# OxA: Attacking with screwdriver doesn't improve Piercing weapon skill

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/oxa-attacking-with-screwdriver-doesnt-improve-piercing-weapon-skill/5544>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [March 22, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/oxa-attacking-with-screwdriver-doesnt-improve-piercing-weapon-skill/5544 "2014-03-22T07:49:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![EditorRUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@EditorRUS](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EditorRUS)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/oxa-attacking-with-screwdriver-doesnt-improve-piercing-weapon-skill/5544/1 "2014-03-22T07:49:14Z")

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Everything’s said by the topic name.

Also, i am not really if screwdriver raises melee skill when attacked with.

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**Author:** ![Ferodaktyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ferodaktyl/32/56_2.png) [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/oxa-attacking-with-screwdriver-doesnt-improve-piercing-weapon-skill/5544/2 "2014-03-22T11:20:31Z")

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also attacking with a blanket doesn’t improve Blunt weapons skill.  
neither does throwing a tantrum improve Throwing skill 😃

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**Author:** ![Soyweiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/soyweiser/32/37_2.png) [@Soyweiser](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soyweiser)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/oxa-attacking-with-screwdriver-doesnt-improve-piercing-weapon-skill/5544/3 "2014-03-24T12:17:44Z")

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For me it trained the melee skill, the bashing weapons skill and the piercing skill. (All were rusty before, and not after hitting some z’s with a screwdriver). So do not think it is a problem. It probably just does not give that much XP.

Edit: tested it more. It gives pretty low exp. Most of it goes to bashing. No idea why. Probably a bug.

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/6883>