Skills

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Description

Skills indicate how good you are doing certain actions. The higher your skill, the more successful you are in performing that action.

Skill gain

Your skill-gain is the highest when your success chance is 50%. A lower or higher success chance lowers the amount of skill gained when succeeding. The further away from 50% success chance you are, the lower the skill gain.

Improving actions will usually give more skill than creating actions.

You may gain skill even failing an action - that depends on skill. For instance, lockpicking won't raise on failures, but carpentry will.

Stamina effects skill gain. If you have low or no stamina, you will gain almost no skill. It's recommended to have full stamina when you start an action. Action time also affects skill gain. The longer the action, the more skill you gain for that action.

Family skills

Parent skills help the success chance of their sub-skills. Sub-skills increase the skill amount of the parent skill. Some skills also have a nephew skill, which affects their success chance by a small amount. For example, one such skill is blades smithing. It's nephew skill is swords. So if you have a high swords skill, you succeed more in creating blades.

Characteristics

Each skill uses a certain characteristic. Raising the skill will automatically raise the characteristic, although at a very low rate. A high characteristic helps the success chance of all the skills that use that characteristic.

For details on which skills increase which characteristics, see the characteristics page.

Skill decay

Unused skills will start to decay over time. Only skills over 70 decay at a rate of .03 every 3 days the skill is not used. Skills below 70 do not decay. Skills with at least one affinity do not decay.

Decayed skill points are re-gained at 3x the normal skill-gain rate, just like the .25 lost to death.

Being a citizen of a settlement can reduce the skill decay. The older the settlement, the smaller the skill decay. The info screen at the token of a village can tell you how much the skill decay reduction of that settlement is. It is displayed near the alliances information.

Titles

Some skills can also give titles when reaching a certain level. The usual level requirements are 50, 70 and 90. See the titles page for more details.

Skill list

Alchemy 

Natural substances

Archery 

Short bow, Medium bow, Long bow

Axes 

Small axe, Large axe, Hatchet, Huge axe

Carpentry 

Bowyery, Fletching, Fine carpentry, Toy making, Ship building

Climbing

Clubs 

Huge club

Coal-making

Cooking 

Hot food cooking, Baking, Dairy food making, Butchering, Beverages

Digging

Fighting 

Weaponless fighting, Aggressive fighting, Normal fighting, Defensive fighting, Taunting, Shield bashing

Firemaking

Hammers 

Warhammer

Healing 

First aid

Knives 

Carving knife, Butchering knife

Masonry 

Stone cutting

Mauls 

Small maul, Medium maul, Large maul

Milling

Mining

Miscellaneous items 

Shovel, Rake, Hammer, Saw, Sickle, Scythe, Repairing, Pickaxe, Stone chisel

Nature 

Fishing, Farming, Forestry, Milking, Foraging, Botanizing, Gardening, Animal taming, Animal Breeding

Paving

Pottery

Prospecting

Religion 

Preaching, Prayer, Channeling, Exorcism

Ropemaking

Shields 

Medium shield, Small wooden shield, Medium wooden shield, Large wooden shield, Small metal shield, Large metal shield

Smithing 

Weapon smithing (Blades smithing, Weapon heads smithing), Armour smithing (Chain armour smithing, Plate armour smithing, Shield smithing), Blacksmithing, Locksmithing, Metallurgy, Jewelry smithing

Swords 

Short sword, Long sword, Huge sword

Tailoring 

Cloth tailoring, Leatherworking

Thievery 

Stealing, Lockpicking, Traps

Toys 

Yoyo

Tracking

War machines 

Catapult

Woodcutting