# Life Skills

Skills can broadly be separated into two types:

\-          Gathering skills

\-          Production skills

Gathering skills relate to players interacting with the world to extract natural resources that serve a purpose within the game. Nodes disguised as trees, rocks, and pools of fish (for instance) will be scattered throughout the world, and players with the necessary equipment will be prompted to interact with them to obtain their resources.  

Production skills relate to players crafting items using the raw resources gathered. That monster meat or delectable fish you’ve acquired might help to regain lifeforce, give you a boost of power or even unlock quests!

Let’s dive deeper into the detail.<br>

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[Mining](/gameplay/life-skills/mining.md)
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[Fishing](/gameplay/life-skills/fishing.md)
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[Woodcutting](/gameplay/life-skills/woodcutting.md)
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[Cooking](/gameplay/life-skills/cooking.md)
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[Crafting](/gameplay/life-skills/crafting.md)
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[Smithing](/gameplay/life-skills/smithing.md)
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