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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: #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 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 excessively 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. {{rare }}=== Sacrificing ===When you [[sacrifice]] the item at the altar of your god, you will be granted 99% nutrition, food, and water. If you have any wounds, one of them will also be healed completely, regardless of severity.*If the item is supreme, you will also get a random skill tick. *If the item is fantastic, you will also get a skill tick, but a much larger one 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, 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 ''small'' chance of its rarity transferring to spot in the wilditem that are being worked on exists.

== What exactly does the improvements do? = Tools and Toolbelts ===There is one universal rule for how rare items perform - when you [[Sacrifice]] the item at the altar of your god, you will be granted 99% Nutrition, Food and Water. If the item is Supreme, you will also get a ''random'' skill tick. If the item is Fantastic, the same as Supreme will occur but on a larger scale.

FurtherRare tools typically receive less damage during use and enchantments, the improvement a rare (or better) status grants varies extremely per item type. There is no other way to describe itsuch as [[Circle of cunning]] and [[Wind of ages]], decrease less over time.There are a few rules to Damage reduction from use stacks with the madness, thoughreduction coming from oakenwood and steel materials.

This includes anything you use up to create something else, examples being [[SandToolbelt]], [[Dirt]], [[Planks]], [[Nails]] and so on.Upon completely consuming the item - through improving with it, or creating s gain an item with it - there is a ''small'' chance of its extra slot per rarity transferring to the item that are being worked on exists. Very heavy emphasizing on SMALLlevel.

=== 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.

: 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;:

'''TO BE CONTINUED'''=== 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%). Critical hits are enabled in PvE combat and deal 150% of the original damage. === Horse Shoes === Horse shoes that turn rare, supreme, or fantastic will give an added speed bonus. *Rare: 0.48 km/h speed bonus.*Supreme: 0.96 km/h speed bonus.*Fantastic: 1.44 km/h speed bonus. ==External links==*[http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/59948-rare-item-reports/ Rare Item Reports on the Wurm Forum]*[http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/59948-rare-item-reports/page__st__20#entry592357 Manny explains rare item timer and effects of rare items]*[http://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]*[[Talk:Rare_item#Individual_Item_Reports|Talk page]] with more and comprehensive individual item listings.