Experience Points

Experience points (XP) represent a character's growing abilities, gained from performing various in-game activities. When sufficient XP have been amassed, they can be exchanged for new skills. Neither survivors nor zombies can lose XP. (Prior to December 19, 2005, the Headshot skill could reduce XP when used against zombies.)

When humans die, any XP that they had transfers over when they become zombies. Zombies that are revived also keep any XP gained as a zombie for use in their human form.

Activities that earn XP

• Combat (fighting them) - XP gained is equal to damage dealt for human-zombie combat. A bonus of 10 XP is granted when you kill your targets by reducing them to 0 HP. Combat is the main method of XP gain available to zombies.
• Combat (fighting your own) - Human-human or zombie-zombie combat earns half the normal rate described above (rounded down for odd amounts of damage).
• First Aid - a player who uses a first-aid kit on another player gains 5 XP (the First Aid and Surgery skills, which increases the amount healed, do not change the XP gained). Players healing themselves do not earn XP. Curing infection does not give XP.
• DNA Extraction - players with the NecroTech Employment skill can use DNA extractors to send data on a zombie back to the NecroTech corporation for 4 XP. Each zombie can be "tagged" only once in calendar day (by UK time). Repeated attempts on zombies in a stack move down the stack with each attempt.
• Revivification - a player with the Lab Experience skill who uses a revivification syringe on a zombie that does not have Brain Rot gains 10 XP.
• Tagging - a player with the Tagging skill and a spray can can gain 2 XP for putting graffiti on Armories, Monuments and Police Departments and 1 XP for putting graffiti on Banks, Mansions, Power Stations and Schools.
• Dumping bodies - clearing a building of bodies earns 1 XP per body, but bodies must be removed individually.
• Repairing Buildings - repairing a building that has been Ransacked will give 1 XP.
• Repairing Equipments - repairing a generator or a radio that has been damaged will give 1 XP.
• Reading - reading a book has a 10% chance of giving 1 XP through studying (2 XP for Scientist class players).
• Destroying Barricades (zombies) - Removing a barricade level from a building will give zombies 1 point of XP per level removed. Survivors get no experience for removing barricades.
• Ransacking Buildings (zombies) - Ransacking a building will give zombies 1 XP.
• Equipment Destruction (zombies) - Destroying a generator or radio transmitter will give zombies 5 XP.
• Decoration Destruction - When a building is ransacked, zombies can destroy a single decoration for 1AP and 1XP. Only one item is destroyed at a time, and survivors cannot destroy the decorations.

Activities that don't earn XP

• Barricade - Barricading a building does not give XP, but does make for a safe place to sleep for the night, and offers a chance for zeds to earn XP by smashing them.
• Refueling the generator - Filling a generator with fuel does not give XP.
• Ruin (zombies) - Ruining a building does not give XP.
• Attack the barricades (survivors) - Attacking barricades grants no XP for survivors.
• Attack the generator/transmitter (survivors) - Attacking radios and generators grants no XP for survivors.

Related

• Guides:XP
• Malton XP Leaderboard