Skills

Skills are a gameplay element featured in Dying Light. They are abilities that the player character Kyle Crane is able to learn throughout the game.

There are five perk trees: Survival, Agility, Power, Driver, and Legend. Crane is able to gain skill points to unlock these skills through doing quests, helping survivors, completing challenges, freerunning, driving, completing bounties, and killing enemies.

Skills

Survivor

Skill	Type	Availability	Description
Backpacker	Passive	Level 3 Survival Starter Kit	"Learn how to use space in your backpack more efficiently. Gain 4 new slots for carrying weapons."
Barter	Passive	Level 4 Survival Starter Kit	"Get better at haggling. Lowers shekels in shops by 10%."
Boosters	Active	Level 3 Survival Starter Kit	"Learn how to use plants to create Boosters, which allow you to fight without getting tired, run faster, see better in darkness, or develop more resistance to attacks."
Booster XL	Passive	Level 6 Boosters	"Boosters have much longer-lasting effects."
Camouflage	Active	Level 9 Crafting Expertise	"Learn how to use dead bodies to camouflage yourself from the infected."
Camouflage Attack	Passive	Level 12 Camouflage	"Learn how to attack the Infected while using Camouflage, without drawing unwanted attention."
Crafting Expertise	Passive	Level 5	"Get better at crafting. Create more items from the same materials."
Craftsman	Passive	Level 14 Grappling Hook	"Learn how to use weapon Blueprints more effectively - every time you use a crafted weapon, the elemental effect is increased and you deal more damage."
DIY Grenades	Active	Level 8 Elemental Throwing Stars	"Learn how to use 4 types of DIY Grenades - regular, bleeding, freezing, and toxic."
Electric Fences	Active	Level 7 Crafting Expertise	"Learn how to use Electric Fence traps. "
Elemental Throwing Stars	Active	Level 4 Survival Starter Kit	"Learn how to create Throwing Stars with 3 additional effects: Freezing, Burning and Exploding."
Exploding Cars	Active	Level 10 Electric Fences	"Learn how to use Exploding Car traps."
Grappling Hook	Active	Level 12	"Learn how to create and use a Grappling Hook to traverse the environment with greater freedom. If you ever lose your Grappling Hook, you can get a new one from the Quartermaster."
Haggle	Passive	Level 8 Barter	"Get even better at haggling. Lowers prices in shops by an additional 10%."
Hard Bargain	Passive	Level 11 Haggle	"Get better at trading. Increases the price of items you sell."
Lucky Repair	Passive	Level 7 Crafting Expertise	"Get better at repairs. Repairing a weapon will often not use a weapons repair slot."
Master Backpacker	Passive	Level 6 Backpacker	"Learn how to use space in your backpack more wisely. Gain 6 more slots for carrying weapons."
Nimble Hands	Passive	Level 10 Lucky Repair	"Searching dead bodies is much faster. There's also a chance to find more loot while doing it."
Shield Crafting	Active	Level 11 Shield Mastery	"Learn how to add elemental effects to Shields. If you block at the right time, your Shield will produce an additional effect: electrical, freezing or impact."
Shield Mastery	Active	Level 8 Crafting Expertise	"Learn how to craft a Shield and use it in combat."
Specialist	Passive	Level 13 Grappling Hook	"Learn how to use weapon Blueprints more effectively - you'll score more critical hits."
Survival Starter Kit	Active	Level 2	"Learn how to craft the most basic things needed for survival - Lockpicks, Firecrackers, Simple Throwing Stars and Molotov Cocktails."
Trap Bombs	Active	Level 11 DIY Grenades	"Learn how to create Bombs that draw the infected and then detonate with 3 additional effects - exploding, bleeding and toxic."
Ultimate Survivor	Passive	Level 25 Grappling Hook	"You are the legend of Harran. You get an additional health boost and learn how to use Grappling Hook, Shield and Camouflage more effectively."