Masters & Skills
Summary
You can unlock Skills by visiting the Masters around Quill, and fulfilling their requirements. Gift them what they ask for and you'll receive new abilities which can improve your gardening, melee and ranged combat, cooking, exploring and fishing.
Twig
Twig is the Fishing Master, from whom you can get the following skills:
• Hook Item - Be able to snag items other than fish, for instance proverbs that might be on out of reach rocks.
• Unzipped Fly - Lure ripple radius increas.e
• Big Hook - More lenient radius for landing on instant hooking fish.
• Fish Eye - Highlights where the fish are.
• Dace in the Hole - Gives pinpoint accuracy so your lure lands in centre of the target zone.
• Fish Food - Throw food in and all fish will swarm towards it.
• Map - Fish Locations are shown on the local map
• Codswallop - Makes a big splash and fish within the landing radius will fly up and land on the hook.
Jogon
Jogon is the Melee Combat Master, from whom you can get the following skills:
• Parry - Block incoming assault and projectiles
• Tri-Combo - 3rd combo strike
• Pet Support - Start with one pet slot then gain an second
• Syphon - Critical hits steals enemy stamina and gives it to you
• Goddess Power - Allows you to use use effigies in combat to rain down a special attack
• Second Wind - The player is not killed and gets a quarter of their health bar back
• Boundless - Every 50 stamina used, the player enters a zen-like mode where they have some infinite stamina
• Hammerfall - 10 parries in a row causes Jogon to leap straight down and shockwave all enemies with damage and stun.
Moon
Moon is the Ranged Combat Master, from whom you can get the following skills:
• Strongarm - Don't lose stamina while aiming
• Scavenge - 25% chance to recoup an arrow after shooting
• Finisher - If one of the smaller enemies has less than 10% health, an arrow will finish them off
• Reflecting Arrow - Chance an arrow may hit one target then go hit another
• Split Arrow - Four arrows are shot and distributed among enemies. If 1 enemy, they get all four. Is charged
• Headshot - Crits do 25% more damage and lower STR by 3 permanently
• Elementality - Arrows have a 10% chance to be an ice arrow / 10% chance to be a fire arrow / 10% chance to be a lightning arrow. Weather increases relevant arrow type to 50% (100 for lightning storm)
• Moonrise - Moon appears and angles up her bow and rains down arrows for x seconds onto one enemy - effigy activated one use. for now 10 damage per arrow
Marshtyt
Marshtyt is the Gardening Master, from whom you can get the following skills:
• Hard - Planted seeds last all year
• Reproduce - Veg give seeds when cut
• Hydrate - Plant waters itself 1 day
• Tasty - Adds 1 star to quality
• Quick Grow - Grows in 1 day less
• Never Rot - No rotten fruit even from brownies (only fairy rings)
• Bounty - Double pickings
• Supersweet - Fruit never fails in cooking
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard is the Cooking Master, from whom you can get the following skills:
• Simpleton’s Stew - Stew recipe. Virility, Strength and Barter Traits
• Dough Nut - As an expert with dough, you get a bit more dough for pie rolling
• Jamboree - Two jams from each crafting attempt
• Cherry on Top - Desserts get 50% chance of 1 extra star
• Rod’s Stew Art - Get 2 x stews and soup yield
• 𝝿r2 - Get two pies from crafting one recipe
• King of Clubs - Get triple yield from sandwiches and bread
• Culinary Magic -'Save’ a burned or poor quality crafted item by regaining at least one lost quality star