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Hey im kinda looking to get into Kenshi, any advice?
(lemmygrad.ml)
Advice like what to expect and how to get started stuff like that
If you look at the map and see that green river valley a bit north of the big swamp? In the northwest of that, right on the edge of the mountain range, is summer camp (Rebirth). Wherever you start, train up athletics and sneak a bit in town just running back and forth for a few minutes, then go to summer camp and refuse to leave until they give you a room. Now you've got full access to a 24/7 gym and the camp MMA tournament (the counselors cheat and use weapons and gang up on you). Stay there until you can singlehandedly win the tournament or until you get bored.
And remember, the training weights they give you are free: you can get more by removing them and putting them in your inventory. And if you get hungry, just slip away at night to plunder the nearby town and you can get back before anyone notices you were gone.
Once you've graduated from summer camp you get a permanent 100% discount on all goods everywhere, provided you show up at night and knock out everyone in the building first.
Ogey!!! Will do this ๐๐๐
Seriously, it's a shitpost but it's also unironically one of the strongest non-cheese-strat starts for building up stats. Provided you don't get maimed or killed outright, the guards in Rebirth just patch you up, you can't starve to death, and it automatically gives orders to your character so they'll be moving constantly as long as you animation cancel all the actual work now and then, letting you semi-afk train strength on max speed.
I think there's supposed to be another step first (similar to how getting enough sneak and athletics to be able to just leave whenever you want is helpful), getting a bit of martial arts skill up so you pass the threshhold needed to train effectively by fighting the guards 1v1 at night after knocking one of the two in a given building out, but that's the gist of it: get locked up in Rebirth, continuously remove your shackles and put them in your inventory so they'll give you more and you can get overloaded enough to strength train, train the assassin skill on other prisoners while they're locked up and then on guards once you can, and bare knuckle box the guards to build toughness and martial arts.
Guards? Why would a summer camp need guards?!?!?!
(Rebirth is a prison/labor camp, but the community treats it as a gym/resort/summer camp because it's a mostly-safe place to build stats early game. It's trivial to leave whenever you want provided you've got decent athletics and sneak, so it may as well be a weekend getaway than a prison.)