Rare item

Description

...This is a very rare and interesting version of the item.

Players may occasionally succeed in creating rare, supreme or even fantastic items. Tools may be faster, weapons may do more damage, and armour could protect the wearer a bit better. These special items may also be made as you improve on regular items and those rare items may again turn into a supreme or fantastic item. Constructing new items using rare materials may turn the unfinished item into a rare item. Consuming a rare material when improving has a 1/100 possibility to transfer rarity.

A "drum-roll" 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.

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.

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 village faith creation bonus.

Effects

Sacrificing rare items at an altar has a high chance to provide 99% nutrition, water and food. There is also a chance that sacrificing one of these items will heal you should you be wounded.

Rare Functionality

Note: Rare functionality is still not completely understood and is an exciting aspect of the game. Most information listed is only an observation of one or more players rather than confirmed by developers.

Tools

• Rare tools timers are 0.1 seconds faster than normal tools. For example, a 57.41 ql regular whetstone had a 12 second use while a rare 57.41 ql whetstone took 11.9 seconds.
• Rare tools take 10% less damage than normal tools.
• The power of enchantments decreases less with use.
• Pickaxes produce shards/ore of higher quality.
• Lockpicks break less often and aid picking.
• Fishing rods receive less damage and have better odds at catching rare fish.
• Butchering knives increase meat yield and meat quality. Gives a minimum of one meat even from starving creatures.
• Rare Small anvil, Large Anvil, saws, hatchets, rope tools, and most other tools increase the quality cap (normally limited by the material quality) of products by up to 1QL. This amount goes down as the QL of the resource goes up and becomes negligible at very high QL.

Weapons and Armor

• Rare weapons hit harder.
• Rare armor protects more.
• Arrows hit harder and miss less.
• Bows hit harder and miss less.
• War machines do more damage.

Vehicles, Mounts and Containers

• Containers (including boats) are harder to pick.
• Ships sail faster, still capped at their maximum. A rare ship will have an increase in speed as if there were another passenger on board.
• Large carts move faster.
• Horse shoes improve speed. A rare horse shoe gives 0.72km.h extra gain.
• Saddles improve speed. A rare saddle gives 0.72km.h extra speed.

Other

• Locks are harder to pick.
• Yoyos and Puppets succeed more.
• Fires heat up faster and stay lit longer.
• Altars receive bonuses to normal effects and alignment during prayers and sermons.
• Food provides more nutrition.
• Drinks are more potent.
• Gems store more favor.
• Healing items give stronger effects.
• Signs allow for a few more letters to be carved.
• Rare rock shards can create whetstones 1 quality higher than the shard quality.
• A rare toolbelt has 1 more slot than the regular equivalent.
• Rare lye can create leather 1 quality higher than the hide.
• Rare ores smelt into rare lumps.
• Rare charcoal piles will produce a random number of rare tar, ash and charcoal.
• Rare Guard tower will spawn 1 Extra tower guard based on QL up to 5. (QL 40 gives 5 guards)
• Combining two rare clays yields still rare clay.
• Rare Felled Tree can create logs 1 quality higher than the Felled Tree and produce a rare Log as the last to be cut from the trunk.
• Rare Bed allows multiple people to sleep in the same bed.

Notes

• Items have a subtle pulsating graphical effect.
• Items sometimes create their own item tree in inventory lists. Keep an eye out for those which don't!
• Some items have a chance to retain their rarity when combining with other non-rare items.
• Rare materials may not be put in a bulk storage bin or food storage bin.
• All types of item can become 'rare', but not all of them have advantages coded for them.
• Using rare small iron nails does not create a rare wooden fence.
• Using a rare or supreme bow string to string a bow makes it lose the status and become a normal bow string.

External Links

• Rare Item Reports on the Wurm Forum
• Manny explains rare item timer and effects of rare items
• Rolf explains possible rare creation improving with rare materials