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STOBE Kenshi Settings

STOBE keeps its main controls inside Kenshi. The current mod includes a left-side menu, character and diary browsers, recent history, a Status HUD, Plugin Settings, and an expanded Chat Box.

AI Panel

The left-side STOBE menu opens with your STOBE settings key and keeps the main in-game tools together.

  • Menu Key / Chat Hotkey display: The panel shows the current keys at the top so you can confirm your bindings in game.
  • Stobe NPCs: Opens the in-game NPC detail browser.
  • Stobe Diaries: Opens the in-game diary browser.
  • Recent History: Shows the latest dialogue, actions, travel, injuries, and other important events.
  • Settings: Opens the real STOBE settings window.
  • Status HUD: Shows the current chat mode, response mode, AI activity, selected character, and chat target.
  • MOTD: Opens the welcome and status window.

Plugin Settings

This is the main STOBE settings window in Kenshi. These are the actual settings the mod exposes in code.

  • STOBE Settings Key: The key that opens and closes the STOBE menu. Current choices are =, F7, F8, F11, F12, O, [, and ].
  • Chat Hotkey: The quick chat input key. Current choices are /, -, ., [, ], O, and P.
  • Default Mode: The starting mode for the Chat Box. Choose chat, whisper, shout, cheat, narrator, inject, or inject & chat.
  • Talk Radius: Normal conversation distance.
  • Shout Radius: Larger distance for louder speech.
  • TTS Volume: Voice playback volume from 0 to 100.
  • Bored Event Range: How far away STOBE can look for ambient bored-event chatter.
  • Bored Event Timer: How often bored events are allowed to happen, in in-game hours.
  • Auto Chat: Lets STOBE keep conversations flowing more automatically.
  • Bored Events: Turns ambient idle conversations on or off.
  • Regular Dialogue: Toggles regular dialogue capture support.
  • Animal Talks: Enables animal conversation support.
  • TTS: Turns generated voice playback on or off.
  • Speed Dialogue: Uses the faster dialogue mode.
  • Item Image Sync: Captures supported item images for the server pages.
  • Status HUD: Keeps the small STOBE status display visible while playing.
  • Menu Dialogue TTS: Voices supported dialogue shown in Kenshi's normal dialogue menus.
  • Speaker Mode: Chooses between Nearest to Target and First Squad Member.

The settings window also shows a range hint in game: ~10 units is about 1 meter, and whisper mode stays fixed at 20 units.

Chat Box

Open the Chat Box with your chat hotkey. Choose the speaker and nearby target, enter a message, then select how STOBE should handle it.

  • Chat modes: Chat, whisper, and shout change who can hear you. Cheat can target nearby characters within 100 meters. Narrator sends the scene to your narrator.
  • Inject: Adds your text to the scene without asking for an immediate reply. Inject & Chat adds it and continues the conversation.
  • Conversation tools: Toggle Auto Chat, continue the current conversation, rename a generic NPC, or choose a manual action.
  • Diaries: Write Diary writes for the selected NPC. Narrator Diary writes for the narrator.
  • Response: Switch between Standard, Fast, Powerful, and Experimental profile models without leaving the game.
  • Animals: When Animal Talks is on, nearby animals can appear as chat targets.

Settings Window Actions

The bottom row of the STOBE settings window has four action buttons.

  • Save Settings: Writes the current settings into StobeCustom.ini.
  • Open Mod Folder: Opens the local mods\Stobe folder.
  • Open Server Folder: Opens the current WSL StobeServer folder.
  • Open server page: Opens the StobeServer home page in your browser.

INI-Backed Mod Settings

STOBE also stores a few mod-side values in Stobe.ini and StobeCustom.ini. Some are edited through the UI, and some mainly matter for setup.

  • ServerHost: The server address STOBE talks to. Local installs normally keep this at 127.0.0.1.
  • ServerPort: The default STOBE server port is 8083.
  • EnableMOTD: Controls whether the MOTD popup is enabled.
  • GeneralHotkey, ChatHotkey, ChatMode, AutoChat, AnimalTalks, UseNearestPlayerSpeaker, TalkRadius, ShoutRadius, TTSVolume, TtsEnabled, Speed Dialogue, EnableRegularDialogueCapture, BoredEventTimerHours, DynamicProfileIntervalHours, EnableBoredEventConversations: These are the current saved gameplay settings behind the in-game UI.

Status HUD

The optional Status HUD is a quick check that STOBE is following the right scene. It shows the active chat and response modes, whether the AI is idle, thinking, or speaking, and the current selected and targeted characters.

STOBE On And Off

Use the interaction switch in the in-game menu when you want a break from AI responses.

  • Off: Pauses AI interaction while the mod continues tracking game events.
  • Microphone: Use the microphone controls to stop recording; the interaction switch is not a microphone mute.
  • Director: See Director Scenes for directing a conversation.
  • Character updates: Set the schedule in the web profile settings.

Microphone, Moods And Diaries

Speak through a selected player character or type in the Chat Box.

  • Microphone: Bind Push-to-Talk Key in Plugin Settings. Hold it to record and release it to send. Choose the disabled key option if you only want typed chat. See Speech-to-Text for setup.
  • Mood: Choose a mood beneath the chat input to shape typed or spoken lines without reading the mood cue aloud.
  • Diary audio: Use the diary playback controls to listen to an entry in its writer’s voice.
  • Rename: Enable the optional right-click Rename action when you want it in an NPC’s context menu.
  • Support: Open Generate Logs from the STOBE menu when gathering a report.