After Building the Explorer's Society Guild House and recruiting the members of the Explorer's Society the Archaeology skills will become available. On the table inside the guild house will be 4 books three stationary ones that open up the new skill trees and one book that tracks your skill progress and has descriptions for the three skill trees.
The Archaeology will go up by one every time you mine a archaeology Dig Sites or whenever creating a item at the Archaeology Station. For every 5 ranks in the Archaeology skill you get a point that can be invested in any of the three skill trees.
Information on each of these skill trees can be found at the following links:
After building the Explorer's Society Guild House during A Room with a View the Archaeology Skills table will become available.
It is located next to the entrance from Solitude and contains four book-shaped activators:
- View Excavation Perk Tree
- View Expedition Perk Tree
- View Academia Perk Tree
- Reset Archaeology Perks
Your Archaeology level will increase by one every time you mine an archaeological Dig Site. For every 5 levels in the Archaeology skill you gain a perk point that can be invested in any of the three skill trees.
The Reset Archaeology Perks activator can be used to reset all skills so the perk points can de redistributed. This can be done at any time, there's no need to max out a certain skill tree before it can be resetted (unlike the "Legendary" option in the vanilla skill trees).
All of the aforementioned except the Reset can also be done via the "Archaeology" part of the LotD MCM Settings.
Excavation Perk Tree
Locate Relic
Survey Dig Site
Excavator Rank 1
1 extra fragment from excavation sites and 20% chance of 1 extra keystone.
Requirement: None
Excavator Rank 2
2 extra fragments from excavation sites and 25% chance of 1 extra keystone.
Requirement: Excavator Rank 1
Excavator Rank 3
3 extra fragments from excavation sites and 30% chance of 1 extra keystone.
Requirement: Excavator Rank 1+2
Relic Hunter
Gives Locate Relic Power, which targets a nearby relic.
Requirement: Excavator Rank 1-3
Surveyor
Gives Survey Dig Site Power which targets a nearby excavation site.
Requirement: Excavator Rank 1-3
Expedition Perk Tree
Pack it in Rank 1
Increase carry capacity by 50.
Requirement: None
Pack it in Rank 2
Increase carry capacity by 75.
Note: Actually it's a 25 point increase bringing the total bonus from Rank 1 and 2 to 75.
Requirement: Pack it in Rank 1
Pack it in Rank 3
Increase carry capacity by 100.
Note: Actually it's a 25 point increase bringing the total bonus from Rank 1, 2 and 3 to 100.
Requirement: Pack it in Rank 1+2
Scrapper
50% bonus to blocking with torches and 25% bonus damage with pickaxes.
Requirement: Pack it in Rank 1-3
Academia Perk Tree
Supporter Branch:
Benefactor
Sell prices on your items is increased by 10%.
Requirement: None
Quartermaster
Provides more gold and inventory to the Explorer's Society Quartermaster shop.
Requirement: Benefactor
Dwemer Branch:
Dwemer Specialization
Resist shock 10%, increased critical chance and damage to automatons by 15%.
Requirement: None
Salvager
Automatons drop increased loot and the possibility of fragments. Enables dwemer fragment recipes at archaeology stations.
Requirement: Dwemer Specialization
Artificer
You can spend 1 Filled Greater Soul Gem to rebuild a fallen automaton as a follower.
Requirement: Dwemer Specialization + Salvager
Nordic Branch:
Nordic specialization
Resist Fire 10%, increases critical chance and damage to undead by 15%.
Requirement: None
Exhume
Find increased gems, gold and possible fragments from Draugr, urns and burial remains.
Requirement: Nordic specialization
Walk amongst the Dead
Walk Amongst the Dead
Provides a power that allows the caster to move unabated amongst the undead.
Requirement: Nordic specialization + Exhume
Falmer and Snow Elf Branch:
Falmer specialization
Resist Poison 10%, increased critical chance and damage to Falmer and Chaurus by 15%.
Requirement: None
Scavenger
Yield more resources and possible fragments from Chaurus and Falmer.
Requirement: Falmer specialization
Tamer's Hand
You have a chance to tame 1 Chaurus at a time by interacting with it.
Requirement: Falmer specialization + Scavenger