Welcome to the Maximum Kenshi mod! This is a world that does not forgive mistakes. A world in which your main enemies will not be fantastic creatures or hordes of bandits, but hunger, poverty and local nature.

Welcome to a world with a brutal economy, where sellers will not buy weapons that look more like scrap metal at inflated prices, a world where characters need to eat regularly and a lot to fight and run tens of kilometers a day, a world where it is impossible get rich by mining iron and copper, because slave labor is still cheaper, a world where shackles and locks are quite complex and do not break with one touch (better carry tools with you). In this world, only the most trained and inconspicuous can steal, because a person sneaking on the street will immediately go to prison, the guards will not figure out whether he is a thief, a murderer, or just sitting down to rest.

This is a world where the ruined lands are truly ruinous and can kill any trained fighter with a gas release or a lightning strike, a world where any bandit they meet can steal your money and leave you without a livelihood, a world where in fog and The red forest hides creatures that even Kat-Lon would prefer not to meet...

Will you be able to survive or will you become food for one of a dozen species bonesteps? In any case, welcome!

Detailed description:

General:

Player faction size 256.

3 attack slots (one looks unrealistic, more than 3 are driven into a permanent stun )

Animations replaced with Military Craft mod (for all races)

All characters have unique names (the list of names is a big mixture of different cultures and vanilla names)

Character weight increased to 60. Why? It's more realistic. It's more difficult to save your own. It's easier to pump up strength.

Experience gain increased by 50%. To make the game more dynamic and not turn into an endless grind.

The hunger and caloric food system has been completely redesigned. Calculations have been made for 3 meals a day. For what? Realism and hardcore. Money becomes a necessary resource. The character's race provides interesting bonuses for survival (try feeding the Shek, or recruiting swarms and saving food and money). Recruiting a large squad at first can lead to complicating the game due to huge expenses on food.

Healing on beds and sleeping bags has been accelerated by 25%. Beds made from hides and leaves have also been added. Everything to increase the dynamism of the game.

New loading screens have been added and tooltips have been removed.

Added a beautiful map with biomes, roads and a coordinate grid.

Blacksmiths with the appropriate skills appeared among the recruits.

The surrounding nature has become much more dangerous: acid, gas and lightning can kill very quickly.

New starts have been added (they are marked). Some old ones have been changed.

Bandits now rob the player (steal money). The amount depends on the number of heroes in the player’s squad and whether there is an outpost. One of the robbers will have the money, you can try to return it.

Added rewards for most bandits.

Many new types of food have been added. Alcohol is now also food ;)

Many books and notes have been added to expand the lore of the game.

Added cows of the holy nation and the rootless.

When treating NPCs from other factions, relations may increase.

Slavers have repair kits. Material stores and full-fledged bars with unique food appeared in slave camps.

NPCs have and use tires, many have added first aid kits.

NPCs can be found with prosthetics (strong characters with expensive prosthetics)

NPCs save their own (carry them in bed)

Dogs have reduced hunger, increased regeneration (depending on the breed)

Cities: All cities have been redone to more detailed ones. The capitals of the main factions have grown and are different from ordinary cities (the cities of Shark and Black Desert have also been enlarged). Most bars have animations.

Most towns and villages have working stalls with vendors. Mostly there are essential goods, but with a small chance you may find quality items. Come back often.

Fishing: Fishing rods can be found in coastal and river towns and villages. Now they work and you can catch fish for food or for sale. But stock up on bad meat as bait.

New Cities and Settlements: The bastion of cannibal hunters has been redesigned.

The passage to the base of the Black Dogs faction is open.

Added Shek Ranch and Shek Hunters.

Added Ash Dome V with a new character.

Cities and Settlements Overrides: Most settlements can now change hands due to player actions and alliances. Most taken from Living World. For others, they are made from scratch or modified.

Alliances: In addition to vanilla alliances, you can form alliances with the Rootless, tech-hunters, Kral's chosen, Rogues, swamp gangs (blackwheels, stone rats, seroders), mushroomoids and meadow pirates. It is possible to revive the dark hive and the Deadcat faction.

Headhunters: posters have been added for everyone.

Lots of targets and factions from bounties galore. But not all. There are changes.

Crossbows: 5 new crossbows have been added. Crossbows have been changed so as not to be such an imposition. The Eagle Cross is still imba, but has become super rare.

Clothing:

Special costumes cannot be crafted for Tengu, the Phoenix Lord.

Noble clothing has been added, cannot be made.

Added cloaks and issued to some NPCs (mostly they give protection from natural hazards)

Added new backpacks and rebalanced them taking into account the vanilla ones.

Added quivers for crossbowmen.

Added armor from OMO Armour.

Animals:

Added - swamp toads of 3 colors, and they also have their own “boss”

Bloody spiders now also have their own “ boss"

Added features tame many new species and even beaked ones! Look for characters who can sell you cubs. They also sell backpacks for some species.

Antelopes are fast and herbivores.

The ghost of sorrow - it’s better not to meet it. Death is almost inevitable.

Rotten hounds are very dangerous and deadly. They have their own “boss”.

Cage carriers - can be bought from nomads, but rarer than garru.

Grabber larva - found in the nest of grapplers.

Buckbeaks are a winged species of beaked creatures. Found only in a couple of biomes.

There are now 12 types of bonesteps. Depends on the biome. Different species have different speed, size and combat stats. Nomads can have any species as they travel and collect puppies. Collect them all!

Added hyenas. Much more dangerous than bonesteps, they are found in the most dangerous areas of the map.

Added subspecies: purple garru and zebra bull.

You can buy tamed animals of different types, but only in a couple of places. There are also special backpacks for most tamed ones.

Meito:

New textures for meito and weapons of blade walkers. Added meito vanilla weapons that were not in the original. The new weapons have a lot of meito scattered across old and new characters. We look for the list in spoilers.

Weapons:

55 New weapons. Weapons for Bandits, Cannibals, Hive, Dark Hive, Screaming Bandits, LFW and NWDM Weapons, etc.

Most have been rebalanced so as not to break vanilla mechanics and not create stupid instances.

Training: added machines for increasing strength, agility, defense, shooting, athletics, machines for training working professions (Cooking, engineering, medicine, science, work, robotics, farming) and also recovery capsules. All this is not available at the beginning of the game; you can get it as a reward for some bosses (be sure to search them before taking them to prison).

Races:

All types of skeletons are open. Cannibals and corpse eaters. Southern swarm.

Added playable ones: Dark Swarm, Pearl Swarm. Griboids.

Added unplayable: Ironsides. See Spoilers where to look

Stealth and theft. In cities and villages, people who sneak are considered thieves; if you are burned, then you have serious problems. But if they don’t see you, then everything is ok. The locks are more complex including cages, poles for prisoners, etc. Be prepared or carry tools. It is no longer possible to break into safes and chests through walls.

Factions:

Cannibals reworked (new weapons and armor, composition and number of units)

Screaming bandits reworked (new weapons and armor, composition and number of units), settlement added.

Western hive redesigned (new weapons and armor, Praetorian subrace)

Southern hive redesigned (new weapons and armor, Praetorian subrace and composition and number of units, new NPCs)

Holy Nation reworked (new weapons and armor added crossbowmen)

Kingdom of Sheks remade. Armor and general visual style. Other Shek factions are also in disguise (berserkers and Kral's chosen)

Mercenaries - have become more expensive (there is a cheap option), wear a variety of armor, and you can additionally hire shinobi killers.

Berserkers. The berserker country biome has been reworked. New armor and weapons have been added, camps and 2 outposts with 2 new characters have been added.

White eyebrow. Returned to the game. The boss has a meito.

Doctors. They treat most factions, sell first aid kits and unique backpacks.

Bankers. They take money to save. You can take it in one place and get it in another. But you have to pay %. They live where the tech hunters are.

Meadow pirates. Now they have their own base, a leader with a unique weapon and the opportunity to join an alliance and even complete a quest for them.

Dark Hive Bandits and the Dark Hive Queen.

Pearl hive. 4 subraces and 1 city.

Economy

House prices have been increased to make it worthwhile to make money.

City residents shop and regularly receive salaries. You can open a store and earn money.

The loot found is cheaper than the original. But there is an opportunity not to pay intermediaries and hand over the loot to someone who needs it at good prices. See Spoilers

How to make money in this harsh world?

Well, for example, you can sell people into slavery if you are not afraid of ruining your karma (the price of delivery has been increased to 1500). The prices for slaves in stores have also been increased, as greedy slave traders want to make crazy profits!

There are rewards for many bandits. The characters have money with them. It’s true that the poor have little money, rob the rich. And the most important thing is trade.

Little things:

Fixed the attack of swamp turtles. The smugglers' bar sells hashish.

Annoying flies are disabled.

If anyone has read this far... This is the alpha version. Bugs and crashes are possible and probable. If possible, write in the comments, we will fix it) In this version I have implemented 40 percent of what I would like, I hope there will be constant updates (but this is not certain)