Utility skills

Utility Skills are useful for keeping the party equipped, happy, well fed and in general help the party to function as a whole. They are the skills used when you are at a campsite. These skills are used to guard the camp, keep your party well equipped, scout the area for resources or game and other tasks.

While visiting any camp site, the party can also use the support skills healing to cure injured hirdmen and witchcraft to produce medicine, which requires herbs.

• Armoursmithing (4 ranks)- Skill to craft armour and helmets during camp.
• Crafting (5 ranks) - The skill to craft weapons (including shields) during camp.
• Artisan (3 ranks) - Skill to add special abilities to the items made by crafting and armoursmithing.
• Constitution (1 rank) - Halves the risk to deteriorate after being injured
• Cooking (5 ranks) - Gives the party a chance to get bonuses when camping
• Diplomacy (5 ranks) - Unlocks special dialogue options
• Guarding (5 ranks) - Increases security when camping
• Heavy sleeper (1 rank) - The ability to become fully rested in 1 shift during camping
• Hunting (5 ranks) - The skill of bringing meat back to during camp
• Preserving (5 ranks) - Meat brought back to the camp must be preserved into rations to prevent it from spoiling
• Repairing (5 ranks) - The skill to repair damaged equipment and to improve recycling gains when recycling items.
• Scouting (5 ranks) - Ability to find useful things when camping
• Tinkering (5 ranks) - Skill that allows you to create items from minor resources which can only be used during combat.

The crafting skill and the tinkering skill are explained in greater detail on their own page.

Skills table

In the table below, you can find in detail what the effects are per rank when you invest in a rank of an utility skills and how much skill points it cost per rank and in total for each skill.

	Skill	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3	Rank 4	Rank 5
	Armour-smithing	Tier 1 armor	Tier 2 armor	Tier 3 armor	Tier 4 armor	Does not apply.
	Total: 44 SP	8 SP	10 SP	12 SP	14 SP
	Artisan	50%	75%	100%	Does not apply.
	Total: 21 SP	6 SP	6 SP	9 SP
	Crafting	Tier 1 weapons	Tier 2 weapons	Tier 3 weapons	Tier 4 weapons	Tier 5 weapons
	Total: 50 SP	6 SP	8 SP	10 SP	12 SP	14 SP
	Constitution	Halves deteriotation risk of wounds	Does not apply.
		3 SP
	Cooking	10% well fed, 10% chance you gain 1 ration.	20% well fed, 10% chance you gain 2 rations.	30% well fed, 10% chance you gain 3 rations.	40% well fed, 10% chance you gain 4 rations.	50% well fed, 10% chance you gain 5 rations.
	Total:	1 SP	2 SP	4 SP?	6 SP
	Diplomacy	You gain access to additional conversation options as you upgrade this skill.
	Total: 45 SP.	3 SP	6 SP	9 SP	12 SP	15 SP
	Guarding	22% guarding	44% guarding	64% guarding	84% guarding	95% guarding
	Total:	2 SP	4 SP	6 SP
	Heavy Sleeper	Only one shift needed to fully restore stamina of a character with this skill.
		10 SP	Does not apply.
	Hunting	Bring back 2-3 meat	Bring back 3-5 meat.	Bring back 5-6 meat.	Bring back 6-8 meat.	Bring back 8-9 meat.
	Total:	2 SP	4 SP	6 SP	8 SP
	Preserving	Preserve 1 meat.	Preserve 2 meat.	Preserve 3 meat.	Preserve 4 meat.	Preserve 5 meat.
	Total: 21	1 SP	2 SP	4 SP	6 SP	8 SP
	Repairing	Character can repair items, 10% more from recycling.	10% less resources repairing, 20% more from recycling.	20% less resources repairing, 30% more from recycling.	30% less resources repairing, 40% more from recycling.	40% less resources repairing, 50% more from recycling.
	Total:	2 SP	4 SP	6 SP	8 SP
	Scouting	22% chance	44% chance	64% chance	84% chance	95% chance
	Total:	2 SP	4 SP	6 SP
	Tinkering	Rank 1 items	Rank 2 items	Rank 3 items	Rank 4 items	Rank 5 items
	Total:	4 SP	6 SP?	8 SP?	10 SP