How skills work

Levels pay skill points, and you spend every point by hand in a tree of 79 nodes across 8 branches. The whole tree costs 526 points and a level-100 player earns 132, so nobody can have everything.

Commands

Command	What it does
/skills	Open the tree. Aliases /skill, /tree, /hxs.
/skills <branch>	Jump straight to a branch, such as /skills mining.
/skills stats	See your level, XP and points.
/skills top	See the leaderboard.
/skills respec	Reset your tree.

The branches

Branch	Focus
Combat	Hit harder, crit more, make enemies bleed.
Defense	Armor, health and resistance.
Mining	Dig faster and find more ore.
Farming	Bigger harvests and better food.
Foraging	Fell trees faster and gather more wood.
Fishing	Bite faster and catch more.
Agility	Run, jump and land softly.
Endurance	Never starve and heal faster.

Buying a node

Click a node to buy its next rank. A node can need any of these:

Requirement	Meaning
Minimum level	Your level must be high enough.
Other nodes	You must own the connected nodes first.
Branch points	You must already have spent that many points in the branch.
Choose one	Some nodes lock out another. You pick one path.

Glass lines in the menu show the connections. A ★ marks a keystone, a powerful node late in a branch.

Changing your mind

Use the respec button in the menu, or /skills respec, to reset your whole tree.

Respec	Cost
Your first	Free
After that	You lose 10% of the points you had spent

You have to confirm a respec within 15 seconds.

Special abilities

Ability	What it does
Bleed	Sword hits can make a target bleed. Damage repeats every 2 seconds, and hitting it again makes it last longer.
First Strike	Your first sword hit deals bonus damage. It recharges after 5 minutes.
Parry	Left-click with a sword just before a hit to reduce damage from the direction you are facing and cancel the knockback.
Anti-Hunger	A chance to not lose hunger.
Magic Healing	Heals more from golden apples and regeneration.
Recovery	Natural regeneration is stronger below half health.

Limits

• Damage reduction from the tree is capped at 80%.
• Lifesteal heals at most 6 health per hit, which is 3 hearts.