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Royal Skills

Our own progression system: earn XP from everything you do, build your skill trees, prestige for permanent perks and compete for a place in the Hall of Fame.

Available on PVE

What is Royal Skills?

Everything you do on the server earns XP. Every level gives a skill point that you spend in one of 10 skill trees. Open the menu with /skills.

How do you earn XP?

  • Mining, woodcutting, skinning, farming and fishing
  • Barrels, crates, keycards and hacking locked crates
  • Killing NPCs, animals, Patrol Helicopter, Bradley and Royal Bosses
  • Crafting, research, smelting, cooking and the mixing table
  • Building, upgrading and healing or reviving teammates
  • Quests, cases, votes, the Offering, the Purge and other events
  • Teammates nearby get a share of your XP

Skill trees

Each tree has tiers that unlock as you spend points in it. Spend 18 points in a tree to unlock its ultimate ability, which you use with /ult.

  • Mining
  • Woodcutting
  • Harvesting
  • Skinning & Hunting
  • Fishing & Sea
  • Scavenging
  • Combat (PVE)
  • Survival
  • Crafting & Building
  • Vehicles & Team

Level unlocks

These stay yours for the whole season once you reach the level, also after a prestige.

  • Level 15: Nature Market. Buy rocks, trees, bushes and animals in /rm
  • Level 25: /sil to put images from the internet on your signs
  • Level 50: Stack boxes. Right click a box while holding a box
  • Level 75: Elite backpack with 48 slots
  • Level 100: Prestige

Level rewards

Scrap, Royal Essence and Refinement Shards at levels 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100. Claim them in /skills > Level Rewards, once per season.

Prestige

At level 100 you can prestige. Your level and skills go back to 1 and you choose one perk that you keep for the rest of the season: a Royal Perk, or one of 3 random perks with a reroll.

Royal Perks

Perks marked with (Purge) are switched off during the Purge and come back after the wipe.

  • Prestige 1+: Triple Rocket (Purge), Royal Reload (Purge), Royal Metabolism, Instant Mixing Table, Eternal Plants, No Wear, Instant Craft
  • Prestige 2+: No Bag Timer (Purge)
  • Prestige 3+: Stack Everything (3 high), Extra Quarry, Six Rockets (Purge)
  • Prestige 5+: Quick Teleport (5 seconds), Extra Pumpjack
  • Prestige 7+: Big Backpack with 96 slots

More to discover

  • Weapon Mastery: level every weapon to earn stars and weapon perks
  • Royal Gear: clothing and armor with set bonuses (/gear)
  • Refine maxed skills with Refinement Shards
  • Trophies, XP Tomes, Golden Nodes, XP Surges and Community Goals
  • Leaderboards in /skills and on this website

Seasons

A season lasts a year. Map wipes do not reset your level, prestige or perks. At the end of the season the top players go into the Hall of Fame, everyone who reached a prestige keeps a badge, and everyone starts fresh.

Tips

  • Mix up what you do: almost everything gives XP
  • Play in a team: teammates nearby share XP
  • Time offline builds rested XP, a bonus on top of what you earn
  • Stay online during the Offering and the Purge for bonus XP