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Tribal Hiver Face Paint

Welcome! And thanks for checking out 'Tribal Hivers Face Paint' my first attempt at a visual mod that required making my own textures and my first large artistic endeavour.

If you enjoy this mod then all I want in return is the following:





* These races aren't unlocked by this mod, just given more character creation options to be used by the game and the player. If you want to play these races there are plenty of other great mods on the workshop that will work with this one.





Changes should always be in the change log

Changes are unlikely to happen and I will never remove a face option as that would break someone's save.

I am however open to replacing the symbols or textures themselves or touching up the existing work if I think it'll make the mod better, so if you *really* like how your hivers look right now and don't want them to ever change, download a local copy of the mod.[kenshi.fandom.com]

Sometimes steam doesn't actually re-download textures during an update, see known issues for more details.



It should be compatible with literally any mod that doesn't delete the Dead Hive, South Hive or Western hive races.

This mod won't add face paint or tattoos for modded Hive races. That would require another mod entirely which I have not yet written.

If enough interest gets declared for a custom version of this mod with someone else's custom hive race and you can get their permission then it is feasible, I just don't want to trawl through every custom hive race on steam and nexus mods if no one is interested.



If there has been a mod update and the only thing that has changed is the texture files then sometimes steam doesn't recognise the change unless the filenames have changed (which I will never ever do for fear of breaking someone's save).

To fix this you simply need to unsubscribe to the mod and resubscribe, you'll know it's worked because steam will re-queue a workshop update for Kenshi. If that doesn't work you'll need to delete the mod folder from your workshop directory and re-download.

If you're not seeing any hivers with face paint using this mod, try re-importing your save.

If you want to see these tattoos on characters you've already recruited try visiting a plastic surgeon. You should have access to the new face options.



Artwork and mod by Weisspure.
Work commissioned by Beep who came to me in a dream asking I let him paint his friends' faces.

Special thanks to Seelenschwarz - They made Faces+, a mod I played with to give my hivers some visual identity. Whilst I enjoyed using it and it's a good mod, I felt 2 tattoos and 3 eye types wasn't visually distinct enough so I made this mod to give myself a lot more variety. You should give their mod a look and see if you like it too. Both mods can be ran together with no issues.
Also 3 of the glyph designs in THFP mod were made in homage to the Hiver designs in Faces+, though they don't look exactly the same I tried recapturing the vibe. See if you can spot them!

Also special thanks to Cattrina01[kenshi.fandom.com] for making the Kenshi wiki's Skin making tutorial[kenshi.fandom.com] which I used as a basis to understanding what I'd need to modify when writing my gimp plugin.

And too you dear reader! Especially those who have read this far and remembered to like and favourite!



You can find the formal details below in legal.
Basically my intent is that you can do what you want with it as long as you give credit for my work and use the same license for any derivative work and you don't apply any additional restrictions to your own work. Yes you can even use it for commercial purposes so long as you abide to all other platform's TOCs and you accept this work 'as is' with no warranty or liability from my part.

If you're a better artist (low bar, I'm a code monkey first and foremost) and wish to improve / touch up some of the textures add me on steam and reach out, I still have the original .xcf files and a gimp plugin I wrote in python to automate some of the work, so if you're up for it we can try make any improvements and port them over to the mod if I like them better than the current version and I can add you to the creators for the workshop page, otherwise you can always just publish under your own profile.



Tribal Hivers Face Paint Mod© 2025 by weisspure is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International[creativecommons.org]



Checkout my other mod, I am hoping this list will grow:

• Recruit Traitorous Southern Hive - For lore friendly recruitment of Southern Hivers that have the 'traitorous' personality tag. Harder than recruit any prisoners, just as difficult as finding a hive with the right personality and using the slavery recruitment method though.