[!] Skills
Skills are one of the biggest mechanics in all of Aureus. Increasing your skills unlocks special abilities, both toggleable and passive, alongside providing increases to your stats. You can increase skills by doing normal actions such as sprinting, taking damage, fishing, and more. Some items are capable of providing you with experience bonuses for as long as you wear them, increasing the speed that you can level up your skills.
Leveling up in a skill grants you money, which increases by level, starting at 104 for level 2, increasing by 5 at level 3, and growing sequentially by 2 per level after that (e.g. 3 - +5; 4 - +7; 5 - +9). The amount of experience needed to level up also increases exponentially per level.
There are several commands associated with skills. While you can access it through /menu, using /skills takes you directly to the list of skills, as shown above. Additionally, /skillrank shows you your rank in each of the 15 skills compared to other players on the server, and /skilltop [skill] can be used to show either the global leaderboard for combined skill level, or for a specific skill.
Becoming the first to reach level 99 in a specific skill will earn you a statue in the castle on Sirrus. There is also an achievement associated with reaching level 99 in each of the skills, for a total of 15 achievements necessary for completion.
There are 15 skills currently in the game. Most of them can be leveled up through normal Minecraft actions, though some are specific to custom features in Aureus.