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Higher Occupation Starting Skills.

This mod increases the starting skill levels of all occupations and tries to retain their identity.

There's a lot of goals with this change: Making professionals more believably experts at their jobs, to reducing the grinding required with new characters, especially in multiplayer, to being an alternative to EXP multiplier sandbox settings.

Below are the full changes. I tried to keep the identity of the occupations intact, and only added skills where I thought was absolutely necessary. Balance was not in the goals of this mod, so it was sacrificed where necessary, but it wasn't completely discarded either.

Fire Officer
Axe 1 -> 2
Sprinting 1 -> 2
Fitness 1 -> 2
Strength 1 -> 2

Police Officer
Shooting 3 -> 6
Nimble 1 -> 2
Reloading 2 -> 4

Veteran
Shooting 2 -> 5
Reloading 2 -> 5

Park Ranger
Axe 1 -> 2
Carpentry 1 -> 2
Trapping 2 -> 4
Foraging 2 -> 4

Construction Worker
Short Blunt 3 -> 6
Carpentry 1 -> 2

Security Guard
Sprinting 2 -> 5
Lightfooted 1 -> 2
Sneaking 0 -> 2

Carpenter
Carpentry 3 -> 6
Short Blunt 1 -> 2

Burglar
Lightfooted 2 -> 5
Sneaking 2 -> 5
Nimble 2 -> 5

Chef
Cooking 3 -> 6
Short Blade 1 -> 4
Maintenance 1 -> 4

Burger Flipper
Cooking 2 -> 4
Short Blade 1 -> 2
Maintenance 1 -> 2

Repairman
Carpentry 1 -> 2
Short Blunt 1 -> 2
Maintenance 2 -> 6

Farmer
Farming 3 -> 6
Maintenance 0 -> 2


Fisherman
Fishing 3 -> 6
Foraging 1 -> 2


Doctor
First Aid 3 -> 6
Short Blade 1 -> 4
Maintenance 0 -> 4

Nurse
First Aid 2 -> 4
Lightfooted 1 -> 2
Sneaking 0 -> 2

Lumberjack
Axe 2 -> 5
Strength 1 -> 2

Fitness Instructor
Sprinting 2 -> 3
Fitness 3 -> 5

Electrician
Electricity 3 -> 6
Maintenance 0 -> 2

Engineer
Electricity 1 -> 4
Carpentry 1 -> 4


Metalworker
Metalworking 3 -> 6
Maintenance 0 -> 2

Mechanic
Mechanics 3 -> 6
Short Blunt 1 -> 2

Workshop ID: 2717145847
Mod ID: HigherOccupationStartingSkills