Skills

Skills and levels

Live · v0.59

Overall level 1–99, alongside 10 skills that each keep their own level and XP.

Your overall level

You start at overall level 1. Every 10 combined skill-level gains earns one overall level, up to 99. Your total skill levels remains a separate sum. Overall level describes your breadth of training; individual skills still decide tools, recipes and combat stats.

New untrained skills contribute no gains and cannot lower your overall level. Your existing skill XP stays unchanged.

The skills

Skill	Malay	Trained by	Higher levels give
Fishing	Nelayan	Catching anything at a fishing spot.	Better catch rates, and new spots at 5, 8 and 12. Mak Long Esah's lesson: one tick faster at every spot.
Woodwork	Tukang Kayu	Cutting trees, harvesting palms, making things at the boatyard.	Better cutting, and recipes at 2 and 3. Pak Mat's lesson: one tick faster on trees and palms.
Cooking	Masak	Grilling raw catches at a fire or grill.	Less burning, and new catches to cook at 5, 6 and 10. Mak Jah's lesson: 15% less burning.
Attack	Serang	Landing blows with Attack as your training focus.	Accuracy with your fists and the staff.
Strength	Kuasa	Landing blows with Strength as your training focus.	Max hit: one more for every 4 levels.
Defence	Tangkis	Blows with Defence as your focus, dodging bites, sparring with Abang Zul.	Creatures miss you more often. Abang Zul's lesson: +1 armour.
Archery	Memanah	Hitting creatures and practice targets with a bow.	Accuracy and max hit with a bow; the horn bow at 10. Tok Ali's lesson: your own bow.
Body	Tubuh	Every blow or arrow that lands in a fight.	One more hit point a level, and faster breath.
Mining	Melombong	Working stone and iron in the teaching quarry.	Better pickaxes and the rich iron face at level 10.
Smithing	Pandai Besi	Making charcoal, smelting bars and forging at Pak Leh’s workshop.	Iron tools, a portable cooking grate and steel equipment.

Total skill levels is the sum of all individual levels. It appears beside your overall level in the Skills tab and profile.

The XP curve

Experience (XP) turns into levels on the classic curve, divided by four, so the early levels come quickly. XP keeps counting up to 200 million, and the level stops at 99.

XP for level L = floor( Σ[i = 1 … L−1] floor( i + 300 × 2^(i/7) ) / 4 )

Level	XP	Level	XP	Level	XP	Level	XP	Level	XP
1	0	21	5,018	41	41,171	61	302,288	81	2,192,818
2	83	22	5,624	42	45,529	62	333,804	82	2,421,087
3	174	23	6,291	43	50,339	63	368,599	83	2,673,114
4	276	24	7,028	44	55,649	64	407,015	84	2,951,373
5	388	25	7,842	45	61,512	65	449,428	85	3,258,594
6	512	26	8,740	46	67,983	66	496,254	86	3,597,792
7	650	27	9,730	47	75,127	67	547,953	87	3,972,294
8	801	28	10,824	48	83,014	68	605,032	88	4,385,776
9	969	29	12,031	49	91,721	69	668,051	89	4,842,295
10	1,154	30	13,363	50	101,333	70	737,627	90	5,346,332
11	1,358	31	14,833	51	111,945	71	814,445	91	5,902,831
12	1,584	32	16,456	52	123,660	72	899,257	92	6,517,253
13	1,833	33	18,247	53	136,594	73	992,895	93	7,195,629
14	2,107	34	20,224	54	150,872	74	1,096,278	94	7,944,614
15	2,411	35	22,406	55	166,636	75	1,210,421	95	8,771,558
16	2,746	36	24,815	56	184,040	76	1,336,443	96	9,684,577
17	3,115	37	27,473	57	203,254	77	1,475,581	97	10,692,629
18	3,523	38	30,408	58	224,466	78	1,629,200	98	11,805,606
19	3,973	39	33,648	59	247,886	79	1,798,808	99	13,034,431
20	4,470	40	37,224	60	273,742	80	1,986,068	–	–

Level 2 takes 83 XP, level 10 takes 1,154, and level 99 takes 13,034,431.

Levelling up

A ribbon with the skill's icon rises over the screen, petals scatter (unless motion is turned down), and if you are standing idle your character cheers. Click a skill in the Skills tab or your ID book to open its guide: current XP, next level, next unlock and a readable list of requirements. Locked entries stay visible.

What each level opens

Live unlocks and the ones designed for the coming versions, skill by skill.

Woodwork

Level	Opens
1	Trees, palms; rope and the staff at the boatyard	–
1	Use the old hatchet	Live · Tools I, v0.38
1	Cut tree	Live · Tools I, v0.38
2	Arrows and the woven vest	–
3	The boat	–
3	Use the machete	Live · Tools II, v0.41
4	Cut bamboo clump (with a parang)	Live · Tools II, v0.41
4	Make the prawn trap at the boatyard	Live · Tools II, v0.41
5	Use the iron hatchet	Live · Tools I, v0.38
5	Make the bamboo bow at the boatyard	Live · Tools II, v0.41
8	Cut rattan vine (with a parang)	Live · Tools II, v0.41
10	Cut meranti tree	Live · Tools II, v0.41
12	Use the steel hatchet	Live · Tools II, v0.41
12	Make the meranti handle at the boatyard	Live · Tools II, v0.41
20	Cut cengal tree	Live · Tools II, v0.41

Fishing

Level	Opens
1	Fishing spot (raw mackerel)	–
1	Use the old cast net	Live · Tools I, v0.38
5	Squid spot (raw squid)	–
5	Use the squid jig	Live · Tools I, v0.38
6	Use the cast net	Planned · Tools III
6	Make the cast net at a net rack	Planned · Tools III
8	Prawn spot (raw prawn)	–
8	Use the prawn trap	Live · Tools I, v0.38
12	Tuna spot (raw tuna)	–
12	Use the hand-line	Live · Tools I, v0.38
12	Make the hand-line at a net rack	Planned · Tools III
12	Set 2 prawn traps at once	Planned · Tools III
15	Use the big cast net	Planned · Tools III
15	Make the big cast net at a net rack	Planned · Tools III
18	Set 3 prawn traps at once	Planned · Tools III
25	Set 4 prawn traps at once	Planned · Tools III

Cooking

Level	Opens
1	Cook raw mackerel	–
5	Cook raw squid	–
6	Cook raw prawn	–
10	Cook raw tuna	–

Attack

Level	Opens
1	The staff	–
5	The parang, as a weapon	Live · Tools II, v0.41

Archery

Level	Opens
1	The bamboo bow	–
10	The horn bow	–