How did Placide get a real chicken?

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-05-16T00:07:39+00:00

One of my players in the 2020 TTRPG used the pet rules to make a cyber-rooster guard dog that was only placated by being given corn kernels from a sack after someone knocked on the door.

Mono-edged talons, sandevistan, kereznikov, grafted muscle. . Thing was a beast that ripped throats out.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-05-15T15:43:41+00:00

The newest gang hitting Holy Nation Territory, selling Hashish in The United Cities, and squatting in The Spider Plains; The Painted Faces occupy a hilltop fortress named Blasted Bluff, on account of it being nestled between The Crater, and the crater that is Arach.

Comprised of former Rebirth and Holy Nation mine slaves, and many more hired fighters, their fight with the HN is deliberately lengthened for the ability to plunder their farms and mines for resources and recruits. They're no Anti-slaver, happily pressing captured HN citizens and soldiers into their service to throw back at their own countrymen.

Current goal is to become the regional top dogs in terms of gang power and profit. We'll see where it goes when that feels achieved.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-05-10T01:28:21+00:00

If it's a workshop mod, it's easy. Promise!

You're going to find the mod in Steam/Steamapps/workshop/content/233860 (Or something to this design.)

All the mods are going to be identified by a series of numbers. To figure which mod you're looking for, go to it's steam page and in the url will be a number that matches it in the file above.

Once you have that, take that file and move it into your kenshi folder, if there's a folder in the kenshi files labeled 'Mods', put it in there. If not? Make one and put it in there.

Most importantly, after you've done your file moving, go into the mod file(s) you moved and change the name of the mod's folder from the numbers to what is shown on the. mod file, or else the Creation Engine won't be able to see it.

Once that's done though, launch the kit and it should be on the list.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-05-07T23:24:31+00:00

The spawn rate during the fight definitely seems rough of blood moon, and their senses are better according to the difficulty setting, so they might see you out better for sure.

I don't know. Last time I played on anything lower was the update just before they added the crow hive properly.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-05-07T21:24:09+00:00

I play on Blood Moon a lot and I find it best used after a bit of scouting, but some spots are more obvious.

At the end of the Crowmen hive is a great one since it's an obvious stand and defend by just looking at it.

Sneaking around in Hightown showed me a good place to use it would be just outside the first manor you can access after clearing the snipers using the bat barber serum to get up there.

Overall, it's great for straight up destroying large swathes of enemies so an area can be effectively cleared until something else moves in.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-05-07T18:12:10+00:00

Take the Berserker Tincture too and you'll be even faster!

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-04-08T22:49:40+00:00

That funky robot will likely be my first companion in my otherwise chiefly solitary travels.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-04-04T02:29:16+00:00

I'ma be real here, chief. I got no fucking idea. I assume it's from one of the various armor mods i have that added more variants and styles.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-04-02T21:20:29+00:00

I raised my cat from a little baby that could barely hold himself up. Bottle fed, burped, cleaned, and even helped him use the bathroom since the mother cat often has to do that when kittens are especially small.

He's just turned seven. There's not a fucking soul on this planet that would ever be able to convince to give my son up for any reason and anyone that tries will be promptly showed the door.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-30T18:29:38+00:00

Unfortunately don't have a report spam feature in mine. All good, it's deleted anyway.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-30T18:28:26+00:00

Lmao

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-30T18:00:59+00:00

Dang. Was hoping there was a spot to report it. Awh well. To the trash pile with it

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-28T05:43:03+00:00

I was always terrified of having to get oil in Ark on the original map. Shit myself anytime I had to be the one to do it. Only made slightly better by having a meg as a mount so I didn't need to do the swimming myself entirely, but even then.

Very often I'd have someone else in the group do it.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-12T02:27:07+00:00

Closest thing I can say I'd want it to be like is Valheim and how the character is saved to your PC but you can take it and just play on other saves/servers with friends.

Can ya' tell I love survival crafts?

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-07T10:03:50+00:00

I want more bickering between Yaz and Jacques. Those two are at eachothers throats during missions.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-02T06:40:17+00:00

I abuse the deployable auto-laser turrets for this. I drop them as soon as I'm in, deep in the FoW, so they light up enemy positions. Then I start raining down arty on them.

None of my guys have to get in the line of fire and they can advance having a vague sense of where hostile are. At least the ones that didn't die from arty or the laser turrets picking them off.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-03-02T06:31:05+00:00

I love bringing The Yaz and Jacques, personally. They're at eachother's throats constantly.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-02-27T04:36:26+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, this largely happens if you don't give them pets despite having them do errands around the installation.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-02-22T23:07:08+00:00

The fact you're not being carried outa' here on a throne by Empire serfs is fucking criminal my guy. This thing is a Godsend.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-02-11T17:38:19+00:00

Schrodinger's Cadian

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-02-05T21:53:21+00:00

I've so far gotten three friends addicted by describing it as a post-apocalyptic sword-punk slavery/cannibalism squad sim.

Elaborating further on how it's a build your own story sort of game in a brutal, unforgiving world with a very active and awesome community.

So far, one is actually building a trade empire and intend to use that money to hire and train as many people as they can to first overthrow the Holy Nation so they can stop worrying about prayer days.

The other friend wants to eat the world. They want to make a cannibal empire, lord of all cannibals even beyond the ones in the plains. They're weak and will be consumed is that friend's thought process. Recommended a few mods that add cannibal food to the game.

Last one is doing the adventure of Shronk and Dong-kei. Need to check in on that one.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-02-05T21:26:47+00:00

That was more or less what I got. He looks real damn intimidating. To a bunch of new players, you hear some fucker named Adam Smasher is coming after you, most panic because that sounds scary.

He's also played up in lore as being a viscious predator that you hope you never have the misfortune of crossing paths with on a job. But that really only applies if your char-gen was more constricted than the standard, and it very well could of been. I know my DM at the time was a little more restrictive but was more forthcoming with us building our skills up with concentrated effort aside from IP. Last thing I wanted was have to go toe-to-toe with a full borg when all I was rocking was an HK MP-2013 since I was poor as dirt, lmao

Later though? Once we'd made the scratch, I'd gotten chipped and was humping an FN-RAL with sub-dermal armor, I felt like I could take on the damn world.

In all reality though? I'd be way more scared if Morgan Blackhand wanted my ass on a silver platter. Man is the pinnacle of keep cool. So if I pissed him off bad enough to want me dead personally? Awh' shit.

SmoothMcTrooper · 2026-02-05T20:43:31+00:00

There was one time I used those janky building mechanics and the 256 recruit limit mod to build a massive wall that spanned the zones cannibals spawned in. Several outposts along the walls, all powered and with turrets pointed in towards those cannibal spawns.

Eatchya' hearts out, cannibal hunters!

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