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[[File:skills_preview.png|right]]Every character in RimWorld has a set of '''skills'''; these skills govern their effectiveness in the relevant tasks. A character may be unable to undertake certain work types due to [[backstories|backstory]] elements, and as such, the relevant skills will be disabled entirely, and show " - " under skills on the Bio tab. Experience points are gained by performing a relevant task or may be boosted by using a [[skilltrainer]].

== Learning skills ==
{{see also|Training}}
Skills are improved by performing associated work types or tasks, although some few related tasks do not provide experience.  Performing these tasks will earn the character '''experience points''' either per task completed or per second they are pursuing that task, which in turn will eventually ''level up'' the skills.  The resulting higher '''skill level''' then improves the performance in all associated tasks and types of work.  Skills are leveled up individually, and there is no single "character level" as in many role playing games.

In some cases, special management tactics can be employed to more effectively or specifically steer the skill training in the colony, especially during periods of low work in colony development.  See the [[Training|main article on skill training]] for more information.

=== Skills vs work types ===
Skills and work types (or "tasks") are two different, but related, concepts.  In some cases, like "mine" (work type) and "mining" (skill), there is an almost perfect correspondence, but in many other cases there is not: the ''work types'' "tailor" and "smith", for example, are associated with the ''crafting skill''.  Some tasks listed on the work tab do not even have an associated ''skill'' (eg. "haul", "clean" and "firefight").

The ''Work'' tab, where you assign tasks to colonists, indicates which skills are relevant for a given task (by mousing over a tick box).  It also shows you if the colonist has a ''passion'' for those skills (with an icon in the tick box), and if a significant proficiency has already been acquired (by emphasizing the tick box border).  Lower skill pawns have their work box darker, and higher skill pawns have it lighter. Extremely proficient pawns have a golden box. When assigning work to a pawn with low skill in a certain job, the box will have a red outline. Passions appear as extremely small flames at the bottom-right hand side of the work box. All these aspects are important for deciding how to assign tasks and types of work.

In general, you want a colonist to perform tasks they are ''good at'' (it is productive for your colony), as well as tasks they are ''passionate for'' (have them improve the associated skill and also keep them happy while working).

=== Improving skills ===
Skill levelling in ''RimWorld'' is very similar to many role playing games: ''experience points'' are constantly earned, and the skill is ''levelled up'' when certain thresholds are reached. Importantly, the effect of a skill improves ''by level'', but it costs more and more XP to gain another level in a skill.  This means that '''skill training is more effective the lower the skill level is.'''

When a player pawn gains a new level in a skill, a text mote will be displayed.

Experience points are generally gained at consistent rate per unit [[time]] - that is, while the rate may vary from one task to another, when performing a given task the only other factor is the time spent doing it.  As higher skill levels often increase the speed a pawn performs tasks, this means that more tasks must be performed to spend the same amount of time working and thus gain the same amount of XP. This is not true for all tasks however, and some will simply give a lump sum of experience for each task completed.

Regardless of how XP is gained, it is multiplied by Passion and [[Global Learning Factor]] in the following way:

<code>Real XP gained = Global Learning Factor x [[Skills#Passion|Passion Multiplier]] x Base XP gained </code>

==== Passion ====
Passion for a given skill is indicated by the presence of flame icons next to the skill experience bar on the character's ''Bio'' tab. These passions increases the rate at which a pawn learns the skill in question and provides them  with a substantial [[mood]] boost when performing activities related to the skill. There is absolutely no way to change a character's skill passions in the unmodified game.

Skill gains from using a [[skilltrainer]] are influenced by ''passion''.  This makes the item a lot more valuable when used by characters with a passion for the associated skill.

The three levels of passion are:

::'' '''None''''': Skills with no flames. This can be considered the default for a skill, and is the most common. Characters with no passion in a skill have a 35% multiplier on their experience gain.

[[File:PassionMinor.png|24px|left]] '''Interested''': Skills with one flame. Characters that are ''interested'' in a skill have a 100% multiplier on their experience gain and gain a +8 mood ("Minor passion for my work") while performing related tasks.

[[File:PassionMajor.png|24px|left]] '''Burning''': Skills with two flames. Characters with a ''burning'' passion for a skill have a 150% multiplier on their experience gain and gain +14 mood ("Burning passion for my work") while performing related tasks.{{Clear}}

====Global Learning Factor}====
{{See also|Global Learning Factor}}
While some [[traits]]  directly add or subtract from the skills of the pawn - such as [[Traits#Brawler|Brawler]] which increases the Melee skill by +4 and decreases Shooting skill by -4, others affect skill mechanics themselves. Most important to gaining skills are those that affect [[Global Learning Factor]] as this acts as a direct multiplier to experience gained. These traits include: 
* [[Traits#Too smart|Too Smart]] - which increases Global Learning Factor +75%, while also inflicting a penalty to [[mental break threshold]].
* [[Traits#Fast learner|Fast Learner]] - which increases Global Learning Factor +75%
* [[Traits#Slow learner|Slow Learner]] - which decreases Global Learning Factor -75%

Additionally, the [[learning assistant]] {{RoyaltyIcon}} implant increases Global Learning Factor +20%.

==== Experience multiplier table ====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Global Learning Factor !! 25% !! 45% !! 50% !! 70% !! 100% !! 120% !! 125% !! 145% !! 175% !! 195% !! 200% !! 220% !! 250% !! 270% !! 275% !! 295% 
|-
! ''None'' 
| {{#expr: 0.35* 25}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 45}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 50}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 70}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 100}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 120}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 125}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 145}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 175}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 195}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 200}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 220}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 250}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 270}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 275}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 295}}% 
|-
! [[File:PassionMinor.png|frameless]] 
| 25% || 45% || 50% || 70% || 100% || 120% || 125% || 145% || 175% || 195% || 200% || 220% || 250% || 270% || 275% || 295% 
|-
! [[File:PassionMajor.png|frameless]]  
| {{#expr: 1.5* 25}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 45}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 50}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 70}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 100}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 120}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 125}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 145}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 175}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 195}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 200}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 220}}% || {{#expr: 0.35* 250}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 270}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 275}}% || {{#expr: 1.5* 295}}% 
|}

=== Decay ===
Furthermore, there is another mechanic in play called ''decay'': starting at skill level 10, XP points are continuously drained away. A skill level is lost only after falling to 0 XP points and then losing a further 1000 points, preventing pawns from bouncing between levels when right around the threshold. Experience decay is an automatic mechanism and is independent of which and how many skills are used – not using or frequently using a skill (or other, unrelated skills) has no effect on the rate of decay, which only depends on the current skill level. Instead, gained XP simply cancels out loss and vice versa on a 1:1 basis.

The [[Traits#Great memory|Great Memory]] trait halves the skill decay rate for a pawn.

XP is lost at a faster and faster rate with higher skill levels.  This means that all XP earned after 55,000 total XP effectively has less value, especially for skills that a colonist does not use frequently, because it will disappear.  It becomes more and more expensive to even keep a master at his or her current level, let alone have them improve further.

As an example, consider that roughly 3,500 XP is lost per day by a colonist at skill level 20.  This usually means that the colonist would have to be applying that skill more or less ''continuously'' during her work hours in order to never lose level 20.  In most cases, XP is gained by ''time spent'' on a skill, and not by effective work performed!  Working faster does not make it easier or faster to gain XP, or compensate the decay loss.

So the higher you go, the harder it becomes to even maintain the current skill level.  This is why actual "legendary masters" are very rare, usually only achievable by colonists who are non-stop spamming a single ability (such as ''research'' or crafting artworks).

=== Skill point acquisition strategy ===
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The above implies that on average it is better to spread out the skill training over several colonists instead of having only one "expert", except for the artisan professions where it is usually good to have true experts in the colony.

For example, you need to acquire about 150,000 XP to make one colonist a "region-known master" (level 16); the same amount of XP would be enough to have ''three'' colonists at level 9 ("solid professional").  This avoids the risk of losing the only pawn that is capable of the task, and in most cases three level-9 workers are better than a single level-16 expert. Creating anything [[quality]] is a notable exception to this.

=== Experience table ===
Level 20 is the highest skill level achievable for a pawn.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Level
! Name
! Total experience required
! Experience till next level
! Experience decay rate (exp/day)
|-
| -
| Incapable
| -
| -
| -
|-
| 0
| Barely heard of it
| 0
| 1000
| 0
|-
| 1
| Utter Beginner
| 1000
| 2000
| 0
|-
| 2
| Beginner
| 3000
| 3000
| 0
|-
| 3
| Basic Familiarity
| 6000
| 4000
| 0
|-
| 4
| Some Familiarity
| 10000
| 5000
| 0
|-
| 5
| Significant Familiarity
| 15000
| 6000
| 0
|-
| 6
| Capable Amateur
| 21000
| 7000
| 0
|-
| 7
| Weak Professional
| 28000
| 8000
| 0
|-
| 8
| Employable Professional
| 36000
| 9000
| 0
|-
| 9
| Solid Professional
| 45000
| 10000
| 0
|-
| 10
| Skilled Professional
| 55000
| 12000
| 30
|-
| 11
| Very skilled Professional
| 67000
| 14000
| 60
|-
| 12
| Expert
| 81000
| 16000
| 120
|-
| 13
| Strong Expert
| 97000
| 18000
| 180
|-
| 14
| Master
| 115000
| 20000
| 300
|-
| 15
| Strong Master
| 135000
| 22000
| 540
|-
| 16
| Region-Known Master
| 157000
| 24000
| 840
|-
| 17
| Region-Leading Master
| 181000
| 26000
| 1200
|-
| 18
| Planet-Known Master
| 207000
| 28000
| 1800
|-
| 19
| Planet-Leading Master
| 235000
| 30000
| 2400
|-
| 20
| Legendary Master
| 265000
| 32000
| 3600
|}


== List of skills ==

Using or applying skills will give ''experience'' in the skill, and improve the character's proficiency.  How much experience is gained depends on the ''passion'' for the skill.  See [[Skills#Passion|passion]] below.

On this page, where experience gains are listed, an "Interested" passion with 100% skill gain is assumed.  Note that this is not the "default" passion; "no passion" at 35% gain is far more common.

=== Animals ===
{{For|a list of skills that animals can learn|Animals#Training}}
The ''animals'' skill determines how well a character handles wild and domesticated animals, and increases the chance to go undetected while ''hunting'' wild animals.

Higher ''animals'' skill has the following benefits:
* Chance to tame a wild animal increases.  Some animals can not even be attempted to be tamed if the ''animals'' skill is too low.
* Chance to successfully train a domesticated animal increases.
* Animal handling, such as ''milking'' and ''shearing'' certain livestock, becomes more efficient, with a lower chance of wasting products.
* Mastering an animal, as in having it follow you and obey your commands, becomes possible for more animal races.  The more ''wild'' a race is, the higher the ''animals'' skill required to be assigned its master.
* It becomes less likely for a colonist hunting an animal to be detected by the animal, and the animal retaliating.  It still requires ''shooting'' skill for the colonist to be able to kill the animal.
{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Animals]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Artistic ===
The ''artistic'' skill is the proficiency to create [[beauty|beautiful]] works of art at a [[sculptor's table]].  

Higher skill increases the chance for a higher quality, in this case more beautiful, sculpture. Note that higher skill levels do not increase the speed of creating sculptures.

The beauty and market value of sculptures increases tremendously at the highest quality levels.  Combined with the fact that trade partners pay more for works of art compared to other items, this makes ''artistic'' a useful skill outside of decorating the home base.

Not very useful in the early game, but once you have a well-established colony, having a permanent artist would be beneficial to it.

=== Construction ===
The ''construction'' skill governs a wide variety of colonist tasks, centered around creating structures in the game world; it is an essential skill in any colony:
* Making all kinds of structures, like furniture, walls, power lines and spaceship parts.  If a structure can be placed on the ground in form of a [[blueprint]], its construction is usually facilitated by this skill.  Many structures require a minimum skill to make.
* Deconstructing existing structures back into raw materials.
* Building and tearing down roofs.
* Laying and removing flooring, like carpet, concrete and stone tiles.
* Smoothing rock walls and stone floors.

Higher ''construction'' skill will
* allow the construction of more difficult to build structures.
* increase construction speed; the base speed at 0 construction skill is 50%, this is increased additively by 15% for every skill level.
* reduce the chance of a construction effort to be "botched", which will result in some resources going to waste, and require the construction effort to be restarted (ie. all work is wasted).  The base chance of success is 75%, increasing by about 3% per skill level to 100% at skill level 8.
* increase the chance to make higher quality items, for items that have a quality rating, such as furniture.

Construction outcomes are influenced by the [[manipulation]] and [[sight]] capacities of the colonist.

Experience is gained continuously while working on a construction project. At 100% work speed this seems to translate to roughly 82 experience per point of work required.

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Construction]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:20%">
'''Items with a required Construction skill level:'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{{#ask: [[Skill 1::Construction]]
| ?Skill 1 Level=Level
| sort = Skill 1 Level
| limit = 999
}}
</div>
</div>

=== Cooking ===
The cooking skill affects how long it takes to cook [[meals]] and butcher dead creatures, as well as the [[Food Poison Chance]] for the person who eats the meal. It also affects [[Butchery Speed]] and [[Butchery Efficiency]], how much meat is produced when butchering.

Cooking and butchering increase cooking skill.  It is also trained by making [[smokeleaf joint]]s at a drug lab.

A cooking skill of at least 6 is required to make a [[fine meal]].<br/>
A cooking skill of at least 10 is required to make a [[lavish meal]].

These additive increases are relative to a base value; that means each increase corresponds to a fixed amount.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Project
! Experience Given Per Task
|-
| Simple Meal
| 60
|-
| Fine Meal
| 110
|-
| Lavish meal
| 160
|-
| Pemmican
| 80
|}

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Cooking]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Crafting ===
Many work [[bills]] of the [[Menus#Smith|Smith]], [[Menus#Tailor|Tailor]] and [[Menus#Craft|Craft]] work types have a required minimum Crafting skill level, except cutting [[Stone Blocks]] or [[Electric smelter|Smelting]] which do not have a minimum required skill level. 

A pawn's Crafting skill is a driving factor in the [[Quality]] of produced [[Clothing]], [[Armor]], [[Neolithic Weapons|Neolithic weapons]], [[Weapons#Melee weapons|Melee weapons]], and [[guns]]. The speed of production for these tasks is unrelated to Crafting level, however, and is instead completely dependent on a pawn's [[Global Labor Speed]] and the amount of [[labor]] required for the bill. 

The Crafting skill determines the time it takes for a colonist to extract metal from slag and disassemble [[mechanoid]]s, and it also determines the amount of resources produced from these tasks.

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Crafting]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:20%">
'''Items with a required Crafting skill level:'''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{{#ask: [[Skill 1::Crafting]]
| ?Skill 1 Level=Level
| sort = Skill 1 Level
| limit = 999
}}
</div>
</div>

=== Medical ===
{{Main|Doctoring}}

The ''Medical'' skill level is the main factor for medical treatment quality and speed, surgery speed and surgery success chance. 

Low quality treatment will increase the chance of [[infection]], and the likelihood of permanent health conditions such as ''scars'', in turn leading to chronic pain.  Certain scars cause more than 10% pain, permanently weakening the ''consciousness'' of the patient, which reduces their work performance.

Medical ''surgery'', if not successful, can fail in minor or major ways, even causing the death of the patient.  The success rate is not only determined by the ''medical'' skill, but also other character stats like ''manipulation'', ''eye sight'' and ''consciousness''.  It is not advisable to let an incapacitated doctor perform surgery.

Higher grade [[medicine]] and medical equipment like [[hospital bed]]s and a [[sterile tile|sterile]] environment significantly boost the effectiveness of all medical treatments, independent of the skill level of the doctor.

Medical skill can be trained very quickly by performing euthanasia on fast-breeding animals such as chickens.  This costs 1 medicine per procedure, but only requires [[herbal medicine]].  The procedure can be scheduled in the respective animal's ''health'' tab, and an animal sleeping spot must be available to perform the euthanasia.

Performing ''surgery'' trains the ''medical'' skill.  The amount of XP that is awarded only depends on the duration of the procedure (varying by procedure and ''medical operation speed'' of the surgeon).

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Medical]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Melee ===
The melee skill determines a characters' effectiveness with [[melee weapons]] namely, their chance to:
* Land a hit in melee (''see [[Melee Hit Chance]]'')
* Dodge a melee attack, when not aiming or firing a ranged weapon (''see [[Melee Dodge Chance]]'')
The tables below are post-processed chances for a healthy pawn.

{{col-begin|width=60}}
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">'''Chance to hit'''</div>
{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
!Skill Level
!Standard
!Brawler
!Skill Level
!Standard
!Brawler
|-
!0
|50%
|62%
! -
| -
| -
|-
!1
|53%
|65%
!11
|81%
|85%
|-
!2
|56%
|68%
!12
|82%
|86%
|-
!3
|59%
|71%
!13
|83%
|87%
|-
!4
|62%
|74%
!14
|84%
|88%
|-
!5
|65%
|77%
!15
|85%
|89%
|-
!6
|68%
|80%
!16
|86%
|90%
|-
!7
|71%
|81%
!17
|87%
|90.3%
|-
!8
|74%
|82%
!18
|88%
|90.6%
|-
!9
|77%
|83%
!19
|89%
|90.9%
|-
!10
|80%
|84%
!20
|90%
|91.2%
|}

{{col-2|width=60}}
<div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">'''Chance to dodge'''</div>
{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
!Skill Level
!Standard
!Nimble
!Skill Level
!Standard
!Nimble
|-
!0
|0%
|20%
! -
| -
| -
|-
!1
|0%
|22%
!11
|12%
|33%
|-
!2
|0%
|24%
!12
|14%
|33.5%
|-
!3
|0%
|26%
!13
|16%
|34%
|-
!4
|0%
|28%
!14
|18%
|34.5%
|-
!5
|0%
|30%
!15
|20%
|35%
|-
!6
|2%
|30.5%
!16
|22%
|35.5%
|-
!7
|4%
|31%
!17
|24%
|36%
|-
!8
|6%
|31.5%
!18
|26%
|36.5%
|-
!9
|8%
|32%
!19
|28%
|37%
|-
!10
|10%
|32.5%
!20
|30%
|37.5%
|}
{{col-end}}

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Melee]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Mining ===
The mining skill determines how long it takes for a colonist to mine out each rock, and how much they can obtain from each mineral vein mined.

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Mining]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Intellectual ===
This skill affects the speed at which [[research]] is completed.

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Intellectual]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Plants ===
The plants skill affects how fast a colonist sows and harvests growing zones, hydroponics and flower pots, and how fast trees and other vegetation is cut down. It also influences how much a colonist [[Caravan#Foraging| forages]] while in a caravan. See [[Plant Work Speed]]
Each point increases speed by 11.5%.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Project
! Experience Given Per Task
|-
| Harvesting
| 50
|}

Some plants require a minimum plants skill in order to plant them:
{{#ask: [[Category:Plants]] [[Minimum Required Growing Skill::>1]]
| ?Minimum Required Growing Skill = Required skill |+align=center
| sort=Minimum Required Growing Skill
| order=asc
}}

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Plants]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Shooting ===
The shooting skill affects a character's [[Shooting Accuracy|accuracy]] with [[ranged weapons]].

The table below shows post-processed shooting accuracy per tile of distance for each skill level and trait combination, assuming the pawn is healthy:

{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
!Skill Level
!Standard
!Careful Shooter
!Trigger-Happy
!Skill Level
!Standard
!Careful Shooter
!Trigger-Happy
|-
!0
|89%
|94.5%
|84%
! -
| -
| -
| -
|-
!1
|91%
|95%
|85%
!11
|97.25%
|98.333%
|95%
|-
!2
|93%
|95.5%
|86%
!12
|97.5%
|98.5%
|95.5%
|-
!3
|93.5%
|96%
|87%
!13
|97.75%
|98.666%
|96%
|-
!4
|94%
|96.5%
|88%
!14
|98%
|98.833%
|96.5%
|-
!5
|94.5%
|97%
|89%
!15
|98.167%
|99%
|97%
|-
!6
|95%
|97.25%
|91%
!16
|98.333%
|99.125%
|97.25%
|-
!7
|95.5%
|97.5%
|93%
!17
|98.5%
|99.25%
|97.5%
|-
!8
|96%
|97.75%
|93.5%
!18
|98.666%
|99.313%
|97.75%
|-
!9
|96.5%
|98%
|94%
!19
|98.833%
|99.375%
|98%
|-
!10
|97%
|98.167%
|94.5%
!20
|99%
|99.438%
|98.167%
|}

Note that shooting accuracy for the pawn is calculated '''per tile''', meaning that while a trivial increase (like 1% or so) in shooting accuracy may not matter up close, it can make a huge difference in long distances.

For example:
*A colonist with shooting accuracy of 99% has a base accuracy of 72.5% against a target 32 tiles away.
*With 98% accuracy, the base accuracy against the same target becomes only 52.4%.

The base accuracy at various distances are listed when you check the information of a pawn. This can show the actual shooting performance of a pawn, especially at long ranges.

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Shooting]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

=== Social ===
The social skill affects the impact of social interactions on other characters' mood, the impact of gifts on faction relations, the recruitment chance for prisoners and trader prices.
A small amount of experience is gained every time two colonists have a social interaction with each other. Characters have a [[talking]] stat that somehow interacts with this skill

{{#ask:  [[Category:Stat]] [[Skill::Social]]
| ?Description
| ?Skill Base Factor=Base Factor
| ?Skill Bonus Factor=Bonus Factor
}}

== Version history ==
* [[Version/0.0.245|0.0.245]] - Skills now cap at 20. Added cooking, medicine, artistic, crafting but currently do nothing. Rebalanced shooting and melee to make skill more important. Shooting accuracy split into into misses due to equipment and misses due to skill.
* [[Version/0.2.363|0.2.363]] - High level skills now decay. Passions system added. 
* [[Version/0.9.722|0.9.722]] - Old pawns now tend to spawn with higher skills. Low skill cooks can now cause food poisoning.
* [[Version/0.10.785|0.10.785]] - Passion flames are now displayed subtly on the work overview screen. Reduced skill degradation rate. Reworked how skills generate so there will be more initial skill variation and age affect starting skills more.
* [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Animals skill added.
* [[Version/1.2.2753|1.2.2753]] - Pawns will now not lose their skill levels until they fall 1000 XP under zero. This stops pawns from quickly leveling up and down around a threshold.  We now display a text mote when a player pawn gains a new level in a skill.
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