Skills

Skills can be self-taught by doing activities, learned at Schools by paying tuition, or learned at Universities after the necessary Technology research completes. 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.

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✓
Relief Carving	25 Shabti Doll✓
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 0	200 Bricks, 5 Canvas ✓
Cooperage 1	up to: 200 Bricks, 10 Canvas, 10 Beeswax ✓
Cooperage 2	200 Saltpeter, 200 Sulfur, 20 Tar ✓
Cooperage 3	2 Brass Plate, 50 Copper Strap, 100 Boards ✓
Ecology 0	20 Dried Flax✓
Ecology 1	10 Tadpoles, 5 Flax, 1 Fertile Papyrus✓
Ecology 2	20 Cabbage Juice✓
Ecology 3	20 Charcoal, 10 Sulphurous Water✓
Ecology 4	20 Salt Water, 5 Copper Wire✓
Ecology 5	50 Buttermilk✓
Ecology 6	10 Papyrus Paper, 20 Cactus Sap✓ ?
Ecology 7	10 Carrot, 10 Onion, 10 Leek, 10 Cabbage, 10 Garlic, 10 Watermelon, 10 Pepper, 10 Cucumbers, 10 Eggplant✓
Fly Fishing	100 Thread, 1 Sharpened Stick✓
Fungiculture	Must learn Crossbreeding & 100 Compost✓
Indonesian Bee Care	500 Honey✓
Pilgrim Shrine Construction	1 Oyster Shell Marble , 1 Yellow Alabaster , 1 Mud Granite✓
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 (Skill)	300 Bricks, 150 Boards✓
Local Leadership 1 (Skill)	100 Full Water Container, 10 Leather (Also requires that you have reached Associate level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 2 (Skill)	50 Papyrus Paper (Also requires that you have reached Member level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 3 (Skill)	50 Gold (Also requires that you have reached Kinsman level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 4 (Skill)	10 Steel (Also requires that you have reached Fellow level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 5 (Skill)	100 Concrete (Also requires that you have reached Patriarch level for your faction)?
Local Leadership 6 (Skill)	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 Glass Worm, 7 White Mealybug, 7 Leafhopper, 7 Clearwing, 7 Desert Millipede, 7 Sand Mite, 7 Skinlicker✓
Fly Tying 2	14 Bristleworm, 14 Mud Asp, 14 Corn Maggot, 14 Snowberry Butterfly, 14 Woolly Aphid, 14 Camel Weevel, 14 Bat Mite✓
Fly Tying 3	21 Bloodworm, 21 Corkscrew Asp, 21 Dew Fly, 21 Fruit Maggot, 21 Grass Slug, 21 Hairy Slug, 21 Ringed Wasp✓
Fly Tying 4	28 Footworm, 28 Honey Fly, 28 Leaf Snapper, 28 Pickel Slug, 28 Red Cricket, 28 Ruby Hornborrer, 28 Stone Fly✓
Fly Tying 5	35 Nippleworm, 35 Clay Slug, 35 Spittlebug, 35 Orchid Hopper, 35 Horned Hookworm, 35 Salt Mite, 35 Rose Mite✓
Fly Tying 6	42 Ash Centipede, 42 Bloodworm, 42 Clay Slug, 42 Feather Midge, 42 Leaf Snapper, 42 Ruby Hornborrer, 42 Toad Sawfly?
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
Advanced Brick Fabrication	None✓, None✓	2
Automation	None✓, None?	2
Gearbox Design	None✓
Metal Treatment	None✓
Obelisk Construction	1-6: None✓, None?	7
Pyramid Construction	None✓
Steam Mechanics	None✓, None✓, None✓	3
Stonework	None✓, None✓, None✓, None?	4
Storage Improvements	None✓, None✓, None?	3
Structure Improvement	None✓, None✓, None✓, None✓	4
Wood Treatment	None✓

University of Art and Music

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

University of The Human Body

Skill	Tuition	Max level
Beer Brewing	None✓
Bonfire Stabilization	None✓
Dowsing	None✓
Perfuming	None✓, None✓	2
Prospecting	None✓
Pyrolysis	None✓, None✓, None✓	3

University of Natural Philosophy

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

University of Thought

Skill	Tuition	Max level
Alchemy	None?
Beekeeping	None✓, None✓, None✓	3
Chariot Repair	None✓, None✓, None?	3
Chemistry	None✓, None✓, None✓	3
Contest Organization	None✓
Crossbreeding	None?	2
Diplomacy	None✓
Distillation	None✓, None?	2
Herpeculture	None✓
Molecular Balance	None?
Neutralization	None✓
Offering Vault Construction	None✓
Structural Pottery	None✓
Toxin Extraction	None✓
Water Mining	None✓

University of Worship

Skill	Tuition	Max level	Notes
Ambrosia Brewing	None✓
Animal Husbandry	None✓, None✓, None?, None?	4
Avian Selection	None✓
Entomology	None✓, None✓, None?	3
Farming	None✓, None✓, None✓	3	Need Farming 2/2 to get barley seeds.
Gardening	None✓, None✓	2
Horticulture	None✓, None✓, None✓	3
Hydroponics	None✓
Myrmecology	None✓
Ranching	None✓, None✓	2
Viticulture	None✓

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
Camp Decoration	None?	From a Guild Hall?
Pyramid Construction	None?	From the Faction Great Hall?
Banner Construction	None?	From the Faction Great Hall?
Diplomacy	None?	From the Faction Great Hall?