Skill Values

[Habeeb]

What does each skill value directly affect?

[Donnie]

Unarmed combat: unarmed combat
Melee combat: combat with close range weapons
Marksmanship: using ranged weapons, also making those weapons
Exploration: being able to see stuff, notably plants when foraging and criminal scents when tracking crime
Stealth: leaving harder to see criminal scents when committing crimes
Sewing: anything you make with sewing, leather clothes, cloth etc.
Smithing: anything you make out of metal that is fairly coarse work like anvils, cauldrons, armor
Carpentry: anything you make out of wood including planks. This skill is a limit that brings quality down if low
Cooking: anything you bake, not anything you roast over a fire
Farming: the quality of the crops you can harvest
Survival: quality of the basic stuff you can findm such as herbs. When butchering survival and your tool quality matter.

This is a list as I understand it.

[Chakravanti]

Skills do not affect built objects such as anvils and cauldrons Mat Q = Object Q for all built objects (though some built objects having varying ingredients have an unknown formula for balancing the value of such ingredients). Survival also affects bone saws and axes.

[UnrealJake]

Farming also effects trees.

[Bigfish]

What does each skill value directly affect?

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[Habeeb]

What does each skill value directly affect?

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A link to this thread?

I guess that's pretty cool.

[burgingham]

I guess he wanted to refer to the thread that can be also found in his sig.

[Bigfish]

I guess he wanted to refer to the thread that can be also found in his sig.

[martinuzz]

Skills do not affect built objects such as anvils and cauldrons Mat Q = Object Q for all built objects (though some built objects having varying ingredients have an unknown formula for balancing the value of such ingredients). Survival also affects bone saws and axes.

It seems survival influences the creation of bone saws, but not axes.
As far as I can tell, the formula for axes = (branch quality + rock quality)/2, rounded down.
While the formula for bone saws seems to be ((branch quality + survival skill/2)+ bone quality)/2, rounded down.

[sabinati]

axes = (branch + stone)/2, averaged down to your survival skill, rounded down
saws = (X*branch + Y*bone)/X+Y, averaged down to your survival skill, rounded down. X and Y are the weights applied to the bone and branch, Y>X.