Stobe's GambleReport
English：Stobe's Gamble · Locations
Volcanic badlands. Anti-Slavers (around Spring only); no man's land everywhere else. Main settlements: Spring, Secret Drug Farm.
Contents
Volcanic bedrock, acid lakes, landbat flocks that start at eighteen — and yet the only capital on the continent that dares write abolition on its door sits on a peak right here. Nobody knows what Stobe gambled on this ground; everyone since has been gambling on walking back out.
Terrain
The terrain is Volcanic badlands.
Who holds it
Anti-Slavers (around Spring only); no man's land everywhere else
- Anti-Slavers Controls
- Skeleton Bandits Patrols
- Southern Hive Patrols
- Crab Raiders Present
- Blackshifters Present
Settlements
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Spring | City |
| Secret Drug Farm | Outpost |
| Free Settlement | Ruin |
| Crumbling Labs | Ancient site |
| Expedition 5 | Ruin |
| Lost Armour Store | Ancient site |
| Old Empire Supply Outpost | Ancient site |
Inhabitants
Races: Skeleton, Hive, Greenlander
Faiths: The Elder's Skeleton cult (Stobe worship)
Wildlife
Notable units
| Name | Type | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tinfist | Hostile boss | Spring — the Anti-Slaver HQ at the dead centre of the swamp dome | Leader of the Anti-Slavers and, with 110 Martial Arts, the highest single-hit damage unit in the game; hand him to the United Cities for +75 reputation, or to Longen of the Traders Guild for 2 Leviathan Pearls and the recruitment of Yamdu. |
| Grey | Hostile boss | Spring, Anti-Slaver HQ, at Tinfist's side | He vets new blood: joining the Anti-Slavers means going through him. He is also the only NPC in the game who can permanently clear the escaped-slave / former-slave status. |
| Jaegar | Hostile boss | Walks the streets of Spring | Mad Jaegar on the wanted posters, a Scorchlander Jonin; the 20-strong Jonin raid that follows Tinfist's capture is usually led by him. |
| King Gorillo | Hostile boss | Crumbling Labs | Discounting age multipliers he has the highest combined combat stats of any character in the game, and only one ever spawns on the map; you fight him purely for the ancient goods in the labs. |
| Karate Drifter | Neutral | Walks the zone alone (rare) | An unrecruitable mystery martial artist with 45–55 Strength, absurdly durable for someone travelling alone; one of the zone's signature encounters. |
| Sniperbot | Hostile | Patrols the zone alone (Crazy Sniper squads) | Works solo and is extremely hard to spot; the opening bolt almost never misses. It wears [High] grade armour, so the kit is worth a lot once it goes down. |
| Anti-Slaver | Hostile | Patrols in and around Spring | Spring's rank and file; players allied with the Holy Nation, the United Cities, the Traders Guild or the Slave Traders are attacked on sight the moment they enter town. |
History
- This zone and neighbouring Stobe's Garden are both named for Stobe — the one who held back humanity's extinction through the Skeleton Wars.
- The Elder rewrote Stobe into the exterminator of the human plague, and his cult preaches through this area.
- The Tech Hunters' fifth southbound expedition gave out halfway here, leaving an empty town with its components strewn across the ground.
Building a base here
The channel's verdict: Recommended with caveats
- Hazards The pools in the zone are acid, which anyone who wants to work a body of water into their front-gate defences will actually like.[V1 0:03:55]
- Hazards The pools in the zone are acid, which anyone who wants to work a body of water into their front-gate defences will actually like.[V1 0:03:55]
- Hazards The pools in the zone are acid, which anyone who wants to work a body of water into their front-gate defences will actually like.[V1 0:03:55]
- Hazards The pools in the zone are acid, which anyone who wants to work a body of water into their front-gate defences will actually like.[V1 0:03:55]
- Hazards The pools in the zone are acid, which anyone who wants to work a body of water into their front-gate defences will actually like.[V1 0:03:55]
- Defensible terrain The base sites Paul Rogers marks out all have decent resources, and the ground there is relatively flat.[V1 0:04:29]
- Defensible terrain The base sites Paul Rogers marks out all have decent resources, and the ground there is relatively flat.[V1 0:04:29]
- Defensible terrain The base sites Paul Rogers marks out all have decent resources, and the ground there is relatively flat.[V1 0:04:29]
- Defensible terrain For sites with no body of water to hand, he suggests making up the defence with turrets mounted on buildings, or a double gate.[V1 0:10:34]
- Raids The whole zone sits inside the raid range of the Skin Bandits and the Reavers, and most of it is attacked by Crab Raiders as well.[V1 0:05:04]
- Distance to supplies Spring is right there inside the zone — the closest city on the map to its south-east corner.[V1 0:00:33]
- Other The sources of skins are unusually varied: goats, Black Gorillos and Land Bats are all found in this zone.[V1 0:05:37]
NoteDrawn from Paul Rogers Gaming's location-guide videos. This is the video author's judgement, not an official ruling from the game.
Getting there
Resupply inside the region: Spring, Secret Drug Farm.
The nearest city is Flats Lagoon, just across the border.
Regions you can walk into directly from here:
| Region |
|---|
| Flats Lagoon |
| Greyshelf |
| Sniper Valley |
| Sonorous Dark |
| Stobe's Garden |
| The Crags |
| The Unwanted Zone |
| Venge |
NoteThis article is assembled from the region dossier; facts come from the Kenshi Fandom Wiki and in-game data, and the navigation section is computed from the 72-region adjacency graph.