Talents and mastery

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Talents and mastery

The Keeper has five masteries: Building, Smithing, Farming, Book writing and Anatomy.

Character

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.

Stations by mastery

Assembly bench III29 recipes · Factory · Building 2-9

Woodworking Workbench II24 recipes · Yard · Building 1-15

Assembly bench II21 recipes · Factory · Building 2-7

Stonemason's Workbench16 recipes · Yard · Building 3-11

Woodworking Workbench I15 recipes · Yard · Building 1-6

Assembly bench I9 recipes · Factory · Building 2-5

Circular Saw4 recipes · Yard · Building 3-6

Chopping Spot3 recipes · Yard · Building 2-3

Sewing Table3 recipes · Yard · Building 5-8

Sawhorse2 recipes · Yard · Building 1

Potter's Wheel2 recipes · Yard · Building 2-5

Vineyard Bridge1 recipe · Building 2

Kiln1 recipe · Yard · Building 3

Zombie Stone Quarry1 recipe · Quarry · Building 2

Zombie Marble Quarry1 recipe · Quarry · Building 4

Lumberjack stand1 recipe · Sawmill · Building 1

Zombie Miner1 recipe · Old Mine · Building 1

Corpse Dumping Point1 recipe · Building 3

Assembly bench1 recipe

Locked hatch1 recipe · Building 2

Locked door1 recipe · Building 1

Old door1 recipe · Building 1

Resurrection device1 recipe · Building 3

Underground well1 recipe · Building 3

More on mastery

Zombie talent trees

Every zombie worker has its own five trees and buys their nodes with the tech points it earns while crafting, not with the Keeper's. Its mastery is the sum of its mastery nodes, the mastery bonus of the tools it carries and its perks for that kind of work.

Temporary mastery

Prayer for Excellence I, Prayer for Excellence II and Prayer for Excellence III: +1 to all five masteries (God of craftsmen). Pumpkin soup: +2 Building mastery (Building spirit II). Soldier's stew: +2 Smithing mastery (Smithing spirit II). Muffin: +2 Farming mastery (Farming spirit II). Bowl of sauerkraut (bronze): +1 Book writing mastery (Book writing spirit I). Bowl of sauerkraut (silver): +2 Book writing mastery (Book writing spirit II). Bowl of sauerkraut (gold): +3 Book writing mastery (Book writing spirit III). Vegetable salad (bronze): +1 Anatomy mastery (Anatomy spirit I). Vegetable salad (silver): +2 Anatomy mastery (Anatomy spirit II). Vegetable salad (gold): +3 Anatomy mastery (Anatomy spirit III). Third Eye Salt: +2 to all five masteries (Third Eye Salt). Each food buff lasts 450 seconds; God of craftsmen lasts 2,700, 5,400 or 5,999 seconds (I, II and III).

How it works

Every crafting recipe except the Beehive's names a level of one of them. Mastery nodes in the perk tree raise it by 1 each.

Recipes need a mastery level

A crafting recipe names a mastery level, for example Building 2. A normal recipe cannot be worked below it; star crafts and autopsy work can be attempted with at least 1 mastery, and each tick then succeeds with a chance that grows with the mastery. Each tick adds the mastery divided by the requirement (rounded down, at most 3) to the progress bar. Tools in the tool belt add their mastery bonus, food and sermon buffs add to mastery while they last, and 11 talent perks add +2 to +4 for one kind of work.

Building mastery

Used by 152 recipes at 23 stations. The Building perk tree has 11 perks and +5 mastery.

Smithing mastery

Used by 86 recipes at 12 stations. The Smithing perk tree has 13 perks and +5 mastery.

Farming mastery

Used by 171 recipes at 30 stations. The Farming perk tree has 16 perks and +5 mastery.

Book writing mastery

Used by 36 recipes at 3 stations. The Book writing perk tree has 13 perks and +5 mastery.

Anatomy mastery

Used by 189 recipes at 14 stations. The Anatomy perk tree has 15 perks and +5 mastery.