Radiant Biosteel Silk Armors

To sum things up : this mod adds the Biosteel silk, a new crafting material to the game with its related furnitures (bench, loom, container). You will have to find in Kenshi’s world where that damn silk is and I won’t help you ! With that material in hand and with the proper research(s) you will be able to craft an interresting array of new armours. It will be rewarding, those armour pieces are still using original game meshes but they come with brand new textures and also gain fairly better stats than their original versions (less malus intensity since lighter, and better cut efficiency since that silk is strong) while never being overpowered be reassured, because we love to keep the difficulty close in this game right ?

Here we go ! My first epic mod for Kenshi ! My main motivation for making this mod was to bring back the light-medium armors into the mid to end-game meta and bring back a better homogeinity in armour color tones so pieces can mix up better. Some meshes are real fun and it’s kinda sad we always end up with the same 2 or 3 armors in the end just because of the stats. But even with these new slightly buffed pieces, this mod won’t spoil your kenshi base experience. Its database is completly separated from the base game and they are not replacing anything so you must see it as a bonus expansion.

I took a really special care so that my textures don’t look like swearing on the base game graphics, in fact that’s always my philosophy : sticking close to every game art direction.

Count : 68 New balanced and retextured armors so far !
These "Biosteel Silk" armors have a thematic recurrence over their stats even if they tend to be all unique in their own way :

• Cutting Efficiency : just sewing or rags pieces = 50-60%, thin biosteel = 70%, thick biosteel or leather layered = 80%, biosteel and Plate = 90%. Intermediary values can happen.
• Cut resistance : + 0-20%, frequent and in competition with chainmail stats which is supposed to be close to that material if it would exist.
• Blunt Resistance : + 0-??%, very rare, only to put a specific armor kind back in the meta, will never cross a thicker/heavier armor.
• Harpoon resistance : + 0-10%, frequent, depends of the armor integrity. Rags will get almost none, full biosteel takes 6-10% while thicker armor gain 10% to catch up a bit the unmatched samurai armor.
• Weight : Undeniably lighter, but can’t make the plate or leather lighter.
• Acid protection : The things making this silk are not really fearing the acid rain, now we know why !
• Fun descriptions : At least i smiled.

But also : Few balancing tweaks (on some vanilla omissions), description fixes, some armor part coverage changed for realism or meta (nothing crazy don’t worry)

Please read the changenotes if you want to see what’s new or what has been improved !

Version 3.0 updated on 23/01/2022 : It’s up to you if you want me to work more on this mod, you know what i would like you to do if you read this to the end !

Tested with 50+ mods, this game has a pretty simple data architecture. It should be compatible with any other mods. Works with an old save, but it’s always better to go for a new game.

~~ Recommended brother mods for the best experience ever ! ~~

Drifter’s leather hot pants : Link here
Nomad’s Cape : Link here
Vanilla Aesthetics Retexture for Nomad’s Cape : Link here

~~ Patches ~~

(ORIGINAL RADIANT PATCH) Drifter’s leather hot pants : Link here
(ORIGINAL RADIANT PATCH) Nomad’s Cape : Link here
(ORIGINAL RADIANT PATCH) Primordial Hive : Link here

Perfomance speaking, there is a lot added in texture database i won’t deny. I am personally not a big fan of the 250 recruits, but i can imagin all base game armors texture + mine in the same screen with 250 people would really begin to be complicated for some config. Keep in mind that when i did my new textures, i tried to stay as optimal as i could.

Even if they represent hundred of working hours, i’m sharing my mods for free like most of mod creators. But deep down i’m really expecting you to do that little thing that would help me in my life : Liking my facebook artist page here [www.facebook.com]. Just that really ! It’s free and only taking few seconds of your time. I’m a comic/manga artist irl and as one, i struggle a lot to put my personal project on the saddle, by liking this page you will see my work & updates but no worry, i’m not a spam guy. Please, understand this is my biggest motivation fuel to make more new mods, otherwise i’m just loosing it. I deeply hope to see you guys joining me there, any new soldier in my ranks means a big deal to me.

For those who really want to make a donation, here is my paypal : [email protected].

You can find all my mods by searching "Radiant" in steam workshop, nexus, or civfanatics, which is a recurrent word in all my mod’s tittles.