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How to Gain Experience ("XP")

The player gains XP by exploring, gathering, crafting and hunting. When you gain enough XP, you'll also gain a level, or "level up".

Character XP progress bar

You can see your progress of earing XP between levels in the inventory window by pressing i, or keeping an eye on the "XP" icon on the bottom right of your screen. When you hunt, you gain XP by killing animals. Killing Predator (carnivore) creatures give more XP than the herbivores. When you explore and discover new islands an XP boost is given for each new island discovered. The spear does more damage to players and animals than fists, but have a chance of breaking. Metal tools will have higher durability and harvest rates, but requires the smithy to craft. Once the player hits level 8, EXP gets capped and the player must leave Freeport regions to advancing further.

Learning Skills

Upgradable character stats

For each new level you achieve, you'll be able to upgrade some of your character stats (Health, Stamina, Fortitude, Weight and Intelligence.) Clicking one of these icons when they're "glowing" will allow you to increase your maximum capacity in whichever you choose (ex: You can increase how many health points you have when fully healthy). Then you'll be able to choose a new skill (or more) on the skills tab.

Planning Your Skills

Choose your skills wisely when leveling up. Most skills after the first level require a previous skill to be unlocked, and it's important to plan ahead. For example, you need to learn Tools Of The Trade before you can learn Archery Unlock and the Archery skill is required to unlock ability to make Archery & Throwing Weapons. Sometimes it's smarter to save your skill points for the next level, in case your desired path costs more than you have earned at your current level.

Hovering over a skill icon (even when it's dark) in the Skills tab will provide more information about what you can do with the skill, and help you plan the path of your character. You can also use the calculator at Atlas Calculator to plan your upgrade path ahead of time.

If you want to change your Skills after you have already learned them, you need to respec.

Leveling after LVL8

On most servers, (some unofficial servers have this turned off) you will need to explore the world and find another island once you achieve level 8. You won't be able to continue earning XP after that, if you stay in the Freeport area.

Depending on your level you earn different amount of Skill points per level:

Level	SP	Notes	method
1	1	Can be earned in Freeport	Set the Point in Survivalism harvest and build basic stuff
2 - 8	3	Can be earned in Freeport	With level 4 you've enough skill points to skill Archery & Throwing Weapons after that you need to skill the Basics of the bow. Now you can craft Bow and Stone Arrow . Now you need to kill Alpha Animals
9 - 10	3	Cannot be earned in Freeports	Killing Alpha Animals
11 - 21	4	Cannot be earned in Freeports	Killing Alpha Animals
22 - 31	5	Cannot be earned in Freeports	Killing more Alpha Animals or find and fight Treasure
32 - 41	6	Cannot be earned in Freeports	Killing more Alpha Animals or find and fight Treasure
42 - 51	7	Cannot be earned in Freeports	Killing more Alpha Animals or find and fight Treasure
52 - 100	8	Cannot be earned in Freeports	At now you need to fight with bosses in the Power Stone dungeons to incase the maximum Level Defeat Gentle Whale, Mean Whale, Monstrous Whale, you will geather XP from the first Whale per Whale Race a day Hunt Ship of the Damned, Ghost Ship Kill Monsters Collect Discoveries
	Skill Points earned per Level

Skill Points and Leveling after 52

Level	Points
52	44
53	47
54	71
55	94
56	118
57	141
58	164
59	188
60	211
61	235
62	258
63	281
64	305
65	328
66	352
67	375
68	398
69	422
70	445
71	469
72	492
73	516
74	541
75	565
76	?
77	?
78	?
79	?
80	?
81	?
82	727
83	?
84	?
85	?
86	820
87	?
88	866
89	890
90	913
91	937
92	960
93	983
94	?
95	?
96	1054
97	?
98	?
99	?
100	?
101	?