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This mystical, magical, system which the developers have been very tight lipped upon how exactly it works creates items of an improved functionality.

* '''<span style="color: #3D79AB4299E0;">Rare</span>'''** The rare Rare items has have a dark blue font color when held in your inventory, and shimmers shimmer slightly of silver white when on the ground.** The rare Rare items are, as the name suggests, Rarerare. Only a few items turns turn rare, even after attempting to get one for a prolonged time.

** The supreme Supreme items has have a light blue (cyan) font color when in inventory, and shimmers of silver shimmer blue when on the ground** This is the intermediate rarity, and while it's rarer than rare-r than Rare items, it's not unheard of.* '''<span style="color: #F809FCFF00FF;">Fantastic</span>'''** The fantastic Fantastic items has have a pink font color when in your inventory, and shimmers excessively of shimmer gold when on the ground.** This is the highest rarity one can achieve, and it is excessively rare to spot in the wild.

''...This is a very rare and interesting version of the item.'' Players may occasionally succeed in creating or finding rare items. A drum roll plays and visual cue appears when your chance to create or generate a rare item arises. The visual cue is a green halo which will surround the border of the screen, lasting a fraction of a second. Your event text will say ''You have a moment of inspiration''. Players often call this event an MOI, a rare roll, or a drumroll.  [[File:drumroll.jpg|300px|Moment of inspiration/drumroll visual effect]] When you successfully turn an item rare, the text in your inventory will change color.

''...This is a supreme example of the item, with fine details and slick design.''

''...This is a fantastic example of the item, with fascinating design details and perfect ideas for functionality.''

* The improvement that a rare (or better) status grants varies extremely per item type. There is no other way to describe it. There are a few rules to the madness, though.

* Some items Premium accounts have a chance an added bonus to retain their rarity when combining with other the creation of rare, supreme, and fantastic items over non-rare itemspremium players.* Rare, supreme , and fantastic materials may not be put in a bulk storage bin or food storage bin.* Rare items, both materials and finished items, can be protected from damage by keeping them in an inventory, merchant, bank, [[small magical chest]], or [[large magical chest]].

* Using a rare, supreme , or fantastic bow string to string a bow makes it lose the status and become a normal bow string.* Any rarity on tool and weapon heads (including blades and spear tips) will transfer over to the completed item.* Any rarity on [[fragments]] will transfer over to the completed item.* Rarity of [[ore]] will transfer to a [[metal lumps|metal lump]] when smelted.* A moment of inspiration while improving has a small chance to turn an item into a rare, supreme or fantastic.* Adding a rare material to an item with 3+ parts has a chance of 1/#parts of turning rare.* Improving an item with a rare material has a 1/100 chance to transfer the rarity. * Moments of inspiration (rare rolls) do not produce rare crops while harvesting, however there is a 1 in 4 chance of discovering a [[Treasure hunt | Treasure map]] while harvesting or tending. It is also believed that a moment of inspiration during a harvest action may increase the chance at a higher yield during that single action.

There is one universal rule for how rare items perform - when When you [[Sacrificesacrifice]] the item at the altar of your god, you will be granted 99% Nutritionnutrition, food, Food and Waterwater. If you have any wounds, one of them will also be healed completely, regardless of severity.*If the item is Supremesupreme, you will also get a ''random'' skill tick. *If the item is Fantasticfantastic, the same as Supreme you will occur also get a skill tick, but on a much larger scaleone than a supreme. *'''Note''': [[Unidentified fragment|fragments]] with rarity do not give these bonuses, as they are not completed items. === Raw Materials === This includes anything you use up to create something else, reportedly examples being 10x [[sand]], [[dirt]], [[planks]], [[nails]] and so on.Upon completely consuming the increase that item - through improving with it, or creating an item with it - there is a supreme ''small'' chance of its rarity transferring to the item would givethat are being worked on exists. === Tools and Toolbelts ===

This includes anything you use up to create something else, examples being Go here: [[Sand]], [[Dirt]], [[Planks]], [[NailsTalk:Rare_item#Individual_Item_Reports|Talk page]] for more and so on.Upon completely consuming the item - through improving with it, or creating an item with it - there is a ''small'' chance of its rarity transferring to the comprehensive individual rare item that are being worked on exists. Very heavy emphasizing on SMALLlistings.

=== Gathering Tools Tool Specifics ===

Tools that are used to gather resources - for example [[Shovelshovel]] or [[Pickaxepickaxe]], gets get a slightly faster timer (0.1 seconds subtracted per rarity level) and provides a higher quality resource upon finishing the action. How much higher is determined by a multitude of factors;:

* The QL CAP cap of the resource. Only applicable to mining at the writing moment.* The rarity of your tool. Rare grants 1.5 additional QL at low QL levels, Supreme supreme and Fantastic fantastic more so.* Note: The additional QL bonus ''can and will'' be above your skill level.

: You have a Fantastic fantastic [[Sailing sailing boat]], which can hold 5 total players, the commander and 4 passengers.

: So, without any additional players on your boat, you already have got 3/4 out of the maximum speed boost you get from passengers.: If you pick up two passengers, the situation will look like this;:

=== Armor Armour ===

Armor Armour pieces that have been granted the boon of rarity will have additional damage mitigation. Each level of rarity grants another 3% damage mitigation on top of the static mitigation from the armor armour type. It has also been shown to increase the glace glance rate when compared to normal, non-rare, armorarmour.

Weapons that turn rare, supreme, or fantastic are granted extra damage upon each increased critical strike chance on hit. There have been no numbers published  * Rare: 10%* Supreme: 30%* Fantastic: 50% This is a modifier on the exact bonusdefault critical strike chance (usually 0-2%). Critical hits are enabled in PvE combat and deal 150% of the original damage.

Horse shoes that turn rare, supreme, or fantastic will give an added speed bonus.

* [https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/94002-rare-raw-resource-to-rare-refined-item/&do=findComment&comment=945189|14th January 2014, Rolf]: There is already a chance that using rare materials transfer to the thing you create or improve. Consuming a rare material when improving has a 1/100 possibility to transfer rarity. When improving or polishing a drum roll doesn't always mean rarity. The window is 20 seconds plus up to 10 of [[Faith_bonus#Deed_Faith_Bonus|village faith creation bonus]].