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11 Skill Traits are the progression backbone of Nakwon: Last Paradise. The closed alpha confirmed 110 traits feeding 35 active and passive skills, with trait points spent through character leveling. The system is the bridge between the loadout the player carries (armor, firearms, melee weapons) and the way that loadout actually performs in the city. For wider context, see the overview.
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33 How the System is Structured
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55 The closed alpha disclosed two numbers around the skill system: 110 distinct Skill Traits and 35 Active and Passive Skills. The relationship between the two is that the 110 traits feed into the 35 skills via trait points earned through leveling. A trait is the small unit of advancement; a skill is the bigger granted ability or passive that emerges once enough traits are committed.
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77 ElementConfirmed CountNotesSkill Traits110Earned through character leveling; spent into the skill tree.Active and Passive Skills35Fed by trait points from the 110 traits.Trait pointsEarned via levelingSpecific points-per-level not publicly disclosed.Respec / resetNot publicly confirmedNo published respec rules; build choices likely commit.
88 Active vs Passive Skills
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1010 The 35 skills are split between active and passive, but the exact split between the two has not been individually disclosed. Active skills are the kind that fire on input or trigger from a specific situation; passive skills are always-on modifiers that adjust how the player moves, fights, or interacts with the world. Both kinds draw from the same pool of trait points.
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1212 Why the Trait Sheet Matters
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1414 The skill tree is what makes a build feel like a build. Two players with similar gear can end up playing the same expedition very differently because their trait choices have steered them toward stealth, toward firearm efficiency, toward melee, or toward shelter-side crafting. Common build directions implied by the rest of the dossier include:
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1616 Stealth-leaning. Quieter movement, smaller audio footprint, more efficient melee kills, less chance of triggering a Screamer alert.Firearm-leaning. Better handling on firearms, more reliable shots, more value out of factory-grade weapons; pairs well with heavy armor and accepts the audio cost.Survivability-leaning. Damage mitigation, healing, faster recovery from wound management, better outcomes when a fight pushes toward the Last Stand threshold.Shelter-leaning. Crafting, modification, and workbench efficiency that pays off across multiple expeditions rather than during a single one.
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1818 These directions are inferences from the broader system, not officially named build archetypes. The 110 traits provide enough granularity that most players will mix several of these threads rather than commit to a single one.
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2020 Skill Traits and the Environment
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2222 Traits matter most when they line up with the environment the player is moving through. Quieter footwork pays off more at night and during heavy rain because of how the day-night cycle bends detection. Combat efficiency traits are useful in any condition but shine most when the player is committed to direct fights. Movement traits help across the board because every encounter is partly a question of distance to the nearest of the fourteen named landmarks.
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2424 Skill Traits in the Roadmap
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2626 The dev roadmap published in January 2024, after the first pre-alpha playtest, listed combat overhaul as a priority alongside skill-tree growth: separation of upper and lower body combat, improvement of impact and contact, separated left- and right-hand slots, and more natural movement. Several of these directly affect how trait points feel in practice, so the trait list itself is likely to evolve as the combat overhaul lands in later builds.
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28+Skill Reworks in Development
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30+A June 2026 development update previewed a rework to how skills with multiple options are equipped, using the trap skill as the first example. These changes are still in development and may change before launch.
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32+In the closed alpha, each active skill slot could hold only one type of trap, so spending Skill Traits on several traps was inefficient. The rework moves the individual trap types out of the trait tree and turns them into passive skills. Once the trap-placement skill is equipped as a single active skill, every trap the character has unlocked becomes available from that one slot. Holding the skill key opens a ring command that lets the player swap between trap types on the fly, and each trap unlocked through the passive skills is added to that ring.
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34+The team described this as a pattern it plans to extend beyond traps to other skills that offer several selectable options, so a single active slot can host a menu of related choices rather than locking the player into one. As with the rest of this update, the change is described as in development rather than confirmed for a specific build.
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2836 What Has Not Been Confirmed
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3038 Individual trait names, individual skill names, the exact split between active and passive within the 35-skill pool, the points-per-level rate, the cost in points to unlock specific skills, and any respec or reset mechanic have not been publicly disclosed. The 110 trait count and the 35 active and passive skill count are confirmed; specific entries on the skill sheet are not.
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3240 Current to the 11 to 16 March 2026 closed alpha; subject to change in later builds.