Trade Skills

Your ability to craft, gather, and refine items is determined by your Trade Skills. These skills align with the various <a action="GoToPage" data="Crafting_Stations">Crafting Stations</a> and <a action="GoToPage" data="Crafting_Refining">Refining Stations</a>. Crafting Skills These skills are required to craft items at their respective <a action="GoToPage" data="Crafting_Stations">Crafting Stations</a>. Having more ranks in these skills allows you to craft more recipes and grants improved chances to craft with a higher <a action="GoToPage" data="Crafting_Rarity">Craftsmanship</a>. These are: • Blacksmithing • Engineering • Outfitting • Cooking • Alchemy Gathering and Refining These skills are required to refine resources at <a action="GoToPage" data="Crafting_Refining">Refining Stations</a>. In addition to granting the ability to refine resources, higher ranks also improve your ability to gather the related resource and grant a chance of getting a higher <a action="GoToPage" data="Crafting_Rarity">Rarity</a> of raw material. These are: • Logging and Carpentry • Mining, Stonecutting, and Smelting • Harvesting and Weaving • Tracking, Skinning, and Tanning Personal Skills These skills can cover a range of abilities. Each has use outside of <a action="GoToPage" data="GettingStarted_Outposts">Outposts</a>. These are: • Wilderness Survival: this improves the Tier of your <a action="GoToPage" data="Mechanics_Camping">Camp</a>, and unlocks the ability to craft more recipes there • Repairing: this allows you to repair items at the cost of fewer resources and with a decreased loss of maximum durability