RPG Skills — Reference

01The ten skills

Skill	Trained by	Milestone bonus
Mining	Breaking ores and stone	+1 guaranteed bonus drop per milestone (up to +7)
Woodcutting	Chopping logs	+1 guaranteed bonus drop per milestone (up to +7)
Excavation	Digging dirt, sand, gravel and clay	+1 guaranteed bonus drop per milestone (up to +7)
Herbalism	Harvesting fully-grown crops and plants	+1 guaranteed bonus drop per milestone (up to +7)
Fishing	Reeling in fish	+8 XP per catch per milestone; treasure from milestone 5
Swords	Dealing damage with a sword	+1 bonus damage per milestone (up to +8)
Axes	Dealing damage with an axe	+1 bonus damage per milestone (up to +8)
Archery	Hitting targets with a bow or crossbow	+1 bonus arrow damage per milestone (up to +8)
Unarmed	Fighting bare-fisted	+1 bonus damage per milestone (up to +8)
Acrobatics	Surviving fall damage and absorbing hits	−2 incoming fall and hit damage per milestone

02XP per action

The experience granted by each action. Rarer blocks and larger hits are worth proportionally more.

Mining ores
Block	XP
Stone · Deepslate · Netherrack · common stone	3
Coal ore	15
Copper ore · Nether Quartz ore	18
Iron ore · Redstone ore · Lapis ore	25
Gold ore · Nether Gold ore	35
Diamond ore	75
Emerald ore	100
Ancient Debris	150

Other skills
Skill	Action	XP granted
Woodcutting	Each log, wood or stem broken	20
Excavation	Each dirt, sand, gravel or clay block	8
Herbalism	Each fully-grown crop or plant	14
Fishing	Each fish reeled in	40 (+8 per Fishing milestone)
Swords · Axes · Unarmed · Archery	Damage dealt to a target	4 × damage (capped at remaining HP)
Acrobatics	Surviving a fall · absorbing a hit	5 × fall damage · 2 × damage reduced

03Levelling and power

Each skill levels independently from 0 to 10,000. Early levels are quick and the pace gradually slows.
Bonuses unlock at fixed level milestones, with no random chance. Each milestone a skill passes adds one flat, guaranteed tier of its bonus.
Your power level is the sum of all ten skill levels. It is ranked on /skilltop, and /skills shows the next milestone for each skill.
Skills are trained only in the survival world while in survival mode. Activity in creative or the hub grants no experience.

04Milestone bonuses

Bonuses increase at the exact levels below; each tier is permanent once reached. The value shown is the cumulative total held at that level.

Gathering — Mining · Woodcutting · Excavation · Herbalism
Level	Cumulative advantage
100	+1 guaranteed bonus drop per block
500	+2 guaranteed bonus drops per block
1,500	+3 guaranteed bonus drops per block
3,000	+4 guaranteed bonus drops per block
5,000	+5 guaranteed bonus drops per block
7,500	+6 guaranteed bonus drops per block
10,000	+7 guaranteed bonus drops per block

Combat — Swords · Axes · Unarmed · Archery
Level	Cumulative advantage
50	+1 bonus damage per hit
200	+2 bonus damage per hit
500	+3 bonus damage per hit
1,000	+4 bonus damage per hit
2,500	+5 bonus damage per hit
5,000	+6 bonus damage per hit
7,500	+7 bonus damage per hit
10,000	+8 bonus damage per hit

Acrobatics — Damage mitigation
Level	Cumulative advantage
50	−2 incoming fall and hit damage
200	−4 incoming fall and hit damage
500	−6 incoming fall and hit damage
1,000	−8 incoming fall and hit damage
2,500	−10 incoming fall and hit damage
5,000	−12 incoming fall and hit damage
7,500	−14 incoming fall and hit damage
10,000	−16 incoming fall and hit damage (near-immune to falls)

Fishing — Catch rewards
Level	Cumulative advantage
50	+8 XP per catch
200	+16 XP per catch
500	+24 XP per catch
1,000	+32 XP per catch
2,500	+40 XP per catch; treasure on every catch
5,000	+48 XP per catch; treasure on every catch
7,500	+56 XP per catch; treasure on every catch
10,000	+64 XP per catch; treasure on every catch

05How XP and levels work

The cost of each level rises steadily. Advancing from one level to the next costs 40 + 8 × (current level) XP, so the total XP required to reach level L is 4L² + 36L. Early levels pass quickly; reaching level 10,000 is a long-term goal.

Level	XP for that level	Total XP to reach
10	112	760
50	432	11,800
100	832	43,600
500	4,032	1,018,000
1,000	8,032	4,036,000
10,000	80,032	400,360,000

06Live readouts

Experience bar. A bar appears at the top of the screen whenever experience is gained, showing the skill, current level and progress to the next level. It fades shortly after activity stops, and is colour-coded by skill category.
Sidebar panel. /skills sidebar pins a panel listing every skill level and your power level. It updates on each level-up and persists until toggled off.

07Active abilities

Four skills grant a right-click active ability — a powerful, short-lived effect. Holding the matching tool and right-clicking primes the ability; it then fires on the next qualifying action. Priming is free, and the cooldown begins only once the ability fires.

Ability	Tool	Skill	Effect
Super Breaker	Pickaxe	Mining	Efficiency V and Haste II on the pickaxe, plus a guaranteed bonus drop.
Giga Drill Breaker	Shovel	Excavation	Efficiency V and Haste II on the shovel, plus a guaranteed bonus drop.
Tree Chopper	Axe	Woodcutting	Fells the entire tree in one break, plus Haste II.
Serrated Strikes	Sword	Swords	Sharpness V on the sword for the duration.

Mechanics

Unlock	Reach level 50 in the ability's own skill.
Prime	Right-click while holding the tool. A four-second priming window opens; the cooldown is not yet spent.
Trigger	Within that window, break a matching block (Super Breaker, Giga Drill Breaker, Tree Chopper) or strike a mob (Serrated Strikes).
Duration	6 seconds at level 50, increasing by 1 second every 250 levels, to a 20-second maximum.
Cooldown	60 seconds, tracked independently for each ability.
Temporary enchants	Super Breaker and Giga Drill Breaker grant Efficiency V; Serrated Strikes grants Sharpness V. The tool's original enchantment is restored the moment the ability ends.
Disable	Run /skills abilities to turn priming off entirely; right-click then behaves normally.

On-screen indicators

Switching to an ability tool shows its status on the action bar: ready, cooling down, or not yet unlocked.
Activation produces a burst of enchantment particles and a countdown timer for the remaining duration.
Right-clicking during the cooldown reports the time remaining until the ability is ready again.

08Passives and rules

Green Thumb. At Herbalism level 50, harvesting a seed-bearing crop (wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, nether wart) automatically replants it. This is always active and requires no command.
Silk Touch. Breaking a block with a Silk Touch tool grants no experience, bonus drops or ability trigger, to prevent re-placing and re-breaking the same blocks for levels.
Immature crops. Only fully-grown crops grant Herbalism experience.
Survival only. Experience and bonuses apply solely in the survival world while in survival mode.

09Commands

Command	Description
`/skills`	Open the skills menu — every skill, its level, XP to the next level, and your power level.
`/skills sidebar`	Toggle a live side panel listing every skill level and your power level. Persists across sessions. Aliases: /skills hud, /skills bar.
`/skilltop`	Leaderboard of players ranked by power level. Aliases: /mmotop, /powertop.
`/skills abilities`	Enable or disable the right-click active abilities. Your choice is saved.

Staff commands — operator only

Command	Description
`/thrive set <player> <skill> <level>`	Set one of a player's skills to a level.
`/thrive setall <player> <level>`	Set every one of a player's skills to a level.
`/thrive add <player> <skill> <levels>`	Add or subtract levels from a skill.
`/thrive reset <player>`	Reset a player's skills to zero.
`/thrive get <player>`	Display a player's levels and power level. Alias: /skilladmin.

These commands are also listed in-game under /help. Each level-up reports the levels remaining to the next milestone and the bonus it grants; below level 50, it counts down to the skill's active ability.