Life Skills

Life Skills are an integ­ral part of the TLBB world and can be an extremely use­ful means of mak­ing money.

To learn a Life Skill you must first visit the NPC appro­pri­ate to the skill you wish to learn. Some skills have a min­imum level require­ment, and can only be learnt by high level play­ers, but Life Skills such as Fish­ing can be learnt from as low as level 10.

To find the NPC for the Life Skill you want to learn, open the Auto Path func­tion in any one of the three main cities.

On speak­ing to the appro­pri­ate NPC you will be given the option to study the skill. If you meet the min­imum level require­ments and can afford the fee, you will learn the skill and it will appear in the Life Skills menu.

Gath­er­ing Skills

Gath­er­ing Skills include Min­ing, Herb­al­ism and Fish­ing. To per­form these skills you will need to be in pos­ses­sion of the rel­ev­ant tool. For min­ing, you will need a Pick­axe; for Herb­al­ism you will need a Sickle; and for Fish­ing you will need a Fish­ing Pole.

With Gath­er­ing Skills, dif­fer­ent types of min­er­als, plants and fish are avail­able at dif­fer­ent levels. You will need to find the right loc­a­tion in order to prac­tise your skill until you reach a higher level. Depend­ing on where you are on the World Map, and your skill level, some resources will be avail­able to you, and some won’t.

Pro­cessing Skills

There are many dif­fer­ent types of Pro­cessing Skill avail­able to play­ers of vary­ing levels and include examples such as Cook­ing, Cast­ing and Refining.

The simplest of these skills is Cook­ing which is avail­able from very early on in the game and can be learnt as part of the Novice Quests.

Pro­cessing Skills gen­er­ally require the player to have learnt the rel­ev­ant recipe or plan in order to pro­cess their items, and will also often require a player to be within a cer­tain dis­tance of, for instance, a Phar­macy Stove, or a Cast­ing Bench.

In the example of Cook­ing how­ever, play­ers may prac­tise their skill anywhere.

Hint: Prac­tising skills con­sumes Vigour. To reduce your Vigour con­sump­tion when Cook­ing, play­ers above level 30 may visit Rose Wei [131, 152] in Luo Yang to learn the Regi­men Skill.

Levelling-​Up

To level-​up a Life Skill play­ers must visit the Mas­ter of the skill they would like to level-​up and should choose the option to upgrade their skill.

You may find Skill Mas­ters in any one of the three main cit­ies in TLBB

Levelling-​up a skill requires three things: gold, pro­fi­ciency, and XP:

• Firstly, a player must be able to afford the cost of lev­el­ling up.
• Secondly, a player must have achieved suf­fi­cient pro­fi­ciency in the skill in order to pro­gress to the next level. Your pro­fi­ciency rat­ing can be found by click­ing on the skill in the Life Skills tab of the Skills menu (Alt+S).
• Finally, a player must expend XP from their XP bar to pay for the level-​up.

Provid­ing a player can meet these three require­ments, they are able to level up their Life Skill.

To upgrade a Life Skill bey­ond level 5, play­ers should join a Guild, and speak to the appro­pri­ate Guild NPC.

For more inform­a­tion on skills, includ­ing video guides pos­ted by com­munity mem­bers, please visit the TLBB Wiki.