All Skills in RuneScape Dragonwilds

By Ambar Jimenez | 2025-04-17 08:52:50

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From the moment you begin your adventure in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, core activities like chopping trees, mining ore, and cooking form the foundation of your survival. As you consistently engage in these actions, your proficiency grows, and you'll eventually unlock new skills that significantly enhance your gameplay. This guide provides a complete list of all currently available unlockable survival skills in RuneScape Dragonwilds, categorized by their respective paths.

RuneScape Dragonwilds: All Skills

Understanding Skill Progression:

While the in-game menu might suggest level progression up to 99 for each skill, the current early access version of RuneScape: Dragonwilds primarily grants rewards for the first 49 levels in each skill path. Most levels provide incremental passive bonuses, such as a 1% reduction in stamina cost for specific actions. However, certain milestone levels unlock more significant new abilities and crafting options.Here is a breakdown of all the currently available skill paths and their key unlocks:

Attack Path:

Passive Bonus: Each level in this path reduces attack stamina cost by 1%.
Key Skills:
- Level 5: Parry: Time your blocks precisely to deflect incoming attacks, staggering enemies and providing a temporary damage boost to your subsequent attacks.
- Level 8: Melee Weapon Special Actions: Grants access to unique and powerful special moves that can be executed with your equipped melee weapons.
- Level 11: Tempest Shield: Summon a temporary shield of swirling air magic that completely blocks all incoming damage. Upon its expiration, the shield unleashes a powerful burst of energy, damaging nearby enemies.
- Level 16: Weapon Expertise: Unlocks new and versatile attack options for all types of melee weapons you wield.
- Level 20: Enchant Weapon: Fire: Imbue your currently equipped melee weapon with fiery magic. Critical hits dealt with this enchanted weapon will apply a burning damage-over-time effect to the target.
- Level 23: Adaptability: Your character will no longer be interrupted out of melee attack combos when performing evasive maneuvers (dodging) or blocking incoming attacks.
- Level 27: Weapon Rack: Unlocks the ability to construct a Weapon Rack within your shelter. This furniture allows you to display your prized melee weapons.
- Level 30: Enchant Weapon: Air: Enhance your melee weapon with the swiftness of air magic, significantly increasing its attack speed.
- Level 34: Lesser Potion of Attack: Unlocks the brewing recipe for the Lesser Potion of Attack at a Brewing Cauldron.
- Level 37: Training Dummy: Allows you to build a Training Dummy within your shelter. This interactive object enables you to practice and familiarize yourself with your melee weapon attack patterns and special actions.
- Level 40: Whetstone: Unlocks the ability to craft Whetstones at a crafting station. Using a Whetstone on a melee weapon will temporarily sharpen it, granting a bonus to its damage output.

Mining Path:

Passive Bonus: Each level in this path boosts your mining critical hit chance by 1%, potentially yielding more resources when mining.
Key Unlocks:
- Level 5: Lift With Your Hips: Reduces the weight of raw stone, clay, and sand materials in yourinventory by 25%, allowing you to carry more of these heavy resources.
- Level 11: Rocksplosion: Unleashes a powerful magical blast that can instantly shatter largestone and ore boulders, providing a quick way to gather resources.
- Level 16: Gem Prospector: Grants a passive chance to discover precious gemstones while mining ore veins, providing valuable resources for trading or crafting.
- Level 20: Mine Crumbled Walls: Enables you to use your pickaxe to demolish visibly crumbled wallsfound in the environment, often revealing hidden areas, secret passages, or additional resources.
- Level 24: Detect Ore and Clay: Allows you to summon temporary Stone Spirits that will visually guideyou to nearby deposits of ore and clay, making resource gathering moreefficient.
- Level 36: Not-so-Heavy Metal: Reduces the weight of all metal ores (such as copper, tin, iron, etc.)in your inventory by 25%, similar to the benefit for stone materials.

Woodcutting Path:

Passive Bonus: Each level in this path decreases the stamina cost associated withchopping down trees by 1%, allowing you to harvest more wood beforetiring.
Notable Skills:
- Level 4: Overhead Chop: Unlocks a powerful overhead chopping attack. This attack isparticularly effective against fallen logs, allowing you to quicklybreak them down into usable wood, but it is less efficient againststanding trees.
- Level 11: Axtral Projection: Summons a spectral axe made of pure energy that flies forward in aline, instantly chopping down any trees in its path. This is a fast andefficient way to harvest wood from multiple trees at once.
- Level 16: Bird Nests: Trees you chop down now have a chance to drop bird nests. These nestscan contain various valuable items, such as seeds, feathers, or evensmall amounts of coins.
- Level 20: Chop Thorny Vines: Grants you the ability to clear dense and thorny vines blockingpathways using your hatchet, allowing you to uncover hidden paths andaccess previously unreachable areas.
- Level 27: Splinter: A magical strike that can be used on already fallen trees. Whenactivated, it instantly splits the entire log into a stack of usablewood logs, saving you time and effort.
- Level 40: Lumber Storage: Unlocks the ability to construct a large storage unit specificallydesigned for holding a significant quantity of logs and planks withinyour shelter, helping you manage your wood resources.

Artisan Path:

Passive Bonus: Each level in this path reduces the durability loss on all yourequipped equipment (weapons, armor, tools) by 1%, making them lastlonger before needing repair.
Major Skills:
- Level 11: Bark to Bones: Transforms a harvested tree into a pile of useful animal bones usingalchemical processes. This provides an alternative way to obtain bonesfor crafting or other uses.
- Level 20: Superheat: Temporarily boosts the processing speed of all fire-based craftingstations you own (e.g., furnace, cooking range), allowing you to produce crafted items faster for a short duration.
- Level 27: Magical Mending: Allows you to instantly repair all damaged pieces of your equipped gear using natural magic, eliminating the need for repair kits or specificrepair stations. This has a cooldown.
- Level 40: Decorated Adventurer: Unlocks the recipe for the Armor Mannequin. This furniture allows youto display a full set of your collected armor within your shelter,showcasing your achievements and providing a visual representation ofyour gear.

Construction Path:

Passive Bonus: This path does not provide ongoing passive bonuses. Instead, it unlocks new building capabilities at specific milestone levels, expanding thevariety and complexity of structures you can create.
Key Unlocks:
- Level 3: Middle Ground: Grants access to crafting medium-sized structural building pieces, offering more flexibility in your shelter design.
- Level 5: Fine Details: Unlocks smaller and more intricate building components, allowing for finer customization and detail in your constructions.
- Level 8: Sacred Geometry: Triangular building pieces become available, enabling the creation of more unique and structurally sound designs.
- Level 11: Eye of Oculus: Allows you to temporarily transform into the mystical Eye of Oculus.While in this form, your building perspective is enhanced, makingplacement and alignment of building pieces significantly easier and more intuitive.
- Level 16: Creature Comforts: Unlocks a variety of decorative items and furniture that you can craftand place within your shelter to personalize your living space.
- Level 18: Oak: Unlocks the ability to harvest and use Oak logs, the next tier ofconstruction materials, offering increased durability and potentiallynew building options.
- Level 20: Summon Shelter: Grants the ability to cast an astral magic spell to create a temporary, small shelter at your current location. This can provide quick refugefrom the elements or hostile creatures while exploring.
- Level 40: Personal Chest: Unlocks the ability to craft and place a Personal Chest. This specialstorage container can be accessed remotely from any location in thegame, providing convenient inventory management.

Cooking Path:

Passive Bonus: Each level in this path increases the chance of producing "delicious"(higher quality or more potent) food items by 1% when using a cookingrange.
Major Skills:
- Level 11: Fancy Cookware: Unlocks the recipe for the Pan Rack, a buildable kitchen furnishingthat can enhance your cooking efficiency or provide additional storagefor cooking-related items.
- Level 20: Internal Alchemy: Allows you to instantly reset the active effects of any food and drinkcurrently affecting your character in a visually impressive "culinarydisplay." This can be useful for strategically consuming multiple buffs.
- Level 27: Bones to Peaches: Grants the ability to magically convert discarded animal bones intofresh, edible peaches, providing a sustainable and unexpected foodsource.
- Level 40: Yes, Chef!: Unlocks the recipe for crafting the Chef’s Hat at a crafting station.Wearing the Chef's Hat may provide additional bonuses to cooking orfood-related activities.

Runecrafting Path:

Passive Bonus: This path focuses entirely on unlocking milestone abilities andcrafting options related to runes, without providing ongoing passivebenefits per level.
Key Unlocks:
- Level 8: Windstep: Harness the power of air magic to perform significantly higher leapsand fall more slowly, enhancing your exploration and traversalcapabilities.
- Level 11: Earth Runes: Unlocks the ability to craft Earth Runes at the Rune Altar, allowing you to utilize earth magic for spells or crafting.
- Level 13: Fire Runes: Grants access to the crafting recipe for Fire Runes at the Rune Altar, essential for fire-based magic and crafting.
- Level 16: Law Runes: Allows you to create Law Runes at the Rune Altar, often used for teleportation spells or more advanced magical applications.
- Level 18: Nature Runes: Unlocks the crafting of Nature Runes at the Rune Altar, typically usedfor healing spells or interacting with the natural world.
- Level 20: Fire Spirit: Summons a small, friendly fire spirit that will follow you andilluminate your path in dark areas, acting as a mobile light source.
- Level 27: Essential Strength: Magically halves the weight of Rune Essence in your inventory, makingit much easier to carry larger quantities for rune crafting.

Skills Coming Soon:

The guide notes that the Ranged, Magic, and Farming skill paths are planned to be available in future updates. We willupdate this article with details on these skills as they are introducedinto the game.

By understanding these unlockable survival skills and strategically leveling them up, you cansignificantly enhance your capabilities and thrive in the challengingworld of RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Choose your progression wisely based on your preferred playstyle and the challenges you face!

Platform(s): Microsoft Windows PC

Genre(s): Action role-playing

Developer(s): Jagex Ltd

Publisher(s): Jagex Ltd

Mode: Single-player, multiplayer

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