No XP points for kills made by followers / animated objects you control

[Former user]

Reportedly animated objects don't give XP for kills, making animancy-based characters hard to level up.

Relevant thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1266820/discussions/0/3111395113765754147/

[Team ADOM GmbH]

Actually this is by design. It’s not that hard to create animated weapons, armor, etc. given the right spells and skills. All beings only get XP for kills if they execute the kill. So it’s perfectly correct that you don’t get XP for kills executed by your minions.

Later on BTW constructs (and even special weapons you wield) will be able to gain experience or otherwise use gathered experience to gain temporary or permanent powers (just think of Stormbringer drinking souls as a literary example of doing this).