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Less Shit Slaves (And Jailbreaks)

Enhances slave (and prisoner) dialogue and statistics and allows slaves that could not be recruited or leave their cages to do so under correct conditions. Also effects cannibal or jailbreak escapes, allowing unrecruitable characters to be recruited.

This is done by removing their "recruitable" tag checks (something the game uses to prevent characters that are even marginally powerful from joining you) and tweaking trigger chances, as well as adding new dialogue and condition checks for player strength and traits of the prisoner or slave.

This mod is still maintained and updated. If issues arise, tell me.

Specifically:
(Some) characters which couldn't comment on an escape now should be able to.

Slaves who are bought from shops should no longer loot bodies on their way out before they ditch or join the player. Slaves escaping as part of a raid or breakout will.

Slaves have generally had their stats improved. They are by no means strong, but are now on par with a starving bandit or other very early game enemy. There's absolutely no way a nation is operating off of slave labour if their slaves can't swing a stick around at full speed. This also increases purchasing cost, but as this mod makes purchasing a more viable form of gaining recruits, all's fair.

Purchasing slaves will now sometimes yield a recruit even for people deemed too powerful by the game - this is far more likely, and at times only possible, if you are stronger than them

Fewer characters refuse to leave cages, and those that do can be repeatedly released to eventually convince them to leave. They do this faster if you are stronger than them, or character-specific conditions are met. Hive slaves are the most obvious example of this.

Slaves you release through purchasing will no longer full sprint away as if they are convicts, but become wandering NPCs like a dismissed PC would. Slave escapees will still sprint away at full speed.

Slave dialogue has been expanded generally, including differnet dialogue depending on what type of NPC you're releasing and escaping or caged slaves reacting to you if you have a reputation with major factions.

Mod in the images is the currently unreleased indev build of a total Hive overhaul mod.

If specific characters that would normally be able to be freed, through purchasing or escapes, are simply unresponsive even if freed, they are likely fundamentally bugged. It isn't an issue with the mod or an issue I can solve; it appears to be a Kenshi error.


NewVanilla LEGACY Racial Tweaks v.1.3 causes a compatibility issue where slaves will become very, very expensive due to the changes made to slave prices in that mod conflicting with the stats of the slaves in this mod.