Let’s start a game of Kenshi. I like playing this incredibly hard game and starting over every time I die. In this game, you’re nobody and you’ll get nowhere. You can work and save up money, recruit people or enslave them and automate their tasks, build a base, create an empire, destroy empires, or make a living through theft. But be careful: if you end up in prison, you may have to wait several hours in front of the screen for your release, hoping you don’t starve to death while you wait. You can also try to escape and end up with a bounty on your head. And yes, you can starve to death, too.
Let’s begin:
Difficulty: Very Hard
Starting cash: 0
“You’ve hit absolute rock bottom. You are alone, unarmed, naked and hungry, lost in the middle of a harsh desert teeming with slavers, and you just lost an arm. Good luck.”
Choose your race and gender carefully. The different nations are racist toward one another, and being a woman in a misogynistic world is extremely difficult.
For this playthrough, I’ll be playing as:
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Skin color: White
And welcome to the desert, in the middle of nowhere.
Let’s start by looking at the map around us and trying to reach a city.
Mission 1: Reach Bark, at the top of the map, while trying to:
- Not starve to death.
- Avoid being attacked by slavers.
- Avoid being attacked by crazies, mercenaries, and all sorts of other people.
- Avoid being eaten by the huge creatures that roam the desert.
Here, intelligent life is not at the top of the food chain—it’s at the bottom.
Just look at our wonderful starting stats:
In this game, you have to fight to improve your attack skill. Combat happens automatically. To improve your defense, you have to get hit, and so on. In this playthrough, I’m going to try to raise my stats as much as possible.
But for now, it’s time to head for the big city.
We’ll do it while crouching, even though it takes longer. That way, if I manage to stay hidden from enemies along the way, my Stealth skill will go up.
And on my way, I can already see Rebel Warriors who weren’t in the same place during my last playthrough. They’ve already started chasing me—will I survive???
Just so you know, when you die, the game doesn’t stop. It leaves you dead in the middle of the desert and carries on without you. During the game, you can send your camera far away to see what’s happening elsewhere. Whether you’re playing or just doing nothing, the game continues without you. Things happen randomly: nations and factions go to war, cities manage themselves, and sometimes one side wins a war and takes over another. Sometimes there are trade wars. The world around you unfolds completely at random across the map, without you.
There are a lot of them up ahead—and as I move forward, I spot even more hiding in front of me, concealed by the sand blowing in the wind.
Maybe there’s hope if I search off to the side. But when I send the camera to the right, behind the sand dunes, I spot Manhunters who would sell me at the slave market. If you end up as a slave, your character breaks rocks until they starve to death. You can always try to escape, but with your skills at level 0, you’re in for hours of gameplay before you manage to get away.
But behind the slavers, there are ninjas. The two factions are enemies in the game, so let’s hope they defend me if I lead everyone toward them—but there’s no guarantee.
Perfect! The Manhunters and the Rebel Farmers are fighting each other while the ninjas watch without getting involved. The Manhunters didn’t dare attack me while I was behind the ninjas.
Finally, let’s follow the ninjas, who have turned back without getting involved in the fight. We’ll do the same and hope they’re heading to a town.
Oh no—some fleeing people have led the region’s worst enemies straight toward us, and the fight has begun. I hope my improvised protectors don’t die.
They managed to knock two of them out. Quick, we have to “loot” their meat; otherwise, they’ll get back up after five minutes and hunt us down for revenge.
Well, you can’t eat raw red meat. You’ll have to cook it once you reach a town. And yellow meat is worthless and inedible—except for certain races in the game, who buy it.
In all the chaos, I managed to discreetly grab some equipment from the Rebel Farmers who died in the middle of the battle. Every little bit helps.
Oh no, my rescuers ran off while I was gearing up. Oh well, it doesn’t matter—my mission is still to reach the city at the top of the map. By the way, how far have we gotten?
I’ve barely moved from the starting point.
I won’t tell you the whole story of the journey, but along the way I loaded up my inventory as much as I could with whatever I found on the corpses around me. I watched battles between factions and between humans and wild animals, and acted like a vulture, picking over the dead. It might be a cowardly strategy, but in this game, cowardice pays off. Having a completely full inventory slows you down, but it makes your Strength skill increase five times faster. Over time, you can carry more and more without being slowed down.
The closer I get to the big city, the more enemies I run into that I have to avoid by hiding. If they see me, they’ll kill me in one hit. Fortunately, all that crouch-walking and sneaking around while scavenging corpses has improved my Stealth skill.
At last, the port city! Let’s explore it.
Let’s start trading: I’ll empty my inventory for some money and hope the merchant has enough cash to buy everything from me.
There are lots of houses for sale in town, and luckily, I’ve spotted a fairly large one for 12,800 cats. After selling my goods, I have 14,699—so, let’s buy it!
For now, my property is a little bare, but I’ve set up my campfire there, where I can cook my meat and finally eat.
The next step will be to find some resources—either by scavenging corpses or by working at the mine and selling the ore.
Next objective:
Make money and buy every property in town. You’ll see why later.
Before buying any more properties, I’ve managed to get some pretty decent gear for the start of the game by being a sneaky coward—slipping through battlefields to loot corpses and sell everything. I’m on Day 3 now.
I’m now going to buy an animal to help me carry everything, so I can haul even more loot from battlefields and sell it for even more money.
But be careful: your animal needs to eat, too. Make sure it always has food with it; it will eat it automatically.
To be continued in the next episode.
Rewards are daily.
The GLYPH staking limit for rewards is 100.
You can post a !GLYPH in the comments of this post to earn some.
You can yourself post !GLYPH under the best posts you find, and if they match our selection criteria, they will receive a 3.5% vote. The more HP I have, the higher the vote value will be. For now, I'm still modest.
HP delegated to @we-are-ai 0.00001 GLYPH per HP
ALIVE delegated to @benef.alive 1 whole ALIVE = 0.0001 GLYPH
BBHO delegated to @benef.bbho 1 whole BBHO = 0.00001 GLYPH
BEE delegated to @benef.tribes 1 whole BEE = 0.00001 GLYPH
NEOXAG delegated to @benef.neoxian 100 whole NEOXAG = 0.000001 GLYPH
PIMP delegated to @benef.pimp 1 whole PIMP = 0.00001 GLYPH
PEPE delegated to @benef.pepe 100,000 PEPE = 0.001 GLYPH
STACK your GLYPH WIN 5.18% APR
| Source | Beneficiary | Account | Delegated / stake | GLYPH reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | @we-are-ai | @thefed | 12309.35494679 HP | 0.12309355 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @salty-mcgriddles | 50.23744079 HP | 0.00050237 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @sprstoner | 25.6187306 HP | 0.00025619 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @ekads | 50.11664188 HP | 0.00050117 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @timesheets | 50.17633455 HP | 0.00050176 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @leiaviathan | 50.19578922 HP | 0.00050196 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @forykw | 50.21066176 HP | 0.00050211 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @ravenmus1c | 50.21708313 HP | 0.00050217 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @nicole-st | 50.28683045 HP | 0.00050287 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @empis | 2007.06257834 HP | 0.02007063 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @methus | 50.5067861 HP | 0.00050507 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @ylich | 100.03415631 HP | 0.00100034 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @stimp1024 | 100.20425968 HP | 0.00100204 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @kph | 200.46394303 HP | 0.00200464 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @optout | 402.20202135 HP | 0.00402202 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @nervi | 500.25008061 HP | 0.00500250 GLYPH |
| HP | @we-are-ai | @worldfinances | 500.32180829 HP | 0.00500322 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @street-ar | 1000 ALIVE | 0.10000000 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @jwjqu.wam | 444 ALIVE | 0.04440000 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @speed-ride | 206 ALIVE | 0.02060000 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @pancasona | 100 ALIVE | 0.01000000 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @ekads | 23 ALIVE | 0.00230000 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @pixelfan | 10 ALIVE | 0.00100000 GLYPH |
| ALIVE | @benef.alive | @hivecurious | 1 ALIVE | 0.00010000 GLYPH |
| BBHO | @benef.bbho | @ekads | 87 BBHO | 0.00087000 GLYPH |
| BBHO | @benef.bbho | @jwjqu.wam | 75 BBHO | 0.00075000 GLYPH |
| BBHO | @benef.bbho | @benef.alive | 51.31070047 BBHO | 0.00051000 GLYPH |
| BBHO | @benef.bbho | @speed-ride | 30 BBHO | 0.00030000 GLYPH |
| BBHO | @benef.bbho | @street-ar | 20 BBHO | 0.00020000 GLYPH |
| BBHO | @benef.bbho | @hivecurious | 1 BBHO | 0.00001000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @freebornsociety | 2225.18664171 BEE | 0.02225000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @noonespecialz | 2160 BEE | 0.02160000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @thefed | 2000 BEE | 0.02000000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @sprstoner | 735 BEE | 0.00735000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @shiftrox | 299.2884648 BEE | 0.00299000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @jwjqu.wam | 200 BEE | 0.00200000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @yintercept | 200 BEE | 0.00200000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @stimp1024 | 200 BEE | 0.00200000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @timesheets | 145 BEE | 0.00145000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @benef.alive | 121.37840577 BEE | 0.00121000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @forykw | 80 BEE | 0.00080000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @cryptovisitor | 50 BEE | 0.00050000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @street-ar | 10 BEE | 0.00010000 GLYPH |
| BEE | @benef.tribes | @speed-ride | 3 BEE | 0.00003000 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @jwjqu.wam | 25000 NEOXAG | 0.02500000 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @antisocialist | 2786.38853927 NEOXAG | 0.00278600 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @speed-ride | 2072.71186027 NEOXAG | 0.00207200 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @benef.cent | 1200.07666236 NEOXAG | 0.00120000 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @street-ar | 1000 NEOXAG | 0.00100000 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @benef.alive | 896.58229837 NEOXAG | 0.00089600 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @ekads | 300 NEOXAG | 0.00030000 GLYPH |
| NEOXAG | @benef.neoxian | @hivecurious | 100 NEOXAG | 0.00010000 GLYPH |
| PEPE | @benef.pepe | @toofuckeh | 100000000 PEPE | 1.00000000 GLYPH |
| PEPE | @benef.pepe | @benef.alive | 24039850.00859818 PEPE | 0.24000000 GLYPH |
| PEPE | @benef.pepe | @jwjqu.wam | 1764800 PEPE | 0.01700000 GLYPH |
| PEPE | @benef.pepe | @ekads | 150398 PEPE | 0.00100000 GLYPH |
| PEPE | @benef.pepe | @hivecurious | 100000 PEPE | 0.00100000 GLYPH |
| PIMP | @benef.pimp | @jwjqu.wam | 1867 PIMP | 0.01867000 GLYPH |
| PIMP | @benef.pimp | @ekads | 151.23056203 PIMP | 0.00151000 GLYPH |
| PIMP | @benef.pimp | @hivecurious | 1 PIMP | 0.00001000 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @toofuckeh | 100 GLYPH stake | 0.01420000 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @ahmedabbaci | 5.025 GLYPH stake | 0.00071355 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @pixelfan | 4.40319569 GLYPH stake | 0.00062525 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @thefed | 3.333 GLYPH stake | 0.00047329 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @speed-ride | 2.42577614 GLYPH stake | 0.00034446 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @hivecurious | 2.07038638 GLYPH stake | 0.00029399 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @edgerik | 1.01001 GLYPH stake | 0.00014342 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @pancasona | 0.60092357 GLYPH stake | 0.00008533 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @caparadiso | 0.31691718 GLYPH stake | 0.00004500 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @yintercept | 0.23291877 GLYPH stake | 0.00003307 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @street-ar | 0.20374459 GLYPH stake | 0.00002893 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @curatorcat.pal | 0.1941 GLYPH stake | 0.00002756 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @david781211 | 0.088 GLYPH stake | 0.00001250 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @thepavsalford | 0.08319445 GLYPH stake | 0.00001181 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @antisocialist | 0.0809 GLYPH stake | 0.00001149 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @ekads | 0.03351823 GLYPH stake | 0.00000476 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @ylich | 0.02831022 GLYPH stake | 0.00000402 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @arribaeltelon | 0.02454068 GLYPH stake | 0.00000348 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @militadigital01 | 0.01110745 GLYPH stake | 0.00000158 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @freebornsociety | 0.01 GLYPH stake | 0.00000142 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @psyopdailydao | 0.01 GLYPH stake | 0.00000142 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @cryptoluz | 0.00511026 GLYPH stake | 0.00000073 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @memess | 0.0037406 GLYPH stake | 0.00000053 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @cryptosol | 0.00330521 GLYPH stake | 0.00000047 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @barski | 0.00270703 GLYPH stake | 0.00000038 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @lanenadecorazon1 | 0.00251268 GLYPH stake | 0.00000036 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @bynereyda | 0.00250054 GLYPH stake | 0.00000036 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @claudialive | 0.0024 GLYPH stake | 0.00000034 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @fugazz | 0.00150319 GLYPH stake | 0.00000021 GLYPH |
| WIN-STACK | — | @jankris | 0.0012 GLYPH stake | 0.00000017 GLYPH |
Total GLYPH reward : 1.76040849 GLYPH
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