Skills & Progression

Everyone has five personal skills that level up as you play. Skills are yours — they follow you across nations. Open the panel with /skills (Java gets a GUI, Bedrock a chat readout); check someone else's with /skills <player>.

Each skill levels up from XP earned by doing the matching activity, and unlocks perks at levels 3, 6, and 9, plus a luxury item unlock at the max level (default 10).

Skill	Lv 3	Lv 6	Lv 9	Mastery (max level)
Mining	25% chance to double ore drops	Ores auto-smelt when mined	Haste while mining	Unlocks Netherite
Woodcutting	25% chance to double log drops	Fell whole trees with an axe	Haste while chopping	Unlocks Shulker Boxes
Farming	25% chance for extra crop yield	Crops auto-replant	Guaranteed +1 crop yield	Unlocks Enchanted Golden Apples
Combat	+2 melee damage	Heal on kill (lifesteal)	+4 melee damage	Unlocks the Totem of Undying
Enchanting	Refund +1 XP level	Refund +2 XP levels	Refund +3 XP levels + lapis	Unlocks Mending

Luxury gating: why can't I get that item?

Those five "luxury" items are completely unobtainable until you master the matching skill — reach its max level. This isn't just a crafting block: until you're maxed, you can't get one any way — not by crafting, smithing, fishing it up, trading for it, picking one up off the ground, or taking it out of a loot chest. Items you already legitimately own are never taken away — only new acquisition is blocked.

• Netherite (ingots, blocks, scrap, and any netherite gear) → mastered Mining.
• Shulker Boxes (any recipe, any colour) → mastered Woodcutting.
• Enchanted Golden Apple → mastered Farming.
• Totem of Undying → mastered Combat.
• Anything enchanted with (or carrying a book with) Mending → mastered Enchanting.

Crafting a shulker box

Alongside the vanilla recipe (2 shulker shells + a chest), there's a server-specific alternate recipe:

Diamond      Purple Dye   Diamond
Purple Dye   Chest        Purple Dye
Emerald      Purple Dye   Emerald

Either recipe produces a shulker box — and either one is blocked the same way until Woodcutting is maxed.

How XP is earned (and what doesn't count)

• Only survival-mode actions grant XP.
• Mining & Woodcutting: breaking naturally-generated ore/logs. Blocks you placed give nothing.
• Farming: harvesting fully-grown crops.
• Combat: killing mobs and players (tougher enemies award more XP).
• Enchanting: enchanting items at a table.

In the /skills GUI, each skill has its own row: a coloured summary (level + XP bar) and its milestones — unlocked perks show in the skill's colour, locked ones are dark grey with the level they require.