Skufy Skills

16 skills, 287 perks, 534 ranks. Every skill levels up by doing it: hunting from hunting, building from building, medicine from healing. A skill level gives a point, the point goes into a perk rank in that skill's tree. A new character starts weaker than vanilla and gets stronger with every perk. Skufy series UI, in Russian and English. The experience is counted by the server.

How it works

1. Just play: hunt, build, heal, run, shoot.
2. Every action gives experience to its skill — a small bar over the quickbar shows "+24 · hunting · 62 % to lv. 15".
3. A new skill level — a notification and one point for that skill's tree.
4. Open the menu (B) and put the point into a perk: a weakness goes, a bonus comes.

16 skills — 3 branches each

• Strength — porter, fist, tough body
• Endurance — running, breathing, agility
• Marksman — stability, control, lethality
• Gunsmith — care, workshop, ammo
• Medicine — first aid, surgery, immunity
• CBRN — filters, resistance, liquidator
• Hunting — game killer, butchering, bow and traps
• Fishing — catching, tackle, trade
• Survival — fire and cold, food and water, camp
• Builder — carpenter, fortification, foreman
• Crafting — sewing, making, repair
• Mechanic — repair, driver, parts
• Cook — kitchen, meal, preserves
• Farmer — beds, harvest, seeds
• Gatherer — woodcutter, stonemason, nature
• Stealth — silence, shadow, assassin

A weak beginner

• Heavy things — 0 kg: no barrel, crate, chest or wheel in hands until the Strong back perk
• Stamina — running, swimming and ladders cost 30 % more, the stamina pool is 85 %
• Butchering — 1.5 times longer, the knife dulls faster
• Building — flag, crate, barbed wire, gates, watchtower and metal are locked until the Builder perks
• Medicine — blood test, IV, transfusion and defibrillator are for medics only
• Hunting — bow, arrows, snares and tanning are locked until the Hunting perks
• 90 weaknesses in 15 skills of 16. Any of them can be changed in the admin panel, all of them turned off with one switch: then the start is vanilla and perks only add

What perks give — examples

• Sharp knife — butchering 30 % faster, Butcher — +30 % meat from a carcass, Clean hands — butchering without blood
• Hercules — another +40 kg of heavy lifting, Berserker — +40 % melee damage below half health
• Second wind — once every 5 minutes, when stamina runs out, 50 % comes back at once
• Sniper — a 50 % chance to kill an infected with one headshot
• Master gunsmith — weapons repaired to pristine
• Resuscitator — the defibrillator, Healer — +10 health when you bandage someone else
• Fisherman's luck — a 10 % chance to pull out two fish at once
• Ace driver — in crashes you and your passengers take 50 % less damage
• Fire master — while you are near, food on the fire does not burn
• Silent kill — a chance to kill an unaware infected with one hit
• A perk has 1 to 5 ranks, every rank stronger than the one before

Experience

• 78 sources — from butchering a carcass and building a base part to kilometres behind the wheel and a blood transfusion
• Repetitive actions have an XP cap per minute
• 15 to 40 levels per skill, one point for every level
• Multipliers: a global one, one per skill and a book boost
• Death never takes levels; an XP loss inside the level can be switched on in the admin panel
• Point reset of a skill — once every 24 hours, with a double click

5 XP books

• Wilderness survival — survival, gatherer, farmer, cook
• Field medicine — medicine, CBRN
• Hunter and angler — hunting, fishing
• Recruit's course — strength, endurance, marksman, stealth
• Craftsman's manual — builder, crafting, mechanic, gunsmith
• Reading takes 8 seconds: +50 XP at once and XP x2 for 60 minutes, the book is used up, the same book again in 30 minutes
• The books spawn as loot, Skufy_Skills_types.xml is included

Menu — the B key

• OVERVIEW — all 16 skills: level, XP, free points, how many perks are learned and how many weaknesses are left
• Skill tree — three branches by tiers; hover a perk to see what it gives now and at the next rank and what it needs
• A click selects a perk, a double click learns it
• XP FROM — which actions level the skill, SKILL EFFECTS — the current values: red is worse than vanilla, green is better
• Notifications about a new level, a learned perk and skill masters

Admin panel — 7 tabs

The ADMIN PANEL button at the bottom of the menu, visible to admins only. Changes reach every player at once, no restart.

• GENERAL — XP multiplier, weaknesses on / off, XP loss on death, reset every N hours, perks in PvP, "heavy" and "never heavy" classes, admins
• SKILLS — skill on / off, max level, XP curve, points at the start and per level, XP multiplier
• PERKS — perk on / off, values of 1–5 ranks, the skill level of every rank, a preview of the player's texts
• WEAKNESSES — the start value of every effect (100 % is vanilla)
• XP — all 78 sources: on / off, XP per action, cap per minute
• BOOKS — the book's skills, boost, minutes, instant XP, whether the book is used up, cooldown
• PLAYERS — search, online and offline players; ±1 level, +500 XP, maximum, reset, give a book boost
• Everything back to defaults — with a double click