After the Collapse – Survivors Stats and Skills

A quick overview of every skill and stats of your survivors.

개요

Your survivors’ abilities are separated into two categories: Statistics (통계) and Skills.

Stats are (mostly) physical attributes set when the survivor is generated, they might be influenced by their profession. Their individual value is set between 0 그리고 100, 50 being average. A generic survivor with no particular medical condition or meaningful profession will have all stats at roughly 50.

Skills are tied to the work they can do in (or outside of) your base. The value for each individual Skill is between 0 그리고 1,000. It’s initially determined by a combination of 2 stats and the profession of the newly created survivor.

Statistics

Each survivor has 8 statistics, each between 0 그리고 100 처음에. While those values can never go below 0, they can occasionally go over 100 when consuming special drugs, using specific equipment, or benefiting from a positive trait.

Note that the following list doesn’t take into account specific skill tests during expeditions/quests or other very “niche” 용도. I’m just explaining the day-to-day usefulness of each stat here.

힘

힘, as the name implies, determines the brute strength of a survivor. 실제로, it determines how durable is a survivor and its initial manual labor skills.

It influences the following mechanics:

• Carry weight capacity
• Total Hit Points
• Weapon damage with melee weapons

It influences the following skills:

• Hauling (major)
• 건설
• Forging (major)
• 제작 (미성년자)
• Military
• Prison Guard (major)
• Metalsmith (major)
• 농업 (major)
• 양조 (미성년자)
• Husbandry (미성년자)

민첩

It’s a lot less useful than strength, but it will have a very high influence on melee combat accuracy and influences a few technical skills.

It influences the following mechanics:

• Ability to dodge some traps
• Hit Chance with melee weapons

It influences the following skills:

• Tinkering
• 건설
• 제작 (major)
• 의료 (미성년자)
• 수리 (major)

지구력

The close cousin of Strength. It touches on similar things, but in different ways.

It influences the following mechanics:

• Total Hit Points
• Ability to resist most illnesses

It influences the following skills:

• Hauling (미성년자)
• Forging (미성년자)
• Military
• Scavenging (미성년자)
• 채광 (major)
• 농업 (major)
• Husbandry (major)

지각

A critical skill for ranged combatants as it both influences view distance & 정확성. It’s also an important stat for mid to late-game skills.

It influences the following mechanics:

• View distance (when looking for hostiles)
• Dodge chance with some traps
• Accuracy with ranged weapons

It influences the following skills:

• Tinkering
• 건설
• 의료
• Military
• Scavenging (major)
• Disassembling (major)
• 농업 (미성년자)
• 양조 (major)
• 요리 (major)

지능

This one is particular as it has no direct in-game effect, but it is a critical component when determining the skill for some of the most useful jobs.

It influences the following skills:

• Tinkering
• 의료
• Scavenging (미성년자)
• 과학 (major)
• 수리
• Metalsmith

Social

It mostly determines how well this survivor is going to interact with their mates. A survivor with a high social stat will generally have positive interaction with most people, increasing the mood of whoever they talked to, building friendships. 실제로, high social skills people will help make the base happy while low social ones will make it unhappy.

It influences the following mechanics:

• Result of social / chat interactions
• Ability to convince and calm prisoners

It influences the following skills:

• 의료 (미성년자)
• Prison Guard

Work Ethics

This is probably both the least understood and most important stat when it comes to base building proper. It’s basically how lazy a survivor is. The higher the work ethic, the less they are likely to take a break, stop working in the middle of a job, 등.

It influences the following mechanics:

• How often a survivor is going to take a break AND for how long
• Likelihood of stopping the current job when they want to eat/drink/rest

It influences the following skills:

• 요리
• 과학

Moving Speed

설명이 필요 없음. Do not underestimate how moving speed will influence the productivity of a survivor, 그렇지만. For many jobs, moving from A to B is the most time-consuming part, as such very slow survivors are generally not worth it.

기술

Skills are generally tied to specific activities your survivors can do in the base (or outside). The initial value for a skill is determined by relevant stats (as shown in the previous chapter) and the survivor’s profession. Experience can be gained by doing jobs related to this skill.

또한, note that this article is for non-modded games. Some of the following skills might be used way more extensively in some mods.

Skills for individual survivors can be toggled on/off in various menus (population screen, faction screen, individual survivor menu).

양조

It’s a relative niche activity. People with this skill will tend to jobs related to making booze. 일반적으로, it means bringing ingredients to the still to make vodka or beer. Due to the nature of the said job, there’s no way to gain experience in that skill and its value is meaningless, it’s just an activity you can toggle on/off. Some mods made the process a lot more involved, 그렇지만.

건설

Every time you place something to be built on the map, be it a wall, a door, a crafting station, it’s people with the construction skill enabled who’ll do it. The value influences at which pace they’ll build it. Each time something is constructed, the builder will see their construction skill increase slightly.

요리

Making food in the kitchen. Here again, the higher the cooking skill, the faster the food will be made. Making food will increase the cooking skill.

제작

Generic skill for building items at a crafting station that’s not covered by any other skill. It is generally for low-tier items. 다시, the higher the skill the faster the item gets built, and you get more points by crafting items.

Disassembling

This one is used when razing structures, removing tiles, or cutting trees. It both determines at which pace the job gets done and how many resources you will recover from doing so. 평소처럼, 연습은 완벽을 만든다.

농업

Determines at which speed a farm gets built from the ground up and the initial health of planted seeds. Assigning people with the highest farming skill possible to farming jobs is quite important as the less healthy a plant is, the less resource it’ll give out and the more at risk it will be of dying when bad weather shows up. Again practice increases the skill.

Forging

In the base game, this skill only determines who is allowed to bring resources to forges to convert basic materials into ingots, 금속, 숯, 그리고 그런. It’s just a toggle currently.

Hauling

Determines who will go around and pick up stuff left on the ground. 또한, since 0.8.6, people who are carrying too much stuff (~ 위에 75% cargo space) are slowed down by up to 25%, a high hauling skill can counterbalance this effect.

Husbandry

This skill is used to take care of animals. People with this skill enabled will feed and “farm” your cattle. 예를 들어, it’ll determine at which pace someone will milk a cow or shear a sheep.

의료

This one is twofold. It determines at which pace items will be built at a medical station. 더 중요한 것은, it determines how good of a doctor is the survivor. Someone with a low medical skill might fail at applying simple bandages or other medical items to their patients, while someone with a higher skill will succeed more often and heal their patient’s HP faster. It is heavily recommended to only use at least semi-competent doctors.

Metalsmith

This skill is generally used when building new weapons (pipe guns) and armors from scratch. 평소처럼, practice increases the skill and it determines at which pace the items get built.

Military

This one is very different from the more generic ones. Military skill determines the likelihood of either shooting at the lesser piece of armor or bypassing it completely when attacking someone or something. Hitting people increases this skill.

추가적으로, people with this skill disabled will be considered “civilians” and will not be called into action when going into combat mode. Civilians can even be redirected to a “shelter” zone during such events. Without a shelter on the map, they’ll continue to work as normal.

채광

It’s the same as “disassembling” but for rocks and caverns. Works exactly the same, just a different skill.

수리

This skill is both used to repair damaged structures/walls and to repair damaged modern (late game) weapons and armors. Again it determines at which pace.

Scavenging

This skill is only used during expeditions. It determines the likelihood of finding loot during the exploration phase. To prevent someone from going on an expedition on accident (you sure don’t want to send your science guy), you can disable that skill on someone so it won’t show up on the expedition selection menu.

과학

This skill determines at which pace someone assigned to the research station will work. Simply put, you want 2 science-heavy survivors (so one can work while the other sleep) and dedicate them to this job. Make sure that people with poor science skills can’t work on the research station.

Tinkering

This one is generally used to build electronic doodads and automated turrets at the tinkering station. It’s also used, in the very late game, to build robots. 평소처럼, it determines at which pace those items get built.

Prison Guard

Determines who will feed and take care of prisoners. Also people with a high prison guard skill will be better at pacifying and converting prisoners.