Rare item

Description

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

Rare items were introduced in an update, Thursday, 29 March 2012.

Players may occasionally succeed in creating rare, supreme or even fantastic items. These tools are faster, weapons do more damage, and armour protects a bit better. This may also happen as you improve or polish items and rare items may turn into even rarer items. Constructing new items using rare materials may turn the unfinished item into a rare item. Rare guard towers spawn more guards, for instance. More functionality will be added over time.

You get approximately 1 chance of 50% each hour to create a rare item.

Effects

• Rare tools go faster. For example, a 57.41 ql whetstone had a 12 second use while a rare 57.41 ql whetstone took 11.9 seconds.
• Rare weapons hit harder.
• Rare armor protects more.
• Locks are harder to pick
• Lockpicks break less and aid picking
• Containers (including boats) are harder to pick
• Arrows hit harder and miss less
• Bows hit harder and miss less
• All items get higher default price depending on rarity
• Ships sail faster (up to max so good only for fewer people)
• Carts move faster
• Yo-yos and Dolls succeed more
• Fishing poles dmg less and have better odds at rare fish
• General tools are faster
• Fires heat up faster and stay lit longer.
• Altars get bonus to normal affects and alignment during prayers and sermons
• Food gives more nutrition
• Drinks are more potent
• Gems store more favor
• War machines do more damage
• Healing items has better effect
• Signs have a few more letters
• Horse shoes improve speed
• Butchering knives increase meat yield and item ql
• Sacrificing rares gives 99% nutrition, water and food
• Rare grooming brushes take 12.5% less damage
• Rare rock shards can create whetstones with slightly higher QL than the shard
• A rare toolbelt has 1 more slot than the equivalent normal toolbelt

Notes

• Rare items, graphically appear the same as regular items, however, they will have the "rare" prefix.
• Sometimes rare items create their own categories in inventory lists. For example, if you have 5 longswords in a pile, and 2 are rare, you would see longsword (3x) and rare long sword (2x). Other times, items like sprouts for example, will all appear under the regular sprouts category. This has been said to be true for logs as well.
• Rare items can be combined into larger weights, for items that can normally combined (make sure the active item is at the top of the list), but this seems to usually cause the rare status to disappear.
• Throwing rare materials into a bulk storage bin will cause the items to lose their rare status.
• Rare ore has been seen to make rare lumps.
• All types of item can become 'rare', but not all of them have advantages coded for them.

External Links

• Rare Item Reports on the Wurm Forum
• Manny explains rare item timer and effects of rare items

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