Survival Leveling & Perks Guide: And

Discover the best ways to level Survival in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Learn about essential perks like Leg Day, Heartseeker, and Leshy to enhance your gameplay.

Compared to many other skills, Survival isn’t critically important from a gameplay perspective. It grants more meat when butchering game, makes hunting easier, increases the speed of gathering herbs, and helps avoid incidents during fast travel. Food is abundant, herbs are plentiful, and fast travel benefits are minor, especially since you can travel by foot or save before fast traveling.

The easiest way to level Survival is by picking herbs, which are abundant and can be used to brew lucrative potions.

Leveling Survival

Leveling Survival may not drastically change the game, but it is easy to level and offers numerous useful perks. There are two main ways to level Survival: exploring and discovering natural points of interest (bird's nests, hunting spots, etc.) that pop up map markers, or picking herbs. While exploring yields scant EXP, picking herbs provides significant Survival EXP, especially when dried or used to brew potions (which also levels Alchemy). Selling these herbs or potions can be very profitable.

Picking herbs acts as a cheat code for early game _Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2_. With the "Leg Day" perk, you also level Strength while picking herbs, making it a highly beneficial activity for leveling, money, and stats.

Best Survival Perks

Survival's perks are diverse, covering buffs for marksmanship, luck, and general outdoorsmanship. They offer general benefits to a wide range of stats and skills, many of which are broadly useful. Recommended perks include:

Leg Day

When you harvest herbs, you also gain Strength EXP. While Strength isn't hard to level, it's not as fast as Survival. This perk grants several Strength levels over the course of the game if you gather herbs regularly, making an already useful activity even more beneficial.

Heartseeker

This perk increases body shot damage by +10%, with its second rank improving it to +25%. It's highly recommended if you plan to use ranged weapons, making many shots more powerful.

Leshy

Initially, this perk grants a +1 bonus to Strength, Vitality, and Agility, a +2 bonus to Stealth, and 15% faster stamina regeneration when in a forest. The follow-up perk, "Wild Man," extends these bonuses to any wilderness area. "Leshy II" further improves these buffs to +2 to Strength, Vitality, and Agility, +4 to Stealth, and 25% faster stamina regeneration, providing significant buffs in most areas of the map.

Flower Power

If you carry over 30 fresh or dried (non-spoiled) herbs, your Charisma increases by +2. This effectively trades 3lbs of carrying capacity for a Charisma bonus. It's a low-maintenance buff that's useful for haggling and Speech checks.

For role-playing as a hunter, "On the Poacher’s Trail" and "Bounty of the Wild" are options, but potions are generally a more reliable income source, and there's less incentive to hunt for sustenance.

List of Survival Perks