Skill tree allows you to level up many of the skills used in Rust. Eg with woodcutting skills maxed out you can clear a 10 meter radius of trees by felling a single tree. For mining, you can get a lot more nodes mined with a much higher return.
To use it, type
/st
From within the GUI you have access to the following skills
- Mining
- Woodcutting
- Skinning
- Harvesting
- Medical
- Combat
- Build
- Scavenging
- Vehicles
- Cooking
- Underwater
- Raiding
By playing RUST, you will slowly move up the skill levels. Each time you move up, you can spend your skill points on improving any of the above skill types.