Originally posted by AngeliusMefyrx:

If you want to level up any skills, you can grind just about any skills;
you want to level up jumping, well keep on jumping in your house.... swimming, keep swimming from one side to the other of the beach.... wood-chopping ...keeping hitting trees with your axe...

Hitting your weapon on a rock or tree is really up to anyone if they want to head in this direction...it is still going to take you a good amount of time to do so...

I play hardcore all my games....this includes world of warcraft and others.... except pvp obviously....so i delete my character and game when i die...and restart over... i'm not levelling my skills up to 100%.... it would take way too long to do so... but i like to train a little before going on .....the skills takes so long to level up that there's some skills that would never get to 100% without grinding them intentionally ever...even finishing the game 20 times....i think it took like 3h leveling sneaking to 25.... of course i was watching tv shows at the same time....first time i even bother leveling sneaking...how is anybody going to get to 100% goes being imagination.....well unless you cheat which is fairly easy to do....but this is not a direction i would like...

When a warrior back then would prepare his young life to be a warrior, his first ability with a weapon was not facing an enemy....he would train prior to going to battle sometimes many months or years.... and i don't feel like bugging one of my friend to join in the game so that he can hold his shield up for the next hour so that i can level up my weapon..... i would rather delete the game then doing that...

On another subject, the stamina, pretty sure it hasn't changed... i've stopped playing when there was that mess up of a situation with the food and came back yesterday.....didnt feel like blocking was any better....it eats all of your stamina....basically saying... please keep using a bow for 80% of your fights especially against boss or more dangerous creature because it won't take long for you to run out of stamina...which kills the fun of melee fight....

maybe you should average the Running/Swimming/Jumping into a new value call Endurance and add those to basic health and stamina... maybe that would help....

That's been discussed a thousand times over.
Game is in early access, there's only 5 biomes out of the 9 planned. You can finish the game as it is with nothing above level 30, and the progressing curve will likely be tweaked as development goes on