Hive Village (Dreg)Report
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Three Western Hive villages out in Dreg, each with a Hive Trader and a Hive Robotics Shop. These are among the few hive holdings that will trade with outsiders at all — provided your squad contains no hivers.
A Hive Village is a minor location controlled by the Western Hive. There are currently five in Vain and three in Dreg — this map entry covers the three in Dreg.
Dreg is a stretch of dead scrub outside the Holy Nation's border, low fertility, and prospecting reports on the soil come back with one word — dead. The hive keeps shops here, nomads herd goats here, and the last few Deadcat fishing families keep their village gates locked. The open ground produces escaped Holy Nation servants, Fogmen, Starving Bandits, and occasionally cannibals who wandered too far (mobs of 10 to 35 Scrawny Cannibals).
What is in a village
The standard build is four kinds of structure.
- Hive Trader (shop)
- Hive Robotics Shop
- Factory
- Hive Residential
What the Hive Trader sells
The Hive Trader carries a maximum of 150 items, restocking every 6 hours.
| Category | Goods |
|---|---|
| Armour | Hiver Chain Shirt, Leather Hive Vest, Rusted Hive Shirt, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Blackened Chain Hive Shirt (rare) |
| Food | Dried Fish (most common), Grand Fish, Thinfish, Riceweed, Raw Meat, Wheatstraw |
| Materials | Iron Plates, Steel Bars, Fabrics, Leather, Building Materials, Armour Plating, Electrical Components, Gears, Robotics Components, Generator Core, Spring Steel |
| Medicine and sundries | Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Standard First Aid Kit, Medical Supplies, Book, Grog, Hashish, Hemp, Luxury Goods, Ceramic Bowl, Cup, Pearl Cup, Pearl Urn, Pearl Vase |
He also sells the Polearms blueprint and blueprints for the four hive armour pieces above.
What the Robotics Shop sells
Very little — Authentic Skeleton Repair Kits and the full set of Economy limbs (arms and legs, left and right).
The condition on trading
And it spreads. If a Hive Trader finds out there is a hiveless character in your squad, he will not sell to anyone in your faction. This is one of the rare cases in Kenshi where squad composition locks a shop outright.
The villagers
| Role | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Worker drones | The labourers — cooking, mining, sleeping. They carry no weapons at all and flee from enemies. But if no soldier drones are left, workers will steal weapons from the player's unconscious characters and fight back |
| Hive Traders | Actually princes, behaving like ordinary traders. They do not sleep, and they can fight |
| Soldier drones | Two kinds — town guards go out and fight to defend the village, while shop guards protect only their own shop and its trader and never leave their post |
Every soldier drone is armed with an Ancient-quality Polearm, a Rag Loincloth and a Basic First Aid Kit.
World states
| Condition | Result |
|---|---|
| The Queen is killed | All Hive Villages get overrun by Fogmen |
| The above, plus Tinfist dead while Lady Kana lives | Hive Villages are taken over by Slave Traders |
Why the player cares
Hive Villages are the only resupply in Dreg. The zone has no towns and no ancient locations; besides the hive villages there are two Gatherer Villages and one Settled Nomad Village and nothing else. For a squad working the western line, these three villages are the entire extent of civilisation.
See also
Sells
Vendors here stock 5 items in total, grouped by category — every entry links.
Robot Limbs
Economy Arm (left), Economy Arm (right), Economy Leg (left), Economy Leg (right)
Items
Vendors and stock here
Compiled automatically from the wiki's vendor data: shops that can appear in this settlement and what they may carry. Actual stock varies with world state and randomisation.
Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Economy Arm (left), Economy Arm (right), Economy Leg (left), Economy Leg (right)
The source does not record what this shop sells.