Skills

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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. Experience points are gained by performing a relevant task or may be boosted by using a neurotrainer.

Skills

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

Animals

The Animals skill helps determine a colonist's chance to tame animals, see Tame Animal Chance. Certain animals require a minimum Animals skill level to tame them. The higher the animal's wildness, the higher the skill level needed. See the animal's Minimum Handling Skill stat.

For a list of skills that animals can learn, see List of animal skills.

Artistic

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

They 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.

Construction

The construction skill affects how long a colonist takes to complete a construction or repair task. It also affects the quality outcome of some items such as beds, chairs, tables, etc.

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.

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
Pemmican	80

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%

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

Some plants require a minimum growing skill in order to plant them:

Plant	Min. Skill
Smokeleaf	4
Strawberries	5
Psychoid	6
Hops	3
Healroot	8
12px Devilstrand	10

Medicine

The Medicine Skill is the driving factor in determining base medical treatment quality, surgery success chance, and the speed at which medical operations are performed. People with lower medicine skill are more likely to give Poor quality treatment, meaning that poorly treated open wounds are still susceptible to infection and also have a chance to leave a scar - which permanently lowers the health of the affected body part, along with giving a constant amount of pain. Certain scars can be painful enough that they give more than 10% pain, meaning that the consciousness of the affected individual is permanently weakened, which affects their performance in all aspects from work to shooting.

Doctors which are either physically hindered (e.g. missing an arm) or sick (e.g. food poisoning) and/or have low medicine skill are significantly more likely to fail at surgery. The severity of an operational failure varies from only a minor failure; where the part being installed (if installing) may still be re-usable and only do moderate damage to the patient. However, there can also be a catastrophic failure where the part being installed will be destroyed, and there will be surgical cuts doing severe damage, and possibly even being fatal.

Medicine can be trained very quickly by performing euthanasia on fast-breeding animals such as chickens.

Melee

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

Mining

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

Each point increases speed by 15%.

Intellectual

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.

Shooting

The shooting skill affects a characters' accuracy with a ranged weapon. Each level increases pre-curved shooting accuracy by 5%, with level 0 starting at 0%

The table below shows post-processed shooting accuracy per tile of distance for each skill level and trait combination, assuming the pawn is healthy:

Skill Level	Standard	Careful Shooter	Trigger-Happy	Skill Level	Standard	Careful Shooter	Trigger-Happy
0	89%	89%	89%	-	-	-	-
1	91%	91.5%	90.5%	11	97.25%	97.938%	96.125%
2	93%	93.25%	92%	12	97.5%	98.167%	96.5%
3	93.5%	93.875%	93.125%	13	97.75%	98.375%	96.875%
4	94%	94.5%	93.5%	14	98%	98.583%	97.125%
5	94.5%	95.125%	93.875%	15	98.167%	98.791%	97.313%
6	95%	95.75%	94.25%	16	98.333%	99%	97.5%
7	95.5%	96.375%	94.625%	17	98.5%	99.156%	97.688%
8	96%	97%	95%	18	98.666%	99.281%	97.875%
9	96.5%	97.313%	95.375%	19	98.833%	99.194%	98.042%
10	97%	97.625%	95.75%	20	99%	99.438%	98.167%

Note that shooting accuracy for the pawn is calculated per tile, meaning that while a trivial increase (like 1% or so) in shooting accuracy may not matter up close, it can make a huge difference in long distances.

For example:

• A colonist with shooting accuracy of 99% has a base accuracy of 72.5% against a target 32 tiles away.
• With 98% accuracy, the base accuracy against the same target becomes only 52.4%.

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. A small amount of experience is gained every time two colonists have a social interaction with each other. Characters have a talking stat that somehow interacts with this skill

Each point increases social interaction impact by 10%

Each point increases gift impact by 5%

Each point increases recruitment chance by 5%

Each point makes trade prices 0.5% better

Training

Main article: Training

There are ways to train up your colonists to have better skills.

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.

As of version 0.14.1234 (15 July 2016) once colonists have learned 4000 exp amount in a day, they’ll learn at a much-reduced rate (20%) until the next day.

The levels of passion are:

None

Skills with no flames. Characters with no passion for a skill only gain experience toward that skill at 33% of the standard rate.

Interested

Skills with one flame. Characters that are interested in a skill will gain experience at the standard rate of 100%.

Burning

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

The above stacks with global learning speed modifiers such as the Too Smart trait. For example, a colonist with a Burning passion on a skill and the Too Smart trait will learn at 270% the standard speed.

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 230999, 1 exp short of leveling up. It doesn't fall below 9 (Skilled Professional) either, remaining maxed at 10,000XP.

Level	Name	Total experience required	Experience till next level
-	Incapable	-	-
0	Barely heard of it	0	1000
1	Utter Beginner	1000	2000
2	Beginner	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