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My biggest mod so far, this takes "making money" to the next level. It adds two levels of research that allow for actual money printing from raw materials. It’s wasteful at first, netting 100 cats from a piece of copper and some raw stone, but advancing allows you to gain better and faster outcome.
It comes with a Cash Strongbox which can hold up to 4.000 strings of cats, each worth 10 cats when right-clicked. Sadly money in kenshi is added to your account automatically when clicking it or manualy adding it to a character’s inventory, though apparently this doesn’t happen when the process is automated. The storage is deliberately large, the aim of this mod is not only adding gameplay options but also be a viable automatable solution for earning money, so i minimized micromanagement using the excuse of how money works in the game and the fact that you can virtually hold infinite amounts in your pocket. An added bonus though is that now when you finally collect you’ll see just how much you earned before adding the cats to your account.
To get started with the mod you will need to find a blueprint. Studying the blueprint requires the Electrical Crafting technology and grants the following buildings: a Cash Strongbox to keep your coins, and a Coining Station, the actual setup needed to cast Cats. The station consumes a piece of copper and one fifth of raw stone and spits out ten strings of cats, the process of falsifying the money is delicate and requires a skilled rogue, this means that the stat used for coining will be thievery – this makes sense if you take into consideration that a higher thievery lets you sell stolen goods at a higher chance, it’s not only the ability to collect items without making noise but also falsifying the stolen items to be able to sell them with fewer risks, so falsifying a coin takes a similar skill rather than science or smithing.
Once the strings are made and the output is full, the thief will store the items in the strongbox automatically, then rinse and repeat. The stone is used as the material for carving casts, but they eventually burn or break so you have to replace the stone, the coining station contains all the necessary tools not only for melting and casting copper but also for mold-making (I thought that making a separate bench for specifically making molds would have been a waste of time, but let me know what you think). This process, though, is wasteful. Copper spills out on the floor, gets stuck in the mold, occasionally mixes with stone chippings and it becomes easier to mine more instead of reclaiming the lost batches. This brings us to the improved version of the research.
Available at tech level 4 is Improved Numismatics, which unlocks two new buildings: the Improved Coining Station and the Ground Quarry. The latter is necessary to build the former, because I said so. The quarry works better in areas with higher water concentration and produces a new item called Casting Compound, a mixture of sand, clay and water used to make one-use molds using wooden frames that allow for cleaner and airtight casting of coins, as well of an added bonus: you no longer have to carve stone molds, you now only need a wooden model of a cash tree to press into the dirt, which is removed from the two halves of the mold before pouring the molten metal. Now that the technology is improved and the waste is minimized, every copper piece will net 200 cats, and the process will be faster, but new casting compound is needed constantly so keep that in mind.
Another thing to be aware of is that, as it should be, printing money is illegal to every major faction. If guards enter one of your buildings and see your setup you will be attacked, I’m not sure what happens afterwards but it’s probably something you want to avoid, so stick to your outpost and hide your equipment before the next prayer day. Coming up will be a variation of the mod where printed money no longer counts as real money but will be labeled as fake and an illegal item, you won’t be able to spend it or add it to your account, you will instead have to fence it and that will be added difficulty. It could be fun but it might only last for a while before becoming tedious, this is caused by how illegal goods are handled by the game, and I can’t do anything about it, so if you still think it might be interesting stay tuned for the alternative mod.
That’s it! Enjoy, and check out my other mods, there might be something you like there too. The following are spoilers, come back and read them if you get stuck not knowing how to progress. The first step is a shot in the dark if you don’t know what you’re doing, but the rest of the line of actionshould be self explanatory through in-game tips and bits of information. Just in case it isn’t, here’s a walkthrough.
Walkthrough:
Step 1
The original Numismatics research is only attainable through a blueprint which you will have to steal. The item is found in the Trader’s Guild HQ in Heng.
Step 2
Once you’re fed up with only earning a fraction of what you produce, you’ll want to research the next step, which requires the official model for the cat, you will want to go search Yamdu’s pockets.
Step 3
The squire doesn’t have the coin anymore, but he does have a clay mold, get it and read the contract he carries with him in hopes to find who has the second one.
Step 4
This one was probably a low blow from my part but i thought it was fun: White is translated to Shiro in japanese.
Step 5
Still stuck? Lord Shiro is the noble with diplomatic status in Catun (small side note: Cat is short for Catun Credits, I had to implement it). Go search him.
Step 6
Now you have both halves of the mold, good job! But you don’t know how to put them together and cast the coin? In case the note was not clear enough, the blueprint for the research required to cast the coin from the molds is stored in lord Shiro’s house.
Step 7
Once aquired the two molds and the research, you will need to upgrade temporarily your coining station, once upgraded it will consume two molds and a piece of copper and output the master coin.
Step 8
That’s basically it, put the coin in your research bench and use it to pay the cost of the new research, now yo can upgrade your station fully and will be able to print cats like a professional.
