Skills

Skills can be self-taught by doing activities, learned at Schools by paying tuition, or learned at Universities after your faction completes the necessary Technology research donations. Some of the skills learned at Schools or at Universities may also be advanced by doing activities.

The skills listed on this page are those which are advanced by doing activities, or those skills which contribute new functionality to the action skills. For a complete listing of skills purchased from Schools and their tuition requirements, see School Skills.

School Skills

Multi-School Skills

Degrees in the following skills may be purchased from multiple schools, in any order, but only one degree at each level indicated.

• Desiccation
• Salvage Techniques
• Structure Maintenance
• Structure Repair

School of Architecture

Skill	Cost
Bone Knapping	must have Knapping skill level 5 & 7 Animal Bones✓
Flint Knapping	must have Knapping skill level 2 & 7 Flint✓
Salvage Techniques	200 Firebricks✓
Structure Maintenance	20 Oil✓
Structure Repair	14 Pulley✓
Rocks of the Ages	10 Slate (Requires Perception 1+ depending on Decorative Stone attunement, Can be repeated)?

School of Art and Music

Skill	Cost
Desiccation	Must learn Chemistry 1 & 5 Salt, 1 Huge Topaz?
Salvage Techniques	100 Candle✓
Structure Maintenance	4 Thermometer, 100 Sheet Glass✓
Structure Repair	60 Linen✓
The Art of the Pipe	Must learn Glassblowing 2 & 7 Fine Glass Rods?

School of the Human Body

Skill	Cost
Beer Brewing Automation 0	Must learn Beer Brewing Science & 100 Candle, 5 Rope?
Beer Brewing Automation 1	250 Candle, 15 Rope?
Beer Brewing Automation 2	500 Candles, 40 Rope?
Beer Brewing Automation 3	1000 Candles, 70 Rope?
Beer Brewing Automation 4	25 Glass Rods?
Carving	100 Wood✓
Cooperage	200 Bricks, 5 Canvas ✓
Ecology 0	10 Tadpoles, 5 Flax, 1 Fertile Papyrus✓
Ecology 1	20 Cabbage Juice✓
Ecology 2	20 Dried Flax✓
Ecology 3	50 Buttermilk✓
Ecology 4	10 Papyrus Paper, 20 Cactus Sap?
Ecology 5	20 Charcoal, 10 Sulphurous Water?
Ecology 6	5 Copper Wire, 20 Salt Water?
Fly Fishing	100 Thread, 1 Sharpened Stick✓
Fungiculture	Must learn Crossbreeding & 100 Compost?
Indonesian Bee Care	500 Honey✓
Salvage Techniques	1000 Charcoal✓
Structure Maintenance	300 Linen, 300 Canvas✓
Structure Repair	200 Cut Stone, 200 Beeswax, 200 Charcoal✓
Swimming	10 Linen (Egypt must unlock Test of the Oyster Catcher)✓

School of Natural Philosophy

Skill	Cost
Conflict Shrine Construction	1 Oyster Shell Marble✓
Exploration Travel 0	2 Leather✓
Exploration Travel 1	7 Large Opal 7 Silk Cloth 100 Leather✓
Local Leadership 0	300 Bricks, 150 Boards✓
Local Leadership 1	100 Full Water Container, 10 Leather (Also requires that you have reached Associate level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 2	50 Papyrus Paper (Also requires that you have reached Member level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 3	50 Gold (Also requires that you have reached Kinsman level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 4	10 Steel (Also requires that you have reached Fellow level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 5	100 Concrete (Also requires that you have reached Patriarch level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 6	10 Island Blue Marble (Also requires that you have reached Elder level for your faction)?
Navigation 0	50 Full Water Container✓
Navigation 1	20 Glass Rods✓
Navigation 2	25 Copper?
Navigation 3	50 Papyrus Paper?
Navigation 4	6 Silk Cloth?
Navigation 5	1 Large Sapphire?
Navigation 6	7 Huge Topaz?
Salvage Techniques	200 Cut Stone, 100 Clay, 2 Oyster Shell Marble, 4 Canary Granite✓
Structure Maintenance	2 Iron Large Gear, 80 Leather ✓
Structure Repair	300 Paper (Papyrus), 300 Flint✓

School of Thought

Skill	Cost
Desiccation	Must learn Chemistry 1 & 20 Sulphurous Water, 1 Huge Quartz?
Kiln Construction 0-1	20 Bricks✓
Kiln Construction 2	200-400 Firebricks 10-20 Serpentine Marble 50-400 Cut Stone✓
Mechanics 1	Must learn Automation & 10 Washer, 10 Bolt, 2 Electrum Small Gear, 1 Aluminum Medium Gear?
Mechanics 2	49 Sulfuric Acid?
Pottery	10 Clay✓
Project Management 0	2 Canvas, 6 Rope✓
Project Management 1	4 Canvas, 12 Rope✓
Project Management 2	200 Canvas, 300 Glass Rods, 100 Rope, 300 Paper (Papyrus)✓
Salvage Techniques	20 Cuttable Garnet, 20 Cuttable Turquoise✓
Scrying	Must learn Alchemy & 1 Cut Garnet:Full Eye, 1 Cut Turquoise:Full Eye, 1 Cut Amethyst:Full Eye, 1 Cut Lapis:Full Eye?
Structure Maintenance	300 Bricks, 50 Oil, 50 Beeswax✓
Structure Repair	2 Oyster Shell Marble, 20 Cuttable Jade, 200 Bricks✓

School of Worship

Skill	Cost
Arthropodology	50 Dirt, 50 Tadpoles, 50 Beeswax, 50 Cactus Sap, 50 Dung, 50 Thorns✓
Cheese Making	10 Salt, 10 Cow Milk✓
Cooking 0	100 Carrots, 100 Garlic, 100 Leeks, 100 Onions✓
Cooking 1	20 Common Rosemary, 20 Common Sage, 20 Thyme✓
Cooking 2	50 Cabbage, 49 Salt✓
Cooking 3	7 Camel's Mane, 7 Cobra Hood, 7 Dead Tongue, 7 Iron Knot, 7 Peasant's Foot, 7 Schizophyllum, 7 Toad Skin?
Cooking 4	7 Chukkah, 7 Crimson Lettuce, 7 Crumpled Leaf Basil, 7 Dwarf Wild Lettuce, 7 Jaivanti, 7 Royal Rosemary, 7 Wild Garlic?
Cooking 5	100 Peppers, 100 Cucumbers, 100 Eggplant, 100 Coconut Meat?
Cooking 6	100 Barley (Burnt), 100 Malt (Burnt), 100 Wheat (Burnt)?
Desiccation	Must learn Chemistry 1 & 50 Salt Water, 1 Huge Ruby?
Filleting 0	7 Slate Blade, 7 Phagrus Meat, 20 Common Basil✓
Filleting 1	3 Fish Roe, 70 Carp Meat, 25 Salt, 77 Glass Jars✓
Filleting 2	7 Fish Roe, 105 Perch Meat, 21 Salt Water Fungus, 17 Thermometer?
Filleting 3	14 Fish Roe, 140 Catfish Meat, 35 Ginseng Root, 119 Gold Wire?
Filleting 4	21 Fish Roe, 175 Tilapia Meat, 42 Heaven's Torrent Mushrooms, 250 Powdered Diamond?
Filleting 5	42 Fish Roe, 210 Chromis Meat, 50 Myrrh, 100 Powdered Sunstone?
Filleting 6	105 Fish Roe, 245 Abdju Meat, 7 Cyan Cressida, 70 Oyster Shell Marble Dust?
Fly Tying 0	100 Thread, 25 Thorns✓
Fly Tying 1	7 Bristleworm, 7 Mud Asp, 7 Leaf Snapper, 7 Clearwing, 7 Red Cricket, 7 Slime Moth, 7 Bat Mite✓
Fly Tying 2	14 Bristleworm, 14 Hairy Slug, 14 Red Cricket, 14 Rose Swallowtail, 14 Slime Moth, 14 White Mealybug, 14 Woodmoth?
Fly Tying 3	21 Camel Weevel, 21 Corkscrew Asp, 21 Footworm, 21 Fruit Maggot, 21 Horned Hookworm, 21 Rose Mite, 21 Spittlebug?
Fly Tying 4	28 Oyster Mite, 28 Blister Beetle, 28 Corn Maggot, 28 Orchid Hopper, 28 Ringed Wasp, 28 Sand Mite, 28 Bat Mite?
Fly Tying 5	35 Glass Worm, 35 Grass Slug, 35 Leafhopper, 35 Nightwing, 35 Queen Maggot, 35 Skinlicker, 35 Woolly Aphid?
Fly Tying 6	42 Ash Centipede, 42 Bloodworm, 42 Clay Slug, 42 Feather Midge, 42 Leaf Snapper, 42 Ruby Hornborrer, 42 Toad Sawfly?
Pilgrim Shrine Construction	??? & 1 Oyster Shell Marble , 1 Yellow Alabaster , 1 Mud Granite?
Ploughing	Must learn Ranching & 100 Onions, 100 Carrots, 100 Leeks, 100 Cabbage, 100 Watermelon, 100 Peppers, 100 Cucumbers✓
Preservation	??? & 50 Papyrus Paper?
Ritual Item Construction 0	10 Linen, 200 Firebricks, 100 Oil✓
Ritual Item Construction 1	14 Candle, 50 Silver✓
Salvage Techniques	300 Leather, 300 Glass Rods, 300 Papyrus Paper✓
Structure Maintenance	4 Mud Granite, 4 Rose Alabaster✓
Structure Repair	1 Huge Emerald, 1 Large Topaz, 1 Medium Ruby, 1 Small Sapphire✓

University Skills (aka Technologies)

University of Architecture

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Advanced Brick Fabrication		2
Automation		2
Gearbox Design
Metal Treatment
Obelisk Construction		7
Steam Mechanics		3
Stonework		4
Storage Improvements		3
Structure Improvement
Wood Treatment

University of Art and Music

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Blacksmithing	None	3
Crystal Acoustics	None
Flax Automation	None
Glassblowing	None	2
Lapidary	None	3
Mortar Construction	None
Raeli Pottery
Taxidermy
The Science of Color	None	3

University of The Human Body

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Beer Brewing	None
Bonfire Stabilization	None
Dowsing	None
Perfuming	None	2
Pyrolysis	None	3

University of Natural Philosophy

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Casting	None	2
Chariot Repair		3
Deep Well Construction
Gear Casting		3
Marble Mechanics		2
Metallurgy	None	9
Mining	None	4
Minting
Papyrus Paper Fabrication
Printing
Shipwright	4 Tar	6
Sign Construction	None	4
Trading
Wood Paper Manufacture

University of Thought

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Alchemy
Beekeeping	None	3
Chemistry	None	3
Contest Organization
Crossbreeding		2
Distillation		2
Herpeculture
Molecular Balance
Neutralization	None	1
Offering Vault Construction
Structural Pottery
Toxin Extraction
Water Mining

University of Worship

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Ambrosia Brewing
Animal Husbandry	None	4
Avian Selection
Entomology	None	3
Farming	None	3
Gardening		2
Horticulture	None	2
Hydroponics
Myrmecology
Ranching	None	2
Viticulture

Miscellaneous Skills

Self-Taught Skills

These skills are initially learned through your own actions (mostly during or shortly after Passage to Egypt) rather than being learned from Schools or Universities. Additional levels are reached through using the skill and, in some cases, additional levels are made available through purchase from Schools and research of Technologies at Universities.

Skill	How initially acquired	Max Level	Notes
Botany	Examine a plant after reaching Egypt	2
Brick Making	New Beginnings Task	3
Carpentry	New Beginnings Task	4
Clothwork	New Beginnings Task	3
Flax Processing	New Beginnings Task	3
Grass Harvesting	New Beginnings Task	6
Knapping	New Beginnings Task	10	Flint Knapping required to go from level 2 to 3, Bone Knapping required to go from level 5 to 6
Milking Techniques	Milk a Cow (Percentage chance to acquire)	5

Other

Skill	Tuition	How initially acquired	Notes
Camp Decoration		From a Guild Hall
Pyramid Construction		From the Faction Great Hall	?
Banner Construction		From the Faction Great Hall
Diplomacy		From the Faction Great Hall	?