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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.

** 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 rare items, it's not unheard of.

** 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.

* Premium accounts have an added bonus to the creation of rare, supreme , and fantastic items over non-premium players. * Some items have a chance to retain their rarity when combining with other non-rare items.* 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 or (including blades and spear heads 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 combinedsmelted.* 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.

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 scale, being 10x the increase that one than a supreme item would give.

This includes anything you use up to create something else, examples being [[Sandsand]], [[Dirtdirt]], [[Planksplanks]], [[Nailsnails]] and so on.

Rare tools typically receive less damage during use and enchantments, such as [[Circle of Cunningcunning]] and [[Wind of Agesages]], decrease less over time. Damage reduction from use stacks with the reduction coming from oakenwood and steel materials.

Tools that are used to gather resources - for example [[Shovelshovel]] or [[Pickaxepickaxe]], 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.* 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.

=== 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.

* [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]].