Skills Guide

There are a lot of activities that you can do in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. Almost every little that you can do can correspond to a skill that can be raised, and this includes talking to the Residents! There are a lot of skills available, and you’ll get benefits from raising them too.

In this guide, we’ll check how skills work, and the benefits of maximizing the skills. Knowing more about what the skills can provide you will help out on which ones you want to focus on. So, let’s check which skills are available in the game.

What are Skills?

When starting out in your farm, you’ll notice that performing the activities in order to clear your land as well as sowing seeds will let you learn skills as well as Titles that will let you know about your success. Skills are things that you do based on your activities. For example, chopping Trees down in order to clear your land increases your logging skill, and smashing Rocks with your Hammer increases your mining skill.

You can view the different skills that you have acquired so far in your player notebook. The list of skills will be shown there, as well as the level progression. Each level that you unlock will provide you with specific beneficial traits, and they can also unlock Crafting Recipes for you.

In order to check which items can be created, you can check out our Crafting guide as we have provided the list of items based on the skills that can unlock them. In this page, we’ll be checking the different skills and traits that you can acquire.

Logging Skills

Logging refers to the activity that you do whenever you are using your Axe. On your farm, Trees will grow constantly and they can provide you with materials such as logs which can be processed into lumber. For every tree you chop down, you’ll gain experience for logging. Chopping stomps down will also provide experience.

In order to maximize your logging skills, you’ll simply need to keep chopping Trees consistently. As you increase your logging skills, you’ll be more efficient with striking the tree down. It would be handy for you to upgrade your Axe as well in order to chopping faster.

Reaping Skills

Reaping refers to you clearing the wild grass or weeds that can grow around your farm. Using your Sickle tool, you strike down the grass and gain them as materials. You can then use them in order to create other materials such as Fodder, or they can be processed into other Crafting items.

Improving your Reaping skill will require you to clear grass often. However, grass doesn’t grow all the time so this can take time. Maximize your stamina usage and number of grass you can cut by upgrading your Sickle.

Mining Skills

Mining refers to you breaking Rocks and Ore Veins in order to get Raw Materials, Ores, and jewels. On your far, there are occasional rocks that can be found that can block your land. Once they have been cleared out, you’d want to visit the Mines instead and go down different floors.

Improving your Mining skill will let you be more efficient with destroying Rocks, and eventually you’ll get better materials. It would be a good idea to increase your stamina by getting a Shrine blessing.

Draining Skills

Draining refers to removing water from pools of water using your Bucket. Eventually, you’ll be able to learn how to Craft the Suction Pump as well which can remove water in bigger volumes. Whenever you drain water from these pools of water, you’ll be able to find Treasure that can be submitted to the Olive Museum.

Draining puddles using the Bucket also lets you gain materials such as clay. Therefore, you’ll have different uses for draining, whether you’ll want to focus on getting clay or uncovering Treasure after rainy days.

Fishing Skills

Fishing as the name implies, refers to the activity of catching Fish and other sea creatures using your Fishing Rod. As you upgrade your fishing rod and get better types of fish, you’ll want to improve your fishing skill in order to reel them easier.

Getting to reduce your stamina consumption, and make reeling more stable is one of the benefits of increasing your fishing skill.

Fieldwork Skills

Fieldwork refers to the skills that you do when tending to your land and sowing seeds. These include tilling soil with your Hoe, sowing seeds, and watering them using the Watering Can. All of these activities belong to the fieldwork category.

Improving your fieldwork is important since they will help out with the harvest of your Crops. By managing your stamina, you’ll be able to tend to more seeds, and eventually you’ll have more possible field crops to sell for Money.

Orcharding Skills

Orcharding refers to the activity of growing Trees and harvesting their Crops. This skill is one of the trickier ones to maximize since trees grow slowly. In order to maximize the crops that you can get from your trees, improving your orcharding will help out in increasing their quality.

With getting better quality Tree Crops will help you earn more Money in addition to the field Crops that you get, and you’ll be even able to get more yields.

Cultivating Skills

Cultivating refers to growing of Mushroom Spores on logs in order for you to harvest them. Being able to grow more Mushrooms and getting higher quality can be done by improving your cultivation. In order to maximize this skill, you’ll have to make sure that you are growing mushrooms all the time when possible.

Once you have better Mushrooms, they can be sold, provided as Gifts, or even be used for Cooking. Since there aren’t much logs for mushrooms, you’ll have to passively maximize this skill.

Beekeeping Skills

Beekeeping refers to the activity of raising bees in order to have a good honey hive, as well as honey that they create. This goes hand in hand with the ability for you to grow Flowers from seed. By donating flowers to these hives, they can create honey.

Honey creating takes a few days, and they provide you with an additional source of Income. By improving your beekeeping, you improve not only the hive, but the honey as well that you can harvest.

Animal Care Skills

Animal Care as the name implies, refers to how you take care of your Animals. By feeding them, providing them attention, etc., they can get increased happiness as well as friendship. In return, the animals that you take care of will provide higher quality byproducts.

There are items such high quality eggs and milk, and they can only be acquired by improving your Animal care. By improving this skill, you’ll be able to get higher profits, as well as Gifts that are loved by Residents.

Cooking Skills

Cooking refers to your activity of using your kitchen at home in order to prepare new meals. With different ingredients on hand, you can create dishes based on Recipes. Getting higher quality dishes will provide better effects, and some can be used as Gifts as well.

Improving your Cooking will help you out with completing Recipes as well, this is useful if you want to complete Lovett’s Gourmet Requests.

Communication Skills

Communication refers to the activity of interacting with the Residents in town. As you talk to everyone, you gain friendship points, as well as heart levels. The benefits of increasing your communication skill are to increase your friendship growth.

Improving communication is helpful since it can help completing heart levels much faster. Once you have mastered this skill, you’ll be able to befriend all Residents in no time.

Improving skills in the game shouldn’t be a race, take your time and do the activities that you enjoy. The skills that you acquire will always follow. Increasing your skills is a bonus since you get good traits as well as unlock new Crafting Recipes.

We hope that our Skills Guide has helped you out in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. We have other guides available in the game as well, so please don’t forget to check them out. If you have any other questions or comments, please let us know!