Kenshi Fact of the Day #55
-Walking Underwater-
Nearly all robotic units... And many animals in Kenshi are unable to swim. Now that doesn't mean that they drown in water, that would be crazy! It just means that they walk under it! Yeah, that makes sense...
If a unit is not set as being able to swim, instead of using their swimming level or swim speed multiplier to determine how fast they move when in water they instead just use 2x their walk speed.
A majority of units in the game have a walk speed of 15 but there are a few exceptions I'll be covering today. (There are a few more but these ones are interesting so...)
Skimmers, Skin Spiders and Blood Spiders have the highest walk speed in Kenshi, with that being 25.
In case any readers haven't seen all of my Facts of the day in #18 I covered the formula to figure out how fast you will move in MPH for any given "speed" amount. For those of you who just want to read it here you take the speed and multiply it by 0.2237.
If we took Skeletons with their walk speed of 15 and doubled it, (As remember the speed they move at is double the walkspeed) we would get 30. When you multiply 30 by 0.2237 you get 6.711mph. (Shown as 7 in game over to the right of your "RUN SPEED:")
If we did the same for the Spiders you would get 11.185mph. That's faster than any of the swimming humanoids! Even at 100 Swimming those races would swim at 9.8428mph. Well... Except Sheks... They swim at 5.5925 mph at 100 Swimming...
Just showing off the speeds in a short clip.
In other words, if any of the Spider like animals are after you... Or nearby at all, do NOT enter the water to try to escape. Unless you are just trying to escape from this mortal coil that is. Swamps are a deathtrap due to the lag, puddles of water everywhere and sneaky lil Blood Spiders just waiting for an opportunity to pounce.
Posted Feb 2, 2025, 7:20 AM UTC