Skill

The skill tree builder, where you can view your level, redistribute and build onto your shaman's skills

Skills grant special powers and utilities to the shaman. Each player can choose the skills for their shaman by spending skill points (the skill trees are found under "skills" on the Menu ). The effects of skills might grant new actions or items, change the default items, or change the shaman themself.

Players skills are active only while playing as the shaman. Skills can be disabled by clicking the shaman feather in the user interface.

Skill trees

The skill system consists of five separate skill trees.

• Spiritual Guide
• Wind Master
• Mechanician
• Wildling
• Physicist

Each skill tree has a different theme and specialization, listed below. Players must unlock each row of a skill tree by spending points in that tree (5 points per row), starting at the bottom row. Note that the Wildling and Physicist skill trees are hidden until the player reaches level 20.

List

• Spiritual Guide
• Wind Master
• Mechanician
• Wildling
• Physicist

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Spiritual Guide is a skill tree which focuses on saving mice and guiding them to the cheese and hole more easily.

Icon	Skill	Points	Description
Tier 1 skills
	Additional Time	5	Adds 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds to each round.
	Big Cheese	5	Makes the cheese bigger by 10% / 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%.
Tier 2 skills
	Big Shaman	5	Increases your shaman's size by 4% / 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%.
	Superstar	5	When you dance, you make 1-5 other mice dance around you.
	Unburstable	1	When you die, you get revived. Only works once. Doesn't work when there are two shamans.
Tier 3 skills
	Easy Victory	5	Takes a mouse directly to the hole. Only works if mouse already has cheese. Can be used 1-5 times.
	Ambulance	5	Revives 1-5 dead mice. As of V1.294, dead mice will revive with the cheese and event items they collected before dying.
	Chief's Food	1	Gives your cheese to the chosen mouse. Unlimited uses (5 times in Divine mode). You must have cheese yourself to give the cheese to the mouse.
Tier 4 skills
	Weightless‎	5	Balls will fall slower.
	Teleporter	5	Teleports a mouse next to you. Can be used 1-5 times.
	Speed Boost	1	Summons a bonus that increases the mice's speed. Can be used 3 times.
Tier 5 skills
	Apple	5	Summons an apple. You can summon objects inside the apple's summoning range. Can be used 1-5 times.
	Ancestral Spirit	5	You can keep summoning while you're dead for 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 seconds.
	Spring	1	Summons a bonus that makes mice bounce. Can be used 3 times (1 time in Divine mode).
Tier 6 skills
	Cloud	1	Summons a cloud. Clouds are platforms that are attached to the background but can move from side to side. If the cloud is rotated 45 degrees, it moves diagonally, etc. It is similar to the companion crate in that objects can be attached to it and it can be re-summoned. This skill cannot be used in Divine mode.

Items

Easy Victory

Ambulance

Teleporter

Speed Boost

Apple

Spring

Cloud

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Wind Master is a skill tree which gives the shaman abilities to move themselves and their disciples more easily across the map.

Icon	Skill	Points	Description
Tier 1 skills
	Endurance	5	Increases speed by 4% / 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%.
	Clean Mouse	5	When a mouse dies, a giant bubble appears. Triggers 1-5 times. Warning: This can unintentionally break some maps. And sometimes not very useful.
Tier 2 skills
	Cleats	5	Increases friction by 20% / 40% / 60% / 80% / 100 %.
	Diet	5	Decreases mass by 10% / 20% / 30% / 40% / 50%.
	Opportunist	1	When last mouse enters the hole, you automatically enter the hole as well.
Tier 3 skills
	Chocokiss	5	When you sit, 1-5 mice next to you blow you a kiss.
	Rocket Scientist	5	Ducking for some time propels you upwards.
	Companion Crate	1	Summons a companion crate. (Reusing this skill causes the already summoned crate to despawn and a new one to take its place where summoned [does not bring attached items with it])
Tier 4 skills
	Tight Budget	5	Summon tiny planks. Can be used 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 times.
	Personal Teleporter	5	Teleports you to the aimed position. Can be used 1-5 times.
	Projection	1	By pressing left or right twice, the shaman is propelled forward and can go through walls.
Tier 5 skills
	Transformice	5	Gives transformation powers to the chosen mouse. Can be used 1-5 times.
	Stern Mouse	5	Gives 1-5 more ice cubes.
	Acrobat	1	Allows you to summon items while moving.
Tier 6 skills
	Angel	1	Allows you to hover by pressing the up button.

Items

Bubble, Clean mouse

Companion Crate

Tiny plank, Tight budget

Personal Teleporter

Transformation, Transformice

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Mechanician is a skill tree which focuses on letting the shaman build stronger and better builds.

Icon	Skill	Points	Description
Tier 1 skills
	Big Spirit	5	Increase the spirit's range of effect by 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50%.
	Multiple Balls	5	Summons 1-5 more balls. (Infinite uses)
Tier 2 skills
	Lead Cannonball	5	Increases the cannonball's weight by 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100%.
	Super Anvil	5	Increases the anvil's weight by 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100%.
	Ice Plank	1	Summon a plank made out of ice ground. (Infinite uses.)
Tier 3 skills
	Aerodynamic Balloon	5	Increases balloon's speed by 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50%.
	Stable Rune	5	Summons a rune that flies in a straight path. Can be used 1-5 times.
	Chocoplank	1	Summon a plank made out of chocolate ground. (Infinite uses.)
Tier 4 skills
	Pre-inflated Balloon	5	First 1-5 balloons are instantly spawned.
	Master Summoner	5	Increases summoning speed by 6 / 12 / 18 / 24 / 30%.
	Anti-spirit	1	The ghost spirit summons a spirit whose behaviour is the opposite of a regular spirit's. (Infinite uses.)
Tier 5 skills
	Demolition Worker	5	Deletes a shaman item, including those that were in the map to begin with, or dynamic ground, 1-5 times.
	Architect	5	Changes the transparency of a summoned object 1-5 times.
	Sheep	1	Summons a sheep that explodes after three seconds. (Can be spawned twice.)
Tier 6 skills
	Eagle Eye	1	Increases the summoning range by 30%.

Items

Ice plank

Chocolate plank, Chocoplank

Stable rune

Deleting, Demolition worker

Ghosting, Architect

Sheep

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Wildling is a skill tree which focuses on enhancing the mice and shaman items.

The Wildling and Physicist skill trees are unlocked after you have earned 3680 experience points (reached level 20). Until then, they will be hidden in the skill editor.

The Wildling skill tree, along with the Physicist skill tree, was released after skill trees were introduced during Shaman 2015.

Icon	Skill	Points	Description
Tier 1 skills
	Campfire	5	Places a campfire decoration. Last 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 seconds. Clicking on the campfire will play an animation!
	Reflex	5	Increases your summoning speed, but decreases your summoning range by 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20%.
Tier 2 skills
	Small but Brawny	5	Reduces 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20% of your shaman's size.
	Spidermouse	5	Summons a spider web. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
	Earth Symbol	1	Summons a triangle-shaped object.
Tier 3 skills
	Meep !	5	Gives the meep ability to a mouse. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
	Go Through There!	5	Decreases the size of a mouse. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
	Nature's Return	1	Removes all shaman items.
Tier 4 skills
	Thorns	5	The planks are less slippery. Level 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5.
	Landslide	5	Turns the cannonballs into small rocks. Exchanges standard size cannonball for 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 smaller projectiles. This skill cannot be used in survivor.
	Renewal	1	Restores all of your skills. Used limited skills will be replenished by a random amount between 0 and the number of charges already used.
Tier 5 skills
	Leaf	5	Allows a mouse to hover with a leaf. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times. Falling speed is a constant third of the normal falling speed, and jump height is reduced. Stacks.
	Evolution	5	Increases the jump power of a mouse. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times. About 0.5 mouse heights higher jumps.
	Gregarious Spirit	1	Increases your summoning speed by 2% for each saved or dead mouse.
Tier 6 skills
	Shameow	1	Turns your shaman into a cat when used! (Increases speed and jump - can be toggled on by summoning the cat symbol and off by ducking (S/↓).)

Items

Campfire

Leaf

Spidermouse Web

Notes

• Tier 4 only contains 1 objectively positive skill in Renewal, with both Thorns and Landslide being negative under certain circumstances and unwanted by some shamans. To reach higher tiers without picking these skills, take 4 (with Renewal) or 5 (without Renewal) more skills from previous tiers.

Trivia

• The Shameow skill is thought to be referring to the Pokémon Glameow.
  • There is a glitch that when you use this ability when the match ends, on the next match, instead of being a normal mouse, you are turned into a cat.

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Physicist is a skill tree which focuses on modifying the movement of mice and objects.

The Wildling and Physicist skill trees are unlocked after you have earned 3680 experience points (reached level 20). Until then, they will be hidden in the skill editor.

The Physicist skill tree, along with the Wildling skill tree, was released after skill trees were introduced during Shaman 2015.

Icon	Skill	Points	Description
Tier 1 skills
	Anger	5	When you do the anger emote, 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 mice around you automatically start doing the cry animation.
	Recycling	5	Removes a nail. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
Tier 2 skills
	Antigravity	5	Removes an object's gravity. Can be used 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 times.
	Rollout	5	Allows a mouse to roll around. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
	Solitary	1	Your shaman no longer has a soulmate on soulmate maps
Tier 3 skills
	Stop!	5	Freezes the mice and the other shaman on Dual Shaman maps for 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 seconds.
	Restorative	5	Enables/disables an object's rotational ability. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
	Mad Scientist	1	Cannonballs can now be shot upwards.
Tier 4 skills
	Gravitational Anomaly	5	Disables gravity for 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 seconds.
	Grapnel	5	Allows you to use a grappling hook to hang anywhere on the map. Can be used 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 times.
	S	1	Summons an S-shaped object.
Tier 5 skills
	Booster	5	Spawns a booster which propels mice in a specific direction. Can be used 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 times.
	Handymouse	5	Hooks two objects together with a string. Can be used 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 times.
	Big Plank	1	Summons a long plank; longer than the regular long plank.
Tier 6 skills
	Controlled Disintegration	1	When a mouse dies, it leaves a small electrical arc on which other mice can bounce.

Items

Skill points

Players can level up to gain skill points, 1 skill point for each level. A player increases their level by gaining experience points, awarded for completing maps or saving mice as the shaman.

Resetting skills

Skills may be reset at the cost of 10 cheese by clicking the "Redistribute" button at the bottom of the skill tree builder. You have to wait 5 minutes after resetting your skills to be able to reset them again.

Instead of wasting cheese to reset your skill tree, you can build a fake one on this website before making the real one on Transformice.

Trivia

• Experience and skills (Spiritual Guide, Wind Master and Mechanician) were released on 28 June 2013 (V1.82).
• Wildling and Physicist were released on 21 February 2015 (V1.226). The maximum level was increased from 100 to 888.
• Before the release of the Wildling and Physicist trees, there was a large thread for many months where players could suggest thing they wanted to be added.
• One must theoretically reach level 276 to complete all 5 skill trees.
• The Ambulance, Teleporter, Apple and Transformice skills are disabled on map 69.
• Skills were disabled in vanilla on 1 December 2017 (V1.421) to see if players would appreciate a mode without them. They were restored on 9 February 2018 (V1.438).
• Melibellule said that "Shaman trees are the perfect example of what you can do wrong when trying to update the game, we won't be doing it again and we wish we could erase skills entirely, unfortunately as we experienced during the "no skill vanilla" month, people don't want that".
• Administrators can change a player's level - e.g. Sydoline is level 223, Zou is level 241 and Vanlu is level 346.
• The cost for resetting your skills was changed to 10 cheese on 4 March 2021 (V1.627). Previously, it cost your current level.
• The disable skills mode was released on 17 March 2022 (V1.691).
• The redistribution cooldown was reduced from 10 to 5 minutes on 25 March 2022 (V1.693).

Gallery

Skill tree with only 3 skills

Background for popup informing you that you have unused skill points

Unused Wind Master icon found on server

See also

• Experience

External links

• Skill Tree Builder - A fan-made tool to allow people to create the perfect skill tree setup for their mouse, be it to plan ahead or to share with friends.