Kenshi training: skills and experience
The game sets how fast each trained skill gathers experience, but not how much one action gives, so no time or number of actions to a level can be worked out from it.
Training buildings
A simple training dummy for beginners to train their melee attack skill. This will take you to a max of level 5.
Good for rookies to train their melee attack skill. This will take you to a max of level 10.
A cleverly made training dummy that will take a rookie as far as level 15 in melee attack.
A simple locked box used to practice the art of lockpicking. It has a transparent cutaway on the side, so beginners can see how a lock works internally.
A dummy turret used to familiarise beginners with the mechanisms and firing actions. Can train turret skill up to level 5.
A dummy turret used to familiarise beginners with the mechanisms and firing actions. Can train turret skill up to level 10.
A dummy turret used to familiarise beginners with the mechanisms and firing actions. Can train turret skill up to level 15.
Learn how to knock out your victims from behind and murder people in their sleep. It's great.
A big unstable pile of boxes filled with noisy metal parts and junk. The idea is to try and remove different items from the boxes without making any noise.
Experience rates
- Athletics
- 1
- Strength
- 0.5
- Strength from walking
- 0.5
- Toughness
- 1.33
- Field medic
- 15 at level 1, 150 at level 99
Walking trains strength at its own rate of 0.5, and the strength experience multiplier never falls below 0.1. How long that takes rests on the experience per step, which is not among the game's settings.
Experience modifiers
- Experience multiplier
- 3
- Penalty at 0x skill difference
- 25
- Bonus at 2x skill difference
- 10
At level 1 and level 99
| Level 1 | Level 99 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cut damage | 20 | 80 |
| Blunt damage | 20 | 80 |
| Bow damage | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| Medkit use | 20 | 1 |
| Limb degeneration | 1.7 | 0.03 |
| Knockout threshold | 3 | 0.75 |
The game records these values at level 1 and level 99 only and does not say how they change between the two.