Survivor Skills is a skill tree in Dying Light.
The survivor rank gives you access to supporting abilities, blueprints and gadgets. The higher your rank, the better the equipment offered by shops. Better equipment can also be found in containers (almost always the same as what merchants offer). However, having a higher rank means the enemies get tougher and, in case of humans, use better weapons.
How to increase level[]
- Complete Quests
- Help and rescue other survivors
- Participate in challenges
- Survive through the night, outside of Safe Zones
- Deliver D.R.O.P.s to a Quartermaster
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Survivor skills[]
| Skill | Icon | Type | Requires | Description |
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| Backpacker |  |
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"Learn how to use space in your backpack more efficiently. Gain 4 new slots for carrying weapons." |
| Barter |  |
Passive |
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"Get better at haggling. Lowers prices in shops by 10%." |
| Boosters |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to use plants to create Boosters, which allow you to fight without getting tired, run faster, see better in darkness, or develop more resistance to attacks." |
| Booster XL |  |
Passive |
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"Boosters have much longer-lasting effects." |
| Camouflage |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to use dead bodies to camouflage yourself from the Infected." |
| Camouflage Attack |  |
Passive |
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"Learn how to attack the Infected while using Camouflage, without drawing unwanted attention." |
| Crafting Expertise |  |
Passive |
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"Get better at crafting. Create more items from the same materials." |
| Craftsman |  |
Passive |
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"Learn how to use weapon Blueprints more effectively - every time you use a crafted weapon the elemental effect is increased and you deal more damage." |
| DIY Grenades |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to create 4 types of DIY Grenades — regular, bleeding, freezing and toxic." |
| Electric Fences |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to use Electric Fence traps." |
| Elemental Throwing Stars |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to create Throwing Stars with 3 additional effects: freezing, burning and exploding." |
| Exploding Cars |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to use Exploding Car traps." |
| Grappling Hook |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to create and use a Grappling Hook to traverse the environment with greater freedom. If you ever lose your Grappling Hook you can get a new one from the Quartermaster." |
| Haggle |  |
Passive |
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"Get even better at haggling. Lowers prices in shops by an additional 10%." |
| Hard Bargain | |
Passive |
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"Get better at trading. Increases the price of items you sell." |
| Lucky Repair |  |
Passive |
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"Get better at repairs. Repairing a weapon will often not use a weapon's repair slot." |
| Master Backpacker |  |
Passive |
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"Learn how to use space in your backpack more wisely. Gain 6 more slots for carrying weapons." |
| Nimble Hands |  |
Passive |
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"Searching dead bodies is much faster. There's also a chance to find more loot while doing it." |
| Shield Crafting |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to add elemental effects to Shields. If you block at the right time, your Shield will produce an additional effect: electrical, freezing or impact." |
| Shield Mastery |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to craft a Shield and use it in combat." |
| Specialist |  |
Passive |
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"Learn how to use weapon Blueprints more effectively - you'll score more critical hits." |
| Survival Starter Kit |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to craft the most basic things needed for survival - Lockpicks, Firecrackers, Simple Throwing Stars and Molotov Cocktails." |
| Trap Bombs |  |
Active |
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"Learn how to create Bombs that draw the Infected and then detonate with 3 additional effects - exploding, bleeding and toxic." |
| Ultimate Survivor |  |
Passive |
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"You are the legend of Harran. You get an additional health boost and learn how to use Grappling Hook, Shield and Camouflage more effectively." |
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Weapons available on each Survivor level[]
Note 1: the list only includes weapons not available on the previous level. This means that if a weapon continues to appear through multiple levels, it is not listed multiple times (mostly applies to firearms).
Note 2: Weapons only available at merchants, through dockets or in enemy drops (f.e. certain zombies and humans) are not listed (i.e., heavy weapons, bows, weapons that start to appear in chests later than on enemies, etc.).
| Level | Melee | Ranged | Notes |
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| 1 |
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None | Outside of mods, this level is the only that allows the player to obtain rusty weapons above the gray level of rarity |
| 2 |
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None | Although no pistols spawn, it's possible to find ammo for them (including for suppressed pistols) |
| 3 |
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The pistols that spawn could be related to Dawud's quest in that the game might be force-spawning more (though it's still possible to find them after the quest); Ammo for rifles and shotguns starts to appear too, with pistol ammo getting rarer. |
| 4 |
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None | |
| 5 |
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None | |
| 6 |
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None | Heavy axes start to appear in merchants' offers |
| 7 |
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None | Sledgehammers start to appear in merchants' offers |
| 8 |
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None | Better 2-handed weapons (axes, sledgehammers) appear at merchants |
| 9 |
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None* | Heavy bulawas start to appear at merchants
* While no new ranged weapons appear in containers, merchants start to sell bows and arrows; They may also occasionally sell a pistol |
| 10 |
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Pickaxes start to appear at merchants
* Also available at merchants |
| 11 |
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None | Military throwing knives are now offered by merchants |
| 12 |
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Merchants will now sell special arrow types (electric, incendiary), as well as non-skin variants of rifles |
| 13 |
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| 14 |
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| 15 |
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None | |
| 16 |
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None | |
| 17 |
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None | |
| 18 |
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All rifle variants, as well as composite pistols, will now regularly appear in merchants' offers |
| 19 |
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None | |
| 20 |
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None | |
| 21 |
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None* | * Composite shotguns will now occassionally appear at merchants |
| 22 |
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None | |
| 23 |
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None | |
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* Also appears at merchants, alongside golden German and American pistols |