On Vox Populi, players have a variety of skills they can master. They fall into three categories as seen below: Gathering, Combat, and Miscellaneous. Each skill in each category can be leveled up through a variety of methods. The higher your level in a skill, the more benefits the player gets from that skill.
Gathering Skills[]
Excavation
XP Gain: Digging and finding treasures.
Effects:
- Giga Drill Breaker (ABILITY) - 3x Drop Rate, 3x EXP, +Speed
- Treasure Hunter - Ability to dig for treasure
Fishing
XP Gain: Fishing
Effects:
- Treasure Hunter (Passive) - Fish up misc. objects
- Magic Hunter - Find Enchanted Items
- Shake (vs. Entities) - Shake items off of mobs with fishing pole
- Fisherman's Diet: Improves hunger restored from fished foods
Herbalism
XP Gain: Collect plants and herbs.
Combatible Blocks: Wheat, potatoes, carrots, melons, pumpkins, sugar canes, cocoa beans, flowers, cacti, mushrooms, nether wart, lily pads, and vines.
Effects:
- Green Terra (ABILITY) - Spread the Terra, 3x Drops
- Green Thumb (Wheat) - Auto-Plants crops when harvesting
- Green Thumb (Cobble/Stone Brick/Dirt) - Make bricks mossy, or make grass grow
- Farmer's Diet - Improves hunger restored from farmed foods
- Hylian Luck - Gives a small chance of finding rare items
- Shroom Thumb - Spread mycelium to dirt & grass
- Double Drops (All Herbs) - Double the normal loot
Mining
XP Gain: Mining stone and ore
Effects:
- Super Breaker (ABILITY) - Speed+, Triple Drop Chance
- Double Drops - Double the normal loot
- Blast Mining - Bonuses to mining with TNT
- Bigger Bombs - Increases TNT explosion radius
- Demolitions Expertise - Decreases damage from TNT explosions
Woodcutting
XP Gain: Chopping down trees
Effects:
- Tree Feller (ABILITY) - Make trees explode
- Leaf Blower - Blow Away Leaves
- Double Drops - Double the normal loot
Combat Skills[]
Axes
XP Gain: Attacking Monsters
Effects:
- Skull Splitter (ABILITY) - Deal AoE Damage
- Critical Strikes - Double Damage
- Axe Mastery - Adds bonus damage
- Greater Impact - Deal bonus damage to unamored foes
Archery
XP Gain: Attacking Monsters
Effects:
- Skill Shot - Increases damage done with bows
- Daze (Players) - Disorients foes and deals 4 damage
- Arrow Retrieval - Chance to retrieve arrows from corpses
Swords
XP Gain: Attacking Monsters
Effects:
- Counter Attack - Reflect 50% of damage taken
- Serrated Strikes (ABILITY) - 25% damage AoE, Bleed+ AoE
- Serrated Strikes Bleed+ - 5 Tick Bleed
- Bleed - Apply a bleed DoT
Taming
XP Gain: Animal Taming, or combat with your wolves
Effects:
- Beast Lore - Bone-whacking inpsects wolves & ocelots
- Gore - Critical Strike that applies Bleed
- Sharpened Claws - Damage Bonus
- Environmentally Aware - Cactus/Lava Phobia, Fall Damage Immune
- Thick Fur - Damage Reduction, Fire Resistance
- Shock Proof - Explosive Damage Reduction
- Fast Food Service - Chance for wolves to heal on attack
- COTW (Ocelot): Crouch and left-click with 10 Fish in hand
- COTW (Wolf): Crouch and left-click with 10 Bones in hand
Unarmed
XP Gain: Attacking Monsters
Effects:
Berserk (ABILITY) - +50% Damage, Breaks weak materials
- Disarm (Players) - Drops the foes item held in hand
- Iron Arm Style - Hardens your arm over time
- Arrow Deflect - Deflects arrows
- Iron Grip - Prevents you from being disarmed
Misc Skills[]
Acrobatics
XP Gain: Falling
Effects:
- Roll - Reduces or negates fall damage
- Graceful Roll - Twice as effective as a normal roll
- Dodge - Reduce attack damage by half
Repair
XP Gain: Repairing
Effects:
- Repair - Repair Tools and Armor
- Repair Mastery - Increased repair amount
- Super Repair - Double effectiveness
- Diamond Repair (50+ SKILL) - Repair Diamond Tools and Armor
- Salvage (600+ SKILL) - Salvage Tools and Armor
- Arcane Forging - Repair magic items