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 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	2	Harvest hundreds of grass	+400 grass for completing Faster Gathering
Knapping	5	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.

School of Architecture

Skill	cost
Bone Knapping	7 Animal Bones
Flint Knapping	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
Salvage Techniques	100 Candle
Structure Maintenance	4 Thermometer, 100 Sheet Glass
Structure Repair	60 Linen

School of the Human Body

Skill	cost
Carving	100 Wood
Cooperage	200 Bricks, 5 Canvas
Ecology	10 Tadpoles, 5 Flax, 1 Fertile Papyrus
Fly Fishing	100 Thread, 1 Sharpened Stick
Fungiculture	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

School of Natural Philosophy

Skill	cost
Conflict Shrine Construction	1 Oyster Shell Marble
Exploration Travel	2 Leather
Exploration Travel 1	7 Large Opal 7 Silk Cloth 100 Leather
Local Leadership	300 Bricks, 150 Boards
Navigation	50 Full Water Container
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
Kiln Construction 1	20 Bricks
Kiln Construction 2	400 Firebricks 20 Serpentine Marble 400 Cut Stone
Pottery	10 Clay
Project Management	2 Canvas, 6 Rope
Project Management 1	4 Canvas, 12 Rope
Salvage Techniques	20 Cuttable Garnet, 20 Cuttable Turquoise
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	100 Carrots, 100 Onions, 100 Leeks, 100 Garlic
Filleting	7 Slate Blade, 7 Phagrus Meat, 20 Common Basil
Fly Tying	100 Thread, 25 Thorns
Ploughing	(Must learn Ranching first) 100 Cabbage , 100 Carrot , 100 Cucumbers , 100 Leeks , 100 Onions , 100 Peppers , 100 Watermelons
Ritual Item Construction	10 Linen, 200 Firebricks, 100 Oil
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

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