Mods
Kenshi has one of the strongest modding communities in survival gaming. These guides cover the mods wanderers reach for — and the load-order traps to avoid.
Essential Mods
The mods most veterans install before they even start a new game. Quality-of-life so basic it feels like patches.
QoL Mods
Quality-of-life mods that remove tedium without touching difficulty or balance.
Graphics Mods
Visual mods that sharpen Kenshi's sand-worn world — at a performance cost worth measuring.
Combat Mods
Mods that retune fighting — animations, attack slots, damage and AI — for a sharper, fairer brawl.
Overhaul Mods
Total conversions that rebuild factions, items, regions and balance. A second Kenshi inside Kenshi.
Base Building Mods
Mods that expand and smooth base construction — more buildings, better placement, deeper production.
Performance Mods
Mods that fight Kenshi's stutter — texture compression, optimisation tweaks and memory fixes.
Difficulty Mods
Mods for players who found vanilla Kenshi too soft — harsher economies, deadlier enemies, scarcer resources.
Reactive World
A landmark mod that lets your actions reshape towns, factions and the map state.
Genesis
One of the largest Kenshi overhauls — sweeping new factions, items, regions and depth.
Kaizo
An overhaul focused on a coherent, expanded and more challenging wasteland.
Universal Wasteland Expansion
UWE — an overhaul that sharpens Kenshi's survival edge with deeper systems and a harsher economy.
Dark UI
The near-universal interface mod — a darker, cleaner, more readable Kenshi UI.