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40d:Experience
Experience represents how much a certain dwarf (or other intelligent creature) has learned about a certain subject, or on a whole. It affects proficiency in skills and a dwarf's attributes. Experience points are never displayed directly, except in Adventure Mode.
Every experience point earned is associated with a skill. Skill increases happen when a certain number of points in that skill is reached. Attribute increases happen when a certain total number of points is reached.
The message "Dwarfname is more experienced." signifies an attribute increase. Skill increases are not announced unless the increase changes a dwarf's profession ("Dwarfname has become a new profession.").
Gaining experience
Dwarves gain experience by performing tasks. Experience is gained when the task is completed; if a task takes a long time and is frequently interrupted (by the dwarf going off to drink, for instance), the dwarf will gain the skill very slowly. Tasks without an associated skill (such as hauling) do not give any experience.
Constructing buildings or constructions does not give experience unless the building requires architecture to build. Such buildings give 30 points of experience in building designer to the architect and 10 experience to whichever dwarf finishes the building once it is designed. The additional experience depends on what material is used to build the building: a building made of stone, stone blocks, or glass blocks gives masonry experience; a building made of logs or wood blocks gives carpentry experience; and a building made of metal bars or blocks gives metalsmith experience.
Destroying buildings and constructions of any type gives no experience.
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Increasing skills
To reach Novice level in any skill requires 500 XP. Reaching each successive level requires an additional 100 XP, so to go from Novice to No label requires 600 XP; No label to Competent requires 700 XP, and so on. The following figures are the cumulative XP needed to go from unskilled to any given skill level.
Although Legendary is the highest skill level displayed, there are actually five skill levels above it. These higher skill levels are known to have an effect on item quality; a Legendary dwarf will make masterpiece items 15% of the time, on average, whereas a Legendary+5 dwarf will make masterpieces 27% of the time (and exceptional items the other 73% of the time). Skill beyond Legendary+5 does not increase the probability of creating a masterpiece item.
You can't find out exactly when a dwarf gets to Legendary+5, but it will happen 1000 XP before their eighth attribute if they have no other skills -- so when they get eight attributes, they are at Legendary+5. Although skill is capped at Legendary+5, experience is not capped at any level; a dwarf can keep gaining attributes by using a skill that has long since topped out.
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Increasing attributes
Attribute increases are based on total experience gained across all skills, and are not connected to the attainment of specific skill levels.
Dwarves with a single skill will get their first attribute between Competent and Skilled, their second when reaching Talented, a third between Expert and Professional, a fourth when reaching Great, and a fifth between High Master and Grand Master. Further increases can happen after Legendary.
Toady has stated that although there is no cap on attribute increases, after the fifth increase they are still displayed as 'Ultra-Mighty' 'Perfectly Agile' or 'Superdwarvenly Tough', so an attribute gain message without a change in displayed attributes is possible.
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