Spend your in-game dollars to permanently boost your gathering speed and combat damage. Upgrades carry through the session and can be pushed even further through the Prestige system.

Commands

Command	Description
/upgrades	Open the upgrade UI
/mystats	See all your active bonuses in chat
/upgradetop	View the top 10 players by total prestige

The UI

Opening /upgrades shows two tabs at the top:

• GATHERING MASTERY — resource and farming skills
• COMBAT MASTERY — damage skills for NPCs and events

Your current balance is shown in the top-right corner. Each skill row displays:

• Your current total bonus
• How much bonus you gain per level at your current prestige
• A progress bar showing how close you are to max level
• Your current level and prestige count
• The UPGRADE button with the cost highlighted green (can afford) or red (can't afford)
• The PRESTIGE button, which unlocks once you hit max level

Gathering Skills

All gathering bonuses apply as a percentage increase on top of normal yield. They work on node mining, tree chopping, animal skinning, ground pickups, quarries, and farming plots.

Skill	What It Boosts	Bonus Per Level	Starting Upgrade Cost
Stone Mining	Stones from nodes & pickups	+10%	$2,500
Metal Mining	Metal ore from nodes & quarries	+10%	$2,500
Sulfur Mining	Sulfur ore from nodes	+10%	$2,500
Woodcutting	Wood from trees & pickups	+10%	$5,000
Skinning	Animal flesh, cloth from hemp	+10%	$5,000
Fishing Yield	Extra fish per catch	+1 fish	$50,000

> Fishing works differently — each level adds a chance at one extra fish per catch rather than a percentage, with fractional levels handled by a random roll.

Combat Skills

Combat bonuses increase the damage you deal to specific enemies. They apply to all weapons including guns, melee, and explosives.

Skill	What It Boosts	Bonus Per Level	Starting Upgrade Cost
Scientist DMG	Damage vs. scientists & heavy scientists	+1%	$10,000
Patrol Heli DMG	Damage vs. patrol helicopter & attack helicopter	+1%	$15,000
Bradley APC DMG	Damage vs. Bradley APC	+1%	$15,000

> Combat bonuses are smaller per level than gathering bonuses by design, since a 10% damage increase against Bradley would be very powerful. At max prestige the gains add up significantly.

Upgrade Costs

Upgrade costs scale exponentially — each level costs roughly 2.2× the previous one. Plan ahead and save up before pushing to higher levels.

Stone Mining example (cheapest skill):

Level	Cost
1	$2,500
2	$5,500
3	$12,100
4	$26,620
5	$58,564
6	$128,841
7	$283,450
8	$623,590
9	$1,371,898
10 (MAX)	$3,018,175
Total to max	~$5,531,000

Skills with a higher base cost (Wood, Skinning, Fishing, Combat) scale up from a larger starting point — check the UPGRADE button cost in the UI before committing.

Prestige

Once a skill reaches Level 10, the PRESTIGE button unlocks.

What prestige does:

• Resets the skill back to Level 0
• Permanently increases the bonus you gain per level going forward
• Each prestige rank costs more than the last (costs double each time)

Example — Stone Mining:

• Prestige 0: each level gives +10%
• Prestige 1: each level gives +12% (10% + 1×2%)
• Prestige 2: each level gives +14%
• Prestige 5: each level gives +20%
• Prestige 10 (MAX): each level gives +30%

At max prestige and max level, Stone Mining gives +300% yield — four times the normal amount.

Prestige costs (Stone Mining example):

Prestige	Cost
1	$250,000
2	$500,000
3	$1,000,000
4	$2,000,000
5	$4,000,000
10 (MAX)	$128,000,000

> When someone on the server achieves a prestige rank, it is announced in chat for all players.

Tips & Strategy

Start with gathering, not combat. Gathering upgrades pay for themselves — more resources means more things to sell or use to earn Economics dollars. Combat upgrades are a luxury for later.

Stone, Metal, and Sulfur are the cheapest entry point at $2,500 base cost. If you mine regularly, these will feel their value immediately.

Don't ignore Skinning. At $5,000 base it's affordable early and applies to both animal corpses and hemp plants. Cloth income from farming benefits from it too.

Fishing is expensive but powerful. The $50,000 base cost is a late-game purchase. Once you have prestige ranks on it, each catch can yield several extra fish.

For combat skills, Scientist is the cheapest and most useful early since scientists appear frequently at monuments. Heli and Bradley are better investments once you're regularly farming those events.

Prestige is a long-term goal. Don't rush it — the first prestige on any skill costs a lot and requires re-levelling from zero. Focus on getting multiple skills to max level first before prestiging any of them.

Check /mystats regularly to see your full bonus list at a glance without opening the UI.

Watch /upgradetop to see where you stand against other players — total prestige across all skills is the ranking metric.

Wipe Behaviour

Upgrades reset on server wipe. You will receive a wipe notification message the first time you connect after a wipe so you know your data has been cleared.