Kenshi.zone

An encyclopedia built from the official Kenshi Wiki and the lore-explainer channels. World history, faction feuds, race origins, characters, places and game mechanics — from the fall of the First Empire to every mugging on the wastes today.

Featured articles

• Beep — A Worker Drone judged defective and exiled by the Hive. He owns nothing and does not understand money, yet he is convinced he will become the…
• Cannibals — The "Painted Tribe" that holds the north-west, a mass of humanoids degenerated down to nothing but the urge to feed; they cage their captives to…
• Cat-Lon — Founder and last emperor of the Second Empire. He rebuilt civilisation to atone for what his kind had done to humanity, then spent a thousand years…
• Creatures — Kenshi's animals are not respawning XP fodder — they are part of the terrain. Their age is their level, almost all of their damage is piercing, and…
• Factions — Kenshi has no faction-select screen, just dozens of organisations grinding against each other and a single relations value from -100 to +100 — where…
• Getting Started — The first ten hours of Kenshi are not about killing things and levelling up; they are about learning not to die - the numbers behind hunger and…
• Hive — An insectoid humanoid race mass-produced by a Queen through parthenogenesis, born into its caste and bound into a group mind by pheromones; cut the…
• The Holy Nation — The continent's largest theocratic agrarian state in both population and military strength, ruled by the doctrine of the light god Okran as law —…

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