Village skills

Village skills

A player of the Village walk has three gathering skills: foraging, mining and fishing. Each thing gathered gives its skill experience. A skill rises a level with enough experience, and a higher level makes gathering better.

The module is extensions/village/skills.mojo. VillageGame keeps the player's Skills, and gives them the experience of each thing gathered.

The skills

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Skill	Gathered from	Experience for each thing	What a higher level does
FORAGING	Herbs, mushrooms and berries	10, 6 and 4	From level 5, FORAGE_BONUS_LEVEL, each pick gives one thing more.
MINING	Ore	30	A boulder takes one strike fewer for each 3 levels, MINING_STEP. It takes 3 strikes at levels 1 to 3, 2 at levels 4 to 6, and 1 from level 7.
FISHING	Fish	25	A fish bites sooner. The wait is FISH_HASTE, 6 percent, shorter for each level over 1.

Coins and trinkets give no experience.

The levels

A skill begins at level 1, and stops at MAX_LEVEL, 10. level_experience gives the experience that a level needs: 25 times one less than the level, times the level.

Level	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Experience	50	150	300	500	750	1,050	1,400	1,800	2,250

When a skill rises a level, the note over the prompt says so, such as MINING LEVEL 2!.

The display

The heads-up display lists each skill with experience in the top left. A line gives the name, the level, and the experience out of what the next level needs, such as MINING 2 60/150. A skill at level 10 shows its experience alone. See Village gathering.

How the game uses the levels

Gathering does not know the skills. It holds three settings, and VillageGame sets them from the levels before each frame:

Setting	From	What it does
ore_strikes	ore_strikes(level)	How many strikes a boulder takes to give its ore
forage_bonus	forage_bonus(level)	How many more things a pick of herbs, mushrooms or berries gives
fish_haste	fish_haste(level)	The share of a fish's usual wait that it waits

After Gathering.update gives something, Skills.gain adds its experience. gain returns the skill if it rose a level.

Limits

• The skills last as long as the game. They are not saved.
• A level does not change what a chest or a trinket gives.