Skills
As you play, your scientist levels up skills and unlocks perks — passive upgrades that reward how you actually play, from cooking and first aid to sprinting, crafting and combat. Abiotic Factor has 92 skill perks. The table below lists each perk with its exact in-game effect so you can decide which skills to prioritise and which perks are worth building toward.
| Name ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| Aftercare | When reviving teammates they get a short healing buff and if reviving a teammate with a healing ite… |
| Ammo Crafter | You craft ammo twice as fast. |
| Athletic | You have a chance to not lose stamina for an action that would normally use stamina. |
| Bait and Switch | You now have a 33% chance to not lose your bait when fishing up junk. |
| Basic Geometry | You are less clumsy at reloading all weaponry. |
| Battle Charge | Attacking with a blunt or heavy weapon during a sprint will result in a driving power attack. |
| Beautiful Blueprints | When sharing recipes with others, they don't have to complete the research phase. |
| Bedside Manner | You can see all negative medical debuffs when up close to another player. |
| Bio-Fusion Imitator Recipe | You gain the advanced Bio-Fusion Imitator trinket recipe, allowing the use of all advanced and arca… |
| Bio-Mimic Armwraps Recipe | You gain the advanced Bio-Mimic Armwraps recipe, allowing the use of specialized firearms. |
| Biotic Shadow | You move 15% faster when crouching and can perform a roll by sprinting while crouched. |
| Bonesetter | All splints heal bones faster when applied by you. |
| Boomstick | Smaller creatures have a chance to run in fear when you fire a loud weapon. |
| Brink of Death | When reviving a teammate that would otherwise be on "Last Legs" instead grant them "Extra Down" whi… |
| Castle Doctrine | The cost of building fortifications, like barricades, walls, and ramps, is reduced by half. |
| Chef Sense | When your food has finished cooking, your acute chef senses begin to tingle, even if you are not ne… |
| Clean Cutter | You have a 25% higher chance to not end up with Bio Scrap when cutting up bodies. |
| Combat Doctor | You apply all medical items to yourself and to others twice as fast. |
| Crusher | Enemies with resistance to Blunt... don't. |
| Entangled Ecosystem | Plants planted by you have this perk attributed to them. The more plants in an area, the less water… |
| Eviscerator | Slice through Sharp-resistant enemies as if they weren't resistant at all. |
| Expert Gibbing | You unlock an advanced knife recipe. This knife is capable of cutting up corpses with no chance of … |
| Eye For Detail | Items you craft have temporary, bonus durability. |
| Fast Food | All food you place on a cooktop or in an oven cooks 25% faster. |
| Fertilizer Tier 1 | You gain a recipe for Anomalous Compost, aiding in the growth of your plants. |
| Fertilizer Tier 2 | You gain a recipe for Anomalous Fertilizer, aiding greatly in the growth of your plants. |
| Fertilizer Tier 3 | You gain a recipe for Anomalous Plant Food, aiding immensely in the growth of your plants. |
| Fertilizer Tier 4 | — |
| Fine Dining | You're making the best of a bad situation. You unlock the recipe for Dinner Placement, a rather exq… |
| Fish Sense | You can now detect fishing hotspots and craft Fish Traps. |
| Freshwater Friends | Certain underwater creatures will no longer feel threatened by your presence. |
| Grenade Cooking Timer | You can see exactly how much time you have to cook an explosive before throwing it. |
| Group Effort | Resting (sitting on chair or floor) within 8 meters of other resting scientists doubles the resting… |
| Habituation | You regenerate health a bit more frequently. |
| Hazy Recollection | Weapons thrown by you are highlighted to you for 30 seconds. |
| Heartseeker | You have a very small chance to instantly kill small and medium-sized enemies. |
| Hearty & Oven Recipes | You regain extra health every time your health regenerates. You also learn the recipe for the Oven … |
| Heavy Armor Specialization | You can wear any weight of armor without dropping into the heaviest weight class. |
| Heavy Weapons | You are strong enough to properly wield heavy melee weapons, and you can now smash open Vending Mac… |
| I Know Just The Thing! | The player can access nearby containers when repairing items from the Repair & Salvage Station. |
| Interdimensional | Your extended universe-hopping has enhanced your strong sneaking abilities. Enemy attacks just some… |
| Just In Case | You can reload weapons you aren't otherwise qualified to use. |
| Lightspeed | Along with your passive gains, you sprint 5% faster overall. |
| Loose Rounds | Sometimes you find a few spare rounds when reloading. You are also an expert at reloading, with a b… |
 | You gain the Lucky Fishing Hat and Mud Waders recipes. |
| Mega Bench | You can access the second tier of Crafting Bench upgrades. |
| Mil-Spec / Bio-Metric Armwraps | You gain the confidence to properly handle more advanced firearms. You also learn the Bio-Metric Ar… |
| More Bench | You can access the first tier of Crafting Bench upgrades. |
| Mother Knows Best | You can see other players' hunger and thirst when close by. |
| Nerd Rage | When bleeding near a hostile enemy, your melee attack damage and speed is enhanced. |
| Night Worker | Your footsteps are much quieter and your chance to get a Sneak Attack is increased 50% at night. |
| Nimble | You don't trigger Tripwires, Tripwire Lasers, or Carbuncles, even when not crouching. |
| No Survivors | Enemies killed by your Sharp melee attacks will outright die when they otherwise might have gone DB… |
| Office Assassin | Attacks on unaware enemies always deal double damage, even when standing. |
| Out of My Way! | Sprinting speed increases over several seconds. At max speed, you can stagger any medium-sized enem… |
| Pack Your Desk | You can package small deployables twice as fast. |
| Photosynthetic Synergy | While within 15 meters of garden plants, they grow 10% faster. (Does not stack with multiple player… |
| Power Attack | You can do heavy windup attacks with blunt melee weapons. These attacks can not be performed with a… |
| Power Hungry | Your Power Attacks use 50% less stamina per swing. |
| Precision Engineering | When crafting, you have a small chance to use 1 less item when a recipe calls for more than 1 of th… |
| Prep Chef | All cooking-related recipes take half the time to craft. |
| Projectile Pickup | You automatically pick up projectiles and weapons you've previously thrown, if you have room in you… |
| Projectile Predictor | You can see the predicted path of your throwable items before throwing them. |
| Prudent Plucking | When harvesting wild plants you receive 1 extra harvest. |
| Quantum Displacement | Thrown items and weapons sometimes split into 2 additional projectiles. |
| Rad Remover | NEW RECIPE: Pentetic Acid Syringe, a syringe that prevents radiation buildup and removes existing r… |
| Razed With Care | When dismantling furniture with a hammer, you have a 50% chance to receive double resources. |
| Red Shift | While sprinting, enemies are more likely to miss when targeting you. |
| Reflective Mantle | Enemies who contact you with melee attacks will have a chance to have some of their damage reflecte… |
| Refreshing Touch | When healing a teammate with a medical item, they also gain +5 hydration. This effect does not occu… |
| Serving Seconds | Soups, pies and similar foods cooked by you have 2 extra portions in them. |
| Sharp Throwing | You can throw sharp melee weapons. |
| Slice n' Dice | Your sharp attacks have a higher chance to cause Severe Bleeding to the target. |
| Smash | When using a blunt melee weapon, you have a chance to instantly explode enemies that are human-size… |
| Sneak Attack | The first attack on an idle or unaware enemy has a 25% chance to deal double damage. |
| Soupsmith | You can cook soups by filling a pot with water and adding ingredients. |
| Speedloader | You can sprint and reload at the same time. You also reload weapons with a bit more skill. |
| Spongy Tissue | You have slightly reduced fall damage and take less damage from environmental physics, such as vehi… |
| Spontaneous Furniture Event | The universe is a strange place and your meddling has certainly made it stranger. You have a chance… |
| Squint | Secondary Fire while aiming with a ranged weapon will zoom your vision some. |
| Step Aside | You can shake Vending Machines & stomp Carbuncles in 1 hit. |
| Stopping Power | Projectiles and bullets fired from ranged weapons have a small chance to stun the target. |
| Straight as an Arrow | Projectiles (like crossbow bolts) have a lower chance to break on impact. |
| Strong Ecosystem | You regenerate 1 health every second. |
| Stunning Slam | You can stagger enemies more easily with blunt melee weapons. |
| Super Bench | You can access the final tier of Crafting Bench upgrades. |
| Superior Gains | Due to your extreme strength training, all items in your inventory weigh 25% less. |
 | You gain the Tacklebox recipe. |
| Terminal Velocity | Hitting enemies with a thrown weapon has a slightly increased chance to stagger large enemies, a hi… |
| Tinkerer | When crafting throwables (such as grenades) you get 1 additional item. |
| Underhand Toss | You can do a gentle, underhand toss with all throwable items. |