The stats
💪 Strength
Damage, clinches, carry weight. Grows by fighting and hauling.
🏃 Agility
Speed, dodging, bows. Grows by moving, sneaking, shooting.
❤️ Vitality
Health and stamina. Grows by taking hits and by walking the map.
🗣️ Speech
Persuasion, prices, and the checks in half the quests. Grows by talking — and Charisma, its partner, is your clothes and your cleanliness.
The skills
| Skill | How it grows | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Reading | Learned in Uzhitz, then books | Skill books, recipes, the whole alchemy system |
| Alchemy | Brewing | Saviour Schnapps and every potion |
| Herbalism | Picking plants | Faster picking, better yields |
| Horse riding | Riding | Speed, courage, mounted combat |
| Hunting | Hunting | Better meat and skins; poaching is a crime |
| Lockpicking | Locks | The minigame is the skill; Peshek sells lockpicks |
| Pickpocketing | Pockets | Riskier than lockpicking and more profitable |
| Sneak | Sneaking | Noise and visibility; footwear matters |
| Maintenance | Repairs | Repair kits and the grindstone |
| Drinking | Drinking | Longer before the hangover |
| Sword / Axe / Mace / Bow / Unarmed / Defence / Warfare | Use | Perks at the levels, master strike from Bernard once Sword, Mace or Axe is at 3 |
Still to verify
Cross-checked on 17 September 2026 and re-checked on 1 October 2026 against the Kingdom Come wiki, PowerPyx, EliteGuias and Fextralife. What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it.