Character Traits

Traits determine a character's efficiency while at the shelter. Characters can change traits depending on certain gameplay events. When creating a character, players have the option to choose one positive trait. Traits do change character stats. After creation, each character is randomly assigned a negative trait as well.

Traits

Positive	Negative	Effects	How to Change
Courageous	Cowardice	First two attacks in an "attack to kill" are guaranteed to hit/miss.	Win fights
Proactive	Lazy	Moves faster slower in the shelter and whilst exploring.	Go on expeditions
Optimistic	Pessimistic	Gains stress slower/Faster.	Return from an expedition with loot
Hands-on	Hands-off	Craft and fix faster/slower	Craft and fix things at the shelter
Resourceful	Wasteful	Higher/lower chance of recovering more/fewer items when de-constructing objects	De-construct items at the shelter? (requires verification)
Hygienic	Unhygienic	Dirtiness increases at a slower/faster rate	Get food poisoning
Deep Sleeper	Light Sleeper	Tiredness stat decreases faster/slower when sleeping	Getting plentiful rest? (requires verification)
Small Eater	Big Eater	Food rations relieve more/loss hunger	Getting plentiful meals? (requires verification)

traits organized by this editor's opinion on usefulness

Tips

• Courageous generally goes well with the "Troubled" stat set./size
• Proactive generally goes well with the "Street Smart" stat set./size
• size smallerResourceful is good to have late game but early on serves little to no purpose./size
• size smallerOptimistic is good to have late game but early on serves little to no purpose./size