5 Kenshi Mods You Can’t Play Without

5 Kenshi Mods You Can’t Play Without

Dark UI

Being the ambitious and immersive experience that it is, Kenshi will have players living in their world for hours at a time. As a result of this, they’ll also spend their fair share of hours staring at the game’s menus and user interface, which can be a regular strain on one’s eyes.

As such, the Dark UI mod is a must for anyone who sees themselves playing the game long term. Decking all of the game’s menus out in a night mode-style presentation, it’ll keep your eyes relaxed and ready to catch every detail of the game, especially in low light play.

This includes everything from the equipment and inventory menus to the basic text display, ensuring there’s no clashing between UI element styles while you play.

If it ever becomes a nuisance or you find yourself wanting to go back to the standard UI look, the mod can be disabled freely at any time as well. Don’t pass up on this mod if you want the best quality of life optimization while you play.

5 Kenshi Mods You Can’t Play Without

Extended Campsite

While having a set base of operations is all well and good, it can be a hassle to schlep back to a set area for things like storage or detaining a prisoner. This is only compounded by the size of the world, which can make it harder and harder to get back to your base from whichever corner of the world you’re trying to explore.

Luckily, the Extended Campsite mod provides some much-needed upgrades to the player’s temporary campsite crafting options. In addition to the usual array of features they provide, the mod improves the storage capacity of campsites while also allowing for the creation of watchtowers and a prisoner pole.

Thanks to this, players can continue their travels uninterrupted and create a suitable place for rest whenever they need to. There are still a few kinks to work out of the mod at the moment, but none that outweigh the benefits it’ll give players for the entirety of their playtime.

5 Kenshi Mods You Can’t Play Without

256 Recruitment Limit

One of the coolest elements of Kenshi is the fact that players can amass a small group of ally units, either for direct use and cooperation as part of their squad or as a unit kept handy for larger excursions and attacks.

Of course, there is a limit to how many units players can amass. It keeps the game balanced and ensures there’s at least some challenge while players make their way through the game.

Should you ever want to totally break the game and turn it into a power fantasy though, you can download the 256 Unit Limit mod. Increasing the total number of units you can recruit by several times, it allows players to create a venerable army to let loose upon the sword punk wasteland.

You can watch with glee as a small group of raiders try to take over your base, only to be utterly annihilated by your reserve of wasteland survivors. It may not be as challenging as it would be in the base game, but it’s undeniably cathartic after struggling to survive with a smaller band of survivors.

5 Kenshi Mods You Can’t Play Without

Recruitable Prisoners

While there are a number of characters for players to enlist to their side in Kenosha’s base build, prisoners captured by the player are notably inaccessible for recruitment. This might have something to do with their being held captive, but it’s still an untapped vein of potential allies.

Enter the Recruitable Prisoners mod. With it, any captured prisoner in the game can be recruited by the player, bringing all the benefits that a unit found uncultured in the world could provide.

There is a certain amount of difficulty tied to recruiting each prisoner. Some will require a certain task be completed before they join you, while others will join you based on RNG and luck.

All the same, it’ll open up a whole new world of squad customization options and put your captives to use outside of their iron abodes.

5 Kenshi Mods You Can’t Play Without

Reactive World

Of all the mods out there for Kenshi, the Reactive World mod has to be one of the most ambitious and necessary mods out there. With it, players’ actions carry far more weight and can actively impact the behavior of NPCs both friendly and hostile.

This can present itself in a number of ways. A gang may descend into a power struggle after you kill their leader, while another vies to absorb them into their ranks and become more powerful.

Friendly villages, meanwhile, might be sucked into the conflict, destroyed by the sudden increase in violence that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred without your involvement.

It’s a huge boost to the game’s immersive elements that most any player won’t want to miss. If you download only one mod from this list, let it be this one.

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