Skills & Abilities Guide | Far Cry Primal

Skills in Far Cry Primal are traits that help you survive longer, fight more efficiently and have better control over beasts. You’ll need skill points to buy these abilities, but you’ll also have to unlock them. This is done by bringing new people to your settlement. This guide will show you all skills and abilities in Far Cry Primal, what they do and how much they cost.


Note: This guide is a work in progress. It will be updated with more information once the game is out.

Survival Talents

This skill tree is available right from the start. It contains skills that increase your odds of surviving in the wilderness, like more health, better sneaking, faster running and improved healing abilities.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Primitive Takedowns	Allows for basic takedowns	???
Primitive Heal	Heal 1 point	???
Extra Health II	Gain 1 health bar	???
Primitive Heal II	Gain 1 health bar when healing manually, up to 3 total.	3
Extra Health IV	Gain 1 health bar	6
Hunter Vision	Grants Hunter Vision for 8 seconds (for owl too)	???
Primitive Agility	Allows sliding and throwing weapons	???
Sprint Heal	Heal while sprinting	???
Crouch Sprint	Move faster when crouched	2
Sprint Forever	Allows you to sprint forever, increases sprint speed	3
Primitive Stealth	Allows you to throw rocks and hide bodies	???
Primitive Fire	Allows you to light campfires and your weapons	???
Extra Health I	Gain 1 health bar	???
Health Regeneration	Health regenerates more quickly	3
Quiet Sprint	Reduces noise when walking and sprinting	4

Gathering Skills

This group of abilities is tied to having Sayla around. As soon as you’ve joined up with her, you’ll unlock it. The skills inside will grant you the power to be more efficient in looting, giving you more resources when you collect plants and skin animals.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Reveal Terrrain I	Increases cone of vision, uncovers more points of interest	???
Show Resources	Village resources are displayed on your map	1
Find Rare Resources	Improves chances of finding rare resources	2
Reveal Terrain II	Increases cone of vision even more, uncovers additional points of interest	3
Show Plants	Plants are displayed on your minimap	???
Find Resources I	Find more wood, stone, reeds and clay when gathering	1
Search Takedown	Automatically search an enemy while performing a takedown	2
Find Rare Plants	Improves chances of finding rare plants	2
Skinning I	Find 2 more meat when skinning most animals	???
Skinning II	Find 2 more animal fat and hide when skinning most animals	2
Beast Reviving	Use fewer red leaves to revive your beast	2
Find Resources II	Find more wood, stone, reeds, clay and rock dust when gathering	2

Beast Master Abilities

These abilities will help you tame beasts and improve your usage of them. They will allow you to tame new species and upgrade their abilities. It also has skills that affect your owl. You’ll first gain access to these after you’ve met Tensey.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Tame Canines	Allows taming of dholes, rare dhole, wolves, white wolves and rare stripe wolves	???
Tame Wildcats	Allows taming of leopards, jaguars, rare black jaguars, cave lions and rare black lions	???
Tame Apex Predators	Allows taming of sabretooth tigers and brown bears	???
Tame Cunning Beasts	Allows taming of cave bears and badgers	???
Owl Companion	Allows you to summon the owl	???
Owl: Hunter Vision	Allows the owl to use hunter vision	???
Owl: Weapon Drop	Allows owl to drop sting bombs, berserk bombs and fire bombs	3
Owl: Tagging Range	Increases range at which owl can tag enemies	3
Owl: Attack I	Give the owl the ability to attack	???
Owl: Cooldown I	Decreases owl summoning cooldown	2
Owl: Attack II	Increases damage done by owl attack	3
Owl: Cooldown II	Further decreases owl summoning cooldown	3

Hunting Skills

These skills are used to improve your usage of the bow, let you craft arrows more efficiently, do more damage to animals and use your hunter vision for more stuff. Jayma is responsible for this group of talents.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Hunter Vision: Sacks	Hunter vision reveals sacks	???
Craft Arrows I	Craft 2 arrows from the weapon wheel	???
Craft Arrows II	Craft 4 arrows from the weapon wheel	2
Craft Arrows III	Craft 8 arrows from the weapon wheel	4
Tag Enemies	Allos you to tag human enemies	???
Reduce Fall Damage	Receive less damage from falling	???
Tag Animals	Allows you to tag animals	4
Animal Wounds	Do more damage to animals	6
Hunter Vision: Plants	Hunter vision reveals plants	???
Bow Sprint Reload	Allows you to reload bow while sprinting	2
Bow Handling	Reduces sway when aiming a bow	3

Fighting Skills

Karoosh will allow you to unlock skills from this tree. They’ll improve how you handle weapons, teach you takedowns, let you ride beasts and use weapons in difficult situations.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Shard Takedown	Take down several enemies at once by using shards	???
Heavy Takedown	Allows you to take down larger enemies	???
Chain Takedown	Allows you to take down multiple enemies in a sequence	4
Death From Above	Jump onto enemies for a brutal execution	???
Mammoth Rider	Allows you to ride young mammoths	???
Beast Rider	Ride sabertooth tiger, bloodfang sabertooth and brown bear after taming them	2
Club & Spear Handling	Aiming sway reduced when using spears and clubs	1
Weapon Agility	Faster weapon switching and aiming	1
Use Weapons While Moving Bodies	Allows using weapons while carrying a dead body	1
Extra Health III	Adds 1 health bar	4

Crafting Abilities

Crafting skills are governed by Wogah. They will grant you more bonuses from eating food, and allow you to craft more items and weapons with less materials.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Double Clubs	Craft 2 clubs from the weapon wheel	2
Vicious Traps	Your traps do more damage	1
Precision Sling	Head shots with the sling will pierce enemy headgear	2
Double Spears	Craft 2 spears from the weapon wheel	3
Food Boosts I	Increases duration of food boosts	???
Double Sting Bombs	Craft 2 sting bombs instead of one	2
Double Traps	Craft 2 traps from the weapon wheel	2
Double Shards	Craft 2 shards from the weapon wheel	3
Double Bait	Craft 2 bait instead of one	???
Food Boosts II	Increases duration of food boosts even more	1
Food Boosts III	Increases food bonus duration to the maximum	2

Udam Skills

The Udam skill tree is unlocked once you bring Dah to your village. Some of them will require that you build him a hut. They’ll improve your damage resistance and let you survive a little longer in combat.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Melee Resistance I	Receive less damage from melee attacks	2
Double Berserk Bomb	Craft 2 berserk bombs instead of one	2
Melee Resistance II	Receive even less damage from melee attacks	4
Primitive Heal III	Heal 1 point when manually healing, up to 3 total	4

Izila Skills

The Izila abilities will be unlocked once you’ve brought Roshani to your encampment and built her a house. They revolve around fire – its usage and the protection against it.

Name	Description	Skill Point Cost
Fire Resistance	Take less damage from fire	2
Double Fire Bombs	Craft 2 fire bombs instead of one	3
Fire Takedown	Use firebombs to perform a takedown	3
Fire Master I	You can light weapons on fire without animal fat	6
Fire Master II	When you set a weapon on fire, all others will automatically be on fire too	4