Talents and mastery
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Talents and mastery
The Keeper has five masteries: Building, Smithing, Farming, Book writing and Anatomy. Mastery decides which recipes you can craft and how good the results are; you raise it in the perk tree.
- 5
- Masteries
- 93
- Perk tree nodes
- 71
- Inspirations
- +5
- Mastery per tree
A recipe card lists the mastery it needs (for example Building 2). Below that level you cannot start it; above it, the bronze, silver and gold thresholds decide how good the result can be. Temporary buffs from food and sermons add to it, and so do perks that give +2 to +4 for one kind of work.
Used by 158 recipes at 15 stations. The Building perk tree has 11 perks and +5 mastery.
Used by 86 recipes at 11 stations. The Smithing perk tree has 13 perks and +5 mastery.
Used by 171 recipes at 14 stations. The Farming perk tree has 16 perks and +5 mastery.
Used by 39 recipes at 3 stations. The Book writing perk tree has 13 perks and +5 mastery.
Used by 190 recipes at 15 stations. The Anatomy perk tree has 15 perks and +5 mastery.
Points and the inspiration bar
Each colour has its own inspiration bar. Claiming an inspiration of that colour adds 1 or 2 notches; when the bar is full it turns into one inspiration point and starts again. The first point takes 2 notches, the second 3, the third 4 and every point after that 5. So 5 points take 19 notches, 10 points 44 and 20 points 94.
- 74
- notches for all 16 Building nodes
- 84
- notches for all 18 Smithing nodes
- 99
- notches for all 21 Farming nodes
- 84
- notches for all 18 Book writing nodes
- 94
- notches for all 20 Anatomy nodes
Stations by mastery
15 stations craft with Building mastery.
29 Building recipes
26 Building recipes
21 Building recipes
17 Building recipes
16 Building recipes
9 Building recipes
4 Building recipes
4 Building recipes
3 Building recipes
3 Building recipes
2 Building recipes
2 Building recipes
1 Building recipe
1 Building recipe
1 Building recipe
11 stations craft with Smithing mastery.
47 Smithing recipes
30 Smithing recipes
14 Smithing recipes
11 Smithing recipes
10 Smithing recipes
7 Smithing recipes
6 Smithing recipes
2 Smithing recipes
2 Smithing recipes
2 Smithing recipes
1 Smithing recipe
14 stations craft with Farming mastery.
27 Farming recipes
21 Farming recipes
9 Farming recipes
6 Farming recipes
3 Farming recipes
3 Farming recipes
3 Farming recipes
1 Farming recipe
1 Farming recipe
1 Farming recipe
1 Farming recipe
1 Farming recipe
1 Farming recipe
1 Farming recipe
3 stations craft with Book writing mastery.
15 stations craft with Anatomy mastery.
118 Anatomy recipes
118 Anatomy recipes
36 Anatomy recipes
14 Anatomy recipes
12 Anatomy recipes
9 Anatomy recipes
5 Anatomy recipes
5 Anatomy recipes
4 Anatomy recipes
3 Anatomy recipes
2 Anatomy recipes
1 Anatomy recipe
1 Anatomy recipe
1 Anatomy recipe
1 Anatomy recipe
Questions
Do zombies use the same trees?
No. Every zombie worker has its own five trees. Zombies buy their nodes with the tech points they earn while crafting at a workstation, and their mastery also rises with better tools. See Zombie perks.
Can I reset the perk tree?
Nothing in the game refunds a node once it is bought, so plan the order: mastery upgrades first if a recipe you need is locked behind a mastery level.
What raises mastery for a short time?
Some dishes give +1 to +3 of one mastery for a while (for example Pumpkin soup for Building), Third Eye Salt gives +2 to all five, and the Prayer for Excellence blessing gives +1 to all five.