Perks 101

The player can access nearby containers when repairing items from the Repair & Salvage Station.

Secondary Fire while aiming with a ranged weapon will zoom your vision some.

You're making the best of a bad situation. You unlock the recipe for Dinner Placement, a rather exquisite meal.

Alternate Fire while aiming with a ranged weapon will zoom your vision.

You gain the confidence to properly handle more advanced firearms. You also learn the Bio-Metric Armwraps recipe.

Projectiles (like crossbow bolts) have a lower chance to break on impact.

Smaller creatures have a chance to run in fear when you fire a loud weapon.

You gain the advanced Bio-Mimic Armwraps recipe, allowing the use of specialized firearms.

You gain the advanced Bio-Fusion Imitator trinket recipe, allowing the use of all advanced and arcane firearms without the need for armwraps.

Projectiles and bullets fired from ranged weapons have a small chance to stun the target.

You gain a recipe for Anomalous Compost, aiding in the growth of your plants.

You gain a recipe for Anomalous Fertilizer, aiding greatly in the growth of your plants.

While within 15 meters of garden plants, they grow 10% faster. (Does not stack with multiple players.)

Plants planted by you have this perk attributed to them. The more plants in an area, the less water each individual plant consumes.

You gain a recipe for Anomalous Plant Food, aiding immensely in the growth of your plants.

When harvesting wild plants you receive 1 extra harvest.

You can do heavy windup attacks with blunt melee weapons. These attacks can not be performed with a shield.

Attacking with a blunt or heavy weapon during a sprint will result in a driving power attack.

You can stagger enemies more easily with blunt melee weapons.

Your Power Attacks use 50% less stamina per swing.

Enemies with resistance to Blunt... don't.

When using a blunt melee weapon, you have a chance to instantly explode enemies that are human-sized and smaller. Chance increases based on Strength level.

You can package small deployables twice as fast.

When dismantling furniture with a hammer, you have a 50% chance to receive double resources.

Deployable furniture now weighs 40% less in your inventory.

You can “over-repair” turrets, traps and furniture to 115% durability.

The cost of building fortifications, like barricades, walls, and ramps, is reduced by half.

The universe is a strange place and your meddling has certainly made it stranger. You have a chance to receive double furniture when successfully packaging an item that wasn't placed by you or a fellow scientist.

You can cook soups by filling a pot with water and adding ingredients.

You can see other players' hunger and thirst when close by.

All cooking-related recipes take half the time to craft.

You regain extra health every time your health regenerates. You also learn the recipe for the Oven and Raw Dough.

You unlock an advanced knife recipe. This knife is capable of cutting up corpses with no chance of getting useless scrap.

You learn the recipe for the Advanced Oven.

When your food has finished cooking, your acute chef senses begin to tingle, even if you are not nearby.

Soups, pies and similar foods cooked by you have 2 extra portions in them.

All food you place on a cooktop or in an oven cooks 25% faster.

You can access the first tier of Crafting Bench upgrades.

You can access the second tier of Crafting Bench upgrades.

When sharing recipes with others, they don't have to complete the research phase.

Items you craft have temporary, bonus durability.

When you repair an item there is a 50% chance you will repair it for free.

You can access the final tier of Crafting Bench upgrades.

When crafting, you have a small chance to use 1 less item when a recipe calls for more than 1 of the item.

When healing a teammate with a medical item, they also gain +5 hydration. This effect does not occur when healing yourself.

NEW RECIPE: Pentetic Acid Syringe, a syringe that prevents radiation buildup and removes existing radiation.

You can see all negative medical debuffs when up close to another player.

All splints heal bones faster when applied by you.

When reviving teammates they get a short healing buff and if reviving a teammate with a healing item the healing is increased by 20%.

You apply all medical items to yourself and to others twice as fast.

When reviving a teammate that would otherwise be on "Last Legs" instead grant them "Extra Down" which gives them one additional chance instead of dying outright.

You can now detect fishing hotspots and craft Fish Traps.

You gain the Tacklebox recipe.

You gain the Lucky Fishing Hat and Mud Waders recipes.

You now have a 33% chance to not lose your bait when fishing up junk.

Certain underwater creatures will no longer feel threatened by your presence.

When you successfully block an attack, your next melee attack within 2 seconds does extra damage.

You regenerate health a bit more frequently.

Resting (sitting on chair or floor) within 8 meters of other resting scientists doubles the resting rate.

You have slightly reduced fall damage and take less damage from environmental physics, such as vehicles.

You still regenerate stamina while blocking.

Enemies who contact you with melee attacks will have a chance to have some of their damage reflected back at them.

You regenerate 1 health every second.

You craft ammo twice as fast.

You can reload weapons you aren't otherwise qualified to use.

When you search soldiers, you sometimes find more ammo.

You are less clumsy at reloading all weaponry.

You can sprint and reload at the same time. You also reload weapons with a bit more skill.

Sometimes you find a few spare rounds when reloading. You are also an expert at reloading, with a bit of flair too.

You can throw sharp melee weapons.

You have a 25% higher chance to not end up with Bio Scrap when cutting up bodies.

Enemies killed by your Sharp melee attacks will outright die when they otherwise might have gone DBNO.

Your sharp attacks have a higher chance to cause Severe Bleeding to the target.

Slice through Sharp-resistant enemies as if they weren't resistant at all.

You have a very small chance to instantly kill small and medium-sized enemies.

The first attack on an idle or unaware enemy has a 25% chance to deal double damage.

You move 15% faster when crouching and can perform a roll by sprinting while crouched.

You don't trigger Tripwires, Tripwire Lasers, or Carbuncles, even when not crouching.

Your footsteps are much quieter and your chance to get a Sneak Attack is increased 50% at night.

Attacks on unaware enemies always deal double damage, even when standing.

Your extended universe-hopping has enhanced your strong sneaking abilities. Enemy attacks just sometimes... miss?

You have a chance to not lose stamina for an action that would normally use stamina.

Your stamina regen kicks in much more quickly after sprinting.

Along with your passive gains, you sprint 5% faster overall.

While sprinting, enemies are more likely to miss when targeting you.

Sprinting speed increases over several seconds. At max speed, you can stagger any medium-sized enemy if collided with.

You can shake Vending Machines & stomp Carbuncles in 1 hit.

You are strong enough to properly wield heavy melee weapons, and you can now smash open Vending Machines, which will permanently break them.

When bleeding near a hostile enemy, your melee attack damage and speed is enhanced.

You can wear any weight of armor without dropping into the heaviest weight class.

Your heavy melee weapon swings are noticeably faster.

Due to your extreme strength training, all items in your inventory weigh 25% less.

You can do a gentle, underhand toss with all throwable items.

You automatically pick up projectiles and weapons you've previously thrown, if you have room in your inventory.

Weapons thrown by you are highlighted to you for 30 seconds.

You can see the predicted path of your throwable items before throwing them.

You can see exactly how much time you have to cook an explosive before throwing it.

When crafting throwables (such as grenades) you get 1 additional item.

Hitting enemies with a thrown weapon has a slightly increased chance to stagger large enemies, a high chance to stagger medium-sized enemies and always staggers small enemies.

Thrown items and weapons sometimes split into 2 additional projectiles.