School 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.

This page covers self-taught skills and skills learned at Schools. Skills learned at Universities may be found on the Technologies page.

Self-Taught Skills

These skills are learned through your own actions (mostly during or shortly after Passage to Egypt) rather than being learned from Schools or Universities.

Skill	Max level	Action(s) to improve	Notes
Botany	2	Level 1: Identify 25 plants/trees; Level 2: Harvest or eat from the ground: 5800 herbs
Brick Making	2	Make hundreds of bricks Level 1: Make firebricks. Level 2: Make wet clay bricks
Carpentry	4	Make hundreds of boards, Slate Shovels, Heavy mallets, Sledgehammers, Scythes, Deckles, Iron shovels, Storage baskets
Clothwork	3	Make items on a Loom, or spin Twine into Rope
Flax Processing	3	Process Rotten Flax in a Flax Comb
Grass Harvesting	25	Harvest hundreds of grass	+400 grass for completing Faster Gathering
Knapping	57	Make Slate Blade

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✓
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 400 Concrete?
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✓
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 49 Sulfuric Acid?
Salvage Techniques	100 Candle✓
Silkworm Farming	500 Honey?
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 know 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✓
Botanical Identification 1	10 Cobra Hood Mushrooms, 10 Toad Skin Mushrooms, 10 Camels Mane Mushrooms, 10 Dead Tongue Mushrooms, 10 Acorn's Cap Mushrooms, 10 Bleeding Hand Mushrooms?
Botanical Identification 2	15 Fish Hook Mushrooms, 15 Hairy Tooth Mushrooms, 15 Slave's Bread Mushrooms, 15 Nefertari's Crown Mushrooms, 15 Ra's Awakening Mushrooms, 15 Earth Light Mushrooms?
Botanical Identification 3	20 Cat Nip Mushrooms, 20 Peasant's Foot Mushrooms, 20 Scorpion's Brood Mushrooms, 20 Heart of Ash Mushrooms, 20 Colt's Foot Mushrooms, 20 Heaven's Torrent Mushrooms?
Botanical Identification 4	25 Beehive Mushrooms, 25 Falcon's Bait Mushrooms, 25 Razor's Edge Mushrooms, 25 Salt Water Fungus Mushrooms, 25 Eye of Osiris Mushrooms, 25 Dueling Serpents Mushrooms?
Botanical Identification 5	30 Brain Mushrooms, 30 Sun Star Mushrooms, 30 Sand Spore Mushrooms, 30 Spiderling Mushrooms, 30 Golden Sun Mushrooms, 30 Nile Fire Mushrooms?
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, 10 Salt Water✓
Fly Fishing	100 Thread, 1 Sharpened Stick
Fungiculture	must know Crossbreeding & 100 Compost
Indonesian Bee Care	500 Honey
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 300 Malt (Raw), 300 Malt (Burnt)?
Salvage Techniques	1000 Charcoal
Structure Maintenance	300 Linen, 300 Canvas
Structure Repair	200 Cut Stone, 200 Beeswax, 200 Charcoal
Swimming	10 Linen (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)?
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 1000 Gold Wire?
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 200 Rope, 200 Slate?
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✓
Trading	??

School of Thought

Skill	Cost
Desiccation	Chemistry 1, 20 Sulphurous Water, 1 Huge Quartz✓
Eastern Meditation 1 (2 hours)	100 Bricks, 6 Cut Stone, 10 Concrete, 1 Dalessi Cut Citrine, 1 Orange Sweetgrass?
Eastern Meditation 2 (6 hours)	200 Bricks, 12 Cut Stone, 20 Concrete, 2 Dalessi Cut Citrine, 2 Orange Sweetgrass?
Eastern Meditation 3 (1 day)	400 Bricks, 24 Cut Stone, 40 Concrete, 4 Dalessi Cut Citrine, 4 Orange Sweetgrass?
Eastern Meditation 4 (3 days)	800 Bricks, 72 Cut Stone, 120 Concrete, 12 Dalessi Cut Citrine, 7 Orange Sweetgrass?
Kiln Construction 0-1	20 Bricks✓
Kiln Construction 2	0-400 Firebricks 0-20 Serpentine Marble 0-400 Cut Stone✓
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 10 Cuttable Amethyst, 10 Cuttable Garnet, 10 Cuttable Lapis, 10 Cuttable Turquoise?
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	must known Milking Techniques & 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 & 10 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 Deadwood Tree, 70 Oyster Shell Marble Dust
Fly Tying 0	100 Thread, 25 Thorns✓
Fly Tying 1	7 Bat Mite, 7 Dew Fly, 7 Glass Worm, 7 Orchid Hopper, 7 Pickel Slug, 7 Ringed Wasp, 7 Salt Mite?
Fly Tying 2	14 Footworm, 14 Corkscrew Asp, 14 Corn Maggot, 14 Fruit Maggot, 14 Red Cricket, 14 Sand Mite, 14 Rose Mite?
Fly Tying 3	21 Bloodworm, 21 White Mealybug, 21 Rose Swallowtail, 21 Clearwing, 21 Golden Asp, 21 Slime Moth, 21 Toad Sawfly?
Fly Tying 4	28 Bristleworm, 28 Mud Asp, 28 Leaf Snapper, 28 Woodmoth, 28 Woolly Aphid, 28 Camel Weevel, 28 Hairy Slug?
Fly Tying 5	35 Nippleworm, 35 Blister Beetle, 35 Leafhopper, 35 Snowberry Butterfly, 35 Ash Centipede, 35 Feather Midge, 35 Skinlicker?
Fly Tying 6	42 Needleworm, 42 Clay Slug, 42 Raspberry Moth, 42 Nightwing, 42 Horned Hookworm, 42 Grass Slug, 42 Stone Fly?
Mechanics	must learn Automation & 1 Huge Sapphire, 1 Large Emerald, 1 Medium Diamond, 1 Small Topaz?
Pilgrim Shrine Construction	1 Oyster Shell Marble , 1 Yellow Alabaster , 1 Mud Granite?
Ploughing	must know Ranching & 100 Cabbage, 100 Carrot, 100 Cucumbers, 100 Leeks, 100 Onions, 100 Peppers, 100 Watermelons✓
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✓