HIVEMIND

Kenshi's shared feed, chat and dev console

A line of text in the corner of your game tells you what is happening to other players in their worlds right now — and lets you talk back. And the same line is the developer console Kenshi never shipped with: teleport, spawn, heal, sever a limb, set the game speed.

Download Hivemind Join the Discord Get it on Steam

One file, 33 MB — the mod and the relay together, with an INSTALL.txt that tells you where each half goes. Requires RE_Kenshi. Free and open source (GPL v3). The game itself never touches the network — the relay is a separate program, and its full source ships beside it.
Already installed? Just the mod (200 KB) · just the relay (38 MB).

What it looks like

* SlinkySalmon03's Rin walks the world - day 1, Shark
maadrugada: got the code, I'm in
* maadrugada's Takao reached The Hub, day 1
* SlinkySalmon03's Rin died to a Bonedog in Shark, day 12
* maadrugada lost 4 more in The Hub: Sing, Beep, Tsau, Gynn
(whisper) Kevin: meet me at the Hub bar, bring cats
* Kevin won 500 cats from maadrugada on the dice (18 vs 6)
* Kevin's Beep broke out of the cage in Rebirth, day 31

> /spawn beakthing 12 25 click|

What it does

The feed

Your squad's moments, one line each, under your own name. Deaths in a fight fold into one line, so a massacre is three lines instead of thirty. Every event can be switched off.

The chat

ENTER opens the line, ENTER sends. Up and Down walk what you typed; TAB completes names — and knows whether it should be offering towns or people.

The dev console

/imacheater arms it. Teleport, spawn with exact counts and distances, kill by clicking, sever a limb, god mode, cats, game speed. Works with the feed off.

Rooms

A room is a Discord channel. Any server can run /setup in one and have its own feed, chat and moderators. A private channel makes a private room.

Whispers and dice

/w to one player. /bet someone cats on a d20 and the cats actually move — anyone who has used the console is refused, so it stays honest.

Your privacy

Only what you left switched on: a name, a game day, a town, one sentence. No save name, no folder path, no Steam id. Logs leave only when you ask, with every path blanked first.

Getting started

  1. Install RE_Kenshi — Hivemind needs it.
  2. Download Hivemind and read the INSTALL.txt inside. There are two pieces: the mod, which goes in your game (or over your Steam copy), and the relay, which you unzip anywhere and run beside it. Nothing to install — the relay carries its own runtime.
  3. Want the shared feed? Join the Hivemind Discord and run /join in a room's channel — the Hive Queen answers you privately with a code. Skip this and the console still works.
  4. Run HivemindRelay.exe beside the game. It finds the mod on its own and asks three questions the first time.
  5. In the game, press ENTER and type. /help lists everything.

Only after the console, and not joining a room? Steps 1 and 5 are all you need.

Run your own room

You do not have to use mine. Invite the bot to your own Discord, run /setup in the channel you want, and that channel becomes a room — its own feed, its own chat, its own moderators, and your server's own rules applied to every line typed inside the game. A private channel makes a private room: if someone cannot see the channel, they cannot join it.

Ask for the bot's invite link in the Hivemind Discord.