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[WanderingKid]

Editing this to be the list I was trying to find.  This will be a list of the available skills in DF (right now for 2014) and what is confirmed that they adjust.  ? means unconfirmed.  No/Yes is either personal knowledge in the new system or from the wiki when it seemed sure.  This list is from the opening list of skills available for a dwarf and is not entirely complete.

Military Skills:  Levels in this improve accuracy.
Axeman, Swordsman, Maceman, Hammerman, Spearman, Crossbowman, Shield user, Armor User, Fighter, Archer, Wrestler, Striker, Kicker, Biter, Dodger, Misc Object User

Performance: Levels in this improve the happiness of the watchers during a performance.
Speaker, Musician, Singer, Keyboardist, Stringed Instrumentalist, Wind Instrumentalist, Percussionist, Dancer

Scholarly:  Levels here improve generating topics and new ideas during discussions and thoughts.
Critical Thinker, Logician, Mathmatician, Astronomer, Chemist, Geographer, Optics Engineer, Fluid Engineer

Profession	Affects Time to Complete	Resources Produced	Quality of Goods	Useful For	Trait Concerns
Miner	Yes	No	No
Wood Cutter	Yes	No	No
Carpenter	Yes	No	Yes
Mason	Yes	No	Yes
Engraver	Yes	No	Yes for Engravings, No otherwise
Building Designer	No	No	Yes	Architect
Weaponsmith	Yes	No	Yes
Bowyer	Yes	No	Yes
Armorsmith	Yes	No	Yes
Metalsmith	Yes	No	Yes	Blacksmith
Furnace Operator	Yes	No	No
Wood Burner	Yes	No	No
Bone Carver	Yes	No	Yes
Woodworker	Yes	No	Yes
Stoneworker	Yes	No	Yes
Gem Cutter	Yes	No	Yes
Gem Setter	Yes	No	Yes
Potter	?	No	Yes
Glazer	No (Bug)	No	No
Papermaker	?	No	Yes
Bookbinder	?	No	Yes
Wax Worker	?	No	Yes
Mechanic	Yes	No	Yes
Fisherman	Yes	No	Yes
Miller	Yes	No	No
Thresher	Yes	No	?
Grower	Yes	Yes (Planting only)	No
Herbalist	?	Yes	No
Brewer	?	No	No
Cook	?	No	Yes
Weaver	Yes	No	Yes
Clothier	Yes	No	Yes
Dyer	Yes	No	Yes
Trapper	Yes	No	?
Ambusher	Yes	No	Yes
Butcher	Yes	No	No
Tanner	Yes	No	Yes (Parchment only)
Leatherworker	?	No	Yes
Fish Dissector	Yes	No	No
Animal Dissector	Yes	No	No
Fish Cleaner	Yes	No	No
Cheese Maker	Yes	No	No
Milker	Yes	No	No
Gelder	Yes	No	?
Shearer	Yes	No	No
Spinner	Yes	No	?
Presser	Yes	No	No
Beekeeper	Yes	No	?
Animal Trainer	Yes	No	Yes
Animal Caretaker	N/A	N/A	N/A
Soaper	Yes	No	No
Lye Maker	Yes	No	No
Potash Maker	Yes	No	No
Glassmaker	Yes	No	Yes
Siege Engineer	Yes	No	Yes
Siege operator	Yes	No	Yes
Pump Operator	No	No	No
Wound Dresser	Yes	No	No
Diagnostician	Yes	No	No
Surgeon	No	No	Yes
Bone Doctor	No	No	Yes
Suturer	Yes	No	Yes
Crutch-walker	Yes	No	No
Persuader	No	No	Yes		Unassertive Can't Learn
Negotiator	?	No	?
Liar	No	No	Yes		Must be Guarded in Relationships with Others
Intimidator	?	No	?
Judge of Intent	No	No	Yes (single point needed)	Broker
Appraiser	No	No	Yes	Broker
Organizer	Yes	No	No	Manager, Military
Record Keeper	Yes	No	No	Bookkeeper
Conversationalist	?	No	?	Mayor	Reserved Can't Learn
Comedian	?	No	?	Mayor	Self-Conscious Can't Learn
Flatterer	?	No	?	Mayor	Straightforward Can't Learn
Consoler	No	No	Yes	Mayor	Guarded in Relationship With Others Can't Learn
Pacifier	No	No	Yes	Mayor
Student	Yes	No	No	Military
Concentration	Yes	No	No	Military
Discipline	No	No	Yes	Military
Observer	No	No	Yes	Military
Wordsmith	?	No	Yes
Writer	?	No	Yes
Poet	?	No	Yes
Reader	?	No	?
Leader (training weapon skills)	Yes	No	No
Teacher	Yes	No	No

[King Kitteh]

I did a quick google and found this: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/7041/which-low-skill-labors-only-reduce-time

From that I got:

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Labors that only affect speed

All hauling tasks.
This is what peasants excel at. Nothing beats designating 'dump' on that 30x30 strip mine and watching your peons clear it in a matter of moments. Or furnishing those twenty rooms before the migrants can even get from the edge of the map to the fortress doors.

Wood cutting
can be useful, but you may want to have some spare axes so your peasants don't steal them all and not leave any for your axedwarves. (As a bonus, your armed peasants will stand a slightly better chance if they do end up in a fight.)

Stone detailing,
if you're willing to micromanage a little. Skill is unimportant for smoothing, so you can designate large areas to smooth and send your peasants to it. If you designate engraving, however, you'll want to disable this labor again on your peasants so you don't get ugly carvings everywhere.

Feed patients/prisoners and recovering wounded

Wood burning,
furnace operation and other "tier 2" ingredient production tasks. Many of these production tasks have set formulae (e.g. 1 bituminous coal + 1 fuel = 3 fuel). Skill has no effect on production except for the time it takes. If you hit a couple good coal veins, it could be very useful to have a bunch of smelters set to make coal into fuel, or ores into bars, set to repeat.

Plant gathering,
if you feel the need, although farming is generally preferable.

Cleaning.
Very useful when you wipe out a dozen ambushers at the gate and everyone is tracking blood all over the place.

Pump Operating,
although dwarf-powered pumps are generally of limited use.

[WanderingKid]

Yeah, found that, the research item on quality percentages based on legendary, and other items.  Was hoping for a complete detailed list.

[Fleeting Frames]

Btw, from Dame de la Licorne's Story of Atolasob, the time effect seems to be about same scale as the multipliers plants get from farming or gathering(btw, what KingKitteh posted is incorrect - skill affects how many plants are picked up for this job), i.e. a legendary dwarf will work 5 times as fast as no-skill one.

Because of this, enabling all non-mood non-quality skill on moodwarves (a thing I've done) with DT is possible but not necessarily the most efficient. A classic example is brewing: the output is always the same, but since you'll be doing this job hundreds of times limiting it to just a few dwarves can be a time-saver.

This idea of a complete detailed list is complicated by the fact that only some jobs of fair few skills depend on quality - you may not care about what quality your mechanisms are, but linking them up is very fast in dwarf time while machining them can take a while. Here, workshop profiles for minimum skill is helpful.

Other times, you just want to ensure dwarf is free to do it, i.e. to tan a hide, to feed the wounded.

[feelotraveller]

Yeah, found that, the research item on quality percentages based on legendary, and other items.  Was hoping for a complete detailed list.

No complete list but a while back (40.xx) I made up a list of labours where skill affects quality of the product.  Speed generally improves for most labours with increased skill levels but I didn't look into that.  Beyond that trawling through the wiki http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Category:DF2014:Skills or running your own tests might be required.

Armoursmithing
Weaponsmithing
Mechanics
Crossbow-Making
Masonry
Carpentry
Blacksmithing
Glassmaking
Gem Cutting
Gem Setting
Bone Carving
Clothesmaking
Weaving
Leatherworking
Stonecrafting
Metalcrafting
Woodcrafting
Architecture
Siege Engineering
Dyeing
Pottery
Glazing (not tested)
Wax Working
Bookbinding
Cooking
Farming
Plant Gathering
Fishing
(Edit: forgot the medical skills
Diagnosis
Setting Bones
Surgery
Suturing
Dressing Wounds
at least as far as I could tell.)

These are all uncontroversial but bear in mind that not all activities are quality-affected by skill- Masons making blocks is for example.

Engraving - yes quality when engraving but only speed when smoothing stone.

Animal Trainer - might be worth checking but this is what I had...

Siege Operating - pretty sure that as well as big increase in speed (definite) that accuracy rises substantially with skill levels.

Papermaking - yes for sheets but doesn't matter as the quality does not (currently) affect further products
Tanning - presumably similar when making parchment (just putting this for completeness)

Gelding - I had affecting quality in my notes but I'm pretty sure that I done goofed on this one since wtf would that mean. 

The newer 'occupation' type skills I have not looked at.

Furthermore I did not look into the military skills but experience says that most of them are heavily affected by quality, e.g., skilled weapon users are much more likely to hit.   But someone else would have to help out there...

(Edit2: got lazy but these are the skills I had as speed only, apart from those I mentioned above - think Gelding goes here too 
Mining
Bookkeeping
Butchery
Bee Keeping
Milking
Cheesemaking
Shearing
Spinning
Plant Processing (aka Threshing)
Milling
Pressing
Woodburning
Potash Making
Lye Making
Soap Making
Wood Cutting
Brewing
Furnace Operator
Strand Extraction
Hunting (might want to check...)
Trapping
Fish Cleaning
Fish Dissection
Small Animal Dissection
)

Hope that helps somewhat.   

[Fleeting Frames]

Gelding is affected by skill: big animals are more likely to injure dwarves when their nuts are crushed on low gelder skills.

I think Ambusher (Hunting) might dictate how likely you're to be spotted, i.e. the story of invisible weremammoth.

[WanderingKid]

@Fleeting Frames: Ambusher is how close to your target you can get without being spotted by you or your hunting dogs, they inherit to not overpower the value.  Your gelder comment may make it into my sig, though. XD

@feelotraveller: Thank you for that.  I'm currently rebuilding the list from scratch and using the wiki as the baseline (with experience filling in the blanks I know), but that helps a lot.

Skill with a weapon has always been accuracy for a shot.  It doesn't mean in DF mode the shot you want, as they pick the one they can land the easiest with a random across the best choices (adventure will explain that), but that's a solid beginning.  Hunting is based more on crossbow, and quality improved I'm going to have to dig into more deeply, but I appreciate the time you took to help.  I'll do a science post in a few and link here for it.

(I forget how long I've been gone)

[Greiger]

Want to post to watch this thread but I figure I'll add in some insight too.  With Siege Operating accuracy with the weapon is indeed effected by skill level.  But so does the quality of the parts to make the engine.

Animal trainer more or less increases your success rate and duration for taming animals that your civilization hasn't fully domesticated yet.

Hunting is actually granted by the ambusher skill.  if a dwarf has skill in ambusher they will be given hunter by default.  If they do not have ambusher, even if they are a wizard with a crossbow it won't come preset.  Ambusher increases how close the dwarf can get to a target while sneaking and also had (hay have changed since the move/attack speed split) a minor effect on how quickly they can sneak.

[WanderingKid]

I'm adjusting the opening post and this topic to create the list I cannot find.  Hopefully we'll be able to get this figured.  I trawled the wiki (which took more time than I'd expected) to find what I could, filled in with what I know in the new version, and would love further assistance if anyone knows for sure about the ? areas or if I have bad information.

[feelotraveller]

I'm adjusting the opening post and this topic to create the list I cannot find.  Hopefully we'll be able to get this figured.  I trawled the wiki (which took more time than I'd expected) to find what I could, filled in with what I know in the new version, and would love further assistance if anyone knows for sure about the ? areas or if I have bad information.

Editing this to be the list I was trying to find.  This will be a list of the available skills in DF (right now for 2014) and what is confirmed that they adjust.  ? means unconfirmed.  No/Yes is either personal knowledge in the new system or from the wiki when it seemed sure.  This list is from the opening list of skills available for a dwarf and is not entirely complete.

Military Skills:  Levels in this improve accuracy.
Axeman, Swordsman, Maceman, Hammerman, Spearman, Crossbowman, Shield user, Armor User, Fighter, Archer, Wrestler, Striker, Kicker, Biter, Dodger, Misc Object User

Performance: Levels in this improve the happiness of the watchers during a performance.
Speaker, Musician, Singer, Keyboardist, Stringed Instrumentalist, Wind Instrumentalist, Percussionist, Dancer

Scholarly:  Levels here improve generating topics and new ideas during discussions and thoughts.
Critical Thinker, Logician, Mathmatician, Astronomer, Chemist, Geographer, Optics Engineer, Fluid Engineer

Profession	Affects Time to Complete	Resources Produced	Quality of Goods	Useful For	Trait Concerns
Miner	Yes	No	No
Wood Cutter	Yes	No	No
Carpenter	Yes	No	Yes
Mason	Yes	No	Yes
Engraver	Yes	No	Yes for Engravings, No otherwise
Building Designer	No	No	Yes	Architect
Weaponsmith	Yes	No	Yes
Bowyer	?	No	Yes
Armorsmith	Yes	No	Yes
Metalsmith	?	?	?	Blacksmith
Furnace Operator	Yes	No	No
Wood Burner	Yes	No	No
Bone Carver	?	?	Yes
Gem Cutter	Yes	No	Yes
Gem Setter	Yes	No	Yes
Potter	?	No	Yes
Glazer	No (Bug)	No	No
Papermaker	?	No	Yes
Bookbinder	?	?	?
Wax Worker	?	No	Yes
Mechanic	Yes	No	Yes
Fisherman	Yes	No	Yes
Miller	?	? (Seeds?)	No
Thresher	?	?	?
Grower	Yes	Yes (Planting only)	No
Herbalist	?	Yes	No
Brewer	?	No	No
Cook	?	No	Yes
Weaver	?	No	Yes
Clothier	?	No	Yes
Dyer	?	No	Yes
Trapper	?	No	?
Ambusher	Yes	No	Yes
Butcher	Yes	No	No
Tanner	Yes	No	Yes (Parchment only)
Leatherworker	?	No	Yes
Fish Dissector	Yes	No	No
Animal Dissector	Yes	No	No
Fish Cleaner	Yes	No	No
Cheese Maker	?	No	No
Milker	?	?	No
Gelder	?	?	?
Shearer	?	No	No
Spinner	?	No	?
Presser	Yes	No	No
Beekeeper	?	?	?
Animal Trainer	?	No	?
Animal Caretaker	N/A	N/A	N/A
Soaper	Yes	No	No
Lye Maker	Yes	No	No
Potash Maker	Yes	No	No
Glassmaker	?	No	Yes
Siege Engineer	?	?	?
Siege operator	Yes	No	No
Pump Operator	No	No	No
Wound Dresser	Yes	No	No
Diagnostician	Yes	No	No
Surgeon	No	No	Yes
Bone Doctor	No	No	Yes
Suturer	Yes	No	Yes
Crutch-walker	Yes	No	No
Persuader	No	No	Yes		Unassertive Can't Learn
Negotiator	?	?	?
Liar	No	No	Yes		Must be Guarded in Relationships with Others
Intimidator	?	?	?
Judge of Intent	No	No	Yes (single point needed)	Broker
Appraiser	No	No	Yes	Broker
Organizer	Yes	No	No	Manager, Military
Record Keeper	Yes	No	No	Bookkeeper
Conversationalist	?	?	?	Mayor	Reserved Can't Learn
Comedian	?	?	?	Mayor	Self-Conscious Can't Learn
Flatterer	?	?	?	Mayor	Straightforward Can't Learn
Consoler	No	No	Yes	Mayor	Guarded in Relationship With Others Can't Learn
Pacifier	No	No	Yes	Mayor
Student	Yes	No	No	Military
Concentration	Yes	No	No	Military
Discipline	No	No	Yes	Military
Observer	No	No	Yes	Military
Wordsmith	?	No	Yes
Writer	?	No	Yes
Poet	?	No	Yes
Reader	?	?	?
Leader (training weapon skills)	Yes	No	No
Teacher	Yes	No	No

Perhaps you could integrate the information I presented a few posts ago?

Your list is missing most of the Craftsdwarfs - Stonecrafter, Woodcrafter, Metalcrafter...

Every ? in the resource produced column is a No
viz- Metalsmith, Bonecarver, Bookbinder, Miller, Thresher, Milker, Gelder, Beekeeper, Siege Engineer
...or more properly n/a for Negotiator, Intimidator, Conversationalist, Comedian, Flatterer and Reader.

In common parlance the stack size effect of Growers and Herbalists is referred to as quality (although a nonsequitor).  The advantage is that this makes the list only two columns wide.  Similarly for weapons 'accuracy' is not properly a product quality but it is useful to distinguish it with respect to speed.

For Grower it is the harvesting job that matters for the number of resources produced not the planting job.

Metalsmith skill affects quality, as does Bookbinder and Siege Engineer.

Thresher has never produced goods with quality levels nor has Gelder, Spinner or Beekeeper.

Glazers WERE bugged but not so any longer.

As far as I am aware all the productive labours are sped up by higher skill levels, architect being something of an exception and, I think, miller when using a millstone as opposed to a quern.  (A slight question mark on Shearing since it happens so fast even with no skill but without frame by frame testing that I have not done I think the presumption should be that it functions that same as all other skills.  And for that matter I have not tested whether the the skilled part of the architect labour might actually be sped up by skill, something which could easily be overlooked since most of the time is spent hauling materials to the building site.)

p.s. Skill in Armour User increases its 'accuracy''? 

[WanderingKid]

Sorry, was tired when I posted that.

Metalsmith and Bookbinder adjusted for quality of results.

Beekeeper, Milker, Cheese Maker, Sheerer, Spinner, Thresher, and Miller have been adjusted for speed to completion.

Hunting (Ambusher) affects speed of approach and distance before detection.

Trapper I'd like to find a second source on, I haven't seen time to place a trap to be much difference between a novice and a leg.

I'm concerned about a masterwork gelding:
This is a legendary gelding.  Dese Nuts are removed with pristine precision.  Dats Damn Done, Dog.

[WanderingKid]

Now that I'm not half-brained I've re-adjusted the list with other information either tested or found by feelotraveler.  If there are corrections please let me know.

Included the missing crafting skills, and set their settings appropriately.

I'm trying to keep the quality column to mean 'improved results'.  As there is no such thing as a masterwork mushroom, it seemed weird to put it in that column.

According to the wiki, only the planting of the seed matters.  The harvest can be done by anyone.

Harvesting is not as important as planting, as the size of the stack harvested is not affected by the harvester's skill level. However, harvesting crops does give experience, and if other dwarves are harvesting, then your planters will not gain experience as quickly.

This has been my experience as well.

Also, Glazer is not fixed, as you can't gain experience in it still according to the wiki:

Bugs
 Since reactions grant experience for [PRODUCT]s and do not grant experience for [IMPROVEMENT]s, glazing does not grant experience. Bug:4577

This I have not had a chance to test for myself.  There is much wiki in the list above.

You're right, I need to spread out the military skills.  My greaves can't be accurate... XD 

[Fleeting Frames]

Wiki is an amazing resource, but it's still updated by people, and is frequently out of date (years in some cases). v.43.03 patch notes

Regarding your greaves, iirc quality and armor user both improve deflection slightly (6% in some versions - not sure if still applies presently).

[WanderingKid]

Mostly I've found Armor User to increase the speed of the dwarf in the armor.

Is this the piece you're talking about, for Glazer?
 (*) Made improvement reactions increase and apply skill properly

I'll grab a fort and confirm then, unless you've already done that?

[Fleeting Frames]

Yeah, that's the one. Nah, haven't double-checked if it gives exp in DT yet, though that's trivial - btw, glazer has also another bug in that ash bars used for it use only 1/150 of bar per glaze(I guess? At least less than a full bar.)