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Every character in RimWorld has a set of skills; these skills govern their effectiveness in the relevant tasks. A character may be unable to undertake certain work types due to backstory elements, and as such, the relevant skills will be disabled entirely, and show " - " under skills on the character tab.

Skills

The skills available as of Alpha 12 are as follows:

Experience counts assume "Interested", i.e. neutral, experience gain.

Animals

As of Alpha 12, colonists now have the ability to tame and handle a variety of wild animals. These animals can then be trained in four basic categories:

Obedience - Allows the colonist to have the animal follow them around.

Release - Allows the colonist to send the animal into battle, melee attacking any threats.

Rescue - Trains the animals to take any fallen colonists to a medical area/ bed.

Haul - Trains the animals to carry items to their designated stockpiles.

Construction

The construction skill affects how long a colonist takes to complete a construction or repair task.

Each point increases speed by 15%.

Experience is gained each tick spent working on a construction project. At 100% work speed this seems to translate to roughly 82 experience per point of 'work required' for a construction job. At 200% work speed, disregarding colonist passions, each unit of 'work required' would reward only 41 experience.

Growing

The growing skill affects how fast a colonists sows and harvests growing zones, hydroponics and flower pots.

Each point increases speed by 12%.

Project	Experience Given Per Task
Harvesting	50

Research

This skill affects the speed at which research is completed.

Each point increases speed by 15%

Each point in research provides you with 1 experience.

Mining

The mining skill determines how long it takes for a colonist to mine out each rock.

Each point increases speed by 15%.

Shooting

The shooting skill affects a characters' accuracy with a ranged weapon.

Melee

The melee skill determines a characters' chance to land a hit in melee.

Social

The social skill affects the impact of social interactions on other characters' mood, the impact of gifts on faction relations, the recruitment chance for prisoners and trader prices.

Each point increases social interaction impact by 10%

Each point increases gift impact by 5%

Each point increases recruitment chance by 5%

Each makes trade prices 0.5% better

Cooking

The cooking skill affects how long it takes to cook meals and butcher dead creatures. It also affects Butchery Speed and Butchery Efficiency, how much meat is produced when butchering.

Cooking and butchering increase cooking skill.

A cooking skill of at least 6 is required to make a fine meal.
A cooking skill of at least 10 is required to make a lavish meal.

Each point decreases cooking time by 11%

Each point decreases butchering time by 10%

Each point increases meat amount by 2.5%

Project	Experience Given Per Task
Simple Meal	60
Fine Meal	110
Lavish meal	160

Crafting

The crafting skill affects the smith, tailor and craft work types.

The Crafter's skill is a driving factor in the quality of crafted clothing and neolithic weapons.

The crafting skill determines the time it takes for a colonist to cut stone, extract metal from slag, and disassemble mechanoids. It also determines the amount of resources produced.

Each point decreases crafting time by 10%

Each point increases the resource yield by 2.5%

Each stone cut into blocks provides 100 experience.

Medicine

Main article: Health

The medicine skill determines the likelihood that a doctor will administer a good quality treatment. Poor quality treatments may leave scars. Scars give the colonist persistent pain and permanently lower the maximum health of the body part by a small amount, making it easier to lose that body part in the future.
Sometimes during surgery a doctor may accidentally injure the patient. A surgical operation may also fail catastrophically. Failure chance is related to the surgeon’s medical skill and the quality of the medicine.

Artistic

Sculptures add beauty to any space that they occupy once they are installed.

They grant 4000 exp for each finished sculpture and come in 3 different sizes.

Sculptures are created at the sculptor's table and they have a quality when they are made. The Artists skill is a driving factor in the quality of the sculpture.

On the small, large and grand sculpture pages are tables detailing statistics on that sculpture type.

Passion

As well as their skill levels, each character can have a level of passion for each skill. The level of passion determines the rate at which the character will develop that skill. A characters' passion level for a particular skill is depicted by a flame icon beside the skill on the character tab. The levels of passion are:

None

Skills with no flames. Characters with no passion for a skill only gain experience toward that skill at 30% of the standard rate.

Interested

Skills with one flame. Characters that are interested in a skill will gain experience at the standard rate.

Burning

Skills with two flames. Characters with a burning passion for a skill will gain experience at 150% of the standard rate.

Experience Table

Note that level decay begins at level 10 (Expert), at which point colonists will be constantly losing experience at an increasing rate the higher the skill is. There is no level 21, as the max experience in the game is capped at 20999, 1 exp short of leveling up. As of Alpha 9, getting a colonist to reach level 20 (Godlike) activates a reward which makes the xp unable to go back down past level 20, 0/21000 is what it will stay at.

Level	Name	Total experience required	Experience till next level
0	Incapable	0	1000
1	Incompetent	1000	2000
2	Basic Awareness	3000	3000
3	Basic Familiarity	6000	4000
4	Amateur	10000	5000
5	Strong Amateur	15000	6000
6	Practitioner	21000	7000
7	Skilled Practitioner	28000	8000
8	Professional	36000	9000
9	Skilled Professional	45000	10000
10	Expert	55000	11000
11	Strong Expert	66000	12000
12	Very Strong Expert	78000	13000
13	Master	91000	14000
14	Strong Master	105000	15000
15	Planet-Class Master	120000	16000
16	System-Class Master	136000	17000
17	Revered Master	153000	18000
18	Visionary	171000	19000
19	Legendary	190000	20000
20	Godlike	210000	21000