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#REDIRECT [[Skill]]

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	Since a skill can never gain more than 6 levels of rust, only skills between "Skilled" and "Expert" can ever show as "V. Rusty", and only skills at "Master" or lower can ever show as "Rusty" - higher level skills will silently accumulate rust until they are eventually demoted below "High Master", then the rust will become visible.		Since a skill can never gain more than 6 levels of rust, only skills between "Skilled" and "Expert" can ever show as "V. Rusty", and only skills at "Master" or lower can ever show as "Rusty" - higher level skills will silently accumulate rust until they are eventually demoted below "High Master", then the rust will become visible.
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		+	Whenever experience is gained, the skill's "unused" counter is reset to zero, its "rust" and "demotion" counters are ''decremented'' by 1, and one or more levels of rust are removed depending on the amount of experience gained:
		+	* 50% of the gained experience (rounded down, plus 1) is lost
		+	* 10% of the lost experience (rounded down, plus 1) is spent toward removing rust
		+	* If it was enough to remove ''more'' rust than was accumulated, then the XP penalty is set to 10 points per remaining rust level, minus 10
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		+	Since most crafting jobs give 30 points of experience, this means it would take 3 jobs to work away 6 levels of rust, each giving only 14 points of experience; if the skill only has 1 level of rust, a single job would work it away without losing any experience.

	==Performances==		==Performances==

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 {{token|SKILL_RATE|c}} (Default is {{token|SKILL_RATE|cr|100:8:16:16}})
   * % of improvement points you get (Default 100)
-  * unused counter rate (Default 8)
+  * unused counter cap (Default 8)
-  * rust counter rate (Default 16)
+  * rust counter cap (Default 16)
-  * demotion counter rate (Default 16)
+  * demotion counter cap (Default 16)
-The unused counter starts incrementing while a dwarf isn't using a skill. Once it reaches the cap, it will reset to zero, and the rust counter rate will increment by 1. This continues until the rust counter's cap is reached, and then the demotion counter is incremented by 1, and the rust counter is reset to zero. When the demotion counter finally reaches its cap, a 'layer' of rust is added to the skill, and the demotion counter is reset to zero.
+Once per day, each skill's "unused" counter increments by 1, and if it reaches the cap (without the skill ever being used), it resets to zero and increments the rust counter. Once the rust counter reaches its cap, it resets to zero, adds a "layer" of rust to the skill (to a maximum of 6), and increments the demotion counter. When the demotion counter reaches its cap, it resets to zero and the skill level is ''permanently'' reduced by 1 (and must be re-earned). With the default numbers, it takes about 4 and a half months before rust sets in, 2 years and 3 months before rust maxes out, and 6 years before actual skill levels begin to decay.
 The {{DFtext|Rusty}} and {{DFtext|V.Rusty}} descriptions which are appended to a skill within ''Dwarf Fortress'' are determined by the following conditions:
-*Rusty: A skill level greater than 0 and less than 4, and the skill level * 0.5 <= the number of rust layers.
+Since a skill can never gain more than 6 levels of rust, only skills between "Skilled" and "Expert" can ever show as "V. Rusty", and only skills at "Master" or lower can ever show as "Rusty" - higher level skills will silently accumulate rust until they are eventually demoted below "High Master", then the rust will become visible.
 ==Performances==