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The Shek Kingdom's town in the Border Zone, wedged into a narrow canyon directly east of the capital Admag. Powered entirely by wind, blacked out constantly, and roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than the capital — but its bar holds the densest concentration of unique recruits in the game.
Squin is the Shek Kingdom's town in the Border Zone, the whole settlement wedged into a narrow canyon directly east of the capital, Admag. To find it you either explore your way there or read the Map of the Shek Kingdom.
Its role in the flow of the game is clear enough: it is the only genuinely functioning city in the Border Zone. The Hub is a ruin and the Rebel Base is one building, while Squin has an armour shop, a weapon shop, a general store, a travel gear shop, two bars and a police station. For a squad starting on the frontier, Squin is usually the first place where everything is actually for sale.
A town driven into a crack
The siting is very Shek: rather than look for open ground, they drove the town into a gap between rock walls, so that the wall only has to seal the mouth of the canyon. The layout makes it easy to hold and hard to assault, and makes the whole place look as though it grew out of the stone.
There are mineable iron and copper resources outside — standard for the Border Zone. So are the hazards: Dust Bandits and Hungry Bandits roam the region and will harass unsuspecting wanderers.
The town with no batteries
Squin carries one unusual piece of design detail: the entire town is powered by wind and nothing else.
The problem is the lack of batteries in the city. Wind speed naturally oscillates, and with no batteries there is no buffer — so Squin suffers power outages fairly frequently. That is not a bug, it is the design. It also doubles as a demonstration of Kenshi's base-building logic: generating power is half the job, and storing it is the half that keeps machines actually running.
The bar: the densest recruiting ground in the game
What Squin's bar is famous for is the density of unique recruits. All of the following have a chance to appear here:
For an early squad, this makes Squin not just a supply stop but a hiring hall.
Pacifier
The Flotsam Ninjas Pacifier can be found here. If you have wrecked your standing with the Flotsam Ninjas, this is where you go to repair it.
Population: about one percent of the capital
The wiki makes an interesting deduction about Squin's size. Every Shek Warrior and Kamikaze squad status is tied to Esata, who governs Admag; the only spawn status tied directly to Squin is the token Kamikaze force in the Stenn Desert, and even that only exists under the Mukai world state.
Read backwards from the game data, then, Squin can be considered around a hundred times smaller than Admag in population. It is the Kingdom's frontier town, not its second capital.
Town overrides
Squin can be affected by multiple World States, producing three override versions:
| Version | Notes |
|---|---|
| Mukai | The town falls to Mukai the Mountain |
| Kral's Chosen | The town falls to Kral's Chosen |
| Berserkers | The town falls to the Berserkers |
The three names amount to a political spectrum in themselves: once Esata's thread is cut, everyone who takes Squin is someone who wants to drag the Shek back to the old way of doing things.
See also
Buildings and shops
Armour Shop, Bar x2, General Shop, Police Station, Travel Gear, Weapon Shop
Buildings for sale
| Building | Price |
|---|---|
| Longhouse x2 (Collapsed) | 7,200 Cats |
| Longhouse x2 | 19,200 Cats |
Sells
Vendors here stock 47 items in total, grouped by category — every entry links.
Items
Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Book, Cactus Rum, Cactus, Chainmail Sheets, Copper Alloy Plates, Copper, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Grog, Hacksaw, Hemp, Iron Plates, Leather, Luxury Goods, Medical Supplies, Riceweed, Robotics Components, Simple Rug, Skeleton Repair Kit, Steel Bars, Strawflour, Water Jug, Water, Wheatstraw
Medium Armour
Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Armoured Rag Skirt, Armoured Rags, Mercenary Leather Armour, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust, White Plate Jacket
Weapons
Falling Sun, Fragment Axe, Long Cleaver, Plank
Nutrition
Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Meatwrap
Light Armour
Mercenaries
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.
Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Book, Cactus, Chainmail Sheets, Copper, Copper Alloy Plates, Electrical Components, Fabrics, Fuel, Gears, Grog, Hacksaw, Hemp, Iron Plates, Leather, Luxury Goods, … (27 items in all at this shop)
Shek Armor Shop
Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Armoured Rag Skirt, Armoured Rags, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Heart Protector, Mercenary Leather Armour, Mercenary Plate, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust, Skeleton Repair Kit, White Plate Jacket
Shek Bar
Cactus Rum, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Meatwrap, Water, Water Jug
Falling Sun, Fragment Axe, Long Cleaver, Plank
The source does not record what this shop sells.