combat skill
Combat
Damage, weapon mastery, hostile encounters, and combat milestones.
Levels 1–100Character mastery
Train what
you do.
Skills replace the old need for a ladder of cosmetic progression ranks. The player remains a Survivor while the character becomes a veteran fighter, master forger, obsessive miner, expert fisher, or whatever strange hybrid the world creates.
Skill catalogThree families.
Three families.
One character.
Definitions are database-driven so HardcoreRPG can add, retire, reorder, or rebalance skills without rebuilding the website.
combat skill
Defense
Surviving damage, blocking, armor use, and defensive encounters.
Levels 1–100combat skill
Hunting
Tracking and defeating dangerous custom creatures and bosses.
Levels 1–100gathering skill
Mining
Ore extraction, deep-world discoveries, and rare mineral recovery.
Levels 1–100gathering skill
Woodcutting
Timber harvesting, rare wood finds, and forestry progression.
Levels 1–100gathering skill
Excavation
Soil, sand, clay, archaeology, and buried resource discovery.
Levels 1–100gathering skill
Farming
Crops, husbandry, harvest quality, and agricultural progression.
Levels 1–100gathering skill
Fishing
Fishing, treasure catches, biome discoveries, and rare aquatic loot.
Levels 1–100artisan skill
Forging
Forge advanced armor and tools, improve quality, and shape endgame gear.
Levels 1–100artisan skill
Crafting
Create specialized components, utilities, recipes, and equipment.
Levels 1–100artisan skill
Enchanting
Imbue gear with controlled magical properties and advanced enhancements.
Levels 1–100artisan skill
Alchemy
Brew consumables, reagents, catalysts, and temporary enhancements.
Levels 1–100Combat familyDanger teaches
Danger teaches
different lessons.
Combat XP should reward meaningful encounters rather than idle farms. Defense should care about surviving real pressure. Hunting can focus specifically on custom mobs, elites, bosses, discoveries, and difficult kills.
Offense
Weapon use, damage, kill credit, encounter difficulty, combo milestones, and boss participation can drive offensive mastery.
Skill-gated perks · configurable XPEndurance
Blocking, armor use, survival under pressure, difficult mitigation events, and defensive mastery become their own progression path.
Reward survival, not damage farmingBestiary collection
Collect creature-compatible materials with biome, resonance, and source provenance. This item collection is separate from the eleven persistent skill tracks.
2,048 item definitions in plugin 1.6.0Gathering familyThe world itself
The world itself
becomes progression.
Mining, Woodcutting, Farming, and Fishing are the gathering tracks shipped in HardcoreRPG 1.6.0. They turn eligible Minecraft actions into persistent skill progress.
Mining
Mining skill XP comes from eligible block breaks. Runtime-placed blocks are excluded, with a separate per-minute cap.
Woodcutting
Eligible wood gathering advances a persistent track with configured source values and anti-farm limits.
Farming
Eligible crop actions add their own persistent progression track, with source values managed by plugin configuration.
Fishing
Fishing contributes to the same character-wide progression model while its own skill level persists independently.
Artisan familyThe late game
Open Forge →The late game
belongs to makers.
Forging, Crafting, Enchanting, and Alchemy give dropped materials somewhere to go. A boss kill can matter because the resulting component creates a new build opportunity rather than another trophy chest.
Forging
Forge skill and RPG level requirements gate configured recipes. Forged equipment can grow gear XP through eligible play.
Crafting
Crafting skill supports the 32 Workbench campaign recipes and the skill-gated recipes in the Runic Forge.
Weapons & defense
Swords, Axes, Archery, Combat, and Defense each keep independent progress. Repeated attacks and per-minute limits discourage farming.