Levelling - Awareness level cap, EXP settings and tech points

Your Awareness level caps at 60. It is raised by Awareness EXP from kills, gathering, crafting and exploring, and single-player Survival, Tribe and Casual saves have used at least a 3x Awareness EXP multiplier since 11 June. Tech points for the tech tree (T) come from deciphering Ancient and Divine Tablets, so exploring ruins and pyramids is the reliable way to get more.

How far players get

Awareness	Steam achievement	Players who have it
10	Soulmask	85.9%
20	It’s getting better.	54.7%
30	More, better, farther	38.4%
40	Iron and Blood	27.0%
50	Stacked Civilizations	17.6%
60	Do not respond!	9.9%

Levels after 40 became cheaper in Survival and Tribe modes on 11 June, so the gap between 40 and 60 is shorter than older guides suggest.

Kinds of experience

The server package has a separate multiplier for each kind (default 1):

Setting	What it levels
Awareness XP	Your Awareness level, which gates tech, guardians and masks
Body XP	The body you are in: your own or a possessed tribesman
Mask XP	The worn mask’s level and its skill tree
Proficiency XP	Weapon and crafting proficiencies
Kill, Gathering, Crafting, Other XP	The source of the experience
Training ground XP	Training Ground speed (up to 100)

Single-player and co-op hosts can change these in the save settings. Kill XP is split with helpers: fielded tribesmen and mounts each have a share setting, and a general kill-XP share setting defaults to 0.2.

Possessing a tribesman

While you wear your mask on a tribesman, the body, weapon and crafting experience goes to that tribesman, and Awareness experience still goes to you. Possess a tribesman you want to train and do the work yourself.

Tech points

• Press T for the tech tree. Blueprints that cost no points are learned automatically since 1.0.
• Tablets: Ancient Tablets and the larger Divine Tablets show as yellow gravestone icons on the map. They sit on the walls of Mysterious Ruins, inside Ancient Dungeons and Holy Ruins, and at the base of guardian pyramids. Deciphering one gives knowledge points.
• Cheaper trees: Tribe Mode and Warrior Mode use their own trees with much lower point costs. If you mostly want to build, a Tribe Mode save needs far fewer points.
• Shifting Sands: shared nodes carry across maps; DLC-only nodes must be learned on Shifting Sands.

Only 1.0% of Steam players have deciphered every Ancient Tablet or every Divine Tablet.

PVP level caps

PVP Mode limits Awareness by server age. On official servers the cap was 29 on day 1 and rises to 60 by days 8 to 10; the schedule is a server setting. If you cannot level on a PvP server, check the server’s day before blaming the EXP rate.

Death

Death in Survival and Tribe drops your carried items. Warrior and Casual modes do not drop items by default, and since 31 August Gene Recovery (X) restores all HP once when you are severely injured or feigning death (60 s cooldown; not in Warrior Mode).