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Balanced Animal Speeds

Did you know that wolves can reach speeds of 31–37 mph?
Well then why are Bonedogs so dang slow??!?

Animals are far too slow in Kenshi and this mod aims to increase the animal speeds in Kenshi and ONLY the animals. The humanoid races are untouched.

This mod mostly increases animal TOP speeds, meaning you'll have to wait for your doggies to grow up to see them zooming around at fast speeds. Beak Things are the exception as their speeds have been adjusted. They should still have the same overall speed as vanilla, but now Beak Thing babies are moderately slower, while the adults are slightly faster. Even the babies are still by far the fastest thing in Kenshi other than double Masterwork Scout Legs.

ANINMAL SPEED CHANGES:
Bull: 30 MPH (Unchanged)
Garru: 31 MPH (Unchanged)
Goat: 25 MPH (Up from 21 MPH)
Bonedog: 27 MPH (Up from 21 MPH)
Crab: 20 MPH (Up from 14 MPH)
Iron Spiders: 19 MPH (Up from 12 MPH)
Skin Spiders: 22 MPH (Up from 15 MPH)
Blood Spiders: 22 MPH (Up from 15 MPH)
Gorillos: 22 MPH (Up from 19 MPH)
Land Bats: 21 MPH (Up from 19 MPH)
Leviathan: 12 MPH (Up from 10 MPH)
Cleanser Unit: 12 MPH (Up from 10 MPH)
Beak Things: 35 MPH to 41 MPH (Original 38 MPH to 38 MPH)
Yes I included some mechanical animals. Yes the name of this mod is still accurate. They are still animals. They just aren't fleshy animals. They are robotic animals!

This mod can be paired with Movement Speed Rebalance, which lowers the speed at which the humanoid races move. Movement Speed Rebalance is located at this link:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1962450432

Note: You do NOT need Movement Speed Rebalance. If you want everyone to be zooming around at high speeds, you can simply use this mod to increase animal speeds. Beware if you use both, it makes Kenshi much more difficult as you cannot simply escape with your insanely fast legs.

This mod can be kept fairly high in load order as long as you don't have any other mods directly modifying animal top speeds. Even if you do, you can rearrange the order to your liking depending on which stats you want to keep. Just remember that the lower the mod is in your list, those are the stats that will be loaded into your game!

This mod should be 100% compatible with every mod. Even if you have another mod that edits the same stats, it won't cause any errors. Whichever mod is lowest in load order will keep its stats.

P.S. I think I understand why the speed values seem so unbalanced in Kenshi. Humans CAN outrun animals if you're calculating distance running, so maybe that is what the developers were trying to mimic. This would work great with some kind of stamina system (animals run fast, but run out of energy fast too), but without stamina, it just feels strange. If a pack of wolves decides to run after you in real life, you'd probably have to stand your ground and fight rather than try to flee from them. I wanted to recreate that feeling in Kenshi, hence why I made this mod!

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I'm also working on updating all my old mods, so I'd love it if you checked them out. They're featured on my workshop page:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/2PercentNate/myworkshopfiles/?appid=233860

Permissions & Use
Feel free to translate, edit, chop up, deep fry, or otherwise modify my mods to your heart’s content. All of my mods are freely distributed. If you end up editing one, I’d really appreciate receiving credit with a link to the original mod. It’s not required, but it would make my day! 😊