AI Core History
An AI Core is a mind in a box, asleep for centuries. The wasteland sells them by weight and never asks what they used to be.
The intelligences of the Ancient world, now reduced to rare salvage that powers research and runs deep.
Overview
AI Cores are advanced artificial intelligences from the Ancient era. In the present they survive as rare, valuable salvage recovered from the deepest ruins.
Gameplay Role
AI Cores are required for the highest tiers of research and are among the most valuable items in the game — a key reward for surviving the deadliest regions.
Lore Significance
The Cores hint at the role artificial intelligence played in the Ancient world and its collapse — and at minds that may not be as dormant as they appear.
Why It Matters
AI Cores link Kenshi's research economy directly to its deepest lore: to advance, you must dig into the very catastrophe that made the wasteland.
“A bite from a slaver patrol is not the end — captivity trains Strength and Toughness.”
- Type
- Ancient AI / salvage
- Use
- High-tier research
- Source
- Deepest ruins
- Value
- Very high