Skills

Player characters in Abiotic Factor have a variety of Skills levels. The player skills can be found in the My Stats tab of the player menu (shortcut key K). The player can level up their skills by acquiring XP (experience points) when doing actions specific for each skill.

XP gain can be increased or decreased through certain effects, such as the Wrinkly Brainmeat Trait. XP gain bonuses stack with each other (ex. if you have two 20% bonuses and gain 1XP, the first buff will apply then the second buff will apply to the new value for 1.44XP total (1*1.2*1.2)).

They are grouped in three categories: Fitness, Combat, and Crafting. These categories appear to be only visual and don't affect the skill themselves.

All skills have discrete levels, which are completed once a certain XP requirement is met. The requirements change on each level, but are the same for all skills.

XP requirements for each Skill level

Level	Required XP
1	200
2	500
3	940
4	1572
5	2464
6	3699
7	5379
8	7587
9	10417
10	13950
11	18242
12	23307
13	29101
14	35776
15	43310

The Skills screen uses pill-shaped boxes with different colors indicating each state:

• Blue-filled levels indicate they are reached
• Yellow-filled levels are in progress, but not reached yet
• Black levels are not reached nor in progress

When reaching some skill levels, the player learns new abilities and passive effects. These levels are identified by an icon and a tooltip when hovered by the mouse.

The maximum level has changed over the course of early access. The max level was 12 in 0.8.0 (early access launch), which was raised to 15 in 0.9.0 (Crush Depth). A bug allows for guest players on multiplayer servers to continue earning XP beyond the intended maximum, up to 20.

Fitness

Sprinting

Each Sprinting level increases your total stamina by a small amount. XP is primarily gained by sprinting over long distances.

Each level increases max stamina by 2 and sprinting speed by 1%.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
5	Athletic	You have a chance to not lose stamina for any action that would normally use stamina.
10	Lightspeed	Along with your passive gains, you sprint 5% faster overall.
15	Red Shift	While sprinting, enemies are more likely to miss when targeting you.

Strength

Each Strength level increases your total carrying capacity and eventually unlocks proper access to heavy weapons. XP is primarily gained by traveling with a heavy inventory and is gained at consistent intervals of roughly 1 second of movement (movement does not need to be continuous).

1XP is gained per interval of travel with the Heavy Load debuff.
2XP is gained per interval of travel with the Encumbered debuff.
10XP is gained for every instance of shaking a vending machine.
No XP is gained when the Overencumbered debuff is applied.

The traits Decathlon Competitor and Wrinkly Brainmeat affect Strength XP gain.

Each level increases max carry weight by 2.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
5	Step Aside	You can shake Vending Machines & stomp Carbuncles in 1 hit.
8	Heavy Weapons	You are strong enough to properly wield heavy melee weapons, and you can now smash open Vending Machines, which will permanently break them.
15	Heavy Armor Specialization	You can wear any weight of armor without dropping into the heaviest weight class.

Throwing

Each Throwing level increases how far you can throw objects of all kinds. XP is primarily gained by throwing weapons, grenades, throwable devices and even miscellaneous objects.

Experience increases are partially based on distance thrown.

Each level increases thrown object velocity by 10 and thrown object damage by 2.

The calculation for thrown sharp melee is (Base Weapon Damage + Throwing damage bonus) x 2. Sharp Melee skill, the Self Defense Trait, and bonus damaging effects are NOT added.

Sharp Melee weapons thrown with perk you get at level 12 Sharp Melee, Slice N' Dice, have a chance to bleed.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
2	Underhand Toss	You can do a gentle underhand toss with all throwable items. (Right click or equivilant while holding throwable item.)
5	Projectile Pickup	You automatically pick up projectiles and weapons you've previously thrown, if you have room in your inventory.
8	Hazy Recollection	Weapons thrown by you are highlighted to you for 30 seconds.
10	Projectile Predictor	You can see the predicted path of your throwable items before throwing them.
12	Tinkerer	When crafting throwables (such as grenades) you get 1 additional item.
15	Terminal Velocity	Hitting enemies with a thrown weapon has a slightly increased chance to stagger large enemies, a high chance to stagger medium-sized enemies and always staggers small enemies.

Sneaking

Each Sneaking level increases how long it takes enemies to detect your presence. XP is primarily gained by sneaking around dangerous, active enemies.

Each level decreases the speed enemies notice you by 5%, up to a maximum of 95%.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
2	Sneak Attack	First attack on an idle or unaware enemy has 25% chance to deal double damage.
5	Biotic Shadow	You move 15% faster when crouching and can perform a roll by sprinting while crouched.
8	Nimble	You don't trigger Tripwires, Tripwire Lasers, or Carbuncles, even when not crouching.
10	Night Worker	Your footsteps are much quieter and your chance to get a Sneak Attack is increased 50% at night.
15	Office Assassin	Attacks on unaware enemies always deal double damage, even when standing.

Combat

Blunt Melee

Each Blunt Melee level increases your damage with blunt weaponry. XP is primarily gained by bashing enemies with blunt weaponry.

Using Blunt Melee weapons to break resource nodes also increases this skill.

Each level increases blunt weapon damage by 1.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
3	Power Attack	You can do heavy windup attacks with blunt melee weapons. These attacks can not be performed with a shield.
12	Power Hungry	Your Power Attacks use 50% less stamina per swing.

Sharp Melee

Each Sharp Melee level increases your damage with sharp weapons. XP is primarily gained by slicing enemies with sharp weaponry.

Each level increases sharp weapon damage by 1.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
3	Sharp Throwing	You can throw sharp melee weapons.
5	Clean Cutter	You have a 25% higher chance to not end up with Bio Scrap when cutting up bodies.
9	No Survivors	Enemies killed by your sharp melee attacks will outright die when they otherwise might have gone DBNO.
12	Slice N' Dice	Your sharp attacks have a higher chance to cause Severe Bleeding to the target.

Accuracy

Each Accuracy level increases your overall accuracy, reduces recoil, and ranged weapon sway. XP is primarily gained by firing ranged weaponry. Note that you must fire at an enemy to level up your accuracy.

Each level decreases aim sway by 0.075 and bullet spread by 0.05. Note that aim sway is doubled if you have an off-hand shield equipped with compatable weapons, like a Security Pistol.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
5	Squint	Alternate Fire wile aiming with a ranged weapon will zoom your vision.
8	Straight As An Arrow	Projectiles (like crossbow bolts) have a lower chance to break on impacts.
10	Mil-Spec / Biometric Armwraps	You gain the confidence to properly handle more advanced firearms. You also learn the Bio-Metric Armwraps recipe.
13	Boomstick	Smaller creatures have a chance to run in fear when you fire a loud weapon.
15	Bio-Mimic Armwraps Recipe	You gain the advanced Bio-Mimic Armwraps recipe, allowing the use of specialized firearms.

Reloading

Each Reloading level increases your reload speed by a decent percentage and will eventually reduce how clumsy you are at reloading in general. XP is primarily gained by reloading weapons of all kinds.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
5	Ammo Crafter	You craft ammo twice as fast.
8	Just In Case	You can reload weapons you aren't otherwise qualified to use.
10	Basic Geometry	You are less clumsy at reloading all weaponry.
15	Speedloader	You can sprint and reload at the same time.

Fortitude

Each Fortitude level increases your overall health points, particularly that of your head, as well as reduces the damage you take. XP is primarily gained by taking damage from enemies, unfortunately.

Each level increases max head health by 2.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
5	Habituation	You regenerate health a bit more frequently.
8	Group Effort	Resting (sitting on chair or floor) within 8 meters of other resting scientists doubles the resting rate.
10	Spongy Tissue	You have slightly reduced fall damage and take less damage from environmental physics, such as vehicles.
15	Reflective Mantle	Enemies who contact you with melee attacks will have a chance to have some of their damage reflected back at them.

Survival

Crafting

Each Crafting level increases your crafting speed and gives you access to Crafting Bench upgrades. XP is primarily gained by crafting and repairing items.

Each level decreases crafting time by 0.01 seconds and the chance for items to lose durability by 2%.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
2	More Bench	You can access the first set of Crafting Bench upgrades.
5	Mega Bench	You can access the second tier of Crafting Bench upgrades.
8	Beautiful Blueprints	When sharing recipes with others, they don't have to complete the research phase.
10	Eye For Detail	Items with durability crafted by you are constructed with extra durability.
15	Super Bench	You can access the final tier of Crafting Bench upgrades.

Construction

Each Contruction level increases how fast you construct with screwdrivers and how likely you are to keep furniture intact when packaging it. XP is primarily gained by constructing and deconstructing furniture.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
5	Pack Your Desk	You can package small deployables twice as fast.
10	Razed With Care	When dismantling furniture with a Hammer, you have a 50% chance to receive double resources.
15	Castle Doctrine	The cost of building fortifications, like barricades, walls, and ramps, is reduced by half.

First Aid

Each First Aid level increases how much extra health is regained when using medical items. XP is primarly gained by using and crafting medical items.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
3	Refreshing Touch	When healing a teammate with a medical item, they also gain +5 hydration. This effect does not occur when healing yourself.
4	Rad Remover	NEW RECIPE: Pentetic Acid Syringe, a syringe that prevents radiation buildup and removes existing radiation.
5	Bedside Manner	You can see all medical debuffs when up close to another player.
8	Bonesetter	All splints heal bones faster when applied by you.
11	Aftercare	When reviving teammates they get a short healing buff and if reviving a teammate with a healing item the healing is increased by 20%.
15	Combat Doctor	You apply all medical items to yourself and to others twice as fast.

Cooking

Every 5 Cooking levels increase your total competence in cooking and ranking up gives you to new recipes. XP is primarily gained by cooking food, baking and making soups. Every 5 levels of cooking, your fried food and baked foods are upgraded in quality, providing more food and water on consumption.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
3	Soupsmith	You can cook soups by filling a pot with water and adding ingredients.
5	Mother Knows Best	You can see other players' hunger and thirst when close by.
8	Prep Chef	All cooking-related recipes take half the time to craft.
10	Hearty & Oven Recipes	You gain extra health every time your health regenerates. You also learn the recipe for the Convection Oven and Raw Dough.
13	Fast Food	All food you place on a cooktop or in an oven cooks 25% faster.
15	Serving Seconds	Soups, pies and similar foods cooked by you have 2 extra portions in them.

Agriculture

Each Agriculture level increases how fast plants planted by you regrow once they're harvested. XP is primarily gained by planting, tending to and harvesting plants.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
4	Fertilizer Tier 1	You gain a recipe for Anomalous Compost (T1), aiding in the growth of your plants.
5	Prudent Plucking	When harvesting wild plants you receive 1 extra harvest.
9	Fertilizer Tier 2	You gain a recipe for Anomalous Fertilizer (T2), aiding greatly in the growth of your plants.
10	Photosynthetic Synergy	While within 15 meters of garden plants, they grow 10% faster. (Does not stack with multiple players).
15	Fertilizer Tier 3	You gain a recipe for Anomalous Plant Food (T3), aiding immensely in the growth of your plants.

Fishing

Each level increases your ability to pull against a catch without breaking your fishing line as quickly. XP is primarily earned from catching fish and other junk.

Skill Perks

Level	Name	Description
3	Fish Sense	You can now detect fishing hotspots.
5	Tacklebox	You gain the Tacklebox recipe.
10	Lucky Fishing Hat	You gain the Lucky Fishing Hat and Mud Waders recipes.
12	Bait and Switch	You now have a 33% chance to not lose your bait when fishing up junk.
15	Freshwater Friends	Certain underwater creatures will no longer feel threatened by your presence.