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

Welcome to a world with a brutal economy, where vendors 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 dozens of kilometers a day, a world where you cannot get rich by mining iron and copper, as slave labor is still cheaper, a world where shackles and locks are quite complex and do not break from a single touch (better carry tools with you). In this world, only the most trained and stealthy can steal, as a person sneaking down the street will immediately be sent to prison; the guards will not care if he is a thief, a murderer, or just resting.

This is a world where dead lands are truly dead and can kill any trained fighter with a gas burst or a lightning strike, a world where any encountered bandit can steal your money and leave you without means of survival, a world where creatures hide in the fog and the red forest that even Kat-Lon would prefer not to encounter...

Will you survive or become food for one of the dozen types of bone dogs? Either way, welcome!

Detailed description:

General:

Player faction size is 256.

Attack slots are 3 (one looks unrealistic; more than 3 puts you in a constant stance)

Animations have been replaced with the Military Craft mod (for all races)

All characters have unique names (the list of names is a large mix from different cultures and vanilla names)

Character weight increased to 60. Why? It's more realistic. It's harder to save your own. It's easier to train strength.

Experience gain increased by 50%. To make the game more dynamic and prevent it from turning into an endless grind.

The hunger and calorie system has been completely redesigned. Calculated for three meals a day. Why? Realism and hardcore. Money becomes a necessary resource. The character's race gives interesting bonuses for survival (try feeding a Shek, or gather swarms to save food and money) Assembling a large squad at first can complicate the game due to huge food expenses.

Healing on beds and sleeping bags accelerated by 25%. Beds made from skins and leaves have also been added. All to increase the game's dynamism.

New loading screens added and hints removed.

A beautiful map with biomes, roads, and a coordinate grid has been added.

Among the recruits, there are blacksmiths with corresponding skills.

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 a outpost. The money will be with one of the robbers; you can try to get it back.

Rewards for most bandits have been added.

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

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

Added the Corovans of the Holy Nation and the Nameless.

When healing NPCs from other factions, relationships may improve.

Slave traders have repair kits. Material shops and full bars with unique food have appeared in slave camps.

NPCs have and use tires; many have been given first aid kits.

NPCs can appear with prosthetics (strong characters with expensive prosthetics)

NPCs save their own (carry them to beds)

Dogs have reduced hunger and increased regeneration (depends on breed)

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

In most cities and villages, there are working stalls with vendors. Mostly there are essential goods, but with a small chance, quality items may appear. Visit often.

Fishing: In coastal and river cities and villages, you can find fishing rods. Now they work, and you can catch fish for food or sale. But stock up on bait in the form of bad meat.

New Cities and Settlements: The hunter bastion has been redesigned into a cannibal stronghold.

A passage to the Black Sands faction base has been opened.

Added Shek Ranch and Shek hunters.

Added Ashen Dome V with a new character.

Redefinitions of cities and settlements: Most settlements can now change owners due to player actions and concluded alliances. Most taken from Living World. Others have been made from scratch or modified.

Alliances: In addition to vanilla alliances, you can form alliances with the Nameless, tech hunters, the chosen of Krall, bandits, swamp gangs (black scribes, stone rats, gray devourers), mushroom creatures, and meadow pirates. It is possible to revive the dark hive and the Dohlokot faction.

Head hunters: posters have been added for all.

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

Crossbows: 5 new crossbows have been added. Crossbows have been modified to not be so overpowered. The Eagle Crossbow is still overpowered but has become super rare.

Clothing:

Special suits for Tengu, Lord Phoenix cannot be crafted.

Noble clothing has been added, cannot be crafted.

Cloaks have been added and given to some NPCs (mostly provide protection from natural hazards)

New backpacks have been added and rebalanced considering vanilla.

Quivers for crossbowmen have been added.

Armor from OMO Armour has been added.

Animals:

Added - swamp toads in 3 colors, and they have their own "boss"

Bloody spiders now also have their own "boss"

Added the ability to tame many new species and even beaked ones! Look for characters who can sell you offspring. They also sell backpacks for some species.

Antelopes - fast and herbivorous.

The Ghost of Sorrow - better not to meet him. Death is almost inevitable.

Rotten hounds - very dangerous and deadly. They have their own "boss".

Cell carriers - can be bought from nomads but are rarer than garu.

Wormling - found in the nests of ravagers.

Beak things - a winged variety of beaked creatures. Found only in a couple of biomes.

There are now 12 types of bone dogs. They depend on the biome. Different types have different speeds, sizes, and combat stats. Nomads can have any types as they travel and gather pups. Collect them all!

Hyenas have been added. Much more dangerous than bone dogs, found in the most dangerous areas of the map.

Subspecies have been added: purple garu and Zebra-Bull.

You can buy tamed animals of different types, but only in a couple of places. Also, most tamed animals have special backpacks.

Meito:

New textures for meito and weapons going along the blade have been added. Added meito of vanilla weapons that were not in the original. New weapons have a lot of meito scattered among old and new characters. The list is found in the spoilers.

Weapons:

55 New weapons. Weapons for bandits, cannibals, hives, dark hives, screeching bandits, weapons from LFW and NWDM, etc.

Most have been rebalanced to not break vanilla mechanics and create overpowered instances.

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

Races:

All types of skeletons have been opened. Cannibals and corpse eaters. Southern swarm.

Playable ones added: Dark swarm, Pearl swarm. Fungoids.

Non-playable ones added: Iron-sided. See Spoilers for where to find

Stealth and theft. In cities and villages, sneaking people are considered thieves; if caught, you will have serious problems. But if you are not seen, then everything is okay. Locks are more complex, including cages, poles for prisoners, etc. Be ready or carry tools. Hacking safes and chests through walls is no longer possible.

Factions:

Cannibals have been redesigned (new weapons and armor, composition and number of squads)

Screeching bandits have been redesigned (new weapons and armor, composition and number of squads), a settlement has been added.

Western hive has been redesigned (new weapons and armor, subrace Praetorians)

Southern hive has been redesigned (new weapons and armor, subrace Praetorians and composition and number of squads, new NPCs)

The Holy Nation has been redesigned (new weapons and armor, crossbowmen added)

The Kingdom of Shek has been redesigned. Armor and overall visual style. Other Shek factions have also been re-outfitted (berserkers and chosen of Krall)

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

Berserkers. The biome of the land of berserkers has been redesigned. New armor and weapons have been added, camps and 2 outposts with 2 new characters have been added.

White Brow. Returned to the game. Has a boss meito.

Medics. Heal most factions, trade first aid kits and unique backpacks.

Bankers. Take money for safekeeping. You can deposit in one place and receive in another. But you will have to pay a %. They reside where tech hunters are.

Meadow pirates. Now have their own base, a leader with unique weapons, and the ability to form alliances and even complete quests for them.

Bandits of the Dark hive and the queen of the dark hive.

Pearl hive. 4 subraces and 1 city.

Economy

House prices have been increased to make earning money worthwhile.

City dwellers buy supplies and regularly receive salaries. You can open a shop and earn money.

Loot found is cheaper than in the original. But there is a possibility not to pay intermediaries and sell loot to those in need at good prices. See Spoilers

How to earn in this harsh world?

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

Many bandits have bounties set. Characters carry money with them. However, poor people have little money; rob the rich. And the most important thing - trade.

Miscellaneous:

Fixed the attack of swamp turtles. Hashish is sold at the smuggler's bar.

Annoying flies have been disabled.

If anyone has read this far... This is an alpha version. Bugs and crashes are possible and likely. If possible, please leave comments; we will fix them) In this version, I have implemented about 40% of what I would like, I hope for constant updates (but this is not certain)