Skills

Skills are enhancements that boost a player's effectiveness in doing certain tasks, such as shooting, sneaking, or resource gathering. Skills may be bought using experience points, which can be performed through various performing various feats. Without a skillset, it costs 3,350 experience to fully level every skill. Upon death, players lose a percentage of their skill levels and experience points. Players can specialize into select skills by choosing a non-civilian skillset.

Experience

Experience points (often abbreviated as exp or XP) are used to level up skills. They can be obtained from harvesting crops or resources; killing zombies, animals, or other players; destroying firing range targets; completing quests; or selling items to NPC vendors that barter with experience points. Players will lose a percentage of their experience points upon death, with the specific percentage depending on the difficulty settings. Unwanted experience can be stored in a Library for later use.

Some friendly NPC vendors will accept experience as currency.

Skills

Offense

Offense skills, symbolized by a sword, enhance the player's combat abilities. Many of the skills improve stamina or oxygen usage, granting greater movement capabilities.

Skill	Description	Per level experience (XP) cost and effect
Overkill	Punch and melee with greater force.
Sharpshooter	Stabilizes recoil and increases accuracy.
Dexterity	Quicker reloading and hammering.
Cardio	Quicker stamina and oxygen regeneration.
Exercise	Use less stamina and move faster.
Diving	Use less oxygen, swim faster and reduce scope sway.
Parkour	Jump higher with less stamina.

Defense

Defense skills, symbolized by a castle gate, primarily enhance attributes related to the player's status bars. An exception to this is the sneakybeaky skill, which improves a player's ability to move stealthily. None of the defense skills improve stamina or oxygen efficiency, which are instead offense skills.

Skill	Description	Per level experience (XP) cost and effect
Sneakybeaky	Move quietly and alert less zombies when crouched or prone.
Vitality	Quicker health regeneration with full food and water.
Immunity	Immune to bacteria, zombies and hallucinations.
Toughness	Less flinching and pain effects.
Strength	Quicker bleeding and bone healing, less fall damage.
Warmblooded	Protected from the cold, use less calories warming up.
Survival	Use less food and water.

Support

Support skills, symbolized by a heart, offer a wide range of enhancements to the player's ability perform specific tasks that allow them to survive and adapt in the apocalypse. Support skills primarily focus on crafting and base building.

Skill	Description	Per level experience (XP) cost and effect
Healing	Use healing items more efficiently.
Crafting	Think up more advanced blueprints.
Outdoors	Chop down trees faster and recover more resources.
Cooking	Prepare high quality food.
Fishing	Catch fish more efishiently.
Agriculture	Harvest crops and plants more efficiently.
Mechanic	Repair bases and vehicles more efficiently.
Engineer	Maintain more advanced blueprints.

Random boost

Players can spend experience (25 XP) to acquire a random boost. Only a single random boost can be used at a time, and spending experience on a new random boost will replace the previous one. The boost acquired is random, with each boost having an equal chance of being acquired. If the player already has a random boost, the player cannot get that same boost multiple times consecutively. Attempting to acquire a new boost will always give different boost than the one currently held.

Skill	Description	Effect
Hardened	Reduced damage from zombies.	+25% zombie damage endurance
Splatterific	Extra blood splatter decals.	+700% blood
Flight	Ragdolls and carjacks gain extra velocity.	+700% ragdoll/carjack velocity
Olympic	Throw objects further.	+100% thrown velocity

Random boosts are always lost on death.

Skillsets

Skillsets grant the player the ability to retain select skills on death, and reduced experience costs to level up these skills. In a single-player world, they also provide themed clothing upon spawning. In addition to themed clothing items, skillsets may have symbolic items as well. These symbolic items are not granted upon spawning in a single-player world, and are only seen on the player while in the main menu.

In a multiplayer world, servers can assign their own unique loadouts to each skillset. Servers can assign a loadout to every player, regardless of their skillset, by referencing the ID for "All Skillsets" instead.

Icon	Skillset	Clothing	Skills	Symbolic items	ID
n/a	Civilian	模板:Hlist	n/a	n/a	0
fire	Firefighter	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	Fire Axe	1
star	Police Officer	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	2
reticle	Spec Ops	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	3
plant	Farmer	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	4
hook	Fisher	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	n/a	5
tree	Lumberjack	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	Camp Axe	6
hammer	Worker	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	Hammer	7
meat	Chef	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	8
mask	Thief	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	9
heart	Doctor	模板:Hlist	模板:Hlist	n/a	10
n/a	All Skillsets	n/a	n/a	n/a	255

Before the introduction of skillsets, players could choose a skill tree to specialize in. Players could specialize in the offense, defense, or support skill trees. The player's specialty would prevent them from losing any of their skill tree's associated skills on death.

Trivia

• Overkill is the only skill that is not tied to any skillset.
• The Overkill, Sharpshooter, and Healing skills increment by ~7.14% rounded to the nearest whole number, leading to the 8% jump between levels 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn.
• The Sneakybeaky skill increments by ~10.71% rounded to the nearest whole number, leading to the 10% jump between levels 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn, and 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn.
• The Agriculture skill increments its harvest chance effect by ~14.29% rounded to the nearest whole number, leading to the 15% jump between levels 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn, and 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn. Meanwhile, harvest speed increments by ~3.6% truncated, which causes the 3% jump between levels 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn, and 模板:Rn and 模板:Rn, and is the reason by the level 模板:Rn bonus is 3% rather than 4%.
• The description for the Fishing skill includes an intentional wordplay and typo on the word "efficiently", spelt instead as "efishiently".