Introduction

To survive and thrive in New World, you will need to overcome many challenges, learning new skills and abilities as you adventure forward. Characters progress across three major categories: Core Attributes, Trade Skills, and Weapon Mastery. While you are free to master as many or as few weapons and Trade Skills as you like, your Core Attributes ultimately govern a large part of how powerful you are relative to the various hostile creatures and other players in Aeternum.

Summary

Collecting skills

  • Mining (Strength): stone and ore.

  • Skin (Dexterity): Animal skins.

  • Wood extraction (Constitution): wood.

  • Fishing (Focus): Fish.

  • Harvest (Intelligence): fiber, fruits and vegetables.

    • Refinement Skills

  • Casting: refine the ore into ingots.

  • Stonework: Refine stones into blocks and cut gems.

  • Carpentry: turning wood into firewood.

  • Tannery: refines skins into leathers.

  • Weaving: refine fibers into fabrics.

    • Craft Skills

  • Weapon forging: Create melee weapons.

  • Armor forging: Make light and heavy armor.

  • Jewelry making: make adornments.

  • Engineering: making long-range weapons and ammunition.

  • Arcane: Make potions, extracts and magic weapons.

  • Cuisine: make magical meals and drinks.

  • Furniture: make furniture, storage and trophies for homes.

    • Core Attributes

    When you first arrive in Aeternum, your Character will have 5 points in each of the core attributes and you cannot drop below that 5-point minimum. Each time your Character levels up, you are granted Attribute Points to spend on whichever Attribute(s) you choose. Gains from Attributes are soft-capped at 195 points. You can go beyond the soft cap with the help of armor, weapons, and trinkets, but there are diminishing returns starting at 100 points. If you feel you’ve placed a point in error or you want to switch up your total point allocation, you can redistribute (respec) your attributes for a small fee. The cost to respec increases as you increase in level, however, so keep that in mind!

    Trade Skills

    Trade Skills make up a variety of non-combat skills that you can master. There are 5 Gathering Skills, 5 Refining Skills, and 7 Crafting Skills.

    Weapon Mastery

    Using a weapon in combat against creatures results in gaining XP for that weapon’s Mastery when those creatures are defeated. Every weapon in the game can be mastered. Each Weapon Mastery has 2 Skill Trees, and each Skill Tree has a selection of active abilities, passive modifiers, and bonuses that are exclusive to that weapon. Leveling your Weapon Mastery grants a point that can be spent to unlock one of these abilities, passives, or bonuses. However, it is not possible to unlock everything between both Mastery Trees, so you’ll have to choose wisely. If you want to try out a different build for a weapon, you can respec its Mastery Trees in exchange for some Azoth. We will dive deeper into Weapon Mastery in the future. However you choose to fight, you’ll need to forge and discover powerful weapons to fit your combat style. Whether battling in wars with other players or holding back waves of The Corrupted, your combat skills will mean the difference between life and death.