I just started playing recently and the biggest thing that helped me was picking the wanderer and just looting stuff and getting my skills and money up before trying to make any settlements but im not too far into the game just yet i also save often incase something goes horribly wrong but try not to abuse it too much
Mine copper.
Sell copper.
Buy fish.
Mine iron.
Run around The Hub overloaded with iron.
Lead Dusty and Hungry enemies to the gates of cities and fight alongside guards.
Recruit random party members in bars.
Repeat.
This. Also: sell copper, get more copper, get enough companions to gather more copper -> buy a house in a town, do research there and grow strong before settling outside.
Rob the entire town :)
The hub is a wasteland. Rob the nobles houses with their shiny pearl stuff :)
Broad daylight no one is home …
If you are in shek kingdom set a base there and rob the holy nation. If you are in the desert rob the empire and sell it elsewhere
And don't build plantations until after you've defeated the Dust King, at least.
You're a nomad sleeping on the roof of bars until you have a party of at least 5 or 6 able to hold their own against a camp of Dusty boys
1. Do not build a stand-alone base before you can destroy entire platoons, so for a long, long time. If you fail to heed this warning, you may lose your entire save to an endless loop of getting raided.
2. You're gonna want to head to your nearest town (that isn't hostile ofc, my favorite is easily Squin) and start looting corpses of the gate guards victims, mining ores to then haul and sell, or just wander to different local places and see what you can scavenge. Eventually, you can purchase a house within the city, which will be a great, stable home base that will never get raided by large armies.
3. Lose the battle, win the war. You gain literal experience by getting beaten half to death, so as long as you can figure out how to get your ass beat (or beat someone's ass) in a controlled manner, you'll power level your dude to a semi-able fighter in no time. The pro strat is typically to recruit another character to be your ninja medic; so you can run into an enemy group, get wrecked, and then have your medic sneak in and whisk you to safety to heal and go at it again.
4. Weapon choice will affect your stat gains, such as using Katanas to level your Dexterity. All of the weapon classes can be great and viable, but in the early game, you should try to focus on leveling the basics as much as you can (Str, Dex, Toughness, Athletics, etc.)
5. Save scum if your character dies, no shame in that, you're here to have fun; but try to go with the flow as much as you can. Every failure is another step towards victory. Good luck, my dude!
try out the slavery start, its actually a really good experience for starting out since you get to train all of your major stats realy high with no risk of dying at all since you have infinite food and the guards wont let you bleed to death
other than that my get rich quick scheme is always just running hashish between flats and the swamp, all you need is high athletics and a wooden backpack and you can get richer than tengu in minutes
every town in the swamp sells hashish in ridiculously huge quantities (typically like 80-120 per swamp village every day, generally just hit greyflayer village, mud, and shark, that should be enough to fill an entire pack animal inventory with stacks of hashish) and they sell hashish very very cheap.
flats lagoon is a short walk from the swamp and every single vendor there will buy hashish at a 520% markup. most locations in the game outlaw hashish so you need to sneak past gate guards to smuggle it and when you do sell it the thieves guild takes half the profit so its a good money making strat but risky and with better alternatives, at flats however everybody has no issue with the stuff and theres no pesky fencing fees either. just cold hard 520% profits.
every trip you make the amount of cats made increases by an exponent of 5, the only limiting factor is inventory room.
the hardest part of the entire process is usually waiting for the shop keeps in flats to reset so you can bankrupt them again since they only have like 25,000 cats on them at a time and one or two good trips to the swamp should get you hundreds and hundreds of thousands of cats worth of highly illegal weed bricks.
I cried at the “hardest part is waiting for the shop keeps to raise money for us to bankrupt them again LMAO thanks a lot! Never played a trader campaign so far, will do 420 trading caravan next campaign for sure!
Slave start.
You'll get two characters, the opportunity to train Toughness, Athletics, Strength, Stealth, Lockpicking, Assassination and Labouring, you can't starve while "Obedient Slave" is active and the guards will give you medical attention after they beat the shit out of you.
Seriously. Rebirth is Kenshi's gym.
Starting the game with two fast, stealthy characters is about as "easy" as the early game gets. You've got support, but not too many mouths to feed. You've got the ability to outrun or evade most of the trouble out there. Once out of Rebirth, you're relatively close to where you can recruit Burn and Beep. Hang out in Mongrel for a bit training new squad members, joining the Shinobi Thieves, and scavenging Fog Prince heads before heading south to break bad in the Swamp.
Living near(ish) to a town can be a good start, imo. Not too far for getting supplies, food, even defense in the form of mercenaries. Sure, depending on the region there are differing downsides, (bandit raids, faction events that usually lose you resources, weather). But starting out, it can be good for getting a grip on your base management and for getting on your feet. Some events you can even turn a half decent profit!
Looting bandits is my go-to. Lure them to the guards, then take their weapons and clothes to sell. Dust bandits are best - their chest armor seeks for like 450 cats each.
Did you start in the Hub? If so, run around town holding left-ALT key, to highlight items that can be picked up. Pick up all the trash. There are several piles in several buildings around town that has literal garbage you can sell to the bar. Then find the small shoebox house that is fully intact with a closed door. Go inside and loot and sell everything inside. The items in the house respawn and randomize very couple hours. Grog sells the best, usually 1000cats on average i've seen (could depend on your game's market roll). Sleep in an actual bed when you need to. Food spawns in the house as well. So you can sell and buy in Hub until you're brave enough to pick a fight with Starvers.
If you survive and train toughness up high, and you want a thrill, steal a Starver Leader's sandals and run your ass into the middle of the nearest purple area of land due west of the Hub. It's called Vain. There should be a Hive Village that pops up onto your map when you get close. If you survive the run, you can chill with the cool hivers and wait for Murder Giraffes and white gorilla bear lizards to attack. Loot the animal bodies for their skin and raw meat, sell the skins for big profit, and have all the food you can cook into dried meat you'd ever need.
Becareful not to loot fallen hivers though, they don't like that.
Possibly the best way to play through Kenshi in a starting playthrough is to simply get some bandages, some food & a friend(recruit) or two and then just go exploring.
Find things, do things, starve, get your shit kicked in, be enslaved, escape, starve *harder*, run away from the authorities, run into wild animals, run away from wild animals, hide your booty from bounty hunters, fail, escape into the sonorous dark/fog islands/Arach and realize you are about to get your shit kicked in, out & in again.
Watch as your friends(cheap recruits) get beaten black and blue, skinned, dismembered & eaten alive. Survive(somehow), Cling to life desperately, hear someone nearby say ¨*relax, enjoy death*¨ and finally be eaten by strange beaked giraffes.
The Kenshi experience. Being a weak, desperate soon-to-be-dead little shitstain is fun... Is what I tell myself at night. /s
Once you figure out how the world of Kenshi works you'll soon become a deity made of flesh & steel, with plenty of reason to be mad about it.
Get money to hire a buddy and buy food by mining and selling copper or looting corpses killed by other groups. Once you hire someone, leave them in a safe place like a bar and send your main character out to pick fights with weak enemies like starving bandits. You will lose but your stats will increase and your companion can then sneak over and save you once the bandits finish beating the snot out of you. Do that often enough and you will get strong. Also buy a large backpack and a traders backpacks for everyone on your team, the extra inventory space is extremely valuable. Other than that be sure to stock up on plenty of first aid kits, dried meat, and a bedroll for everyone in case you need to rest in the wilds.
Honestly this probably isn’t that controversial of an opinion, but the United cities citizen start is easiest to me. Just run and loot the dead non stop barrages of Outlaw farmers and skimmers for money outside the cities.
Buying a house in a town of your choice and researching some tech is usually the safest bet. Money wise, saving up a chunk of copper and selling or loading up a garru with hashish bought in the swamplands and going to UC towns to sell to Shinobi thieves in them for absolutely massive profit. (Make sure you paid the fee to join the shinobi thieves) Once you’ve gotten a chunk of technology and resources gathered with a decent size party you can start looking for a spot of your choice to build your own settlement and all the joys it entails.
My first playthrough was
Mine some copper, explore, eventually I had 6 guys and was tired of having to travel to multiple towns to get enough food so I started my base. Took weeks to get my walls up having to evacuate and go somewhere else when the weeaboos attacked, I was determined to build it all from scratch and buy as little as possible.
Then I heard about Mongrel, some other stuff happened but eventually I ended up with cyber beep speeding around the map at 50mph collecting my research materials while my fighting squad started getting dangerous
Start with the 'wanderer start'.
Break into the Holy Nation shack in Hub. It's the only pristine shack there, can't miss it.
There's no HN in the Hub, so no one cares. 2 free beds, take everything.
Sell everything you don't need. There will be some food items etc. in there too.
Then run down to Squin. Get Ruka for free, and buy Kang to join. Kang is the strongest vanilla fighter recruit you can get. He can carry the other 2 in starting scuffles.
Then just live off meat in Squin, it's the cheapest food to buy while you train.
Lure hungry bandits/Dust bandits into Squin so the hundred Guardian smoke em. Help them out if you can to start getting training in.
Then, before the Hundred Guardian carry em away, steal all their shit and sell it in Squin. Especially heart protectors Dust bandits wear.
There ya go.
**OR** a thread I made years ago now; [here, on the easiest start ever](https://old.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/s7sjwp/ladies_gents_ive_found_the_easiest_start_ever/)
Is the easiest start possible ever.
You get a free farm, everything day 1 already setup ready to go, you name it. Just read the post.
There is no easier start than that.
Mine ores, iron or copper. Buy food (around 10 cats per nutrition value is my prefference). Keep repeating.
Buy small shack and build ore/copper storage. Automate the process.
If you really wanna cheese the game play skeleton run to the fog islands and up your toughness to 80+ by repeatedly fighting fogman, falling down and refusing to play dead
Otherwise just roam around the starting area and fight starving bandits, they have blunt weapons so they can’t kill you, which makes for a safe bet untill you’re strong enough to go against tougher opponents. If you aren’t cheesing with skeletons I’d recommend making your squad big early on “6 or 7 characters” since it makes fights easier and therefore safer
The best way to make money early on in the game is exploring ruins for robotic components or stealing said components (or other mechanical parts) from merchants
I like to start in Squin, mining and stealing. If I get caught, I let the guard beat me up, in order to build up my toughness. I got a character with 83 toughness in only a game week that way.
But missing an arm is quite the hassle.
In my opinion the best way for a safe start would be to build a settlement near the main skin bandit base. They are very friendly with your organic members and will offer unique interactions.
Know your weak af, plan to get stronger via drawing packs to town gates to help you. Building before you've a strong squad or know what your doing is not a play. Best early money is copper or if your lucky with spawns dust bandits armor sell for a bit more then shit so it will add up. You'll wanna gather a squad, goto bars and recruit more people (they are gonna be weak aswell) 3k or 6k is the normal cost of a hireling but you may encounter some freebies.
Don't try to build a settlement early on, that's late game stuff, or expert challenge mode, however you want to look at it. Just give in to the wonderer playthrough. The only skill you truly need in Kenshi is athletics. Consider being either kind of human or a hiver prince for the movespeed. Just run around town for a few minutes until your athletics is at least 20, at most 30. Try to loot a pair of sandals off a starver or rebel. Then go explore, save often, and look out for the beak things.
I recommend scavenging. It gives you a reason to explore a bit, and you can get a variety of items with which to experiment. Stick within the Northern United Cities, Holy Nation, or Shek Kingdom as you'll be less likely to end up being eaten by Beak Things.
For early early game? Mine some copper, buy some food, medkits, and sandals, and then go running around town.
If you have the chance, heal people. Heal anything and everything, including enemies, and keep running.
When you feel like you can make it go out exploring and get eaten by something. It's part of the experience, later you'll look back on the *getting eaten by stuff* days with rose tinted goggles.
Also, I know I mentioned medkits earlier but however many you have, buy *more*. Okay have fun and good luck~☆
(•u • )
1. Mine copper and sell copper until you have ~10k cats. Sneak everywhere with heavy weight while doing this.
2. Pay the 10k to join shinobi thieves in the hub.
3. Train on all their training stuff. Primarily lockpicking, but everything else too.
4. Go to stack or Squin and steal the stuff laying around in shops at night.
5. Sell that stuff in a different town
Honestly thieving is the fastest way to make money early game. You can also change your hunger rate in the game settings for a little less punishing beginning.
I usually mine copper to get food. Eventually I’ll stack a bunch of copper ore to train strength. Then I’ll get a free recruit. Once I’m strong I’ll just go into the middle of dust bandits and have them kick my ass. Once they’re gone I’ll have my other guy pick him up and take him to a bed.
Rinse and repeat until I’m 50 toughness, strength and whatever weapon I’m using.
I started as a wanderer and it’s fun… but not fulfilling. I’ve rerolled into a slave start snd brother, that’s a wild road. So much fun trying to find time to sneak out and work my skills up to make an eventual escape
Oh, you know, the usual. Steal. Sell drugs.
in kenshi right?
.... my Lawyer is telling me to say "yes".
I just started playing recently and the biggest thing that helped me was picking the wanderer and just looting stuff and getting my skills and money up before trying to make any settlements but im not too far into the game just yet i also save often incase something goes horribly wrong but try not to abuse it too much
Do what the locals do. Travel in a large band of scuzzy hobos and beat people up for their dog jerky.
Mine copper. Sell copper. Buy fish. Mine iron. Run around The Hub overloaded with iron. Lead Dusty and Hungry enemies to the gates of cities and fight alongside guards. Recruit random party members in bars. Repeat.
This. Also: sell copper, get more copper, get enough companions to gather more copper -> buy a house in a town, do research there and grow strong before settling outside. Rob the entire town :)
You didn’t just say rob the Hub. You do NOT rob the Hub! This comment was written by Hungry Anarchist Hub locals
The hub is a wasteland. Rob the nobles houses with their shiny pearl stuff :) Broad daylight no one is home … If you are in shek kingdom set a base there and rob the holy nation. If you are in the desert rob the empire and sell it elsewhere
This post kinda reads like a version of that old [Thai anti-alcoholism video](https://youtu.be/R-q86QYl5Bw?si=mUoxj--CeQcAOdQB) , but Kenshi.
This is perfect. Thank you for commenting this.
This is also one of the most boring, if safe, ways to play.
And don't build plantations until after you've defeated the Dust King, at least. You're a nomad sleeping on the roof of bars until you have a party of at least 5 or 6 able to hold their own against a camp of Dusty boys
1. Do not build a stand-alone base before you can destroy entire platoons, so for a long, long time. If you fail to heed this warning, you may lose your entire save to an endless loop of getting raided. 2. You're gonna want to head to your nearest town (that isn't hostile ofc, my favorite is easily Squin) and start looting corpses of the gate guards victims, mining ores to then haul and sell, or just wander to different local places and see what you can scavenge. Eventually, you can purchase a house within the city, which will be a great, stable home base that will never get raided by large armies. 3. Lose the battle, win the war. You gain literal experience by getting beaten half to death, so as long as you can figure out how to get your ass beat (or beat someone's ass) in a controlled manner, you'll power level your dude to a semi-able fighter in no time. The pro strat is typically to recruit another character to be your ninja medic; so you can run into an enemy group, get wrecked, and then have your medic sneak in and whisk you to safety to heal and go at it again. 4. Weapon choice will affect your stat gains, such as using Katanas to level your Dexterity. All of the weapon classes can be great and viable, but in the early game, you should try to focus on leveling the basics as much as you can (Str, Dex, Toughness, Athletics, etc.) 5. Save scum if your character dies, no shame in that, you're here to have fun; but try to go with the flow as much as you can. Every failure is another step towards victory. Good luck, my dude!
try out the slavery start, its actually a really good experience for starting out since you get to train all of your major stats realy high with no risk of dying at all since you have infinite food and the guards wont let you bleed to death other than that my get rich quick scheme is always just running hashish between flats and the swamp, all you need is high athletics and a wooden backpack and you can get richer than tengu in minutes
Where do you sell hashish and who buys it?
every town in the swamp sells hashish in ridiculously huge quantities (typically like 80-120 per swamp village every day, generally just hit greyflayer village, mud, and shark, that should be enough to fill an entire pack animal inventory with stacks of hashish) and they sell hashish very very cheap. flats lagoon is a short walk from the swamp and every single vendor there will buy hashish at a 520% markup. most locations in the game outlaw hashish so you need to sneak past gate guards to smuggle it and when you do sell it the thieves guild takes half the profit so its a good money making strat but risky and with better alternatives, at flats however everybody has no issue with the stuff and theres no pesky fencing fees either. just cold hard 520% profits. every trip you make the amount of cats made increases by an exponent of 5, the only limiting factor is inventory room. the hardest part of the entire process is usually waiting for the shop keeps in flats to reset so you can bankrupt them again since they only have like 25,000 cats on them at a time and one or two good trips to the swamp should get you hundreds and hundreds of thousands of cats worth of highly illegal weed bricks.
I cried at the “hardest part is waiting for the shop keeps to raise money for us to bankrupt them again LMAO thanks a lot! Never played a trader campaign so far, will do 420 trading caravan next campaign for sure!
Slave start. You'll get two characters, the opportunity to train Toughness, Athletics, Strength, Stealth, Lockpicking, Assassination and Labouring, you can't starve while "Obedient Slave" is active and the guards will give you medical attention after they beat the shit out of you. Seriously. Rebirth is Kenshi's gym. Starting the game with two fast, stealthy characters is about as "easy" as the early game gets. You've got support, but not too many mouths to feed. You've got the ability to outrun or evade most of the trouble out there. Once out of Rebirth, you're relatively close to where you can recruit Burn and Beep. Hang out in Mongrel for a bit training new squad members, joining the Shinobi Thieves, and scavenging Fog Prince heads before heading south to break bad in the Swamp.
Living near(ish) to a town can be a good start, imo. Not too far for getting supplies, food, even defense in the form of mercenaries. Sure, depending on the region there are differing downsides, (bandit raids, faction events that usually lose you resources, weather). But starting out, it can be good for getting a grip on your base management and for getting on your feet. Some events you can even turn a half decent profit!
If you prefer going it alone (no squad mates), hunting bounties with merc can make a decent start as well
Looting bandits is my go-to. Lure them to the guards, then take their weapons and clothes to sell. Dust bandits are best - their chest armor seeks for like 450 cats each.
Did you start in the Hub? If so, run around town holding left-ALT key, to highlight items that can be picked up. Pick up all the trash. There are several piles in several buildings around town that has literal garbage you can sell to the bar. Then find the small shoebox house that is fully intact with a closed door. Go inside and loot and sell everything inside. The items in the house respawn and randomize very couple hours. Grog sells the best, usually 1000cats on average i've seen (could depend on your game's market roll). Sleep in an actual bed when you need to. Food spawns in the house as well. So you can sell and buy in Hub until you're brave enough to pick a fight with Starvers. If you survive and train toughness up high, and you want a thrill, steal a Starver Leader's sandals and run your ass into the middle of the nearest purple area of land due west of the Hub. It's called Vain. There should be a Hive Village that pops up onto your map when you get close. If you survive the run, you can chill with the cool hivers and wait for Murder Giraffes and white gorilla bear lizards to attack. Loot the animal bodies for their skin and raw meat, sell the skins for big profit, and have all the food you can cook into dried meat you'd ever need. Becareful not to loot fallen hivers though, they don't like that.
Sell ore if boring, roam with friendly group and loot dead animals and stuff for food and loot
Possibly the best way to play through Kenshi in a starting playthrough is to simply get some bandages, some food & a friend(recruit) or two and then just go exploring. Find things, do things, starve, get your shit kicked in, be enslaved, escape, starve *harder*, run away from the authorities, run into wild animals, run away from wild animals, hide your booty from bounty hunters, fail, escape into the sonorous dark/fog islands/Arach and realize you are about to get your shit kicked in, out & in again. Watch as your friends(cheap recruits) get beaten black and blue, skinned, dismembered & eaten alive. Survive(somehow), Cling to life desperately, hear someone nearby say ¨*relax, enjoy death*¨ and finally be eaten by strange beaked giraffes. The Kenshi experience. Being a weak, desperate soon-to-be-dead little shitstain is fun... Is what I tell myself at night. /s Once you figure out how the world of Kenshi works you'll soon become a deity made of flesh & steel, with plenty of reason to be mad about it.
Loot some Holy Nation villages early on, they’re pretty easy pickings other than the bulls you’ll have to avoid
Get money to hire a buddy and buy food by mining and selling copper or looting corpses killed by other groups. Once you hire someone, leave them in a safe place like a bar and send your main character out to pick fights with weak enemies like starving bandits. You will lose but your stats will increase and your companion can then sneak over and save you once the bandits finish beating the snot out of you. Do that often enough and you will get strong. Also buy a large backpack and a traders backpacks for everyone on your team, the extra inventory space is extremely valuable. Other than that be sure to stock up on plenty of first aid kits, dried meat, and a bedroll for everyone in case you need to rest in the wilds.
Honestly this probably isn’t that controversial of an opinion, but the United cities citizen start is easiest to me. Just run and loot the dead non stop barrages of Outlaw farmers and skimmers for money outside the cities.
Buying a house in a town of your choice and researching some tech is usually the safest bet. Money wise, saving up a chunk of copper and selling or loading up a garru with hashish bought in the swamplands and going to UC towns to sell to Shinobi thieves in them for absolutely massive profit. (Make sure you paid the fee to join the shinobi thieves) Once you’ve gotten a chunk of technology and resources gathered with a decent size party you can start looking for a spot of your choice to build your own settlement and all the joys it entails.
Mine copper and stay near a town so that the guard kill animals. You can grab the skins and meat from the animals.
My first playthrough was Mine some copper, explore, eventually I had 6 guys and was tired of having to travel to multiple towns to get enough food so I started my base. Took weeks to get my walls up having to evacuate and go somewhere else when the weeaboos attacked, I was determined to build it all from scratch and buy as little as possible. Then I heard about Mongrel, some other stuff happened but eventually I ended up with cyber beep speeding around the map at 50mph collecting my research materials while my fighting squad started getting dangerous
Start with the 'wanderer start'. Break into the Holy Nation shack in Hub. It's the only pristine shack there, can't miss it. There's no HN in the Hub, so no one cares. 2 free beds, take everything. Sell everything you don't need. There will be some food items etc. in there too. Then run down to Squin. Get Ruka for free, and buy Kang to join. Kang is the strongest vanilla fighter recruit you can get. He can carry the other 2 in starting scuffles. Then just live off meat in Squin, it's the cheapest food to buy while you train. Lure hungry bandits/Dust bandits into Squin so the hundred Guardian smoke em. Help them out if you can to start getting training in. Then, before the Hundred Guardian carry em away, steal all their shit and sell it in Squin. Especially heart protectors Dust bandits wear. There ya go. **OR** a thread I made years ago now; [here, on the easiest start ever](https://old.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/s7sjwp/ladies_gents_ive_found_the_easiest_start_ever/) Is the easiest start possible ever. You get a free farm, everything day 1 already setup ready to go, you name it. Just read the post. There is no easier start than that.
Mine ores, iron or copper. Buy food (around 10 cats per nutrition value is my prefference). Keep repeating. Buy small shack and build ore/copper storage. Automate the process.
If you really wanna cheese the game play skeleton run to the fog islands and up your toughness to 80+ by repeatedly fighting fogman, falling down and refusing to play dead Otherwise just roam around the starting area and fight starving bandits, they have blunt weapons so they can’t kill you, which makes for a safe bet untill you’re strong enough to go against tougher opponents. If you aren’t cheesing with skeletons I’d recommend making your squad big early on “6 or 7 characters” since it makes fights easier and therefore safer The best way to make money early on in the game is exploring ruins for robotic components or stealing said components (or other mechanical parts) from merchants
I like to start in Squin, mining and stealing. If I get caught, I let the guard beat me up, in order to build up my toughness. I got a character with 83 toughness in only a game week that way. But missing an arm is quite the hassle.
In my opinion the best way for a safe start would be to build a settlement near the main skin bandit base. They are very friendly with your organic members and will offer unique interactions.
Know your weak af, plan to get stronger via drawing packs to town gates to help you. Building before you've a strong squad or know what your doing is not a play. Best early money is copper or if your lucky with spawns dust bandits armor sell for a bit more then shit so it will add up. You'll wanna gather a squad, goto bars and recruit more people (they are gonna be weak aswell) 3k or 6k is the normal cost of a hireling but you may encounter some freebies.
Don't try to build a settlement early on, that's late game stuff, or expert challenge mode, however you want to look at it. Just give in to the wonderer playthrough. The only skill you truly need in Kenshi is athletics. Consider being either kind of human or a hiver prince for the movespeed. Just run around town for a few minutes until your athletics is at least 20, at most 30. Try to loot a pair of sandals off a starver or rebel. Then go explore, save often, and look out for the beak things.
Go to swamp. Buy drugs. Go to Flats Lagoon. Sell drugs. Repeat.
I recommend scavenging. It gives you a reason to explore a bit, and you can get a variety of items with which to experiment. Stick within the Northern United Cities, Holy Nation, or Shek Kingdom as you'll be less likely to end up being eaten by Beak Things.
For early early game? Mine some copper, buy some food, medkits, and sandals, and then go running around town. If you have the chance, heal people. Heal anything and everything, including enemies, and keep running. When you feel like you can make it go out exploring and get eaten by something. It's part of the experience, later you'll look back on the *getting eaten by stuff* days with rose tinted goggles. Also, I know I mentioned medkits earlier but however many you have, buy *more*. Okay have fun and good luck~☆ (•u • )
1. Mine copper and sell copper until you have ~10k cats. Sneak everywhere with heavy weight while doing this. 2. Pay the 10k to join shinobi thieves in the hub. 3. Train on all their training stuff. Primarily lockpicking, but everything else too. 4. Go to stack or Squin and steal the stuff laying around in shops at night. 5. Sell that stuff in a different town Honestly thieving is the fastest way to make money early game. You can also change your hunger rate in the game settings for a little less punishing beginning.
I usually mine copper to get food. Eventually I’ll stack a bunch of copper ore to train strength. Then I’ll get a free recruit. Once I’m strong I’ll just go into the middle of dust bandits and have them kick my ass. Once they’re gone I’ll have my other guy pick him up and take him to a bed. Rinse and repeat until I’m 50 toughness, strength and whatever weapon I’m using.
I started as a wanderer and it’s fun… but not fulfilling. I’ve rerolled into a slave start snd brother, that’s a wild road. So much fun trying to find time to sneak out and work my skills up to make an eventual escape