Skill | Description |
Strength | Increases melee damage, knockback, knockdown chance, and maximum carry weight. Also improves chances of forcing locked windows and climbing tall fences. |
Fitness | Improves attack speed, endurance, and recovery. Reduces tripping chances and fall damage while increasing push strength and exercise efficiency. |
Skill | Description |
Sprinting | Boosts overall movement speed when running, sprinting, or sneaking. XP is gained by moving, even when overexerted or encumbered. |
Lightfooted | Reduces footstep noise, making it harder for zombies to detect you. Works well with Nimble for extra stealth. |
Nimble | Increases movement speed in combat stance and reduces footstep volume. XP is earned by moving while in combat stance. |
Sneaking | Lowers both sound and visibility while sneaking near zombies. XP is gained by staying undetected when close to them. |
Skill | Description |
Axe | Increases speed, damage, and knockback when using axes. |
Long Blunt | Improves attack stats and effectiveness with long blunt weapons (e.g. crowbars, baseball bats). |
Short Blunt | Increases efficiency with short blunt weapons like nightsticks and wrenches. |
Long Blade | Boosts attack performance with weapons such as katanas or machetes. |
Short Blade | Improves short blade use (e.g. knives) and increases success with jaw stabs. |
Spear | Enhances attack speed and accuracy with spears. |
Maintenance | Reduces weapon degradation, allowing melee weapons to last longer. |
Skill | Description |
Carpentry | Enables construction of wooden structures and furniture. Affects durability, noise, and repair quality. |
Cooking | Allows players to create more nutritious meals and detect poisonous ingredients. |
Farming | Improves ability to check crop health and identify plant conditions. |
First Aid | Increases treatment speed and effectiveness. Improves knowledge of injuries and medical supplies. |
Electrical | Unlocks electrical tasks such as hot-wiring, rewiring, and crafting devices from electronic parts. |
Metalworking | Enables crafting and repairing of metal structures and tools with greater strength at higher levels. |
Mechanics | Enhances vehicle repair success, part installation, and hot-wiring ability (when paired with Electrical). |
Tailoring | Allows patching and repairing of clothes to improve bite and scratch protection. At level 8, players can fully repair clothing holes. |
Skill | Description |
Aiming | Increases firearm accuracy, precision, and range while reducing aim time. XP is gained through successful hits. |
Reloading | Decreases reload time and improves speed when managing magazines, bullets, and cylinders. |
Skill | Description |
Fishing | Reduces the time needed to catch fish and increases catch quality. XP is gained from fishing attempts and successful catches. |
Trapping | Increases success rates when trapping animals and unlocks new trap crafting recipes. XP is earned upon checking traps. |
Foraging | Expands search radius and item detection speed. Improves discovery rates and unlocks rare item finds at higher levels. XP is gained by finding, accepting, or rejecting items. |