Skills

The Skills section covers the skills of New Bradford: what each skill does, how to use it, what tools and materials it needs, and how to train it. Click a skill's name for the full guide.

The table is sortable, so click a column heading to sort by it.

Skill	Category	What it does
Alchemy	Crafting & gathering	Grind reagents with a mortar and pestle into healing, cure, refresh, strength, agility, poison and explosion potions.
Anatomy	Combat	Judge a creature's strength and speed, add damage to your blows, and boost your Healing.
Archery	Combat	Fight at range with bows and crossbows, picking off foes from up to 10 tiles away.
Blacksmithy	Crafting & gathering	Hammer metal ingots into armor, shields and weapons at an anvil and forge, repair worn gear, fill bulk orders for runic hammers and power scrolls, and craft dragon scale armor.
Bowcraft/Fletching	Crafting & gathering	Cut wood into shafts, arrows and bolts, and craft bows and crossbows.
Carpentry	Crafting & gathering	Turn boards and logs into furniture, containers, instruments, staves and shields.
Cooking	Crafting & gathering	Turn flour, meat, fruit and eggs into breads, pies and meals.
Evaluating Intelligence	Magic	Size up a creature's mind and make your damaging spells hit harder.
Fencing	Combat	Fight with piercing weapons such as daggers, the kryss and spears.
Focus	Miscellaneous	Mental and physical concentration; it currently has no effect.
Healing	Combat	Treat wounds with bandages, cure poison and bring the dead back to life.
Lumberjacking	Crafting & gathering	Chop trees into logs for carpenters and bowyers, and hit harder with axes.
Mace Fighting	Combat	Fight with blunt weapons such as clubs, maces, hammers and staves.
Magery	Magic	Cast spells from a spellbook: heal, travel by rune, summon and destroy.
Meditation	Magic	Bring your mana back faster, especially while you sit and meditate.
Mining	Crafting & gathering	Dig ore from mountains and caves, smelt it into metal ingots for smiths and tinkers, and at Grandmaster, dig up granite and glass-quality sand.
Parrying	Combat	Block incoming blows with a shield.
Poisoning	Crafting & gathering	Coat blades and food with poison potions.
Resisting Spells	Magic	Shrug off part of every hostile spell that hits you.
Swordsmanship	Combat	Fight with bladed weapons: swords, axes and polearms.
Tactics	Combat	Make every weapon blow land harder.
Tailoring	Crafting & gathering	Sew cloth into clothing and cut leather and hides into leather, studded and bone armor, dye your work any color, and fill bulk orders for runic sewing kits, house decorations and power scrolls.
Taste Identification	Crafting & gathering	Taste food and potions to find out whether they are poisoned.
Wrestling	Combat	Fight with your bare hands, and block blows when you have no weapon.