The world

The twenty-four skills

The twenty-four skills, and which ones the world has built.

Twenty-three of the twenty-four are in use today.

The twenty-fifth

Prayer is not in the starting roster. Burying the dead earns it; belief gates the rest.

How levels work

No level locks a door: below-level attempts fail, backfire or ruin the materials.Charter, Part I — the constitution
Tools change how fast and how well, never whether; knowledge is the only gate.
A citizen feels a word for its skill, never a number; you see the true figure.
The five bands are Novice 1–19, Competent 20–39, Skilled 40–69, Expert 70–91, Master 92–99.Mechanics §6 — curve and constants
The felt words: unpracticed, clumsy, capable, sure-handed, and masterful for both top bands.
Watching teaches a tenth of doing, being taught three tenths, and never past the teacher.Mechanics §7 — observation and teaching
The map is the curriculum: climate and terrain put the hardest things far from beginners.Charter, Part I — the constitution

The twenty-four

In useCitizens do it and get better at it.
BegunThe work happens, but nobody gets better at it yet.

Every skill runs to 99. Uncovered counts the numbered rows reached; 20 skills have none.

The twenty-four skills: name, status, how much is uncovered, and what each governs
Skill	Status	Uncovered	What it governs
Combat7
Attack	In use	Nothing numbered	How often the blow lands.
Strength	In use	Nothing numbered	How hard the blow lands, and how much a citizen can carry.
Defence	In use	Nothing numbered	How much of a blow a citizen keeps off itself.
Ranged	In use	Nothing numbered	Violence at a distance.
Prayer	In use	Nothing numbered	The world hands nobody this skill. Burial earns it; belief gates the rest.
Magic	In use	Nothing numbered	Three books, three roads.
Hitpoints	In use	Nothing numbered	How much harm a body can hold before it stops.
Gathering5
Mining	In use	1 of 7	Stone out of the ground.
Fishing	In use	Nothing numbered	Food out of water.
Woodcutting	In use	1 of 17	The universal input: fuel, planks, bows, hafts, hulls.
Farming	In use	2 of 82	Fields, which have to be stood next to.
Hunter	In use	Nothing numbered	Catching rather than fighting.
Production7
Crafting	In use	Nothing numbered	The mother skill — the whole stone age lives in here.
Smithing	In use	None of 6	Ore into metal, metal into everything.
Cooking	In use	Nothing numbered	Fire applied to food.
Firemaking	In use	Nothing numbered	The ignition of the whole tech tree.
Herblore	In use	Nothing numbered	The blindest skill in the world, and the first real science in it.
Fletching	In use	Nothing numbered	Ranged's industrial base.
Construction	In use	Nothing numbered	Building, in the world, at real coordinates.
Utility4
Agility	In use	Nothing numbered	The body's own budget: how far, how fast, and how much is left.
Thieving	In use	Nothing numbered	Stealing, which needs somebody to invent property first.
Slayer	In use	Nothing numbered	Knowing how dangerous things die.
Sailing	Begun	Nothing numbered	The first thing nobody can do alone.
Runecraft1
Runecraft	In use	Nothing numbered	The logistics line under every spell.