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First Steps
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 27](kenshi-27-small.webp)
The absolute first thing you need to do is to find some darn bandits. They travel in pack and should be relatively easy to see.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 28](kenshi-28-small.webp)
Travelling is the biggest time-sink in Kenshi. Speed it up by clicking the arrows on the bottom right.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 29](kenshi-29-small.webp)
Eventually, however, you should find some bandits. Make them follow you by running close and haul ass back to town ASAP.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 30](kenshi-30-small.webp)
Navigate carefully or get lost and waste huge amounts of time.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 31](kenshi-31-small.webp)
Be also careful about speeding up. Sometimes the game saves, sometimes it freezes, sometimes it hangs up a bit and all can end up with you dying.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 32](kenshi-32-small.webp)
In this case, on my way back to town, I found an injured wandering city guard. Usually, the city guards will obliverate the bandits but 10 to 1 the city guards gets K.O'ed.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 33](kenshi-33-small.webp)
And when the city guard gets K.O'ed..
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You get to loot him!
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 35](kenshi-35-small.webp)
In this case, I got my hands on one of the best armors in the game, although shoddy in grade, It fetches a very nice price on all markets and doesn't have any huge deductable minuses like being the armor of a faction. Merchants don't like that and will cut back on the price significantly.
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"Armors in Kenshi are also rather complicated, as one can see from just glancing at the armor info. Coverage is how much of a chance the armor will have to cover a certain area of the body. 40% is about half the time, 100% is always.
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Weapons are complex too. Some are good for defending, some for offense, some for both. Some do a lot of "Blood" damage to cause enemies to fall into a bloodloss shock and some just maim limbs & bodypart until foes die. Katanas are more of the bloodloss types.
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As I stop looting however, I unfortunately fail to get away and get smacked in the legs.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 39](kenshi-39-small.webp)
This prevents me from running away with the already heavy encumberance I got from hauling all this gear.
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Eventually, the blood loss becomes too great..
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And I lose conciousness.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 42](kenshi-42-small.webp)
At this state, there is absolutely nothing you can do If you don't have any concious, controllable characters around besides your one that is lying down.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 43](kenshi-43-small.webp)
"The medical system in Kenshi is also quite complicated. But the jist of it is If your blood, head, chest or stomach gets under 0, you pass out.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 44](kenshi-44-small.webp)
In this case, only my leg got severely injured and I was able to wake up in time to stop myself from bleeding to death.
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Right-clicking on yourself or your avatar will pop up the prompt to "First Aid" if you have a bandage close at hand or other first aid kits.
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As my character is a newbie at almost everything, bandaging all my injuries took a very long time.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 47](kenshi-47-small.webp)
It also consumed tons of medkit "Charges".
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 48](kenshi-48-small.webp)
And when I was done first-aiding, an entire medkit was consumed + some more. Good thing I found one on that guard.
![Kenshi Walkthrough - Kenshi 49](kenshi-49-small.webp)
But even moreso unfortunately, due to my severe left leg limb damage, the already slow travelling speed of my character was hamstered further, leaving the 3x speed-up timer to be nothing but a drip in the ocean as I crawled back to town.
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It took almost an entire day to simply go around a small mountain which makes It invaluable to have, say, a partner that can carry you when your legs fail.
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Alas, I did not have enough money to afford one so crawling it is.
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"Green on youjr "health bars" means that much is fine. Yellow means It's damage that is bandaged. Red means it's maimed, AKA, heavily damaged that needs medical attention.
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Splinted status means you can continue using your limbs even though they are yellow. A very useful thing.
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