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There's really not a lot we can say on this but...



Tell your cousin, buy a copy for your fish, inform your bus driver, deliver a message to your town crier, write to your local politician, ring the president, call the midwife, write home about it, send a telegram to your gran etc. All that stuff. Enjoy anyway.

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We recently launched a Kenshi speedrun content to celebrate the Easter holiday consisting of two “simple” tasks:

[h3]“Find three different types of egg. Sell them”. [/h3]

The competition ran from 14th April through to 8th May, with the top 10 winners each bagging themselves a shirt signed by Lo-Fi/Kenshi top dogs Chris Hunt and Nat Mikkelson.

The submissions have been impressive. Very impressive. We have seen some amazing runs and it was incredible to see people getting their average run time down over time!

It was lovely to see some of the best challengers helping each other out, discussing tactics and theorising on what was possible in the YouTube comments. Such good sportsmanship!



As you might expect, people got quicker over time. Here’s a chart showing that happening. We’ve excluded a couple of longer submissions so you can get a better view of those super fast times!



Kura was the first person to break the below 12 minute mark on 17th April, which is when things started to get really heated. Then on the 22nd April, Vestige hit the sub 11 minute point, a truly astounding achievement!

We don’t think anyone thought sub 10 minutes was possible but my word, it was! Aiza clocked in at an incredible 9:55 on 28th April and nobody managed to beat the score for the remaining 10 days of the competition, despite many formidable attempts.

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As stated in our rules - 10 signed t-shirts will go to 10 players, even if people are in the overall top 10 more than once (which did happen), meaning the winner list looks a little different to the overall top 50.

A huge congratulations to all of our winners and a massive thank you to everyone who took part, you excellent people.

[h2]T shirt winner list![/h2]

All the below entrants will win a signed Kenshi shirt. We’ll be emailing you soon asking for your details, so keep an eye on your inboxes!

1st Place
Aiza
9 mins, 55 seconds
https://youtu.be/p5AhDig5Yfo?t=1287

2nd Place
Razleraz
10 mins, 1 second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzeIBbsRdOI&ab_channel=Razleraz

3rd Place
Winter Remnant
10 mins, 9 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1bx6xAjvyU

Joint 4th/5th Place
Vestige
10 mins, 10 seconds
https://youtu.be/1Ty2b5LJbmE

Joint 4th/5th Place
Natsugu
10 mins, 10 seconds
https://youtu.be/77lSNhwWETM

6th Place
NubMcMoofin
10 mins, 11 seconds
https://youtu.be/8tsnj25b3O4

7th Place
Shidan
10 mins, 21 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRouGbwXRMw

8th Place
vegan
10 mins, 22 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KeX0SMEjHQ

9th Place
sirokka
10 mins, 23 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4QFC-5Qbzo

10th Place
chigasane
10 mins, 25 seconds
https://youtu.be/4eqRpZMykVk

[h2]Top 50[/h2]

Check out our website for the full top 50 list (Steam isn't too keen on tables it seems.

Hail Tanishi, the mighty Hive runner and the favourite of Egg Run Challengers!
[h2]
Eggcelent FanArt[/h2]

During the course of the event, a couple of quite beautiful eggy images were produced which we wanted to highlight. The “Beep is the eggiest” piece from Alex Thompson was very much a tribute to the competition. Thank you so much for that! We loved it!



This piece from G3er0 may or may not have been inspired by our egg hunt but it was produced during the competition so we live in hope. Either way, it’s a beaut.



Also, shout-out to redditor dagothdoom for working out how much Beep’s omelette depicted in the image is worth 😂.


Let us know what you want to see next!

Once again, thank you to everyone that took part, watched, commented, made fanart or complained about the rules (really, we needed to be better at clarifying stuff and you helped us work a load of stuff out, we’ll be better next time).

We’ll be running more competitions in the future, so do watch our various spaces.

Let us know what kind of competition you’d like to see next, and feel free to comment with any great clips like this lovely moment from PistonsPub.

[h3]Speedrun.com[/h3]

There is now a page for the Kenshi Egg Hunt over on Speedrun.com, with a tab for official rules and a tab for those of the moderator on there. It’s now open to submission, and while you won’t be able to grab a prize by beating any times, you can still battle for glory! If you manage to beat Aizu’s time, let us know so we can help you show off about it!

A Kenshi…speedrun? Yes. Yes indeed. And an Easter one…an EGG HUNT! WITH PRIZES! SIGNED SHIRTS! YES. YES. YES.

Entry dates: 14th April – midnight 8th May

Find three different types of egg. Sell them.

The ten fastest runs at the end of 8th May win an exclusive competition winner-only Beak Thing shirt signed by Chris and Nat.

RULES

• Eggs must be in nests: you can’t just go into a shop and buy the eggs
  
• Game options must be set at default values. Prove it by showing us the options screen at the start of your run
  
• Rock bottom start
  
• No save scumming/no reloads
  
• You must prove you have turned off all your mods and are running the game entirely vanilla - show us you’ve done this by verifying the game in Steam (right click the game in Steam, click “properties”, “local files” and “verify integrity of game files”).
  
• Choose ‘Rock Bottom’ start
  
• You can add as many squad members as you like
  
• All squad members must stay together at all times. Don’t let a few run off to the four corners of the world
  
• No hiring mercs (folks you can hire by days)
  
• Your first game character does not need to survive until the end
  
• Three eggs means three different eggs from different species. Not three eggs collected from three different locations by one species
  
• You can’t just buy eggs from shops
  
• The challenge ends when you sell all three eggs at a shop
  

Clarifications - 19th April, 2022:

• The game speed can be set to whatever you want, but be aware that this is a speedrun based on IRL time
  
• Start your timer when the character lands in the desert - character creator screen time doesn’t count
  
• Once your timer has started, in-game load times do count towards your time. Entries from streaming services such as Geforce NOW (which may improve your in-game load times) will be accepted, so long as all the standard rules are followed
  
• As stated in Terms and Conditions - Entering multiple times is fine, but only one prize will be issued per winner. If someone has multiple places in the top 10, the next entries up will each receive one prize each until we reach a total of 10 winners with a prize each
  
• If you wish to do multiple runs in one stream after verifying files and options just once, feel free to do so without having to go through the verification/options-showing process for each run. Please ensure that you add a timestamp for the start of the run that you’d like to be considered
  
• Feel free to dismiss any character from your squad
  
• Exploits are allowed, but no shift+F12ing
  
• Rock bottom start (yeah one more time, why not?)

Clarifications - 26th April, 2022:



Dear Kenshi Easter Egg Speedrunners: Thank you so much for your submissions. We've had A LOT! The response has been incredible. Obviously a Kenshi speedrun is a bit of an odd idea considering the game’s quirks, but here we are. Sorry about that bridge, we know it does some bad things. What's incredible is that you lot embraced the challenges and ran with them, and are still continuing to do so. And what results! We had no idea this could be done so quickly.

Anyways: We've had some feedback on the rules, as you might expect, and we are listening. On the most part, there haven't been any issues, and everyone's been amazing and followed our directions to a T, which we know is quite the faff. We didn't ever want to give massive advantages to those with faster computers but we had to draw the line somewhere. Having said that, upon re-examining our leaderboard, we are going to go ahead and say:

Change the graphics options to whatever you want them to be. In fact: you can change anything in the options screen other than the stuff in the gameplay slider. All other previous rules still apply though: You still must show us the mod tab in the in-game options and the launcher. You must still go through the verification process. It has to be vanilla Kenshi.

We're sorry if that means you would previously have done some runs a little differently, but if we were to enforce the rule that the graphics options must be set to default values, then we'd have to wipe out 50+ runs, and that would be awful.

How to participate

• You’re welcome to stream the video live, or record and upload at a later date, but the entries do need to be publicly accessible
  
• No editing!
  
• Please add timestamps in your video description for:
  • When you pick up your egg one, two and three
    
  • When you sell your eggs
    
• No timestamps = not completed

Once you have completed your speedrun, please submit the link to your video here - lofigames.com/eggman.

Leaderboard

The leaderboard for the contest can be found at lofigames.com/egg. This is a manually updated leaderboard, so please bear with us while we check submissions. We’ll try to update it by the end of each working day (GMT).

Terms and Conditions
By entering this competition you are agreeing to share your contact details with Lo-Fi Games. Our full competition-specific privacy policy can be found at lofigames.com/eggpolicy.

Privacy Policy
By entering this competition you are agreeing to the Lo-Fi Games Competition Terms and Conditions, which can be found at lofigames.com/eggterms.

FCS v2.11 (experimental branch)

• Fixed a bug that messed up dialogue events for a few NPCs
  
• Minor bugfixes for FCS

Screenshot credit: @iunomesu

FCS v2.11 (experimental branch)

• Fixed a bug that caused items to use old names