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This is my personal modlist, compiled specifically to curate a "dwarf-fortress" style of play, meaning:

-slower tech progression based on ruins exploration
-emphasis on industry and trade - the absolute best route to wealth is outpost sales, but other pursuits are also lucrative. Run trade caravans and sell goods, hunt bounties, or engage in slave trading. Sales of used loot will not yield much more than food money, unless the loot is particularly valuable. You will need to engage in some kind of enterprise in order to accumulate wealth.
-maximum faction and squad size for large labor force
-maximum attack slots for equally unfair combat
-reworked industrial chains to add more products and lengthen most production chains
-more difficult agriculture - crops generally require more labor and yield less food than before. Seeds required to plant (build) fields
-deadlier natural envionments - you'll need that protective gear
-darker, more realistic nights - nights are longer, and much darker. you will learn to either praise the sun, or embrace the darkness
-more realistically deadly wounds, fast bleed out times, and long recovery times. Defending against a siege may leave most of your best men wounded for days, leaving you open to a follow-up attack, or an attack by another faction... and being severely wounded while on the march can have similarly serious ramifications for your campaigns.
-patrol routes and guardposts for defensive purposes
-wide variety of buildings for making the best "dwarf fort" possible
-idle animations and decorative objects for RP purposes


It is not for the faint of heart.

INSTALL DIRECTIONS:

(Install directions moved to Discussions tab, visit for the modlist load order, and for tips on setting up the modlist quickly)

CAUTION: THIS MODLIST USES HIGHER RESOLUTION TEXTURES AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR LOW PERFORMANCE RIGS. Other machines should be just fine - I have taken care to use compressed versions of textures where applicable, and reduce particle fx for higher performance without sacrificing visual fidelity. If you know what you're doing, you can easily tune this modpack for lower performance machines, though.

In order to get all of the visual fx, you have to install Reshade[reshade.me] (not a steam link). It's very easy! I am using a custom tweaked version of the YOBI Preset v1.2Lite (https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/241).

You will also need Drugs Expanded[www.nexusmods.com] from Nexusmods.