Kenshi Tutorial | Combat, Injuries, and Healing

IS THIS GAME EVER NOT PAUSED???

2023 and your still helping noobs like me🎉

new to the game. having a dedicated healer on passive is great idea especialy early game. i can see that not working out against more aggrssive types. but run away or give them skills. i would want assasin type healer lol. let them sneak all over lol.

WTF iks "Medic command"? hate tutorials which are too much blah blah energy draining time, and not explaining main things

Get on with it mate, this video could have been 10 minutes long if you didn't pause every 2 seconds

I know this was years ago but great info, thank you! I've been running from a lot of groups and save scumming whenever a fight starts to go bad... but now I know not to worry so much. Only downside is a lot of groups still attack for no reason, so I still don't get to pick my battles very much lol

Thank you for this video. I just started playing, and so far I'm loving it but still confused with everything going on.

thank you for this, brother.

FYI, upon losing a limb, you can also just buy another character and have him carry you around like you're in a romance novel for the rest of the game

Me, twiddling my thumbs playing my solo martial arts character

Audio was way too quiet

that’s why I joined the flotsam ninjas 🥷 they are allied with all the ninja factions so I don’t have to worry about the op sand ninjas

how do you change your squad mates names the vanilla ones are often lame 😒🙄??

Learned about threshholds. Thanks

2021 and you're still a BOSS

Okay but how do I start a fight? I'm getting chased by slavers right now and don't know to attack them

i have a guy in come, he has been in come for more than a week and all of his stats are improving, nothing red, still he doesnt wake up, is it a bug or does it really take more than a week in game time?

great vid,.. good info presented in easy terms,.. well-done subscription earned

are there no torches in-game for when its dark?

In my squad, every1 got meds and every1 heals themselves. If every1 gets knocked out i pray to god we dont all die. Usually my strongest characters are the ones who wake up first, therefore becoming the best medics.... It is a fun way to play lol

It's all very good if you are in a group and you can have a medic, but what happens if you are solo? I'm assuming, especially if you don't have any first aid equipment, and you get KO'ed, you're character is just going to die out and there's nothing you can do about it?
EDIT - Great videos though. Scary but intriguing :-((...

Great videos for a great game! Keep it up!
I would like to add a list of enemies to fight in order form easiest to hardest that I've seen so far to help in leveling up combat skills.
1: Hungry Bandit
2: River Raptor
3: Dust Bandit
4: Gorrillos / Beak Things (ONE AT A TIME!)
5: Holy Nation
After you fight each of these a few times you should have decent combat skills.

Great video! Thanks.

max volume and can't hear you with opened window

This video is so tactical it goes over combat so well nice job!

There is an option for limb loss (frequent-default comes of at -100) (rare comes off at -100 if it takes a hit after that or roughly at -200 comes off anyway) and (never, doesn't come off).


Characters die at -100 for blood, head, stomach, chest.


Medic skill also affects how many charges are used up when healing. A very high medic skill can patch well over 100 damage per charge of bandages. (also apples to robotics for repairing skeletons and artificial limbs)


The medic kit has a skill required. While you can use advanced kits with no skill, it will cost more durability (charges) for an untrained medic to use them, so stick with bandages till your medic skill is around 20, then regular first aid kits till 40 or when you are rich enough to not give a crap (usually happens before this). Repair kits also have this function, but since there's only 2 types, go with the cheap ones till skill 30.


A bed is rented for 24 hours, you can save cats by making people take turns in a single bed if you are in your first few days in Kenshi and need the money.


Kenshi is backwards from other games. You level up faster for defeat than you do for victory, so getting trashed is your goal, but you do want to loose slowly, so pick on things a little tougher than you are, not things way over your levels.

You can however easily kite, hit n run, river raptors with katana type swords.

How to heal crippled limbs?

how do you heal dmg from wear and what is a skeleton bed as well as how do you make it?
anyone know?

Wow this video opened my eyes to so many things in kenshi. Thank you very much!

Just what i was looking for, great video!

Thanks for this video. My squad kept getting beaten up in battles and I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong or not. But I guess in this game, getting beaten up is a good thing.

Limb Loss, Blood Death, Critical Part (Head, chest, stomach) Death, all occur at your maximum negative. (Your death rate global settings can mess with some of this, this is simply the 1x default setting for how it works).

Limb loss can also be customized a bit. The default is that the limb is immediately is severed if the severing threshold is reached. But you can also change it to Rare, which requires you hit the severing threshold first and then take another attack to that limb to sever it (Basically your limb won't be lost to wound degeneration and gives you a chance to save it during combat if you're watching for it), or disabled entirely.

If you have limb 100, Head 200, and 76 blood, you lose the limb at -100, die at head -200 and die at -76 blood. (Blood is based on toughness if i recall correctly and is pretty much just a flat +1% bonus per point of toughness. If you 75 base blood (human) you'll have 76 at 1 toughness (it gets rounded up to +1 bonus) and eventually 150 at maximum toughness.

KO points are somewhat fluid (however a sufficiently powerful blow to something like your head (or taking damage to critical body parts below 0) can temp KO you, however you will recover from it after a bit if you're still above your absolute KO threshold) but generally you KO around 0 unless you've got a lot of toughness which lowers your absolute KO point (extending all the way down to within 1 point of death at maximum toughness) where you fall unconscious and remain so until healed back to 1+).

Great video thank ya

These videos are a goldmine. Many thanks.

Was forgetting how healing worked earlier this is really helpful. Not to mention couldn't figure out how to target a non hostile bandit. like 50 bandits chased me into a city got massacred then some up in the hills it was just a bloodbath made like 65000 cats from their loot alone and i didn't even loot all of them.

Just wanted to say that these are really good videos. Keep it up!