Why You Should Settle Fog Islands | Kenshi Location Guide

Something else to note is that characters that have less than 15 melee attack can train in the soldiers headquarters. Unlike other citys they are ok that you train there and won't kick or kill you for it

Dont need to tieup one of yours,you can even tieup Others fogmen.
They will also eaten by the Prince.

My usual Fog Island strat is to buy a shack next to the big Y house, build an ore storage there, it is in range for miners to haul ore from the gate. Very safe, can leave beep there to train his strength and run speed while the rest gathers science, etc. Eventually all that ore can be turned into armor plates for selling and training armor craft.
As for my main money earning, I like to pick up KO'd fog boys and mount them on poles as bait (heavies have higher limb HP so I'll prefer them if available). Do this over a couple of death yards and wait for the crunch Munch noises.
Sometimes I gotta wait for the princes to disperse because if like 5 show up to a pole, they'll bring some 20 heavies total + drones. Ideally the princes show up ahead of the heavies due to their speed giving a quick opportunity to nab some cats.
Early on I tried to help the Holy Nation Outlaws roaming around, sometimes even buy them a cheap leg, let them sleep at the Y house I use as an HQ, etc. But they dumb AF, loud as bait at least.
Then after a while I did a little bit of a culinary exchange program of supplying fishmen, cannibals, and foggies to each other because I had a 54mph Beep delivery service.

The Fog Islands are my go-to location for any starter character because of three reasons.
1. Mongrel's shinobi HQ has tier 3 training dummies that you can easily use without getting into trouble, because there's like only two cages up there, which get quickly filled out, meaning the shinobi guard do not walk up there at all.
2. Fog Men make a very decent early game enemy to train your combat stats on, provided you don't overextend.
3. It's one of the best early game locations to make money passively, as the assaults on Mongrel are quite frequent, and so you can easily sell fog men weapons in bulk, with the addition of fog prince heads.

My trick for the fog lands is this: don’t go in there unless you have to unless you’re a skeleton.

glad my best characters run at 40+ :D

Would be cool for a skeleton playthrough

Make a video about why you should settle at bonefields

good tip for mongrel if you dont mind the thieving cheese:
it seems the robotics trader is not in the same faction as the other shops, so you can sell him stolen goods for full price
he also has heaps of cats, so you can make bank fast!

THE FOG IS COMING

instructions unclear, created a cursed society of Boops and enslaved fogbois, and regretted every step of it.

I'll say the fog islands are an amazing location for an all skeleton party. If you bring enough repair kits your group can train combat skills almost 24/7 without a worry of getting abducted. And if you collect fog prince heads you can easily pay the skeleton bed fee in mongrel to heal off wear dmg!

today I learned that crossbows can shoot through the gates.

"Character Development": losing all your limbs and replacing them with masterwork prosthetics lol🤣

i never noticed only the princes eat the victims. so good to know for farming credits.

i had almost given up on gaming when i found this game about 1 year ago. really got my fun back. x4 foundations is another game that gets overlooked a lot. i feel the title, and i guess it had not so good launch held it back. but like kenshi great rpg space opera game. u choose ur path.


that said i trying to do simple 5 man fogman outpost base. for starter base..... lol. 3 of the 5 are skeltons. then ofc BEEP and my human char. i figured 2 humans makes for way less food-farm production. i can focus on just crafting. mining. atm i trying to settle in the gold standard spot. looks nice but i not sure how to wall it off..... mixed feelings about the spot. but i wanted something new and challenging from my first play through by squinn. and keep it smaller cause i know i move once im lvled up again.

this game is such a hidden gem. i feel anyone that doesnt like it just doesnt give it an honest chance. or they get to frustrated with the ai and bugs......... admit it can feel frustrating. but time, patience and trial and error u can usually figure it all out. my biggest headache was making bread last time. forget at what point but they struggle to move something to next machine for some reason. i do know i finally found solution to it. and also learned eventually sometimes the AI just breaks. and u have to reload the game. save reload and everyone be working proper again.

old engine........ works its butt off for this game.

Never settled there, i did train my skeletons there and got filthy rich hunting princes :-)

Stamina training man, it's fantastic, they club you down and don't eat you heheh

Another perk is that you can call you outpost the mist village and your people the mist ninjas/shinobi

You can put Fogmen onto the poles and it will still trigger Fog Princes.

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Great Desert NOW

You should cover doing the black desert sometime. I personally haven't found amazing spots there but you can usually find good iron and copper along with plenty of flat space and a central location. If anyone raids you, they tend to lost half their numbers because they didn't bring gas masks

I remember a mod that lets you yoink the head from all the fogmen, not just the princes, but I couldn't find it last time I looked.

Fogmen huntins a good job, mate.
Challengin work, outta doors.
I guarantee you'll not go hungry, cause long as there's at least two fogmen left in the fog islands, everyone is gonna want them dead.

My games are usually in the "lore friendly vanilla +" category, and I'm going off memory alone. Corrections are welcome.

I'm almost certain that getting your limbs eaten by fog princes is the best way for a fleshie to prepare for cybernetics. Getting nom-nomed by the blue boys seems to give way more toughness than the peeler, starts with the legs, and is way safer than getting chewed on by gutters or hacked apart by cannibals. Tying a new character to a fog pole and having all his or her limbs chewed off usually leaves them with toughness in the high 30s or low 40s, which is good enough to prevent getting killed by Band of Bones, Kral's Chosen, and other new game training fodder.

The fact that fog men start with the legs is great! If given a choice, I like to leave my fleshies with their God given arms as long as possible for the sake of dex/str training, but the stats affected by leg prosthetics (stealth and athletics) are easy to power level quickly, ignore, or train passively.

By the way, if you use a mod that allows you to make prisoner poles, fog princes will eventually show up and eat whoever you tied to it. This can be used to cheese fog princes into a safer area, but I mainly use it for disposing of UC nobles.

Grey desert is my favorite location to settle. It's a central location in the east with oodles of copper and iron. I've created massive industrial powerhouses fueled by outposts in gut and shem with skeleton caravans escorting the shipments. You can sell all your products to the 3 nearby settlements and have caps comin out the anus. I've had to buy houses in nearby settlements just to store ore because I max out how much I can sell to every shop.

subscribed, loving these location videos. what about that area of the map north west? like the purple sand area?

Hey Paul! Great videos! Good luck with the channel!

I got eaten'

Also protip: there's an iron mine in Mongrel that produces infinite iron ore. If you want to passive train someone's strength or just get free money, check it out.

You can actually toggle sneak on and never toggle it off unless said character can handle 20+ fogmen and reach 50 or more sneak in 2-3 days

I don't even play Kenshi but these videos are a lot of fun. It's a very cool world and I like seeing the kind of stuff you deal with in there.

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You forgot to mention that unlike the peeler machine, the fogmen build up your toughness while they eat your limbs off. This is in addition to the toughness boost you get from losing limbs. I could be wrong but I believe that the boosted toughness xp gain from the being eaten status does apply to the limb loss xp too.

Bought the game like 3 months ago gave like 130h into it and only scratched the surface love your locatuon guides keep them coming 😄

This was pretty interesting, I wouldn't have guessed the farming capabilities would be that high!

Such a wholesome community ! Thanks for the guide , gonna smack some beak thing ass level up strenth 30 martial 50 with a couple of bros , dealin hash to get rich and migrate to the fog islands FRFR

Nice kek

When I first started the game I went to Fog Islands... The Fog is now my home.

The third type of player is a skeleton start farming free in the fog, they don't eat metal!

Wonder what will happen if u carry large animal and put it on pole?

This is actually where I settled in my current playthrough. I enjoy it very much so. My characters have got so much experience fighting fogmen, that every encounter is just limbs flying across the screen.

On a side note. You don't have to tie one of your own people to a pole to attract a prince if you don't want to. You can tie one of the fogmen to it and a prince will come along to eat em just the same.

The Fog islands are my early game training area i love the place you don't need much in the ways of stats to survive fights with drones, so long as you are careful, and well they are way easier to find than starving bandits

I usually go into the fog islands with a large group. We use the enemies to grind our combat skills.

i really like these videos man.

Fog islands are where im doing my current playthrough, was the most stressful setup because i was dumb and didnt bring enough materials to build walls so im running my 4 characters in and out of a shack every time the fog men come on screen so they dont aggro on us in between stone mining sessions

Now I'm gonna build an outpost in near Mongrel. These guides are amazing, keep it up!

Too slow? Hire bodyguards

Do you plan on doing a playthrough?
I'd watch hour long videos for sure

Fog Heavies will also SNACC if you kill the Fog Prince they are protecting.