Proficiencies

Introduction

These are the skill values that define the ability of your character, see the respective pages for more detailed info on them.

Name	Description
Arts & Crafts
Cloak & Dagger
Faith & Wisdom
Frontier & Wilderness	Increasing your value in Frontier & Wilderness decreases the wear on your Fishing Equipment. Also increases your chance of successfully getting a cutting from a tree. Caps fish purity
Hammer & Nail	Increases your chance of success when planing boards.
Hunting & Gathering	Caps foraged herbs purity
Law & Lore
Mines & Mountains	Increasing your value in Mines & Mountains reduces your risk of falling when climbing, and also the damage you take when you do fall. Caps Quarried stone and foraged minerals purity. Reduces the risk of cave-ins when mining.
Pots & Pans	caps Dug-out, natural clay purity.
Sparks & Embers
Stocks & Cultivars	Increasing your value in Stocks & Cultivars increases the maximum amount of plenty that will be randomly added to fields when you plant them. It also increases your chance of successfully getting a tree sprouting and getting a cutting from a tree with Forestry.
Sugar & Spice
Thread & Needle
Natural Philosophy	Increases your chance of successfully getting a tree sprouting with Forestry.
Perennial Philosophy

Note on the influence of proficiencies on "successfully taking a cutting":

This is worded slightly wrong: it increases the chance of getting a successfull cutting from a tree, rather than successfully getting a cutting from a tree. Tests have shown that the proficiencies of the person to take the cuttings also matter in survival percentages.