Importing can fix like 99% of the issues you might run into, so thankfully it's included with the game haha

I would say any time you have an issue, try that first to see if it resolves anything. One thing to keep in mind with this game, do not "Save Scum" (ie. reloading a save while already in game if you die, etc.) as that will cause a lot of issues further down the line. If you need to reload, exit fully to desktop and reload that way.

If you randomly begin to crash, it's more than likely from corrupted zone data (which quickloading can for sure cause). You can follow this guide if you ever run into any major issues!

Okay yeah importing the save seems to have worked, they all look alot beefier instead of skinny little twigs and have decent stats like the other sheks around them now, sorry I'm fairly new to modding Kenshi I assume this is one of those things to try first before asking around for help? Thank you!

@Buttercup

No that appears to be a new issue lol, as no one has reported this before and I've never seen that.

If you want, you can try to do an Import and see if that fixes the stat issue. The Bele'coz faction should actually be on par with the various Sheks you see in the area, as they're essentially a breakaway faction from the Shek Kingdom.

Hi sorry is the bele'coz faction meant to be like 0 stats on every single one of them? or did i mess something up in my game, i started the game in the shek area as the shek start and after wandering off I found a faction called bele'coz but every single one of them seems to have literally 0 stats

Have fun bro! Let me know what you think

Nice, definitely will try out the new update when I get home 🥳

I'll need to update my own patches eventually, but I'll probably do those later. The Items Integration Patch (for this collection) is very outdated by this point, so it'll probably require a total rebuild at this point beyond whatever bugs it previously had.

Version 1.9.8 Released!

There's quite a lot of changes, as well as general bug fixes and such. Feel free to read the Changelogs for more information!

Import Game is required after any large changes to this list.

Glad you're enjoying the collection!

It should eventually pop up, although you can also try looking at Flats Lagoon as they also have a lot of good blueprints and items you can buy (and it's also where I normally put my "HQ" lol), and it's generally in the same area as the other locations I listed in the other post

Yes, can confirm it is tied to UWE since I found this type of dustcoat on the bastards (found in Bast) and desolate plunderers (found in Shun). Still no blueprint tho, visited Black Scratch several times but it didnt turn up. Oh well, there is a lot of blueprints in this collection so it might turn up in time. Love this collection btw!!

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@PhantomRima

I believe it may even be a part of UWE as of recently, but there's an additional mod that adds additional belt items, although that's mostly hats and other useful items.

Everything on the collection is more or less craftable, but the blue prints may take awhile to accumulate. I would recommend traveling to the Black Scratch "Great Library" and you have a much better chance at buying blueprints, as there's around 100 to buy which refreshes daily/48hrs. There's also a decent amount of buyable houses should you want to make a makeshift "Lab" nearby to accumulate them more efficiently. Black Desert City is also another good location to try, but be careful!

Which mod adds belt sized dustcoats? Are they craftable?

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I'll try and update the list on Friday or so, as I should hopefully have time around then to finally polish up the list.

No problem bro lol

Yeah unfortunately the "save scumming" issue (quick loading while already in game), it's an issue even in Vanilla Kenshi. It's just *more* of a problem when you have a lot of mods. It's because of the way the game was designed (or moreso the engine), as it's constantly streaming data in/out and not exiting *fully* from the game (to desktop) effectively continues the data stream. Even starting a New Game after already playing a Save (without quitting) will almost guarantee corruption on the new save.

Someone, here in the comments, said recently that the MEGA List (Anrhaa's) has custom loading screen tips that tells Players *not* to save scum so avoid these problems. I'll end up doing that for this list as well, as this gets brought up like once a week in the various discussion threads/this comments section for Corrupted Zone Data.