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 == Introduction == 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: #4299E0;">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.* '''<span style="color: #00FFFF;">Supreme</span>''' ** 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: #FF00FF;">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. == Rare Items ==''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.   [[File:rare_items.jpg]] == Supreme Items ==''This is a supreme example of the item, with fine details and slick design.'' Players may occasionally succeed in creating or finding supreme items. A "drum-roll" and visual cue appears when your chance to create or generate a supreme item arises, just like with rare items.  [[File:Supreme_item_.png]] == Fantastic Items ==''This is a fantastic example of the item, with fascinating design details and perfect ideas for functionality.'' Players may occasionally succeed in creating or finding fantastic items. A "drum-roll" and visual cue appears when your chance to create or generate a fantastic item arises, just like with rare and supreme items. [[File:Fantasitc_Item.png]] ==Notes==* The improvement that a rare (or better) status grants varies per item type.* Items have a subtle pulsating graphical effect. The pulsating graphic effect is also different colors depending on the rarity: rare items are white, supreme are blue, and fantastic items are gold.* Premium accounts have an added bonus to the creation of rare, supreme, and fantastic items over non-premium 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]].* All types of item can have 'rarity', but not all of them have advantages.* Using a rare, supreme, or fantastic bow string to string a bow makes it is excessively 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 spot 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 wildchance at a higher yield during that single action.

{{rare}}=== What exactly does the improvements do? Sacrificing ===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.

This includes anything you use up to create something else, examples being [[sand]], [[dirt]], [[planks]], [[nails]] and so on.Upon completely consuming the item - through improving with it, or creating an item with it - there is a '''Raw materials'small''chance of its rarity transferring to the item that are being worked on exists.

This includes anything you use up to create something else, examples being [[Sand]], [[Dirt]], [[Planks]], [[Nails]] === Tools 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 item that are being worked on exists. Very heavy emphasizing on SMALL.Toolbelts ===

*Rare: 10% damage reduction from use. Five times less likely to lose an enchant level on use per [https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/157432-valrei-international-035/ this announcement].*Supreme: 19% damage reduction from use. Ten times less likely to lose an enchant level on use.*Fantastic: ??% damage reduction, from use. Fifteen times less likely to lose an enchant level on use. [[Toolbelt]]s gain an extra slot per rarity level. Go here: [[Talk:Rare_item#Individual_Item_Reports|Talk page]] for more and comprehensive individual rare item listings. === Gathering 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.

'''=== Boats'''===

Example;==== Rarity and speed bonus of boats ==== : You have a fantastic [[sailing boat]], which can hold 5 total players, the commander and 4 passengers. :: [_] = Empty Slot<br>:: [C] = Commander<br>:: [P] = Passenger <br>:: [S] = Shadow passenger<br> :: [C][S][S][S][_] : So, without any additional players on your boat, you already have 3/4 out of the maximum speed boost you get from passengers.: If you pick up two passengers, the situation will look like this: :: [C][P][P][S][S] : This means that you've lost 1/3 of the bonus that the fantastic boat gives since it will not go over the cap on how much speed bonus a boat can get. === Armour === 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 armour type. It has also been shown to increase the glance rate when compared to normal, non-rare, armour. === Weapons === Weapons that turn rare, supreme, or fantastic are granted increased critical strike chance on hit. * Rare: 10%* Supreme: 30%* Fantastic: 50% This is a modifier on the default critical strike chance (usually 0-2%).

You have a Fantastic [[Sailing boat]], which can hold 5 total players, Critical hits are enabled in PvE combat and deal 150% of the commander and 4 passengersoriginal damage.

[_] = Empty Slot<br>[C] = Commander<br>[P] = Passenger <br>[S] Horse Shoes === Shadow passenger<br>

So, without any additional players on your boat, you already have got 3*Rare: 0.48 km/h speed bonus.*Supreme: 0.96 km/4 out of the maximum h speed boost you get from passengersbonus.If you pick up two passengers, the situation will look like this;*Fantastic: 1.44 km/h speed bonus.

==External links==*[Chttp://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/59948-rare-item-reports/ Rare Item Reports on the Wurm Forum]*[Phttp://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/59948-rare-item-reports/page__st__20#entry592357 Manny explains rare item timer and effects of rare items]*[Phttp://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/94002-rare-raw-resource-to-rare-refined-item/?p=945189 Rolf explains possible rare creation improving with rare materials]*[S[Talk:Rare_item#Individual_Item_Reports|Talk page][S]with more and comprehensive individual item listings.

This ==Developer comments==* When rare items were introduced players were told "You get approximately 1 chance of 50% each hour to create a rare item." What this actually means to game play is unknown. The odds of creating a rare seem to be much higher than improving an item and making it rare.* [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've lost create or improve. Consuming a rare material when improving has a 1/3 100 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 the [[Faith_bonus#Deed_Faith_Bonus|village faith creation bonus that the fantastic boat gives since it will not go over the cap on how much speed bonus a boat can get]].