You get 10 skill points to allocate to 5 core survival skills. Assigning a minimum of 2 points to a skill ensures there is no penalty or bonus to performing that specific skill. Each point above or below 2 starts to apply a 5% penalty or bonus per point.
Example: 4 points assigned to Hunting, 1 point assigned to Fishing. Hunting receives a 10% bonus toward tracking and encountering an animal, as well as to the chance of a shot succeeding. Fishing receives a 5% penalty toward finding the right spot to encounter fish, as well as a 5% penalty toward successfully reeling in a catch.
Hunting
Determines your prowess with a bow, dictating how easily you find prey and how lethal your aim is when you do.
- Adjusts your chances of tracking and encountering an animal.
- Adjusts your chance of a successful shot with your bow.
Trapping
Masters your command of the silent harvest, dictating how effectively you read animal trails and the likelihood of your traps securing a kill.
- Adjusts the chance that a set trap will be successful.
Fishing
Refines your technique with a fishing line, dictating how effectively you read the water and how likely you are to land a catch once it bites.
- Adjusts your chances of identifying a good spot to encounter fish.
- Adjusts your chance of successfully landing a caught fish.
Foraging
Sharpens your senses in the undergrowth, controlling how easily you spot hidden resources and the quality of the materials you gather.
- Adjusts your chances of identifying good locations to forage.
Bushcraft
Governs your survival skills across multiple areas, dictating how effectively you manage resources and the success of your wilderness tasks.
- Adjusts the difficulty of successfully gathering kindling.
- Adjusts the difficulty of building and insulating a shelter.
- Adjusts the difficulty of starting a fire.
- Adjusts the quantity of meat saved when processing an animal.
- Adjusts the difficulty of collecting foraged items.