| Stats Affected: | Description: The ability to move around undetected. Enables you to sneak around, steal things and pick locks without anybody noticing. Also invaluable for escaping hostile imprisonment. Breaking out of a cage is all well and good, but you won't get much further without stealth. Much more effective in the darkness. Injuries will hinder your effective stealthiness, although your toughness level can counteract this. |
| -Ability to remain undetected while sneaking -Avoiding discovery when in disguise -Avoiding discovery when you have a bounty | |
| Ways to Train: | |
| -Using stealth mode with enemies around | |
| -Thievery- | |
Stealth is an implemented feature of Kenshi as of version Beta 0.90.
Stealth is one of the core Thievery skills and without leveling the skill a player will have a hard time with Thievery and Assassination. Using stealth, one can sneak around undetected, and knock out unsuspecting opponents from behind, if ones assassination skill is high enough. Stealth also affects how well a disguise will work when used to enter a enemy town. In the end if you want to be a thief you need stealth!
| Racial Experience Multipliers | |
|---|---|
| Negative Multiplier: -P4 Unit -Screamer MkI -Shek -Skeleton (Race) -Skeleton Log-Head MKII -Skeleton MKII Screamer -Skeleton No-Head MkII -Skeleton P4MkII -Soldierbot |
Positive Multiplier: -Deadhive Prince -Deadhive Worker -Hive Prince -Hive Queen -Hive Worker Drone -Scorchlander -Southern Hive Prince -Southern Hive Worker Drone |
| All multipliers are either 0.8x or 1.2x unless marked otherwise. | |
Affected by[]
- Cover. Hiding behind a bed is better than being out in the open. Interior walls can prevent sight, but footsteps may still be heard(?)
- Distance. It is easier to hide from a guy at the other side of the street than a guy right in front of you.
- Light. Refer to Stealth Mode below.
- Weight. Carrying heavy things and armor will negatively affect your stealthiness.
- Wounds. They will make you slower and noisier.
Stealth mode[]
When you press the stealth button two icons appear above the characters head, an eye and sun.
Blue Eye -This means you are currently unseen by any NPC around you.
Yellow Eye - This means you are within an NPC's line of sight but you remain unseen. A yellow arrow will come up showing the direction of the NPC you might be spotted by. You have a small amount of time to find a better hiding spot before the NPC detects you.
Red Eye - This means you've been spotted by an NPC, and they can currently see you.
Sun - The amount of light currently on your player. This includes any artificial light source your character walks into. The sun will be half-dimmed while in dim light, and fully shaded when in complete darkness.
*BUG* Light will bleed through doors
| Loading Screen Tips |
| If you are standing in the darkness, any NPCs standing in a lit area won't be able to see you. If it's the other way around however, you can be seen from a mile away. Beware enemies who are also lurking in the darkness. |
Equipment[]
Armour
- Ninja Rags: 30% Stealth increase
- Dark Leather Shirt: 10% Stealth increase
- Basket Hat: 10% Stealth increase
- Assassin's Rags: 10% Stealth increase
- Ninja Pants: 10% Stealth increase
- Ninja Gi: 10% Stealth increase
- Swamp Ninja Mask: 10% Stealth increase
- Dustcoat: 10% Stealth Increase
- Naked: 20% Stealth Increase
- Disguises
Robotic limbs
Tips[]
- You don't need to be around enemies to train and can simply sneak around friendly / neutral towns to train the skill up. But sneaking around hostile characters give a significantly more amount of xp.
- Finding a Nest at the edge of a zone is a good way to train fast. Nests spawn numerous hostiles, and because they are bound to the nest their movements are constrained and therefore predictable. Staying at the edge of the zone decreased the likelihood of a returning patrol sandwiching your party.
- One of the fastest (albeit gamey) ways to level up stealth is to head to the Lost Library located northeast of Rebirth. There is usually a fairly large pack of blood spiders guarding the area. From there you can use the road that bends downward into the ruins as a hiding spot while you stealth run your character back and forth between the spiders and the road bend, retreating just as the eye hits red. This will level your stealth insanely fast. At night, you can get very close to the spiders without them seeing you, allowing you to use this method round the clock. Keep in mind they can still spot you at night if you get too close. (Credit to Gamer Guide from YouTube)
- Remember to remove anything heavy in your inventory including Armour that has a negative stealth rating when attempting to use stealth.
- Once a character becomes good at sneaking, they become invisible to lower level NPCs.
Other notes[]
- Above skill level 30 (total - including effect bonuses) player gains the "ninja" (also called the infamous Naruto run) run animation and increase in movement speed while sneaking.