What trains each skill
| Skill | How you train it | A few things to work towards |
|---|---|---|
| Mining | Mine stone, ores and soil. | Prospector, Vein, Smelting and wider Excavate. |
| Foraging | Chop logs with an axe. | Lumberjack, Timber and Arborist. |
| Farming | Harvest ripe crops, sugar cane, cactus, pumpkins, melons, bamboo, kelp and berries. | Replenish, Bounty and wider Harvest. |
| Combat | Defeat mobs, including spawner stacks. | Cleave and Lifesteal. |
| Fishing | Catch fish, treasure and junk with a rod. | Angler, Patience and Trawler. |
XP gains appear above your hotbar. Open /skills to see your totals, next rank and available perks.
XP comes from what your island grows and makes. Logs, ores, pumpkins, cane and other blocks you placed yourself pay nothing when you break them again, and never roll bonus drops.
XP earns the right to rank up
Each skill has 25 ranks. Once you have enough XP, buy the next rank with coins in the Skills menu. Earning XP and buying a rank are separate steps. If an enchantment is still locked, check your purchased rank.
Every 500 skill XP is a milestone worth a Sky Shard and 25 Sky XP. Training pays up to 30 milestones a day, shared by all skills; after that your skills keep growing, and the Shards and Sky XP return the next day. The Skills menu shows how many you have had today.
A skill at rank 25 keeps counting XP. Every 250,000 XP past rank 25 earns it a mastery star, shown in /skills and on your profile.
Sky level is separate again. It runs from 1 to 50 and gates purchases such as machinery and extra vaults. Levels 51 to 100 are Ascension: the same Sky XP keeps counting, and every tenth level earns a title (Cloudwalker, Stormrider, Starborn, Astral and Zenith) with the Zenith name style at 100. Ascension rewards are cosmetic, can't be bought and wait in /cosmetics once you reach them. Your green Minecraft XP bar is used for ordinary enchanting and anvil work. It is not your Mining or Sky level.
Milestones worth knowing
| Rank | Skill | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Farming | Replenish can replant even when no seed is available. |
| 11 | Farming | Harvest reaches a 5 × 5 patch. |
| 13 | Mining | Excavate reaches a 5 × 5 layer. |
| 15 | Farming | You stop trampling farmland. |
| 20 | Combat | Lifesteal heals a full heart instead of half a heart. |
Enchantments must still be on a compatible tool. The enchantment guide lists the tools and required ranks.