Skills

Eight skills, levelled by doing the thing — there are no points to spend. Press Y for the menu. Levels run from 0 to 50 with an elite bonus at the top, and every skill has an hourly cap so none can be ground out in one sitting.

Progress is tied to your account, not your character. Dying costs you your gear. It never costs you a level.

Level 0 is exactly vanilla DayZ: the skills only ever add, so a new player plays the same game everyone did before the system existed.

The skills#

Skill	What it does	How it trains
Endurance	Cardio. Stamina drains slower and refills faster.	Sprinting, fast swimming, sprint-climbing ladders.
Strength	Muscle. Jumping, vaulting, climbing and melee cost less stamina.	Covering ground while loaded heavy.
Vitality	Blood. Wounds that would open a bleed sometimes close on their own, and lost blood is rebuilt faster.	Taking hits and surviving wounds.
Health	Constitution. Your body regenerates health faster while fed and watered.	Regenerating from injury.
Metabolism	Efficiency. Hunger and thirst drain more slowly.	Digesting food and drink.
Immunity	Resistance. Your body fights off disease and infection on its own.	Your immune system fighting something off.
Covert Movement	Field craft. Your movement noise carries less distance to the infected.	Moving crouched or prone.
Marksmanship	Steadiness. You hold your breath longer and your weapon sways less while aiming.	Steady, aimed shots.

At level 50#

Half the stamina drain and twice the recovery, 30% quieter movement, 45% less scope sway, a quarter of bleeds refused, 40% faster regeneration, and food and water burning 25% slower.

Strength and weight

The stamina weight penalty is switched off across the whole server — a full loadout is wearable at level 0. Strength's benefit on this server is the cheaper jumps, vaults, climbs and melee, not a lighter pack.