Reward Types

Overview

Skill tree rewards are permanent bonuses that enhance your character. There are 31 different reward types, each tailored to specific skill categories. Damage, lifesteal, and combo rewards are flat-first: they add a flat amount at early levels and only switch to a percentage multiplier at high tiers. 4 parry reward types are available when the Perfect Parries mod is installed.

All Reward Types

Where else these bonuses come from

A skill-tree node is not the only source of these numbers in 1.6.0. The same stat vocabulary - defense, crit chance and multiplier, lifesteal, combo damage, fall reduction, effect duration, cooldown reduction, luck, bonus XP, per-skill and per-school damage, and seven ability-specific numbers (range, radius, damage radius, duration, cost, i-frames, pierce) - can also be granted straight from an item, a potion effect, or a mastery node. Stacked percent damage is capped (a generous +3000% by default, tunable). See Gear Stats for the full field reference and Mastery for the node side.

Stat Rewards

Max Health

Increases your maximum health permanently, applied to your character's own stats so it survives a relog.

• Typical values: +5 to +30 health per reward
• Stacks additively from multiple sources
• Reapplied automatically on config updates

Max Stamina

Increases your maximum stamina. Base stamina is 10, so rewards are scaled appropriately.

• Typical values: +1 to +3 stamina per reward
• Early tiers: +1, Mid tiers: +2, Master tier: +3

Max Mana

Increases your maximum mana. Players start with 0 mana by default.

• Staves skill offers the most mana (360+ potential)
• Archery offers high mana for spellcasters (290+)
• Physical combat skills offer minimal mana

Health Regen

Regenerates a percentage of your maximum health per second. Applied continuously while alive and not at full health.

• Defense offers larger values: +0.5% HP/sec at tier 7, +1% HP/sec at tier 9
• Gathering skills (Mining, Woodcutting, Excavation, Fishing) and Building offer +0.2% at tier 8 and +0.3% at tier 9
• Stacks additively from multiple sources

Mana Regen

Regenerates a percentage of your maximum mana per second. Applied continuously while not at full mana.

• Staves offers larger values: +0.5% MP/sec at tier 7, +1% MP/sec at tier 9
• Harvesting and Crafting offer +0.2% at tier 8 and +0.3% at tier 9
• Stacks additively from multiple sources

Damage Schools Since 1.6.0

Every hit resolves to one of 9 damage schools: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, Arcane, Void, Poison, Life, Physical. The school an ability uses is what a School Resistance reward reduces. See Damage Schools on the Abilities page for which abilities carry which school, bonus damage from gear and mastery, and monster immunities.

Combat Rewards

Combat Targeting

Combat rewards (Damage, Critical, Lifesteal) can be configured to apply to specific weapon types:

High-tier rewards (Tiers 8-9) offer "All Combat" bonuses as alternatives to skill-specific bonuses.

Damage

Increases your outgoing damage. Flat-first: early tiers add a flat amount to each hit (Flat Damage), and only the highest tiers switch to a percentage multiplier.

• Typical values: +1 to +4 flat damage at early tiers, +2% to +10% at high tiers
• Flat damage is additive and does not compound with the percentage multipliers
• Applied before the hit's damage is calculated, so it stacks with weapon and gear bonuses
• Can target specific weapons via combatTarget in config

Block (Defense)

Reduces incoming damage from all sources.

• Typical values: +2% to +10% per reward
• Capped at 90% maximum total reduction
• Named "Block" to distinguish from Hytale's built-in defense

Critical Chance

Chance to deal 1.5x damage on attacks.

• Typical values: +3% to +15% per reward
• Combat notification shows "Critical! (x1.5)"

Lifesteal

Heals you when dealing damage. Flat-first: early tiers heal a flat amount per hit (Flat Lifesteal), and only high tiers switch to a percentage of damage dealt.

• Typical values: +1 to +2 flat heal at early tiers, +2% to +10% at high tiers
• Flat lifesteal is additive and does not compound with the percentage multipliers
• Combat notification shows green "+X.X" heal amount

Combo Finisher

Adds bonus damage to the final hit of a melee combo chain. Flat-first: early tiers add a flat amount to the finishing blow (Flat Combo Bonus), and only high tiers switch to a percentage. Only available in melee weapon skill trees (Swords, Axes, Daggers, Polearms, Staves, Blunt, Unarmed).

• Typical values: +2 to +5 flat at early tiers, +5% to +20% finisher bonus at high tiers
• Triggers on the last hit of a timed combo: Axes need 2 hits, Swords 3, all others 4 (within a 3-second window)
• Pink COMBO +N% notification appears on the finishing blow
• Stacks additively from multiple skill tree choices
• See Combo Finishers for full details and per-skill config overrides

School Resistance Since 1.6.0

Reduces incoming damage from one specific damage school (Fire, Ice, Lightning, Water, Arcane, Void, Poison, Life, Physical).

• Stacks across every claimed School Resistance node, even ones for the same school
• Survives relogging and moving between worlds
• Removed when you respec the tree or do a full skill reset

Ability Modification Since 1.6.0

Grants a standalone improvement to an ability you have already unlocked - for example a damage bump, a lower cooldown, or an entirely new effect step spliced into the ability's chain. This is distinct from Ability Unlock, which grants access to a new ability in the first place; an Ability Modification reward does nothing if you don't own the target ability yet. It is delivered through the same unified reward pipeline as every other reward type, so it can come from a skill-tree node, a mastery node, a quest, a dialogue option, or a shop entry.

Utility Rewards

Bonus XP

Multiplies XP gains for the associated skill.

• Typical values: +5% to +20% per reward
• Stacks multiplicatively with multiple bonuses
• Display shows specific skill: "+5% Mining XP"

Luck

Raises the chance of a bonus find when you break a block.

• Typical values: +3% to +15% per reward
• What drops is a bonus-drop row - a file naming the moment it answers for (breaking a block, or killing a mob), what it covers, how likely it is, and what it hands over
• Display shows specific skill: "+5% Mining Luck"

Fall Damage Reduction

Reduces damage taken from falls.

• Acrobatics specializes in this (up to 60%)
• Capped at 90% maximum total reduction

Parry Rewards

These 4 reward types are only available when the Perfect Parries mod is installed. They appear in melee combat skill trees at levels 40-100.

Parry Counterattack

Chance to automatically counterattack after a successful parry.

• Values: 2% at level 40, scaling to 4% at level 100
• Offered by: Swords, Daggers, Axes, Unarmed, Defense

Parry Reflect

Reflects a percentage of blocked damage back to the attacker.

• Values: 2% at level 40, scaling to 4-5% at level 100
• Offered by: Swords, Polearms, Staves, Blunt, Defense

Parry Stamina Drain

Drains the attacker's stamina on a successful parry.

• Values: 2% at level 40, scaling to 4-5% at level 100
• Offered by: Daggers, Staves, Unarmed, Defense

Parry Stun Damage

Deals bonus damage to enemies stunned after a parry.

• Values: 2% at level 40, scaling to 4-5% at level 100
• Offered by: Polearms, Axes, Blunt, Defense

* Each weapon skill receives a unique pair of parry rewards that match its playstyle. Defense receives all four types at its highest tiers.

Skill Category Themes

Authoring these rewards

Which skill-tree node grants which reward is owner config, not a pack-authorable asset - a tree's tiers and their reward choices live in mods/mmoskilltree/skill-tree.json, the one override-based file every reward choice in the tree goes through. See Skill Tree Configuration for the full field reference. The abilities, gear and mastery nodes that grant these same bonuses outside a tree ARE pack-authorable content - author them in a pack folder, then build the zip and drop it in your server's Mods/ folder.