How do I tame the Swamp Turtle to start with? What mod is recommended.

↓ That also goes for any patched versions for various mods.

Thanks for that @THE BENADRYL FIEND
I am a bit hesitant to change the stats now, as there seems to have been a consent on them being balanced alright.
But I do appreciate the input @Bad Luck Charlie, and if you want to make variations of the mod, I'd love to link to them in this one :)

You can also manually change any stats you want of the harness using FCS also, if it works perfectly and you don't feel like importing the mods and having an overwrite folder you can instead just open FCS, close the popup window and in the middle there should be an icon with and arrow that says "Open any", just go to your steam workshop content >233860>3261189606 (mod and game ID). open the .mod file, double click the harness and inside is all the stats on it that you can change freely, if you mess something up you can just unsub and resubscribe to the mod to revert it back to default or in the top left of the FCS there is a undo button, i changed the athletics to 2X so I don't have to carry my bigass swamp turtle alpha everywhere.

Just note if you want to fix the races with the "open any" trick you'll sadly have to do it the other manual way i explained.

have fun :D

To those of you who are unable to equip the harness on their swamp turtle, if you have any mod that adds to animals this is the problem, for example with me it was Universal Wasteland Expansion that added color variants to swamp turtles, what you'll need to do is copy the mod affecting the animals and the swamp turtle harness mod into kenshi's local mod folder, making sure that you name the folder exactly as the .mod file is names otherwise it wont show up in FCS, then you need to open FCS, create a new mod (i usually just call mine overwrite), select it as active and make sure the other mods are tricked and then you click done, then you can Ctrl + F and search for Swamp Turtle, find the harness, double click on it and on the top right of the window you need to add race and then search for swamp turtle and select and add every variant of the swamp turtle that it will be able to be equip, then you just save file,then load up kenshi with it

Hey! Your mod is awesome!
Could I ask you to release additional patch that would change harness athletics debuff and actually buff speed? The thing is, that even on vanilla speed the turtle is really really slow. I would propose for athletics x3, for it match at least speed of 80ish

Lovely mod

Adorable!

or golay-gorod, golay-tortilo. on a turtle shell, a squad of skeleton crossbowmen or turret men silently and dustily enters the lair of the Okranites, Lumpy Hill, for the purpose of a sanitary inspection of the throne room)

This mod is really helpful for having some aim to go to the swamps :)
Desing: Doesn't sticking out from kenshi's vibe
Btw the capasity is approved to be balanced, cuz you have to go to the useless (before this mod) area...
Dear Author, thank YOU for this mod and i'm waiting for the mech\skin spider harness for sure!

Don't even mention. I fear those people.

@MGJ Sakazaki Worst of all, I think he might be a Swamp Turtle hater.. o.o

Don't mind Azzkal. He is just a hater. Best thing you can do is just to ignore him. They tend to self-destruct in due time.

@Xadu Thanks, I don't mind the comments, although it's always nice to get some acknowledgement. I think some people forget that mods are optional, and there is no reason to get upset when something is not what you want.

while i wont be using it, i want to say this mod looks sick to balance out the hateful commenter below. mods like this are nice to see cause for any random person who thinks, "i want that", there could be a niche mod that fills that exact desire.

Great Mod!

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@themightyrotz So true. I hope they implement riding in Kenshi 2!

Would be REALLY awesome, if the chair was useable. But still, a very nice addition. Thanks!

@Azzkal I'd recommend taking a look at the mod Animal Traders, or TameBeasties. I would not be adding anything new by including mechanics from those well known mods.
If you are not playing with a way to tame or buy swamp turtles, I can't recommend my mod, of course not.

Also not usable chair

A mod that requires other mods and carries no functionality other than just adding another useless item to the game world. A very useful mod indeed

@Azzkal What's useless about it? As stated, I'm open to balancing the mod better. Unless you just don't like Swamp Turtles

Useless mod lol

Man, this makes me wish we could actually use them as mounts and ride around on them like they were silt striders

Ah, a fellow Swamp Turtle enjoyer

I could have sworn I fixed that missing L in the title ages ago...

Thanks for the reply, I went back to shark after adding more items to the store and increasing the spawn rate for the item in FCS and now i've got one , i guess the amount of items added from my other mods prevented your item to spawn ..

@Poutisse
Make sure you don't look at the smithy, it's not there. I think it's only sold in a hounds shop in Shark, if your game is vanilla.
But there is a chance it is not stocked, like any item at a shop.

If you want to increase the chance yourself in the FCS, the 100 after the name in the vendor list is the relative chance it will be there. You can increase that number further, but it will displace other items.

Using mods that increase shop items, should also help you out. (Search for: Shops have more items)
Please let me know if there really is an issue, I have not been able to replicate it. I think you are just getting unlucky...
Shops should restock every 24 hours.
Hope it works out!

The item doesn't appear in the swamp clothing shops , i have tried to import my game and still nothing . Please fix your mod , my squad is waiting with a pair of swamp turtles to pack and settle in a far away land :c
I spent a few hours trying to fix it myself but in my opinion it should work as it is , i am quite troubled :s

Bro's Swampmaxxed Turtlepilled.
i wonder, do swamp tututs make you bigger or smaller if you eat them? or do you have an interview with long dead ancestors?

Tutel!!!

I love this custom backpack, that unique to each animal, much better than Animal backpack mod that just use 1 backpack for every animal

rock solid

@Soldier of Fortune
Thanks!
The artwork um looking for will look a lot like my model, I remember being pretty faithful to it. That one is nice too though :)

Beautiful backpack, really makes me want to play as a swamp-based merchant.
Is this maybe the artwork which you are looking to credit as inspiration?

https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/2499661

swamp turtle 🐢🐢🐢🐢

Thank you very much.Now this mod is complete.
Now I can embark on my ideal journey with the Swamp Turtle that I had envisioned.

@yamamune
It seems somehow all info in the FCS editor has been ignored. Thanks for the heads up, I tried to update it, and really hope it works now. I'm new to workshop modding, and I'm not sure what went wrong.

<3

This mod is the one I have been waiting for the most, however is not working properly.
Its not sold in the swamp store and I have no way to get it.
There seems to be data for that item in the folder in the mod, however this mod does not seem to make any changes to the game.
That is very disappointing and sad.

@Gibus Chad I don't know how to give credits, that's up to you. Thanks though!

I'd be concerned if the swamp turtles can enter the city gates, but hope it works out. I was hoping someone would try it, so cool!

Thanks! Adding this to my mod. I wanted to make a swamper trade caravans, and this will work perfectly! How can I give credit?