Craft Masteries¶

Options you choose on mastery passives. Each option is listed once, with the number of tree nodes that offer it; open an option for its full description and where to find it.

Beekeeper¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Cosy Hives	3% increased hive filling speed per point of comfort Hives fill faster the more comfort there is around them	12
	Guard Bees	Bees sting enemies near your hives	12
	Hive Chain	Harvesting a hive collects from neighbouring hives one after another, hive by hive along the chain, not by area	12
	Honey Stores	Hives you built hold 2 times as much honey	12
	Swarm Split	Once a day an own hive that is full, its honey not yet taken, has a 5% chance to yield a queen bee Once a day a hive you built that is full, with its honey not yet taken, has a 5% chance to yield a queen bee	12
	Wildflower Meadow	Own hives fill 5% faster for every flowering plant nearby (dandelion, thistle, flax, barley), up to 50% Hives you built fill faster for every flowering plant growing nearby (dandelion, thistle, flax, barley)	12
	Winter Hive	Hives you built work in cold biomes	12

Builder¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Auto Doors	Doors you build open as anyone approaches and close behind them	10
	Floor as Roof	Floors you build are a full roof: what is under them stays dry, is sheltered from rain and counts as under a roof for fires, beds, rest and stations	10
	Hugin's Flight	{key.hugin}, with a building tool in hand, sends the sight aloft as Hugin: the body hovers in place and pieces are placed within building range of the raven, up to 30 m from the body; [Space] rises, [Ctrl] sinks, [Shift] flies faster, {key.hugin} again returns With a hammer or hoe in hand, press B to send your sight aloft like Odin's raven and build from the air while your body stays safe on the ground. The view flies up to 30 m from you; pieces are placed within your Building range of the view and still need a workbench in reach and your materials	10
	Light Frame	Pieces you built lose only 50% of the usual support	10
	Nearby Chests (building)	Building draws materials from nearby chests	10
	No Bounds	Build and remove pieces where building is forbidden: dungeons, boss altars, traders' camps and other no-build places	10
	Open-Air Bench	The bench works under open sky	10
	Weatherproof	Pieces you built take no damage from rain, water or waves	10

Cook¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Batch Cook	Placing raw food on a cooking station fills every free spot at once from your inventory	11
	Double Pot	The cauldron cooks two recipes at once	11
	Fresh Kitchen	Your own cooking does not degrade: full bonuses until the end of its duration	11
	Hearth Comfort	3% increased cooking speed per point of comfort Cooking stations near you cook faster with every point of comfort, the way hives do	11
	Kitchen Bell	Food on your cooking stations rings when it is done and is marked on the minimap until you take it	11
	Watchful cook	Food on the hearth no longer burns	11

Farmer¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Any Soil	Planted growth grows in any biome. Cultivated ground and growing space are still required	12
	Bed Watch	Aiming at a plant in your beds shows how long it has left until it ripens	12
	Broad Sowing	Mass planting: hold {0} and a whole bed goes in at once. With {0} the wheel rotates the bed, with {0} and Alt it changes the spacing between plants	12
	Irrigation	×2 crop and sapling growth speed Own crops grow faster	12
	Quick Replant	Picking a crop plants it again on the spot, if you carry its seed	12
	Scarecrow	Crops near your buildings are not trampled or eaten	12
	Tight Beds	Plants need 50% of the usual spacing when planted	12

Fisher¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Deep Cast	Fishing cast range is 2 times longer	12
	Line Keeper	The fishing line never snaps	12
	Native Bait	Fishing needs no bait and never spends it, even when you carry bait: every fish at the float bites as if on its own bait, ocean included. No boss kill is required.	12
	Quick Haul	A hooked fish closer than 5 m comes out at once, without the fight A fish pulled closer than 5 m comes out at once, without the fight	12
	Sea Legs	Fishing from a ship never tips the rod	12
	Shoal Sight	Fish shoals in your view radius are marked on the map	12

Forager¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Cuttings	Picking a wild plant has a 6% chance to give its seed; wild plants are sown only from their seeds Foraging a wild plant has a 6% chance to give its seed. Wild plants have seeds of their own now, and this mastery is the only way to get them	9
	Double Pick	Anything picked by hand (berries, mushrooms, branches, stones, tar, honey) has a 15% chance to give twice Anything you pick up by interacting (berries, mushrooms, branches, stones, tar, honey) has a 15% chance to give twice	9
	Forager's Nose	You smell berries, mushrooms and flowers: faint streaks drift toward you from the nearest ones	9
	Night Forager	At night, pickables near you glow and give 1 extra	9
	On the Move	Picking bushes, branches, stones and other resources does not stop a run: the hands reach for the find while the legs keep running.	9
	Snacking	Raw berries and mushrooms are eaten as a snack: half their effect, without taking a food slot; up to 3 different snacks at once Raw berries and mushrooms you eat give their effect at 50% strength without taking a food slot, up to 3 at once	9
	Weightless Forage	Foraging materials weigh nothing while they are in your inventory	9
	Windfall	While you are in the air, everything below you is shaken loose: berries, mushrooms and branches fall to the ground and hives give up their honey , you still have to pick it all up yourself Tar pits count too.	9

Headhunter¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Unnamed mastery	Reserved: this profession is not designed yet. Unimplemented	10

Herder¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Any Beast	You can tame any animal	8
	Any Saddle	You can ride any tamed creature, including ones the game cannot saddle (a wolf and so on)	8
	Beast Bearer	Crouch and use a small tamed animal to carry it in your arms, through portals too; crouch and use again to set it down	8
	Beast Portal	Tamed animals that follow you go through portals and dungeon entrances with you	8
	Draft Animals	Tamed animals can be harnessed to a cart and pull it after you. Each animal keeps its own stats: a wolf is quick but pulls little, a lox is slow and pulls a lot. Design to be worked out	8
	Herd Call	Commanding one tamed animal commands every tamed animal within 30 m; a follower left farther than that stays behind Tamed animals within 30 m follow you as a group; step farther away and they stay behind, so you can break off	8
	Stable Keeper	Tamed animals near a building you built stay fed 2 times as long	8

Hunter¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Bait	Dropped berries or mushrooms draw grazing animals, raw meat draws predators: up to 3 of the biome within 100 m, for 60 s; one bait at a time Throw berries or mushrooms to draw deer and boars, raw meat to draw predators. Animals of that biome within 100 m come to the bait: at most 3, or one pack, and none from far above or below. One bait at a time; it lasts 60 s or until eaten	10
	Clean kill	A beast killed in one hit always drops its trophy	10
	Field Dressing	Hides and meat from your kills go straight into your inventory	10
	Nearby Chests (supplies)	Crafting supplies - ammo, bombs, food, mead, oils and materials - can use materials from accessible nearby chests.	37
	Pack Hunter	Tamed wolves near you bring the hides of their kills to you	10
	Rare Sight	Rare and unique creatures within your view radius are marked on the map and minimap; the marks clear as soon as they leave that radius	10
	Tracker's Eye	You see animal tracks	10

Mead brewer¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Aged Mead	Meads kept a day in an own chest gain 20% more potency Meads kept a day in a chest you built gain 20% more potency	16
	Brewmaster's Eye	Time left is shown on every fermenter	16
	Double Batch	A fermenter you built holds two batches at once	16
	Open-Air Cellar	Fermenters you built work under open sky	16
	Strong Cask	Meads you brewed stack 2 times as high	16
	Taste Test	Drinking an own mead has a 20% chance not to use it up Drinking a mead you brewed has a 20% chance not to use it up	16

Miner¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Cascade	A shattered deposit has a 5% chance to shatter a random deposit nearby; each such shatter rolls again Shattering a deposit has a 5% chance to Shatter a random deposit nearby. The chance cascades: each deposit it Shatters rolls again, so with enough luck a whole mine bursts in a chain	17
	Clean Split	A seam your pickaxe beats by two tiers shatters in one blow	17
	Focused Seam	Weak spots of the mining mini-game appear only on the deposit being mined	17
	Hidden Vein	5% chance that a hit on stone knocks out a random ore of a biome whose boss has been defeated on the server 5% chance that Mining stone knocks out a random ore from a biome whose boss you have defeated	17
	Ore Portals	Ore and metal bars pass through portals once the boss of their biome is dead; the portal keeps a share of what passes (25%). • Copper, tin, bronze — The Elder • Iron — Bonemass • Silver — Moder • Black metal — Yagluth • Flametal — Fader	17
	Ore Sight	Ore deposits within your view radius are marked on the map and minimap; the marks clear as soon as they leave that radius	17
	Precise Strike	Every hit into a weak spot also yields an extra share of the deposit’s ore.	17
	Runecarver mastery	Reserved: this profession is not designed yet. Unimplemented	1
	Smelted Lode	5% chance that ore drops already smelted, as its bar	17

Pathfinder¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Field Portal	You can build and dismantle portals without a workbench	13
	Grave Tether	When you die, your equipped gear, hotbar and food slots stay on you, and your grave is marked on the map until it is emptied	13
	Momentum Slide	Crouch while running fast or right after landing a jump to slide along the ground, keeping your speed.	13
	Night Walker	Every at Night bonus, combat and crafting alike, also works in the evening	13
	Pull-Up	Hold jump and push toward a wall while in the air to pull yourself up onto a ledge within reach. A pull-up costs 15 stamina, a low ledge half as much. A short tap of jump near a wall stays a wall rebound.	13
	Quick Mark	Shift + Y marks what you are looking at on your map with its own icon and name	13
	Shared Map	Standing near another player, you exchange explored map and pins with them	13
	Sleep by the Fire	You can sleep sitting at a fire: no bed and no roof needed, and the night passes even if someone on the server has not lain down	13
	Sliding Down a Slope	Crouched on a slope, the character rides down faster than running.	13
	Trail Runner	Running on a trail or a paved road costs 25% less stamina Running on a trail costs 25% less stamina	13

Relic seeker¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Belt Lantern	The Dvergr lantern hangs on your belt in its own equipment slot	11
	Breadcrumbs	Inside a dungeon the minimap draws the corridors you have walked, in the game's own map style	11
	Chest Sight	Chests in your view radius are marked on the map	11
	Dungeon Sight	Dungeon entrances within your view radius are marked on the map and minimap; the marks clear as soon as they leave that radius	11
	Every Door	Any door, built or in a dungeon, opens as you come up to it and closes behind you. A door with a key still needs the key in your bag.	11
	Magic Purse	A purse appears to the right of the inventory and collects your coins. Coins in the purse weigh nothing and are kept on death.	11
	Return Path	Once per dungeon, sitting down offers a flight to its exit for 3 surtling cores Once per dungeon, sit down to fly to its exit for 3 surtling cores. If the dungeon is reset, the flight is available again.	11
	Second Sweep	Chests anywhere in the world that the character has emptied fully refill after a few in-game days, again and again, with fresh loot of their biome (Chest item quantity, Chest item rarity and Extra item apply). Aiming at such a chest shows the time left until it refills	11
	Tidy Pack	Two buttons in the bag: stack into nearby chests and sort the bag	11
	Treasure Map	Opening a chest has a 30% chance to mark the nearest unopened chest on the map; the mark goes once the chest is emptied	11

Runecarver¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Ascendant Rune	+10% chance that a property added by a rune rises one tier When a rune adds or raises a property, it has a chance to rise one tier more as a separate step, beyond the item's level limit. You see a second flash, hear a chime and read "+1 affix tier".	10
	Azurite Sight	Azurite veins within your view radius are marked on the map and minimap: plain, corrupted and divine each with its own icon. A vein mined out by more than three quarters is no longer marked.	10
	Divine Touch	+2% chance for divine azurite Each chisel hit on a plain azurite vein outside the mist has a chance to turn it divine, with the same lightning as a heavenly strike. Works only once your chisel can mine divine azurite.	10
	Inscription Gate	You can build the Inscription Gate, a Runecarver portal with pink-violet runes. Shift + use on it opens the map of every portal in the world: pick one and inscribe the link, and everyone who enters the gate steps out there.	10
	Perfect Inscription	+10% chance that a property rolled by a rune takes the highest value of its tier A property rolled by a rune (Fate included) has a chance to take the highest value of its tier.	10
	Portal Crate	Away from a workbench, dismantling a portal packs it into a crate that keeps its tag, author, durability and Inscription Gate link. Place it back from the crate anywhere. A crate cannot pass through a portal.	10
	Relic Passage	Dragon eggs for summoning, Hildir's chests and dvergr parts (charred cogwheels, dvergr needles, mechanical springs) go through portals, with no portal toll. Ore and metal are not included.	10
	Vacuum Chest	Unlocks the Vacuum Chest at the Rune Carver Table. It takes finished goods from smelters, kilns, spinning wheels and windmills around it and feeds them from its contents. Shift + mouse wheel sets the radius, Shift + E the kind of goods it collects.	10

Shipwright¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Anchor	Ships the character builds carry an anchor: anyone aiming at the helm drops or raises it with Shift+E. An anchored ship holds its place, still rocking on the waves and turning with the wind.	19
	Deep Hold	Ships you built carry one more row of cargo	19
	Harbor Mark	Your ships are marked on the map with a ship icon wherever they are	19
	Mending at Sea	Ships can be repaired with the hammer without a workbench nearby	19
	Open Shipyard	Ships can be built and taken apart with the hammer anywhere, without a workbench. Away from a workbench a ship is not broken into materials: it is packed into a crate together with its cargo, and the crate on the hotbar sets the same ship back on the water - with its hull, its builder, every shipwright property and everything that was in its hold. Nobody may stand aboard a ship being taken apart.	19
	Salvage Float	Nothing is lost to the sea: a ship's hold and items sunk in deep water float up in crates that stay put and are marked on the map until emptied	19
	Storm Keel	Ships you built keep full control in storms	19
	Weather Sense	The coming weather and when it arrives are shown under the minimap	19

Smith¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Balanced Blade	10% increased damage with Smith equipment Crafting or upgrading weapons using Smith materials has a 25% chance to add an item affix that increases their damage. Each eligible mastery rolls independently.	10
	Chest Feed	Smelters and kilns pull ore and coal from nearby chests on their own, with the bonuses of the chest owner. Placing a smelter shows the pull radius with the same ring as crafting from nearby chests. Works with every smelter, kiln and chest in the game	10
	Fitted Plate	10% increased armour with Smith equipment Crafting or upgrading heavy armour has a 25% chance to add an item affix that increases its armour. Each eligible mastery rolls independently.	10
	Forge Comfort	3% increased smelting and charcoal kiln speed per point of comfort Smelters, kilns and forges near you work faster with every point of comfort, the way hives do	10
	Master's Mark	Allows upgrading Smith equipment one quality level beyond its normal maximum. Items without upgrades remain unupgradeable. Both profession masteries on a mixed recipe extend its limit only once. Station and material requirements still apply.	10
	Whetstones	Whetstones can be crafted at the forge: a consumable that repairs the weapon or tool in hand by 25%, up to its metal tier You can craft whetstones: a consumable that repairs the weapon or tool in your hands by 25%, away from any workbench. Each metal tier has its own whetstone	10

Tanner¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Auto Repair	Interacting with any crafting station repairs on its own every item that station can repair	11
	Balanced Grip	Self-crafted weapons cost 10% less stamina to attack with Tanner equipment Crafting or upgrading weapons using Tanner materials has a 25% chance to add an item affix that reduces their attack stamina cost. Each eligible mastery rolls independently.	11
	Fitted Set	Allows upgrading Tanner equipment one quality level beyond its normal maximum. Items without upgrades remain unupgradeable. Both profession masteries on a mixed recipe extend its limit only once. Station and material requirements still apply.	11
	Loom Chain	Spinning wheels pull flax from nearby chests, with the bonuses of the chest owner	11
	Nearby Chests (equipment)	Crafting and upgrading equipment - weapons, armour, shields and tools - can use materials from accessible nearby chests.	21
	Padded Fit	Self-crafted armor weighs 25% less with Tanner equipment Crafting or upgrading light armour has a 25% chance to add an item affix that reduces its weight. Each eligible mastery rolls independently.	11

Woodcutter¶

	Option	Effect	Nodes
	Ancient Grain	Extra wood rolls 2 times on ancient, fine and Yggdrasil wood	16
	Clean Felling	Trees you fell leave no stump: the wood the stump would give drops together with the trunk	16
	Clean Trunk	A tree your axe beats by two tiers falls in one blow	16
	Guided Fall	A tree you fell always falls the way you were looking at your last hit	16
	Seed Scatter	An Extra seed from Chopping can turn out to be a random tree seed from a biome whose boss you have defeated, not only the seed of the tree you are chopping	16
	Steady Series	Every hit of a chopping series knocks out an Extra log	16
	Stump Breaker	An axe's alternate attack splits any stump in one blow	16
	Timber Luck	A falling tree cannot kill you: the damage lands, but you are left at 1 health.	16

Data from Path of Valheiman 5.1.0, extracted 2026-10-19.